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Baby steps, they will get there, for now, we can say they did well
Anything that remove those garbage pickup trucks off the front lines is a welcome development

Looks like it from the pic, but okay, but the same question stand, how well would that do against big IEDs

jln115:
Compared to similar vehicles the door isn't that skinny!!

No one said it's not bad, the point is the mass panic being induced by the media and so call celebrities.
Look at lots of these EU countries, they have free health care, so they heard there is a virus making the round, they all rushed to the hospital to get tested, guess what? Many got infected right there in those hospitals, why go to the hospital if you weren't sick to begin with?
And in italy, they have tons of old people there as well, which will compound the problem, but sadly lots of young people there are also having severe reactions to this.
No one is denying this isn't bad, I'm in New York and everything is almost at a standstill right now, yesterday i went to 3 different supermarkets and couldn't even find meat to buy, like really? Today i finally got lucky, had to wake up early and get some . Now I have enough food to last me about 2 months. So not easy, but the world need less scary headlines, not more.
A headline on Yahoo last month screamed "15 Million could die in the US", guess what, upon reading that article, it was an opinion of an investment banker, now why on earth should his opinion matter? he's not a medical expert, yet that was the alarming headline the media put out. That's not helping.
Lots of people are getting this with little to no symptoms, some have it worse.
Each time i read articles online about this, they give your total number of confirmed cases, and they give you total number of recorded deaths, guess what's often missing in those articles? The total number of recoveries, I mean, why share that right?

Xbee007:
Are you for real?!
https://www.nairaland.com/5744407/dead-coronavirus-victims-italy-carried

https://www.nairaland.com/5745110/coronavirus-italys-death-toll-overtakes

How are these skinny doors armored? Or am i missing something here? Those flat skinny rear doors can survive IED blasts?
This is a serious question, not throwing shade, was expecting them to be bulkier than what am looking at

kabe1:
Rear compartment of the Ezugwu MRAP

You can stick boxes of ammo, jerry cans, in this case generators and inverter batteries.

Right? And they got thumbs up for it, over 5,000 infected, now how the fvk did this person know this? Who did the count and test? Unreal.
People, look at the map for Swine flu spread of 2009 in Africa, compare it to what we have today and it seems identical, Northern and Southern parts of the continent got hit more,( Algeria1 has shared pics of snow covered Algeria here with us, in other words, they have winter season, i think South Africa also have snow during their season) which the rest of the countries have less than 50 cases each.
Covid-19 is a flu virus, most active in winter / cold environment, with Nigeria's temp at 99/ 100 degrees, this kind of virus will not be easily transmitted, same reason we don't get flu in the summer but get it in the Winter.
That doesn't mean there won't be some infection, people will bring them in, viruses could spread in controlled environment that isn't hot etc.
Swine flu infected over 61 million people in the USA alone and killed over 570,000 people, and the world didn't shut down like this.
Heck i can't even remember the swine flu, nothing changed in my day to day activities, went to work etc.

AskiaHarem:
Damn 3 pages of nothing but
Fake News ! Bobble heads posting the most outlandish stuff and refusing to give any form of proof and cursing you if you ask for it. I have to say the most mind numbingly stupid one so far is the accusation of "over 1,000 plus people dying from the virus in a single day in Nigeria". Who comes up with this retarded ass shit?

Is it just me, or was that fool positive for HIV? hahaha
I hope this is some joke lol

Imagine how many people are getting robbed out there, I mean, basically everyone can now conceal their identity with a mask and hoodie lol, and no one will look at them twice.
Took me almost 45mins to get foodstuff at the supermarket 2 days ago, the panic in New York is silly, grown-ups fighting over toilet tissue and stuff lol.
Now I make my own sanitizer, all sold out, Isotrophyl Alcohol is sold out as well.
Feels like the sky is falling out here.

you two again huh? haha, y'all need a divorce

, wetin man go do

cutievik:
lol, you saw that too*
Make i no talk** looked childish*

lol, right? I chose to keep my mouth shut, I mean, it's 2020, we still can't make a gun firing bullet to look realistic, look at the initial explosion in that video, it look silly.

jln115:
the special effects though....

Off Topic:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/influential-nigerian-traditional-ruler-dethroned-200309174644836.html

"Ganduje won re-election as governor and quickly ordered the creation of four new emirates in Kano in a bid to reduce Sanusi's control and influence."

How on earth did a Governor have the power to create Emirates, that's just odd

Brought to you by "Highly reliable Source vs Reliable source"
lol, epic, I'm guessing these sources couldn't give us an exact location of these meetings?

Xbee007:
Source please?

Eventually pointless, if there is any illness out there that is deadly and can easily be transmitted, then every single country's medical facilities will be overwhelmed, eventually they will collapse, if hospitals can't handle tons of people who need medical assistance, then we are talking about the very end of our civilization as we know it.
How many people died of SARS in Africa in 2003-04? probably none. (CDC didn't mention Africa), and by June or July, it was contained, in other words, summer time.
This COVID-19 is a flu virus, active only in cold weather, same reason it hasn't spread all over Africa by now, and it won't, it won't survive in such climate, except those who have winter season, Algeria etc.
Anything that's easily transmittable with over 50% fatality rate can not be stopped, no matter how hard we try, so let's hope I'm dead before that day comes , and hopefully it won't happen, unless we accidentally unleash something buried deep in the arctic for millions of years .
Everything simply take a little bit of time, as long as the death rate is low, it can be stopped, we've come a long way, medically speaking.
Just my thought on this, not an expert

And i bet they also understood that their current profession have a very short shelf live.
So Shekau is the leader of BH, and you think he's the only leader? he is the face, sure, but like i said, take him out, another member of their so called council will take his place. Moral boaster for us, sure, that won't stop their killings

persius555:
Shekau's constant re-appearance in public has always been a morale booster for jihadists foot soldiers and sympathisers.
He's the only known face attached to boko haram. Taking him out will be a huge morale booster for the govt and general public and a moral killer for its followers.
I've always been of the opinion that he's nowhere near the war theatre.
These terrorists understand that in wars like this, propaganda is a necessity.

Will? Said it like it's a fact.
His death might actually consolidate all factions under one umbrella group, point is, it's all guesses, we don't know, all we can say for a fact is, his death won't end anything.
Fraction or not, that won't stop them from killing or hitting soft target. In fact it there is bigger fracture, it makes them more deadly, if no one is truly in control, some group might simply embark on more civilian killings in a more brutal way, not like it's not brutal as it is

Xbee007:
Shekau's death will worsen the internal crisis between the terror groups. They will continue to fractionalize.

I doubt killing shekau will stop BH madness or others. Especially since they are affiliated with ISIS, they will simply chose a new leader

I wonder why the SF's in Nigeria often show their faces on camera, if you look at some of these Western guys, they often cover their faces.
I mean, is there any SF group in the country right now whose faces aren't publicly known, and how is that good for operations

nemesis grandpa

jln115:
who's intelligence?

its not a competition , heck i was here then still

Salatavor:
these are not the old guards, the old guards are those who saw the days of Sirius black, those who observed the fall of the old thread, and those who celebrated the death of courageous Hedima, those were the days to comment on the Nigerian military not today when the war against terror is beginning to look like a war against nothing.

well, for me, i work from home , like 3hrs total , a week , so got too much time on my hands ,
besides i still have a lot to learn from Major General Toju

Lurker4Long:
Hear! Hear!
I've lurked here for a very, very long time. I despair for the depths to which this thread has sunk. Hell, the high esteem nincompoops had their occasional intelligent contribution.

Honestly don't understand why teh afore-mentioned old guard persist.

i think all of you involved in are too sensitive , jeez, wetin concern an innocent father and a dog in this matter

hmm

Only from x - z

Toju200:

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no way should Nigeria allow such, all these outsiders will come, tear your towns and cities down, then borrow you money 10yrs down the line to rebuild, never mind the interest rate.
how's that working out in Libya or Iraq, never let anyone come into your country and start dropping bombs.
if the Nigerian govt can't handle bh, then we have no business being an independent nation.
then very soon they will tell you, 'hey, i think we saw some more terrorists in the Niger delta region', let's drop some more there as well, then they will offer to help you secure your oil pipelines, and inch by inch you get occupied lol
they will turn that small conflict into a large one. no f'ing way

I know right? luckily
Coz i'd do things different, but since i have no interest in being in the military, it's a moot point

Odunayaw:
Luckily E-warriors are not the ones at Flintlock.

Could care less, how much about them do you know, it's a simple thing now. So they've been deployed, what was the basis of that deployment? Since you have the vids of their operation and got the briefing, perhaps you can tell us.
Not saying they aren't bad arse, they all are, my point is, not gonna put down our own just because some other guys are well kitted, then all of a sudden you know all about them.
okay, not here to argue though. More pics

lionel4power:
Google is friendly to everybody mate.

Also, they've been existing before your country decided to create any sort of 'special force' unit.

Some guys are funny, you see a soldier with bunch of gear and big gun, automatically we no be mate, based on what? What exploits have they carried out that you can tell us about?

Good thing the ink is free.
Looking forward to more training of experienced Nigerian soldiers by 22yr old white boys. Cant wait

Odunayaw:
Little research on the scope of Flintlock and you wouldn't have wasted ink.

Kabe1 gave you an insight tho

They had me at " the newly appointed Naval commander of the ISWAP, Abubakar Dangurmai" lol, would that be the ISWAP commander in charge of the lake chad Basin? How many Canoe boats them get?

hey, maybe, these exercises them just dey show us looks like the same stuff we see over and over again, all good, but what's the secret, Algeria, SA and others, they do their exercises and show it proudly, so what is there to keep a secret

GeneralFarouq:
A part of me tells me they showing us ehat tgey want is too see...maybe this was the first thing they did on the first day just to assess our troops professionality in wrapons handling, to determine the next step... haba see SBS, ba dem dey wan ttain like that... the last sbs guy rocked the range better.than the NA...