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Surveillance, sure, but the idea of using drones to drop expensive bombs on a single technical will end up being a pricey adventure.
How about just using the air assets to track and then send SF after them. If we make these bombs, that would at least help a bit, but importing them and using them on single pickup truck, i think that's a waste, unless of course they mass in one place with lots of technicals and foot soldiers etcs
Just wondering out loud of course. The cost

JohnEagle96:
The UAV's will go a long way to ensure persistent air surveillance and strike missions along ISWAP infested areas such as maiduguri -monguno roads and alargano forests

The leader of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) jihadist group, Abu Musab al-Barnawi, is dead, Nigeria's top military commander said on Thursday.

ISWAP has not given any confirmation of al-Barnawi's death and Nigeria's army has claimed before to have killed jihadist commanders only for them to reappear.

"I can authoritatively confirm to you that al-Barnawi is dead. As simple as that. He is dead and remains dead," Chief of Defence Staff General Lucky Irabor told reporters.

He did not give details on how or when al-Barnawi had died.

Under al-Barnawi, ISWAP became the dominant jihadist force in Nigeria's conflict, striking frequently at troops in an insurgency that has killed more than 40,000 since it begun in 2009.

Al-Barnawi's loss would be blow to ISWAP's structure just as it was consolidating since the death of rival Boko Haram commander Abubakar Shekau earlier this year during infighting between the factions.

But since splitting with Boko Haram in 2016, the group has shown its resilience and carried out large-scale ambushes on the military just in the last several weeks.

"Should al-Barnawi be dead, his death may not have too much impact on ISWAP because of how structured the group is," said Malik Samuel, a researcher with the Institute for Security Studies.

"Since the 2016 split, ISWAP has had about five leadership changes but the group has maintained its consistency in launching deadly and successful attacks against security forces."

- Son of jihadist leader -

Al-Barnawi is the son of the founder of the Boko Haram militant group, Mohammed Yusuf, who was killed in police custody in 2009 in Maiduguri.

But the ISWAP commander rose to prominence after breaking away from Boko Haram over differences with its commander Shekau, who according to security sources killed himself in May rather than face capture by his rivals.

Since Shekau's death, security sources say, al-Barnawi had consolidated ISWAP's control in Nigeria's northeast and the Lake Chad region but pockets of Boko Haram loyalists have been fighting back.

Last month, ISWAP fighters killed 18 Nigeria security personal in an ambush in northeast Borno state using roadside bombs and rockets in one of the deadliest assaults this year.

A week later another eight soldiers were killed when ISWAP militants opened fire with rockets on another convoy also in Borno.

But Boko Haram jihadists also launched an attack last month on ISWAP militants on the Nigerian side of Lake Chad, ISWAP's bastion, seizing a strategic island, according to fishermen and a security source.

Since Shekau's death in his Sambisa forest enclave, ISWAP has been fighting Boko Haram remnants who have refused to pay allegiance.

Hundreds of Boko Haram members have also since surrendered to the army along with families and children.

More than two million people have been displaced by Nigeria's conflict since it began 2009, and the violence has spread over the borders to Niger, Chad

The leader of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) jihadist group, Abu Musab al-Barnawi, is dead, Nigeria's top military commander said on Thursday.

ISWAP has not given any confirmation of al-Barnawi's death and Nigeria's army has claimed before to have killed jihadist commanders only for them to reappear.

"I can authoritatively confirm to you that al-Barnawi is dead. As simple as that. He is dead and remains dead," Chief of Defence Staff General Lucky Irabor told reporters.

He did not give details on how or when al-Barnawi had died.

Under al-Barnawi, ISWAP became the dominant jihadist force in Nigeria's conflict, striking frequently at troops in an insurgency that has killed more than 40,000 since it begun in 2009.

Al-Barnawi's loss would be blow to ISWAP's structure just as it was consolidating since the death of rival Boko Haram commander Abubakar Shekau earlier this year during infighting between the factions.

But since splitting with Boko Haram in 2016, the group has shown its resilience and carried out large-scale ambushes on the military just in the last several weeks.

"Should al-Barnawi be dead, his death may not have too much impact on ISWAP because of how structured the group is," said Malik Samuel, a researcher with the Institute for Security Studies.

"Since the 2016 split, ISWAP has had about five leadership changes but the group has maintained its consistency in launching deadly and successful attacks against security forces."

- Son of jihadist leader -

Al-Barnawi is the son of the founder of the Boko Haram militant group, Mohammed Yusuf, who was killed in police custody in 2009 in Maiduguri.

But the ISWAP commander rose to prominence after breaking away from Boko Haram over differences with its commander Shekau, who according to security sources killed himself in May rather than face capture by his rivals.

Since Shekau's death, security sources say, al-Barnawi had consolidated ISWAP's control in Nigeria's northeast and the Lake Chad region but pockets of Boko Haram loyalists have been fighting back.

Last month, ISWAP fighters killed 18 Nigeria security personal in an ambush in northeast Borno state using roadside bombs and rockets in one of the deadliest assaults this year.

A week later another eight soldiers were killed when ISWAP militants opened fire with rockets on another convoy also in Borno.

But Boko Haram jihadists also launched an attack last month on ISWAP militants on the Nigerian side of Lake Chad, ISWAP's bastion, seizing a strategic island, according to fishermen and a security source.

Since Shekau's death in his Sambisa forest enclave, ISWAP has been fighting Boko Haram remnants who have refused to pay allegiance.

Hundreds of Boko Haram members have also since surrendered to the army along with families and children.

More than two million people have been displaced by Nigeria's conflict since it began 2009, and the violence has spread over the borders to Niger, Chad

No chief, na copy and paste me did , just a news article i saw

MAN1960:
Please do you know how much money is going to the military?

Nigeria unveils record $39.8 bln budget for 2022, spending up 25%


ABUJA, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Nigeria's president unveiled a record 16.39 trillion naira ($39.8 billion) budget for 2022 on Thursday, with a projected 25% year-on-year rise in government spending as the economy struggles with the impact of the pandemic.

The plan for Africa's most populous country and top oil exporter assumes crude production of 1.88 million barrels a day and an oil price of $57 per barrel, Muhammadu Buhari said.

The deficit would rise to 6.26 trillion naira, or 3.39% of GDP, funded mostly by new borrowing and privatisations, he told a joint session of both houses of parliament.

"Some have expressed concern over our resort to borrowing to finance our fiscal gaps. They are right to be concerned. However, we believe that the debt level of the Federal Government is still within sustainable limits," he said.

"It is unlikely that our recovery from each of the two recessions would have grown as fast without the sustained government expenditure funded by debt," he added, referring to a 2016 recession and to the 2020 crisis brought on by COVID-19.

Buhari confirmed a previously published 2022 GDP growth forecast of 4.2% and an inflation projection of 13%.

"Our target over the medium term is to grow our Revenue-to-GDP ratio from about 8 percent currently to 15 percent by 2025," said Buhari.

"At that level of revenues, the Debt-Service-to-Revenue ratio will cease to be worrying. Put simply, we do not have a debt sustainability problem, but a revenue challenge which we are determined to tackle to ensure our debts remain sustainable."

Nigeria has passed a string of record budgets since Buhari took office in 2015, but the country has struggled to fund the spending plans due to low revenues. The pandemic has added to the revenue problems.

The economy is projected to grow by up to 3% this year after it expanded by 5% in the second quarter. It contracted in 2020 due to the pandemic, though it managed to exit recession in the fourth quarter, but growth is fragile

Or that fight for scarce resources will spill over to the rest of the country and you have chaos on your hands and then they have the numbers.
Allowing a tumor to grow won't do anyone any good. Issues there need to be fixed or it engulfs the whole country. These aren't foreign citizens. we still occupy same country. things get too hard and they will move to other areas.

Whyem15:
The best solution is to let them, nature will run its course. The present high death rate in that part of the country isn't by mistake, trying to force development on them will only end in futility. As the population increases and scarce resources becomes more scarce, fight for the scarce resources will keep increasing and many will keep dying. That part will develop at its own time and pace.
This is the theory of demographic transition.

hahaha. I've been scrolling and scrolling, my fingers hurt lol

Lurker4Long:
I'm of a mind to just post any old SANDF stuff, just to goad the usual detractors and high-esteem people into action.

I'm on the train and I'm laughing so hard at this lol. that was funny

GeneralFarouq:
ah toh, do u want the SUs to bring down our alpha jets

lol this guy don send my people into shock , no one fit post pics of our Alpha jets and pick-up trucks

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it's a non hostile, friendly takeover. i enjoy those pics lol.

GeneralFarouq:

What is going on.

i tire. i didn't know it even requires an explanation. when someone commit theft and you beat them to death, you've committed murder, which is worse. anyways, thx for understanding, hopefully someday soon everyone go catch up. we won't progress unless we stop acting barbaric

EricBraven:
Where then do you draw the line.
I don't think you know what the weight if jungle Justice is. A young boy was accused of stealing garri from a store, guess what happened to him, he was burnt alive. He was about 6 years or so, happened in Lagos. If you search nairaland well you may come across the story.
If we don't all sit up and condemn why is bad we would end up being victim of the consequence one day.
Rastafarian

okay sir.
imagine a scenario (I've seen lots of videos about this) where a woman is accused of stealing from her boss, she then got stripped naked, sexually assaulted, beat up etc, but the victim has now become a perpetrator, you have assault, you have kidnapping, and sexual assault to name a few. So they committed a bigger crime just to punish someone for a lesser crime.
Nigeria's society is a product of bad governance and vice versa. if those at the top do their job right, you wouldn't think they way you do. but since govt is useless, citizens have no choice but to take matters into their own hands.
What you have is then a lawless society. And that's what Nigeria is

Tobiloba24072:
It those idiots, believed such bad things could happen to them, they wouldn't have gone that way initially....I'm changing the narrative for them.

and you still don't get the point. so what you are also justifying is you committing murder by taking laws into your own hands. unless it's in self defense, no civilian should kill. but obviously you don't get that. no one is denying the atrocities committed by these low lives.
but no point arguing. In a few decades some of you guys will understand the meaning of law and order. na only savagery and chaos some understand to date. good luck with it.

Tobiloba24072:
Lol, what's the highest form of oppression and terror, you have witnessed?

I have seen, a pregnant woman cut open while she was alive, and the foetus removed.
Any armed bandit I catch better have a poisoned pill, what they will witness happening to the select few I pick to display savagery, will give the rest heart attack .

i want them all decimated too. but if we are gonna do things like this, we can atleast be creative about it and not make it so obvious. but I'd rather we follow the process in place. those guys were detained, unarmed and already at the back of a pickup truck, then somehow ended up dead and burnt. That's not the way.
Funny how Nigerians want a better Nigeria yet tolerate savagery on both sides. That will never bring progress.
We need to act based on laws and discipline, not emotions. And those in Authority should never lose suspects in their custody and those suspects all end up dead. In any serious country those soldiers will be facing charges.
Take emotion out of it, what just happened is illegal and a crime. That is a fact. I'd rather see a judge sentence them to death, but like someone said, most Nigerians have no hope or trust in the system. Oh well

Tobiloba24072:
Killing them is too fair, they should turn them to a colony of one hands and legs, while the men among them should be sterilized.

Nigeria's military campaign against criminal gangs in the northwest is pushing them into neighbouring regions as a result of a telecom shutdown and a squeeze on fuel and food supplies, local residents and officials said.

Hundreds of troops backed by fighter jets began the offensive in early September in Zamfara State against gunmen responsible for a surge in mass abductions and attacks in the northwest.

The offensive and official telecoms blackout in Zamfara is the largest recent operation against the gangs, known locally as bandits, who for years have looted villages and kidnapped for ransom.

Zamfara and other states also imposed a raft of restrictions including a ban on sales of petrol in jerry cans and limits on cattle movement and on the opening hours of local markets as a way to curtail supplies to bandits.

But as pressure builds in Zamfara, residents of villages in neighbouring Katsina and Kaduna states reported an influx of gunmen fleeing Zamfara into their communities, raising fears of attacks.

Fleeing bandits have set up illegal checkpoints along highways in Katsina State near the border with Zamfara, robbing haulage trucks of food and siphoning fuel from vehicles, according to locals.

"In the last few days we have witnessed increased presence of armed bandits on motorcycles in our area," said Ashiru Bawa, a resident in Kankara district.

"The food and fuel cut is seriously affecting them."

Local newspapers reported Zamfara bandits have been running out of food supplies and even asking for food as ransom from families of hostages instead of the cash they usually demand.

Authorities in Katsina have also cut telecom signals in about half of its 34 districts on the border with Zamfara. Sokoto State followed on Sunday, cutting mobile service in some areas.

The telecoms blackout is aimed at disrupting communications between bandits and their informants to help keep army movements secret.

But the shutdown also makes it difficult for residents to alert security personnel, said Bawa, who travelled to the state capital Katsina, 120 kilometres (75 miles) away, to make calls.

The bandits have not harmed motorists but fear is mounting that they could start attacks once they "regain their strength", Bawa said.

Nigeria has launched military campaigns against bandits in the northwest before and even sought amnesty deals to coax them to abandon hideouts deep in the region's vast forests.

But most of those operations and peace deals have failed or only temporarily halted criminal gangs.

- Arms cache, attacks -

Residents of Giwa district in neighbouring Kaduna State also said bandits from Zamfara have been moving into the area and occupying two villages.

Scores of gunmen on motorcycles invaded the Saulawa and Damari farming villages, prompting residents to evacuate their families to other areas.

"They (bandits) have been coming in mostly on foot, looking hungry and distraught, and heading deep inside the forest," said Husseini Ibrahim, a resident of Udawa in Birnin Gwari district.

Ibrahim said some of the gunmen in Saulawa and Damari were preaching to locals, which he said suggested links to the Ansaru jihadists known to operate in the forests.

Nigeria's bandit gangs have no ideological leaning and are motivated by financial gains. But there have been signs of their infiltration by jihadists waging a 12-year insurgency in the northeast.

Last year police said they killed more than 250 members of Ansaru, an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group which split from Boko Haram in 2012, in Birnin Gwari area.

"The bandits are being chased out of Zamfara and trooping to Birnin Gwari and the security forces don't pursue them," said Birnin Gwari resident Ahmed Isah.

"They should coordinate the operation with neighbouring states to block all escape routes if they are to crush the bandits, otherwise the Zamfara operation will only make them change locations."

Authorities in Kaduna have reported an increase in bandit attacks in remote areas of the state.

"Several residents were reported to have lost their lives", Samuel Aruwan, Kaduna state security commissioner said.

Authorities in Adamawa state in the northeast have also raised concern about bandits escaping Zamfara to a mountainous region in Maiha district on the border with Cameroon.

"Some bandits who escaped from Zamfara are fleeing to Sagal mountains which has been a bandit enclave due to its difficult terrain," Idi Amin, political head of Adamawa's Maiha district told AFP.

Troops aided by local vigilantes raided the hideout of a bandit from Zamfara and recovered a cache of weapons including hand and rocket-propelled grenades, Amin said.

But the fleeing bandit, named Haruna "managed to escape" with his men, he said.

Okay sir, i don chill, hopefully you don't run into the rest of them. Good luck massacring's each other

Rich4god:
Guy chill abeg... When the bandits were kidnapping people and executing those who couldn't pay ransom, does that shows any sign of civilness.

So you want them to be arrested and taken to court so that one oga at the top will wrk for their release.

Left for me, this type of treatment shld be given to those so called repentant Boko boys.

So your idea of someone who haven't being convicted of a crime being labeled a "Suspect" is new to you? Okay.
And suspects do kill people, is that a new thing? what villagers overpowered security force, stop making excuses, i watched the video.
Anyone arrested for commiting a crime is called a Suspect, only after conviction does that changes. I'm sure you know this.
But hey, carry on with una jungle justice, that will make Nigeria safer I'm sure.
I wonder how many innocent people will die in return.
It's like we fail to learn, acts of brutality from both sides only prolong the sufferings of the civilian population, this is why these criminals never show mercy, because right from time, you catch a thief, you burn them to death, then you wonder why they kill people after robbing them.
How long do you think this will go on for? Good luck to naija i guess, all good.

JOSCOFELIX:
which kind suspect? suspect with gun that killed 2 people. but i really understand what you are saying but the villager overpower the security force and burnt them alive

Vex with me? amazing how so called adults can't have a conversation without being disrespectful, no point in shedding tears, i only feel sorry for everyone there. if you think this is right, then you are part of the problem. This is not how things should be done, simple as that.
You can vex all you want dude, your wahala no concern me. I only stated an opinion, no give yourself headache about it.
Have a good one chief

Valkrie:
Oga..have their day in which bloody court...? Where they civilised when they where wrecking havoc on people? Just close your ears and eyes and let people treat them properly in the language they understand....the bloody idiots have succeeded in bringing out the beast in men by their actions....so save you tears for them bro and let them enjoy the meal they themselves prepared....!!!

There is no bloody civil way to treat their madness other using madness of equal or greater proportion....!!!

Oga just no make me vex with you pls...!!

I know some people will disagree with me on this, but if we are to have a so called country of law and order, these things shouldn't be happening.
These suspected bandits were captured alive by our soldiers and vigilantes, yet they were executed in broad day light and then set on fire.
Is this what some will call a civilized country? Everyone involved in these murders should be charged. It shouldn't be up to security forces to carry out executions of unarmed suspect, not even terrorists, this is not the way, it's another extension of barbaric acts that dotted that country.
Let these people have their day in court, throw them in prison etc, but that's for the courts to decide. Regardless of the crimes they've been accused of, there are rules in place for these, seems no one bothers to follow them, then burning their corpses? From security personnel? That's highly unprofessional, we can do better.
This job isn't easy, that's why it's not for everyone, but this, it's sad.
Guess another 100yrs we will get our shi!t together.

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Congrats Chief, you try

bidexiii:
Guys BATTLEFIELD DISCUSSION THREAD has officially attained 2000 pages.
Thanks for the contribution and constructive criticism over the years.
I'll want to take my time to mention some few folks that over the years there contribution has been so immense !
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Guys the list is endless and please if your name is not on the list don't be offended. @Jakeporoshenko if you're reading this, please we miss your photos and contribution.

whatever works i guess. but we gotta be smart about it

Faithful007:
Nigeria is likely using her gas as collateral for her massive loans.

lol, was trying to remember the item in the article. possibly not crude.

RiceProducers:
Pay Russia with crude?. To do what with?

actually intention was to mention palm oil or whatever i saw in an article a while back.not crude. why you dey tire? maybe you get low iron level. eat up chief. try some iron supplement too

iblawi:
I just tire. When Russia is the 2nd largest producer of oil in the world

Wasn't there a story i heard about us paying them with crude?

i swear. you'd think a chest thumping warrior would go to the front lines and single handedly defeat Iswap , instead of bragging on NL

Roan77:
We have a lot of keyboard 4 star Generals here.

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Man shut the fvk up. what the hell is wrong with some Nigerians. stop your chest beating nonsense. its pathetic

NewDelhi:
I've always known you to be a very purposeless fellow. Most especially during your days as camp commandant in Calabar NYSC camp. I'll teach you a very bitter lesson in that same Nigerian army wey you dey. Go and ask your kind sikowitz from the army SSC/DSSC recruitment thread and how I bleeped him up. Just be careful with me, drop that 3 star on your chest and respect and give compliments to those you ought to else the results might be nasty. One or two calls to NA HQ Abuja or tradoc Minna and you're a goner. My advice, just pipe low and enjoy the thread .

Nonsense.

lol. una don commot comparison with SA. now its sbs vs panthers etc? nice