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jpphilips:
Abagana has not been repeated, in this NE war!

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In terms of Casualties, number of vehicles involved, nope Abagana haven't been repeated. In terms of pattern of movement and attack. Yes, it have been repeated alot. Jam packing alot of military vehicles in a straight line moving through enemy territory on a narrow road, as if you're going for a field exercise. There alot of ambushes that we lost alot of troops in a single occasion. The Nigerian Army is either not learning or adapting extremely slow.

jpphilips:
That corrupt politicians are stealing scarce resources doesn't mean you have enough resources to go round.
$1b is insanely huge when stolen by a politician, conversely, if you inject the same $1b to carter for Nigeria's population & landmass, it cant complete 800kms of federal roads.

Algeria with only AQIM as a major threat spent $10b annualy on their military consistently for 10yrs that earned them the number 2 spot in Africa.

Nigeria has never disbursed $10b for capital expenditure a year let alone use it to service the military alone, note the word "disbursed" not "Budget", I hope you understand the difference.

The gas infrastructure ongoing in Nigeria, Akk project valued at $2.3b was borrowed, Bodo bridge (Longest in Africa) at N120b , borrowed by half, Lagos-Ibadan, borrowed, warri-Itakpe, borrowed, Nigeria cannot afford a Capital $10b expenditure today, thats a fact!!

Therefore, Nigeria is a poor country where corrupt politicians steal from the meagre inflow its this reason Nigeria earned a spot on the world bank IDA program as a poor country.

Almost every year, we hear about billions of dollars missing either in the NNPC or CBN. Nigeria isn't poor, neither is it extremely rich for now. What we make from crude oil alone yearly is alot. We don't even do quality auditing, truth is, Nigeria doesn't even know how much it makes, cos peeps steals much of it. We saw how auditing turned out in the NDDC. How the MD was fainting while questioned. Mind you, that 1 billion dollars, if i inject it continously into the education or health care sector for 2 straight years, those sectors will be upgraded by atleast 100 %.

True. Algeria has less security threats.

I understand, we've never done that. How do you expect a highly mismanaged and corrupt country to do that? I know we've increased spending on capital expenditure under this administration,but we still have same root issues. Nigeria problem is not money, it is mismanagement and corruption. That's my point.

True, almost all major projects funding comes from loans,we have avenues and ways to generate money in Nigeria. If the mismanagement, misplaced priorities and corruption continues, we'll keep claiming we don't have money while having peeps who are creating a fortune for themselves from the country's wealth. Nigeria is a mismanaged country, not a poor one.

DubaiLandLord1:
What a joke

A beautiful "joke"

kabe1:
We are talking about financial resources available to procure military equipment.

Yet you're giving me inspirational quotes.

Which country on earth wey no get people?

this got me laughing hard.

Nigeria have the financial resources to purchase quality military equipment. The people at the top understands the situation better, they know what to do.

kabe1:
Do you know that Norway, a country of 5 million people, a country that is geographically smaller than Nigeria produces more crude oil than Nigeria?

You really need to look at things in the context you're comparing.

Nigeria is a middle, lower income country with a population of over 200 million people.

Nigeria's greatest resource ain't oil, ain't gold, ain't Iron ore neither cocoa nor cassava and rice. Our greatest resource is our people. That population alone, gives us the capability to eclipse anyone. We can leverage on our population and it will become a great capability or we let it become our liability. Education is key to our development and success.

I understand where you are coming from.

Yes, true but it's not what it supposed to be. Alot of money is unaccounted for.

RiceProducers:
Five STAR comment. Very good points. Thank you

I appreciate, Sir.

kabe1:
IFVs are a far more effective system than a Tank in COIN operations.

Modern IFVs carry a 30mm, ATGM and still transports 9 fully kitted troops. They are faster than a Tank, easily maintainable than a Tank. They also cover larger areas, and can be used for reconnaissance.

War is not won by determination, but by employing the right strategies, tactics with the right mix of equipment.

A very good and recent example is the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

There is no substitute for employing the right mix of equipment.

Negative. The platforms in a COIN context are on par because the IFV gets to transport troops, which is an advantage to tanks. Mind you the merkava mk. 4 can carry troops too, so let's not generalise this tank stuff. Let's be only on the Nigerian context.

Nigerian tanks carry 125mm weaponry, 12.7mm, 7.62 mm, 9k119 refleks ATGMs. Yeah, they are faster than tanks but not all. Vt4 tanks go for 70km/hr and cover 500 km distance without external fuel. They are both good for recon considering the thermal sights on the platform.

Determination is key. When I said determination, i covered everything. Determination translates to will, will translates to been dedicated to employ the right services and equipments to achieve your goals.

Odunayaw:
And how much is that?

Money is different from MONEY

Nigerian proverb, "kobo, kobo na money".

I don't know how much is it, but I know it's alot to make a major difference in the life of our citizens.

lalasticlala:
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Odunayaw:
Almost sounds like Monday motivation speech.

"Nigerian lacks money and also lacks monetary discipline. - Kabe1, 2021

That's the reality

I understand his perspective. I understand what he is saying, but Nigeria ain't poor. I'll accept if he says Nigerians are poor, but Nigeria as a country is not poor.

kabe1:
Nigerian politicians do not loot billions of dollars yearly.

This is the sort of ignorant comment that fuels insecurity in Nigeria.

What is the national budget of Nigeria?

How much goes to capital projects and recurrent expenditure.

The problem is, anytime we talk about Nigeria’s problems, we tend to overlook the roots. The feds are tryna act like they can fix everything which is impossible. Do you have any idea how much goes around unaccounted for at the LGAs At the road unions Local taxes?? Markets??
Wallahi, there is money in Nigeria.

kabe1:
Nigerian politicians do not loot billions of dollars yearly.

This is the sort of ignorant comment that fuels insecurity in Nigeria.

What is the national budget of Nigeria?

How much goes to capital projects and recurrent expenditure.

Verdammt.
It's not about the budget. Look, imagine you're a school club president, let's say a high school science club president . You're given 20k to manage your club in a term. You mismanaged the money, you got bright students with potentials that can help improve the club, but you don't even look inward. You mismanaged club taxes. At the end of the term, after laundering all your finances, you go about borrowing to fund next term budget. You don't know who to hold accountable, your club members don't even know what last term money was used for because of lack of transparency.

No IGR
Mismanagement
Corruption
Unaccountable individuals
Lack of transparency

But you have resources, you have the money flowing around with no control. You mismanaged taxes.

That's what I meant. Nigeria ain't poor.

Odunayaw:
If I ask you how there's money in Nigeria now you'd point to the polithieving class stealing scarce resources

There is money in Nigeria. We got resources, we got the ability to make the money and build the economy. There is no way that a country with 200 million people, produces a large amount of oil, which is a major resource, produces alotta agricultural products be poor. Nigeria is not poor. Nigeria is extremely mismanaged. We might be broke in some instances, cause having economic crisis once in a while is usual in economies around the world is not unusual, but Nigeria ain't poor, Nigerians are poor because we are mismanaged and extremely corrupt. I hope you understand what I mean.

kabe1:
Nigeria lacks money to properly fund our military. It costs billions of dollars to procurement equipment buy spares and train soldiers.

Nigerian lacks money and also lacks monetary discipline.

Nigeria loses billions of dollars yearly. Nigerian politicians loot billions of dollars yearly, but we make it look like there isn't money available at all, but there is alotta money to be looted. Very bad.

Honestly, whoever suggested the Army to buy VT 4 tanks, did the right thing. The VT4 is the perfect MBT for the Nigerian army. Unless we want, a k2 panther or leopard 2 tanks, which I don't think we can get.
The VT4 MBT should be purchased in more quantities, upgraded and start a manufacturing plant here in Nigeria. We need to leverage on our relationship with Norinco.

BlackBaron:
The American Bradley has the same form factor with a BMP. Uparmored, RWS and all the other shebang.

If R& was a thing for Nigeria, we could have effective 'battle taxis' without breaking the bank.

Exactly. The fv101, fv103 and fv107 are already good platforms if utilized appropriately and properly.
For people clamouring for IFVs, i tell you what, those IFVs ain't gonna win you this war in no time. That's a misperception of things on ground. We got a whole lotta Vickers mk. 3 MBTs and T 55s prior to the purchase of T 72m1 and VT4 tanks. Those older MBTs would've ended this war quickly if they were utilized appropriately. We all saw what Late. Lt-Col Abu Ali did with the 272 tank battalion's T 72s. It takes determination and commitment to the cause, to win a war of attrition.

upko:
Honestly thought it was just me. Who lacks money? Nigeria?

Exactly, Nigeria does not lack money. Nigeria lacks leadership, accountability, management, transparency, quality followership and criticism.
Nigeria is killing itself slowly and painfully.

Whyem15:
They've learnt from this though I still hope whoever was in charge of logistics when it happened could be jailed for life.
Subsequent videos of logistics being moved to the NE features heavy escorts. A video was circulating few days ago of trainees being moved to somewhere in the NE with air escort.


It seems the military wants to keep most of the phantom II out of the north east, most of them have been distributed to many states.
While many troops are still moving around with guntrucks in the NE, it could be that they are planning on deploying a separate platform to the frontlines.

I hope so. Many of the blunders we committed in this war, have been committed already in the Civil war. For example, the Abagana Ambush and Oguta lake debacle. We keep repeating our mistakes. I just hope, swears, we can only hope that we will improve.

keep2silent:
Dont be deceived broda, armour withstand 12.7mm has distance limit, fire closer like 300 feet away Bandits DShK will penetrate kill all soldiers inside our Type 89 APC. Some variants of Type 89 can only resist 7.62mm AK-47 rifle on sides & back armour.

Wow! You say NA will use their 6 units of ST-1 to any job of IFV ? Only 6 vehicles to cover all of Nigeria, or you mean Sao Tome Island?

Nigeria lacks money, best idea- buy enough quantity of cheap multi-role platform combining our army's 3 major needs 1. protective mobility 2. firepower 3. day/night vision, all 3-in-1 save costs. Prices from half a million dollars upward are surplus in world market.

Anything different is waste of time, money, innocent lives. Unarmed new Isotrex MRAP that stupidily came to give soldiers only protective mobility were captured by ISWAP brand new before NA can mount guns on them like these unarmed Type 89. We no dey learn sha, be pushing aside firepower

Pls kindly end this war now bcom import procurement business for those few lucky Nigerian elites using our suffer heads like pangolo.

Anytime peeps here say Nigeria lacks money, it angers me. Wallahi, Nigeria doesn't lack money. We're very bad financial managers. There is money in Nigeria.

That pic of the captured APCs are disheartening. It gives chills about the incapability of the military hierarchy.

youghs:
Can you point me to where soldiers said they don't want it cos this is the first time I'm hearing this

Same here �. I'm suprised he is saying soldiers don't want it. He doesn't know how it feels like to pop your head out of the hatch in the heat of battle.

RiceProducers:
This is nonsense. I know what RWS is. Soldiers don't want it in most countries. RWS are good as stand alone, unmanned guard emplacements. Part of electronic fencing.
Maybe when autonomous robots start getting deployed, the systems would find widespread adoption.

Sir, you believe RWS are useless on an MBT platform too?

JOSCOFELIX:
I am not surprised that Nigerian Army’s spokesman Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu came out with [oral] guns blazing at The Economist of London, which last week published an uncomplimentary editorial on Nigeria’s government and its army. It called Nigeria “A crime scene in the centre of Africa.” Which I think is okay because Britain itself is a historic crime scene in the centre of the world, of slavery, colonial exploitation, unprovoked warfare, economic undermining of nations and subtle instigation of conflicts dressed up as fine diplomacy.

The magazine said Nigerian Army “is mighty on paper” because it has not been able to end Boko Haram insurgency in ten years or, more recently, to defeat bandits and kidnappers. Well, if that is the yardstick for determining a mighty army on paper, I think The Economist should more appropriately direct that label at the US Army.

Nigeria’s military has been battling Boko Haram for only 12 years now, with a relatively meagre budget because the national treasury is beset by other problems. In contrast, the US military spent 20 years and $6 trillion battling the Taliban in Afghanistan. What was the result? Taliban is back in power in the country even as the Americans escaped with their tails behind their backs.

The British Army wasn’t any better in that respect. In twenty years until 1992, it proved wholly unable to defeat the Provisional Irish Republican Army [IRA], the “Provos” as they were called then, or even to end what the Irish called “The Troubles” in their province. It took the signing of the Good Friday Accord in 1992 to end the British Army’s agony. Now, the British Army is several hundred years older than, its armoury a hundred times more lethal and its annual budget is several times bigger than Nigerian Army’s. In addition, IRA were lightly-armed thugs compared to Boko Haram. So which of the two armies is mightier on paper, if truth be told?

All conventional armies in this world have difficulty fighting asymmetric warfare, essentially because they are not trained for it. Guerillas also have many advantages, including lack of scrutiny of their actions by human rights organisations. The Economist said many of our soldiers are “ghosts” who exist only on the payroll.

This allegation has routinely been made with respect to some Local Government Councils and some MDAs in Nigeria. This is however the first time that anyone is making this allegation against the Army, whose troops are always seen at the numerous battle fronts fighting insurgents, bandits, militants, secessionists and other criminals. Almost everyone in Nigeria can see that the number of our troops is inadequate for our current needs, but no one ever said the number is adequate on the payroll.

The Economist also made the strange allegation that “much of [Nigerian Army’s] equipment is stolen and sold to insurgents.” It should please cross-check with MI6, the British intelligence service. Much of Boko Haram’s weapons came from Muammar Gaddafi’s arsenal, which NATO countries bombed despite pleas from the African Union [AU] to desist. What about the weapons that have destabilized other Sahelian African countries all the way from Mali to Burkina Faso to Niger Republic to Darfur, South Sudan and Somalia? Were they all sold to insurgents by rogue Nigerian soldiers?

What is true is that in the earlier phase of this conflict, Boko Haram overrun many army posts and seized their weapons, a happening which ended with the consolidation of army posts into super camps. That is not the same thing as “selling” weapons to insurgents. In any case, you Western guys withheld from us much needed equipment and material needed to end this war based on allegations that our troops abused human rights of captured insurgents.

That was another hypocrisy. Were weapons denied to the US Army in Vietnam because of the My Lai massacre, when soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment and Company B, 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division of the US Army massacred 504 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in March 1968? More recently, were they denied weapons because of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq?

Nigerian Army needs assistance from friendly countries to finish off insurgents and bandits. Sniping from the sidelines with false allegations, such as The Economist did, will only prolong everyone’s agony.

Quick Intervention in 21st Century Chronicle.

Mahmud Jega writes from Abuja

Impressive, Josco. Very impressive.

This particular moniker is just promoting Yahya bello. Lolz. All these for 30k

it's probably Ronaldo questioning

Death. They deserve severe pains.

Godforbid!!!

Samsung

Dump the bitch. You no be cashapp

Olosho since age 16

Danielnino00:
Sadiq will certainly offer more to the team..Much better than Onuachu... To start with,he is as much of a prolific scorer like Onuachu..and he is skillful,fast and creative...
In 209 career games, he has 111 goals and 46 assists.. that's 157 goal contribution in 209 games! For a striker,those are hug numbers..
Some might argue that he has been playing on low leagues for most of his career,but that's not entirely true... He played in Partizan in Serbia and recorded 23 goals and 19 assists in 52 games... With NAC Breda in Netherlands,he has 5 goals and 3 assists in 11 games...2 goals in 6 games for Roma.. The stats don't lie..

Onuachu is actually a very good striker...he is a proper goal poacher.. But the problem is that he isn't mobile enough.. He is the kind of striker you have to feed with the ball before he can perform.. his off the ball movement are poor..he can't even press well..
Right now,we don't have enough creative midfielders in our team,and our wingers are either poor crossers of the balls or more like wing forwards, so Onuachu will most likely be starved of service....that's why he is struggling..

I will totally support the idea of dropping him to give Sadiq his chance...
Sadiq has really improved from the timid kid many of us saw at the Olympics...

If we say Sadiq is a more complete striker than Osimhen, you people will come for our heads. Sadiq gives more assists,but Osimhen is still the best.

Pidginwhisper:
Lmao! The guy’s guardians carry England handicap for paper. It’s just one of those cock and bull stories people seeking asylum do cook up. His parents are alive.

Wow

ChrisKels:
His parents were never murdered, they are hale and hearty in Edo State. That claim was an invention to get an asylum. Vicmo parents are still alive, so it was Nigeria doing him a favour after lying against Nigeria in order to get an asylum

For real? Do you have proof? You're the first person I'm hearing saying this.