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@AUGUSTUS SORRY NIGERIA BY THE WAY IS A RAG TAG ARMY AND CANNOT UNTIL YOU SOLVE ELECTRICITY PROBLEM AND MAYBE THE FUMES OF DIESEL WOULD HAVE CLEARED BY THEN....GRIPEN PAYLOAD IS SOUTH AFRICAN MADE MISSILES

@AUGUSTUS ONLY WHEN NIGERIA PRODUCES SUCH MILITARY HARDWARE WOULD SOUTH AFRICA RESPECT

PRIDE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN NOT EMBARRASMENT OF THE NATION

NOTHING IN NIGERIA COMES CLOSE TO THIS PROFESSIONAL LEVEL AND COMBAT CAPABILITY

Kingsley Omonobi, Ndahi Marama
MAIDUGURI — No fewer than 50 Boko Haram members and over 30 soldiers were feared killed in an encounter around Pilka, Kirawa and Gwoza communities of Borno State in the last one week, reliable security source has confirmed.
It will be recalled that following the military take-over of Damboa Council Headquarters which was captured by terrorists, suspected Boko Haram gunmen in their hundreds escaped from Damboa and Sambisa Forest where they invaded and captured Gwoza town in Borno State, following last Wednesday=s multiple attacks on several houses, a police station, secretariat complex, and the Emir=s place.
One of the vehicle used by the insurgents on Friday
In the latest Gwoza attacks, even the new Emir, who took over from his late father, who was killed by Boko Haram, Alhaji Muhammed Idrisa Timta narrowly escaped being killed.
A top security source confirmed to our correspondent in Maiduguri that “the deployment of military to Gwoza, weekend, led to serious casualties from both sides, as more than 30 soldiers were ambushed and killed by terrorists in Pilka, Kirawa and other villages on the Maiduguri Bama Gwoza troubled road.

“Also, over 50 of the insurgents were killed in the encounter, but unfortunately, military troops in Kirawa withdrew and returned to Bama where they were reunited with their colleagues at the military barracks following the fire-power from the insurgents. They could not go to Gwoza as directed by their commanders.
AAt T Junction on Banki Road, the terrorists also ambushed the military post where both sides suffered several casualties, although I don’t have details of those killed yet,” the source said.
He added that it was difficult for security operatives to enter Gwoza town where terrorists had a field day, because, most of the villages along the road leading to Gwoza where its inhabitants were sacked, were occupied by terrorists who climbed on trees and opened fire on military operational vehicles.
A text message sent to Director, Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade to confirm the incident was not replied.
Meanwhile, following months of making strategies on the best ways of rescuing the over 200 abducted girls of the Government Seconday School, Chibok, the Defence headquarters, yesterday, disclosed that Nigerian soldiers have infiltrated and taken positions in Sambisa forest, the den where the girls and several other hostages were being kept.
Director of Defence Information, Major General Olukolade, who made the disclosure, said that Sambisa Forest is a wide expanse of land covering over 6,000 square kilometres with several communities living inside, noting that this explained why the military could not just go into the forest and bomb the whole place.
Explaining that the armed forces were not relenting in a bid to bring back the girls, General Olukolade said the military wanted to avoid collateral damage in the process of rescuing the Chibok girls, insisting that the foreign collaboration in efforts at achieving this goal was assisting in this regard.
On the take-over of Gwoza town by Boko Haram and the subsequent hoisting of their flags, and counter attacks by soldiers to re-take the town, he said that no portion of Nigeria was available for terrorists to occupy, adding that “if they (terrorists) appear to be doing so now, it was only a joke.”

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Police sources told Saharareporters that the college had five units in training with each unit having 59 trainees and unit commander. The units affect were two Mobile Police(MOPOL) units from Nasarawa, Gombe and MOPOL 50 from Abuja. Two other units from Zamfara were also at the college during the attack.

Boko Haram militants earlier today invaded a prestigious Nigerian Police training college in Gwoza, Borno state.

The militants numbering 200 arrived the Police Mobile Force Training School with five armored tanks earlier seized from the Nigerian army units that tried unsuccessfully to dislodge the sect from Gwoza in the last two weeks.

Police sources told Saharareporters that the college had five units in training with each unit having 59 trainees and unit commander. The units affect were two Mobile Police(MOPOL) units from Nasarawa, Gombe and MOPOL 50 from Abuja. Two other units from Zamfara were also at the college during the attack.

Several of the trainees were reportedly killed and injured by the militants. A good number of the trainees also fled to the mountains nearby while some of the trainees managed to escape to Adamawa state.

A police source told Saharareporters that the militants blew up an armored tank stationed at the gate of the training college before gaining entrance into the school and wreaking havoc.

Boko Haram took over Gwoza some two weeks ago, hoisted its flag and appointed an Emir to administer the strategic northeastern township. Attempts by the Nigerian army to retake the town has been repelled by the militants in deadly counter attacks that have claimed several Nigerian soldiers.

New efforts at mobilize troops to march on Gwoza has been bogged by mutiny by troops and their families who simply refuse to take orders from their superiors to take on Boko Haram fighters as they express concern that their weaponry cannot match those of Boko Haram.

http://saharareporters.com/2014/08/20/boko-haram-militants-overrun-prestigious-mobile-police-training-college-gwoza

Funny to boast about the number of survaillance aircrafts in your armour and yet you cannot effectively utilise these resources in your disposal such as locating missing girls....IT TOOK FOREIGN POWERS TO COME TO THE RESCUE OF NIGERIA

UGANDA OPERATING SOUTH AFRICAN PRODUCT....WHICH COUNTRY OPERATES A NIGERIAN PRODUCT

SUDANESE WOMEN WHO HAVE BALLS THAN THE NIGERIAN COLONEL

GHANA OPERATING SOUTH AFRICAN RATELS

THE OLD GIVE WAY TO THE NEW....SALUTE THE RATEL AFTER NEARLY 40 YEARS OF SELFLESS SERVICE AND PROVING ITS WORTH IN MILITARY CONVENTIONAL CONFRONTATION

THE NEW R-5 TO ENTER SERVICE....DESIGNED AND PRODUCE IN SOUTH AFRICA

A RESPECTED MILITARY FORCE BY ITS POPULATION NOT COWARDS

@AUGUSTUS THIS IS WHAT HAPPEN WHEN A COUNTRY REACTS TO PRESSURE OF WAR WITHOUT PLANNING HOW TO REACT TO CHALLENGES....TYPICAL THIRD WORLD BANANA REPUBLIC

Nigeria’s total debt stock has again risen to a very high level of N10.4 trillion as at June 2014. The rising debt profile of the country is made up of external debt stock of N1.46 trillion ($9.377 billion), Federal Government domestic debt of N7.421 trillion ($47.653billion).
States in the federation have a domestic debt stock of N1.551 trillion or $9.963 billion. The Federal Government’s share of the rising external debt stands at $6.363 billion.

As at December 2013, however, the total stock of external debt was $8.821 billion indicating a rise of $556 million in the first half of 2014. But as at December 31, 2012 Federal Government’s external debt was $4.14 billion as against a total debt stock of both Federal and state governments of $6.5 billion.

A break-down of the rising debt profile showed that Federal Government’s external and domestic debts amounted to N8.8 trillion or $57.030 billion as at the end of June 2014. Federal Government borrowing from multilateral Institutions amounted to $3.826 billion while loans from bilateral sources mainly China Exim Bank and Eurobond amounted to $2.537 billion.

In the case of states, a total of $2.904 billion was sourced from multilateral institutions, $108.9 million was obtained as loans from bilateral sources, thus making the states’ total outstanding external debt as at June 2013 $3.013 billion.

Disclosing these facts in Abuja, Director General, Debt Management Office, Dr. Abraham Nwankwo said that although the debt profile had increased, he assured that the debt remained sustainable at a ratio of 12.51 to the Gross Domestic Product, GDP.

The D-G also said that the managers of the nation’s debt would apply more caution in further borrowings in order not to run into the crisis of debt overhang, which the nation once suffered.

His words: “The sovereign debt is doing well. Currently our total sovereign domestic debt for both Federal and states and the FCT is about N8.9 trillion and external debt is about $9.38 billion.

“Our current debt/GDP ratio is about 12.51 per cent which is much lower than the 56 per cent total public to GDP for countries of Nigeria’s group.

However, this is not an indication that Nigeria can afford to borrow without caution. In spite of the re-basing which means we have more capacity to borrow, we are not going to borrow without caution. In fact, we are going to be more cautious, especially because our tax-GDP ratio is low. Many economic agents do not pay their taxes.”

Eurobond

Dr. Nwankwo said that the Eurobond initiative which commenced in 2011 with the floating of the $500 million Eurobond has positively changed the profiles of Nigerian corporate organisations and their ability to raise long-term funds from the international capital market.

The Federal Government raised additional $1 billion from the international capital market in 2013 following which several Nigerian firms, especially banks have also gone to the international capital market to raise funds for their operations.

According to him, six companies issued nine bonds within the last one year, from which about $3.4 billion was raised. The DMO boss said his team would ensure that the funds raised from the capital markets both at home and outside were utilised profitably in the interest of the nation’s economy.

The D-G disclosed that the funds raised from the Eurobond had been deployed to very critical sectors of the economy, requiring urgent financing to boost the economy, especially, the electricity power, agriculture, solid minerals and the dualisation of the Airport and Kubwa Roads in Abuja.

Dr. Nwankwo said that his team has managed the nation’s debt in line with the national priority needs.

with a view to creating full values funds borrowed in order to ensure maximum benefits to the economy.

His words, “we have tailored the nation’s debt management in accordance with our peculiarities. We have used debt management to leverage development of the private sector and it has helped them to raise money to boost the real sector such as manufacturing, solid minerals, agriculture and electricity power supply.

“We have to develop the capital market to develop long-term debt instrument such that rather than what the banks have been used to in terms of given out 91 day loans, we now have debt instruments of up to 20 years. We have made it possible for the companies to float their own bonds in the domestic market such that between 2005 and 2013, 23 companies raised N223 billion which was evidence that that aspect of the transformation agenda of the President Goodluck Jonathan is working.

“The implication is that with operators in the real sector of the economy being able to raise long-term funds, they can expand their businesses, increase productivity and create more jobs, across the country, on a sustainable basis”.

Dr. Nwankwo said that great opportunities had opened to the Nigerian public and appealed to those creating violence and instability to have a re-think.

In his words, “we could have done better if the artificial distractions had been avoided. If we are lagging behind, we are the ones holding ourselves backward.”

Public should monitor funds’ utilisation

He explained that Nigerians should not policies nor resist state governors who want to access funds from the capital market in order to undertake development projects.

According to him the general public, especially civil society groups and the media, should rather insist on the building of institutional frameworks to guarantee the effective and efficient utilization of borrowed funds.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/nigeria-sinks-deeper-external-debt/

@AUGUSTUS THE HONOURABLE PRESIDENT WITH HIS HONEST ATTRIBUTES IS REFERRING TO THESE PIGSTY CONDITIONS

PRESIDENT JONATHAN OF NIGERIA HAS ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT SOUTH AFRICANS HAVE BEEN ALL ALONG SAYING THE NIGERIAN MILITARY IS BELOW INTERNATIONAL STANDARD...SHORT CONFIRMING THAT NIGERIAN ARMY IS A RAG TAG MILITIA THAN A PROFESSIONAL OUTFIT...@AUGUSTUS SO SAYS THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND WHO ARE YOU TO AGAINST HIM

A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Prof. Tam David-West, yesterday criticised President Goodluck Jonathan for embarrassing the nation through his constant gaffes.

He criticised Dr Jonathan for saying the Nigerian Army was below international standards.

Speaking with The Nation in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, the former minister noted that the President has been embarrassing the nation by his alleged gaffes, especially outside the country.

http://naijamayor.com/jonathan-embarrassing-nigerians-saying-the-nigerian-army-is-below-international-standards-prof-tam-david-west/

SOUTH AFRICA BENCHMARKS ITSELF WITH THE BEST IN THE WORLD NOT PAYING HOTAIR LIP SERVICE ABOUT BEING THE BEST AND YET CONTINOUSLY BEEN EMBARRASED AND HUMILIATED BY BH @AUGUSTUS READ THE ATTACHMENT

A nine-strong “senior” team from the SANDF Reserve Force brought home the bacon from the recent CIOR (Inter Allied Confederation of Reserve Officers) International Military Skills competition.

The South African team travelled to Hammelburg, Germany, to take part in the “experienced” category and finished first ahead of mainly NATO countries.

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NIGERIANS and other nationals top the list of foreign doctors practising in the United Kingdom (UK), according to the British National Health Service (NHS).

A fact sheet on the number of registered doctors in 2012 published by DailyMailOnline showed that India tops the list with 25,336 doctors; Pakistan, 8,998; South Africa, 5,695; Ireland, 4,010; Nigeria, 3,936; Germany, 3,291; Egypt, 3,141; Greece, 2,711 doctors; Italy, 2,499 doctors; and Sri Lanka, 2,335 doctors.

Others include: Sudan with 1,418 doctors; Libya with 727; Burma, 691; Syria, 671; Caman Islands, 28; Kazakhstan, 26; Liberia, nine; Burundi eight; and Haiti, four .

http://gistreel.com/2013/09/05/nigerian-doctors-place-5th-in-uks-list-of-countries-with-highest-number-of-doctors-in-the-uk/

@AUGUSTUS SEE TEN AFRICAN COUNTRIES THAT REALY DESPERATELY IN NEED OF DOCTORS

http://www.irinnews.org/report/89186/africa-ten-countries-desperately-seeking-doctors

NIGERIANS TEND TO THINK THAT SOUTH AFRICAN HEALTH SYSTEM DEPENDS ON NIGERIANS AND THROUGH THE RATIO ONE QUESTION POPS UP WHO REALY NEEDS HEALTH PROFESSIONAL

South Africa has 393 nurses and 74 doctors per 100,000 people, as compared to the United States 901 nurses and 247 doctors per 100,000 people (US Today). Nigeria (Africa's most populous country) has only 23,000 physicians for its population of 124 million. This is a ratio of only 18.5 physicians per 100,000.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_number_of_doctors_per_people_in_Africa

@AUGUSTUS IS THESE CONDITIONS OF NIGERIAN POLICE BARRACKS ACCEPTED

@AUGUSTUS THE LYING PROPAGANDA READ WHAT THE ARMY GENERAL IS SAYING ABOUT THE EQUIPMENT AND IT CONTRADICTS EVERY WORD OF BASELESS DEFENCE YOU HAVE BEEN VOMITING

Defence ministry spokesman Gen Chris Olukolade told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme that he could not confirm the reports of a mutiny but would investigate.

He denied that soldiers were being "sent to die".

"We may not have all it takes but we are improving on it [equipment] regularly," he said.

@AUGUSTUS have been making a lot of noise about new equipment being brought by Nigerian Army....WHERE IS THE EQUIPMENT?

A group of soldiers in north-eastern Nigeria is refusing to fight Islamist Boko Haram militants until they receive better equipment, one of the mutineers has told the BBC.

The soldier, who requested anonymity, said at least 40 of his colleagues would refuse orders to deploy.

A defence ministry spokesman said the incident was being investigated.

A state of emergency that was declared in three north-eastern states last year has failed to curb the insurgency.

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The Nigerian army is not ready to fight Boko Haram”

A mutinying soldier in Borno state
Boko Haram is fighting to create an Islamic state in Nigeria - and has stepped up its attacks after being pushed out of its bases in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, targeting towns and villages in deadly raids.

'Sacrificing soldiers'
"Soldiers are dying like fowl," the soldier, who said he and his colleagues were just outside Maiduguri, told the BBC Hausa service.

"The Nigerian army is not ready to fight Boko Haram," he said, explaining that soldiers were not being given enough weapons and ammunition to take them on.

"Boko Haram are inside the bush, everywhere," he said "They [senior commanders] are sacrificing soldiers," he said.

Defence ministry spokesman Gen Chris Olukolade told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme that he could not confirm the reports of a mutiny but would investigate.

He denied that soldiers were being "sent to die".

"We may not have all it takes but we are improving on it [equipment] regularly," he said.

http://m.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28855292

@AUGUSTUS THE NIGERIAN POLICE ARMOUR CAR IS A SCHOOL BUS IN THE UNITED STATE BUT CHEAP AND LAZY NIGERIAN JUST WELDED ARMOUR PLACE AND CLAIM INNOVATION

Everything Nigeria post to South Africa its an outdated technology which has been in the market for no less than 15 Years...Showing Riot hardware South Africa is amongst the experiance countries in the world due to its past...Riot water car is made in South Africa and by South Africans and Police armoured cars are made and designed by South Africa not showmanship of changing the appearance and replacing a truck with armour plate and thereafter go and boast to the world about a so called invention which is nothing more than mediocricy and sub standard.....Nigerian riot car was made in UK

@augustus do not piss on the graves of the death.....anyway South Africa does not possess an art of lying like Nigerian army....How many times your Army promises to finish BH and failed How many times your army declares a state of emergency and failed to subdue BH?? How many times you court marshall Generals, Officers and members of the military for cowwardice??

@AUGUSTUS SPOT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT SOUTH AFRICA PRODUCES AND WHAT NIGERIA DOES...SURELY YOU CAN SPOT MEDIOCRICY A MILES AWAY CHANGING THE FRAME OF THE CAR DOES NOT MAKE YOU THE DESIGNER AND ACTUALLY NIGERIA SHOULD BE CHARGE FOR COPY RIGHTS VIOLATION......JELOUSY AGAIN TRIYING TO PLAY BIG IN A SMALL POND...NIGERIAN DESIGNER WOULD NOT HAVE PASS THE TEST OF TIME DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR....COMPLETELY UTTER RUBBISH AND AS OF G6 OR G5 CARRIES A PROUDLY SOUTH AFRICAN TAG AND THESE ARE EXPORTED ALL OVER THE WORLD.....JUST NAME ONE COUNTRY IN AFRICA THAT HAS EVER BOUGHT THESE SHAMELESS PIG YOU CALL INVENTION

@AUGUSTUS HERE IS THE PROOF OF THE FALLEN HEROES AND NUMBER IS 15 AND CAN YOU ASK YOUR SOURCE FROM SELEKE AS WELL AS FRENCH TO PROVIDE PROOF TO THE CONTRARY AND NOTE ONLY IN THIRD BANANA REPUBLIC LIKE NIGERIA WHERE YOU CAN HIDE CASUALTIES AND GET AWAY SCOT FREE AND NOT IN A PROFESSIONAL ARMY LIKE SOUTH AFRICA

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The Federal Government, yesterday, said Nigeria has over 600,000 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, from the North East of the country alone, since the insurgency started in 2011.

The Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and IDPs, NCFRMI, Hajia Hadiza Kangiwa, stated this while briefing journalists on the programmes lined up for 2014 World Humanitarian Day in Abuja, tagged, ‘Become a Messenger of Humanity.”
She said the number of IDPs in Nigeria was increasing daily because of the continued insurgency in the North East of Nigeria.

She said: “There are over 600,000 IDPs in North East alone and the number is increasing on daily basis and we are not able to get accurate figures of people that are actually displaced as a result of insurgency in the country.
“IDPs and Migrants are very important and the IDPs have increased in the last few years more than ever before due to insurgency. And we have people who are forced to migrate. The number of IDPs in Nigeria is overwhelming all of us, considering the resources don’t commiserate with the magnitude of the problem.

Atleast South African problem is the rhino poaching not human and the South African National Defence Force is doing something about it