₦airaland Forum

Demigod22:
Yes, you rushed everything, as if you are desperate to have her. Barely few months, you are talking of seeing her parents. If I ask you important questions about her now, you won't be able to answer and you want to marry her.

Most guys don't know, it's actually women that propose marriage to men, it's women that bring the discussion, if your woman hasn't started mentioning marriage or future to you, don't jump and propose oooo, because she hasn't seen you in that light of spending forever together.

Even at that, ask yourself if her personality or character is one that you will be proud if she trained your daughter to be like her.
Too many men just see fine girl and think that's the standard to find a wife....I pity them especially the igbo abroad brothers.

ugo4u:
I agree sometimes it might be extreme what I don't agree is expelling cadets based on medicals/injuries sustained during duration of training and some other minor cases of indiscipline.

I know people that broke their legs in academy, and were using clutches for a while, they are both officers now. I know someone that took a punch during a boxing bout to his arm, and had his bone cracked, they had to break his bones and set it back, he wasn't withdrawn from NDA, I know someone that was on break and had a car accident, and had his arm broken, he is an officer now, in fact their is still iron in the guy's arm. There are certain injuries that you have that they can't patch for you, and logically no longer fit for service.
I know people that have been withdrawn from NDA and relegated, none has ever been for a reason that wasn't needed....and most of those withdrawn that I know, was months to their p.o.p.
One of the issues with N.D.A and the tough stance now, is that the quality of cadets dropped, due to societal reasons.
Usually academy has a way of weeding out those unfit, but this way compromised for a long time.
I have once in the mess, heard a one star and another red neck officer, without a star, talk about the cadets that were stars in N.D.A pass out and become very ineffective and those that weren't really impressive in N.D.A end up performing better, which isn't logical..... apparently a lot of corruption and patching was going on in N.D.A.

Lai Mohammad, made a statement that bht are moving west and bandits moving east , coming together , might be simply fleeing from government assault or forming a unison.
Anyway at the start of the attack on bandits in zamfara, I said to myself fighting the bandits in the northeast would be a waste of resources because of how large the landscape is, that it's best to push them, towards the northeast, which reduces the space they reside and the terrain becomes unfamiliar, and it becomes easier to fight both boko haram and bandits, the residual bandits and pockets that escaped the push to the northeast are starved of resources and can he easily mopped up.
Apparently it seems this is what the military is doing , as we can see the base of bandits attacks is shifting towards north east

youghs:
And that stability, accuracy and safety also exist in the 12.7mm RCWS fitted on ST1 light tank. I also do not see a need for an MBT when fighting BH as well and I'm not making a case for it,
What I'm saying is buying an IFV for BH is waste of resources.

Light tanks like the ST1 fitted with 105mm would be used for destroying BH sentry, smoke them out of their trenches and other defensive positions while the 12.7mm RCWS will be used to shell their guntrucks.
An IFV won't be able to destroy a well fortified sentry, so it will have to be complemented with a bigger gun like ST1

And If we need heavy guns for patrols, we can just easily buy a 40mm AGL RCWS and fit it on our Isotrex APC or legion MRAP or any APC.

Request sir: pic st1, rcws....God's speed as you perform this miracle.
The reason I like the st1, is that it has a lock on feature, so it almost impossible to escape...but another thing is, is that is the army using the best ammunition ? Are we using heat, instead he-frag?

youghs:
This is you just overhyping the worth of an IFV. IFV is not any magic weapon or a game changer, it's just an addition or rather an alternative. You can destroy a gun truck with 12.7mm RCWS(fire at the engine, take out the gunner, the driver and other occupants in the vehicle), the only difference is that the 30mm will burn them alive at the first or second burst.

In as much as I'm also a fan of an IFV and I will like the army to get some, It isn't going to change anything or win any war. We need to stop overhyping equipments just because we don't possess them.

I support him, and I feel you're wrong..... the stabilised platform and accuracy and safety almost akin to that of a MBT makes ifv really needed, it offers a lot of advantage almost cheating, when used against bht, if they are used in sufficient numbers, imagine placing accurate 30mm shots, from 3km , where by bht can't even see from that distance....left to me, I would prefer more ifv, that mbt, in the present fighting we have in the country.

dragon2:
As you said,most of the other rounds are made in-house, but not 30mm AFAIK. It's easier for them to modify to lower calibers than to buy 30mm,but this means we lose fire superiority over the enemy. Simply set up an assembly line for 30mm and induct the calibre into the army's weapon system.No need begging the airforce.

In terms of bullets I don't think we ever produced anything more than 7.62mm, not even the 12.7mm we use.....an alternative is to arm remote weapon systems, with 23mm weapons, at least we have been using that for shilka. Why even buy the btr 3 and 4, when you won't buy ammunition?

ecomog1990:
All of you dey correct o, IFV is best equipment for Nigerian Army to end insecurity bloodshed nationwide, because NA cannot defeat gun truck enemies with own gun trucks, this war will never end with equal power on both sides. Modern 6x6WD IFV also have some landmine protection like MRAP to fit both roles, becomes MRAP-IFV combination 2 in 1 platform, 30mm autocannon + 7.62mm GPMG + ATGM + hull body resist 14.5mm + underbelly resist 8 kg TNT + some variants amphibious to swim.

Notice NA bought Chinese VT-4 heavy tank but added ST-1 8x8 light tank instead of its VN-1 8x8 IFV like Thailand did (VN-1C 8x8 IFV photos shown here). Lack of IFV is the main weakness of Nigerian Army.

Nigerian Army may not likely buy IFV because its not yet included in our ORBAT & doctrine, NA still used 1940s WW II doctrine inherited pre-independence British war doctrine of tanks lead attack with foot infantry walking behind light tank or heavy tank as cover, thats how we fought before, during, and after ECOMOG, same old outdated doctrine that no army general is serious enough to update, NA generals just dey enjoy their =N= 12 million per year salary that most Nigerians don't know they get paid so much.

I have said this before...we have btr3 and btr4, with remote weapon system....they have 30mm guns, army refused to use it and wielded 12.7mm gun that they will be gambling with boko haram and offers no technical advantage. The only good thing about the st1 against boko haram, is if it has fragmentation rounds. I think the cost of 30mm round is the issue with the army and most ifv, come with 30mm round. Truthfully we have lots of equipments that would give us clear advantage against boko haram, and they have never fired a shot against boko haram, o always ask myself why.

This buhari's regime is just messed up, you people should stop giving excuses, there is a major religious and ethnic imbalance, and they aren't hiding it. If not that certain elements of non state actors are growing out of control, and they are forced to act, Nigeria would effectively be a master slave relationship, with efcc and the police ( SARS) as the enforcers, with clear differences in the way they operate like armed robbers in the north and south divide.

Abeg who has update on the damboa attack? Meanwhile these xtian vs Muslim kill pass and so on, should rest abeg.

franklingud:


Imagine the stupidity!

Many of these Enugu girls are so annoying and full of bad attitude.


I wonder!

Funny thing, her friends too are like that, they live for men and money, and will probably do almost anything for money. The one that seemed almost innocent, they dragged that one till she broke up with her boyfriend and joined their quest of searching for men to spend, travelling around Nigeria, looking for who has money and they will be sleeping with for money. I used to wonder who made them believe this is the way life goes, not to have dignity .

Rich4god:
Don't mind the yeye man.

Sometimes these guys action makes me want to be believe the general stereotype on nairaland that most Muslims are sympathetic to terrorism commited by their fellow Muslims.

I swear I didn't used to be biased because I grew up in a place where there are different cultures and religion, and it was like a vast big happy place. But this present administration and certain omissions and commissions has started making me draw negative opinions about fulani muslims.

franklingud:
Enugu girls can do this kinda thing.

They can cheat with the devil and claim they love Jesus.

Beware of Enugu girls, most of them are ungrateful elements.

I had to warn my ex, that is always claiming victim, someone that I saw video with someone old enough to be her father drinking wine and playing in hotel room. She left threatening me that she has lots of abroad toasters and so on. After exploring around and broken engagement she is back trying to play mind games that will make me take her back. Mumu ashawo girl...and she's Enugu girl too..

Whyem15:
I believe they must have learnt not to cluster together after several years of Battlefield experience. Sending more snipers to the Frontline will increase the figures. Also the airforce actually records significant casualties against the enemies.

I agree that they space themselves, but the mortar team and artillery out to have plotted their environment out to a certain distance, each plot/grid is given a certain code name...and spotters placed with a copy of the graph, each time there is a tiny cluster of enemies, the spotter just calls the code name, it just a matter of dialing a preset numbers on the weapons, against each codename to pre targeted zones.
It's just a .matter of drilling to achieve a certain level of competence.

Whyem15:
A few terrorists neutralized today.

Omo we need to start archiving more than these single digit casualties on BHTs, that means employing more mortars and artillery strikes when they are herded into a kill zone, these are the major causes of casualties in a battle field

Women always seeking for illogical ways to solve issues when there is non, or making windfalls where they haven't invested anything.
Meanwhile life savings can be 5k, and it might even be a get quick money scheme playing on peoples' emotions.

Xbee007:
Heavy military operation ongoing in KD right now. I also think their has been a partial shutdown of network tonight, especially with MTN.

Are you in Kaduna?

Come to think of it, considering we are facing an insurgency should we get more vt5/,type 15 tanks instead of the bigger heavier vt4 tank, when you look at price and the corresponding quantity. Already the vt4 is an overkill for what we are facing now.

DubaiLandLord2:
Zamfara report on banditry: Two ex-Govs indicted, another for trial, 15 Emirs to be removed

...10 ‘reckless’ military officers for court martial

It isn’t a list anyone would be proud of. In plain terms, it is a frightening list. But here it is in black and white: 6,319 persons arbitrarily and willfully killed; 3,672 kidnapped; N2, 805,049,748 paid as ransom; 6,483 widows and 25,050 orphans left behind by slain victims; 215,241 cows, 141,404 sheep, 20,600 of other animals (such as camels and donkeys) rustled; and 3,587 houses, 1,487 motor vehicles and motor cycles burnt.

Then a foot note to the list: Bandits operated 105 camps from which they launched deadly attacks on Zamfara, kill and steal the people’s properties at will; their leaders identified.

Grim figures, no doubt.

But this is just a small segment of the chilling report of the high wire banditry raging in Zamfara, but has now spilled into several states across the country, and consequently putting national security in jeopardy.

Other segments of the report include the indictment of several members of the traditional institution, top government officials and security forces.

As of the time Sunday Vanguard exclusively obtained the report last week, some of the men who engaged in the bloodletting Zamfara banditry had moved further North-West and North-Central, wreaking unprecedented havoc in Katsina, Sokoto, Kaduna and Niger states.

No white paper on the far reaching recommendations of the committee that wrote the report has been issued two years after the report was submitted to Zamfara State government.

The slightest hint yet that something was being done on the implementation of the recommendations was made during the celebration of Democracy Day on June 12, 2021, about one and a half years after the 279 page report had been submitted, when Governor Mohammed Bello Matawalle said, in a broadcast, that he had demonstrated commitment to the implementation of the report with the suspension of the emirs of Maru, Dansadau and Zurmi, who, among several others, had been indicted in the report of the panel for allegedly colluding with bandits to kidnap, collect ransom or even kill their people.

The report was submitted in October 2019 but the recommendations have largely not been implemented.

Had it been implemented, at least one former governor should be facing trial for alleged murder while several emirs, not just three who have been suspended, would have been deposed.

10 army officers would also have faced court martial.

A source close to the Government House, Gusau, however, said a panel was raised to review the recommendations and report back to government.

The committee, tagged Zamfara Committee for Finding Solution to Armed Banditry in the State, had been raised by Matawalle on his assumption of office in May 2019 to investigate the banditry that had blown into full scale war between indigenous Hausa farmers and Fulani herders in the state.

Specifically, the terms of reference included investigation of willful killings, kidnappings, destruction of properties and other related matters in Zamfara and to make recommendations to the state government on the appropriate actions to take, and investigation of the remote and immediate factors responsible for the unprecedented and wide-spread killings, maiming, kidnappings, rape, cattle rustlings, destruction of crops/grains and displacement in the state.

The investigation covered the period between June 1, 2011 and May 29, 2019.

The panel was headed by a former inspector general of police, MD Abubakar, and had diverse membership which included Senator Saidu Muhammed Dansadau, Hon. Justice Nasiru Umar Gummi (rtd), Alh. (Dr.) Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi (Wamban Shinkafi), CP Mamman Anka (rtd), Mamuda Aliyu Maradun (ex-Permanent Secretary), Alh. Ibrahim Bawa (Fulani representative), Alh. Mohammed Adamu, Perm. Sec. Home Affairs, Committee Secretary, and Barr. Aliyu Abdullahi Gusau, Director Public Prosecution, Assistant Secretary.

Co-opted members were DIG Mamman Ibrahim Tsafe (rtd), DSP Hardo Abubakar Abdulkadir, Alh. Imrana Ibrahim Aliyu and Usman Saidu Dansadau.

Promise

When the committee was submitting its report in October 2019, Matawalle had promised to implement the recommendations, assuring that he would not be diverted by any sentiment.

The governor was said to be in the entourage of President Muhammadu Buhari who was visiting the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly last week, and his spokespersons could not be reached to speak on the status of the report.

Origin

To be sure, the Zamfara banditry, according to the report, started in a village called Dansadau.

Although there are conflicting accounts of how banditry turned deadly in the state, everyone quoted by the report seemed to agree it all began in the Dansadau village where the Hausa who, in their quest for farmlands, reportedly indiscriminately encroached into cattle routes and grazing reserves and that triggered friction between them and Fulani residents.

A member of the committee, quoted by the report, narrated that about 19 years ago, a former District Head of Dansadau, Alh. Shafiu Salihu, ignited the problem after he authorized a self-defense outfit called ‘Yan Sakai’ to kill any thief even if it was a goat he stole.

The report went on: “He (committee member) cited an example where a person was discharged and acquitted by a law of court but on getting back to Dansadau, this freed man was killed together with his father.

“This member further informed the committee that, out of brutality and inhumanity of man-to-man, he (victim) was asked to dig the grave where he was eventually killed and buried.

“The Emir of Birnin Gwari was also high handed and further fuelled friction and disharmony when he directed his subjects and other vigilante groups or ‘Yan Sakai’ to kill anybody that was found to have stolen anything.

“According to this member, that ugly scenario where people were allowed to take the law into their hands compounded the problems of mistrust and rivalry among Hausa and Fulani. In the same development, he stated that one Alh. Ishe, a Fulani man who championed the cause of Fulani, made the Fulani in Dansadau Emirate to rally behind him.

“This member added that about five or six years after Alh. Ishe took a seemingly leadership of Fulani in the area made ‘Yan Sakai’ aggrieved.

“The rivalry between ‘Yan Sakai’ and Fulani in the area under the leadership of Alhaji Ishe became so intensified and eventually Alh. Ishe was killed and his corpse was put on his car and burnt to ashes.

“Thereafter, the Fulani started launching reprisal attacks around Sangeku and Kabaro villages.

“According to the member, close relations of Alh. Ishe emphatically stated that the life of Alh. Ishe is equivalent to 1, 000 souls of Hausa men.

“Therefore, from that time, Fulani in the area started attacking Hausa communities especially in the rural areas and ‘Yan Sakai’ killing Fulani indiscriminately”.

This narration corroborated the committee finding that the first armed banditry took place late in 2009 in Anka/Maru Local Government along Anka/Dansadau Emirates’ border.

Multiple causes

The report found several causes as responsible for the Zamfara banditry.

The remote causes include institutional failure and blatant betrayal of trust by unscrupulous political leaders, traditional rulers, security officers and judicial officers; poverty, unemployment, indolence and frustration that led many youths to drug abuse and involvement in crime; influx into and settlement of illegal alien Fulani from neighboring countries in Zamfara who initially behaved and related with both indigenous Fulani and Hausa harmoniously and peacefully but later exhibited their true criminal tendencies by starting small scale armed robbery, followed by rustling of non-Fulani and indigenous Fulani cattle, and when herds of the locals were grossly depleted, they had no option but to join the gang of criminals to make a living and a means of replenishing their lost herds of cattle; proliferation of traditional rulers at all levels by successive governors with no regard to rules and regulations/due process; proliferation and widespread consumption of dangerous drugs; and high level corruption on the part of bad eggs in the security, judicial and law enforcement services.

On immediate causes, the report found indiscriminate allocation of virgin forest, forest reserves, game reserves, Fulani grazing areas, home settlement as farmlands to farmers by successive Zamfara governments from May 29, 1999, a situation which pushed the Fulani in the state to the wall and left with no option but to take the law into their hands for survival; attacks and counter attacks, reprisal and counter reprisal between Fulani and farmers on one hand and Fulani v. ‘YAN SAKAI’ on the other; injustice by some traditional rulers in land dispute management; and indiscriminate release of suspects by security agencies played varying degree of roles.

The report is unsparing of some former governors over the roles they allegedly played during their tenures which escalated banditry in Zamfara

On the alleged role of former Governor Ahmed Sani Yariman Bakura (May 1999 – May 2007), the report said: “When small scale armed robbery began to rear its ugly head in different parts of the state, he directed allocation of farmlands in government forest reserves along the major highways in order to create clear view for motorists and make it difficult for armed robbers to escape easily from the thick forest reserves.

“This policy sparked off agitation by farmers across the state for allocation of farmlands in forest reserves nearest to their respective areas.

“The governor bowed to the pressure, thus indiscriminate allocation of farmlands with no regard to Fulani interest began.

“Unscrupulous civil servants in the ministry of environment abused the policy, connived with some fraudulent traditional rulers and allocated almost as much as what was allocated officially by the state government”.

On former Governor Mamuda Aliyu Shinkafi (May 2007 – May 2011), the report has this to say: “During his four-year tenure, fraudulent civil servants enjoyed a field day.

“They allocated farmlands in government forest reserves at will without the knowledge of government.

“He too allocated some farmlands especially to some high profile individuals both within and outside the state of between 100 to 700 hectares per person.

“191 beneficiaries include legislators, political appointees and party officials”.

In the case of former Governor Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar (May 2011 – May 2019), the committee wrote: “The seed of security crisis planted during Governor Ahmed Sani Yariman Bakura’s tenure watered and nursed all through germinated fully three months into the tenure of Gov. Abdul’Aziz Yari Abubakar.

“Gov. Abdul’Aziz Yari’s failure or refusal to address the security crisis in the state at a very early stage, however, provided a fertile ground and enabling environment for the influx of bandits from other parts of the country and neighboring countries.

“This situation complicated and up scaled the armed banditry in the state to the extent of covering the entire 14 local governments of the state and spilling over to neighboring states of Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi, Niger and Sokoto.

“The governor’s nonchalant attitude and unflinching absence from the state provided golden opportunity to fraudulent security agencies, judicial officers and department of public prosecution in the ministry of justice to compromise the call of their statutory duties in favor of extraneous personal benefits. “Management of security is time bound and expensive.

“The constant absence of former Governor Abdul’Aziz Yari rendered security agencies orphans with no master to report to on urgent security intelligence issues and with no source of funding to avert impending attacks.

“Failure to attend to urgent and important memos on security matters from relevant ministries and departments of government was one of the factors responsible for the inability of government to tackle the security challenges.

“His administration, like those of his predecessors, allocated farmlands to big time politicians in government forest reserves which worsened the predicament of the Fulani access to grazing areas.

“His deliberate refusal to receive report from a committee he personally set up that worked for two years on ways of finding solution to the unprecedented security challenges in the state is the peak of lack of concern for lives and property in the state.

“The preponderance opinion of witnesses, complainants, traditional rulers, security agencies and civil servants showed lack of attention to security issues brought before the former governor including formal and informal intelligence.

“In spite of the human and material losses, it could literarily be said that no aid was provided to the surviving victims (IDPs) or families of the deceased.

“In spite of his ardent opposition to the Yan-Sakai group (self defense outfit) from the beginning of the security challenges up to October 2018, when 2019 elections were fast approaching, the state government formally registered and employed 8,500 of them as informal security outfit in the name of assisting the military in their fight against bandits but with the alleged motive of using them as political army to rig the 2019 elections in the state.

“This notorious group used their new status as a license to kill and extort people especially Fulani and political opponents in broad day light on market days throughout the state. “There is in fact literarily no witness or complainant that appeared before the committee that did not lament the atrocities of the self defense group.

“They were mainly responsible for the escalation of killings, kidnappings and extortions in Zamfara State from November 2018 (when they were registered and employed) to May 2019.

“One of them was alleged to have killed not less than 30 innocent people within the period under review”.

According to the report, while all the abracadabra of illegal land allocation was going on at the state level from 1999 to 2019, local government council chairmen connived with some traditional rulers to allocate as farmlands all available forest reserves, grazing areas, and Fulani settlements under their jurisdictions to few farmers, largely to politicians and high profile personalities in the affected localities.

“This is the last stroke that broke the camel’s back which pushed the Fulani to the wall with no option but fight the battle of their lives for survival”.

Charges

Arising from the alleged roles of the former governors in fuelling banditry in Zamfara, the report said: “The committee recommends that the immediate past Governor Abdul’Aziz Yari Abubakar and his aides (immediate past Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Hon. Bello Dankande Gamji, and Alhaji Sani Gwamna Mayanchi) be arrested and prosecuted for alleged multiple culpable homicide due to his acts of commission and omission”.

The committee established that whereas some traditional rulers were complicit in the escalation of banditry in Zamfara, many were negligent in their responsibility of ensuring security in their respective domains.

In fact, were the recommendations of the committee to be implemented to the letter, no less than 15 of the 17 emirs in the state would be deposed.

The story of the alleged collaboration of the Emir of Maru and a District Head with bandits was told by the Zamfara SSG, Alhaji Bala Bello Maru, in his testimony before the committee.

Startling revelations

Zamfara State Commissioner of Police, CP Usman Nagogo, also indicted the Emir of Karu in his testimony to the panel, according to the report.

The report quoted him as saying that in 2016 when CP Shettima Istifanus was the Zamfara State Commissioner of Police while he (Nagogo) was the Zamfara State Deputy Commissioner of Police (Finance and Inspection), then government appointed him as the Peace Ambassador and Chairman to head Amnesty Committee.

“According to him, he visited Dokani forest where he saw arms and ammunitions with over 1, 000 bandits. Buhari Daji surrendered 13 AK47 assault rifles and a rocket launcher as a sign of his confidence in the amnesty programme”, the report said.

“He stated that his concern was not to wage war against the bandits but to enter into dialogue and reconciliation because even if government should deploy one million soldiers, they would not be able to defeat the bandits as they were so many with sufficient and sophisticated weapons to counter any attack on them.

“The bandits had informants everywhere and could pay as much as N500, 000 to an informant.

“He then advised then Executive Governor of Zamfara State that the government should direct the release of Buhari’s wife.

“According to him, then State Director, State Service truncated all efforts put in place by the Amnesty Committee.

“In his view, the main cause of the crisis was the Yan Sakai, Civilian JTF and vigilante groups in that whenever a Fulani man was killed, Fulani would attack the whole village killing several people and leaving scores injured.

“Finally, when he met with the Ardos and other Fulani leaders, their complaints were that they were deprived of attending markets, mosques etc. and whenever Fulani were killed, government did not visit and console them.

“However, whenever the Hausas were killed, the government visited and consoled them”.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/09/zamfara-report-on-banditry-two-ex-govs-indicted-another-for-trial-15-emirs-to-be-removed/amp/

This is one of the major reasons I said this insecurity won't end with this regime, the people in power seem to protect the head or Godfather, and the tail feel they are untouchable because their head seems to be untouchable.
I remember the presidency making a statement, when agitation was high in the south west, about herdsmen and how it seems the police never arrests them, but detains the locals when they react; that the list of prosecuted and undergoing prosecution of herdsmen should be released, till now nothing has been done. Also certain statements by the CinC, before he won elections would make you think deep, if the presidency hands are even clean.

Jimmy17:
Block III?

Could the jf17, just be to fill up numbers of crashed j7s , and not really to buy a lot of numbers?

Lindner:
This is absolutely no fiction. Thank God the interviewers didn't feel this way. They had my CV and saw where I served. I later went on to do my masters at the University of Ibadan. Anyway, I have no control over what you choose to believe. Just my little frightening experience.

What made me believe this story is true, is your statement that the officers quarters been very quiet and the other ranks been very active.
You can come out in an officers quarters during the day, and not see a single soul outside.

Kalapizim:
woow that's interesting.

Really? It's a normal thing, been on a lot of navy ships, having affiliation with the military makes you a quasi military .

Please I would like to know, is the operation in the north west making appreciable impacts? And what can be done to accelerate the improvement of security in the region.
Please if you are going to talk about the impact of the operation say what you feel is based on high level of certainty, don't bring the usual guess work that most people do here , trying to pass it as if they are on the ground.
If you're on the ground in the north west, have family there, travelled there, neighbours talking about the impact and so on.....please not scenarios your mind is playing and telling you it's the truth in your head.
I'm asking this, because a lot of news outlets are saying it's not making impacts and they interview locals who aren't too impressed,though the locals seems to be biased based on their locality, and don't seem to be informed of the bigger picture.

Chakib:
Type 56 MAX PRO/OPV of the Algerian navy ...

Where is the wheelhouse?

ugo4u:
You think say na Toyota Hilux 72MSF and Executive outcome use route BHT in those 3 months to elections? If we give the weakest unit in the NA the kind of assorted military hardwares & resources and support those guys had then, we would have gone far in this war.

We have all it takes for a full offensive, keep the most equipped units as the spearhead, if by the next fighting season, iswap and bht are not fighting or killing their leaders, I would just conclude this regime isn't ready to end this war.

ugo4u:
Whenever there is an ambush we will wail, theorise, throw curses/abuses etc till the next one happens then we rinse and repeat.
As far as I'm concerned ambushes can't be 100% eliminated it is part and parcel of the war games, that been said we can only do our best to reduce casualties that results from ambushes and it starts with the basics which is working with the right military hardwares, we should phase out the Innoson trucks/ Toyota Hilux and use MRAPs(could be from Proforce) as minimum patrol vehicles. There is a limit to what ISRs, Tucanos etc can do; if we never still fit breakout from the person wey use JuJu tie us to Toyota Hilux we should kuku reinforce the vehicles with armor plates beneath and around each light skin vehicles (MadMax stuffs) most of the ambushes are from IEDs there nothing anybody can do to stop it not even advanced militaries we should have known this already and start finding a way around it.

RIP to the departed.

Truth is an all out offensive is needed, on the level of the ending days of Jonathan's regime, not this stalemate we seem to be enjoying.

RiceProducers:
1.Call in air surveillance of route before taking off on patrol. Only Super Tucano and Wing Loongs can do this kind of careful surveillance of the route.

2. Wait for analysis and go-signal before proceeding on the trip. This wait can be up to 48 hours.

3. Air surveillance of route is not just looking for high endurance ISWAP fighters hiding in the brush and mud not minding insect bites and snakes. The air surveillance is looking for the slightest evidence that they have started encroaching a 20km radius area near the route or have passed by. In that case the order should be no-go.

Baba units should just be equipped with long range ground radars.... the army has equipments that they don't even use,I wonder why.....with ground radars, you can see anything up to 30km from you on the ground and low flying aircraft, even location of people can be picked, mortars, vehicles and so on can be picked easily, no matter how good they camouflage and yes, the army has had this technology for years, even federal road safety had this technology since the 80s , why it isn't applied on the north east I don't understand, we have old almost obsolete atgm that can be used to destroy technicals from stand off range it isn't been used, we have gatling guns, that can be used to suppress massed attacks of FOBs it isn't been used, even the air force, I just hope they don't strap dumb bombs on the modern aircraft, and start drooling over precision weapons hidden away in ordinance depots. I keep saying it, insecurity might not even with this buhari's regime, there seems to be s certain lack of will.

Valkrie:
They said super tucano would be a game changer and they kept killing soldiers again anyhow..haba...!! Its people fathers, sons, husbands that are been killed oh...!! Pathetic....!!!

Truthfully after thinking things through, I don't think the tucano would change anything, because the executive still seems to be protecting certain interests. We would be at a stalemate thing another president comes in , and is ready to put a final full stop to insecurity, but this present set....they are blowing smoke wahala.

Gbedulord:
Hi nairalanders
Please I really need your help I know this is not the right section for this but I really need your helps I'm in a big pain I don't know what's this disease is all about I will go straight to the point please forget about the write up and my English

I'm having a stubborn injury in my hand for more than one month now it started from a tiny pox and I scratched it and it started swallowing up and the surrounding is very thick I have been to the hospital for more than two time they keep on prescribing same drugs I'm really tired please I need help please I have taken alot of drugs including concoction still I don't see any improvement please help me if you have any idea

NB:I feel pain, itching and it keeps expanding and the surrounding is very thick

God will bless you all for your suggestions

Check your sugar level, Just pray you're not diabetic

Kalapizim:
Quite interesting, Have you been onboard the vessel before?

What are your thoughts sir?

I was offered a visit on it once but I declined, but I have stood beside it, while talking to someone onboard . It's a pretty good ship, it came with Chinese technicians, and they were still in Nigeria years after it arrived in Nigeria, now I wish I had gone onboard, I know the navy gave a tour to ex navy secondary school students and a boat ride too.

kabe1:
Nigerian Navy Ship NNS Unity docked and ready for maintenance.

NNS Centenary recently completed maintenance, and is back out on patrol.

I remember when this ship or the sister were been brought to Nigeria...right from China a certain female onboard would send me video update, I remember seeing one, in rough seas, that my heart cut, it was as if the ship was going into the water, with the waves beating up to the windscreen..... then pictures at different port visits, even before the arrival of the ship was known to the masses, I already knew.

Oddfinder:
Common shut up
The lady was the one that took advantage of the man..i mean she was practically throwing herself at the man even though the man was reluctant..

I think someone you knows the guy set him up, most likely a female that's within his close circle. He should study the girl, and who she relates with in his circle, that girl didn't get to meet him by coincidence or get to know who he was that day, everything was planned .

Yes true, but once you date them, you will start looking for other qualities other than beauty and nymphomaniac in a woman, after you experience they are not quality .