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Jul 10, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This Applies To Any Who Are Wondering If Lt Gen Adeosun Can Remain CTOP-Army Under COAS, Lt Gen Buratai. Yes, He Can..Whether Or Not Buratai Gets Promoted To 4-Star General

The first sentence is why. It was also why as Chief of Staff, Supreme HQ, Brig Tunde Idiagbon had two-star generals reporting to him. Bottomline: "appointment supersedes rank" as far as the Nigerian military goes
Summarily, there is nothing whatsoever that is unprecedented about having two Lt Gens concurrently serving in the NA. It has merely been the convention since 1976 to have the COAS as the sole Lt Gen but that rule never was sacrosanct
As of his final week as military ruler, General Babangida had all of six Lt Generals serving in the NA. For his part, on the day that he died, former military ruler, Gen Abacha had four Lt Generals serving in the NA.

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Kudos to our Nigerian naval engineers and architects.
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Come 2022: The Nigerian Air Force appear set to retrieve a pair of Super Puma in storage since 1997 and have them reactivated by Eurocopter
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That day has come..
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China-Nigeria Defence Cooperation:

The Nigerian Army Inducted 60 Units Of Norinco Tracked VP-1/ZSD 89 (aka Type 89) APCs/IFVs At Jaji Today

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2021 proving to be a good year for the NA Infantry Corps.

As a follow-on to what we have hitherto described as the most useful acquisition of protected mobility fielded in the NE, 100 additional units of Poly Technologies BigFoot MRAPs are also believed to have been netted
2. Those would bolster the startup haul of what we described as "ten dozen" (120 units) at the time when BigFoot MRAPs were first acquired in 2014
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May 4, 2021
JUST SO YOU KNOW

IF you are wondering why I make no bones about saying that the concerned govts should secure the release of the abducted undergraduates through the payment of ransoms, it is because we failed to prepare and therefore allowed kidnapping to spiral out of control
Inputs beget outcomes. The other day I made it clear to compatriots that during General Ihejirika's stint as COAS, he truncated the national security nuisance that was guerrilla warfare.

How so? Task-specific training on an unequalled scale. Here's a snapshot of what I mean..
Ihejirika embarked on what I described in my blog posts then as a "Basic CTCOIN Proficiency Training Programme". He not only undertook same on an "army only" basis but also trained thousands of cops and civil defenders. Diligence does beget outcomes.
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Matters Arising: Straight to the POINT

To be CANDID,if we have to pay ransoms to free all persons who are walking in the shadow of death as of today as of today,then let that be DONE.

After all, it is still a failure of governance that we lack the capacity to take them by force
It is OK to engage in a rhetorical back and forth of any sort BUT would we be grandstanding if any of the captives were children of governors, senators or the President? The answer is no.

Nobody failed the captives other than their federal and state governments.
After that pyrrhic victory, maybe we shall turn a new page and take very, very seriously the need to get EVERYTHING from pre-emptive intelligence gathering to rapid intervention military and police units
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It Is A Good Thing That There Has Been A Universal Feeling Of Outrage On Account Of The Rape+Killing Of Miss Ini Umoren By A Desperately Wicked Scumbag.

Let Us Hope That As Is Often The Case In Nigeria, Her Case Does Not Go Cold As Have Many Before Hers. She Deserves Justice.
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Hopefully, Ini and all other victims get justice. May their souls RIP
This SIMPLE quest for a decent and honest living rather than issuing battle cries for urgent 2K was what truncated her life. Not sure she would have believed the potential consequences when she sent out this message

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