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28 Oct

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

Photo Credit: Channels TV, TVC News

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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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4 May

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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4 May

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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2 May

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.

Our hearts go out to her family but I still do not know what happened to the killers of Cynthia Osokogu who got lured to Lagos, that poor kid Ochanya in Benue, Very Omozuwa in Edo, among many others.

Hopefully, Ini and all other victims get justice. May their souls RIP

https://twitter.com/HinyHumoren/status/1387004712017436677?s=20

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

https://twitter.com/HinyHumoren/status/1387004712017436677?s=20

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2 May

Military Historical Fact File (Chadian Mercenaries and the Nigerian Civil War):

During the last week of June 2011, a gun-and-bomb attack was launched against a beer garden at Maiduguri. That event triggered the establishment that month of the Joint (Security) Task Force.

One important fact which emerged from local TV news (was it NTA or AIT now?) but which eluded the local print media at the time was that many of the victims were long-term Chadian residents of Maiduguri who fought on the federal Nigerian side during the Nigerian Civil War.

Whereas they constituted less than 1% of the manpower strength of the Federal Army, the principal contribution of mercenaries from Niger and Chad appears to have been the massacres at Asaba in 1967

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