"I hope soldiers rape your wife for supporting this evil regime"
First of all i am not married.
You can see this Woke idiocy is spreading faster than Covid. Some of these guys need to go to a WOKE detox centre or something. Plain truths don't matter to these folks.
We now live in a Nigeria where simply stating "a plain truth" has become a risky proposition. Uttering a reasonable opinion that is deemed "unacceptable" by the woke mob can get you smeared as an apologist for an oppressive regime or a paid stooge. I so wish the latter was true.
You always hear them say we need to have an honest conversation about important matters. But make a valid point. Rather than grapple with the substance of the critique, these guys take it personal with a rain of insults and threats
..Which exposes the authoritarian tendencies of these people. We have reached a point where we often isolate ourselves from people with differing political opinions.
This is harmful in the obvious sense It diminishes open political discourse.
They are simply people who have different opinions than you. Those opinions do not make them evil. For context, I am embarassed and dissatisfied with this administration because of its unbelievably WEAK, INARTICULATE and INCOHERENT foreign policy.
I am also EXTREMELY PLEASED and PROUD of this administration for the following reasons:
1. Infrastructure. 2. Military. 3. A burgeoning military industrial complex. 4. Less corruption in the military.
Nigeria has built the best infrastructure West Africa has ever seen in less than a decade. Roads, ports, bridges, high speed internet, the longest "Light rail" network in Africa.
Abuja to Kaduna
State of the art control room. There is no compromise when it comes to the safety of passengers.
LAGOS IBADAN
LAGOS RED LINE
ENUGU - PORT HACOURT
PORT HACOURT AIRPORT 2016
PORT HACOURT AIRPORT 2020
326km itape to warri..
OSHODI INTERCHANGE
The largest and most modern bus terminus in Africa. Able to handle a million passenger a day.
This is by no means an exhausted list. But as you can see there are pros and cons. It's never a zerosome game.
Yet we live in a time when too many of us have given in to the activists and have become afraid to tell plain truths.
We're afraid the mob will come after us. But what happens when we become a nation of people who are afraid to speak plain truths? What happens when it's easier to say nothing than to speak honestly about what we believe?
It's time for everyone to come to their senses.
I take solace in the fact that sooner or later Nigerians, the rational ones will say
" We've had enough of this self saboteur nonsense. For many Nigerians, that day can't come soon enough.
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France is closing 2023 with a diminished presence in the restive Sahel region and Al-Qaeda is livid with rage against the putchist in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, going as far as calling them trecherous.
The leader of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb recently released a 22 minutes tape where he branded the new military rulers of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali "treacherous"and called on the citizens of these countries to turn on their leaders.
Why is AQIM upset about the French exit
from the Sahel and lashing out at the junters? It's bad for business.
The supply of money and weapons has come under threat. They've been raking in millions thanks to the geopolitical aspirations of a former colonial power determined to maintain a strategic foothold in Africa.
Nigeria gave France 48 hours to close down its Embassy in Lagos and to pack out of the country in retaliation against France exploding three nuclear devices in the Sahara despite vehement protests by Nigeria and other newly independent
African countries. Nigeria also banned French ships and aeroplanes from calling at her ports. The French Embassy in Lagos remained shut until October 1965. This unprecedented demonstration of power and resolve by an African country was a source of worry for France.
The French were worried that the size and potential strength of Nigeria might lead to a re-orientation of French West African countries away from France and towards Nigeria. Paris was preoccupied with the re-establishment and preservation of French imperial power which had been
For the NAF to transform it's self from a tactical, defensive force within Nigeria to one capable of strategic missions beyond territorial borders we need to up our numbers game.
The NAF already has the quality based on current and projected platforms.
A decade+ long insurgency, that necessitated on-going reforms changed the NAF's equipment priorities, from modernizing high tech hardware to platforms optimized for COIN and network-centric warfare.
The air force has progressed considerably towards building
and fielding a formidable force, and has assumed responsibilities that accompany the projection of national power in the sub region.
Only problem is the limited number of air superiority fighters. The smallest number of fighters in decades.
Still feeling under the weather 🤕. It gets worse as evening approaches.
However, after going through the comment section I've decided it's time to make the case for an ECOWAS intervention in Niger before analysing the capabilities of the potential belligerent of this crises.
ECOWAS weak response to recent coup 'd'etats paved the way for what is now a belt of dictatorships that stretches all the way from Guinea, Burkina Faso, Mali and now Niger. They plotters gained the perception that ECOWAS is weak and could be challenged.
Failure of the regional bloc to respond militarily gave them the perception that they can push ECOWAS further without ramifications.
The latest coup in Niger has fundamentally changed the region. A new cold war between democratic states and military junta's...
In 1983 Maj. General Muhammadu Buhari, GOC of the 3rd Division in Jos flushed out Chadian forces that invaded Nigerian communities in dramatic fashion. 40 years later he presides over what is arguably the biggest military build-up in Nigeria's history.
The President realised the nation was in need of an overhaul of the military. Nigeria had been humiliated in the early stages of the insurgency and the terrorists seemed secure in their unrelenting mission of conquest. Boko Haram captured and occupied 22 LGA's in the northeast.
The Nigerian military was plagued by low morale, low pay, outdated equipment, and zero maintenance on what did exist. Soldiers were tired. It just wasn't worth it to them. There were instances of soldiers refusing to fight. Some fleeing to Cameroon on two occasions.
NAF A-29 with its panoply of GBU Paveway II laser guided bombs, 70mm rockets with Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) and 589 kilogram bombs. The cutting edge of American precision guided munitions and the NAF is the only in sub-sahara Africa to employ them.
The GBU paveway II integrates the most advanced guidance system that basically converts "dumb" Gravity bombs into precision guided munitions. A semi-active laser seeker and pneumatically controlled canards guide the weapon to its targets with pin point accuracy.
Enter the hydra rockets.
In their basic configurations these are basic 70mm unguided rockets. Not different from unguided rockets used by the L-39ZA or Alpha jets.
However the APKWS they came with transforms these "dumb" rockets into laser-guided weapons.