Henry240:
Breaking news

Nigerian Air Force contingent are now in Air Force Base Dakar.

Nigerian Ground Contingent are currently awaiting airlift in Jaji. 800 men in all are ready to deploy.

Henry240:


In essence, "Freedom through Superior Firepower".

jteku:
Off topic.

Nigerian police presidential outriders are just the best.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdk9ENF7pkM

jteku:
Off topic.

Nigerian police presidential outriders are just the best.

chkil:


not serious from police security service

jteku:
I don't think Nigeria is sending ground forces to Gambia

http://bbc.in/2jLlM9V

Nigerian navy vessels are also on standby and a warship that sailed from Lagos on Tuesday will have the task of evacuating Nigerian citizens while putting on a show of force.

tdayof:
Monday 25 July 1994
BANJUL - A US warship took the ousted Gambian President, Sir Dawda Jawara, from Banjul to Dakar yesterday while the leader of the coup which toppled him received ambassadors and religious leaders.
Senegal said it had granted Sir Dawda and his family political asylum. The US tank-landing ship La Moure County carried Sir Dawda, the first of his two wives Lady Chilele Jawara, and about 14 of his 19 children as well as senior officials to the capital of neighbouring Senegal.

Religious figures who met coup leader Lieutenant Yayeh Jameh said he told them that he and Sir Dawda had spoken but failed to agree terms for the president to return. They said Lieutenant Jameh told them that Sir Dawda had offered to come back and 'rectify his mistakes' but Lieutenant Jameh insisted he could only return as a private citizen.

Sir Dawda fled to the US ship after army officers on Saturday announced a coup against him, after what had begun as a rampage through Banjul on Friday by soldiers demanding back pay for peace-keeping duties in Liberia.

Gambia is bordered on three sides by Senegal and on the fourth by the Atlantic Ocean. Its beaches are a popular tourist destination. Some 1,500 British holidaymakers were able to telephone home as international services were restored yesterday, but they could not leave as Banjul's airport and Gambia's borders remained closed.

A British diplomat in Banjul reported that there had been 'no violence at all' in the coup. A British tour operator, Stephen Wilde, said: 'There is no panic and the only people who are concerned are people whose holidays were due to end today. We're hoping to bring them out on Tuesday.'

Lieutenant Jameh received the British High Commissioner and the Senegalese ambassador, who brought a message from President Abdou Diouf to the new four-member provisional ruling council saying Senegal, which sent troops to halt an attempt to oust Sir Dawda in 1981, would not interfere this time.

Officials said 10 Nigerian officers working with the military had been placed under house arrest. They included the former commander of the 800-strong Gambian army, Colonel Boubakar Dada, who was preparing to leave Gambia. His replacement, Colonel Lawan Gwadabe who took office last month, is currently in Nigeria.

A private radio station broadcast a communique appealing to people to report for work today and asking permanent secretaries to assume the duties of government ministers who have fled or are under detention. The capital was calm, the market was open and people were going about their business normally. An overnight curfew was in force between 7pm and 7am.

Officials said the finance minister and inspector general of police were also on the US ship. They said the justice minister had been arrested, as had the information minister and Vice President Saihou Sabally. The Education Minister, Alieu Badjie, gave himself up on Saturday morning. The Interior Minister, Lamine Kiti Jabang, took refuge in Senegal's southern province of Casamance, near the Gambian border.

Sir Dawda returned to Banjul on Thursday from a holiday at his London residence. He was prime minister when Gambia gained independence from Britain in 1965, and became president when it became a republic in 1970.

On Saturday the British government 'strongly deplored' the mutiny, and the Commonwealth said the coup represented a tragedy for Gambia

Adminisher:


This was the coup coached by Nigerian Army IBB boys in 1994.

tdayof:
Monday 25 July 1994
BANJUL - A US warship took the ousted Gambian President, Sir Dawda Jawara, from Banjul to Dakar yesterday while the leader of the coup which toppled him received ambassadors and religious leaders.
Senegal said it had granted Sir Dawda and his family political asylum. The US tank-landing ship La Moure County carried Sir Dawda, the first of his two wives Lady Chilele Jawara, and about 14 of his 19 children as well as senior officials to the capital of neighbouring Senegal.

Religious figures who met coup leader Lieutenant Yayeh Jameh said he told them that he and Sir Dawda had spoken but failed to agree terms for the president to return. They said Lieutenant Jameh told them that Sir Dawda had offered to come back and 'rectify his mistakes' but Lieutenant Jameh insisted he could only return as a private citizen.

Sir Dawda fled to the US ship after army officers on Saturday announced a coup against him, after what had begun as a rampage through Banjul on Friday by soldiers demanding back pay for peace-keeping duties in Liberia.

Gambia is bordered on three sides by Senegal and on the fourth by the Atlantic Ocean. Its beaches are a popular tourist destination. Some 1,500 British holidaymakers were able to telephone home as international services were restored yesterday, but they could not leave as Banjul's airport and Gambia's borders remained closed.

A British diplomat in Banjul reported that there had been 'no violence at all' in the coup. A British tour operator, Stephen Wilde, said: 'There is no panic and the only people who are concerned are people whose holidays were due to end today. We're hoping to bring them out on Tuesday.'

Lieutenant Jameh received the British High Commissioner and the Senegalese ambassador, who brought a message from President Abdou Diouf to the new four-member provisional ruling council saying Senegal, which sent troops to halt an attempt to oust Sir Dawda in 1981, would not interfere this time.

Officials said 10 Nigerian officers working with the military had been placed under house arrest. They included the former commander of the 800-strong Gambian army, Colonel Boubakar Dada, who was preparing to leave Gambia. His replacement, Colonel Lawan Gwadabe who took office last month, is currently in Nigeria.

A private radio station broadcast a communique appealing to people to report for work today and asking permanent secretaries to assume the duties of government ministers who have fled or are under detention. The capital was calm, the market was open and people were going about their business normally. An overnight curfew was in force between 7pm and 7am.

Officials said the finance minister and inspector general of police were also on the US ship. They said the justice minister had been arrested, as had the information minister and Vice President Saihou Sabally. The Education Minister, Alieu Badjie, gave himself up on Saturday morning. The Interior Minister, Lamine Kiti Jabang, took refuge in Senegal's southern province of Casamance, near the Gambian border.

Sir Dawda returned to Banjul on Thursday from a holiday at his London residence. He was prime minister when Gambia gained independence from Britain in 1965, and became president when it became a republic in 1970.

On Saturday the British government 'strongly deplored' the mutiny, and the Commonwealth said the coup represented a tragedy for Gambia

Brightwood:


Are you a top General in the Nigerian military, how do you have access to soo many pictures and information?

Katyusha:
This makes me proud to be a Nigerian. A battalion from the Army is probably next in line for deployment. How possible will it be to airlift our T-72AV MBTs?

Henry240:


If I had a Naira for every-time i get asked this question, I'll have been a billioniare by now. No I am not.

Nigerian Air Force P.R is the best in Africa.

Oh okay thank you but one last dumb question...What's PR as in Public Relations?

Brightwood:


Oh okay thank you but one last dumb question...What's PR as in Public Relations?

Henry240:


Yes, Public Relations. You are an American right, the US military through it's agency responsible for PR, "Divds", release over 3000 photographs on a daily basis.


Propaganda acts as a demoralizing tool for the enemy.

I wasn't even aware of Divds ...The world might as well name you Head PR of the United Nations Armies

Brightwood:


I wasn't even aware of Divds ...The world might as well name you Head PR of the United Nations Armies

Henry240:


The mobilisation is stellar. What the military has done is not to make noise, but quietly get to work. Before we could spell Tayo, NNS Unity was already close to the Ivory Coast, NAF had mobilised and 800 troops were on standby.

The whole deployment is beautiful.

Nigeria has so far deployed,

- NNS Unity

- 1 x Beechcraft ISR plane

- 2 x Alpha jets light attack jets

- 1 x Agusta A109 LUH

- 1 x C-130

- 200 ground troops from the Air Force

- 800 Soldiers on standby.


The Nigerians are not coming, they have actually arrived!!

'Oya Jammeh come and be going '

jakeporeshenko:


Henro revise the numbers, I count 3 C-130s NAF 918, 917 and 913

jteku:
Off topic.

Nigerian police presidential outriders are just the best.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdk9ENF7pkM

Henry240:


Is the first photo from this Gambia deployment? It seems rather old.

jakeporeshenko:


Henro revise the numbers, I count 3 C-130s NAF 918, 917 and 913

jakeporeshenko:
It was edited, the photo was taken today.

Henry240:


If I had a Naira for every-time i get asked this question, I'll have been a billioniare by now. No I am not.

Nigerian Air Force P.R is the best in Africa.

Henry240:


It is impossible to airlift a T-72. We'll have to wait and see what we deploy. It is because of events like these i always advocate the Nigerian army invests in LAVs.

You never know where you'll be needed. If we had vehicles like the GAIA LAV or a locally built version, I'd have been more comfortable.