Msauza:


The fact that your pilots are not trained up to standard mercenaries were needed dummy.

iterator24:

all those Nigerian media referenced SA media.. quoting your defense minister specifically.

rka1:


Nigerian pilots are the most experienced pilots south of the sahara my friend and often come tops in foreign academies, so take your mumuness elsewhere.

rka1:


Do you knows how many reports on theNigerian insurgency we have seen and laughed at because of their inaccuracies? No they wouldn't have the resources if BH had focused on Chad , they would have crumbled a long time ago. They are only making progress because BH are being engaged by the NA on multiple fronts and have been degraded by months of bombardment and SF attacks that go unreported.

Unless you understand the concerted effort to discredit Nigeria from various sources and interested parties, you will continue to be misled. But we know.

Msauza:



Yet, old apartheid pilots are cruising with their jets.

saengine:


How is this a contradiction?

iterator24:
100 soldiers playing a major role in a state the size of scotland...hahahaha..

iterator24:

all those Nigerian media referenced SA media.. quoting your defense minister specifically.

DieVluit:


In summary, because they referenced south african media, nigerian media cannot be trusted to know what they are talking about.

They are so unprofessional that they just publish anything and present it as fact without knowing whether they can stand by their stories.

Ok, great. That says a lot.

Henry120:


Humour me!

Abuja reportedly got cleared with South-Africa's top government echelon but your "minister of defence" isn't aware.

So, who's your government top echelon, it's pretty clear South-Africa runs a banana republic government.

rka1:


Comical

Henry120:


Humour me!

Abuja reportedly got cleared with South-Africa's top government echelon but your "minister of defence" isn't aware.

So, who's your government top echelon, it's pretty clear South-Africa runs a banana republic government.

rka1:

Well done. You got it first time. The same local media that parrots foreign reports on their own country mostly for political reasons.
Welldone, there is hope for you yet.

DieVluit:


Therefore, nothing coming from Nigerian media can be trusted. They are copy and paste units who cannot stand by the stories that they publish.

I got it alright.

rka1:


Give yourself a round of applause (clap for yourself).

saengine:
http://m.news24.com/news24/Africa/News/Ex-SA-soldiers-playing-major-role-in-fight-against-Boko-Haram-20150305

Ex-SA soldiers 'playing major role in fight against Boko Haram


[b]Cape Town – Former South African Defence Force soldiers are reportedly playing a major role in the fight against Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria after they were hired by the west African country.

According to the Institute for Security Studies(ISS) several ex-South African Air Force (SAAF) pilots were also participating in the war against the Islamist insurgents.The report said the South African team together with other military experts from Britain, United States and France had contributed significantly to the recent successes of the Lake Chad Basin Commission forces against Boko Haram.

"The former SADF members are definitely playing a major role in this offensive. They have been in country for a significant time already, involved in training some specialised NDF [Nigerian Defence Forces] units," a former military intelligence was quoted as saying.

Beeld reported in January that the former SA soldiers were to form the core of a multinational team of private military experts to fight Boko Haram.The report, at the time, said that the 100-strong team had been tasked with training the Nigerian military in a massive campaign against the terrorist organisation.

This came after a Nigerian presidential security adviser stated that Nigeria's campaign against Boko Haram was being hampered by "cowards" within the armed forces, signalling dissatisfaction with how the military is handling the situation.  But Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakuladismissed the so called former SADF soldiers as mercenaries and said that they should be arrested when they return home.

"The police have a responsibility to ensure that, when they come back, those people are arrested and the [National Prosecutions Authority] has a responsibility to charge them. There are consequences for going out of the country and provide any form of military assistance as a mercenary, not as part of the deployment by government," Mapisa-Ngqakula was quoted as saying.

Abuja has reportedly insisted that the deal had been cleared with President Jacob Zuma – and the ex-SADF soldiers now in Nigeria have likewise also insisted that their involvement was cleared at the highest echelons of the South African government, even if the defence minister did not know about it.

I never got into this discussion before. Just find it interesting that more details seem to be coming out.

DieVluit:


Meanwhile, the world of media sells stories to each other with organisations such as Reuters, Sapa and others selling stories. Journalistic integrity requires that you stand by the stories that you buy and publish.

Per your post, Nigerians don't have the journalistic integrity. Like blind bats they just publish without thought and they can be challenged on the grounds that they did not originate the stories.

No one else in the world can be challenged on that basis.

I got it.

Thank you.

Msauza:

Chad is the best and powerful military in west Africa. SA rules southern part of Africa.

saengine:


I find such comments interesting. Why not just ignore it? Where there's smoke, there's fire. The ISS knows far more than you about the security/defence situation in Africa, and have thousands of more sources.

This report is rubbish because Henry120 says so. Okay :-)

agaugust:



[size=13pt]More details? Rubbish. Still a recycle of the same story from one private man Mr.Bleeds who has no proof of his mercenary story.

Anybody with a news web page online can write any fake story he likes.

Ugandan news papers published story that Ugandan army has mobilized full battalion ready to help Nigeria to be deployed in combat against Boko Haram in February, now this is March and no Ugandan army has moved one inch.

Show us photos of SANDF mercenaries in Nigeria because both SANDF and Nigerian DHQ denied it.

Your source says the SA is training NDF Nigerian Defence Forces and that name does NOT exist in Nigeria, what you call more details is actually more errors....NDF does not exist in Nigeria, i think your mercenaries are missing somewhere lost inside Mandela's Kruger Park chasing Rhino Poachers
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rka1:


You are getting better and better. They cut and paste and merely quote the foreign reporters. Hardley any investigative journalism and little understanding of the defence sector.

DieVluit:


Even Africa has its own organisations that sell its stories, but ONLY Nigeria is NOT allowed to buy the stories because they don't know what they are doing.

Everyone else can be trusted to have the integrity to know how to handle foreign content responsibly. Not Nigeria though. You make sense. This explains why nigeria has a low free press score. They are mindless wanna-be journalists who can't be allowed to have journalistic freedoms. Perfect sense.

http://www.apo-opa.com

saengine:


A nigerian website wrote a similar article aswell. You ignored that too. So the problem isnt the articles.

rka1:


To prove my point wait until the next fake Western based article appears and give it a day or so and you will see for yourelf what happens n the local media.

DieVluit:


Even Africa has its own organisations that sell its stories, but ONLY Nigeria is NOT allowed to buy the stories because they don't know what they are doing.

Everyone else can be trusted to have the integrity to know how to handle foreign content responsibly. Not Nigeria though. You make sense. This explains why nigeria has a low free press score. They are mindless wanna-be journalists who can't be allowed to have journalistic freedoms. Perfect sense. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/nigeria-joins-journalist-danger-list-on-world-press-freedom-day-8601601.html

http://www.apo-opa.com

From today when you quote them on Nigerian "victories", we will refer you to these proud and well thought-out posts of yours. No one should use reports from Nigerian journalists. The unprofessional sods.

rka1:


They quote defence HQ, so they can't make it up. Why do you think Major General Olukolade continually asks them to verify their stories before publishing?

rka1:


They quote defence HQ, so they can't make it up. Why do you think Major General Olukolae continually asks them to verify their stories before publishing?

rka1:
http://defenceinfo.mil.ng/cae-aviation-seeks-ties-with-the-nigerian-military/

DieVluit:


Exactly man. In fact, from today henceforth the general himself should spend his time speaking to every single Nigerian himself. If it means that he will never sleep, so be it. Nx! We cannot have Nigerian journalists serve the public by making information accessible. They can't be trusted. We want the General and the general alone. Who wants to read a newspaper anyway when Nigerian universities know nothing about training...journalists? The backwardness.