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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 3:55pm On May 12, 2019
jaycent:
Oga go back pages and read. We haven't gone far yet. You will read terrible news and tire. grin grin grin grin even a Kenyan was there yesterday and even order us to stop grin grin grin grin




And please. In case you open the links, please and please and please make sure you scroll down so that you can read more terrible news from your shitthol country grin grin grin grin
So tell me more
how do your policemen use sachet bags to rape people? grin
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by jaycent(m): 3:57pm On May 12, 2019
Just30:
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your comments doesn't change the fact that Ghana policemen are highly respected for their professionalism over your country men in uniform
internationally grin grin grin
LMAO Hahahaha grin grin grin grin How is your police respected. How many of you black Police in a black ugly uniform invited for a peace keeping in a foreign countries grin grin grin grin

Are you talking of this local police grin grin grin grin

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by jaycent(m): 3:59pm On May 12, 2019
Just30:

So tell me more
how do your policemen use sachet bags to rape people? grin
I don't really know ooo. But you can ask your police how he manage to rape a woman in cementry grin grin grin grin
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by AskiaHarem(m): 4:03pm On May 12, 2019
Just30:
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your comments doesn't change the fact that Ghana policemen are highly respected for their professionalism over your country men in uniform
internationally grin grin grin

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by jaycent(m): 4:09pm On May 12, 2019
[quote author=AskiaHarem post=78330209][/quote] Wahahaha grin grin grin

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by jaycent(m): 4:12pm On May 12, 2019
Lagos and Abuja grin

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by jaycent(m): 4:15pm On May 12, 2019
I just love Abuja street. Very wide and clean grin grin

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by jaycent(m): 4:18pm On May 12, 2019
More grin

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by edon21: 4:22pm On May 12, 2019
jaycent:
More grin
that is what a capital should be like. not a marketplace like Nairobi

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by tylann: 4:23pm On May 12, 2019
jaycent:
Lagos and Abuja grin


I can see shoprite by far cool
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by tylann: 4:25pm On May 12, 2019
edon21:

that is what a capital should be like. not a marketplace like Nairobi


Jealousy smiley
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by tylann: 4:27pm On May 12, 2019
Jaycent this is what i was talking about
It happened yesterday

https://www.nairaland.com/5183551/renewed-cult-war-claims-2
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by jaycent(m): 4:29pm On May 12, 2019
Lemme help my Ghanaian brothers small. At least for the love I have for the. cheesy grin grin

This is Accra. The best city in the whole world. grin grin grin

It has electric Train inside the sea. grin grin grin It has 100 brt terminal grin grin grin
It has 10 international airport grin grin grin
It has 50 world class bridge and flyover grin grin grin grin
It has the best transportation in the world grin grin grin grin
It has 100 underground water hotels grin grin grin grin
Infact the list is endless grin grin grin
The car thier police people use, they imported it from heaven because you can't find such police car on this Earth grin grin grin grin

Please let's congratulate our beloved Ghanaians for such kind development. It's not easy oo grin grin grin

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by jaycent(m): 4:30pm On May 12, 2019
edon21:

that is what a capital should be like. not a marketplace like Nairobi
grin grin

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by edon21: 4:30pm On May 12, 2019
tylann:

Jealousy smiley
who wants to be jealous of a crap?

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by PetroDollaxx: 4:34pm On May 12, 2019
what is the salary of a policeman in nigeria? grin grin grin grin roforoforoforofo I just want to know grin grin grin they look very harassed and frustrated grin grin grin grin grin

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by jaycent(m): 4:34pm On May 12, 2019
tylann:
Jaycent this is what i was talking about
It happened yesterday

https://www.nairaland.com/5183551/renewed-cult-war-claims-2
Lemme ask you a question. Don't you a gangster in your country. Because America also have cool cool

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by vaxx2: 4:35pm On May 12, 2019
jaycent:
I don't really know ooo. But you can ask your police how he manage to rape a woman in cementry grin grin grin grin
use Google. GHANA has one of the best police in Africa and rightly behind burkina faso in west africa.
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by jaycent(m): 4:37pm On May 12, 2019
PetroDollaxx:
what is the salary of a policeman in nigeria? grin grin grin grin roforoforoforofo I just want to know grin grin grin they look very harassed and frustrated grin grin grin grin grin
What's also the salary of policemen in shitthol Ghana. grin grin grin grin Pwo pwo pwo pwo pwoooooooo grin grin grin

Your useless policemen look so weak and disgusting grin grin grin grin grin

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by vaxx2: 4:39pm On May 12, 2019
jaycent:
Lemme help my Ghanaian brothers small. At least for the love I have for the. cheesy grin grin

This is Accra. The best city in the whole world. grin grin grin

It has electric Train inside the sea. grin grin grin It has 100 brt terminal grin grin grin
It has 10 international airport grin grin grin
It has 50 world class bridge and flyover grin grin grin grin
It has the best transportation in the world grin grin grin grin
It has 100 underground water hotels grin grin grin grin
Infact the list is endless grin grin grin
The car thier police people use, they imported it from heaven because you can't find such police car on this Earth grin grin grin grin

Please let's congratulate our beloved Ghanaians for such kind development. It's not easy oo grin grin grin
Do you know that most of this shanty house are occupied by Nigerians in Ghana. They are into prostitution and drugs. I wish i can write ambassador ademola on this effect. It is disgracing the hard-working Nigerians leaving in Ghana .
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by PetroDollaxx: 4:42pm On May 12, 2019
hahahahahaha ? certificateless buhari grin buy why are the others sitting down like pathetic orphans? very funny grin grin grin grin

I often wonder how some 180 million sickos ended up in one place. LOL. The 7th largest producer of oil, with some of the largest reserves of gas and yet they can’t produce enough electricity for themselves. grin grin grin

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by 68816419: 4:43pm On May 12, 2019
Another skyscraper completed grin grin grin grin

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by PetroDollaxx: 4:43pm On May 12, 2019
leave that fool. those photos he is posting are actually from nigeria grin grin very foolish people grin grin grin

vaxx2:
Do you know that most of this shanty house are occupied by Nigerians in Ghana. They are into prostitution and drugs. I wish i can write ambassador ademola on this effect. It is disgracing to hard-working Nigerians leaving in Ghana .

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by vaxx2: 4:48pm On May 12, 2019
Countries With The Best Police Force in Africa.......


NIGERIA is the least ranked at 29 while kenya is in 27 .....

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by tylann: 4:48pm On May 12, 2019
PetroDollaxx:
what is the salary of a policeman in nigeria? grin grin grin grin roforoforoforofo I just want to know grin grin grin they look very harassed and frustrated grin grin grin grin grin


grin

The second pic lipsrsealed grin

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by tylann: 4:51pm On May 12, 2019
jaycent:
Lemme ask you a question. Don't you a gangster in your country. Because America also have cool cool


We have gangsters in kenya deadly ones
In fact some were shot yesterday

But what we don't have are cultists smiley
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by tylann: 4:52pm On May 12, 2019
68816419:
Another skyscraper completed grin grin grin grin


How many floors
It looks like a high rise
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by PetroDollaxx: 4:59pm On May 12, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: Inside Nigeria Police shocking work conditions where officers are left homeless, paid peanuts grin grin grin
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/159124-exclusive-inside-nigeria-police-shocking-work-conditions-officers-left-homeless-paid-peanuts.html grin


The Nigeria police, especially the rank and file, are the least paid among corresponding security agencies in Nigeria, a failing that fuels corruption.
Sylvanus Udo has a telling way of explaining how to keep a wife and four children, pay for the children’s school fees, rent an accommodation and buy food for years with a little more than N40, 000 – his take home pay after 25 years as police officer.
“Only through black magic could anybody feed his wife and four children for 30 days with the kind of salary the Nigeria Police pays me,” he said recently.
Intensely passionate about his job, Mr. Udo works under weather elements at his traffic duty post in Lagos, shrewd at persuading wayward motorists to obey traffic laws.
But after putting in a quarter of a century on a job he so cherishes, his gross annual salary stands at N577, 234, while his gross monthly pay stands at N55, 147. When tax and sundry deductions are made, Mr. Udo, a sergeant, goes home with less than N48, 000, 00 every month. grin
His colleagues with accommodations in the police barracks, part with additional N7, 000 for that privilege and go home with even less monthly.
Tens of thousands of officers of the Nigerian police receive some of the poorest pay even in the West African sub-region grin, and the worst hit are the rank and files-the force’s foot soldiers who spend decades in the line of duty but are hardly promoted, accommodated or paid well.
On all categories of personnel, Ghanaian police officers for instance earn more money than their Nigerian counterparts, receive better training and welfare, a PREMIUM TIMES investigation has shown. Mr. Udo’s equivalent rank in Ghana receives about N77, 000.
Across Nigeria, wretched officers live in squalid neighbourhoods within and outside the barracks, live and go to work for months from broken-down vehicles, uncompleted buildings and garages.
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Analysts believe the dismal reward package contributes directly to the alarming rate of corruption in the force and rampant attack on civilians by personnel. grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin
Salary reviews don’t compare
Ghanaian authorities reviewed the salary of the country’s police service in 2011, raising the monthly pay of a Constable from 140 Ghanaian Cedi (GHC) (N9, 000) to GHC750 (48,549.31), Sergeant from GHC400 (N25, 892.96) to GHC1200 (N77, 6788.89). An Assistant Superintendent of Police in Ghana who earned GHC600 (N38839.44) ahead of the review, now earns GHC1, 700 (N110, 045.09).
“The changes took effect from 2011 under a new pay structure called Single Spine Salary Structure meaning equal pay for equal work,” said Fortune Alimi, Editor of The Guide, one of Ghana’s most-widely read private newspapers.

While Nigeria also reviewed the salaries of its police about the same time as Ghana, the raise could hardly compare. The Consolidated Police Salary Structure, CONPOSS, released in March 2011 and exclusively obtained by PREMIUM TIMES shows a marked difference.
A police recruit earns a consolidated annual salary of N108, 233, 00 and a monthly consolidated salary of N9, 019.42 but when N676.46 is deducted as pension, the recruit goes home with N8, 342.96.

A police constable on grade level 02 (1) earns a gross monthly salary of N42, 508.13 while the one on grade level 02 (10) earns a total of N46, 840.86 with rent.

A police constable grade level 03 (1) earns a gross monthly salary of N43, 293.80 while the one on step 10 earns N48,619.16 including rent while a corporal on grade level 04 (1), earns N44,715.53 and a corporal on grade level 04 (10) goes home with N51,113.59 per month including rent subsidy.

The gross monthly salary of a police sergeant on grade level 05 (1) is N48, 540.88 while a Sergeant on step 10 earns N55, 973.84.
A sergeant major on grade level 06 (1) earns N53, 144.81 and the one on grade level 06 (10) earns N62, 204.88 per month.
For senior officers, the package appears relatively improved.

A cadet inspector on grade level 07 (1) earns N73, 231.51, an Inspector on grade level 07 (10) earns N87, 135.70 including rent subsidy while a cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, on grade level 08 (1) earns N127, 604.68 and an ASP on grade level 08 (10) earns N144,152.07.


An ASP1 on grade level 09 (1) earns N136, 616.06, an ASP on grade level 09 (10) earns N156, 318.39, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) on grade level 10 (1) earns a total monthly salary of N148, 733.29, a DSP on grade level 10 (10) earns N170, 399.69, a Superintendent of Police (SP) on grade level 11 (1) earns N161, 478.29, an SP on grade level 11 (cool earns N187, 616.69.
A Chief of Superintendent of Police, CSP, on grade level 12 (1) earns N172, 089.06, a CSP on the same level on step 8 earns N199, 723.96, an Assistant Commissioner of Police on grade level 13 (1) earns N183, 185.73, an ACP on grade level 13 (cool earns N212, 938.16 while a Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, on grade level 14 (1) earns N242, 715.65, a DCP on grade level 14 (7) earns N278, 852.79.
A Commissioner of Police, CP, on grade level 15 (1) earns N266, 777.79; a CP on step 6 earns N302, 970.47. While an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) on grade level 16 (1) gets N499, 751.87, an AIG on step 5 earns N546, 572.73.

Still, the salary of the Nigerian Inspector-General of Police, IG, is meagre compared with those of the heads of the State Security Services, SSS, National Intelligence Agency, NIA and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
While the IGP earns N711, 498 per month, the Director General of the SSS earns N1, 336 million per month and the EFCC Chairman, N1.5 million, per month.

Finding illegal, corrupt ways to survive
Long before the Lagos State authorities outlawed the use of motorcycles, Sergeant Udo’s black magic – as he said – was ferrying passengers around town during off-duty periods to earn some more cash. He would not explain his alternative since the government barred the use of motorcycles in the state.
The sergeant’s story in many ways reflects the deplorable conditions thousands of Nigerian police personnel face daily amid rising corruption and declining productivity in the force. Mr. Udo refused to be fully identified for fear he might be penalized by his superiors. His first name was replaced with Sylvanus for this story.
Before being posted to Ikeja, the sergeant served in Ikorodu where he was allocated a one bedroom apartment in the barracks. But in Ikeja, which has the highest number of police personnel in Lagos, he could not get a place in the barracks.
With Ikeja’s high rental rates, he did what many of his colleagues have done overtime –erect a makeshift structure within the barracks to accommodate his family, after tipping a corrupt senior officer N10, 000 for a few square meters of land near the ravine area of Ikeja barracks. With the help of an itinerant carpenter, he constructed a “house,” using pieces of woods, discarded billboard tarpaulins and used zinc sheets.
To avoid the usual squabbles associated with using the single toilet and bathroom shared by many residents of the barrack’s ghetto, the sergeant wakes up early for bath long before others get off from bed, and hurries out for work immediately where he stays mainly standing till about10.pm.
“Nobody gives me a sachet of water to quench my thirst, nobody provides me with a lunch pack to quell my hunger, but everybody blames me if I make a slight mistake,” he said.
Mr. Udo joined the force in 1989 with the West African School Certificate, WASC. His last promotion was in 2002, having waited for eight years to be made a sergeant. Twelve years on, his name has consistently missed out from promotion lists.
But in spite of the appalling working conditions, the sergeant remains grateful for his job and considers himself lucky to serve a nation he says has failed to appreciate its police men and women.
“I thank God I have this job. It is what brings me happiness and satisfaction. I love to serve and I am proud to stand under the sun and in the rain to ensure people move freely on the road,” he said. “Even though they have refused to promote me after so many years, I still put in the best to ensure the road is safe.”
Abandoned reforms
While submitting a report on suggestions on improving the welfare of the Nigerian police personnel in 2012, former Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Parry Osayande told President Goodluck Jonathan how police in Nigeria were the worst paid in the West African sub-region. Mr. Osayande’s report only drew from several past documents from government panels identifying poor remuneration and conditions of service as factors affecting performance in the force.
“The poverty of the ordinary police officer, coupled with weak institutional governance predisposes him to engaging in all sorts of schemes for self-help and survival. While parallel organisations carved out of the police only perform part of its functions, their staff are better remunerated and motivated than the police,” Mr. Osayande noted.
He called for urgent review of working terms to boost performance, instil discipline and restore the dignity of the police officer. The report, like the rest, remains unimplemented two years after.
Ghetto barracks and training camps
The shocking conditions at police barracks are evident around the country, even in the federal capital, Abuja. Yet, if the decay in the barracks is tolerable, it is more serious at police training schools.
The Police Training School, Bauchi, cuts a picture of a broken down goat pen, but the facility trains thousands of officers during promotion examination.
The CLEEN Foundation, a nongovernmental organization which has conducted years of research on the Nigeria police, painted a gloomy picture of condition at police stations well-known to Nigerians.
“Over the past six years, we have conducted police station visits and in the course of conducting these visits, we have seen the good, the bad and the ugly side of things,” said Kemi Okenyodo, the group’s executive director.
In a few instances where police stations are improved, such efforts are often communal, Ms. Okenyodo said. Examples are Ajah Police Station and Mosafejo Police Station, all in Lagos State.
While the military and other paramilitary agencies provide funds for their officers on special operations, the police hardly does. Where such funds are provided for, it takes months and years to trickle to the rank and file.
A police officer in Umuahia, Abia State, told PREMIUM TIMES that he buys his uniform, and shoes from Ariaria Market in Aba.
“In the past, they used to issue us with uniforms, badges and shoes but that has stopped a long time ago. Most of us buy our uniforms and shoes in the open market. For instance, I bought my uniform and shoes in Ariaria Market in Aba,” he said.
He explained that the non-availability of uniforms and shoes in the police store is responsible for the lack of uniformity in the dressing of personnel, especially the rank and file.
Retired FTC Commissioner of Police, Lawrence Alobi, blamed the Federal Government for the disgraceful condition of the Nigeria Police.
“In the United Kingdom, UK, policemen earn more than some members of the Armed Forces. In fact, when former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, was asked why a Chief Constable earned more than her, she was quoted to have replied, ‘if the chief constable does not maintain law and order, we cannot sit in parliament’,” Mr. Alobi said.
“The police never went on strike, except in 2003 when just a handful embarked on an industrial action. In this country, the Army has taken over the government, workers have gone on strike. The police officer is 24 hours on duty and is the least paid. We do not even have a union that can at least negotiate our salary. In Canada, Ghana and South Africa, the police have a union. Here, we don’t and that makes our case very precarious. We are at the mercy of the politicians who manipulate us,” he lamented.”
The Nigeria police loses either ways, analysts say. Without a union to project its concerns, the force also lacks a crucial support from the public in agitating for reforms; a partnership that is missing with the force’s corruption, and its overzealous officers’ daily assault on members of the public.
“We must also factor in the public perception of the Nigeria Police. If there is a crime in a neighbourhood, people no longer have the confidence to call the police but will call the Army. People now have more confidence in the Army than the Police. This is because of the level of impunity and corruption in the police,” said Uche Duruke, the national president of Civil Liberties Organisation.
“I was in a place where the issue of poor salary for the Police was discussed and somebody jokingly said, ‘will they take double portion,’ apparently referring to the bribes some of them take at roadblocks. It was like a joke but he made a valid point.”
Repeated attempts to speak with the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, at the Force Headquarters, Frank Mba, were unsuccessful.
Mr. Mba did not respond to questions when contacted on the phone nor reply to questions he requested to be sent as text to his telephone.
This post is supported by the Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme, funded by DFID and managed by a consortium led by the British Council

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Nobody: 5:07pm On May 12, 2019
Yobeezy:


Stop giving me stupid lectures cause you always lack sense in your arguments, 90 million Nigerians are living in extreme poverty and the whole world knows this, you should be thanking world bank for this.

It's not just poverty which they are good in open defecation is another of their speciality

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by 68816419: 5:26pm On May 12, 2019
tylann:


How many floors
It looks like a high rise
16 floors, Yeah its a high rise, the quality of the building is topnotch

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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by kikuyu1(m): 5:29pm On May 12, 2019
Toju200:
On Sep 14, 2017
Three Nigerian Air Force jets headed towards N’Djamena,-the Chadian Capital, are intercepted and forced to turn back a Chadian Mig-29 fighter jet.
French Air Defence radars detected a pair of Nigerian Air Force Alpha Jets making a very low high speed approach direct flight towards the Chadian Capital N’Djemena. The Air Defence site alerted the intruders they are in violation of Chadian airspace and asked the intruders to steer clear off the Capital. The Alpha Jets ignored the warning. Minutes later a pair of Chadian Mig-29 fighters were vectored to intercept the intruders, at which point the Alpha jets reversed course and flew back into Nigerian airspace.

In another incident, a French Air Force fighter jet intercepted and forced back a Nigerian Air Force ATR-47 Intelligence gathering plane that penetrated into Chadian airspace and was circling around the Chadian capital spying on Chadian/French air defense sites located at the airport and transmitting data back to Nigerian command stations in real time.

72 hours later Nigerian satellites detected a pair of Chadian AD MiG-29 interceptors in an open airfield undergoing maintenance. Taking advantage of this another NAF ATR-42 spy plane flew at over Chadian airspace unchallenged ,collecting and transmitting data on French and Chadian military formations for nearly an hour before flying back into Nigerian airspace.

Furious the Chadian Ministry of Defense immediately lodged an official protest against overflights by Nigerian surveillance and combat aircrafts via a telephone call to Aso Rock. President Buhari apologised, saying the pilots may have lost their way and not realised they were violating Chadian airspace.

In a third incident two Nigerian Air Force Mi-24 Hind helicopter gunships conducting COIN operations were in hot pursuit of a group of fleeing Boko Haram fighters. The terrorists fled into Chadian tertitory, the pair of Mi-24 gunships entered Chadian airspace and continued its pursuit. They were detected by Chadian Air Defence radars and ordered to leave. Shortly after they were ordered to leave two other Nigerian Air Force Alpha Jets were detected flying at low level and in high speed heading towards the same direction the two attack helicopters went.

This time two French Air Force Mirage F1 fighters were bscrambled to intercept the Alpha jets. Within minutes the Mirage fighters established visual identification and called for the Alpha jets to turn back or tis getting shot down. The Alpha jets ignored the warning and continued with their flight.

Moments later two other aircrafts was detected by Chadian/French Air Defence radars inside Chadian airspace. These new contacts were on afterburner on supersonic speed, faster than the Alpha jets. The Chadian/French Air Defence operators were alarmed by these intruding aircrafts coming out of no where and scrambled two more Mirage F1s to intercept the intruders.

Visual identification confirmed the intruders as Nigerian Air Force F-7N jet, a high speed interceptor, faster than the Mirage.The Mirage pilots warned the F-7N’s over the radio to break away and egress or risk getting shot down. The F-7N pilot ignored the warning and maintained its flight course until the Hind Attack helicopters and Alpha jets were safely outside Chadian airspace before egressing and returning to Nigerian airspace.

Though risky, this hair raising event was meant to send a clear message to the Franco military alliance : Nigeria retains the will and capacity to carry out airstrikes deep inside Chadian territory and relying on French Air Force Mirage for its air defense will not change the status quo. Nigeria’s robust ISR/ISTAT/ELINT capabilities utilisating space and air assets means it can bypass whatever the Chadians can throw at it at will.

………now you will be forgiven if you think this is a page from a Tom Clancy novel, except its not. These are real actual on going events. But what happened? How did we get to the point of actual brinkmaship? For answers we need to go back in time,nearly 60 years ago.It started with a bomb.

ATOMIC BOMB

In 1960 newly independent Nigeria and Ghana condemned in the strongest terms a series of nuclear destinations carried out by the French in the Sahara desert, and warned against further atomic weapons testing on African soil.

Not long after France explodes a second nuclear test in the Sahara desert. This provoked swift condemnation from Nigeria and Ghana, warning of a diplomatic consequences should France decide to use Africa as a guinea pig for nuclear testing in her hid to become a nuclear power.The French insisted proper care had been taken to prevent radioactive fall-out from affecting people living in the remote part of the desert and called Nigeria Ghana’s bluff in threat of retaliation.

True enough the France conducted a 3rd nuclear test, this time politically timed on the eve of the Africa summit in Casablanca.The bomb contained plutonium with an explosive force equal to 14,000 tons of TNT- half as powerful as the FAT MAN atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

This unerved the Ghanaians, who backed down from their threats of consequences, leaving Nigeria standing alone. Angered by the perceived cowardice from her sister nation, Nigeria expelled the French ambassador and his entire staff and closed Nigeria’s ports and airports to French ships and aircrafts.

The world was stunned. This was the very first time in history a black African nation will be standing up to world power. The landlocked French colonies Chad and Niger sent diplomatic emissaries to Lagos, urging Nigeria to reverse its decision as it was causing serious economic effects on these landlocked French colonies. The move was reversed, but the battle line has been drawn.No amount of protest from a black African nation will prevent France from carrying out more nuclear tests.

Nigeria’s bold action in the face of a colonial power did not go unnoticed in not just Africa but beyond. While French plundered West Africa languished in mysery, English speaking Nigeria was on a meteoric rise.English speaking Nigeria became the Pride of the British Empire. The Queens visit to Nigeria infuriated the French. British and American influence in West Africa remained strong. The first ever transatlantic telephone call in the world between U.S President John F Kennedy and Nigeria’s President Tafawa Balewa further epitomized Nigeria’s growing diplomatic power in the global arena. The French realized Nigeria cannot be contained, it must be broken up.

NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR.

When the Nigerian civil war erupted, France secretly armed Biafran separatists in a bid to weaken British and American influence in Africa. Providing and channelling weapons and technicians to Biafra via Cameroon.

Nigeria’s former colonial ruler – Britannia on its part supported the “One Nigeria” policy and covertly provided weapons and military intelligence to Nigeria. The United States in an act of political correctness declared itself neutral, while the Soviet Union gave Nigeria full support.

France, under De Gaulle saw the conflict as an opportunity to weaken the ANGLOPHONE GIANT of West Africa, which was sorrounded French speaking colonies closely aligned with France, and at the same time have access to the regions oil. A move that angered Britannia. Paris supplied Biafran seperatists 800 tonnes of weapons, assault rifles, bazookas, grenades and cannon in just 11 days in 1969.

French ingenuity knows no bound when it comes to exploiting Africans via its divide and destroy tactics. French covert support for Biafra did not stop them from selling weapons to the Nigerian government.The United States was alarmed to see a French crew fly a B26 bomber into Biafran territory. More arms smuggling came to light when a weapons laden plane belonging to Air France exploded in Guinea Bissau. French actions needlessly prolonged the war, leading to untold suffering on a scale most Europeans cannot hope to comprehend even though they knew Biafra stood no chance in hell against Nigeria’s Federal forces.

In May 1981 Nigeria and Cameroon nearly went to war over Bakassi when Cameroonian gendarmes opened fire on Nigerian coast guards, killing five Nigerian customs agents and wounding three. That same year Beninese troops made incursions into Bakassi, provoking public demand for punitive actions and war by Nigerians.

1987

In May 1987, Cameroonian troops under the cover of darkness occupied sixteen border villages in Borno State until it was repulsed by Nigerian Army units. Lagos, then Nigeria’s capital issued orders to state governorsto take military reprisals against any belligerent neighbouring country.

1989

In October 1989,Cameroonian gendarmes abducted four Nigerian customs officials on routine border patrol duties.

Irritated by these incursions Lagos took measures to strenghten its border with Cameroon. Nigeria fenced its entire international boundary to enclose each border beacon and augmented the border agents by 1,000. 2,100 immigration officers were given a four week weapons training course, mounted surveillance equipments and deployed 25 speedboats, 1400 Land Rovers, patrol cars and 209 motorcycles.

It should be noted that through this period Nigeria no military presence in the region, even after unprovoked attacks the Nigerian Customs Service and Coast Guard were responsible for patrolling the border. The Cameroonians seemed to not know the difference between Customs agents weilding rifles and the Nigerian Army. Emboldened by Nigeria’s seemingly lacklustre response to Cameroonian aggression the Cameroonians finally pushed the envelop.

1992-1993

Faced with growing calls and militarism for Anglophone autonomy in Southern Cameroon , the Biya government resorted to open oppression in which many Nigerian civilians in Cameroon were killed. Many were forced out of Cameroon during many embarrassing and harassing tax drives by Cameroon Gendarmes.

In reaction to the harassment of Nigerian traders and fishing vessels by Cameroonian Gendarmes Nigeria recalled all customs and Coast Guard agents in the restive Bakassi area and deployed a thousand well armed Nigerian soldiers to the peninsula.

February 18-19, 1994

Cameroonian Gendarmes provoked a shooting incident . Details of what transpired are murky, but it resulted in a shootout between Nigetian troops and Cameroonian Gendarmes, that resulted in 30 Cameroonian troops dead, 3 captured. The surviving Cameroonian troops abandoned their post and fled, resulting in Nigerian troops illegaly occupying the two Islands on the Cameroonian side of the peninsula.

Unable to find any semblance of a response Cameroon decided to take the border dispute to the International Court of Justice for its adjudication.Cameroun’s application was deposited on March 29, 1994.

Between 2006-2008

Skirmishes instigated by Niger Delta militants nearly brought Nigeria and Cameroon to full scale war. In the ensuing crescendo Cameroonian authorities made a claim to parts of Obudu ranch in Calabar, Cross Riverd State, claiming that their boundary stretches down to Obudu ranch. Gov. Liyel Imoke called the claims ridiculous and warned of a massive Federal response should Yaounde choose the path of military adventurism on Nigerian territory.

The discovery of a French military airbase just 5 miles from Calabar prompted the Nigerian military to prepare for a potential showdown with Cameroonian forces backed by possible French Air power. Unconfirmed Intelligence report warned of a potential Franco Cameroonian invasion of Calabar and the subsequent annexation of Obudu, Calabar -IMMINENT.

BOKO HARAM

Nigerian troops capture eight French nationals fighting under Boko Haram after an army raid on a Boko Haram logistics and supply base. An angry France demands the men be handed over to Cameroonian or French authorities.

The Obama administration blocks Nigeria’s effort to buy arms to fight Boko Haram, not once, not twice – Three times.

Obama snubs Nigeria the world’s 4th largest democracy, critises Nigeria’s human rights record and its treatment of captured Boko Haram fighters, and subsequently orders the release if $35 million and defense assistance to all three of French speaking African dictatorship who all share borders with Nigeria.

British Intelligence secretely informs the NIA of French and Chadian interests in sponsoring a Boko Haram led francophone invasion of Nigeria’s resource rich northeast. GCHQ warns the lame duck Goodluck Jonathan about the risk posed by Nigeria solicitating for global assistance to combat an externally orchestrated devastating occupation of Nigeria.

President Jonathan proves to be the worst thing that ever happened to Nigeria, when he paid millions of dollars to the Chadian leadership Idris Derby for a SCAM ceasefire deal with Boko Haram, that was nothing more than a ruse to buy Boko Haram time to replenish its war machine and regroup to continue its bloody campaign of destruction.

An unmarked helicopter that crashed in Yola was found to be carrying $6 million in cash. According to eye witness reports, two white men set the helicopter on fire with millions of dollars it was to ferry to Boko Haram.

A political aid to the Chadian strongman Idris Derby is apprehended at the Nigerian border with advanced SA-6 surface to air missile, a weapon not even in the Nigerian Army inventory, to be delivered to Boko Haram. According to the report, Mahamat Bichara Gnoti, personal aid to Chads president claimed Idris Derby gave him the funds to purchase the weapons for delivery to Boko Haram.He had waved a “presidential pass” issued to him by Idris Derby in order to get past border guards, but the Nigerian border guards were not impressed and was ordered to stop with a gun pointed at his forehead. The deadly weapons were found after searching his convoy.

Despite these hard evidence the stupidity of the Jonathan administration is defies human logic, even the French cannot believe their luck.

President Buhari defeats the lame duck incumbent Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 Presidential election.

Idris Derby is reportedly not pleased by the outcome.

Before officially moving into the Aso Rock Villa due to renovation work, Nigeria’s new president is given a classfied briefing by the Intelligence Agency.

At this point war is innevitable. President Buhari cannot believe his eyes. History is repeating itself again !!

An alarmed Buhari summons his security service chiefs and fires them. He appoints new service chiefs and gives them 6 months to recapture all lost territories and deal a final death blow to Boko Haram, to free up forces for the potential defence of the mother land.

The Nigerian Navy goes on man acquisition frenzy on a scale not seen in recent history. Acquiring new stealth patrol vessels and building up the largest sub Saharan African naval fleet in 16 months.

France builds two more surveillance facilities in Niamey and Njamena. The United States follows suit with a Reaper Drone base in Cameroon.

The Nigerian Army makes plan to Increase he size of the army to 200,000 men, and setup a weapons training centre for the Nigerian Civil Defence Corps. Nigeria ramps up its attack helicopter fleet to nearky 40, receives the first batch of brand new advanced Mi-35 attack helicopters with night vision capabilities from Russia.

Cameroonian BIR (Special Forces) kills nearly a hundred Nigerian fishermen in the Bakassi peninsula over their inability to pay $300 fishing levy. The lucky survivors of the attack arrived back in Nigeria with injuries. An ill President Buhari orders a covert response.

Nigerian Navy SBS Commandos in a surgical operation ambush and attack a Cameroonian logistical boat carrying 37 Elite Cameroonian military unit transporting equipment for construction work at a French military airbase on the Bakassi peninsula. Special care was taken to make sure the bodies and the boat never recovered.

Intelligence reports suggests U.S and Reaper Drones carrying Recon operations over Nigerian military bases.

The Nigerian military issues a mandatory order recalling hundreds of retired generals, officers and soldiers to 10 combat and defensive formations across Nigeria’s borders.

The DRRR (Department of recruitment, retirement and reserve) is reactivated. Until Now The department has been dormant. Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters begin working round the clock to reactivate the nation’s reserve forces in the shortest possible time.The decision to reactivate the nations Reserve forces is to augmemt the overstretched military, which is currently engaged simultaneously in nearly 10 major battlefronts across the six geopolitical zone of the country.

I always knew Jean-Fraude was behind BH but really,nigga,SOURCES!
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by 68816419: 5:37pm On May 12, 2019
Ethiopia ranked fourth in hotel development in Africa

Ethiopia is ranked fourth in hotel development in Africa based on an annual survey conducted by the Lagos-based W Hospitality Group.The top three countries are Egypt, Nigeria and Morocco, the Africa Business Communities reported over the weekend.

A total of 75,155 branded rooms in 401 hotels are in development across the whole of Africa – a net increase of almost 11,000 rooms in the pipeline, 17 percent up on 2018.

The survey had a record 43 international and regional hotel contributors this year, covering 54 countries in north and sub-Saharan Africa, and the Indian Ocean islands, it was learned.

Ethiopia has seen another increase in pipeline deals, up from 31 hotels in 2018, signed by international chains such as Accor and Hilton as well as by regional chains such as aha and Latitude. Best Western and IHG each signed two hotels in 2018.

The majority of these deals, 27 hotels with 84 percent of total rooms, are in Addis Ababa.

This year the top ten countries account for 69 percent of the total hotels in the survey, and 74 percent of the rooms.

The digital B2B publisher Africa Business Communities revealed also that full details will be revealed and discussed at the Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF) to be held from September 23- 25 2019 in Addis Ababa

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