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Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by WARTHUNDER: 11:53pm On Mar 05, 2020
dragon2:
MY 2kobo. We really need more power down at infantry level. Its nice to be able to call on the air-force for strikes, but to go on a full offensive, weapons and tactics are necessary.The tactic side we are not lacking,but weapons and communication down to infantry or platoon level is key for a successful punitive ground assault. I dont think MRAPs should be used for search and destroy.Light attack helios can be used for that.You dont want to lose MRAPS if you are not taking and holding ground. The MRAPS should be saved for punitive expeditions where they are used with IFV's close at the back and tanks further out.
We all know that technicals are a problem for our infantry and bokoharam use them in a shoot and scoot tactic if we have a strong defence present.The armoured solution real time is IFVs , in the absence of IFVS, for the GI, smoke and frag grenade launchers are a must at platoon level.Smoke for concealment and frag as an indirect weapon when under fire.At company level ATGMs, (like the HJ 8,9,10& 12 ) is a relatively cheap real time alternative to constantly calling on airstrikes for technicals. Also,Sentry drones with IR, Night vision and Laser range finder, far ahead of base camp is also a must at platoon level.It will give the commanders prep time and tactical advantage in a fire-fight.
Our Infantry need to be able to go forward at all times but are being slowed by mines and technicals. We have to be proactive, both in assaults and hot pursuit tactics. We MUST NOT be slowed down by these problems when there are solutions out there,no matter the price.
The Army Command needs to raise its game.

Correct 2Kobo !!!!

You just summarized the final solution to this 10 year insane insurgency, this is the only known strategy Nigeria has not yet used because in a strange way, MoD, ONSA, NA Procurement units have never suggested or tried it. Yet we want to win CT-COIN war?

Such asymmetric wars are driven by mechanized infantry/composite regiments, platoon-centric frontline fighting units.

The platoons need light weight < 5 tonne, light foot print, high speed, all terrain urban field land amphibious Motorized infantry vehicles combined with medium weight​ < 15 tonne, heavy anti-gun-truck firepower, enemy battalion size assault force suppression firepower, accurate firepower range 1 km to 4 km effective on a point target.

Add the; full platoon (every soldier connected not only Oga NCO & CO) comms + personal night vision, add that Platoon Level long range thermal vision you said – and hey, get all the other smart human aspects of CT-COIN conflict right, and this bloodie war is over for ever!

A Nigerian mechanized infantry platoon of 50 troops must have enough modern equipment firepower to fight alone and totally defeat 400 or else we are no longer a quality army and continental power !!!

A task force deployed detachment of Nigerian mechanized infantry company of 200 troops must be able to fight alone to hold their AOR for a calculated number of days, against a calculated number of repeated enemy assaults, without degrading into a combat ineffective unit/detachment.

Those who should do what you say are not interested, they have photos of good IFVs on their Samsung phone, you see pics of our AFSF DHQ and ONSA MoD top shots playing with ATGMs at annual European Arms Expo – but they just think the day this war spending ends, they will be missing something grin grin

Nigerians just need to learn to be sincere with ourselves, like does Rwandan MoD do better procurement? Rwandan population is half of Lagos grin grin when I saw Rwandan Otokar Cobras armed with ATGM some years ago, and I was laughing at Nigerians' level of insincerity once they hold public seat of authority, like they've become gods now grin grin

It's not all about ignorance, low budget, etc, it includes failure to buy right things for national defence and nobody gets sacked from office or demoted for it.

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Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 11:32am On Mar 06, 2020
NA ENGINEERS

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Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 11:34am On Mar 06, 2020
#NA

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Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 11:34am On Mar 06, 2020
#NAF

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Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 7:23pm On Mar 06, 2020
Hundreds of residents of Mandera in north-eastern Kenya near Somalia have fled the area in the aftermath of clashes between warring troops across the border.

His that a Nigerian military woodland camo

Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Jimi24: 8:05pm On Mar 06, 2020
WARTHUNDER:
List of emerging Def-Sec reports :

1. Fed house of Reps Abuja, current 2020 new special purpose, expedited bill, to create/invest a new dedicated fund outside normal budgets, to fully retrain and re-equip NA, NN, NAF, bill has passed first reading, now passed second reading successfully. Means at high speed, heading for NASS passage. FGN has no power to refuse it.

2. NAF 3 JF-17 Block II upgraded variant at total cost $184 million with full block 2 options will arrive NAF bases, in FOC, to join combat action this November, confirmed by CAS at Kaduna graduation ceremony. Price package includes all training, dumb ordnance, guided missiles, pods, ground support/maintenance facilities, plus price of each of three planes.

3. FGN Presidency has directly taken over Ezugwu MRAP and entire fleet of new locally made army vehicles. It will no longer be NAVMC controlled project, even with DICON as major stakeholder. Reason is to ensure future success of projects so EZUGWU MRAP does not end in failure like dead Igirigi APC.

Implication is; Presidency decided to grant financial support and admin participation consistently into the future, by adopting Ezugwu MRAP as a part of President Buhari's 2015 promise of local military industrial complex to be paid for within a few years in office by his FG administration.

4. Some legislators are complaining that this new military retraining and weapons/equipment procurement bill is passing so fast without Army publicly accounting for all past special funding for North East CT-COIN war for a decade.

That minority group of reps are saying that must be done before this new jumbo fund is released, fund created separate from annual budgets, meant for modernization procurement - modern training. Reps majority is not insisting on the past accountability (is this a good idea to soft pedal? Who knows?).

This new wave of special modernization procurement funding is a result of massive pressure from Nigerian masses through their reps in their constituencies, till the pressure boiled to yield result now in Abuja NASS. It will be a Reps/Senate alone project but will be finalized and Presidency asked to accent to this bill for formalities sake. The House of Reps has listened to the cries of the people.

NAF has publicly accounted for all it's capital procurement funds except for Mi-35 and Mi-8 / Mi-171.

NN too accounted for spendings on all OPV, some MPV, IPV, gunboats spending and some helicopters.

NA needs to please, open up, on past procurement spending from at least 2014-2020 so as not to stall this new juicy fund opportunity, we the people fought hard to win this new high speed modernization package for you that we even included army soldiers retraining, after our letter upon letter, petition upon petition, NGO upon NGO, community elders upon elders, till begging yielded the fastest bill in our recent DefSec history.

Money for equipment will be in billions of dollars and not dependent on any bureaucratic, slow, limited budget, all those $50 billion CBN Reserve, $2 billion, or $3 billion special reserve funds, now hands will enter those bags to bring out special funds from different sources.

DHQ please do the easy part, submit few pages paper details of past half decade military spending, so we can have a new shopping time starting 2020. Let good guys have new things to post here having tried enough repeating your same old equipment over 5 years.

Don't let this new chance get stalled by the minority reps who are standing on transparency of past transactions. Thank you NA, please wake up, please cooperate, Nigerians are begging of you, forever war will damage the quality of our lives nationwide.

We need $5bn CAPEX for procurement and local arms production annually for the next five years. It is a very good idea to standardize on Ezugwu and use a variety of turrets for different missions.

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Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 8:30pm On Mar 06, 2020
Jimi24:


We need $5bn CAPEX for procurement and local arms production annually for the next five years. It is a very good idea to standardize on Ezugwu and use a variety of turrets for different missions.
Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 8:19am On Mar 07, 2020
bidexiii:

Anticipate the new movie coming soon from Papel films titled “Eagle Wings, the Nigerian Air Force story”
Source @jake


behind the scenes, can’t wait for the movie to be out grin

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Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 8:21am On Mar 07, 2020
More.

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Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by SuperSixSeven: 11:34am On Mar 07, 2020
bidexiii:
More.

Looking forward to watch this movie this. But what happend to the SBS documentary that was announced last year?
Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 11:48am On Mar 07, 2020
Its one of the deadliest weapon in the Nigerian Air Force ordnance - the RBK-500 Cluster munition. It contains an incendiary explosive mixture and each bomblet has a destructive area of 450 sq yds (350 metres)

Credit: defenseNigeria

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Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 11:50am On Mar 07, 2020
SuperSixSeven:


Looking forward to watch this movie this. But what happend to the SBS documentary that was announced last year?


Don’t know.....?
Probably they never got the full support from the Navy authority. Just saying undecided
Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by klhazhik(m): 6:33pm On Mar 07, 2020
bidexiii:
More.

I just hope they get a professional graphics artist to make the graphical add-on looks real, the movie will be dope really.

Not the Shitty Nollywood Editing...

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Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Nobody: 7:29pm On Mar 07, 2020
bidexiii:
Its one of the deadliest weapon in the Nigerian Air Force ordnance - the RBK-500 Cluster munition. It contains an incendiary explosive mixture and each bomblet has a destructive area of 450 sq yds (350 metres)

Credit: defenseNigeria
hasn't Nigeria signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions?
Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Jimi24: 7:49pm On Mar 07, 2020
jln115:
hasn't Nigeria signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions?

Yes o. Nigeria is a signatory to cluster munitions treaties but every one looked away all the times we used it against Boko Haram.
It is one of the reasons BHT/ISWAP operate in cells and gangs. There will never be a large BHT base until the group is eliminated hopefully this year.
NA Sigint should be monitoring BHT comms more industriously. They need to have made many calls to mobilize for the recent attacks on soft targets and civilians from many of their cells. We should have been.waiting.

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Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 9:27pm On Mar 07, 2020
klhazhik:


I just hope they get a professional graphics artist to make the graphical add-on looks real, the movie will be dope really.

Not the Shitty Nollywood Editing...


True yarn...... grin
Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 6:54am On Mar 08, 2020
The set of the upcoming movie "CAMP ZAIRO". With good investment and support Nollywood has the potential to do for Nigeria what Hollywood has done in the United States. Watch out !

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Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 6:56am On Mar 08, 2020
What do you call this now ?

Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Toju200(m): 7:17am On Mar 08, 2020
bidexiii:
The set of the upcoming movie "CAMP ZERO". With good investment and support Nollywood has the potential to do for Nigeria what Hollywood has done in the United States. Watch out !
A new Nollywood film...? Where did our military get those guns from or it's our regular M4 with added kits...
Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 8:14am On Mar 08, 2020
Toju200:
A new Nollywood film...? Where did our military get those guns from or it's our regular M4 with added kits...


Look at them properly they are wooden guns. But have seen NA commandos/SF train with M4/M16 riffles in the past.
Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 1:12pm On Mar 08, 2020
SUPREMACY BATTLE IN BOKO HARAM/ISWAP LEADERSHIP/ FIGHTERS AMONG THE KANURIS, HAUSAS AND THE CHADIANS

All is indeed not well in the terrorists' camps as highly reliable sources have again confirmed growing animosity, distrust, division and deepening crisis in the BHT/ISWAP Camps.

Current reliable information received on Saturday the 7th of March, 2020 has revealed that there is indeed further division, mistrust and deepening crisis within the terrorists' camps.

The latest open hostility in the terrorists' camps came about as a result of the fall out of the recent attack on GARKIDA in Adamawa State and the pyrrhic attempt to capture Damboa in Borno State that was jointly executed by three deadly groups of the sect.

The monumental losses both in men and equipment the terrorists suffered has aggravated the suspicion between and among the groups. Some are accusing others of leaking information of the planned attack to the security agencies and outright lack of will to fight with some of the fighters took to their heels in the face of the fire power of the Nigerian Army.

At the moment, highly reliable sources have further indicated that there has been acrimonious infighting over what the terrorists described as "the fierce struggle for the acquisition and control of booty" such as proceeds of kidnappings, robberies and attacks on vulnerable targets by the Abubakar Shekau led group and the other two prominent groups of the terrorists sect.

Reliable sources have alerted that the acrimonious struggle for supremacy and control of booty has again led to the extermination of one of the leaders of the insurgents' groups by members of the other 2 terrorists' groups.

In retaliation, the group whose leader popularly known as Amir ibn Abdulfatawi (who was appointed less than two months ago) was killed decided to avenge the killing by executing the leader of one of the 2 groups (whose identity is yet to be ascertained) who masterminded the killing of their leader.

Subsequently, the situation got worse when they went back to Lake Chad area. At the Lake Chad area, the Budumas and Yantawawen Chad (Chadian twins) who have upto 400 members demanded to produce a leader and overall Commander of the sect to specifically take Charge of the Chad basin.

As this was brewing, the Hausa - Fulani elements among the BHTs expressed misgivings, - arguing that nobody should address or deliver sermon to them in Kanuri language anymore, and warned that they will never accept it again, citing what they termed as "increasing negation of the original tenets of holy Quraan and prophetic hadith" by the Kanuri Amirs.

At Present, there is serious crack and fierce acrimony and conflict of interest as well as infighting and battle of supremacy in the terrorists' camps, - a development that if well utilized by the Nigerian security forces could surely hasten the final and total destruction of Boko Haram and ISWAP's terrorism in the country.

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Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Jimi24: 1:34pm On Mar 08, 2020
bidexiii:
SUPREMACY BATTLE IN BOKO HARAM/ISWAP LEADERSHIP/ FIGHTERS AMONG THE KANURIS, HAUSAS AND THE CHADIANS

All is indeed not well in the terrorists' camps as highly reliable sources have again confirmed growing animosity, distrust, division and deepening crisis in the BHT/ISWAP Camps.

Current reliable information received on Saturday the 7th of March, 2020 has revealed that there is indeed further division, mistrust and deepening crisis within the terrorists' camps.

The latest open hostility in the terrorists' camps came about as a result of the fall out of the recent attack on GARKIDA in Adamawa State and the pyrrhic attempt to capture Damboa in Borno State that was jointly executed by three deadly groups of the sect.

The monumental losses both in men and equipment the terrorists suffered has aggravated the suspicion between and among the groups. Some are accusing others of leaking information of the planned attack to the security agencies and outright lack of will to fight with some of the fighters took to their heels in the face of the fire power of the Nigerian Army.

At the moment, highly reliable sources have further indicated that there has been acrimonious infighting over what the terrorists described as "the fierce struggle for the acquisition and control of booty" such as proceeds of kidnappings, robberies and attacks on vulnerable targets by the Abubakar Shekau led group and the other two prominent groups of the terrorists sect.

Reliable sources have alerted that the acrimonious struggle for supremacy and control of booty has again led to the extermination of one of the leaders of the insurgents' groups by members of the other 2 terrorists' groups.

In retaliation, the group whose leader popularly known as Amir ibn Abdulfatawi (who was appointed less than two months ago) was killed decided to avenge the killing by executing the leader of one of the 2 groups (whose identity is yet to be ascertained) who masterminded the killing of their leader.

Subsequently, the situation got worse when they went back to Lake Chad area. At the Lake Chad area, the Budumas and Yantawawen Chad (Chadian twins) who have upto 400 members demanded to produce a leader and overall Commander of the sect to specifically take Charge of the Chad basin.

As this was brewing, the Hausa - Fulani elements among the BHTs expressed misgivings, - arguing that nobody should address or deliver sermon to them in Kanuri language anymore, and warned that they will never accept it again, citing what they termed as "increasing negation of the original tenets of holy Quraan and prophetic hadith" by the Kanuri Amirs.

At Present, there is serious crack and fierce acrimony and conflict of interest as well as infighting and battle of supremacy in the terrorists' camps, - a development that if well utilized by the Nigerian security forces could surely hasten the final and total destruction of Boko Haram and ISWAP's terrorism in the country.

Prayers being answered. Always do the spiritual work first
Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 1:36pm On Mar 08, 2020
Jimi24:


Prayers being answered. Always do the spiritual work first


grin grin grin
Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Xbee007(m): 1:59pm On Mar 08, 2020
bidexiii:
SUPREMACY BATTLE IN BOKO HARAM/ISWAP LEADERSHIP/ FIGHTERS AMONG THE KANURIS, HAUSAS AND THE CHADIANS

All is indeed not well in the terrorists' camps as highly reliable sources have again confirmed growing animosity, distrust, division...
Source please?
Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by WARTHUNDER: 3:27pm On Mar 08, 2020
Jimi24:


We need $5bn CAPEX for procurement and local arms production annually for the next five years. It is a very good idea to standardize on Ezugwu and use a variety of turrets for different missions.


My brother no be small tin o grin

Kudos to those Nigerians who have strong will for country, deep pity for our troops using teeth to pull out nails from furniture like poor carpenters without tools, servicemen dying young leaving family behind all because they lack right equipment and training to beat the levels BHT-ISWAP monster into.

This new funding covers everything for all tri-services, total amount is still being figured out while the most important aspect, the final passage of bill and assents of upper chamber, then executive is going on concurrently. You wont hear much update unless you go to chambers exact day bill is listed for floor again.

The thousands of ordinary Nigerians who fought for this will never be known, those in big positions will take the glory in history, but sha common Nigerians stood up for themselves sha o! People who know how to do leg work from ward, local council areas, legislators constituency offices, NGOs, various pressure groups, then simultaneously combine smartly saturating social media and public news space with this new slogan of 'Insecurity Everywhere In The Land' these ordinary people have shown what we Nigerians can achieve when we ignore our differences in politics, religion, tribe, and fight against the common enemy.

Ezeugwu MRAP decision, this official FGN adoption is the only way to save it's future, because current army leadership will retire one day and like when people were calling for their removal weeks ago (for which Mr. President says he is not in a hurry to replace old chiefs who couldn't end this war with new chiefs who also cannot end same war) it can threaten continuity for Ezugwu and we end up losing its loss as soon as we gain it.

Looming future is very bad for all of us from Lagos Kano Minna to Enugu, same evil wind already across all N S E W four cardinal points of our homeland, giving rise to Amotekun Vigilante type of self help but it can't stop ordinary Boko H talk less of ISIS W.A.

American immigrant visa ban against us Nigerians (likely soon be reversed as FGN high power committee is working hard to meet all US Government demands) is a warning from outside that Nigeria's security condition is rotten inside.

Officially The American Government based on advise from AFRICOM boots on ground honest no BS assessment, has decided to now downgrade mission objective for all Sahel & L. TChad Basin West Africa to strictly containment only of all Jihadi Insurgencies, meaning America is no longer interested or trying to defeat any of AQIM, Ansar Dine, Tebu Insurgents, MNLA, MOJWA, Boko Haram, Tuareg Insurgents, ISWAP, etc.

All are now to be merely contained by African regional forces like G-5, MJNTF, ECOWAS Governments Armed Forces that allowed these insurgents grow monster strength beyond defeat.

AFRICOM concludes that BHT-ISWAP will continue indefinitely in Nigeria unless Nigeria acquires new war fighting capabilities that it does not currently have now.

Abuja legislators also interpret that official US DoD document release to mean Nigeria cannot defeat this insecurity in our land unless we fully retool, revamp, rebuild, re-equip, retrain our Army as a whole, then do same for Air Force, Navy, only then do we have hope to win, or else what we are crying now is just the beginning of tears.

If you hear hot language being used inside legislative chambers by legislators, fear go catch you, like "What is coming ahead will consume all of us," "These dangers will eventually not select target, everybody will finally become a target". I think the tragic end of some top military men who died like common man has shown the wiser ones that safe life when in government position does not last forever, when big men leave office they become vulnerable like you and me.

Many hardened elites who dont care have been left behind in their imaginary permanent personal security bubble of self-deception, people driving level B7 armour Lexus or Range Rover in Nigeria, imagine B7 level, bullet proofing resistant to sniper rifle, assault rifle, squad level assault weapon, general purpose machine gun, all calibres 7.62mm Armour Piercing, many of your top government officials have this B7, most use B6, so they dont care about public outcry of insecurity, forgetting they cannot continue in B6, B7 cars when they leave government jobs.

My good gentleman, main prayer now is how these billions will be spent, whoever wants air assets, land assets, marine assets, this will be their big chance to buy in good numbers not 2 or 3 like under normal budget. Army can build air fleet and same time new vehicle fleet, and various man portable hi-tech hardware, from fund incoming. Procurement decisions will be done jointly by Federal Ministry of Defence, Office of National Security Adviser, Army, Navy, Air Force, all sharing authority for procurement, but if Mr. President does not want bad decisions, he can much influence all of them under the Executive's control.

Images - Rwanda Defence Forces Mechanized Infantry Battle Group Elements training for multidimensional warfare at test firing range with Otokar Cobra armed Red Arrow 9 ATGM. Fleet of ZFB-05 LAV in field maneuvers. Motorized Battalion fleet of Ratel IFV ready for operational deployment.

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Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 3:55pm On Mar 08, 2020
Xbee007:

Source please?


These type of source; you can’t get everywhere unless once on Sahara reporters.

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Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Sizzorkay: 10:17pm On Mar 08, 2020
Brought to you by "Highly reliable Source vs Reliable source"
lol, epic, I'm guessing these sources couldn't give us an exact location of these meetings? grin grin

Xbee007:

Source please?

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Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Nicheey(m): 11:49am On Mar 09, 2020
Off topic...

Little help here.
Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 1:18pm On Mar 09, 2020
More on making of CAMP ZAIRO

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Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 1:19pm On Mar 09, 2020
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Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Toju200(m): 2:25pm On Mar 09, 2020
Yusuf Gadgi, the Chairman of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Navy, on Wednesday challenged the Nigeria Navy (NN) to start building its own warships.
He said that the NN had the required competence and expertise to build its own warships without any intervention.
Gadgi said this on Wednesday after a Stakeholders’ Meeting and at the end of a three-day oversight visit to the various naval commands in Lagos.
He said that during the course of the committee members tour, they noticed that boats and ships were produced at the Naval Dockyard, Victoria Island.
“During the course of our visit, we noticed that the Nigeria Navy acquired some boats from South Africa. If South Africa can produce boats, we have our own naval dockyard to do so.
“What stops the government from investing in the naval dockyard to an extent, since it has produced some of the boats and ships we want, why can’t we increase its capacity?
“We as the giant of Africa will be able to produce boats and ships for the babies of other West African countries,” he said.
He also said that one of the issues the committee would work on would be government’s centralised opinion on the navy.
“We have a competent navy that will be able to look at the kind of ships that they want and look at the type of vessels they want.
“We should be able to empower and allow them to have free-hands to acquire those things.
“Not other agencies buying vessels and ships that cannot even stand the test of time, ” he said.
Gadgi assured the command that the committee would look into the challenges facing the navy, especially, in the areas of finance and recruitment of personnel.
“As a committee, with the challenges we have seen, we are willing to make decisions that will further promote operations of the navy considering the commitment shown by officers and the Western Naval Command,” he said.
He said that a larger stakeholders’meeting would hold in Abuja after all the members of the committee would have submitted their reports.
“We know that after going to the central and eastern commands, including the units that operate in all those areas, the largest stakeholders’ meeting will still hold in Abuja.
“There, we will be able to digest the challenges and find lasting solutions to all the challenges being faced by the maritime-related sectors, ” he said.
He said that the committee had identified intimidating challenges which if they were not looked into, they might dent the prestige of the Nigeria Navy.
He assured them that the challenges would be solved.
He, however, commended the Nigeria Navy and the Western Naval Command for their tremendous works on the maritime front.
Rear Adm. Oladele Daji, the Flag Officer Commanding (FOC) Western Naval Command, also commended the committee for visiting the command and identifying with some of the issues confronting the navy in general.
“The visit of the committee has been very enlightening in terms of advice and areas of intervention that will ensure that the operations of the Western Naval Command are enhanced.
“I want, on behalf of the officers, ratings and civilian staff members, of not only the Western Naval Command but all other commands in Lagos, to sincerely thank you for your energy and drive, the commitment and sincerity of purpose with which your committee performed its oversight function.
“We have been receiving delegations before now but this has been the most engaging and most productive, ” he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the committee members’ visited the Navy Ordnance Depot, Special Boat Service and Joint Maritime Security Centre.
They also went to the Underwater Warfare School, Nigeria Reference Hospital, the newly commissioned apartments for personnel, the Stadium, the Nigeria Navy Secondary School and the Naval Air Base within the Ojo barracks.
They were also at NNS ships in BEECROFT, Naval Base BEECROFT, Naval Training Command, the Naval Dockyard Limited, Naval Doctrine and Assessment Centre, Forward Operating bases in Igbokoda and Badagry respectively.

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Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 6:18pm On Mar 09, 2020
bidexiii:
More on making of CAMP ZAIRO


Also in Tunisia.
GFS operators, behind the scenes of 27; the first #Tunisian Tv series to tell the story of the "unit 27" and the war on terror, The series will be aired this Ramadan.

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