I downloaded the nimc app, but there is a place where OTP is supposed to be sent, but it doesn't send, and when u press send again, a pop up advises you to dial *346*2... we are back to square one and mtn ripps you from there

When you try to generate a vnin or the OTP for nimc app using *346, you get some kind of error. Most likely due to congestion. So I tried multiple times but same error.

To my surprise for each trial I am charged N20 even though I get an error. Imagine millions of Nigerians trying today to link their accounts to vnin and getting same error, yet mtn is making N20 multiple times on million of Nigerians for doing nothing (returning error)

Bakinwuta:



The folks in Plateau have been bred for the last 25years or so ti despise and hate each other.


The economic angle is just an after thought. The incitement has existed alot longer and has snow balled into what it is.

There is no peace because hating, inciting and plotting against each other has become the new normal. Lies and conspiracy theory thrive. So called leaders that call for fairness or peace are often regraded as traitors of the group. They will pretend in the open and plot in secrecy.

As it pertains to Plateau Violence and carnage . Just hold political leaders, religious leaders , various militia/youth groups and tribal leaders in Plateau accountable for the lack of peace . Acting as if its loop sided or one is the victim is just being naive. They are all killers and destroyers willing to devour there opponents innocent or guilty o!

You can smell the hatred when you are around them without the pretence. Peace and love is far from them.

Economic empowerment (not necessarily directly from government, but with its support) is what is needed. Local enterprise, innovations and commerce. Unfortunately these things need peace to exist.

I wonder how such ugly hearted people from both sides came to inhabit one of the most beautiful landscapes in Nigeria?

thesolutions:

Mangu case is not an issue of illegal miners. It is the effect of chosing sides. The Muslims chose side when murderous Fulani militia was intercepted in Mangu resulting to the death of some of them. They will always chose sides and make it a religious thing instead of exposing the culprit.
As for the military being behind the Muslim killers, I have something to say.

The military has always been a tool used by the then governor Simon Lalong.

I still remember what they did to me, PDP EXCOs, the governor and even police DPO when they were to conduct the congress in Mangu. THE PDP OWE ME FOR MY TRAVAILS IN THE ARMS OF THE SECTOR 8 SOLDIERS.

The Mangu saga was deliberate and created for the military to benefit from the crisis. Mangu has mixed religion like the Yoruba people. In a family, you would see Muslims and Christians and they would not contemplate fighting themselves.
So if you doubt military supervision of the killings, you are only being sentimental.

It might or might not be mining activities, but two things are certain. One, this crisis is more complicated than the way it is presented - simply muslm/Christian. Secondly someone or some group is benefitting from this crisis continuing. That's why the locals need to "get their heads out of their backsides" and see that this religious simplification of this conflict hasn't addressed it for over a decade now that it has been reoccurring, isn't it time to do a complex root cause analysis?

Your mentioning of Muslims siding with fulani attackers is exactly what am explaining above. These vilage cleansing attacks have been reported in Sokoto, Zamfara, Niger, Katsina etc most times on Muslim villages. In those areas above the narrative pushed is Hausa v Fulani. Cant you see that the sponsors of these attacks careless the religious leanings of their victims. Even though these areas might have complicated history of interactions between locals due to tribe or religion, this fact is being exploited rather than being the cause.

You guys need to think beyond social media and solve your problems

And that also

I have scoured the Internet on this mangu crisis and have found four videos trending targeting different audiences.

1. The video alleging a church being burnt

2. A man standing claiming to be CAN local chairman dishing out divisive rhetoric saying it is a Muslim Christian war and security is aiding Muslims to destroy Christian lives and property

3. A video of a mob streaming down a hill and a hausa voice claiming they are Christian youths chasing Muslims

4. A video of burning houses and security vehicles and a voice asking for prayers for Muslims over there and claiming security is aiding the Christian youths in destroying Muslim lives and property

All these conveniently targeting different groups to incite them against each other and divert the conversation which just some weeks ago was on mining as a source of insecurity to discussion of religious crisis

If you guys don't sense something fishy here and how sentiments are being stired up, then we are in for a serious trouble.

The targets of these videos are the local gullible and credulous population of unemployed Muslim and Christian youths who would share these videos to each other and turn on each other

I hope this gets to front page

Pray that God blesses it for you. This was my first salary 14 yrs ago and I wanted to quit. So I can imagine how you fill.

I thought they said they new nothing about bombing the hospital, now that evidence is pointing towards them they want to justify their action. How this savagery is happening in the 21st century is still beyond me.

Infojames:
South Africa is acting in the interest of Russia

You guys are either automated bots or willfully ignorant of history that has played out time and time again.

Kill and displace the local population as much as you can, deny them basic economic and human rights, and usurp all economic opportunities to your race - and in half a century time or so hold aborigins remembrance days, enact affirmative actions laws that give rights to children of minority (that u deliberately created) and make sure corporations sing slogans of "no to racism", "equal rights for aborigins " etc

We have seen this template before - America, South Africa, Canada, Australia, Chile, Panama etc

If you've experienced apartheid, racial discrimination and dispossession in your own land you will hate whoever is doing it to others.

Simple human nature and African common sense

The hypocrites keep claiming peace yet the greatest calamities to befall humanity are committed, sometimes supported or with the church turning a blind eye.

From the crusades to slave trade (on a proportion never before seen in human history yet not rejected by the church at the height of it). The killing of over a quarter of a million civilians within seconds with an atomic bomb, to dropping of napalm and other chemical agents on populations in South east Asia.
The murder and rape of indigenous populations from the Americas ( Northern and Southern) to Australia just to displace them and take their lands)

The same thing is happening now in Palestine by zionist from Europe trying to justify it using gullible Christians and yet turn around and claim the victims are the terrorists. Hell is indeed real

Even our own Nelson Mandela was a considered as a terrorist by these same lots (US, Canada and UK) until his release from prison and when it was politically convenient to see him as a freedom fighter. How gullible can the ignorant be

I am still surprised at Africans supporting apartheid, colonisation and outright genocide. Given that we just experienced all 3 in the last century.

These are just European setlers Persecuting an indigenous population in an attempt to wipe them out and take their lands.

Same thing happened to the aborigins of Australia and Canada, the native Indians in America, Chile Panama and Ecuador and in South Africa.

We are watching same thing play out in the 21st century only to look back in the next and be hypocritically asking "how did it happened."

God of Isreal is watching.

It is well

Have you guys noticed how God has occupied these 5 permanent members of the UNSC with war among themselves and relative drop in terrorist activities along the the lake Chad Basin, SS Africa and even Globally?

Come to think of it where do these terrorist get their ammunition from. May God continue to engage the enemies of Humaity in their own iniquities until He destroys them.

ican2020:
That Bago of a man is good and responsible

The last I passed through Madalla market one Thursday morning I was surprised how we drove through there easily and was tempted to asked what happened cause I know that the traders there are notorious in blocking almost half of the road which makes traffic there every Thursday terrible

Thank you dear governor and I wish Gods speed

We are not ready for good leadership in this country. Just imagine such feeble reason

Hmm

I've stopped trusting western intelligence. They are more partisan than pragmatic in the last years.

From WMD in Iraq, to trump Russia collusion and then Russia's economy will collapse under sanction. Then there was the infamous Russia is using chips from dishwashers and microwaves to guide their misiles and they will run out of misiles b4 last spring - well guess who ran out of weapons to supply? America and NATO

This is a simplistic analogy.

How about it is that French colonies are tired of France's economic exploitation, and are just trying to break free. - why can't it be that.

How is it that France is partly dependent on Niger's uranium yet it is France that has got Niger by the balls, and not the other way round- this defies even the laws of laissez-faire that the west preach with pomposity

Don't we have better ways to do these things. How long is this supposed to last for an entire household? Half day?

How shameful.

Interesting times indeed.

Do you see how our government rushed into this crisis unprepared, putting all its aces on the table, while leaving it no room for diplomatic manoeuvres? The only emissaries granted hearing by the Junta go there on their own accord, but anything through the official channel is ignored.

Now compare that with the US who are just tenants that don't want to be kicked out of Niger are the ones now forming champions of diplomacy.

Our new government's foreign policy has been measured, weighed and found wanting on the African and international stage.

By the way has the US SD refered to the Niger "situation" as a coup yet?

Tell her these words if she believes:

TO God belongs what he takes, and He owns what He gives and everything has an appointment time with Him. Be patient and Hopeful

Hmm

ElSudani:
If Wagner ever comes to Niger the same people will be on the streets asking for Federal government to protect them.
These Africans are like pawns in a global chess game and they are oblivious to it.
It makes you wonder what Africans were doing when Europeans decided in Berlin to carve them up and share them like a piece of cake.

You

cleantitleautos:
Europe on the beat. The Europeans are masters of the game. They know how to use Africans against Africa. And the mumu that we are, we prioritize our personal gain as against the common good.

You head dey there. Imagine a former bandit/rebel forming anti coup movement. What is their difference. Anywhere these Europeans are there is no peace.

Next stop will be alqaeeda of the maghreb, isis of the Sudan or some stupid named western backed terrorist resurfacing in Niger.

France and America both had massive military bases in Niger yet terrorist rome around freely the region with seemingly unlimited arms supply? There were stories of bandits in Nigeria receiving arms through helicopter drop offs. I think the pieces are adding up as to where those weapons came from

Racoon:
As par the people of sophisticated politics with warped reasoning ability, everyone is incapable of sound reasoning except you lots. The foolish drug baron, you hero worshipped have been found to be a gross illiterate in every ramifications.

Have you thought on his rash subsidy removal policy? He then started talking about an 8k palliatives measures in the midst of the overwhelming economic challenges facing this beleaguered nation. This is a so called first class graduate of accountancy here.

Now that backed fired. He then moved over to appointing fellow criminal cronies as technocrats. Imagine how ministerial appointees are still being shuffled like a card of whot game despite his alleged emilokan since 1999 to become president? Does this kind of irrational humanity appears serious in your eyes?

If ECOWAS made the decision, so why didn't he allowed the ECOWAS parliament to deliberate the modality of how the troop contribution will go? He promptly ordered his rubberstamp senate using his stooge criminal SP-Akpabio facing corruption charges with EFCC) to initiate the proceedings which was eventually reject by even the northern senators in solidarity with their Nigerien brethren. Tinubu is a disaster in decision and policy making.

Am telling you there is a proverb that says: You can tell a weekend that will be good from the preceeding Wednesday.

From what Tinubu has shown as a "Wednesday"(decisions) we are in for a rough "weekend" (4 years)

I think the president was too hasty, this has really presented him in bad light in the African continent and especially the sub region.

He urgently needs his advisers and cabinet in place and under no circumstances should any foreign ambassador/ lobby/investor be left to have a one on one with the president without his kitchen cabinet.

We all no the president is no spring chicken any more less they sweet talk him into irrational decisions for their interest and and at the detriment of the president himself or the nation

This is crap.

I don't get this crap about ipob are the ones not supportng the war going on in this forum. Are these real Nigerians or foreign cyber agents (trolls) that are on overdrive to see this war happen.

For the avoidance of doubt THE NORTH IN ITS ENTIRETY, DOES NOT SUPPORT THIS MILITARY MISADVENTURE WE ARE ABOUT TO EMBARK ON IN NIGER

The north has close to 1500km border stretch with Niger does Nigeria has the resources to police it if Niger becomes a failed state after the military intervention? The North will bear the full brunt of any adverse aftermath of this war. What the senators are doing is protecting the interest of the north - and that's why we elected them.

The French pushing Tinubu behind the scenes to go to this war are doing so to secure their cheap uranium which powers more than 30% of France's nuclear reactors and 25% of the entire EU. The French military were recently sent parking from Mali and Burkina Faso, Niger is where they made base. So this war is about maintaining their military and economic grip on Africa not about any democracy in Niger.

Apart from flawed Democracy (through flawed electoral processes) that litter the African political sphere what is Nigeria's national interest in Niger?

tolue42:


It's obvious, he's trying to instigate the north against the presidency..

"Dey play" actually revealed who he is

Of all languages the guy chose to speak facts, and all you could decipher from it is "dey play"?

Hmm really arewa let's really be playing. It's either this forum is filled with foreign cyber agents (troll) trying to misinform us into a war. Because I don't want to believe being a yoruba who supports BAT now makes one blind.

Like someone asked: why does Mali and Niger have hundreds of gold mines but no gold, but France with no gold mine is the 4th largest holder of gold - speak about neo colonialsm at its most blatant form

Just imagine thr narcissism. Not how he solves Nigeria's numerous problems but haw he guarantees supply of cheap uranium to Europe.

God hep us, we seem to have taken another wrong turn

Raheeqilmaktoom:


1. Funny enough, the railway was put up to increase Niger's trade with Nigeria through imports and exports from our seaports yet, before the project even kicks off Mr. BAT is trying to use it as a tool of sanction. Is Niger now expected to make use of our rails and ports when we can easily weaponise everything we have against them?

BAT's haste might just be his undoing.

We were giving the impression he was pragmatic during the elections, but it seems international politics is way out of his league.

The railway is one, now Imagine using electricity as a sanction!

Two main rivers flow through Nigeria Cameroon has built a dam on one, generating electricity and flooding us downstream every year they release excess water.

The second river, Niger allowed us to dam (even though they could have built a dam themselves) with the agreement of selling electricity to them.

Now let me tell you one possible sequence of events: Nigeria goes to war with Niger, the Junta is defeated, the country falls under command of different warlord. The west that instigated us into war strikes a deal with the different war Lords supplying them arms while their uranium export continues, this time probably cheaper since no legitimate government is watching. The Chinese or the Russians come in to help rebuild Niger (at this point the west cares less so long it doesn't stop uranium export). Niger ask the Chinese to biuld them a dam like they did for Ethiopia to avoid reliance on Nigerian electricity. They build a dam for Niger upstream and boom that is the end of hydro power in nigeria.

So what is the long term gain of this military misadventures to Nigeria? A failed Niger at our Northern border flooding us with small arms and an end of hydro power generation in nigeria.

This is just one of the numerous adverse implication of this war. Men we should stop voting for old men.

orohbirodeysmel:
If you think this country will move forward with this our setup, you are joking...

Any small thing, some group of people will start whipping up tribal sentiments. The North are now telling Tinubu not to send soldiers to Niger that they are brothers...just dey see am

I don't know how you guys reason.

Do you know what national interest is?

The north has close to 1500km border stretch with Niger does Nigeria has the resources to police it if Niger becomes a failed state after the military intervention? The North will bear the full brunt of any adverse aftermath of this war. What the senators are doing is protecting the interest of the north - and that's why we elected them.

The French pushing Tinubu behind the scenes to go to this war are doing so to secure their cheap uranium which powers more than 30% of France's nuclear reactors and 25% of the entire EU. The French military were recently sent parking from Mali and Burkina Faso, Niger is where they made base. So this war is about maintaining their military and economic grip on Africa not about any democracy in Niger.

Apart from flawed Democracy (through flawed electoral processes) that litter the African political sphere what is Nigeria's national interest in Niger?

Why is this not on FP, given that we are going to war by Sunday

But on a serious note even if you are a supporter of BAT (whis i am or want to be) isn't it suspicious the alacrity at which this war is pushed. Yet France and America are unusually quiet?

These guys have a plan A, B, C, D and so on, one of them being if Nigeria fails in Niger. Their think tanks would have simulated different models including how this conflict can be used to contain Nigeria economically and politically.
Does Nigeria have a plan B if military action fails to restore democracy?