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MULLAH123:
That last guy, commenting vex o.

His humour killed me.

I agree with OP. The only problem is that these things you mentioned only merely scratch the surface of the underlying matters, or at best cover only current events.

jahsharon:
This guy is a nonentity and he thinks we are also. Tinubu led ACN, ANPP, CPC members to persuade IBB, Obasanjo, Abdulsalam, new PDP, e.t.c to come and work together and form the APC. Remember that Shagari, IBB and Obasanjo were very bitter enemies of Buhari, but Tinubu brought them together. The then new PDP consisting of Amaechi, Saraki, and co did not beg to join APC, instead APC persuaded the new PDP and others to join them.

So, you fool should have known that if you go and persuade someone to work with you, you cannot turnaround and ask that person for bribe again. Only Jonathan has done that in the history of the world, he appoints you into a position and ask for monthly kickback for you to remain in the position.

I get really appalled by the gross exaggeration of people like you. You ignore all the facts and begin to talk out of sentiments.

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I initially wrote this article in December 2015 after the terror attack in America, but saw the need to release it after the attack in Nice. Let's begin.

Nigeria has been facing insecurity issues for a long time now. This insecurity has become more manifest in the last 6 years, following the end of the Niger Delta militancy due to amnesty, as the country has been bedeviled by outright terrorism poised by Boko Haram.

There’s no need for me to go further into details about the impact of Boko Haram or why it sprung up; this is already well covered elsewhere. However, wherever the need arises, I’ll shed light on it. My focus in this writeup though is on the tactics being used by our military and intelligence agencies to tackle Boko Haram.

To begin with, it has been established that Nigeria is witnessing acts of terrorism. In order to offset this dangerous development, the Nigerian security outfits engaged in this fight, have chosen to use some tactics to rout the terrorists.




Firstly, the FG deployed armed security personnels to the locations witnessing the most attacks. For instance, Adamawa, Borno, Gombe, Bauchi and Yobe states have suffered the most attacks; thus, more security personnels have been stationed there. Also, as a result of these attacks on these locations, these states have been placed under emergency by the FG. The placement of troops and the use of State of Emergency helped, to an extent, to stem the tide against these terror attacks. However, these areas have still not stopped witnessing devastating terror attacks. Even worse, these attacks are becoming increasingly trans-national, with assaults launched from and on Niger and Cameroun.



Additionally, the use of troops deployment, which saw Nigeria use fighter jets on its own territory for the first time in 25 years, has not helped to deter terror attacks, even in other parts of Nigeria. For instance, Kano and Kaduna have not stopped witnessing terror attacks, even though intermitten, as the recent attacks in the post-election 2015 months have shown.



From my observation, the military seems to think its enemy is fighting guerilla warfare, as the military merely repels attacks, and attacks Boko Haram “bases” in some towns and in the Sambisa forests and recover arms or rescue hostages in the process. This is obviously a combination of conventional military tactics and guerilla defensive deterrence. Thus, one frequently hears the Nigerian military speak about how Boko Haram launches attacks against “soft targets”, when the terror group attacks civilian locations far from the conventional "war front".




What Are Soft Targets?
These are entities which are most vulnerable to attacks by enemy forces, they include civilians and locations of average security protection.

Clearly, the military makes it seem as though BH is weak/unpowerful whenever they claim it attacks “soft targets”. They seem to be chiding the fact that BH attacks the more vulnerable rather than it coming face to face with the superior power of the military to test its might. But this assumption clearly misunderstands the purpose of terror acts!



This sort of tactic misses the whole point of counterterrorism. It misses the fact that terrorism and the sort perpetuated by BH, is not conventional warfare. Terrorists don’t just seat in one location, plan attacks from there singularly and return to that same spot! No! And far from it. Instead they could have cells (sleepers, for some), working in different locations and communicating rarely but in a coordinated manner. More on this later.



Perharps troops deployment by the US, France and Russia might put an end to ISIS in the Middle East, because their location and strongholds are already well known, and mapped out. But this same tactic had never gone fine in the fight against Al Qaeda.



The reason is simple. ISIS uses a relatively conventional warfare strategy of fighting to claim/hold territory while “outsourcing” foreign terror attacks against “soft foreign targets” to worldwide sympathizers domiciled in any country, irrespective of whether they have a criminal background or not; worst still, it doesn’t have to train them or know them, it just transmits terror skills and propaganda via the internet, and whoever admires it can take action independently (more on this later).


Meanwhile Al Qaeda uses unconventional warfare and it holds no territory outrightly most times. It simply uses cells to launch attacks, and some few foot soldiers to protect few territory from which it continuously launches attacks on a target for a while.

BH’s mode of operation is much similar to that of Al Qaeda; whereas the Nigerian military and the media seems to hold strongly to the belief that holding territory is BH’s ultimate aim.

Personally, I believe BH operates like Al Qaeda, and little like ISIS, save for the aspect of holding territories. But Al Qaeda too has used both tactics in Afghanistan and Yemen. Yet, in 2010, it attempted to blowup a US-bound airplane through one of its Yemen trained sympathizers. While in 2001, it rammed 2 planes into the WTC, killing thousands.


How Have Our Tactics Faired Against Boko Haram?


From the above, troop deployment and the use of State of Emergency is clearly a method of conventional warfare, and falls short of being capable and efficient against BH.



Secondly, Nigerian intelligence outfits are yet to track finances, sponsors, and supporters of BH. This is an issue that seems not to be on the frontburner in the fight against BH. At the onset of the Boko Haram crisis, Nigeria did arrest or investigate the sources of BH’s finance and outside sponsor. However, this hasn’t yielded any good, or perharps some good have come of it but they are just silent about it, who knows. The likes of Kabiru Sokoto, Abdul Qada, and other BH supporters arrested and detained by the DSS are, as it appears, yet to yield any good. Without uncovering the financial sources of BH, Nigeria will never be able to put an end to BH.



Third, Nigerian security outfits are yet to fully secure the Nigerian borders. It is a known fact that Nigeria’s borders are porous ans makes it vulnerable to transnational attacks. Yet nothing much has been done about this issue. This appaling situation has even allowed Chad, Cameroun, and Niger republic to send their troops across the Nigerian borders to attack BH, while the Nigerian military looked on doing nothing much. An embarrassing feat. If Nigeria must tackle BH effectively, then its borders need to be effectively protected.



Fourthly, Nigeria is yet to tackle the ideology that supports Boko Haram. When BH menace first became more manifest in 2011, the government introduced TV ads and radio broadcast aimed at quelling the ideology of BH. These broadcasts are still being done, but have remained the same. No new concept has been added to it. Thus Nigerians hear it, but it's meaningless and seem more like a propaganda message than an awareness message. New concepts need to be introduced into these awareness campaigns if it is to have any reasonable impact on the fight against terrorism.



Additionally, the fight against Boko Haram is not one that involves the military alone. The military cannot protect the millions of Nigerians vulnerable to Boko Haram attacks. And if Boko Haram begins to support the sort of "lone wolf" attacks currently aiding ISIS, then Nigeria will become more vulnerable on multiple fronts.
Like it or not, this lone wolf issue is the next phase of terrorism and Nigeria is completely unprepared for it! This shall be the subject of my next article.


lalasticlala, seun do the needful.
http://criticalnigerian..com/2016/07/terror-in-name-of-god-nigeria-failing.html

sleepingdemon:
it is possible, if you check well, there was a thread on nairaland, where jidez007, i, dhtml18 and some others were talking about this, cant remember the title, but its not officially possible, but works through an hack. now not to derail this topic. leave us to this battle of .net
its one of the few things we can spare time for

Ok thanks.

I couldn't stop laughing after that last part. Carry-on...

I can't see any reasonable objective being achieved with this discussion.
Programmers come in and argue the features that their language has over. net and vice versa?
Or that programmers come in to claim what webapps have been done in. net?

These discussions are boring, irrelevant and a pure waste of time for everybody.
But it's good to know that lots of programmers are still on Nairaland, maybe one of you could help me out with something I want to do.
Is it possible for me to create social login through Nairaland on another webapp?

henchamb:
writer wrote out of hatred. this could be seen where he called tinubu a boy
he is not popular yet he distorted pdp plan in 2011 with Tambuwal
he produced the highest number of governors, nass members into Apc merger
he bank rolled Apc activities
his candidate defeated atiku's candidate in adamawa state Apc primary.
his media houses gave Apc a facelift
all media houses in Nigeria made him the man of the year for 2015 yet he is overrated
Pls tell me one Godfather or politicial group that have produced the personalities that Jagaban has produced.
before you called Yoruba I'm proudly igbo so stfu

Ok good to know that you wont start tribal bigotry. So we can converse in a civil manner.
Now you've cited very good reasons why he is very powerful. But like I said, he uses propaganda to enhance his reach in the eyes of the masses.
In the case of Tambuwal, it was more about Tambuwal's ambitions than Tinubu's. The PDP restricted him but he wanted more. So he crossed carpets.
He didn't bankroll APC activities alone and that's an obvious fact; And you obviously know this so let's not bring that up.
Yes, his will trumped Atiku's in Adamawa, though am not very familiar with that situation.
Any mention of media is just propaganda. So I won't argue that with you.
And also note: I admire his style. His influence in the SW is immense and the fact that he has never been ambitious enough to want to be president is one reason why I respect him to in some ways over Awolowo. Even though Awo had been a very great states man, his ambition to lead the nation first in the 60s then again in '79 and '82 I feel was terrible for political development in Nigeria. If only Awo had groomed politicians the way Tinubu has been doing, other politicians would have emulated and Nigeria would had a very vibrant political circle.

henchamb:
writer wrote out of hatred. this could be seen where he called tinubu a boy

I didn't call him a boy, he's the subject of my discussion and I avoided insults or tribalism or the likes. You just didn't get the statement correctly. It reads "boy, was he pissed".
I don't disrespect people in such critical writeups.

Jirate:
OP, Nice write up, quite thought provoking and factual, please keep up the good work. Posterity will not forgive us if we go mute at this crucial time in our history.

This is the most important message for the whole of Nigeria! The APC gave us the power to vote in and out governments in all tier that have been fruitless for over 16 yrs. Now we need to be sure that we have finally wrestled sovereignty into the grasp of the people.
We need to speak up. Criticized constructively and applaud rationally. Nigeria is in a very critical state presently.

There's an ongoing thread discussing why and how Tinubu got and maintains his "political clout".
For the record, am not saying Tinubu is not powerful. Rather what I want to open up is that the power of this "Jagaban" is grossly exaggerated. Let's begin!
His Exaggerated Power is Fueled By The Victory of the APC
When the APC won Tinubu used propaganda with his media influence via the Nation Newspaper, Faaji FM, the tv station TVC and even social media to flog the Jagaban term down our throats. Yet, the victory of the APC was not he's alone. Other powers in the North (Kwankaso, Atiku and Tambuwal, etc) and even in the South South (Ameachi, Timipre Silva etc), and even in the SW (Obasanjo, etc) played key roles in that victory. Some other powerful individuals who stay away from the media also played key roles. That was why when the National Assembly principal officers elections were held last year, none of Tinubu's "candidates" emerged victorious. And boy was he pissed! Thus the root cause of the media trial of Saraki and co. I'll write on this issue later.
Tinubu wanted the nation in his palm. But Buhari stayed out of the NA elections by travelling frantically as usual. But still Tinubu couldn't get it cause it was bigger than his clout.
He tried to wade his influence into making a House of Reps member, representing Ikeja constituency, become the Governor of Kogi State when the leading aspirant died mysteriously! This attempt was thwarted by "orders from above" as it was claimed.
Same thing goes for the ministerial list, he wanted more of his own, but national politics involves plenty of compromises and negotiations, something he had never been used to since he played godfatherism.
Moving on...

Tinubu's influence lies strictly in the South West :
Tinubu has been the predominant power in South Western politics since 2007. However, every attempt to spread his influence nation wide before 2014 had failed woefully. His party had never been strong in the senate/House of Representatives. His party had very few victories outside the SW. He knew this all too well. And all the political calculations he had made before 2014 shows that he knew that if he wanted to capture the center he needed strong support from the strongest periphery: the north. Thus in 2007, he fielded Atiku against Yaradua. He failed woefully. Again in 2011, he fielded the uninfluential Nuhu Ribadu against the PDP. He lost woefully again. But in 2011, the CPC was became a significant power in Nigerian politics after Buhari left the ANPP in 2010. And with him left a host of ANPP party whigs. And if you understood the CPC well you'd have known that a host of its members were northerners.
Tinubu realized that Buhari was his only option to capture the center. So in 2013 he teamed up with Buhari and his guys. This alliance saw the merger of three parties controlling two strongholds: CPC in the north, and ACN in the SW.
While the ANPP, the third party in that Alliance controlled limited parts of the North and some part of the South East.

3. Tinubu is an ardent lover of Propaganda and media distortion I want us to understand something about how Tinubu operates politically. He relies strongly on the media to project his reach for the people. Now he doesn't say much to the media directly, but heavily selects and distorts what stories come out about him and others.
For instance, he so easily flooded the media with news stories about how Fashola was corrupt, all in a bid to stop him from being made a strong member of Buhari's govt since it was obvious Buhari strongly liked Fashola. Ambode didn't have the balls to release such stories about Fashola on his own; but yet the stories emanated from the government of Ambode.
And do note that in Nigeria anybody who controls the media is extremely powerful and can send us going the wrong direction easily just by headlines and imagery. Tinubu has this; but not for long I hope. Sahara Reporters have fast gained ground as the most reputable media house Nigeria has ever seen since the time of Dele Giwa.






And that's all I have to say. And my closing remarks is to remain critical of any story you hear about Nigeria and any Nigerian especially politicians. They're all selfish and try to galvanise the country for themselves and their families.

Abi lalasticlala what do you think?

http://criticalnigerian..com/2016/07/why-tinubu-is-not-as-powerful-as-he.html

Well, since you didn't specify what type of recommendation you want, here are my thoughts based on which is easier to grasp fast.
They each belong to a larger platform. Asp.net is under. NET and JSP is under Java.
In other words their learning curve is somehow pretty steep. However ASP.NET is much easier to get into relatively speaking, than JSP.

You guys should not compare programming languages. It's immature.
Programming languages all come in different forms and variants. You should use what you know best and what seems most efficient for a task (if you know other languages) and stop this yeye comparison.
You guys are providing information of top websites built with PHP. That's childish please stop.
Discuss creative web and programming ideas before looking at the capabilities of your language of choice.
My thoughts though.

mightykay:
is it from facebook I will log in to any website? pls enlighten me

No you would not need to login via Facebook to use free basics.
Think of it like this: Facebook is paying a network provider a lot of money to make access to the internet free to that network providers subscribers.
In return, Facebook gets the right to select what contents and websites users can visit on its platform. So it could probably not allow rival products and websites to appear on its platform, which is tantamount to monopoly. Additionally, Facebook owns all the rights to any information it gathers from your activities (privacy policy though is observed, but since the US govt easily gets infos from these tech companies don't bet on it). And since Facebook's major revenue base is advertising, expect to see plenty of it.

Free Basics will give you access to selected websites chosen by Facebook, and Facebook will continuously use it to harness itself to forestall its quick demise.
If you use free basics, Facebook owns you and ur activities on its platform.
You're on your own. Awoof they say the ran belle.

To be frank, you are very factual, and I for one am aware of all that you've made mention of. But Nigerians always celebrate people who make it either by hook or crook; we never try to bash those who hoodwinked the system and garnered wealth.
As a matter of fact if you do bash them, you don turn bad belle. This is a huge problem.
But again do note that Tinubu's political tactics Involves propaganda and the use of clienteles. So you find the media houses applauding his "political tact" too often than should be. And with the fact that he is one of many "bigmen" that helped to put Buhari in power last year, expect nothing to happen, even if Obama petitions Buhari.

I've been on d dark web, but for now I have no much need for it.

No 9 is d most daft!

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