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AncientAlien:
I search Birnin Gwari on Google now and all I could see were nothing but negative updates from years back to the present. Even with inclusion of nairaland in the search bar, their negativity news full nairaland too. If only I have heard about it before our adventure. I would have never allowed us to pass there. At the end, we still thank God for life.

Now you know, it's well with you. Those bandits are actually runaway BOKO HARAM mixed with fulanis

Use Apache heli on this islamist bandits.
In the documentary '' Foot steps of bin laden ''

Osama bin laden said he dreads the Apache helicopter attack. Their clash is very fatal

Advantage of ESN

Woto woto seasoning

Witches and meat she get oil for head.

If you stock your kitchen well and family eats well. Your wife will be happy 💯. But our generational ladies get as e b

Balablu , our military for collect woto
Nigerien military was ready for war. Tinubu doesn't know diplomacy, he thought is Owo mida approach were dimwit touts will be screaming ah ah ah ah ah ah

ISLAMABAD


JIHAD fatwa has been declared on his head, EMIR not to be trusted

eepeepook:
The desert route is always available.

All die na die

A 20 ton LPG increased with 2 Million naira from 30th-31st . My people, e don red

Hausa:
By 2013, cultism had somewhat dropped in 2013.
Not sure you were around in 2008/9 when they kept a human head in Freedom square.
Or before that when they killed the CSO and Dean of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Damn! Those years, Nsukka was scary aF!

Na young boys full campus these days. No be like before.

UNN made the headlines way back 2003 with the assassination of dean of pharmaceutical science. Campus gang violence is on the low now

Hausa , was it after that incident that a military administrator was brought in ?

E loud oOoOO

VULCAN:
You tried to sound intelligent but only showed how unimaginative you are.

If the sitting President is against restructuring can the Assembly and others do it on their own??

The President can veto any bill and it will die on the vine

That you cannot grasp that a sitting President is the ONLY person who can initiate the process, calm all objections and frayed nerves and keep pushing till it's done.

That you are blind to the fact that the APC is the majority party therefore it will be easier for Tinubu to get it done and that a strong President can push and pull much more weight than a weak President like Jonathan.

That you must be too young to remember that Tinubu has been a vocal advocate for restructuring for well over 20yrs before he became President.

Tinubu will NEVER support restructuring until he and his party are no longer in power. Restructuring will make Nigeria better but as a side effect-weaken the centre.

He won't support that till his party is out of power

Let me rest by saying you don't have to always pass comment on every political issue like you are some kinda sage when you can't even see the blindingly obvious.

If you ask me, Governor's are our problems. Most especially state assembly members. President Buhari government made moves for local government autonomy, it passed the national assembly but failed to get two-thirds at the state. If I become President, I will personally call all this governors and give them standing order. It's obvious they abuse their powers

Criminals in uniform

Cyberterror:
It looks like Edison Ehie will not enjoy that office. He will be looking over his shoulders all the time. Even his police orderlies may get express order from the IGP to to take him into custody.

Disadvantage of police escort they can turn you in at any moment

ekelebeXstunner:
Seun is so infantile. What type of stupid topic is this?! The man believes he’s still the twenty-three year old who opened Nairaland. Guy, you’re forty-two years old this year, act your age. Agbaya! These sort of topics should remain in this romance section where fourteen year olds type fantasies. Stop encouraging childish behaviour. Man child.

It's in romance section of course

Zombie case , what is my consider

uchennay:
Hello, I'm a silent reader, and I've gained so much here while preparing my application. However, I was refused today. All my documents were in order, but I believe my lack of travel experience may have been the main contributing factor because l have no family in Canada and l do not understand why refuse based on family tie in Canada. My application was submitted on September 5, and I received the refusal letter today.

Thank you for your interest in visiting Canada. After careful review of your temporary resident visa application and supporting documentation, I have determined that your application does not meet the requirements of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) and Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR).
Get help to understand this letter and what you can do next. www.cic.gc.ca/visit-visiter/en/refusal- visa-application
I am refusing your application on the following grounds:

• I am not satisfied that you will leave Canada at the end of your stay as a temporary resident, as stipulated in paragraph 179(b) of the IRPR, based on your travel history.

• I am not satisfied that you will leave Canada at the end of your stay as a temporary resident, as stipulated in paragraph 179(b) of the IRPR, based on the purpose of your visit.

• I am not satisfied that you will leave Canada at the end of your stay as a temporary resident, as stipulated in paragraph 179(b) of the IRPR, based on your family ties in Canada and in your country of resident

You are welcome to reapply if you feel that you can respond to these concerns and can demonstrate that your situation meets the requirements. All new applications must be accompanied by a new processing fee.

i wish everybody good luck as they wait their application decision and l hope Nigeria will be ok one day and people will avoid all this japa stress .Maybe l will reapply ahead of world cup in Canada hopefully after successful application for uk tourist visa but for now l face life and hope for the best

Could it be you were rejected because you have family members or what. Visa officers wahala.
We move

AncientAlien:
Good moment to all fellow nairalanders and faithful Nigerian guests. I have an horrible adventure that worth sharing to you people, especially people from southern Nigeria, who had previously seen the perennial attacks in the north as business that remain there. Unfortunately, we have been kissing the reality now in almost all southern states of this beautiful country. If something is needed to be done at its threshold; it can never be better than now. Now here is the story.



After I was out of work and jobless at the end of year 2022, I summoned the courage to learn how to drive heavy duty vehicle (trailer driving). The courage and tenacity manifested through a thread I read here on nairaland written by antimason ( https://www.nairaland.com/6523549/ever-considered-learning-truck-driving ). I started work and touring every nook and cranny of the country. The part that attracted this write up is what I will strictly attend to.


On this same month in the beginning of year 2023.as usual and as the duty demand of us, we are expected to lift premium motor gasoline(petrol) from Lagos to Kano. Our logistic company gave us the amount of diesel( automotive gas oil) that can take us from Ibadan to Abuja taking the jebba to Abuja road. That road is a worse motorable road(at that time) that logistic trailers do take from Lagos to Abuja instead of Abuja kogi express way that consume more fuel. Cutting cost by the logistic firms you imagined. Now our own destination wasn't even Abuja, It's kano. It is when we reach Abuja that the new journey to kano began. The company is cutting cost, so we decided to cut cost too. How do we do that? We are going to deviate away from the jebba to Abuja road at the middle of the road. So, at mokwa, we checked into the adjoining road that leads to Birni Gwari. Trailers don't pass this road as it's the shortest route to north west states and kaduna and kano in particular. It doesn't require you to waste your fuel and time to Abuja anymore. But the road had many odds against it. May be that was the reason why it recorded low trailer usage compared to the long distance road of jebba straight to Abuja.


The odds. The road is the worst of all road for trailers to take as inter state route during raining season because of how degraded it was. I cant even explain what the experience will be during raining season because we that pass there during the harmattan of January didn't find the experience normal. It was a tug of war to drive pass that forbidden road. The passing trailers were scanty. It was at that moment in time we knew we were in for a big deal. Like 60 to 80 kilometers away from our deviation point(mokwa) and can't turn back. We keep our faith and kept moving. We reach a point that we drove an hour long without coming across a vehicle or one overtaking us.


Our journey later reach a point where we started meeting returning trailers once in a while. They were empty. They admonished us for taking load to pass the route. They said it could have been better if we are returning empty. Let me hint you! Each one of them didn't go without warning us about the insurgency going on from Birni Gwari to kaduna. Oh my God! What have I done to warrant this. We sweat inside. When we were coming closer to the infamous town, the retuning trailers(most of single container truck who were yoruba drivers as us) advice us of the best way to ply Birni Gwari to kaduna if we don't want to lose our lives(we where three.driver, me and another fellow motor boy) they instructed that when we reach towards the outpost of the town. We would find other trailers who had already parked and we should join them. Other coming trailers coming after us would join us there too, as it is not advisable to pass the road alone in the day time till down. Oh! How would I forget this experience



This is how it work for the Travellers and traders in Birni Gwari. Insurgency in southern kaduna had left almost all villages and little communities between infamous Birni Gwari and kaduna to go into extinction. The traders and travelers would have to wait at the outpost of Birni Gwari where a military base is miles away. Travellers parked at the side of the road. They will all wait til around 8:00 am in the morning of the next day. That time, military team are believed to be patrolling from another 'makeshift heavy military base' which is situated at a small town/big village in the sovereignty of kaduna state. They takes a routine patrol from that village to Birni Gwari, during that process, travellers who had slept over at that village too, will follow the military convoy of about 2 tanks and four military pick ups to Birni Gwari. The convoy of travellers following the convoy of the military can total up to 250 or 300(they are too many, I can't just arrive at a number) in this convoy are trailers( including dangote trailers) and commercial cars for traders and commuters, and also private car owners. They were always following the morning convoy of the soldiers. If you decided to pass the road Hours after their departure; On Your Own is your motto. There is always a team of soldiers with two tanks that firstly check on the road for safety purpose for the oncoming long motorcade of the military and travelers convoy. This is done to give signal to the military guarding the long convoy for any misadventure that might be on the way. It is the arrival of this convoy we are all expecting to follow back to that makeshift military base. The base in Birni Gwari is a standard brick barrack but its military presence and obligations have dwindled. You can count the total number of soldiers inside the barrack if you are allowed to get inside.
The heavy makeshift military base in the other village is haphazardly designed with tents with lot of military hardwares for combat. There is another one some meters after leaving Birni Gwari and its unutilized barack. It's a makeshift post also but light compared to the other side post.




Back to my adventure, when we entered Birni Gwari, the consigned inhabitants were communicating to us from under the roof covering their houses and shops. Even individuals on bike or the one walking on the road quietly passed us message. They were telling us to park when we reach front and sleep there till next day morning, when we will have to follow back military convoy to their heavy base. It was around 3 or 4:00pm. What was our idea was to cut cost and return home quickly. But here, we where, taking a compulsory recess, or else we would completely play with our own life if we refuse to park and rest.



We parked when we reached the infamous park. Vehicles there were not many at that time. The trailers we met were about 6 or seven. Truthfully; drivers had left that road for goodness sake. We look for a local canteen that sells our own yoruba indigenous foods. There we relate with the workers who are vast in both hausa and yoruba language. Although my boss understands hausa language a little bit. I and my colleague were the newbies. Our acquaintance told us more of what we needed to know about the environment and what we should be expecting on the road. They said many people had lost their lives on that same road. There were cases of the insurgents stopping vehicles and killing them all, or sometimes, abduct their victims. The road had become the shadow of itself that the villagers in the environment have refused to be taking goods to them in Birni Gwari market, which makes the available farm products in the town so cost. They said when we are following the military convoy tomorrow morning, we will see with our eyes, villages without number at the road side, which had been ransacked. Some are ruins from the result of villages set on fire. Our hearth breathed heavily and we felt sorry for the villagers.



The day we had been patiently expecting arrived. They told us that the convoy had arrived. We could see it with our own eyes too at around 9:00am when vehicles drove in with a little distance before one another. The army had stopped at the light post. The civil convoy following them had glide into the town. It remain us to go and meet them at the light post, so that we could follow them back to the heavy post.



The trailers that parked at where we slept were now more than ten. Cars of both private and commercial joined us with their goods and passengers. We all followed ourselves forming a convoy as well. We left the unutilized military base in our front. Droved few miles away from Birni Gwari before we reach the military light post. They had been waiting for us. Their motorcade started moving when they sighted us, and we follow them with prayer. As our acquaintance had said, so is everything. We saw deserted villages with no single inhabitant. Half fallen big huts here and there. Schools abandoned. Weed took over the fields. Bushes growing inside hurts that had lost roofs to fire. Everywhere were silent. What you can only see and hear are the birds flying in circles and chirping. Big mango trees lies useless beside the road. No one dare to come plucking.



I wasn't advantage to have a better camera phone with me then. I could have capture more than enough. On the journey, we reached some deserted villages that farmers came in groups to check dried trees for sale and cooking purposes. Some group of women went in groups to to pluck mangoes in abundance for sell. This place, your vehicle dare not have any fault. Because once the convoy left you. You are at your mercy. Don't even think of roadside mechanic or vulcanizer. They are nowhere to be found. Who dare open a barbing shop at the town of bald men when their lives is not even safe. Maybe a tow vehicle would have to help you tow it, following the convoy away from the zone into the city of kaduna. Despite these calamities. There are still few villages that had absorb the the runaway refugees to their own village. That makes such village big a little more. The last of all is when we reached the military heavy post. A very big village had been formed at a mile away from the military base. It's this village that absorbed almost all the refugees of the destroyed villages. It has become their asylum because of the presence of the heavy military base.



The total experience was an eyesore. People are living in this environment with the probability of insurgency striking them at any time. This is not the country we all wish to be proud of. If we are to have a better Nigeria. Then we should all come together to find the root of our problem and deal with it from that root. It's only then that we could rest and proud of our land. To the children abducted yesterday in ondo or ekiti state. May they all come back safely. It's not done through prayer alone. It requires action as the most important. Intellectual Evolution can start from anyone. You don't need to wait for no one.


Note: this write up is not edited.

God no go shame us. God bless your hustle, I see you bro 💯. Bless up 🙏

U09ce:
That's a terrible experience. May God protect us all.
Just a lil correction - Birnin Gwari is not in southern Kaduna, it is in the Kaduna Central senatorial zone. It's terrain makes it difficult to manage, because it is situated in a forest blet which connects to Niger, Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto..It is this particular belt that is the hot-spot of banditry to this day. Before the advent of banditry, the roads to B/G have been notorious for armed robbery. Cattle rustling was prevalent, too. Their predicament has cut them off from development. No banks operate there. Civil servants reject postings there. Govt rarely run projects there, because no official wants to risk their life.
During the campaigns, BAT promised to tame the ugly trend. Now that he's at the helm, we await to see action.

Personally I've not followed that birnin gwari road but do follow minna-sarkin pawa-kaduna over a decade ago . It's forested, mountains and prone to criminal activities. Nigeria don cast

drimzsmoke:
A female child usually discovers her clitoris before the age of two, she starts to play with with until an adult(mother or grandmother) around shout at her to stop. Girls learn to play with themselves very early in life!!!

Spot on, I've noticed this too. Girls of age 2-3years

Divorce the second wife and be focused

No polygamy in Christianity


Guys stop giving these PULPIT BANDITS your hard earned money. Whoever or whatever made the universe will NEVER EVER EVER NEVER need your money for A N Y T H I N G whatsoever.


Any man who tells you he works for the maker of the universe is a thief. He works for his stomach. He must one day tell you the "all-sufficient " god he works for needs your money. The being behind the existence of the universe is not a human like Dangote, Elon Musk or Tinubu that will need workers and money. Wise up
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Yankiss:
That's good. But they supposed to adopt other methods. Medical staff would be target of terrorists thereafter.

Everyone was shot dead and few kidnapped on October 7th.

God1000:
Alamieyeseigha once disguised as a woman to escape from UK.

I'm more concerned about what netanyahu said yesterday that Israel will not leave Gaza after the war.

More land-grabbing under whatever guise is completely unacceptable, Israel should withdraw its troops immediately after the war and allow Palestinians to return to their land.


I salute South Africans for their bluntness and for being the only country in Africa that isn't afraid of Israel, we have more sane people in that country

South Africa have a Muslim population of 1%, they've not experienced bad side of Islam. That case was dead on arrival. Have you thought of why Saudi Arabia that is well armed doesn't involve it's selve in the whole nonsense!!! E get why Religion of piss

World Police

Someone is setting him up or Asorock cabals want him there

Let's see our it unfolds, Tinubu is already campaigning for 2027

Eunoiaa:
Na only that 5'7" disqualify me sha. 😒

See Fargin

The week I memorized her number, she broke up with me

SaLongs1:
Na that ya name I dey look. Anguldi of Bukuru?

Yup, I see you bro

This gender and drama, that's why they dislike each other