₦airaland Forum

You are definitely not from anywhere in Igboland.

LagosOrigin:
I love this new crop of Igbo politicians . They are doing well unlike there counterparts in Lagos .

See better constituency projects that the south east people are enjoying ..

but, go to Lagos and see the eye sore that they give them for constituency projects . Desmond Elliot constructed a wooden bridge that looks like something that will break the same day it was commissioned.

Igbo land is now in safe hands.

Racheal45:
What about kidnappers mak dey enter our road are they not bandit
This is a wrong move

You guys apparently didn't read where he said that the police and civil defence would take over that role. The military has no business mounting permanent roadblocks except in the cities, that role is for the police and civil defence.

Racheal45:
North like each other normally
We are all baised
Even Igbo Dey support Kanu
Deep inside we know say Kanu is wrong
If na China dem for kill Kanu
Sorry to say

If na for China, there won't be any Kanu in the first place. It was Nigeria's anyhow government that gave rise to people like MNK.

HgAkpobomeEr:
The corrections have been noted.

That's a reflection of the state of the nation. A nation that can't get the simplest thing first time right... despite budgeting a lot of money for the management of the website. What a shame! My family, friends and loved ones are all under God's protection...one can't depend on trust Nigerian government.

Nwaikpe:
That is simply because she has more money than the girl.

It's not about having money, it's about invasion of privacy. Why would film or capture someone on camera and post it online for clout without the person's permission? A lot of things you guys take for granted in Nigeria can get you a jail term in some other places.

Antwan99:
How about this; signifying 'work.'

Na man go provide na .

bolaayenimo:
Its already being implemented. Sustenanceis what one is not sure of

If the IG of police could see this through, it will be a major win for this administration.

Anither563:
This is a very insightful piece. Thank you for sharing OP.

You must be new to Nigeria? How many times have we heard and read about the purported planned withdrawal of policemen posted to guard and chauffeur around VIPs,? Let's wait for the implementation of the directive first.

mascot87:
If Nigerian government should have this kind of platform, una still go talk say na waste of tax payers money. Na slave mentality dey worry una

Una never build and maintain roads na conference centers be una problem. First things first my friend.

stuffs2002:
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Abeg goan sit down. Keep believing your own lies

IPOB kills Christians far too many times but you people hate to accept the truth


https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-61376132

https://dailypost.ng/2021/05/31/police-finally-confirms-ipobs-esn-killed-gulak-in-imo/

So IPOB is a religious organization in your thinking? Who among them identified at anytime as a Christian? Even MNK claim to be a Jew and never identified as a Christian. Moreover, mention one mosque that was attacked by IPOB in the east or any other place. Keep believing your own lies

stuffs2002:
Is Oledepo alright?

Did he not see that both Muslims and Christians suffer the insecurity?
More Muslims suffer in the hands of bandits and kidnappers than Christians



FULL LIST OF THE 25 ABDUCTED KEBBI SCHOOLGIRLS RELEASED
The names of the 25 girls taken from Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State have been officially shared — a heartbreaking reminder of the harsh reality these innocent students are enduring. Here are their names and classes:
1. Fatima Sani Zimri — SS2A
2. Hafsat Ibrahim — SS2A
3. Nana Firdausi Jibril — SS2A
4. Masauda Yakubu Romo — SS2A
5. Hauwa Saleh — SS2B
6. Hauwa’u Umar Imam — SS2B
7. Salima Garba Umar — SS3
8. Salima Sani Zimri — SS3
9. Amina G. Umar — SS3
10. Rashida Muhammad Dingu — SS3
11. Saliha Umar — SS3
12. Aisha Usman — SS3
13. Jamila Iliyasu — SS3
14. Maryam Illiyasu — SS3
15. Najaatu Abdullahi — SS3
16. Zainab Kolo — SS3
17. Surraya Tukur — JSS3A
18. Hafsat Umar Yalmo — JSS3A
19. Maryam Usman — JSS3A
20. Amina Illiyasu — JSS3A
21. Ikilima Suleman — JSS3A
22. Khadija Nazifi — JSS2
23. Hauwa’u Iliyasu — JSS2
24. Hauwa’u Lawali — JSS2
25. Ummu Kulsum Abdulkarim — JSS2
These names represent more than just statistics.
They are daughters… students… dreams waiting to flourish and right now, they are missing.

You failed to mention that those innocent children were abducted by terrorists and bandits belonging to a particular religion of "piss". And it has always been them attacking Christians and other Muslims they deem moderate. Mention one Christian terrorist group in Nigeria.

Kdon2:
Abi dem deliberately allow those ones to go. Fifty can not escape at once.

What exactly are you talking about? Where they all shackled together? Do you think kidnapping over 300 human beings is an easy feat. I am surprised that only a total of 50 managed to escape in the chaos.

In which country is that, that a legal resident/citizen can't move from one part of the country to the other?

DeOTR:
In some countries, you can't just cross from one state to the other the way we do here in Nigeria. You have a have a good reason and exactly where you're going.

Sonnobax15:

Wahala..

What baffles me is when I see young men still enlisting into the Nigerian army even when videos like this keep popping up on a stead

At one time some people were criticizing South East youths for not getting into the army. The answer to that question is playing out in our presence today.

Dogalmighty17:
Trump should not have made the statement he made regarding Nigeria if he wasn't ready to take action right away.
Trump's statement has only given these jihadists what they want; an opportunity to rally as many of Thier fellow jihadists across West Africa to come to Nigeria. They will keep staging these attacks to draw the US in. There is nothing they want more than to fight against the US on Nigerian soil.

American troops don't need to set their foot on Nigerian soil. Their drones can do the job. If they could infiltrate Pakistan and kill Osama, Nigeria is a small fry.

Factcheck0001:
so it was during tinubu regime that the problem started?

Election loss is making u people go Haywire that u can't think straight but add Tinubu to everything, even when the problem have been there before Tinubu was born.


See if u like go hug transformer, tinubu will rule u till 2031

Tinubu is the president of Nigeria na. Or are you guys tired of answering president? Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. That's the burden of leadership. To say that some people in the corridors of power know nothing about leadership is an understatement.

Sonnobax15:

Imagine if a whole brigadier general could be tamed and kee-d like an ordinary local fowl . Then what hope does an average Nigerian have?

Make we kukuma allow Trump boys to come to our rescue abeg

This is so shameful. A whole general!

IMPARTIAL:
Although I will not support what the parents did, why would a teacher slap or physically assault a young student? Slap? Naaaaah!

The teacher could have told the child to kneel. Other punishments can be utilized. No need for physical assault. What if the child had fallen and refused to wake up?

Even I believe that most private schools exploits their teachers, but I must agree with you that what the teacher did was wrong. Assaulting a minor , except in self-defense can earn you a jail time abroad. Teachers should know how to exercise restraint when dealing with students. Slapping a student is out of place...

Putinofrussia:
Their laws are in contrast with ours here.
I know some of our lecturers who were teaching in LASU and UNILAG without any qualms.

The issue here is not doing two or three jobs but fraud. You can't be working for another employer while you are on a sick leave and collecting full salary too.

stuffs2002:
There have been many mosque mass shootings and mass kidnappings too before all those singing genocide will start claiming what is not true.

Which of the mosques was attacked by Christians? Give Just one instance. Just one example It has always been a certain group of people from a certain religion attacking Christians over the years in northern Nigeria.

Kinikini:
https://web.facebook.com/share/p/17m3dJdEch/

Igbo Muslims are endangered. Because we know the definition of a genocide and are not emotional, we will not call it a genocide.

So funny! Igbo Christians are endangered? Is that the best you guys can come up with? This your response doesn't worth a rebuttal.

Sonnobax15:

A pastor must have prophesied and told him his kids are witches and wizards.......

More reasons why I don't attend any prophetic churches and miracle centers cuz they have brought more destructions to homes than any other thing..

Even if a pastor, Alfa, Ifa or prophet told you that anyone is a witch, would you have the mind to brutalize that person so horribly? Anyone who does that to another person does not know and have God. I meant anyone, talkless of your own "blood". The man has a mental problem.

HacheNoire:
Is targeted? Is everyone in Southern Kaduna a Christian? We don’t have Muslims or traditionalists in Southern Kaduna? Even in Northern Kaduna, is everybody there Muslim?

Has it ever been documented that these terrorist separate people by religion before havoc?

That word “genocide” was used for a reason, and it is to divide. Every tribe and religion had its own fair share.

Even Lagosians have not been save from the NURTW terrorists

Nobody said that all Christians in Nigeria are being targeted for annihilation. Nobody said that. Give me just one name of a Christian group that is murdering Muslims in any part of the country. Just one name. What do you call a situation where a well-known Islamic militia attacks, displaces, and then occupies a sleeping Christian village in an organized, repeated fashion? There will always be collateral effects from the actions of some animalistic humans, and sadly, the deaths of those unfortunate Muslims are part of it.

HacheNoire:
Slaves are prone to follow the definitions of their masters without reasoning or questioning.

I don’t even think Wale knows the definition of “Genocide”

What's happening in some parts of Benue state and Southern Kaduna is called what?

No Christian group is attacking Moslems! That is for those that are dull , blind and hard to hear.

Jakumo:
It is important that anyone with a case in court learns from what is about to befall Kanu. The arrogance, stupidity, and futility of sacking one's lawyers in order to represent oneself in court will become evident when Kanu's very long jail sentence is handed down by the presiding judge.

The punishment that Kanu will endure as a direct result of his screaming personal insults at the presiding judge, while also DARING the judge to jail him, will be a far longer term of imprisonment than would have been handed down IF ONLY Kanu had taken a calmer, repectful, and less confrontational attitude.

In short, Kanu's fate is sealed with all these outbursts in court. This man will soon be silenced and forgotten in jail, where he can shout and scream as loud as he likes until he runs out of willpower to continue that pointless waste of energy.

What you said would have made sense in a "sane" country, where justice and equity rule, not in a lawless zoo. MNK knew that his trial is a mere formality, lawyers or no lawyers.

simeonabio:
After spending 40 years in the house....think before commenting now

At least she wasn't brazenly rigged into power. Nobody snatched ballot boxes for her that's the difference between Americans and Africans. You should know that na. Nobody is interesting in changing in "working" leader...

IgOga:
Ted Cruz tried to invade Iran but republicans shut down the idea now he's focused on Nigeria

If Christians are the goal they will help Nigerian government with weapons and training let's see how far he goes this time.

Tucker Carlson asked Ted Cruz if he knows the population of Iran he answered NO but he was willing to destroy their lives 90 million people because he doesn't like the Iranian Mullahs


US invasion will not help the Christians in Nigeria.

Tell those murderers to stop the killing... simple.

HacheNoire:
Have you ever checked the FG allocation of Bayelsa state and blame time visited the state?

The idea of blaming everyone in Abuja is outdated. Have you ever castigated the governor of your state for his incompetence?

Not saying politicians are not corrupt, but it starts from your own LGA. I am sure your LGA chairman is just embezzling funds without doing nothing, and same my line is doing. But we all blame Abuja.

You don't get it, do you? Your political class oppresses the poor and the vulnerable in your society. All the government policies are geared towards making the poor poorer in the society. One of your top politicians in Nigeria, even suggested reducing the purchasing power of the masses and that exactly what he did...And this is the same way you guys blamed those that those marauding killers killed in Benue state for not defending themselves with their bare hands. How are the poor going to hold their governors accountable when the judiciary, EFCC, and the INEC do what the please? Yes, all the politicians live in Abuja, by the way. Go and check...

Go and check, all those places that USA had cause intervened militarily had despots as their leaders. They all had self-styled, self-seeking politicians that cornered their countries Commonwealth for personal use.

omojeesu:
Trump Is Not After Nigeria but China — The Hidden War for Nigeria’s Soul

By Anngu Orngu

I am following with deep interest the ongoing debates that are erupting over Donald J. Trump’s designation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) for religious freedom violations. Many Nigerians, including analysts I respect, are rushing to interpret that decision through the narrow lens of Western imperialism or anti-Islam bias. Others are dismissing it as another of Trump’s theatrics; a foreign leader speaking loudly to his conservative Christian base.

But as someone who is studying policy, governance, and environmental security — and as a Nigerian who lovws his country deeply, I am insisting that President Trump is not after Nigeria. He is after China. And Nigeria, whether we are realising it or not, is standing today as one of the hidden battlegrounds in the long-running strategic rivalry between the United States and China.

Trump’s Silence on China and His Sudden Shift to Nigeria

What is capturing my attention is how Trump is behaving immediately after his meeting with the Chinese President in Tokyo just some few days ago. He said nothing too detailed about the content of the meeting. Instead, he is stepping out and talking about Nigeria — about the mass killings of Christians, the destruction of rural communities, and the rise of religiously-motivated violence in the Middle Belt.

To a casual observer, that shift looks random. But in the language of global diplomacy, it is a signal. You don’t move from Tokyo to Nigeria in one breath unless there is a linking thread. Trump’s intelligence briefings are showing that Nigeria’s crisis is being tied to Chinese economic interests. That is what many of us are failing to see.

China’s Deep Hand in Nigeria’s Bloody Mining Economy

We are not deceiving ourselves when we say Nigeria is sitting on gold. Real gold. And not just gold — we are sitting on columbite, tantalite, lithium, and other rare earth minerals that are vital to modern technology: electric cars, smartphones, satellites, even weapons. Whoever is controlling the supply of these resources is controlling the future of global power.

China is dominating global rare-earth production and refining, but as its domestic reserves are depleting, it is expanding into Africa — and Nigeria, with a weak regulatory system and persistent insecurity, is looking like a prime target.

Across Zamfara, Niger, Nasarawa, Plateau, Benue, Taraba states, illegal mining is exploding. Beneath the surface of that chaos is a powerful network of Chinese-backed miners, local collaborators, and militia protection rackets. In some communities, entire villages are being emptied out by attacks so that the land is being “freed up” for mining.

A visit to some communities in Benue, Plateau and Nasarawa where the soil is carrying visible scars of reckless excavation. Locals are speaking of strange foreigners arriving at night and trucks loaded with ore moving under military escort. These are not fairy tales — they are the daily reality of a nation losing its wealth to foreign hands under cover of terror.

Terrorism as a Tool for Resource Control

We often view terrorism in Nigeria as purely ideological — a religious war or a clash of civilizations. But when we look closely, we are seeing that terrorism is becoming a deliberate tool for resource control.

Groups that label themselves as herders, bandits, or insurgents are aligning with illegal miners. They are attacking Christian farming communities, killing or displacing the inhabitants, and leaving behind ungoverned zones/spaces ready for exploitation. Chinese middlemen and local cartels are moving in to dig, extract, and export. The minerals are leaving Nigeria illegally, ending up in Dubai, Hong Kong or Shanghai — enriching foreign economies while Nigeria bleeds.

When Trump is talking about Christian persecution in Nigeria, many people are thinking he is pandering to faith-based voters. But he is also responding to strategic intelligence. His government is discovering that China is using Nigeria’s instability as a shield for illegal extraction — and that thousands of Christian lives are not being lost randomly, but as collateral damage in a global economic war.

The Buahri Waterways Bill — China’s Trojan Horse

We are remembering how, under President Buhari, the Water Resources Bill was being pushed. Nigerians from every corner resisted it and rightly so. On the surface, the bill seemed like administrative reform to bring all inland waterways and adjoining lands under federal control. But beneath that surface was something far more sinister.

Those waterways; rivers, streams, wetlands are not just water routes; they are mineral corridors. Many of Nigeria’s richest alluvial gold and rare earth deposits are located along these river systems. By centralising control of the lands, the bill if pass was paving the way for foreign interests especially Chinese-linked companies to gain access through federal licences, bypassing state governments and local communities.

I believe Chinese advisers and investors were quietly lobbying for that bill. They were seeing it as a legal shortcut to Nigeria’s mineral heartlands. Fortunately, Nigerians resisted it fiercely. But the attempt itself exposed how deeply Chinese mining ambitions are penetrating our policymaking corridors.

Trump’s Intelligence Briefing and the Bigger Picture

Now imagine Trump sitting in the Oval Office, reviewing a classified intelligence briefing ahead of his meeting with the Chinese President. The report might read:

“China is funding illegal mining operations in Nigeria through proxies. Minerals are being smuggled to China. Terrorist groups are clearing Christian farming zones to open mining fields. Nigeria’s government is aware but failing to act.”

If I put myself in Trump’s shoes — a man obsessed with America First, economic nationalism, and confronting Chinese influence, I see why he is doing what he is doing.

That explains why after his meeting with the Chinese President he is saying nothing about the trade war or Huawei. Instead, he is focusing on Nigeria. He is not only expressing moral outrage, he is sending a geostrategic message to Beijing and Abuja alike: “We see what you’re doing in Nigeria, and we are watching.”

The CPC designation thus becomes a diplomatic weapon; not just to defend religious freedom, but to pressure Nigeria’s leadership to confront internal terrorism, regulate its mining sector, and cut off China’s exploitation routes. It is also telling China that the U.S. will not silently allow Africa’s mineral corridors to slip into Beijing’s hands.

The Blood of the Poor, the Gold of the Powerful

As a development professional, I am telling ourselves that underdevelopment is not accidental. It is a system maintained for the benefit of those who profit from chaos. The violence ravaging Nigeria’s north and middle belt follows an economic logic. It is driving farmers away from ancestral lands, weakening resistance, and clearing the field for predatory extraction.

In many of these regions, the victims are overwhelmingly Christian farmers. Their lands sit on mineral deposits. Their displacement often labelled as “herder-farmer clashes” is enabling illegal mining. Every truckload of gold leaving Zamfara or Niger without record is carrying stolen wealth plus the blood of innocent people.

When Trump is referring to “Christian genocide,” it may sound dramatic to some. But to me it is truthful. He is naming what the rest of the world is refusing to name: a systematic campaign of dispossession combining religion, resource greed, and geopolitics.

Nigeria at the Crossroads of Global Power Politics

Nigeria is now standing at a dangerous crossroads. On one side is China — aggressive, patient, and comfortable operating in the shadows. On the other side is the United States — loud, moralistic, and determined not to lose strategic ground. Both are seeing our country as strategic: China for minerals; America for influence.

For Beijing, Nigeria is a silent goldmine. For Washington, Nigeria is a partner slipping away. And for Nigerians like us, we are caught in the middle — a proud nation being turned into a chessboard for foreign powers.

The truth is uncomfortable: our leaders allowed it. Through negligence or complicity, they permit foreign powers to profit from our insecurity. Every village burned in Benue or Plateau, every displaced farmer in Nasarawa, every illegal mining pit in Niger is part of the same global script — the conversion of African lives into raw material for foreign profit.

What Trump’s Move is Actually Signalling

Trump’s move is not hostility toward us. It is a wake-up call. He is using America’s legal and diplomatic tools like the CPC designation to jolt our leadership into action. He is highlighting the shootings in Plateau, Benue and Southern Kaduna not just out of empathy, but because those regions sit atop mineral deposits that feed China’s industrial machine.

When he says “The persecution of Christians must stop,” he is also meaning “Nigeria must stop enriching our biggest rival through the corridors of instability.” His message, though blunt, aligns with what every patriotic Nigerian should demand: a state that protects its people, its land, and its resources.

Nigeria Must Wake Up

Nigeria cannot continue to live in denial. We must stop pretending our insecurity is purely domestic. It is not. It is being sponsored, exploited, and sustained by global powers who see profit in our pain.

We must press for urgent reforms — a national mining framework that shuts down illegal foreign operators; a security architecture that protects communities; and leadership that understands that when a Nigerian village falls, the nation’s sovereignty is being stripped.

We must draw the connections from the blood on our farmlands to the gold in Chinese vaults. From Christian families fleeing in the Middle Belt to the wealth fueling Asian factories. From the failed waterways bill to the shadowy corridors of global mining diplomacy.

Conclusion

President Trump is not after Nigeria. He is after China and Nigeria is just one of the theatres where this global confrontation is playing out. His warnings about Christian killings and religious freedom are carrying more than moral weight; they are linked to strategic intelligence.

As a Nigerian, I accept his message not as an insult, but as a challenge — a reminder that sovereignty lies not only in our flag, but in how we protect our people, our land, and our resources.

If we fail to act, the silent war between the United States and China will keep being waged on our soil — not with tanks or missiles, but with shovels, mineral flows, and human suffering.

It is time for Nigeria to wake up.

Anngu Orngu writes from Koti-Yogh, Ute, Vandeikya Local Government Area of Benue State.
oranngu@gmail.com

Bottomline is that people are been killed and nothing tangible is been done about it. If it never touch you, you will never know the pain.

HacheNoire:
Only a novice does not know that!

Same US 😂🤣😂🤣😂

Once that country start dishing out propaganda towards your country, YOU DEFINITELY DOING something right.

They don’t attack people who do wrong and listen to their commands.

Saudi, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait don’t need democracy, but Venezuela needs democracy.

UAE sponsoring rebels in Sudan and killing people in thousands, but they don’t deserve military intervention because UAE is a top best friend of the US. Gold reserves at stake.

Congo been burning for decades and not even a mention of them. It’s legit when they rob you of your resources, but illegitimate when you nationalize your resources.


They attack you if you on the wrong path. The moment you step on a to right course, you accused of having weapon of mass destruction.

People

Resources this, resources that, as if una de utilize am for the benefit of the citizens of Nigeria. Go Niger Delta and see poverty in 3-D , yet they have been producing oil for decades. Only the politicians that are in Abuja and the warlords in the Creeks are they ones enjoying the so-called oil riches.

ToyinDipo:
You think multichoice, mtn… don’t remit, and you would have been paying less if it was in dollars, I tire for Nigerians.

Those you mentioned have local alternatives. Let them bill in dollars and see if they will retain their market shares. The international airlines are a different ball game altogether. Last time the Nigerian government meddled in their affairs we all saw the outcome. Everything no be by garagara...