₦airaland Forum

naptu2:
https://x.com/dawisu/status/1992903749606477831?[/quote]Does that mean blasphemy is condoned?[b]

Thbe boldened should make anyone stop reading, the poor attempt of this terrorist lover and religious cleanser apologetic at "whataboutism" is glaring, he is saying what became of the unfortunate Deborah lady was deserved but should have been through the courts, the sharia court.
These are their games, pretend to be intelligent and educated, while whatever civilisation is taught to them by the west is quickly erased by the endorsements of this questionable religion which has become more fatal than nukes across many continents.
Religion must and should be totally separate from the laws of the state, humanity first, religious beliefs must be made to not matter, let the pursuits of heaven and its rewards be up to each and every man to be passionate about or detest.
The government must stop recognising these faiths, better spend the taxes of the many hardworking Nigerians by cancelling any subsidies on religious pilgrimages, trips that only enrich other countries, forced tourism which brings these believers close to God, more hospitals and roads can be built with these millions.
Treat an imam, a general overseer and an herbalist the same, like an ordinary citizen, refuse to recognise these dangerous institutions, pursue science, industrialisation, and reward only excellence, while punishing crimes very quickly and without mercy, make examples of any actors, and return back to the days of televised public execution of disturbers, enemies of national peace and prosperity.

zed7:
Other lights like VSC, Electronic Sterring pops along with the TPMS all at the same time. It's weird. These lights hasn't affected the driving performance as I can tell.

Maintenance isn't an issue for me. I live for maintenance, I just feel the previous owner abroad wasnt a careful driver.

The car is in relative good shape, I'm just a picky person. I pick out any little fault. By and large, I expected more from a 6 month old car, costing so much money. I'll do my best to always put it in good shape, but I'll likely replace it much sooner than my other cars.

I intend to use my 4 year old 2014 accord for at least 8 years, the CRV will be gone in 3 years.

zed7:
My CRV 2014 is just 6 months old. Bought Tokunbor and had mechanics test it before buying.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be the best of buy. When I bought it, it had no dashboard light. After a few weeks, 3 lights came up, VSC, TPMS and Electronic sterring light, all at the same time.

Changed a lot of parts on both front and back legs because of noises. Also changed fuel pump.

Now, after doing some repairs on the hub, ABS light has come up and AWD light.

Ive used so many Hondas and haven't had this much issues. Im disappointed, and one of the reasons I bought the car was the lack of any fault lights on the dashboard.

My 2014 accord is 4 years old and has no dashboard light. Apart from servicing, changing kick, changing break pads, changing of one fan, the car drives like a dream.

Just yesterday, the CRV had a hesitation while climbing a hilly road, something never noticed before and it's really upsetting.

The car i replaced this with was a 2006 civic and was used for 6 years without many issues. Is the CRV just a bad car or I was unlucky not to get one in good condition.

Racoon:
https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2025/11/nigerias-return-to-2014-nightmare.html

Kennism:
Good morning house, this 13 pin gear issue seems to be attached to changing of shaft.. because I changed my sienna 13 pin gear box in December and it perfectly worked for like 2 months but always hear and feels this gig sound whenever I put the gear on reverse (R) but drives smoothly until I complained to the gear expert that told me it’s the shaft. We have changed the shaft following due protocols (parking the car overnight). Then the gear revs and doesn’t change from 1 to 2 or 2 to 3 respectively with heavy jerking, the gear rewire worked on it and it worked for like 2 weeks but not as smooth as before. Then I heard the gear is burnt and now more than 3 different gear experts are advising to convert to 10 pin.

Now, my question to the experts with new tech here is.. does this shaft issues also affect the 10 pin gear and what is your advice please?

seunmsg:
America troop is coming nowhere near Nigeria. Since you guys see this as a good opportunity for regime change, Tinubu has outsmarted you guys. He will give Trump what he wants and Trump in turn will give you guys the middle finger.


Since you guys don’t care about the country, Mr. President should mortgage the resources and interest of the country to Donald Trump. Last last, na the country go suffer.

zeuss:
Why should they be ordered to go in without air force cover? Are they even serious about the fight against Fulani terrorists? Of what use is the Air Force if they cannot be used as advantage in operations?

My sympathy to the galant patriots injured in service of others

topsydee007:
We all dread the unexpected car emergency
Dealing with a faulty car is stressful enough. Given the high, unexpected costs of towing, plus the risk of being forced to use an unknown and unprofessional mechanic around, do you think paying a small, consistent monthly fee is a worthwhile investment to ensure your car is towed safely and professionally to a repair shop you trust?

Rugal:
Yarimo
NgeneUkwenu
Helinues
Seunmsg
LegendHero

What say you?

We4all:
Stop exaggerating things. This isn't the first time a serving general was captured and executed.

ibinaboonline:
I understand completely. It'll be interesting to learn what exactly Hyundai did with the IONIQ 5's drivetrain that'd justify this. They're not the first to build a sophisticated EV, and even Tesla isn't known for something this drastic. Telling people they can't perform something as routine as brake pad swaps is the wrong way to go if brand reputation is the goal. I think.

Zulum:
No traffic Sir and the speed of 30km/h

Dickson178:
See hospital, this country is funny 😂

ariesbull:
My cousin ended her five-year marriage the day she found out her husband cheated. We all begged her to think twice, to calm down before walking away. But she was done. She packed her things, took her two kids, and left.

For a year, the man went from one relative to another, begging for forgiveness. He apologised, promised to change, did everything a repentant man would do. But she stood firm. “I deserve better,” she said.

She got her own place, started afresh, and later met a married man who treated her well. For a while it looked like she had found peace until his wife showed up one morning and scattered everything. The man disappeared, and she was left humiliated.

Not long after, another man came along. He stayed just two months before running off when money became an issue. No message, no explanation.

Then came an Alhaji who promised marriage but only if she sent her sons back to their father. He said he could not raise another man’s children. She ended it right there.

Three years later, she woke up one morning and asked herself, what if I go back? The man still loved her, the kids missed him, and maybe time had softened her heart.

So she went to his house early that morning, ready to reconcile. But a pregnant woman opened the door. Her ex-husband had moved on.

It has been over ten years now. The woman who once turned heads no longer does. The suitors stopped coming. Her kids are back with their father, cared for by their stepmother who now has two of her own.

Life does not always give you a second chance. Sometimes pride takes what pain never could.

Maliq

Chemist4life:
Hi all does 450000 mileage foreign 2010 Toyota Camry good deal

1144AK:
I am not a terrorist sympathizer. I was surprised and baffled when I watched this Sheikh Gumi interview; he seems to be very calm and level-headed in speech. I guess it's the same charm that the government falls for. He acts like an elder, doing for the North what the South really needs!

It's not about shouting and making noise; take action and stop creating disturbances! I am impressed by his demeanor.

Though I personally do not agree with his approach, terrorists and killers should be arrested and made to face the consequences according to the dictates of the law!

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

festacman:
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We failed because our leaders mismanaged our resources and subsequently, we fell in love with visionless leaders and corrupt politicians due to religion, ethnicity and stomach infrastructure.

From a wealthy and powerful giant of Africa who fought the Western powers to a standstill and freed South Africa from apartheid to a small poor country that is known mainly for thieving leaders, scam, drugs and borrowing to fund day to day governance.

Nigerian citizens are poor and hungry. Our army can't win ragtag militia like Boko haram and our intelligence agencies can't stop proliferation of extreme Islamic groups in North Central. Our leaders, state governors and legislators are busy chasing money and living large. No clear cut plan to lift the country up.

omojeesu:
1. Systematic Christian genocide in Nigeria and elsewhere is decades old specifically in the North. It is well documented. It is nothing new or recent. Only the blind and ignorant and wicked will say otherwise.
2. This has happened alongside ethnic, economic and ritualistic killings in the country.
3. Trump is doing international politics. As far as I am concerned he is shedding crocodile's tears. I doubt if he is indeed pro-christian!
4. He's following part of the globalists' end times script against Nigeria and the people.
5. They want to make Nigeria become a failed State like Congo for easier explorations and exploitation of resources: It is arijenimadaru system.
6. They also want to be on ground to counter the presence and influence of Russia in Burkina Faso, Mali, etc
7. End times things loading!
8. Secure your life and eternity in Christ Jesus. Your salvation is an Emergency. No Jesus! No life! Know Jesus! Know Life!
9. John 3:16, 1:10-12
10. Good morning! Happy Sunday! Happy New Month.