₦airaland Forum

princepee:
day Don break!!
Don't know why Nigeria army are on defensive instead of offensive.
They know where this terrorist are why not take the fight to them?
Most we wait for American to do the right thing?
The Nigeria army I know is capable to route this rag tag army in months.....
Politics aside.

You forgot the sentiment that

“An attack on bandits is an attack on the North”
“An attack on bandits is an attack on the North”
“An attack on bandits is an attack on the North”

In all of this, how does the seat-swap explanation help us? We are concerned with the people who died in the accident, not Anthony Joshua, who survived. That part of the story is a stupid distraction that does nothing to explain the cause of the crash or the deaths. It mocks the dead and looks like an attempt to cover a motive or prove that there was no motive, when motive isn’t even in question.

Secondly, of what relevance is the driver’s reaction in steering the vehicle when the excuse is brake failure? If the brakes failed, what happened to downshifting to lower gears or using the handbrake to stop the vehicle?

Lastly, you cannot plausibly be driving your employer and a VIP like Anthony Joshua, for that matter, as if you are in a rally. This is a question AJ himself needs to answer, especially considering that over 99% of Nigerians are bad drivers lacking training in defensive driving.

Dear Northern Nigeria Leaders,

Congratulations. Truly, your consistent display of inaction, negligence, and selective engagement has been nothing short of remarkable. Your main strength is in your uncanny ability to show up only when it serves you politically or financially, while the real needs of your people remain a charming afterthought. Who else could turn decades of neglect, failed policies, and underdevelopment into a perfect storm of banditry, ethnic clashes, and terrorism? Only you.

Let us talk about the Fulani herders. You abandoned them completely. No ranches, no schools, no hospitals, no meaningful economic integration. Left to fend for themselves amidst climate change, they learned the hard way that survival sometimes requires creative solutions. A bit of reprisal here, a dash of kidnapping there, voila. They now regard you, their supposed representatives, as their number one enemy. Your failure to act forced citizens into mad desperation and violence.

And of course, you politicized the whole affair. Rather than criticizing your crazy bandits, you ensured the narrative remained delightfully ambiguous. Many of you have political ambitions to nurture, and what better way to keep your hands clean while quietly profiting from the chaos, illegal mining, ransom payouts, and the war economy?

Meanwhile, since the military and police have truly outdone themselves, you continue to praise them at every opportunity. Again, the military continues to recycle civil war tactics, brilliantly ineffective, while the police excel at bribery, extortion, and maintaining public distrust. Your opposition to state policing reforms ensures the centralized system remains broken and benefits your good selves and those meant to prevent crime.

Your creativity in poverty alleviation is also noteworthy. One former governor of your region shared coffins with his people to relieve them of burial costs. What ingenuity! Others distributed wheelbarrows and other absurd items in the name of poverty reduction. Truly, nothing says progress like funeral logistics, subsidized mass marriages, and wheelbarrows. Meanwhile, the real issues, education, healthcare, economic infrastructure, security, and the development of livestock and agriculture despite the obvious advantages of the region, were left untouched. Your lethargy did not go unnoticed. Criminals, bandits, and your Fulani herdsmen were emboldened, extending their activities into other parts of the North Central region with impunity.

Even one governor of the North East showed commendable frustration with Boko Haram and ISWAP, except that his frustration stopped short of questioning the military’s outdated tactics as he almost got killed himself. Innovation in counter terrorism, as you people see it, is optional. Criticism of federal forces is unthinkable. Seeking global support? Let us not embarrass ourselves. Praise first, accountability later or never.

Let us be very clear. The bandits and terrorists have no justification for their actions. Their crimes are theirs alone. But the environment that allowed this chaos, the lawlessness, the desperation, and the emboldenment, this is 100 percent your creation. Northern elders, governors, and politicians, your decades of neglect, self-serving selective engagement, and failure to act have created the situation that now threatens your citizens, your communities, and your region. You created the chaos. You nurtured the lawlessness. You allowed desperation to thrive. The bandits, the herders, the terrorists, none of them exist in a vacuum. Every failure in the North is your making.

So, dear Northern leaders, bravo. Your approach has produced neglected communities, emboldened bandits, insurgent alliances, a corrupt security apparatus, and a populace that oscillates between despair and survival ingenuity. If this was your plan all along, one can only marvel at your consistency.

With utmost praise and admiration,
A Concerned Observer


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-fPEHUqhyA&rco=1

See how it is done in the Rep of Niger here: https://www.kapwing.com/w/0nuwktrUzq

Tanks Are Loud, Drones Are Smart, And Terrorists Are Laughing

Dear Sirs,

Greetings from the 21st century, a place where insurgents ride motorcycles, use drones, and still manage to outsmart your armored convoys. Meanwhile, your tanks rumble through forests, and your fighter jets and bombers roar overhead, reminding everyone that loud, expensive, and heavy does not equal effective.

It is inspiring to watch tradition in action. Your military deploys 50-ton machines into terrain that exposes your troops to ambushes even your generals cannot dodge. Recently, your own General Uba was reportedly ambushed and executed by ISWAP fighters, a tragic reminder that even your top brass is not immune to predictable enemy tactics.

Similarly, the abduction of 25 girls from the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State, occurred shortly after your troops withdrew from a nearby position, perhaps to bed and catch some well-deserved rest. Meanwhile, the insurgents moved in with impeccable timing, proving once again that persistence, timing, and control of territory matter far more than the rumble of your tanks. Your military has perfected the art of politely chasing terrorists out of a location rather than actually finishing the job, leaving them free to return at their leisure. Orders to strike terrorists must often pass through layers of Zombie approvals, a bureaucratic dance so elegant it could win awards. But wait, why haven't you contacted the mobile police unit, who act immediately, when necessary, for their model of efficiency one would think is worth borrowing. However, we doubt anyone will suggest replacing your tanks with common sense.

And then there is your own Vice Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo (retd.), former Chief of Naval Staff, who deployed your troops to guard a private land. Some of your former generals have come out to defend this action, saying there was nothing wrong with it. Clearly, defending private project sites outranks schools, towns, or even your generals in real ife. Perhaps they were only ensuring that retirees get the rest they deserve while the rest of us worry.

Even your fighter jets and bombers are largely ineffective for the type of dispersed, mobile enemies you face. They do not distinguish civilians, hostages, or hidden enemy positions, and operating costs are astronomical. One hour of flight can cost up to N20 million. Imagine 3 hours in the air to hit a handful of bandits on motorcycles. Big, loud, and expensive does not mean effective, just like your tanks. After all, we have never heard of your aircrafts successfully hitting large ISWAP camps in Sambisa, the Chad Basin, or neutralizing their vehicle convoys.

Yet your military persists with Nigeria's Civil War thinking, while smaller, poorer countries like Burkina Faso and Mali have embraced drones in the Sahel. They deploy UAVs to track militants, coordinate strikes, and reclaim territory effectively. They are lighter, cheaper, and smarter than your tanks, yet somehow more successful.

This is a problem of thinking, not funding. Your troops are trained. Your tanks, jets, and bombers exist. Resources are available. But innovation is optional and apparently overrated. While insurgents upgrade drones, your operations upgrade convoys and flight hours.

If there is any hope, it lies in a few humble suggestions:

1. Use drones to see the enemy before they see you. Ambushes become avoidable. Lives are saved. Pride is bruised, but growth is achieved.

2. Make UAVs lead, your troops follow. A drone is cheaper to lose than soldiers, generals, or millions of naira in flight costs.

3. Tanks, fighter jets, and bombers are theatre, not solutions. They look impressive in photos, sound impressive in clips, but forests, motorcycles, and drones are unimpressed.

4. Learn from others. Countries with half your resources already fight asymmetric threats with intelligence driven tactics. If Burkina Faso can do it, surely your military can.

It is painful to watch Nigeria stumble predictably while smaller nations innovate and succeed. Ambushes, abductions, wasted public resources, and high flight bills pile up, yet tradition remains unchallenged. The enemy adapts. They use drones. They anticipate your moves. They laugh while your armour creaks, your jets roar, and your bombers circle aimlessly.

If progress is ever considered, please remember: your tanks are loud, your jets are expensive, drones are smart, and insurgents are laughing.

With growing concern and mild exasperation,

A Citizen Who Prefers the Military Think Smarter Before Terrorists Upgrade Again

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dahmie2013:
Sai Baba. 💔😇...Thank you for restoring discipline in public finance and enforcing TSA, IPPIS, and fighting ghost workers.

Thank you for the 2nd Niger Bridge. A dream many promised but you delivered.

Thank you for the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. A lifeline of commerce finally reborn.

Thank you for the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano highway.

Thank you for the Lagos-Ibadan Standard Gauge Railway.

Thank you the Mobolaji Johnson Train Station, and other train station, connecting cities and dreams again.

Thank you for completing over 17,000km of roads and for bringing back railway transport after decades of decay.

Thank you for the AKK Gas Pipeline project.

Thank you for the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri Railway revival.

Thank you for Itakpe-Warri rail and stations abandoned for 30+ years, now reborn.

Thank you for the Presidential Fertilizer Initiative and for reviving Ajaokuta Steel’s hopes.

Thank you for the deep-sea ports: Lekki and Bonny, Nigeria is now open to the world.

Thank you for National Social Investment Programmes – N-Power, TraderMoni, School Feeding.

Thank you for taking bold steps in security, even when the battle was bigger than bullets.

Thank you for Daura roots, for reminding us that leadership comes with quiet tenacity.

Thank you, Mr. President.

You weren't perfect, but you did your best.

Rest on, GMB.

You served.

History will remember.

A Forthright Man... Sai Baba. 💔💔😇😇

Daniel Adeniyi
#thedanieladeniyi

For the records, here are Major Projects & Achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari (2015–2023)

🏗 INFRASTRUCTURE:

2nd Niger Bridge (Onitsha–Asaba) – completed.

Lagos–Ibadan Expressway – nearly completed.

Abuja–Kaduna–Zaria–Kano Road – reconstruction ongoing.

Itakpe–Warri Railway – completed after 30+ years.

Lagos–Ibadan Railway (standard gauge) – completed.

Abuja Metro Line – operational.

New train stations: Mobolaji Johnson (Ebute-Metta), Chief Obafemi Awolowo Station (Ibadan), and others.

Eastern Railway Line (Port Harcourt–Maiduguri) – work initiated.

Over 17,000km of roads constructed or rehabilitated.

🛢 ENERGY & GAS:

Ajaokuta–Kaduna–Kano (AKK) Gas Pipeline – launched.

Siemens Presidential Power Initiative (PPI) – to improve electricity transmission.

Zungeru Hydroelectric Power Plant – completed.

⚓ PORTS & MARITIME:

Lekki Deep Sea Port – completed and operational.

Bonny Deep Sea Port – groundbreaking completed.

Onitsha Inland Port – rehabilitated.

🚜 AGRICULTURE:

Presidential Fertilizer Initiative – 35+ blending plants revived.

Anchor Borrowers Programme – millions of farmers empowered.

National Livestock Transformation Plan.

💰 ECONOMY & FINANCE:

Treasury Single Account (TSA) fully enforced.

Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) for FG workers.

National Social Investment Programmes:

N-Power

TraderMoni

Conditional Cash Transfer

National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme

🛡 SECURITY & DEFENSE:

Purchased Tucano jets and military hardware.

Operation Lafiya Dole (against Boko Haram).

Reorganized Nigerian military commands.

🏫 EDUCATION & SOCIAL:

Takeoff grants for new universities (e.g., FUTA, FUTMinna, and new Army/Navy universities).

Released backlog of teachers' promotion arrears.

Expanded youth and empowerment schemes.

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Buhari, the man who kept borrowing billions in Dollars while the country was being looted in broad daylight. A true economic magician: taking loans like oxygen, while people around him helped themselves to Nigeria’s future. He wasn't just watching the shop get robbed; he was busy asking the neighbours for more stock to sell.

Kdon2:
This one never hear wetin Dem dey talk... No zoning of presidency to anywhere. Atiku dictates what goes in the party. You will contest in the primary with atiku. ☹️

You're too wicked

Muhammadu Buhari’s presidency holds the infamous record as the worst government in Nigeria’s history; economically reckless, institutionally destructive, and morally bankrupt.

He plunged the country into unprecedented debt, both from foreign lenders and through illegal backdoor borrowing from the Central Bank via Ways and Means advances. This reckless money printing flooded the economy with excess cash, triggered runaway inflation, and destroyed the value of the naira.

His much-hyped Anchor Borrowers’ Programme turned into a black hole of non-recoverable loans, enriching cronies while delivering nothing measurable to the agricultural sector. It was a classic case of propaganda over policy.

Buhari’s social investment schemes, like the so-called Conditional Cash Transfers, TraderMoni, and similar vote-buying gimmicks, were economically senseless. They had no impact on GDP, no structure for accountability, and no plan for sustainability. Billions were poured into political optics while poverty worsened.

Despite being a retired General, Buhari oversaw a period of record insecurity. Banditry, terrorism, kidnappings, and separatist violence grew worse under his watch. Schools were shut down in the North. Entire communities were sacked. The armed forces were repeatedly defeated and embarrassed.

Instead of fixing the country, Buhari focused on silencing dissent. In 2021, he banned Twitter because his tweet was deleted. That single move exposed his authoritarian instincts and damaged Nigeria’s global image as a democracy.

Under his watch, the head of the EFCC, who dared to pursue actual corrupt elites, was sacked, sending a clear message: corruption thrived as long as it wore the right looks.

As Minister of Petroleum, Buhari oversaw a multi-billion-dollar refinery fraud. Despite years of budget allocations, Nigeria’s refineries remained dead. Meanwhile, the NNPC morphed into NNPCL, a supposed "commercialization" exercise that allowed Mele Kyari and his clique to corner the oil industry and allocate fat pay-offs to themselves without public accountability.

Then came the embarrassing Nigeria Air scam, a last-minute charade where Hadi Sirika flew in a rented Ethiopian Airlines plane, repainted it, and presented it as a “national carrier.” Billions wasted on a lie.

And we cannot forget the fuel subsidy fraud and the forex scam that drained Nigeria’s finances while a few politically connected individuals made billions.

Buhari’s government was not just a failure; it was a historic disaster. A period defined by debt, dysfunction, deceit, and the deliberate dismantling of public institutions. Nigeria is still counting the cost.

If not for the fact that we are in a war economy and government officials keep profiting from the situation, one might ask why the military has not taken the initiative to deploy FPV drones to monitor and decisively deal with these Boko Haram terrorists.

Please, how is Dangote Refinery able to produce diesel only whereas diesel and gasoline are made from the process:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYRwWyG3Qqw&t=12s

What happened after this video?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrKcv0xD0MA

Very indeed debasing!