₦airaland Forum

datola:
I knew this man way back then. He used come to our law office..

Very brilliant man!

You must be in your late 60's or 70's

mannobi:
I thought Buhari has technically defeated these terrorists

The money fg gave them has finished

Who noticed he didn't mention security

I've noticed people prefer monipoint

This kpo fire have started again.. maybe that the reason they are fighting for there right. Soon rivers people will start regretting

Toughest year ever not financially buh decision I made. May God help me

PressMyButton:
Nothing special here. I am aware how Tinubu patners with several mission houses to deliver reliefs to prisoners in Lagos state. He does that without going around for camera-Op. Constantly seeking public validation is a sign of low self esteem.

This is the basic problem of an African man. They like when things are very difficult cos when it's to easy they behave like animal. Practical lesson contributing money for burial is totally different from being present.

Truely the heart of a black man is very wicked

jmoore:
The source of the funds is our treasury, that's why they keep wasting funds.

Poor country taking more delegates, while rich countries took less.

How many of the delegates have ever spoken about climate change issues before the conference?

After wasting funds, they will start looking from where to borrow.

Do you think anyone care at this point. We keep allowing these people to get away with it it will continue to happen

dauntless15:
I made over 3million, saved nothing, mind you I didn't keep record of what I made, it's hard keeping track of it, I only record my spending and e pass 5 million, my Uba acc alone is 3mil outflow, and I have six other bank accs, I don't even know how to save, and it's killing me inside.

You can use your statement of account to track what u make monthly. My access bank account does that

Savings after expenses throughtout the year is roughly 3 million

Ikaeniyan0:
How's Tinubu looting the country dry? It seems you know something Nigerians don't know Igbo jew

Na only u dey hia dey run ur mouth like tap water, were are ur colleagues

Judolisco:
We pray for better days... Some people are happy with dis news.... How bad news go dey give people joy?

Is that all you have say.. I tut u guys were bragging few months ego

Ireportlive:
Congregation of haters... I wonder the magnitude of hate she wrote for her kids to read in her books

What exactly are they hating on including obasanjo

ogascomax:
We should know the names of the companies so that we can report them just in case their products are still expensive inspite of the tax relieve and waiver. No be we em go oppress at the end.

Na wash😂😂

Sani Black, a 49-year-old terror kingpin, is coercing helpless villagers to work on his illegally acquired mining sites in the Tunani and Duka communities of Zamfara, North West Nigeria.

The villagers say they have only two options: working on the terrorist’s mining site or being subjects of murder and mayhem. Trapped in the unholy trade, the locals say they have reported the sad development to the authorities, but it persists.

“We have been subjected to this hardened criminal since June 2023; he summons us almost every week to go to the mining site in the village to dig out gold and other precious stones for him,” says Akuti Mamman, one of Black’s victims. “The terror group stopped us from visiting our farms, forcing us to resort to a gold mining site found on the outskirts of our village.”

On their routine terror raids in the villages, the armed group, led by Sani Black, realised that villagers were always moving to a mining site whenever they invaded them. Some locals secretly operated the mining site, but the terrorists would take over the place. Merin Dutsi, a 52-year-old woman, recalls how she was supplying daily meals to miners on the site before the terror group took it from them.

“I would hold my local gun every day I visited the site where I sell food for people working there. But the bandits led by Black attacked us one day, killing three people and abducting seven others on the same day to take over the site,” she tells HumAngle.

At first, the villagers deserted the area over fear of terror attacks, moving to a more protected place in Zurmi town, but the terror chief would approach them later, assuring them of maximum protection once they agreed to work for him.

“We had suffered various forms of humiliation and disgrace with our wives and children and decided to desert the villages for other places,” Usmanu Kakale, one of the victims, recalls. After staying in Zurnmi town for three months with no job to feed his family, Usmanu says he and many others chose to survive by surrendering to the terrorists.

The villagers say they have only two options: working on the terrorist’s mining site or being subjects of murder and mayhem. Trapped in the unholy trade, the locals say they have reported the sad development to the authorities, but it persists.

“We have been subjected to this hardened criminal since June 2023; he summons us almost every week to go to the mining site in the village to dig out gold and other precious stones for him,” says Akuti Mamman, one of Black’s victims. “The terror group stopped us from visiting our farms, forcing us to resort to a gold mining site found on the outskirts of our village.”

On their routine terror raids in the villages, the armed group, led by Sani Black, realised that villagers were always moving to a mining site whenever they invaded them. Some locals secretly operated the mining site, but the terrorists would take over the place. Merin Dutsi, a 52-year-old woman, recalls how she was supplying daily meals to miners on the site before the terror group took it from them.


“I would hold my local gun every day I visited the site where I sell food for people working there. But the
bandits led by Black attacked us one day, killing three people and abducting seven others on the same day to take over the site,” she tells HumAngle.

At first, the villagers deserted the area over fear of terror attacks, moving to a more protected place in Zurmi town, but the terror chief would approach them later, assuring them of maximum protection once they agreed to work for him.

“We had suffered various forms of humiliation and disgrace with our wives and children and decided to desert the villages for other places,” Usmanu Kakale, one of the victims, recalls. After staying in Zurnmi town for three months with no job to feed his family, Usmanu says he and many others chose to survive by surrendering to the terrorists.

Elsewhere in the Danko-Wasagu area of the neighbouring Kebbi state, local miners and terrorists coexist. Bound by a precarious balance of trust and fear, the villagers said they are trapped in a world where treasure and terror are two sides of the same coin. In the surreal area, Danmakaranta and Mamman Yalo, two terrorist gang leaders, constitute a powerful terror camp and control the activities of miners who pay homage to them.

One day, Bashir, one of the local miners operating in the axis, and four of his friends got trapped in a mine hole while jostling to dig out some precious stones. Bashir managed to pull himself out of the dug hole with some virgin gold, leaving his friends in the dungeon behind. As he wept helplessly, hoping to see someone around to assist in saving his friends’ lives, Baleri, a notorious terrorist, suddenly appeared with his criminal gang, heavily armed.

Baleri was crisscrossing the area when he saw Bashir shedding tears. He first forced him to submit the gold stones he had gotten from the dug hole trapping his friends before offering to help them. The terror leader ordered his boys to rescue the trapped men, but two of them had died before they could be rescued while two others were unearthed from the hole, breathing heavily.

Bashir and his friends are not the only young persons cohabiting with terrorists in their survival sojourn in different mining sites in the region. Jafar Adamu, a 31-year-old, came from Ribah, in Kebbi State, but lives in several mining sites in Zamfara, especially at Tunani and Duka villages of Zurmi area.

Meanwhile, in Duka village, terrorists move around with guns slung across their shoulders. But Adamu and his friends would not mind mining and dining with the terrorists at the same time. The terrorists and the illegal miners agree on one thing:: there shall be peace once the latter pays homage to the former. Adaamu now permanently stays in Duka, a deserted terror zone, and boasts of living with the terrorists.

“We are familiar with almost all the gangs,” Adamu brags. “Although they rely on and demand more from us than the little we require from them. So we don’t care about or bother with them. We give them some fraction of the gold we dig and they give us protection in reciprocation against their fellow criminals who often come from elsewhere.”

The terrorists first came in military camouflage with their faces shrouded in masks, asking miners for cigarettes after shaking hands with them. Other times they casually asked the miners to send Kannywood films and songs to their phones via Bluetooth; the miners would often oblige. Adamu and his friends no longer fear the terrorists; they now share top secrets about the former’s illegal mining trade and the latter’s terror operations.

“I woke up one day, had a rethink and finally realised that if we cannot farm to eat, certainly I have to go into mining to feed my displaced family members who are taking refuge in the Nasarawa-Burkullu area,” he says.

Things have since changed for good, Bala notes, recalling how he moved from grass to grace in the shortest possible time, through mining.

“I have now become a millionaire. My father, mother, and I visited the Holy Land. I have built a house, now own a car, and married two wives. I also now have a child. All the agony and frustrations are now things in the past,” he boasts.

“Western education with bundles of certificates means nothing to secure employment and be independent. To be honest, this mining work stops people from stealing or being involved in other criminal activities,” he also says.

An independent researcher, Mallam Yunusa Zakari Ya’u, said local miners began to work in cahoots with terrorists when authorities declared mining activities illegal in Zamfara state. Ya’u, the Executive Director of the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), a Nigerian nonprofit firm, said the state and federal governments created room for violence spread by banning mining activities without providing alternative economic opportunities for artisanal miners.

Murtala Ahmed Rufa’i, another independent researcher and lecturer at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, spoke to HumAngle about the relationship between miners and terrorists in the region. Rufa’i noted that the terrorists first came in contact with the local miners when they started their operations.

The indigenous miners, he adds, needed protection from attacks, making them cohabit with the terrorists.

“The bandits (terrorists) became so curious about what was happening in the locations of the precious stones. They developed interests in mining activities and some of the first-generation terror leaders in the region established a relationship with miners,” he said. “Besides the cattle rustling we know them for, the bandits were also into providing security to the miners, at a very high rate. In terms of money, the remuneration was just too good.”

It was at this point that the terrorists developed interests in the business themselves instead of serving as “the boys of the local miners.” In turn, the miners began to use the terrorists against their rivals in the mining sites, causing incidents of terrorists attacking a mining field and killing people, Rufa’i said.

Some of the miners, however, reecho Rufai’s words, saying terrorists have developed more than passing interests in illegal mining because it’s highly lucrative. One such miner, Dauda, reveals how terrorists had rubbed them off over N30 million worth of clean gold.

“They do not kill or harm us because they know they eat from us,” he says. “They cannot penetrate the ground holes and dig for gold. It is what we do that they get from.”

“They join us in almost everything we do, even though they do not put in the labour themselves. The reason we have to endure all these is because the forest and other bush areas are home to them. We are commoners, just visitors. So we must be tactical and careful in fighting them,” Adamu, one of the local miners, cuts in.

Although Aminu realises that the armed group he now works with on mining sites had once attacked his village in 2021, killing his friends and relatives, he continues to dine and wine with them for financial gains.

https://humanglemedia.com/terror-and-treasure-what-happens-when-illegal-miners-have-to-collaborate-with-terrorists/

accordadoga21:
Hehehe

Some people are already rejoicing now.

Awon omo ale naija

What a foolish comment.. how can someone rejoice that the country is going bad. We warned you people buh u know the truth already. Everything most not be tribal.. everybody desperately want this country to work buh not this way. If osinbajo was contesting I would have been delighted buh no u said tinubu has the ability to fight the cabals. So what is going on? What exactly is your gain in all those rant and abuse?

Ireportlive:
According to you, any source to verify your claims

What he is saying true use this link and check all the names there u will find out most of them are foreigners. I dunno u lot are so ignorant https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-information.manufacturing.ng.ogun.html?page=1

The company's there about 25% listed belong to yoruba while the rest are foreigners. Why do u find it difficult to do a little research before u talk. Reason why we get deceived so easily

flexyrule:
This is the same mentality that made us have Buhari for 8 years... And then Bat....

Thank God he is not buhari not bat

Maj196:
Light steady for Abuja sha

This is needed all over the country not just abuja

erad:
Watched the video...

Dude said nothing significant and was just deflecting to irrelevances and emotional jargons.



Pathetic how?
He was accused of inflating prices.
Agreed, it's not his fault, but did he say how he'll prevent such occurrences in future?
He never took responsibility.
Started talking about starting from nothing because he loves cars blah blah blah.
Then posted a screenshot of a guy that insulted him in his DM and was talking about nobody can bring him down, blah blah blah.

Y'all just lick ass so much you don't even know what responsibility tastes like anymore.

Leave the guy alone for Christ sake

StrongAlphMale:
How's the pathetic?

Dude ola of Lagos is always known for saying rubbish even on TikTok.

Make una leave the guy that's his hustle and he is making money from it. How about portable who talk rubbish all the time. Is it when u destroy his business u will be happy

erad:
Watched the video...

Dude said nothing significant and was just deflecting to irrelevances and emotional jargons.

You guys are just pathetic

millionboi2:
destroy Kwa,learn from his burst now, when you are building mind the material you use in building simple.

The has been making progress... you guys need to take a chill pill

Emeskhalifa:
Ogar it is his responsibility to make research. Abi now wey dem burst am, who's reputation is in the mud?

Nigerians are funny set of people why do wish the down fall of anyone doing good to himself?

LaIabobo:
Ola as a brand should ensure he isn’t advertising over inflated products

When I listened to him he clearly admitted he don't have much information as of then he made the video. He went further to say everyday people learn so clearly he has no idea. He also said he always ask them the last price for what he advertising. See I don't thinks it's his fault cos sometimes costumers would love to bid lower than the price they have at hand so the price will slightly be higher

He wasn't bursted.. dude actually explained himself very well on his tiktok page of recent. The prices he give is what his client told him so those numbers are not inflated by him. Please you people should stop destroying what he built for years.

At least something for ronu people to chew on. Life has been boring for them lately

Hmmm I've not really seen any direction this government is going. I've not seen any impact these policies are creating or are we to wait for another year? Like seriously these guys should do something cos I can't tolerate that steady increase in price of goods next year.

christejames:
Somebody should wake this frail man




Are we still in campaign season?

I wonder oo. He keeps making beautiful speeches with zero impact

David160:
Soludo will win 2025.. I love obi but soludo dey work no cap

Obi is not contesting now..

It's not the matter of supply buh will the money be used properly

Ebubu:
This summit is not a priority.

Pipe gas pipes to Aba, Enugu, Owerri, Nnewi, Abakaliki for industrial use because their region generates it.

Make PH to Maiduguri rail standard gauge.

And dredge Abia riverport, oguta riverport, onitsha river to receive larger vessels.


These are all we ask.

Am telling you that's all bro.. I wonder why they keep ignoring this all the time