₦airaland Forum

Ibeme:
Nothing controversial at all. I don't know why David Hundeyin crowd are crying all over Twitter.

In my opinion, it actually has nothing to do with what David Hundeyin thinks or not.

Ideally irrespective of who made the request or how urgent the request is, the GCFR cannot order Nigerian military for combat duty outside the country without getting the approval of the senate.

The question is: Did the senate sit to delibrate on this deplaoyment of our armed forces to Benin? Was it this afternoon?

afrodoc2:
The government of Benin requested for help nah. The Nigerian forces were sent at their government's request to save them from unconstitutional change of government. Nothing controversial about this.

Did this accession to Benin's request follow the due process of obtaining approval of the senate as provided in section 5 of the Nigerian constitution?

And how sure are we the legitimate government had not been toppled when the request was made?

Ibime:
You are confusing unilaterally with bilaterally

So far it was requested by the legitimate Government of Benin, it is above board

Okay, let's see where that leads us in the long run.

Gabzy1:
Bros I hear you, I’m not denying the progress at all. 91 goals in 23/24 is impressive, 88 the season before that is also impressive too.

Nobody is saying we’re still the same team that was getting battered 4-0 by Liverpool or rolled over by City every time. That’s facts, the team has improved compared to Emery/Wenger days.

But let’s not act like the attack is suddenly peak City or Klopp Liverpool either, that’s all I’m saying.

Yes, 23/24 season we scored 91 but we only created the 5th-most big chances from open play behind Mancity, Liverpool, Chelsea and Aston Villa. We converted our chances more and absolutely destroyed teams from set pieces.
We scored 22 non-penalty set-piece goals, that's ridiculous numbers.

Last season we suffered a drop in our goal scoring form with 69 goals. We were 7th for big chances created. That’s exactly why everyone was screaming for a proper No.9 and we went and got Gyokeres.

This new 25/26 season, we are already sitting 9th in big chances created after 15 games with only 30 big chances created despite banging in 28 goals so far.
We’re still scoring because, Saka, Eze, Gyokeres, Trossard have been very clinical in front of goal, not because we’re constantly ripping teams apart.

Martinelli has been quiet for about 18 months or there about now if we’re honest.

Trossard is a good finisher, but he’s not that guy who’s going to consistently unlock a low block on his own.

Odegaard is still great at dropping deep, recycling possession and playing the safe sideways pass, but he’s lost a lot of that final-third magic since his injuries last year. Key passes are way down, big chances created are basically zero.

Eze looks class on the ball no doubt, but too often goes missing in big moments, almost like he’s hiding from the responsibility of grabbing the game by the scruff of the neck.

How many times this season have we seen gyokeres making a run in behind and literally no one even looks for the pass?
Ball goes sideways, we keep on passing the ball around on the edge of the box, then a cut-back that gets blocked.

I’m telling you, drop prime Haaland in this team tomorrow and he’d still spend half his time waving his arms in the air because the service from wide areas and midfield just isn’t consistent enough.
We hardly play proper balls in behind or killer through balls anymore.

I appreciate what Trossard, Martinelli, Odegaard bring to the team. They lead the press well, run their socks off, and track back brilliantly.

But we need another elite creative midfielder or a proper progressive left-sided attacker who can properly feed the striker and break down stubborn defences on a weekly basis.

No squad is perfect, there’s always one or two areas you can upgrade, and for me the No.10 or left wing is still the obvious one.

That's why I am hoping Saliba and big Gabi comes back on time so that we can continue to dominate in the set piece area to complement our goals scored from open play.

Hopefully we win the league.

Baba all of these things u are saying is because we have had some real unpleasant results in ghe past 2 weeks. I'm sure few weeks ago while we were getting favorable results one match after another, nobody was talking about us needing a creative midfielder or left sided attacker.

We fans need to be realistic and not always looking for who to blame and scapegoat when we have a rough patch in our title challenge.

Even rival fans acknowledge our fully fit team is solid and actually one of the few teams that has what it takes to win the league come may. The rough patch we've experienced in the past few weeks has been due to injuries to our key players, not because our coach has suddenly gone clueless or the team is lacking enough motivation.

I believe with most of our players coming back from injury the morale of the team will be boosted and we can go back to winning ways. I believe when we win games, our fellow title challengers will always have their own tough games and we should be ready to seize those chances to increase the gap between us by winning our own matches.

I think we fans should stay positive and not get distracted by all sorts of negativity rival fans are projecting about our team's title challenge.

Cheers bro. 🤗

DissTroy:
ECOWAS deploys troops to Benin Republic.

https://www.nairaland.com/8576741/ecowas-orders-immediate-deployment-troops

Good. That's what we should have done as allied/regional forces - not Nigeria going to bomb. Or we could have just bombed as first on the scene then claim it was ECOMOG.

The U.S. does same claiming NATO forces as a buffer.

Exactly!

It is understandable if Nigeria joins ECOWAS to deploy troops to Benin as part it's commitment to the regional body and maintaining peace in West African member states.

Nigeria unilaterally dropping bombs in a sovereign nation because we don't want their democratically elected government to fall is not the flex those people goading Nigerian federal government think it is.

The fact that countries like Ghana and Togo are not getting involved in Benin's internal conflict should tell anyone that Nigeria may actually be overstepping it's boundary and may be on the receiving end of such trespass from another country that is militarily superior to us in the future

liveLongNprospa:
Calm down.
Looks like this place has been something else since I last argued.

Nor vex nor vex.

U sef calm down and stop putting words into other people's mouth.

Unlimited22:
We have precision airstrikes for Benin Republic, but negotiation for Islamic terrorists.


OK cool.

If they explain Nigeria matter to you and you understand, the person no explain well.

liveLongNprospa:
You go like make Benin dey unstable?
Country wey dye share boarder with our economy nerve center

Where is the bold coming from? Where in any of my posts did I suggest that? Are u confusing me with someone else?

My post u quoted simply says I hope Nigeria didn't bomb Benin as it is being rumored online.

I'm hoping Nigeria didn't bomb Benin because by unilaterally doing so, we are giving any bigger country implied permission to bomb us as a sovereign nation over any of our internal issues they decided to intervene militarily.

Benin President Talon addresses the country, he claims the situation is under control and that normalcy has been restored in the country

Benin’s President Patrice Talon appears on live TV for the first time since the attempted coup.

He says, “The situation is totally under control,” blaming the failed takeover on “a small group of soldiers."

pic.twitter.com/8IGcMpVHxi

— CHUKS 🍥 (@ChuksEricE) December 7, 2025

I hope the rumors that Nigerian airforce dropped bomb on cotonou are not true o.

We really don't need any external conflict at this moment

Zanzibar1:
When you do things that are normal, it doesn't attract much traction. But when you do controversial things, you get popular quickly.
It appears to develop quick attention, just play on people's religious emotions.

I don't see anything wrong with the cake.

Ok

Nezzjnr:
I think she’s even a Muslim

I heard the MC addressing her as Alhaja

It is well with her o. What she's looking for, she will soon get it when she starts getting backlash after the ceremony.

Lana1:
Inter Miami will now have a star over their badge from this point on for winning MLS Cup. Beckham go dey thank God every day say Messi chose to come to Florida

I saw a video of Beckham with the team while lifting the cup. One can tell how happy he was to have been able to bring Messi to Inter Miami.

Nezzjnr:
Typical example of money miss road

Sooner or later she will come online to issue an apology

iamoyindamola:
Haaaaaaa
This looks like Yoruba party, she should watch her back if she's in Nigeria

I really don't know why she didn't think of the negative media attention that comes with this kind of act honestly

Nezzjnr:
This is really uncalled for

GloriousGbola:
Who is this dumb and foolish woman?

Totalky uncalled for. I don't know her but she definitely didn't think it through before doing what she did.

I don't see the sense in baking a cake to look exactly like a Quran only to cut and eat it on camera. It seems she's chasing clout with the wrong idea

This video will cause serious wahala very soon

Wait, is that….. 👀🤷‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/PPG80EXfVN

— Oyindamola🙄 (@dammiedammie35) December 7, 2025

GloriousGbola:
The guy is a lieutenant based on what I read. How much pull does he really have?

It's junior officers that always carry out coups na. In most African countries, it's junior officers that carry out coup after which they will either kpai or arrest any senior military officer that doesn't support their course.

David Hidenyin claims Nigerian soldiers stationed at Ojo barracks are getting ready to intervene in the situation ongoing in Benin Republic

https://x.com/davidhundeyin/status/1997694393810096354?s=46

Hmmmmm.... I hope naija won't get itself embroiled in another country's internal issues out of pride & ego Sha. (That is of the news is true)

It appears the coup In Benin has not been suppressed as claimed by Bayo Onanuga and the Benin interior minister

Colonel Pascal Tigri, the coup leader in Benin, reappears in a video, demanding support from the Beninese population and calls on France to not intervene in this 'operation'. Strangely, he sounds very different from when he talked at the TV station. https://t.co/cqZx1ne477 pic.twitter.com/RMnos2UWCs

— Brant (@BrantPhilip_) December 7, 2025

The leaser of the coup has reappeared on TV denying teh coup has been suppressed. He also called On Beninoise to come out and support the coupists.

Unlimited22:
Chairman abeg

I really no Wan give some people fodder for argument

Let's just celebrate his greatness.

Issokay

iamoyindamola:
2 sweet assists

Very very sweet assists bro.

Mess is not human, he is a god.

Unlimited22:
Please Messi does not have anything else to prove in football

Let's leave this thing where it belongs 😂

Baba mi, even when Messi doesn't have anything to prove again in football, he still dey shine bright like a diamond in old age with evidence to show for it.

LordAdam16:
action and reaction are equal and opposite forces

in the US, a democrat senator is asking the military to disobey illegal orders
africa, particularly sub-Saharan africa, cannot be stuck in this eternal tailspin without any punctuation
it is impossible

if communism starts failing in china, there will be an uprising, coup, whatever you call it
russia, the west, anywhere on planet earth
if a system of governance is failing, people will seek an alternative and opportunists will leverage the dissatisfaction

we've done eight years of buhari
we do eight years of tinubu
then we do eight years of shettima
and then another eight years of a southern disaster

someday there will be a coup and everyone will be scratching their heads trying to figure out the reason when it is blatant
if you put french people in any sub-Saharan african country, there would be uprisings every month
africa's case is just so hopeless that no system will work here
not democracy. not communism. not monarchy. not military rule
revolving door of bullsh*t

now to prevent a coup, tinubu will have to be come down hard on politicos and PEPs
which will create a negative feedback loop that ironically increase the odds of a coup

-Lord

So what's the way forward for Africa?

Unlimited22:
Lol
I like Messi but abeg abeg 😂

Did it happen or if didn't happen? 🤷‍♂️

a4turitoroman:
So the coup fail?

It's only a matter of time before the coupists succeed. They attempted a coup in 2024 which failed and they attempted one again this year.

As of this morning there were people on the streets showing solidarity with the coupists.

I hope African politicians would do things right or else they would always see the common man support coupists because of their own corruption and bad governance which will always push people into the hands of coupists.

So we all want to pretend the GOAT didn't join a team that was bottom of the table less than 3 years ago only to propel them to become champions?

The GOAT effect. 🐐⚡

https://x.com/delemomodu/status/1997607188144026103?s=46

So the origin of the coup is that the president of Benin change the constitution to extend his tenure as president.....Hmmmmm

But why are African leaders always doing this sef?

It looks as if there's been serious shootout in Benin between the soldiers loyal to the Benin president and the coupist faction.....

izzou:
Something is spreading across Western Africa, and it's about to send us 200 years backwards.

Make the Presidency start to dey reshuffle cabinet every 4 markets days oh.

Someone is obviously sharing money and weapons at the back

I don't even know if reshuffling of cabinet will have any effect on Nigeria sef. Nigeria has so many internal security issues and division within the country.

If any powers that be dangle money and power before our people, there's enough division in this country to encourage our people to support such military takeover of power. We are not even in good terms with America as we speak sef.

izzou:
Make this coup no affect price of rice this December


I use God take beg Les Soldiers du Benin...Abeg

It will ó.

If u never buy rice, u better go buy it now. They claimed the soldiers have locked all Benin boarders which means goods may not move in and out of the country for as long as the boarder closure lasts.

GloriousGbola:
https://www.nairaland.com/8576418/military-coup-benin-republic-soldiers

Na wa

Okpas uncle doing triple time.

Cold war 2.0

Na wa o.

And I thought Benin were really enjoying their own democracy going by how peaceful the country has been for a long time now.

Their citizens seem contented and do not necessarily agitate as much as what U would see In Ghana and Nigeria. I doubt the incumbent government even saw the coup coming