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Ukpaka:
Boko Haram Behead 8 Soldiers Amid Deepening Military Corruption and Tinubu’s Leadership Failure
https://247ureports.com/2026/06/boko-haram-beheads-soldiers-amid-deepening-military-corruption-and-tinubus-leadership-failure/
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The assault, which targeted the 162 Battalion along the Mandara–Buratai Road during a heavy downpour, serves as a grim indictment of the top military brass and the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Despite persistent official claims that the insurgency has been “largely defeated,” frontline troops continue to pay the ultimate price—sacrificed to a war machine hobbled by institutional graft and tactical negligence.

Tinubu’s Empty Rhetoric and the Failures of the High Command

For a presidency that promised “renewed hope,” the recurrent slaughter of security personnel has instead delivered a grim status quo of endless mourning. Following the Borno base infiltration, the Tinubu administration offered its standard template of condemnation, investigation orders, and posthumous praise. Yet, these symbolic responses do nothing to conceal the tactical stagnation of the Service Chiefs and the High Command.

Counterigbolies:
since u said tinubu have failed, at least u people should lead by example now

Since tinubu isn't doing the right thing, y can't u people do d right thing?

Tinubu did wrong n u too did wrong n u want us to blame tinubu n applaud u

Mbanda:
The money wey tinibu dey collect from subsidy removal, taxes and, numerous loans wey him don collect, when is he going to give account of all those monies?

And what effort is he making to free those innocent school children, wey his rehabilitative terrorists kidnapped?

njokuuche77:
Admitting that elections rely on "thieves" and bribery just proves my point. If a candidate depends entirely on agents buying votes, then they don't stand a chance in a genuinely free and fair contest. Thanks for confirming exactly what I said.

SixSeven:

It's funny that I don't see democrazy as a misspelled word anymore

"Everyone claims to be democratic but not everyone is faithful to his or her word. We have governments that are democracies on paper, but not in function. They are democracies in form but not in substance. We have governments that only know democracy primarily through breaching it"

~ words on marble by Jagaban Asiwaju BAT

SixSeven:
Let the poor breathe...


June 12, 2013 by The Nation

PDP, Jonathan have failed Nigerians, says Tinubu

ACN leader lashes govt on economy, security
President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration is confused about how to tackle Nigeria’s challenges, especially poverty and insecurity, a leader of the newly-formed All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said.

He said the Federal Government promised peace and security, but under its “unwatchful eye” insecurity has grown and Boko Haram “has turned large tracts of northern Nigeria into no man’s land”.


But, a bright future, he said, is on the horizon as the APC, which he called “the government in-waiting”, would rescue Nigeria from its confused state.


“As leaders of the new party and government in-waiting, we intend to pursue dynamic, time-tested and bold policies that will liberate our people by making sure our wealth works for us,” Tinubu said.

Nigerians, said Tinubu, have become increasingly divided as a people because the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government continues to take faulty steps in addressing poverty and injustice.

“They have ignored the cause and gone after the symptoms,” the former Lagos State Governor told a packed audience inside the Grand Committee Ballroom, Westminster Hall, House of Parliament, London on Monday. He identified failed policies on power, employment, economy and security as evidence of bad leadership.


Tinubu, the keynote speaker at the British African Diaspora Conference, spoke on “Leadership, national development and the people”.

He urged the Federal Government to apply a consistent policy of targeted law enforcement operations along with an active programme of economic development, negotiations and potential amnesty for penitent Boko Haram members.

He said rather than take this step, the nation has been treated to series of government inaction and indiscriminate use of force, which culminated in the declaration of a state of emergency in three states.


“The Jonathan government set up a special Committee on Boko Haram and Security matters, but sadly before they could perform, he declared State of Emergency in three Northern states: Yobe, Borno and Adamawa.

“This is symptomatic of a confused leadership. If there is security in this jumbled policy, neither I nor the majority of Nigerians can find it!”

To the fomer Lagos governor, if Nigeria is to mature as a democracy, its electoral system must be improved. He decried the fact that those who control the system manipulate elections with such impunity that they now see misconduct without sanction as a normal way of life.


Said he: “Look at the recent controversy surrounding election of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) chairman… A group comprising all the nations’ governors could not even conduct a simple 35-person election without a disputed outcome.

“With this recent experience, I fear the length those in power would go and the means they would employ to manipulate results when the battleground is the entire nation and the stakes are the general elections in 2015.

“The NGF debacle symbolises a disdain for democracy and the popular will. If we are to save Nigeria, we must rescue the electoral process from its abusers,” Tinubu said.

In his view, a great philosophical gulf separates the government from the progressives. “This current Nigerian government is a retrogressive one. Much of what they claim as growth is but the harsh redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top. The bottom gets squeezed while the top expands. They are serving us the salad of corruption.

“They consume our today and squander the nation’s tomorrow. For 14 years, the PDP-led government cannot turn anything around. A new leadership is required to put a stop to this.”

Tinubu criticised Nigeria’s economic policies, saying the economy is being reconstructed “as an oasis for a small few and a stark desert for the many” while the government pretends to endorse the same budget-cutting austerity policies as much of Europe.

“We are not Europe; we are a Third World economy. That these policies have failed in European nations with higher standards of living than Nigeria gives our leaders no concern.”

Tinubu said the people live in dire straits, yet the government would rather waste the money than spend it on public benefit because they do not believe the people deserve it.

He said the progressives would bring pragmatic solution to the country’s woes because in their approach to the political economy, they do not rely on textbook answers as they do not “live in textbooks.

He said: “We live in the real world and thus seek answers from real world experiences. Here is a real world fact: No large nation has ever attained sustained growth without government running budget deficits to build the required infrastructure and without other government policies promoting development of the key industries that would become the spine of national development.

“Here is another such fact: No populous nation ever attains prosperity solely by extracting its raw material to exchange them for the finished goods of other large nations. We must industrialise and diversify our economy

“It is for this reason – to save the nation from the stranglehold of permanent poverty and poor governance – that the members of the progressive opposition political parties have decided to put aside personal ambition (including my own ambition) to form a new party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). We do this because Nigeria has entered a critical state of economic depression.”

According to Tinubu, because of the unfair nature of the electoral processes and the gross imbalance of its political economy, the people have been props in a drama for which they should have been the main characters. “We must change this,” he said.

He said the progressives must move Nigeria away from a place where the whims and narrow wishes of self-centered reactionary elite dictate the fate of over 150 million people.

“On our side, we will take our chances with a free and fair election, for we shall offer the people an innovative programme consisting of a national industrial policy that includes radical infrastructural development and employment targets,” he said.

The former Lagos governor spoke of “the Glorious Nigerian Revolution”, which he said has nothing to do with force of arms.

His words: “The Revolution of which I speak has two major parts. First, is the peaceful conversion of our quasi-democracy into a full-fledged one. Second, is the implementation of policies turning the political economy away from its retrogressive, elitist bearings.

“We seek policies pointing in a progressive direction affording the average person a chance at a dignified life. This will be through the provision of gainful employment, quality education and essential social services for those who need the helping hand of government to survive.

“I see no shame in believing progressive government can improve the political economy and the lives of the people.”

Flangelo12:
Strait Of Hormuz.

Let's beg baba Trump.

humberjade:
The problem is that most of the actual voters aren't online. And those voting online mostly don't have PVCs or bother to vote at all on election days.

njokuuche77:
I'm sorry to say, but Tinubu doesn't stand a chance in anything free and fair.

OredoPikin:
We know
But we will still vote him
Now cry more

DMCY:
Who is Donald Duke? Even Obi has more chance of unsitting tinubu than whoever Duke is

Kaczynski:
There are way too many competitors in the automobile industry.

He should refocus that energy on his noodles business

Dpsychologist:
Source:
https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/after-cement-and-oil-africas-richest-man-takes-on-another-industry-nigeria-lost/kj31c5j

Lithiumite:
Its not about obi and it's even the least issue,iys you despicable irredentist ideologues who daily insult our sensibilities that obi is black jesus and without blemish,you myopically espouse his itinerant rhetoric that he will develop Nigeria in 4 years like he did anambra......you are the one being called out no one bothers about obi.

lightwind:
You are ranting from outside Nigeria as usual, come back to Nigeria and make this noise small.

Ezeama400:
Warri Students rejected her, now is the Chiefs..

bigpicture001:
LP should allow Obi rest, he is in their past now..
They should move on!

mindtricks:
Dey play with human lives? You are forcing the media houses to stop the countless kidnappings and terrorism going on daily under your watch?
4+4 means his years in prison after being kicked out?

SadiqBabaSani:
Nothing she said here is wrong

FatimaAbubakar:
E pain am. The kidnapped APC ex-chairman should be held in captivity till the year 2080.

floss:
I’m coming home, I’m coming home…. Tell the west I’m coming home….singing 🎶

I said it in this forum that

Don’t be surprised if one of the mods post it here soon that

Yarimo, Putindbutt, and burob got kidnapped while in their hometown in iragbiji by their distant cousins.

The goat is coming home to roost finally

Tenses:
Which kind reasoning be this.

Your zombiesm is on 5g

Kobojunkie:
Mobilize unarmed civilians against armed Islamic terrorists dead set on Islamizing Nigeria, and ready to call [b]Taqfir [/b]on any Islamists that oppose their mission?

Where are your mama and papa? I hope you intend to have them right in front as the protesters march into the forest after the bandits.

rejoice4eva:
Shameless and irresponsible talk.
Did you vote for the protesters to become your commander in chief of the armed forces of Nigeria?
Are they collecting security votes ?
Stop defending irresponsibilities

rejoice4eva:
Shameless and irresponsible talk.
Did you vote for the protesters to become your commander in chief of the armed forces of Nigeria?
Are they collecting security votes ?
Stop defending irresponsibilities

Sangoamadioha1:
So because the security agencies says it is too risky to rescue the kidnapped victims we should just rest and allow the kidnappers to continue keeping them.

The same Tinubu said to Jonathan that the buck stops at his table, when the Chibok girls were kidnapped. The same applies here, the buck stops at President Tinubu's table and he must take responsibility and look for ways to free those victims and stop insecurity in general.

Igbophobia:
When terrorists capture your police and soldiers, they execute them. Whe your government capture terrorists and bandits, they REHABILITATE them as repentant. And even inhtegrate them into the military and police.

The result?
It's only a matter of time before there are more bandits and terrorists than there are soldiers and police. In reality, the remaining soldiers and police would have no motivation to fight since they're practically fighting on all sides. Seen and unseen enemies/

The sort of nonsense you only find in Nigeria.

Tell the black man that he doesn't have the capacity for self-governance and he'd argue.

MarketDispatch:
Was the money defrauded from another company? Or did the md transfer money without board approval?

kerry57:
Naija and crime. E dey our blood, see their faces without remorse.
There faces are like na today oga judge, na u go tire.
May God deliver this country

Tenses:
They went against the Obidients movement, they failed

They went against PO allies, they failed

They went against the OK ticket, they failed

They went against the Kwankwasiya movement, they failed.

They went against NDC, they failed.

OK is God's own project.

If God be for US, who can be against US

Who?

chatinent:
Peter is a far better person than Tinubu.

We have seen the best and worse of Tinubu... It is still the worst.

KnowAll:
Scary to think that all the leaders mentioned has been some sort of benevolent dictator. Forget to even mention China. Has democracy failed 😳