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Gottiii:
I still can’t believe my elder brother is planning to send me a Es330 (2006) from the United States.

I have told him several times i can’t drive such car, I am already imagining the look of people when they see me. I mean people wey dey my area. People for area know say I be big boy.

I don tell am several times say I no need car wey dey less than yr 2017. The money dey but very stingy. I sure say na the wife dey give am wrong advice.

The car clean sha, full option but below my level. I go just sell am.

Abeg, make una advice me.

Don't worry bro just sell am to me oo.

I will thank you later

macho44:
I Agree. Wolves Haven't scored in 16 Games this season, and you can't win games without scoring goals.
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You are wrong, very wrong.

Thinktwicemybro:
That P*RNSTAR of a girl should be arrested for defiling those boys


1. She left her room at the 5th floor to the boys room at the 11th floor.

2. She dared to fvck all of them in an orgy which she obviously have been watching.

3. She fvck all the boys by riding them and giving the doggy style.

4. She has been fvcking before now.

5. She has been giving them bre*st to suck in the school compound before now.

6. The video clearly showed that the came to the room and the boys were lying innocently in their bed before she entered, naked herself and began to fvck them one after the other.

7. She bragged about the video with her friends and was proud of it before the scandal broke out.

8. She has an online porn page on Likee where she twerk and her nickname there is badgurl4k (bad girl Bleep).

9. Up until Easter Monday 18th April she was still active on her Likee page where she has 24 thousand followers who masturbates to her videos.

10. The sex video was recorded with her phone on her request so she can masturbate with it later. She also showed the video and share it with her friends and everyone watched it including Wizkid child who attends same school.


Ladies and gentlemen this girl is a child from hell born by bastard parents who should be in jail. 10 years old indeed.

do you have the vedio, have been looking for it but couldn't find it

God1000:
Wow, see desperation, a man that supported a monumental and colossal failure for over seven years is now making a U-turn because of his ambition, he's trying so hard to strike a touch with Nigerians

because most of we Nigerians are clowns

Ikegwuru:
In one of those classics I read about 30 years ago, either Pride and Prejudice or Great expectation, I took away an important message. It goes thus: "Detestation of the High, is an involuntary homage of the low." They go lower, we go higher. Hate Igbo or not we love Nigeria more than our adversaries. We are the people pained more when Nigeria is not working. Check it out: UK wanted Iwobi, he said no and chose Nigeria. Nigeria wanted Saka, he said no and chose UK. Surprisingly, Saka's people are the ones accusing Iweobi of not loving Nigeria enough. This in summary tells you what hypocrisy means.

I weep for the results of their hypocrisy

Kiddoo

Alexgray:
Personally, i have not used the nissan quest. Depending on the year, most cars share same engine and transmission. Just different exterior looks and d rest. Read more about any car you intend to buy or use. Wikipedia would give u a simple breakdown of cars sharing same engine, gear and chassis with the nissan quest of whichever year you want.

ok thanks

unilagfreshest:
As a car dealer. You wont go wrong with a manual TRANSMISSION,
But Automatic.
PATHFINDER, Rogue and kick... is a good buy ( note resale value in naija is bad).
Avoid.
Murano, Quest and Qashqai..in that order. ( else na owode scrap dealers go buy am laslas).

Ok thanks

Alexgray:
Im moving to my 5th nissan. An infiniti QX56.from the 1991 nissan pathfinder se v6 manual 4wd,to 1996 pathfinder, to 2000 pathfinder, to 2003 pathfinder, now im on the 2005 nissan pathfinder. Im selling not because i have any issues but cos there is no reason to keep 2 full size suv.

From almera, to sentra to primera, to murano and pathfinder, there is no car maker withour a cvt. Even Toyota and honda cvts flood the market and highways.

Every car made by man has it flaws,but once u get the wrong car, u wld think the car is the problem. I have used opel, Mitsubishi, Subaru and the rest but there is never a time u wont find a nissan with me. Most especially the nissan pathfinder. Serves well, very reliable and i havent regretted since.

When you want a car, try find out from those who have truly owned and used the car not from those who feed you with beer parlor talks and lies. Most people with a pathfinder hardly sell it cos of it being very rugged.

Get a good nissan, maintain as u ought to and ull be fine. Simple as ABC

what about Nissan Quest Sir

1Sharon:
In normal countries abortion is actually a safe procedure. It's safer than having a baby.

you will live to regret your words/opinion regarding this issue one day and I can boldly tell you that life is very merciless teacher....

meobizy:
Will you donate him money to take care of the child? Abeg, move one side. It’s better him getting rid of the pregnancy now rather than regretting why he went through with an slowpoke’s birth or a granting a child’s presence which ensures he has zero financial savings in future.

. Coming from a woman such a Pity...if that pregnant girl dies? Well I don't blame your ignorance

Mylordmygod1:
Hello nairalanders...

i got my girfriend pregnant since september, and it really got me crazy..

when it was 2 months, we tried to abort it, and so we met a chemist who gave her drugs and injection, he told us that the blood we rush out, but it did rush out just small and stopped.. So it did not work even after i paid him 8k..

now, we are about to carry out D & C abortion tomorow, but she keep saying she is scared.. Even me, i'm scared too..

i don't know what to do..

please, don't feel bad reading this, i only need advice on this, it is a wrong move but my mind is already made up to do it..

how i wish i can just allow her to birth it..

though, one of my mind is still telling me to keep it, but how can i be able to take care of her and the baby?

And she is just my side girlfriend, not my real babe..
pray for me nairalanders, i need strenght this moment to take the right decision..

. Don't abort the Child, that little blood lost may not affect the baby.

Not only is it wrong but at this stage(4months!) You will only end up killing that girl and she's someone's daughter.

You may be young and not ready to be a father but since you can Bleep you can as well be a good father/husband and take-up the responsibility.

Believe me there's a whole lot in fatherhood...
Instead of it to depress you, let it be a means for you to summon strength and some sense to work harder and the courage to face both your parents and the girls parent. And let me tell you it won't be easy but you see that girl shouldn't waste because of you and if you do well you will thank your God after the dust has settled that you didn't abort that child.

But first of all you need to chop some slap. That our nonsense society supports abortion to cover-up their evil mind doesn't mean we should practice and celebrate it. common...how can a medical practitioner allow abortion of a 4month old baby. See if anything happens to that girl her family will never forgive you ooh, apart from that it has very grave consequences.

favor914:
Are you not Nigerian, or you don’t know what you are talking about?

Whether Electronic voting or human manual voting the results & outcome will still be the same, it always seems greener on the other side.

If Buhari had signed the bill into law, people like you would have been the first to wail that he did it to give his party an advantage. Damned if he did, damned if he didn’t.

Any which way, the perennial Wailers, must find a reason to wail.

. Like you have been wailing on this thread...utobo

[quote author=abbey621 post=107951952]What have you done with your balls beside constituting nuisance chasing neighborhood girls? If you wan die, Aso Rock no too far my guy [/uquote] yoouu doonnt have balls

abbey621:
Everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the mouth......Mike Tyson. Talk is cheap, are you ready to pay the cost? MKO, Dele Giwa and many others have paid the cost with their earthly life yet like Tupac said, STILL I SEE NO CHANGES! If we should elect you today, the last thing you would ever bring up is restructing, one threat against your life and gbam you do gentle o! Politicians are humans too, all the patriots are dead and buried!

cause you don't have balls

Jackson105:
Omo ibo, focus on Atiku your slave-master, stop using Tinubu name for clout chasing, he is not responsible for your failure and poverty.

Your leaders in the mud republic has done worst, they even join the FG in killing your parents, sisters and brothers.

so shut your mouth when unknown gunmen go after them. Unity begger...all our leaders are jokers

LoveFayfay:
I laugh at your stupidity..... You think everyone is like your misbehaved sister. You don't know me from Adam so don't judge me. Your type is the reason I don't give a damn about guys. I read my books and follow my morals. To hell with you guys.

ignore him abeg... It will do you some good

jojo1415:
Season don reach...igbos sabi market strategies die

Abi... All the years they where separate no be season

Ussycool:
3 Bedroom flat for sure
My family will be proud of for this.

Baba god pick up my call o.
Help with even plot of land this year.
It shall be well Nairalanders.

Amen

thatsleepboy1:
Political strategy and come to think of it, it might be the constant nagging and insults from the woman that pushed this man to this but she won't talk.






https://www.nairaland.com/6843958/islam-full-fables-not-g-d#107556223

you are stupid

BeeBeeOoh:
We know, but his job ought to be winning souls for Christ not politics.

Mbaka is a politician in a robe or abii sudan

shatap you even admitted that you Knew that it's old...like how many years today. What's your aim of bringing up now, is it to serve what purpose. Olodo go and get a meaningful job, even if it's serving Mason rather than a mischief Maker

Please pack your gibberish

Coronabirus:
Why Nigeria’s Test Rockets Send Waves Across The World

While it is public knowledge that Nigeria has a functional and reputable space agency ‘the National Space Research and Development Agency’ (NASRDA), not many are aware that the country’s rocket propulsion technology remains unmatched on the African continent.


The country’s technological advancement on rocket propulsion systems places it above its counterparts in Africa, as far as the space race is concerned.

As early as 1961, the Nigerian government began showing propitious interest in space research and technology, when it played a crucial role in manned space travel, housing a $3 million NASA space station in Kano, North-West Nigeria. The space station was part of a NASA satellite tracking stations system strategically located along the earth’s orbital track, under Project Mercury to test the viability of human space travel.

On August 23rd 1963, the first ever phone call relayed by satellite (via the Syncom Communications Satellite) between two heads of State was made by John F. Kennedy to Nigeria’s first republic Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa. The phone call was part of a ceremony formally inaugurating service by the new Syncom II satellite launched July 26. Both Leaders discussed the result of peaceful space exploration, Dick Tiger’s WBA title victory over Gene Fullmer and the nuclear test ban treaty of 1963 prohibiting nuclear weapons explosion in the atmosphere, outer space, and under water.

However, it was not until 1999 that the most populous black Nation established its first national space agency, NASRDA.

In 2002, NASRDA revealed its 25-year road map for the research, development and launch of Nigerian made satellites from Nigerian soil by 2030, starting from 2005. Many Nigerians on social media think this is a pipe dream but with the tenacity and enthusiasm of engineers at the Centre for Space Transport and Propulsion (CSTP) and their research breakthroughs, NASRDA appears very optimistic with its 2030 goal.

CSTP was established in 2003, with a vision to develop and construct rockets that will be needed to launch Nigerian made satellites by 2030.

CSTP’s core roles in NASRDA’s 25-year strategic roadmap is to acquire launch capabilities of various satellites to Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Geosynchronous Equatorial Orbit (GEO), and interplanetary space, by Nigerian scientists and engineers.

The Centre is further saddled with strategic mandates which include to acquire and establish adequate high-tech infrastructure in the country, facilitate the acquisition of scientific and technological know-how in aerospace transport and propulsion, to develop various types of propellants for rocket engines with attention on solid, liquid, and other forms of high-energy propulsion systems to acquire and develop the capacity to fabricate and integrate rocket systems for short, and long-range peaceful application missions and most importantly- to develop and construct rockets that will be needed to launch Nigerian made satellites by 2030. So far, the Centre has recorded notable success in this regard.

By 2019, CSTP had launched over 30 experimental rockets, with tremendous progress on structural wholeness and rocket instrumentation system. The Centre for Space Transport and Propulsion, CSTP has proven itself to be the most active of the six activity Centres of NASRDA.

The others being the Centre for Atmospheric Research, Centre for Basic Space Science, Centre for Geodesy and Geodynamics, Centre for Space Science and Technology Education, Centre for Satellite Technology Development, and the National Centre for Remote Sensing.

Before 2019, the farthest CSTP test rocket still had a record altitude of less than 10 kilometre but it appears the Centre is not sleeping on its achievements yet. Records from test rockets post 2019 are not available to the public but there are speculations that recent data on technological successes at the Centre have been deliberately redacted by the Nigerian government.

This is not unconnected with the worrisome spate of insecurity that has plagued parts of the country for roughly a decade. A fear of missiles and tech secrets ending up in the wrong hands might be the reason for the government’s fear.

Between April and June 2019, CSTP successfully launched three test rockets – CSTP_TL_1, CSTP_TL_2 and CSTP_TL_3. The test launches demonstrated the Centre’s education on efficient solid propellants and the integrity of its new rocket recovery system. Evidence from academic publications of CSTP researchers suggest advancement in guidance, navigation and control concepts, improved rocket thrust and longer burn time.

Despite the tremendous successes recorded by NASDRA’s CSTP, the Centre’s efforts remain greatly affected by inadequate government funding. CSTP’s test rockets are still away from the minimum 160km altitude for Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

However, with increased funding and private sector participation NASRDA might reach the Ionosphere sooner than we expect.

https://membership.dailytrust.com/2021/11/01/why-nigerias-test-rockets-send-waves-across-the-world/

Cultistupdate:
And some celebrities are promoting this cult and confraternities.

to their advantage at least you don't see them get killed or molested

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deyemia:
Hi House,

Please have you or know anyone who converted Toyota corrolla 2005 from manual to automatic? What was the outcome?

I have considered the cost and I’m ok, it’s still cheaper than selling the manual and buying auto.

Regards

you don't have to first of all.

Be driving it like that otherwise you won't come out of the brain box issue ever,

Una no wan stone this man

TheRareGem1:
https://tribuneonlineng.com/fg-to-create-21-million-jobs-lift-35-million-nigerians-out-of-poverty-by-2025-%e2%80%95-osibanjo/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Bighead9:
Using one for 8 years now and still counting. When you change a particular part, you might not change again after years of usage. I only changed my break parts ones, the automatic gearbox is still in its top condition, engine superb. Unlike Japanese that you'll have to change most parts weekly or monthly.

I use mine mostly for my long journeys. By month end, I'll leave Owerri to Benin then Abuja, Jos, kaduna, Kano and back to Owerri. I do this with my BM ones in two to three months. But 8 years ago, mechanics and friends warned me not to buy this Car. Most of them have spent more in fixing their Cars while others have changed their Cars severally within this period.

please how about the fuel consumption Sir

[quote author=SlayerForever post=106898782]Today marks the remembrance of the endsars Lekki massacre where soldiers opened fire on Nigerian youths protesting for a scrap and/or disbandment of a killer cop unit, the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS that had hitherto been involved in widespread extra judicial practices steeped in human rights abuses including forceful disappearance, extortion, maiming, abduction, theft, arbitrary arrests, murder etc etc.

Today a number of youths across the country remember those who were killed and maimed at Lekki toll gate, main venue of the protests, exactly a year ago. Of interest to the writer is the trend among the Igbo youths to wrongly identify with the endsars movement.

Our people say that "the man who does not know where the rain started beating him will not know where it will end". Another saying amongst our people goes thus "if you do not know where you're going, at least know where you're coming from". The Igbo youths, especially those who are mainly resident outside the South East have shown with this endsars memorial that they are clueless as to where they are coming from.

At this time let me bring to your notice a vital piece of information many have forgotten or even ignorantly overlooked. As the endsars global movement raged across Nigeria about time last year it refused to ignite in the South East. Weeks went by and there was no rally or protest or recognition of the movement in the East. The reader who does not know this may ask why.

To those Igbo youths mostly outside the South east who naively identify with the endsars movement and put up the disgusting flag of the forest republic of Nigeria how many memorials have you had for the thousands of our youths and parents who have had their lives cut short by not just SARS but by every military and paramilitary body in the country. How many memorials have you had for them. How many times have you written or spoken up against the wanton extra judicial killings of innocent people by security operatives in the East. How many memorials have your colleagues from other parts of Nigeria had for Igbo youths and parents, too many to count, who have been killed extra judicially since the 70s by units of the police force, the army etc etc. How many times has police brutality on innocent Easterners made the news outside the South East. Answer this questions to yourself in all frankness and honesty. How many times have you remembered those who have been widowed, those who have been rendered orphans by security operatives. How many times have you spoken up for them.

Today, you spit on their graves by putting up a flag that has decimated thousands of innocent people in your home land. Not to make light the incidence at Lekki which stands condemned any day, but that incidence pales greatly in comparison to the accounts of police brutality in the East.


And this is what many in the south east knew and felt that made a global movement like endsars go almost unnoticed in the east. It stood as hypocritical to many, for Nigerians to suddenly wake up to police brutality and yet expect them in the South East who have been suffering it for decades with no one to listen to them, to suddenly join in. On behalf of South Easterners and Igbo people in general I asked some influential endsars conveners who kept taunting the south east to join the movement last year. I asked them, where were your voices? All went mute. They had no answer.

What I observed is that many rushed to identify with the endsars movement so as to look politically correct to their colleagues from other parts of Nigeria. They told me last year, ehn let us come together since the movement is fostering unity. You don't seek unity by selling yourself short. True unity is attained by ensuring there is equity across board. If endsars was equitable why did the conveners or the movement not hit on police brutality in the East. That would have been equity and true oneness.

To show you that your endsars movement was shallow how many times did you see other Nigerians you're trying desperately to identify with speak against police killings in the east. Even asides endsars have you ever seen Nigerians talk about police brutality against Igbos at home? Your answer is as good as mine. Yet you struggle to identify with people who do not identify with your plight or your reality. Not once during the global endsars movement last year was police brutality in the east brought to the front burner. But here you are talking about endsars. Are you doing right by your people at home? Or you think the world starts and ends in Lagos.

How can you identify with an endsars movement that would see changes in the police modus operandi but your home where police brutality walks on two legs was never mentioned. How?

Umu Igbo chuwanu amamihe maka amamihe amaka. Ụnu adizina iberibe.


I will end by repeating this adage, "if you do not know where you are going, at least know where you're coming from". Daalu nu.

Cholls:
My brother I find this article really insightful.


Under the cover of counterterrorism, AFRICOM is beefing up Nigeria’s military to ensure the free flow of oil to the West, and using the country as a proxy against China’s influence on the continent.


Last month, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari wrote an op-ed in the Financial Times. It might as well have been written by the Pentagon. Buhari promoted Brand Nigeria, auctioning the country’s military services to Western powers, telling readers that Nigeria would lead Africa’s “war on terror” in exchange for foreign infrastructure investment. “Though some believe the war on terror [WOT] winds down with the US departure from Afghanistan,” he says, “the threat it was supposed to address burns fiercely on my continent.”

With Boko Haram and Islamic State operating in and near Nigeria, pushing a WOT narrative is easy. But counterterror means imperial intervention. So, why is the Pentagon really interested in Nigeria, a country with a GDP of around $430 billion – some $300 billion less than the Pentagon’s annual budget – a population with a 40 percent absolute poverty rate, and an infant mortality rate of 74 deaths per 1,000 live births, compared to 5.6 per 1,000 in the US?

A US Naval Postgraduate School doctoral thesis from over a decade ago offers a plausible explanation: the Gulf of Guinea, formed in part by Nigeria’s coastline, “has large deposits of hydrocarbons and other natural resources.” It added: “There is now a stiff international competition among industrialized nations including the United States, some European countries, China, Japan, and India.”

Since then, the US has been quietly transforming Nigeria’s police and military into a neo-colonial force that can support missions led by the US Africa Command (AFRICOM). Buhari’s offer makes US involvement in Nigeria appear as if Nigeria is asking for help, when in fact the stage is already set for AFRICOM.

The Pentagon’s broader aim is to stop China and Russia from gaining a foothold in the continent. In the meantime, it aims to crush any and all opposition groups that disrupt energy supplies so that oil giants can continue exploiting Nigeria’s resources.

A brief history of a complex country

It’s important to get an idea of Nigeria’s ethnic and regional complexities. The country’s 206 million people, nearly half of whom are Muslim and nearly half Christian, live north of the equator in West Africa. Their country has 36 states, seven of which are coastal. The country borders Cameroon in the east, Benin in the west, Chad in the northeast, and Niger in the north and northwest.

A US Strategic Studies Institute report from the mid-‘90s describes Nigeria as “an artificial state created according to colonial exigencies rather than ethnic coherence.” Its fragility explains the country’s susceptibility to ethnic, religious, and class warfare. The majority of Nigerian Muslims are Sunni, but Islam in the country spans the spectrum, from Sufism to Salafism. The Christian population is distributed among the Protestant majority as well as Anglicans, Baptists, Evangelicals, Catholics, Methodists, and Roman Catholics. Most of Nigeria’s Muslims live in the north in 12 states whose laws are based on sharia.

Nigeria boasts hundreds of languages and ethnicities, the largest groups being the Hausa (who make up 30 percent of the population), Yoruba (15.5), Igbo (a.k.a., Ibo 15.2), and Fulani (6 percent). There are, of course, exceptions, but in general the Hausa-Fulani and Kanuri peoples tend to be Muslim and the Igbo, Ijaw, and Ogoni Christian. Islam and Christianity tend to be mixed among the Yoruba. During the late-19th century “Scramble for Africa,” the British colonized the region, Christianizing the south and leaving in place the Islamic political structures in the north both for convenience and as a useful divide and rule technique.

Black gold, British rule

Drawing up “contracts” for energy companies, the Foreign Office (FO) created a monopoly for Anglo-Persian oil (later BP) and particularly for Shell. Prospecting contracts were awarded by the FO in the late-1930s, but it was as late as 1956 that financially viable amounts of black gold were struck. Most of the country’s oil is in the southern, Niger Delta region populated by the Ijaw and Ogoni peoples, hence there is little militant Islam in Nigeria’s illicit oil sector. Shell operations began in Ogoniland in 1958.

Nigeria gained slow and painful independence from Britain in 1960. Seven years later, armed Igbo fought a war of secession in the oil-rich south to try to form their own country, the Republic of Biafra. Under a One Nigeria policy, the British supported the central regime of General Yakubu Gowon during the Biafra War (1967-70). Fighting and blockade  led to three million deaths. Biafra failed to secede.

The UK Labour government’s Commonwealth Minister, George Thomas, explained at the time: “The sole immediate British interest in Nigeria is that the Nigerian economy should be brought back to a condition in which our substantial trade and investment in the country can be further developed, and particularly so we can regain access to important oil installations.”

As the British Empire declined, the US gradually pursued the same policy in Nigeria. At first, the US considered supporting Biafra.

The Kennedy administration initiated $170 million in economic and military spending in Nigeria under a plan that continued until 1966, into the Johnson administration. William Haven North, who served as the Director for Central and West African Affairs for the US Agency of International Development (USAID) said: “The issue of supporting Biafra was also tied up with the question of oil interests; the major part of the oil reserves in Nigeria were in the Eastern Region with substantial American oil company investments.” In 1978, the US Navy’s Sixth Fleet began the regular exercises in the Gulf of Guinea that continue to the present.


Indigenous activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was arrested on phony charges and executed by a Nigerian military functioning as a private army for the Shell oil company

Enter Uncle Sam

In 1990, the Nigeria-dominated Economic Community of West African States (ECO) established a military wing, the so-called Monitoring Group (ECOMOG). The George H.W. Bush administration contributed $100 million. The succeeding Clinton White House said that for so-called peace-keeping operations in other African countries like Liberia and Sierra Leone, “Nigeria provided most of the ‘muscle’.” At this point, the seeds were sown for Nigeria’s use as a delegate for US wars in Africa.

By the dawn of the new millennium, the 3rd Special Forces Group (Army Command) was training Nigerian battalions to assist United Nations support missions. The Nigerian military enjoyed tens of millions of dollars-worth of US weapons.

Meanwhile, indigenous activists suffering under oil spills and environmental destruction established the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. Nine of this group’s leaders, including Ken Saro-Wiwa, were later arrested on trumped up charges and executed by the national military that had been funded by Shell to act as its own private army.

The murders sparked international outrage and activists successfully pressured the US to terminate military aid. General Sani Abacha, under whose dictatorship the Ogoni Nine were hanged, established a Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) to fight both activists and gangs. The MNJTF was later centered in Chad and used as a base from which to fight Boko Haram.

In 1999, Nigeria ended its military rule, at least on paper. By the mid-2000s, Human Rights Watch was wrote that, under the façade of parliamentary democracy, “the conduct of many public officials and government institutions is so pervasively marked by violence and corruption as to more resemble criminal activity than democratic governance.”

With the Ogoni, Ijaw, and other Niger Delta peoples crushed with force, some turned to violence. Following lobbying by Shell, Nigeria’s old colonial master, the UK, began spending taxpayer money on military operations to counter armed groups: £12 million between 2001 and 2014, when Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) co-authored their report. CAAT documents the UK exportation of nearly £500m-worth of weapons to Nigeria in that period, including missiles and grenades. It cites increased UK arms exports as a direct reason for the failure of the southern ceasefire. UK “security contractors” including Control Risks, Erinys, Executive Outcomes, and Saladin Security were embedded with mobile police units to crush protestors.

Nigeria and the “war on terror”

Western propaganda paid less attention to Shell’s systemic violence against the Ogoni and other peoples, focusing instead on the more headline-grabbing resistance, such as high-profile ransom kidnappings and pipeline disruption. State oppression in the drier, less fertile north, meanwhile, fed the narrative pushed by Islamic groups: that Western culture is toxic.

Founded in 2002 and led by Mohammed Yusuf who was later executed by the state, Boko Haram is officially called the Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad (Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād). It emerged in the northeastern city, Maidugari, close to Chad and Cameroon, where it set up semi-autonomous communities. Religious graduates who studied in Sudan attempted to form similar communes but were attacked by the police. In 2009, Boko Haram members allegedly fired at a police station in Bauchi. The government response was to trigger civil war.

The MNJTF mentioned above, is described as “notorious” in a British House of Commons Library report. It was reactivated, this time to fight the Islamists. The report also notes how the Nigerian Armed Forces terrorized the civilian population with raids, arrests, and indiscriminate shelling.

The UK ramped up its training of Nigeria’s military while the US used Chad as a base for its “war on terror” operations: the Pan-Sahel Initiative (covering Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger) and the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (which included Algeria, Morocco, Nigeria, and Tunisia). AFRICOM’s initial operations in Nigeria involved maritime training and integrating the country’s forces with those of other African nations to foster pan-African military alliances.

In its early years, AFRICOM paid little attention to Boko Haram. But this changed as the profile of attacks got bigger.

In 2011, Boko Haram launched a formal insurgency. A report published that year by the US House of Representatives Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence outlined Boko Haram’s roots and the reasons for its popularity. They included “a feeling of alienation from the wealthier, Christian, oil-producing, southern Nigeria, pervasive poverty, rampant government corruption, heavy-handed security measures, and the belief that relations with the West are a corrupting influence.” It added that “[t]hese grievances have led to sympathy among the local Muslim population despite Boko Haram’s violent tactics.”

These grievances were met with the kind of violence that further fuels grievances.

The US escalates involvement

In the context of the “war on terror,” the Pentagon saw Boko Haram as an opportunity to train Nigeria’s military and employ it for its objectives. The primary US goal was ensuring that the oil-rich regions did not fall into enemy hands.

The Congressional Research Service noted that by the time AFRICOM was founded in the late-2000s, Africa “supplie[d] the United States with roughly the same amount of crude oil as the Middle East.” An Armed Services Committee report in 2011 noted: “Nigeria’s oil rich Niger Delta is a major source of oil for the United States outside of the Middle East.” The US Energy Information Administration states: “Nigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa. It holds the largest natural gas reserves on the continent and was the world’s fifth–largest exporter of liquefied natural gas.” The country has 37 billion barrels of proven crude, second only to Libya, which was bombed to pieces by the US and NATO in 2011.

Nigeria’s forces summarily executed Boko Haram’s leader Yusuf in 2009. A thesis published by the US Naval Postgraduate School notes that in addition to the assassination, “security forces killing or displacing thousands of Nigerian Muslims, is credited with swelling [Boko Haram BH]’s ranks.”

Yusuf’s deputy, Abubakar Shekau, took over and escalated a suicide bombing campaign. The Navy thesis also notes that “the actions of BH, along with other militant groups such as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), have reduced the country’s oil production, displacing Nigeria from 5th to 8th on the list of America’s largest foreign oil suppliers.”

In 2013, the states of Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe imposed emergency powers. The Pentagon announced a $45 million-dollar budget to counter Boko Haram by training troops in Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria. One of the consequences is that Nigeria has been transformed from a peripheral US interest to a proxy force. Years of war, mostly in the north and border regions, have led to 2.1 million internally displaced people. The World Food Program calculates that 3.4 million face hunger and that 300,000 children are malnourished.

Building a Sparta state

In June 2014, it was reported that a 650-person unit, the Nigerian Army’s 143rd Battalion, was set up on the ground and trained by US Special Forces from the California Army National Guard’s Special Operations Detachment-US Northern Command and Company A, 5th Battalion 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne). By then the Nigerian Army was active in 30 out of the country’s 36 states.

Chief of the US Army Africa’s Security Cooperation Division, Colonel John D. Ruffing, said: “It is not peacekeeping … It is every bit of what we call ‘decisive action,’ meaning those soldiers will go in harm’s way to conduct counterinsurgency operation[s].” One US soldier said: “This is a classic Special Forces mission—training an indigenous force in a remote area in an austere environment to face a very real threat.”

In 2015, Boko Haram’s leader Shekau reportedly pledged allegiance to Islamic State, rebranding the organization IS West African Province (ISWAP). A Congressional Research Service report notes that ISWAP “has surpassed Boko Haram in size and capacity, and now ranks among IS’s most active affiliates.”

It’s not as if strategists don’t understand that violence doesn’t work. They understand that violence escalates violence which can then be used as pretexts for more violence. A US Council on Foreign Relations article from 2020 notes: “the last two years have been deadlier than any other period for Nigerian soldiers since the Boko Haram insurgency began.”

As the war against Boko Haram waged on, Niger Delta gangs in the south threatened to resume attacks on oil infrastructure. US “aid” expanded to include training the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) across the country. In November 2016, 66 officers graduated from the Fingerprint Analysis and Forensics training program, an initiative run by the US Embassy in collaboration with the Office of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement and Atlanta Police Department.

In March 2017, 28 Nigerian officers graduated from courses offered by the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs division, led by US police from Prince William County, Virginia. The program also provided “equipment, training, mentoring, and capacity-building support to various Nigerian law enforcement and justice sector institutions.”


U.S. Army soldiers deployed to Nigeria Army’s School of infantry trained more than 200 Nigerian soldiers in 2018

Expanding AFRICOM’s role

In what the US State Department calls a “whole of government” approach, military operations continued as police training expanded. In early-2018, 12 US Army soldiers, led by Captain Stephen Gouthro, trained 200 Nigerians at the Nigerian Army’s School of Infantry. Facilitated by the US Army Africa, eight Security Assistance and Training Management Organization soldiers and four 1st Brigade Combat Team soldiers shared “ground-combat tactics” with the Nigerian Army’s 26th Infantry Battalion.

In July this year, US Army Special Forces trained 25 officers of the Nigerian Navy Special Boat Service as part of JCET: a five-week Joint Combined Exchange Training program.  The Acting US Consulate Political and Economic Chief, Merrica Heaton, says that the training is designed to help the Nigerian military stop crime in the Gulf of Guinea and “counter violent extremists in the Northeast and enforce the rule of law throughout the region.”

As observers seemingly spotted the top-secret US stealth drone—Northrop Grumman’s RQ-180—over the Philippines, the Department of Defense sold nearly $500 million-worth of propeller planes to Nigeria, marking what the US Embassy and Consulate describes as “an historic level of cooperation …  between the U.S. and Nigerian militaries.” AFRICOM recently confirmed that the inauguration of twelve A-29 Super Tucanos into the Nigerian Air Force will serve a “critical role in furthering regional security and stability.”

The Pentagon allocated $36.1 million to the US Army Corps of Engineers to renovated Kainji Air Base, which will host the Super Tucanos. In addition to training simulator and small arms storage units, the Base includes “aircraft sunshades, a new airfield hot cargo pad, perimeter and security fencing, airfield lights, and various airfield apron, parking, hangar, and entry control point enhancements.”

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