₦airaland Forum

agabusta:
The inability of the GEJ govt to indict and prosecute any publicly know figure for this BH onslaught is self-indicting and points to the fact that it is his own team (GEJ) that will face prosecution at the world court for crimes against humanity.

And that's why they are scared about Buhari and they don't want him there

if a load is too much to carry, seek help

News today is that USA and Allies has destroyed at least 6000 ISIS members

Yesterday , BOMBINGS killed about 800 top commanders in different cities , We need real drones with capabilities, not the toy drones they announce that they have


Soon Boko Haram will get to middle belt and they'll wreak havoc , time to receive help is now

menesheh:
Whatever

You are our representative. Do any to protect ur from a group that refused to assist, refused to sell ammunition and isolated us when their assistance is most needed.

We are one hell of a country that can take care of ourselves if not the involvement of the military to the insurgency, playing eye service in open, playing Devils advocate in secret.

Your point being ? ? ?

olrotimi:
Op you are horrendously pathetic as a biased to the left writer. There are obviously many things you don't understand about international diplomacy and UN/NATO military intervention in vulnerable states. Nigeria is going with the AU standby force who are reasonably positioned for the task. What, you want us to go cap in hand, begging the UN that is controlled by the Proud Americans (who have spited you severally) and their stooges. I'd rather have the French (who know the African terrain better and have more astake) who are more loyal to their colonies or the Chinese a thousand times over the Americans. Think my friend, what has the 'Great American Hope of the Black Man' done for Africa since he became President of the US? When the chips are down, we Africans are on our own.

I have nothing against America, as a matter of fact, i think you learned soo much BS and you are paranoid, the mention of America and HELP in the same context , you and some others go automatically berserk , saying everything no one needs to hear

Trust me when i say America knows your secrets and terrains and your assets more than anyone else in the world ,

UN is willing to sacrifice people for the safety and uplifting of Nigerians in the north and all you can come up with is conspiracy

Check my posts about Boko Haram, everything i said has come true , They declared caliphate, they chased soldiers, Boko Haram has strong holds in more than 5 states all interlinked , soon as their forces become 7000 , there'll be no stopping a similiar even in History, Tutsi / Utsu , i believe you know the story


My point being, STOP REFUSING HELP IF YOU ARE NOT UNTOP OF THE SITUATION

[size=2pt]Mods, this is front page material, but the choice is yours anyways [/size]

owobokiri:
Nice call! Jonathan should stick to his guns! Anything is better without the help of any amorphous organisation controlled by the "crusading" NATO alliance. [b]The west and their allies with all their dangerous negative propoganda against Nigeria in this war coupled with their refusal to sell arms to Nigeria [/b]are only trying to find ways to get in directly involved. The ultimate aim ? Weaken, balkanise, disorganise and dislocate Nigerias surging drive towards becoming a modernised state, a status that will naturally make her a "local champion" calling the shots in this region. People, it is a dirty political/diplomatic [/b]chase game going on here and I expect Nigerians to stand with this government on this very issue irrespective of party affliations. They should send UN peacekeepers to Congo, Somalia, Libya and co if they are desperate to deploy somewhere. . [b]This country isz capable of handling this mess. All we to do is to make sure that those in authority do their bit by providing our troops with the weapons and training they need to cut shekau and his gang to size. Please all Nigerians should say no to foreign intervention. It is a prelude to disaster.

M

Beleaguered, Nigerians Seek to Restore a General to Power


KADUNA, Nigeria — Boisterous crowds packed the streets for the retired general, while young men climbed lampposts, walls and billboards to glimpse his gaunt face. Others danced on careening motorcycles, brandishing homemade brooms, symbols of his campaign.

With Nigeria’s presidential election only weeks away, Boko Haram’s unchecked rampaging here in the country’s north is helping to propel the 72-year-old general, Muhammadu Buhari, to the forefront.

After ruling Nigeria with an iron hand 30 years ago as the country’s military leader, Mr. Buhari is now a serious threat at the ballot box, analysts say, in large part because of Boko Haram’s blood-soaked successes.

“The state is collapsing and everybody is frightened,” Jibrin Ibrahim, a political scientist with the Center for Democracy and Development in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, said of Boko Haram.



In Nigeria, New Boko Haram Suicide Bomber Tactic: ‘It’s a Little Girl’JAN. 10, 2015
Satellite images taken five days apart show large-scale destruction in Doro Gowon, Nigeria, the home of a now-destroyed military base.

Satellite Images Show Ruin Left by Boko Haram, Groups SayJAN. 15, 2015
“They are able to capture more and more territory, but also increase the level of atrocity,” he added. “A lot of people are frightened that these people can take over the whole country. So a lot of people are saying, ‘Give Buhari a chance.’ ”


A Buhari victory over President Goodluck Jonathan would be a rare upset for an incumbent in a country where petrodollars have long flowed and the presidency has great latitude to distribute them.

But oil prices have crashed; attacks on schools, markets and entire villages continue unabated; and Nigeria’s army has been thoroughly incapable of stopping Boko Haram, which now controls substantial portions of the northeast and regularly sends the country’s soldiers fleeing.

“We have to solve it; it’s the first problem of the country,” Mr. Buhari said tersely about the battle with Boko Haram during a long day of campaigning this week.

“This should have been an easy one,” added the former general, who is believed to have been a target of bombings in this city over the summer in which dozens were killed. “But it has been allowed to develop over five years.”

There is much at stake in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, even as it falters — the currency has dropped sharply, questions are swirling about the ability to pay civil servants and the country’s oil-money reserves have withered. The campaign has become a vociferous, at times violent, joust between Buhari partisans in the mostly Muslim north and supporters of Mr. Jonathan in the largely Christian south.

Mr. Buhari’s tenure as Nigeria’s military ruler was brief: a 20-month stint in the 1980s, ended by another military coup. Yet it is remembered with trepidation by many Nigerians.

His self-proclaimed “war against indiscipline” was carried to “sadistic levels, glorying in the humiliation of a people,” wrote the Nobel laureate and writer Wole Soyinka. Mr. Buhari forced tardy civil servants, even older ones, to perform frog jumps, jailed journalists for critical articles, and expelled tens of thousands of immigrants from other West African countries, blaming them for the country’s problems.

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The current president and his party, which has held power since military rule ended more than 15 years ago, have made this past a central part of Mr. Jonathan’s re-election strategy, hoping to fan old fears about the general.

Full-page newspaper ads suggest that Mr. Buhari is eager to introduce Shariah law all over the country, beyond the northern states where it already exists (in the campaign, Mr. Buhari has not said that).

Other ads remind readers of the retired general’s coup-prone past. (Historians say that even before Mr. Buhari came to power in a military coup at the end of 1983, he played an active role in the coups that marked Nigeria’s early years.)

But Mr. Buhari’s supporters are far more interested in the instability shaking the north, urging a total overhaul of the lackluster fight against the Islamists. Many of them turned out in this northern metropolis this week for a glimpse of the general, who has traded his medal-bedecked uniform for traditional robes and thick-framed spectacles.

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Supporters of Mr. Buhari’s party packed the streets of Kaduna on Monday and say they are worried about political instability. Credit Florian Plaucheur/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Hadiza Bala Usman, the main campaigner for the return of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram last spring, was waiting for the general at the airport here. She helped start the group that pressed the government on the girls’ fate, demonstrating for weeks in a public square in Abuja. Nine months after their abduction, the girls remain missing.

“The resources meant for the military don’t go to the military; the bullets and boots don’t go to the soldiers,” Ms. Usman said. “And what is happening to security, you see it in all the sectors.”

“The support we’re giving” to Mr. Buhari “is for ending the insurgency,” she added. “And so no more children are abducted.”

A retired general in the crowd of supporters, Alhassan Usman, who is not related to Ms. Usman, agreed, expressing anger that Boko Haram had gained the upper hand over Nigeria’s soldiers.

“The issue is lack of discipline; the commander has eaten his money,” he said, arguing that officers take money meant for soldiers, who then see little reason to obey orders.

Mr. Buhari stood as ramrod straight as he had in the days when he rose in a coup against Nigeria’s fledgling, but corrupt, democracy. After taking power, he soon instituted what he called his attempt to straighten out a chaotic nation.

That tarnished past has been, if not forgotten, at least pushed aside by many in the tumultuous jumble of Nigerian history. Mr. Buhari is expected to do particularly well in the Muslim north, his home turf, on Election Day, as he did in an unsuccessful run four years ago.

Still, his campaign faces stiff obstacles. Tens of thousands of people in northern Nigeria have been displaced by relentless violence, and many of them will be unable to vote in the Feb. 14 election. Even if they can, Nigerian elections are prone to violence and fraud.

This week, the streets of Kaduna were packed three-deep with people, many waiting since early morning or trekking miles from nearby villages to see him. Partisans yelled as they climbed on the general’s vehicles, frenetically brushing windshields with the symbolic brooms.

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Mr. Buhari spoke only briefly to the packed stands in a downtown stadium, vaguely promising greater security, prosperity and better education. But the words appeared not to be the point. It was his presence, and an implicit promise of austerity and military action, that the crowd seemed to want, after years of scandalous stories in the Nigerian news media about missing oil funds and high living by officials in Mr. Jonathan’s administration.

“The enthusiasm for Buhari is almost like a religion,” said Nasir el-Rufai, a former government minister running for governor of Kaduna State.

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Muhammadu Buhari Credit Pius Utomi Ekpei/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
“Look at all these people,” he said, pointing at the crowds pressing up against his own car before the general arrived. “They are all waiting just to see Buhari.”

As military ruler, Mr. Buhari showed little respect for the democratic process, rising to power in a coup that swept aside a civilian government and promising to include the political participation of Nigerian citizens “at some point.”

His government also carried out a bizarre kidnapping plot targeting a former minister who had fled to London. It involved Israeli secret agents, giant packing crates and anesthetic drugs.

In an interview, Mr. Buhari said that the times had changed and that he had changed with them.

“I operated as a military head of state,” he said. “Now I want to operate as a partisan politician in a multiparty setup. It’s a fundamental difference. Whatever law is on the ground, I will make sure it is respected.”

Yet it is Mr. Buhari’s long military career, not the respect for civil liberties he has proclaimed later in life, that will ultimately swing voters wary of his past, analysts say.

“You’ve got the Boko Haram in the northeast, where they bomb churches and marketplaces, and slaughter children,” Mr. Buhari said.

But he also noted the security problems in the nation’s south, where militants at oil fields have created havoc for years. “No highway in the country is absolutely safe,” he said.

Though supporters insist he will knock out the Islamists “in a month,” as Mr. el-Rufai put it, the retired general is far more cautious. He spoke of a methodical approach, declining to say whether he would fire the country’s top military chiefs.

“We have to see the whole picture,” Mr. Buhari said. “We’ll ask them to brief us, one by one. Why haven’t they been performing?”

“Let them justify the use of funds,” he said. “What is the intelligence community doing?”

Referring to Boko Haram, he added, “Where do they get weapons?”

He focused on the individual failures in confronting Boko Haram — the misspent money, the lack of weaponry for the soldiers, their lack of motivation for the fight — rather than on an overall condemnation of the army.

His jaw muscles tightening, he said, “This is not the Nigerian Army I knew


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/24/world/africa/muhammadu-buhari-nigeria-election.html?_r=1

securi:
Source?

Yahoo news

http://news.yahoo.com/nigeria-says-un-force-not-needed-tackle-boko-165542595.html

Flawlessangel:
u claim not 2 b selling any ebook to anybody , yet u are collecting seven thousand naira from dem, whats d difference?..........mtcheeew!!!

Don don full here,

how to start business with 20k

import your heart out and buy a range rover in 2 months , trading secret

bla bla bla na so dem dey write am, person wey get 20k wey them dey ask am for 5-8k , Him money go still reach 20 k ? ? ?

No mind the yeye people, the end of the ebook self na still level 2 ebook dey follow am

Tobilastik:
..dz APC pple ehn.... Always want to deceive Nigerians..
na wen election dy come he remember say boli exists

#GEJ all the way
PDP ..POWER!!! ;P

You dey reason with your yansh

[size=18pt]If election no dey , dem no go dey carry camera follow am
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and this one dey different from person wey dey chop two roast corn at a time
we know say that one na fake

Nigeria says UN force not needed to tackle Boko Haram

Most comments on the source page said clueless has done it again, many weren't happy and so many people are disappointed over this news, please read and state your views

Lagos (AFP) - Nigeria's top security official on Friday ruled out the need for a United Nations or African Union-backed force to fight Boko Haram, saying the country and its partners could handle the threat.

Possible "enhanced international support" against Boko Haram will be discussed on the sidelines of an AU summit later this month, given fears about the group's threat to regional stability.

But national security adviser Sambo Dasuki, a former army colonel, said wider assistance would not be necessary.

"It's something that we can do. It's absolutely something we can do," he told BBC World Service radio in an interview.

"I think as it is we are in good shape to address the issue with those partners, Niger, Chad and Cameroon."

Representatives from Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon met this week to thrash out details of a new regional force to counter the rising threat from the Islamist militants.

An existing force, made up of troops from Nigeria, Niger and Chad appears to have collapsed in disarray even before the January 3 attack on its headquarters near the northeastern town of Baga.

Troops from Niger and Chad were not present during the raid, which saw Baga razed and hundreds of civilians, if not more, killed in what is feared could be the insurgents' worst atrocity.

Tuesday's meeting agreed to transfer the headquarters of the new force from Nigeria to the Chadian capital, N'Djamena, reflecting concern about Boko Haram's rising transnational threat.

Boko Haram has seized dozens of towns and villages in the northeast in the last six months and now controls the border of Borno State with Niger, Chad and Cameroon.

Some analysts have suggested that it is trying to revive a defunct 19th century Islamic caliphate, whose borders corresponded to parts of modern-day Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.

The group's leader Abubakar Shekau, however, mocked the proposed new force in a video published online on Tuesday, boasting that his fighters would take on all comers and that "Nigeria is dead".

"The kings of Africa... I challenge you to attack me now. I am ready," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/nigeria-says-un-force-not-needed-tackle-boko-165542595.html

kay1one:
Choose illiteracy!

Choose to remain on NL

[size=28pt]If you E-vultures devote this much time spent on researching Buhari's past on Google's Live satellite streaming , you would find shekau and Claim cool 30 MIL USD that USA and NIGERIA offered as ransome and then you wont have to be pain in the buttt anymore

anyways , research result is

Waste of time, My mind is made GMB ALL THE WAY [/size]

Ilekeh:
Because it's against Nigeria's law. No impersonation of Naija popos whatsoever.

Yeah except when such impersonation is being perpetrated by a politician or hoodlums

Mùmú law

[size=28pt]Niggas be like WTF , why not Nigerian police uniform [/size] ? ? ?

[size=38pt]Not heard Sammy Okposo's name in 10 years or so

Nigga looking for free publicity [/size]

UPDATE , MOFO finally apologized, i would have said he was under the influence when he was typing his insults, otherwise, don't say things you can't stand by

[size=38pt]Spreading rumors

impersonating friend of badoo

threatening innocent blogger

announcing / advertising your blog on NL for free


You are under arrest[/size]

[size=18pt]Dp stealing viewers be like

The guy just sign the photo anyhow

Mtchewww
but remain hopeful so they keep monitoring title

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[size=18pt]Everybody poses with their new car you should have the pictures and it should be online by now

Frsc needs a better database that's records and displays registration info on request

Police needs to have a network that'll be able to access suggestion above

Nobody steals Rover , a buddy of mine left a state to work in. Another, left his car at a mechanic shop for 1 month, thieves came broke the glass of DC, EOD and a few other cars took the dashboard with stereo /dvd players but didn't bother to break the rover's glass at all

My point

don't buy common cars if you can afford another type

Don't leave your vehicle unattended

Even if the sun is 100° don't roll down your glass not even 1 cm space

Check with vio someone could have towed the vehicle

Upload the pictures you'll be surprised how nationwide the branches of NL have grown

Pray hard and try to recollect if you've noticed someone trailing you [/size]

Who the hell is "US"

masterpower:
BY WHAT YOU WROTE, ITS CLEAR THAT YOU'RE THE SUPREME BASTARD.

GIVE US JUST ONE REASON WHY YOU WANT A JIHADIST ILLITRATE BUHARI AS YOUR PRESIDENT?

WAKE UP BECAUSE JONATHAN CONTINUES TILL 2019 NOMATTER WHAT. HOWEVER, YOU ARE FREE TO JOIN YOUR PEOPLE IN THEIR CALIPHATE.

2fine2fast:
If this thing no go frontpage......then something is fishy on nairaland.
NIGERIA shall be GREAT AGAIN.
Sai BUHARI

Uploaded Buhari's cert and documents as released by his school copied it from SR and Nigerian dailies it didn't go through somethings definitely wrong

[size=28pt]Refinery or no Refinery, Apc all the way

One government for 16+ years is bound to loose sight and focus

Don't care how far yall travel in your time machines to digout these things

I want change of government

Period [/size]

Haaaa

Ayé níkà oooo

Òpònú Kan rèé

sbaks:
Correct person! No wonder you are an eagle which soars higher unlike the others who are APChickens.
G for good luck(goodluck to nigerians)
E for eagle (destined to soar higher than its enemies)
J for joy (joy to nigerians)

G for gullible
M for murderer
B for badluck
Chai!!! There is GOD O

Goodluck is a victor! He fought ebola to the extent a whole "America" sent their dtroops to LEARN from Nigeria on how Nigeria conquered it. It couldn't have happened in 1983 as the whole Nigeria would have been WIPED OUT! Should we blame him sef? "Common WAEC him no get"

bamidbamid:
Oh, its u... I i just checked now .. am ain't surprised cos u av always bin a bitch.. ur dirt stunk pussy speaks for u..besides wats my bizz with u and ur bornmusaga Gej.
[quote author=ellechrystal post=29988639]Same to u.
Everything u ve said here, same to u n ur household a million folds..good measure pressed down shaken together n running over. So shall it b for ever n ever Amen...
By d way GEJ til 2019..cry if u want to

Eeya

kennygee:
With the right amount, he will sing a different song.

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He was offered right amount by Omisore in Osun he didn't take it and they tried to kill him

Stop being so stewpieed [/size]

This and squirrels don't go together

Was pej your gns teacher?

Olódo

baybeeboi:
na wao!!!
Who come be Lagbaja again?
Na where all this Squirrels d comot from?

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Really?

Would you a freshly graduated doctor without experience operate you if you had the choice?

Ground troops not paramedics save fellow soldier's lives it's about experience

And Buhari has it
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Trailblazer1:
I pity that guy above me.


Can you allow a doctor without qualification to carry out a surgery on you?


Buhari should be stripped of all his honours and sent to jail for deceiving Nigerians since 1961. :-/

So?

Akon419:
yes the same way some Yorubas are campaigning for the man that killed many of their kinsmen and send thousands to prison without trial

[size=18pt]Nice try but no cigar

Gmb all the way.

Monkey no fine him mama like am, if Yorubas were so vindictive , Nigeria wouldn't exist, the tree of democracy is watered with the blood of patriots and citizens alike, we forgive him for killing our kinsmen for the betterment of the Nation we dearly love

However GEJ is killing the future of incoming generations , worse than killing the heroes of the past [/size]

CAS is probably a front used by Nigerian politicians ask the likes of Ibori Alamesiega and the likes of them cabals stealing our fuel

Ask Jonathan too

Less than a month Investigation revealed corruption and bribery, suspect arrested and probably more will be revealed

Farouk and Co have been taking bribes since 99 no conviction no arrest , probably because bribery is not corruption

Just comparing

Nice graphics

I thought Shekau was dead