₦airaland Forum

What about the victims, those raped, kidnapped and the families of those killed by bokoharam?

What about those still in IDP camps chased out of their ancestral homes by bokoharam?

Now we hear a lot of Yoruba chiefs have ran from their throne in Kwara because of jihadists.

Robbed, raped and killed by northern bandits

From Lagos to caliphate...make sure una secure that highway, check all trucks and vehicles that might be moving sahelians into south.

ACRI:
Obi as President won't handle insecurity, he knows in his heart he dare not..

If he tries, he will be sabotaged, he doesn't even have the competence to handle it. That is how they deceived you people in 2015 that Buhari will handle insecurity.

I am tired of naive comments on this forum. The only thing that can save Nigeria is revolution, we need a brutal individual to re-structure the country, let everybody develop at their own pace.

Any candidate not telling you this has no plans for Nigeria. There is a reason UK has Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England

The type of revolution you are talking about can not happen between now and 2027. What are you doing to effect change, talk is cheap.

He doesn't have the will to step on toes that needs to be stepped on.

Tinubu seems to be getting weak, seems he has no courage in him to deal with those advocating for territorists. If a president can't end insecurity, arrest or kill the terrorists and their sponsors, that president has failed. It's a shame he is blaming it on his political enemies, when he should be securing the people, he has turned it to politics, that was really low of the president. Let us try another person. This government has failed on security, which is the most important thing.

Arabs see blacks as slaves, they see their muslims fellow that are black as subjects, inferior slaves.

Christianity definitely is a better religion, for those that need religion...but the best is indigenous cultural spirituality, that's where the power is, anything borrowed is not real to you.

Rogues Nd vagabonds claiming politicians.

Focus on the funds under the ministry they held. Nigerians should focus on the money... running for politics is their personal shenanigans.

We need to start injecting these scums with something, since they are rabid...

Or better still, they can gang up, with the US anihilate you.

equity1:
I understand your anger and frustration because the insecurity and kidnappings are getting out of hand. But saying “if some civilians die, it is part of warfare” is easy to say until your own brother, wife, child, or parent is among those hostages.

Yes, terrorists must be fought seriously and government must improve intelligence, security, and rescue operations. But hostage situations are delicate. A rushed military operation can end with innocent people being killed alongside the terrorists.

The real solution is not endless begging or weakness, but a smarter strategy: stronger security, better intelligence gathering, prevention of kidnappings, cutting terrorist networks and funding, and carefully planned operations when necessary.

Fighting terrorism should not mean becoming careless about innocent lives. Those hostages are human beings, not statistics.

It's not frustration, it is acting decisively to discourage future kidnapping.

It is myopic and disastrous to appeal to terrorists, you think you are saving a dozen people today, but tomorrow they will kidnap thousands. You people are myopic, the millions of soft almajiri criminals in the north are watching, they are seeing how easy it is, to kidnap and hold the government and country to ransom.

American special forces stormed Nigeria and released kidnapped tourist.

Israeli forces stormed Uganda during Idi Amin era, and released the victims of the hijacked plane by Palestinian terrorists in Uganda airport

No nation beg terrorists only Nigeria, that is why we have the most intense internal jihadists terrorists problem. By begging terrorists you only encourage them, and encourage more youths to go into kidnapping and terrorism because it's easy. Deterrence is the key to curtailing crime, people have guns in America but use it consciously, because they know they can meet the electric chair if it is misused.

We need to storm that hideout, kill the terrorists and release the hostages, it is a disgrace, a country like Nigeria being held at the jugular by ragtag terrorists, their advocates and sponsors. By begging them, giving them money and making them feel important by the governor begging and calling them, we are encouraging more northern almajiri youths to join jihadists territorists kidnapping business. Learn to think. We have been appeasing, begging, rehabilitating, releasing terrorists, and yet the terrorism is increasing, this shows we are the ones making it worse by the wrong soft approach. The right approach should be, either terrorists run out of Nigeria, or get eliminated. This is the only way.

Is NNPC now against low prices for Nigerians?

What a evil and useless APC party and government.

Tinubu is a disgrace, your own region. What a useless government

ayusco85:
You just spoke my mind. These terrorists are rag tag herdsmen with zero military training, just wielding guns and ammunitions. U can ambush them and take them out one by one in a sniper style / commando operation

No mind the evil politicians, people are dying everyday and the evil people are saying they don't want to hurt civilians. Nations do things for deterrence, I don't know if they are too dumb to see the jihadists territorists are using this same tactics and kidnapping more students because the government is too weak, they know government will beg, this begging embolden other terrorists to kill and kidnap more. Very useless government.

We must stop communicating or negotiating with terrorists, we must be ready to enter that hideout, kill the terrorists, save the people, if some civilian dies, it's part of warfare, but communicating with terrorists and appealing to them will encourage more kidnapping. People are dying everyday already, use force, to discourage other jihadists groups from using this same pattern. Shame on the governors, shame on the president and defence chiefs. When Americans are kidnapped, they storm the hideout, not beg and appeal to demons, this begging and always saying we can't attack due to hostages is stupidity and weakness and will lead to more kidnappings for ransom...if we had stormed the hideout and killed all the terrorists the first time they carried out mass kidnappings, this nonsense would have stopped. Thousands are being killed regardless, anyway.

Everyday we hear of special forces, what type of special forces can't carry out special operations?

America have flew in special forces to rescue hostages around the world including Nigeria, does Nigeria government value it's citizens life than America?

Only a fool won't understand that this begging, rehabilitation and cowardly approach will destroy Nigeria totally, and hand it over to terrorists.

RealityKings1:
Armed robbery just to travel halfway across the world to murder women and children in school. Strategic move?

Islamic jihadists terrorism have killed millions in middle east, Africa, Nigeria, raped thousands of school girls, forced them into child bride, and is pushing the world to a global war.

Bad man Na bad man

Yemmysworld91:
What then is the reason for burying majority Benin obas in ile Ife before it was stopped?

Benins no wan gree and the Yorubas no wan gree too .
Only God knows whose history is accurate cos una dey confuse me

I clearly stated it, ile'Ife and Lagos, were created by the Benin empire, they were extensions of the empire then, we are talking about a long time ago here, about two thousand years ago, for the ile'Ife episode, (they buried kings that emanated under that dynasty in the land, that the Benin Royal bloodline that started the Oba dynasty lived) As I said earlier, ile'Ife was an extension of the Benin empire then, as you can see, that practice has since been stopped.

From their twisted Oduduwa story, they clearly mentioned Benin royalty traveling to their land and ruling there, but of course they twisted the narrative and called Oduduwa a God, when he was a bloodline of the Benin empire, the prince married a Yoruba woman and the seed was Oduduwa, of course in history people will like to favour their tribe, revisionist etc, that is why you have different versions. But recent factual history like the Benin controlling Lagos, and the first Lagos king being a Benin Prince (Ado), timelines of the greatness of the empire, building the Benin wall, moat, all these feats require a lot of skilled workers or slaves, and it takes a strong tribe or people to capture others as slaves, writings and publishings by Portuguese sailors, traders and pirates of their dealings with the Benin empire (they did not deal with any other Nigerian tribe at that point), the waterways and trade route connecting West Africa to Europe being named 'bight of Benin', the priceless bronze works and artefacts of the Benin empire (displayed in British museum), and archeological tests carried out on these bronze works, the Benin wall, and moat, will tell, even a kid the true picture. Edo people and Yorubas are good neighbours but we are different tribes and people, our ways, disposition, temperament, language, sounds, traditions, mysticism, mannerisms and culture are as different as day and night, though some terms and words/names might be used interchangeably by the two, this is due to historical interactions.

Refinedbeing:
So theirs Oja Oba in Benin too? Is it also located beside the Kings’ palace?

The major way to ascertain a Yoruba town/settlement is that the Oja obas are always beside the Kings palace and that’s mostly the city centre. Every other parts are built surrounding both.

Not insinuating Benin is a Yorubaland by the way. Just asking out of curiosity and saying so others can learn.

Benin empire state is more than 4000 years old, has had 3 dynasties and 12 kings before the Oba era, oldest yoruba settlement is around 1300 years old, evidence of this is in archeological tests done on the great Benin city walls, Benin moat and priceless Benin bronze works and artefacts. Recent history of 17th and 18th century showed Benin controlling the waterways of Niger Delta axis, down to Lagos and Dahomey, trading with the Portuguese, that stretch of waterway is named after Benin (bight of Benin), first Lagos king was a Benin Prince, Prince Ado. Stop this nonsense, a son can not teach a father anything, a son copies from the father. Benin created your major earlier cities, ile'Ife and Lagos. All these are facts, not myths or fables... till today Benin blood run Lagos royal household, the Aworis etc are Benin princes.

Na Nigeria dem go carry the body come bury, but them rate their religious culture than their indigenous tribal culture and nation.

Tinubu has failed. He can't even kill rag-tag jihadists territorists and their advocate. He should go home and rest.

If Tinubu don't agree with this, he should order arrest of clerics inciting northern youths, and end almajirism, sanction any hate or extremists preacher and ban almajiri school, this is why the corruption and manipulation of the northern children's mind start from. Then you push for death penalty for terrorists.

Cartels follow the meth, because of the money involved, very dangerous, should be nipped in the bud fast.

Northern leaders re playing a sinister game.

You know bokoharam leaders...how come you people are so cozy with terrorists?

Northern leaders are sinister and hypocritical, they are playing a dangerous game.