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Imikirin:
That the bombs are not quality

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Ol boy, its not just the bombs I am talking about, everything in the process, from what is deployed, the technology, how precise and to the bombs. These people can hit a needle in a haystack and yet this happened. Also such bombs not going off is a serious quality assurance and safety issue.

Imikirin:
Show me proof

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Proof of what?

Let us dispassionately assess the efficacy of US strikes purportedly against terrorism in African/ Developing Countries.

It is my view that US involvement is not altruistic and as far as history shows, tends to negative results.

Let us start with Somalia as an example.

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According to data from U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and independent monitors like New America, the totals for last year are:

Total Strikes: Approximately 114 to 118 strikes.

Comparison: This is a massive increase from 2024, where only 10 strikes were reported.

Historical Context: 2025 set a new record for U.S. kinetic activity in Somalia, surpassing the previous high of 63 strikes in 2019.

Impact and Casualty Assessments
Data regarding casualties became more difficult to track in mid-2025 when AFRICOM shifted its policy on publishing specific death tolls.

Militant Deaths: Estimates range from 115 to 292 total deaths (including militants and unidentified persons).

Civilian Casualties: AFRICOM generally reported zero civilian deaths for most of the year, though independent watchdog groups often investigate these claims further, noting the difficulty of verifying data in remote, al-Shabaab-controlled areas.

"Collective Self-Defense": Many of the strikes were labeled as "collective self-defense," meaning they were conducted to support Somali National Army (SNA) troops under immediate threat during ground operations.

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How has the above improved the security situation in Somalia? These strikes are said to target ISIS Somalia and Al Shabab.
But what has been the result and impact on Somalia?

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While the U.S. conducted a record-breaking number of strikes in 2025, the strategic outcome was mixed:

Tactical Successes: The strikes killed several high-ranking ISIS-Somalia and al-Shabaab leaders. This disrupted immediate plotting against the U.S. homeland and provided "breathing room" for Somali National Army (SNA) troops during specific battles.

Al-Shabaab’s Resurgence: Despite the strikes, al-Shabaab launched a major offensive in July 2025, recapturing several strategic towns (such as Sabiid and Anole) and moving within 50 kilometers of the capital, Mogadishu. Analysts note that while strikes kill individuals, they haven't stopped the group's ability to tax the population and govern remote areas.

The ISIS Pivot: The U.S. shifted a massive amount of focus toward ISIS-Somalia in the north (Puntland) because the group has become a "financial hub" for global ISIS operations. While this may have helped global security, it left a "security gap" in the south that al-Shabaab exploited.
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Somalia remains deeply troubled and US activity there has been on for some 30 years.

The question remains how or if any stability has been brought to that beleguered country as a result.

Look at the history of US activity there -

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The United States has been active in Somalia for over 30 years, though the nature of the mission has shifted dramatically from humanitarian relief to a permanent counterterrorism campaign.

The involvement can be broken down into three distinct eras:

1. The Humanitarian Era (1992–1994)
The U.S. first intervened on a large scale during the Somali Civil War to combat a massive famine.

Operation Restore Hope: In 1992, President George H.W. Bush sent 25,000 troops to secure food aid deliveries that were being hijacked by local warlords.

"Black Hawk Down" (1993): The mission shifted from feeding people to a "man-hunt" for warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. This culminated in the Battle of Mogadishu, where 18 U.S. soldiers were killed.

Withdrawal: Following the public outcry over the battle, President Clinton withdrew all U.S. combat forces by March 1994.

2. The Shadow War Era (2001–2006)
After the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. returned to Somalia with a focus on counterterrorism, specifically hunting Al-Qaeda members responsible for the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

This was largely a "covert" period involving CIA-backed Somali warlords and occasional Special Operations raids.

In 2003, the U.S. established a permanent military base in neighboring Djibouti (Camp Lemonnier) to serve as a launchpad for Somali operations.

3. The Counterterrorism Era (2007–Present)
The modern conflict began in earnest in 2007, following the rise of the Islamic Courts Union and its militant wing, al-Shabaab.

First Airstrike: The first recorded post-9/11 airstrike occurred in January 2007, using an AC-130 gunship.

Drone Warfare: In 2011, the Obama administration authorized the first drone strikes in Somalia. Since then, the use of remote airpower has become the primary U.S. tool.

Permanent Presence: In 2017, the U.S. officially designated parts of Somalia as an "area of active hostilities," which loosened the rules for airstrikes and led to a permanent deployment of several hundred Special Operations forces (mostly "Green Berets" and Navy SEALs) to train the Somali Danab (Lightning) Brigade.
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Using the above as a historical example, can we analyze the likely results of US involvement in striking locations in Nigeria in a bid to fight terrorism. Especially in light of the results to be seen in other places like Libya, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso and some parts of the Middle East where the US (and partners like France) have been similarly involved.

I should note that Nigeria's situation is very different from Somalia's however.

*Red text is culled from sources online.

PS: Mods/ NLFPMOD/ SEUN - This topic is not for foreign affairs because it is to analyze the situation in Nigeria specifically and the politics around it. Somalia and others are only being used as examples.

zinaunreal:
America dropped old rusty bombs suffering from decades of unuse . Use your brains Nigerians

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I smile when people think the US will spend quality expensive weapons on Nigeria's issues. Never.

So much for precision strikes.

Pacesetter123:
Your first paragraph talks about the office of the president and not that of Vice President.
That one is a known fact.
But your last paragraph talks about the office of the vice President.
So,I want to ask:
Is the last paragraph your personal explanation/interpretation of the sections 137(1) and 142(2) you cited?

Or is that section explicitly talking about the office of the vice president just as it's talking about the office of the president in a clear and in an unambiquous term ?


If it's your personal interpretation,then I will need to confirm it from another lawyer because I have never heard of the tenure barrier to the office of the vice president and deputy governor.
It's only that of the no- 1 that I always heard of.So lemme consult my lawyer too for confirmation.

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Please consult, but be rest assured no VP or Deputy Governor can go for more than two terms.

GloriousGbola:
just referencing the current state of events where the US is going full empire

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You are right on that and there are violations of international and even domestic law at play. You may note that one senior officer resigned in protest when being forced by Hegseth.

anonimi:
How do we know that this chapter relates to section 137(1)

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Because they are in the same chapter which deals with the Executive.

GloriousGbola:
what if they are confirmed drug smugglers tho [ just referencing the current state of events]

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Let me add that aside from the requirement for a trial even under Nazi laws, many German officers outrightly refused orders to kill which they considered illegal and were not significantly punished for refusing. There is a documentary I recently watched on this. Some were given light punishments such as being transferred though.

GloriousGbola:
what if they are confirmed drug smugglers tho [ just referencing the current state of events]

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The laws even then still mandated a trial.

GloriousGbola:
where my nuremberg peeps

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If you are referring to Nazis who claimed the same excuse at the Nuremberg trials, I think there is a difference. Being directed to go and guard a compound or piece of land is not a manifestly illegal order. Being directed to to go and kill and torture innocent people is a manifestly illegal order.

seunmsg:
You’re capping nonsense. Is VAT a new tax? If she had made the same purchases last year, would she not have paid the exact same amount as VAT? So, why will any manufacturer increase price in January over a VAT law that has been in effect since the 90’s?

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uzohrome:
The 7.5 % tax has been existing since 5 years. This attention seeking fellows. Very sad. In a sane country she should be arrested for fake news

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On point. I wondered at the post. Looks silly to me.

anonimi:
Can you please provide the constitutional reference for this your claim.

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Section 137(1): A person shall not be qualified for election to the office of President if - (b) he has been elected to such office at any two previous elections.

Section 142(2) states:

"The provisions of this Part of this Chapter relating to qualification for election, tenure of office, disqualification, declaration of assets and liabilities and oaths of President shall apply in relation to the office of Vice-President as if references to President were references to Vice-President."

Cycleoftheworld:
Except atheists like you do make claims all the time. You have conjured up the concept of a "nothingness" that apparently can produce universes but you can't explain how nothing can do something in the first place.

The concept of God is already answered by the Prime Mover argument which says that God is eternal so Christians have already given you an answer.



OP literally gave you a source showing that most of the devastating wars throughout history have been secular and still you try to blame religion. Atheism itself has killed more than religion. This continues today with the atheist states of China and North Korea killing religious people or persecuting them because they practice religion. The Soviet Union killed millions and it was an atheist state. It also killed people literally in the name of atheism via its "League of Militant Atheists" organisations.



Not true, the majority of atheists are constantly shoving their beliefs upon everyone whether it be atheism itself or the many secular ideologies they believe in such as transgender and non binary nonsense. This is especially common amongst atheists in the West.



There's not really much to argue about with atheists. "Debating" atheists is like educating children. LMAO



It sounds like you atheists don't even go to school letalone university. Nobody here is confusing scientists with atheists. Scientists do not make the claims of atheists, in fact scientists are often the ones refuting atheist claims.

The only "scientists" to have argued in favour of a universe from nothing are all fringe and psuedo-scientists who have all been refuted. The fringe atheist scientist Lawrence Krauss and his book "A Universe from Nothing" was rejected by actual scientists including the physicist George Ellis who described it as nothing more than bad philosophy and fantasy.

This is because there's no evidence of a universe from nothing. The Big Bang Theory doesn't show a universe from nothing, it simply explains what happened after the moments that the universe begun.

Better go back to school yourself.









The Big Bang doesn't explain how the universe begun. It only shows that the universe had a beginning which is what we theists have been saying from the beginning.

The Big Bang Theory was actually proposed by the Catholic priest and scientist Georges Lemaître and was originally rejected by many atheists such as Fred Hoyle who argued that it "brought religious implications into physics by showing a beginning to the universe and therefore implying a creator."

Hoyle was right. The beginning of the universe does point to a creator as all things with a beginning need a cause.

It's funny LordReed says he doesn't believe matter, space and time came from nothing as all atheists do. He argues saying "unknown" in which case that makes him agnostic instead.

Unknown can only be two things: something or nothing. It's that simple. And well nothing does nothing and is by the very definition incapable of doing anything. So that means the universe can only come from something.

This universe coming from another and so on for infinity avoids the question. An infinite chain regression of universes without beginning would mean nothing should exist so ultimately there still had to be a first universe.

The idea of a eternal lifeless energy also doesn't answer anything. It's something but if it's lifeless, how can it produce the universe and the very laws of science which govern our universe? These very things came into existence with our universe so a lifeless energy wouldn't have any motion or the ability to do anything, since following the argument, the laws of science wouldn't have existed. It's like expecting a rock to move by itself without any outside influence, it's not going to happen.

This is why the idea of an eternal conscious energy aka God has always remained the logical position and philosophically sound because not only does it explains everything better, it adheres to logic unlike the naturalistic atheist worldview.

We also have the fine tuning of our universe which is something that is recognised by all scientists. Two examples below:

"N, the ratio of the electromagnetic force to the gravitational force between a pair of protons, is approximately 1036. According to Rees, if it were significantly smaller, only a small and short-lived universe could exist. If it were large enough, they would repel them so violently that larger atoms would never be generated."

"Epsilon (ε), a measure of the nuclear efficiency of fusion from hydrogen to helium, is 0.007: when four nucleons fuse into helium, 0.007 (0.7%) of their mass is converted to energy. The value of ε is in part determined by the strength of the strong nuclear force. If ε were 0.006, a proton could not bond to a neutron, and only hydrogen could exist, and complex chemistry would be impossible. If it were above 0.008, no hydrogen would exist, as all the hydrogen would have been fused shortly after the Big Bang."

You can look up on science sites for more examples but things like this show conscious intelligence rather than happenstance from a something that shouldn't be able to do anything.

Atheism is ultimately a dead end philosophically and intellectually. If you are arguing that consciousness can come from random chance or nothingness, then you can't rule out the idea of a conscious entity that exists beyond the universe in any case. According to atheist naturalism, such a thing is a possibility.

You see, if atheists could actually think logically, they'd realise that and how atheist arguments always work against atheism itself.

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Interesting and some legitimate points here.

However let me say that you can't claim that all atheists believe the universe came from nothing. There are different views. What unifies atheists is non belief in the existence of God or gods, not any specific knowledge on how the universe arose.

Also the logical challenge that remains for theists is proving the very nature of the God they say exists as being a conscious living being, as opposed to say, a simple force or pure energy.

LordReed:
Unknown.

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It is said to be an expansion from the point of a singularity in theory.

LordReed:
I don't believe such a thing. Which atheist told you big bang came from nothing?

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Lawrence Krauss famously or infamously argued that. Or something close to that. I think precisely that the universe arose from nothingness. I found it absurd because he proceeded to define that "nothingness" in a way which is alien to the meaning of the word itself.

It reminds me just how scientists have a different definition for time than that which exists in layman's experience.

Having said that, there is the failure by many (like Lawag3) to take note of different ideas such as creatio ex nihilo (creation from nothing), creatio ex materia (creation from some matter already existing) and creatio ex deo (creation from the divine substance of the creator itself.

Cycleoftheworld:
Lol says the one who couldn't even read what I said. I said The Big Bang Theory only explains what happened AFTER the universe began and it's evidence of the fact that the universe had a beginning, not that it's the beginning of the universe.

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I am interested in the distinction between the red and the blue please. Thank you.

Kam2021:
But as it is now,Atiku and PO on the same ticket is what will give life to ADC.Obi is younger and you don't expect Atiku to be his vice.
Obi going for presidency and Atiku vice is a repetition of 2023 mistake.

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They don't even understand the simple fact that Atiku is not eligible for the VP slot anymore since he has served two terms as VP.

jamafa:
You called Tinubu disaster or You daft. If not because you b confirm Olodo, how can you call Tinubu such name??

Make your parents go collect back thier school fees 😂

Shame on you!

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Tinubu is not just a disaster he is a corrupt calamity.

DrAda:
https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2026/1/three-family-members-de-as-car-crashes-into-stationary-truck-in-rivers.html

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Sad.

Good morning good Doc.

BondRiv:
The states are not properly utilising the funds they are getting. Rivers State is an example, but we will fix that problem in 2027.

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Are you not the same person who says the godfather in Rivers must be allowed to steal Rivers money?

Joker.

anonimi:
Since when did outliers become the norm for anything

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Didnt say they were the norm oh.

OP has not jammed wealthy high powered women from astonishingly well heeled families who are pros on a different level.

Burob:
Your former Oga & mentor is now despicable to u now?

Chai, but when he was in conflict with the APC, Rotimi Amaechi & President Buhari 2015-2023 he was honorable & held in high esteem by yourself & fellow Obidients?

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Can you show me where I ever considered Wike honourable or held him in high esteem?

Can you also show me where I have been a supporter of Peter Obi?

Burob:
Like I rightly concluded your confusing statement was established on disgruntled hate, not logic, thx for the confirmation.

Please 🙏 next time, learn not to be in a haste to make statements out of hate & anger, it will only expose you, & lead u to exclaim nonsensical irrationality.

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If you dont understand that Wike is despicable, that speaks to your character, class and upbringing.
Pathetic.

Burob:
If your superiors tell u to go & guard a property which is not a naval officers duty in the first instance, & more so the said property does not have any legal title in law, it is legally wrong as u admitted, but it is morally right to u also abi?

U just yapped nonsense, & contradicted yourself because of your personal hatred for Nyesom Wike your former mentor & Oga.

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Lol, how was he ever my mentor or boss.
Look we all have different ideas of what's right and wrong, let's leave it at that.

Yes I despise Wike as I should, for he is eminently despicable.

WizardOfNG:
Again, the lack of institutional integrity and strong adherence to the principle of separation of power shames Nigeria publicly.

I am sure somewhere, in the rule book, it is made clear who should do what in this situation. Yet, vested interested means some overstep their jurisdiction.

Just like how we all read, according to the rule of law, that the silly and misguided Yarima erred legally and jurisdictionally preventing a duly mandated Minister of the Federal republic of Nigeria carry out his duty on behalf of Mr.President who is commander in chief of the Nigerian armed forces.

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What is legal is distinct from what is moral. And I believe we all know that Lt. Yerima did what was morally right, even if legally wrong.

What is also clear is that -

1. He was not acting on his own authority so he cannot and should not be held responsible. His superiors who mandated his actions should be.

2. Wike was there to carry out an illegality.

3. Wike's conduct was his usual gutter conduct

4. Most Nigerians were delighted to see the village bully stared down firmly.

BondRiv:
Why do people accept godfatherism to get into office? I couldn't care less about godfatherism. I hate treachery.

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There is something deeply wrong with the mindset of people like you who believe that loyalty is owed to a former governor who steals billions from you and then uses it to hold permanent control of your commonwealth for his private gain. In saying you hate treachery, you really mean that the governor must submit to Wike, which simply means handover control of the treasury to him so that he can keep stealing from you. What kind of slavery and Stockholm Syndrome is this?

BondRiv:
This is politics. You can honour agreements without violating the constitution. It is not an excuse to not honour agreements.

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What agreement? Can you tell us what the agreement was?
You know it is an agreement to hand over the treasury to Wike as well as all authority in the State. Is that not illegal?

Racoon:
Imagine India a third world country like Nigeria springing up from nowhere in the 2000s to be among the 5th reckoning economies in 2025.

Meanwhile Nigeria with much resources( human, economic and natural) than India is still trailing behind abysmally in every good indices of assessment even on the African continent.

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How does Nigeria have more human, economic and natural resources than India?

Nigeria only bests India in Oil & Gas. Nothing else.

BodyCount:
Some of una just daft I swear.
It's not about any number, it's about standing your ground as a sovereign country.

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Thank you.

omoredia:
U that is an Arab slave nko? U no even choose better master

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I am not Muslim.