₦airaland Forum

Jakumo:
The Islamists are being financed by Arabs with lots of spending cash to squander on military adventures. This terrorist invasion is no longer just a rag-tag band of illiterate herdsmen with rifles. Boko Haram has access to serious military hardware, including tanks, artillery pieces and transport helicopters, thanks to copious funding sent by their wealthy Arab and Chinese paymasters whose eyes are focused on toppling the elected Nigerian government by force of arms, so as to seize control over the nation's oil wealth, and mineral resources respectively.

This Islamist government takeover nightmare scenario is unfolding in nearby Mali as these words are typed, so nothing must be left to chance, and the biggest boy on the block MUST be invited to duke it out with the bully who daily kills and kidnaps Nigerian civilians.

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Are you shua about Chinko involvement? They are not known for such oh.

Jakumo:
Those of us who have never been participants in the high-stakes game of politics can never fully grasp how complex a task it can become, to deftly balance a multitude of conflicting interests, while appearing decisive and independent-minded to the electorate and to international partners.

Regardless of whether Nigeria's presidency invited this US military participation, or was obliged to extend that invitation by any number of factors, the majority of Nigerians who advocate the concept of peaceful secular democracy will be jubilant at the news of missiles finally raining down on the bad actors who seek to impose a murderous theocracy on Nigeria.

Tinubu is the man who is in the process of subduing a lion with a wooden club, so this is not the time to critique the form and style of each blow inflicted on the roaring beast. We should just be glad that one way or the other, the problem of Islamist terror in Nigeria is being addressed with overwhelming force at long last.

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Well, we can agree that those chaps deserve a proper mending. I trust you knw that mending means the kind of beating that will make one an invalid.

Jakumo:
President Tinubu is walking a tight-rope, for he must not appear too eager for America's military help to arrive in Nigeria, lest he alienate power brokers that he must still go through the motions of appeasing in the name of religious and partisan political solidarity.

On the other hand, Tinubu recognized in the nick of time that drastic and overwhelming military intervention, most competently delivered by Uncle Sam, was essential to confront the Islamist terror invaders before they metastasize into a murderous military juggernaut capable of seizing control of the entire nation after an all-out assault on the seat of power, as is currently unfolding in nearby Mali for all the world to see.

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My point is still that its not any recognition in the nick of time as you say. You seem to keep trying to somehow praise him for this when the whole world knows that it was forced on him completely without his say. And with insults and potent threats to boot. There is nothing to praise him for in this. Rather there is a lot to castigate, but you keep trying to spin it to somehow even make him the architect of this and I just cant understand why you bother when the whole world including you knows the truth.

Jakumo:
There is no shame at all in calling in the big guns

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Again, BAT did not call them in.

Jakumo:
Long live President Bola Tinubu who was wise to stay clear of the Russians and Chinese when seeking military help.

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Again, for the great love of you and your writing which I hold, I beg you, on my knees if necessary not to embellish things perhaps from excitement. BAT never sought any military help from the USA on this matter. Trump forced it regardless of whatever BAT wanted or thought.

Jakumo:
Haha no be small ting, my brother. A hoodlum loiters around the street corner looking for unsuspecting targets of opportunity, while a ground-attack drone loiters in an elliptical holding pattern while scanning the ground hundreds of feet below using 50-power-magnification cameras to ironically identify targets of opportunity who will never hear the distant engines of the bear in the air above them, before all fades to black for them.

From a practical standpoint it is, as you note, practically impossible to conduct air-strikes or missile deliveries without non-target individuals or vehicles on random occasion straying within range of the explosive fragmentation envelope during those moments when inbound flying ordnance strikes home and detonates.

However, on reflecting over the sheer magnitude and sadistic brutality of the Islamic terror slave-raiding and land-grabbing invasion that has recently been gathering momentum across a rapidly expanding area of Nigeria's landmass, the 11th-hour military pact between the Nigerian and US governments is an extraordinary response brought about by a grave and growing security threat that is clearly funded by the deep pockets of homicidal zealots harboring a frightening agenda for Nigeria that must be de-militarized and vanquished as a matter of overarching urgency.

Furthermore, the aggregated summation of all alleged or confirmed civilian collateral damage that will be recorded during of this vital ground-pounding exercise that Uncle Sam is supervising for Nigeria's lasting benefit, will only amount to a modest fraction of the death toll that Islamist terrorists have ALREADY inflicted all over Nigeria, talk less the horrors that would have been in store for Nigeria if the new sheriff in town, our man Big Don Trumpenstein, did not see fit to step in "guns ablaze", precisely as promised earlier.

On a personal level, I would welcome close-up aerial bombardment if I ever found myself under guard as a captive in a remote kidnappers hideout, because that fireworks display will either end my suffering quickly, or, much more preferably, offer a fleeting chance for the captives to make a break for freedom by sprinting off towards all compass points amid the bedlam and confusion of the aerial onslaught.

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Fair enough.
I must ask something. Do you have some military or engineering background because some of the technical language you use in these matters fascinates me.

This man is a goner. He is no longer relevant. The fact that he cant respond to Makinde shows his wings have been clipped.

Jakumo:
That said, Nigerian military and intelligence services were consulted to green-light ALL targets that have been reduced to smoldering wreckage already in the opening hours of this necessary intervention, just as all future target lists will be approved by the Nigerian military.

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How do you know this and why are you so sure of it?

President Bola Tinubu is a man of few words and decisive action, which we are now witnessing with MORE TO COME, as targets all over Nigeria,. wherever terrorists are camped, are comprehensively vaporized one after the other.

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Please leave this insistence that this is in anyway Tinubu's handiwork or decision. We all, including you, know he has NO say in it.

Jakumo:
The cameras sported by US surveillance drones feature such enormous powers of magnification and image resolution that drone operators can read the license plate of a car traveling along a highway, while the drone loiters hundreds of feet above where its engine cannot be heard by anyone on the ground, ready to launch death from above on command, as the drone operator sips coffee in an airconditioned command trailer hundreds of miles away from the scene of utter carnage on the ground.

This is why the risk of collateral damage among Nigeria's civilian population is minimal. Long before Donald Trump issued his first warning to the terrorists invading Nigerian territory, overhead satellites and drones had pinpointed all the terrorist camps and gatherings that qualified for the first installment of ballistic annihilation that will be followed up by numerous others very soon.

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I was rather referring to whether or not they would achieve a cessation of the activities of these groups.

As to your reference to the capacity of these drones to be precise, the sad truth is that they have yet struck very innocent targets even in the most recent conflicts.

On a lighter note, I just love that word "loiters" as used here.

Sirianese:
All these years Buhari would strike innocent civilians instead

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Oh so you think the US is not also striking innocent civilians as well? Of course they are.

EponObi:
Lol... Even when the US Secretary of War explicitly stated the mission was in collaboration with the Nigerian government, those uncouth mouths are still dragging Tinubu. Lmaooooo. Una go cry tire. They also don't know that the US has been conducting surveillance and reconnaissance missions in Nigeria for the past one month, with collaborations and cooperation with the FG. They have their base in Ghana and they fly from there into Nigeria.

This is turning to be positive for the country, against their expectations. Their expectation was for Tinubu to be embarrassed at the White House and for the US to come and establish military base in Nigeria with boots on the ground. Kudos for this admin for spinning the situation into their favour. Now they've established intel sharing collaboration with the greatest military on earth. The US now use their equipment, fighter jets, bombers, drones, etc to help them fight our insurgency. It's a win-win.

IPOB just blow money lobbying US senators. They spent their money for the benefit of the country they hate so much. I'm sure their excos are regretting their move right now. Amateurs.

BTW, this mission has nothing to do with Christians or their faux genocide claims. Read what Trump and Pete Hegseth wrote - they wrote ISIS. Not boko haram or ISWAP. They wrote "ISIS".

Days ago, ISIS attacked their soldiers in Syria. Trump promised retaliation and is preparing for an attack in Syria. They only used the mission in Nigeria to score some cheap points against ISIS and to project strength and as a Christmas gift to US citizens. All the same, we got the benefits too.

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You know very well BAT had no hand in this. He was forced together with insults and threats.

We need videos of these strikes.

hope4nigeria:
nothing concerned me about any Obi,but the criminal will be bundled out of the power very soon abi, Lamidi sangodele is from my state of Osun, iragbiji to be precise, I'm from ilesa, so we in Osun reject sangodele, he's a criminal

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Even the name sounds ritualistic.



Amoda, Yekini, Lamidi Sangodele

Jakumo:
This is correct. All arms of the Nigerian military and intelligence services are cooperating fully with America's long overdue cleanup exercise that will rid Nigeria of Islamist terror vermin, one encampment at a time, one convoy at a time, one "secret" supporter at a time, and possibly even one Islamist-conquered and annexed local government area at a time.

Expect to see some seriously gory pictures in the next few days.

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God sparing our lives, lets have a first performance review on the American intervention in two years time.

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immaculatesense:
A president is making a difficult decision that diminishes his power just for the general good

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He didnt make any decision. It was forced regardless of whatever he thought. That is the point. And YOU KNOW that is the truth.
So stop trying to praise him for what was forced on him by Trump, even with insults and threats.

Father4all:
. No, that's not all. I have seen something like this before. The women might even confess openly before her death

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Woman or women?

press9jatv:
US marines are in Nigeria already. They make use of Ghana military base. Iswap, lakurawa terrorists, Boko haram terrorists will be dealt with

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I said perspective.

press9jatv:
military base will be set up and there's nothing you guys will do about. Terrorists must be remove from Nigeria soil. Enough is enough

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Naïve perspective.

oalandAgents2:
Nigerians thought Trump was against Tinubu, forgetting Tinubu is a CIA asset and colonizer's puppet.

America, France and even Israel are all coming to support Tinubu not because of any Christian genocide, but because Tinubu is helping them destroy Nigeria and is allowing them to set up military bases from where they can plan a future invasion of the AES.
Also their intervention is to prop up Tinubu and safeguard him against possible military coups.
My fellow Nigerians, please learn to "read the room" 😏

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Interesting perspective.

Jakumo, your food don land las las.

Kcash200:
Thanks so much. I will keep to this actually.

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Dont disclose it even to the woman of your dreams. Anything could happen and it could be negatively deployed.

GerogeI:
Listen, you are thinking like a boy, better man up.

First reality check:- in the 50s down to 70s, infant mortality was a big issue. Post civil war, it was even a bigger issue than normal. Women adapted by mixing up genes of their kids so they do not all die of something. Some of the people responding are not even aware they are products of such. I am guessing you are Igbo. The current ideas you have about paternity and fidelity are not necessarily same as your parents. And your father my well be aware that you are likely not his biological child. In Igbo culture, a married man owns all the children birthed by his wedded wife, biological or otherwise. Fathering a child in another man's house is considered a loss to the sperms donor, not the the house owner because children are considered wealth. So no Igbo man above 60 years today really cares that much about if his wife's children are all truly his, they simply claim right of fatherhood over you, doing otherwise is a sign of weakness, and giving up his manly rights freely to another man.

Understand this, your father does not critically care if you are genetically his. He has claimed you and raised you. He is a Victor. This is what your mother tried to make him loose by letting you know that you are not his. If you ever open your mouth to question his paternity, you a joining your mother to cause him a loss, and you are forcing him to confront an issue which his generation simply choose to ignore. They did not have DNA test then. As far as your are concerned, your mother could also be wrong.

Second Reality-check. Yes, you are an adult, but you are not a party to the marriage contract between your father and mother. Its not your place to reveal any truth. It is simply not your responsibility, especially when you do not understand the cultural background and value system. Repeating what your mother told you, with your own mouth can be extremely insulting to your father, not because it is or is not the truth, but simply the fact that you the son not only gave it thougth but also gave it voice. Your father's response as an Igbo man is very straight forward to predict, he will reject you, not because of your mother acts, but because you are already questioning in your mind that he is not your father. He has lost in your mind, and thats the real loss. Your mother's treachery is not just having a child from another man, but majorly trying to steal your mind from the man she told you to call father.

Third Reality Check- once you reveal your so called truth, your father's extended family will be very happy to write you off. Even if your father is not doing so. You will loose all the rights of sonship in that lineage, evidenced by your vocalization. But your so called biological father can never bring you into his family. He has wife and children, who will not want you added to their family. Neither will his extended family want you added. There are no bast-ards in Igboland because every child belongs to the man who married his mother, to the mother's father if unwedded. If you stupidly open your mouth as you are thinking in something yhat is not your place to discuss talkless of declare, you will become one of the first bas-tards in Igboland. Do not think the people around you do not know who fathered you. As long as your mothers husband does not speak of it, no one will as long as he is alive for they fear him, cause he will see it asa challenge to his authority. When he dies, they will definitely tell you as an insult, but none of them can change what he did not change while alive. That is the Igbo culture.

Better go live your life, your mother is truly dumb, trapping you in a child's mind with a man's problem. Simply ignore that her truth as if it does not exist, and move on with your life. As for your future wife, it's none of her business. It's your mother's truth, not your truth. you can let your wife know your mother's truth after you have been married for decades. Your truth, the one told to the world when you were born is the only truth that can and should come out of your mouth.

As for opinions fearing leakage of the secret. That should not bother you. Only what comes out of your mouth can have an impact, especially on your father, (even if he already knows)

If your mother makes the claim, your father will dismiss it as mere treachery on her part in his old age. But your mother if already afraid to make such a claim and never will openly. She knows the consequences. Which is that-

If your so called biological father makes claims over your, it is considered a direct personal challenge against your father, for which your father or his brothers or proteges will be within his rights to have your biological father killed.

If any other person, even your father's brothers or sisters makes this claim openly, it will be dismissed as rumour mongering and jealousy. Infact the closest is your father's brothers, who will be immediately accused of coveting his inheritance.

The only person that can safely make this claim, get away with it, and hurt your father is you. That is why your mother planted that seed in you in the guise of telling you the truth.

In Igbo land, he who marries a woman owns and father's all her children.

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Generally good advice.

CaptainFM1:
You must compel your mum to come out, confess and apologize. This might have negative effect on your own family if it is not addressed. Sometimes, life can be Nollywood script- Trust me.

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Extremely BAD advice.

Father4all:
I disagree, you cannot write a biological father off. So you want the biological father to go to the Foster father's house and knock that I want to see my son. Reason with me.
Or didn't you read the place when he said the biological father always communicate with him also gives him money?

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He can maintain the interaction but that should be all.

Sirianese:
Maintain the status quo just as things are don't develop/alter the relationships you have with either of the two old men

Don't ever tell whichever girl you choose to marry, just do a very simple court wedding and move on. Do DNA test on all your kids though, otherwise the past will always hang over your relationship with them

This is heartbreaking but some women are just plain demonic

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Good advice.

CaptainFM1:
The thing here is that he has years ahead of him. The parents are already old. It's better they take the sacrifice for the children and exit in peace. That's what parents do.

Or would you rather he die before them? The guilt is already hurting him which is a clear sign that one or both of the parent or the mother is about to exit without the truth coming to the fore. And if that happens, he will forever carry the guilt through his lifetime which will affect his peace.

Since the parents should die before him and they are old anyway, it's better to let them know. More important is his mother apologizing and seek the forgiveness of every body that will be hurt.

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Bad advice.

Move on quietly and carry on quietly. Dont rock the boat. No need to bring it up to anyone. You will only be causing unnecessary hurt and unnecessary drama. You didnt create the scenario and you will not be either the first or last in such a situation, there are millions.

Ovacoma:
May the good God help Africa. I am surprised the way Israel uses science and technology to subdue their hash environment and now thriving as if they never encountered any problems at the beginning and the way they use the same to subdue their enemies who would have wiped them out of existence had they just folded their hands the way we do in Africa.
Yes, we carry religion for head, but, Europe and America were practising Christianity when they were having progress in their society and breakthrough in science and technology, and you can see what Islam is doing to any nations that allow it to be practised freely by allowing sharia, jihad, etc

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Again to be fair to you, Islam is a cancer in this world.

Ovacoma:
You know that is very difficult if not impossible. African leaders and even the followers will not allow most part of African progress. Factors such as corruption and Islam won't allow Africa move anywhere. Nigeria is a good example, Boko haram, lakurawa, iswap and other terrorist groups couple with endemic corruption have brought the country down on its knees.

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To be sincere, I feel you especially on leadership and corruption. Religion sef, we too carry am for head.

Ovacoma:
Yes! What has your superiority complex got you? What progress has your god brought to you? Why Africa still remains backward despite all the available human and natural resources?

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There are many reasons for that but just know that history moves in cycles. Europe was once backwards compared to Egypt. North America was once backwards compared to Persia (Iran).

Africa just needs time and history will carry on in cycles as it always has.

Besides civilization has little to do with gods.