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Why does this country continue to suffer such horrible leaderships please. How have our leaders kept so quite in the face of such evil perpetrated by these heartless fellows. When will governments at all levels wake up? Why not permit Nigerians to defend themselves and their communities since the FG and states cannot do it alone? |
ijayebonyi:Don’t mind him. After burning the Bibles and denouncing Christianity, he returned to the same Christians, who obviously make up the major population in the area for votes and support. Never insult a crocodile until you cross the river, as they say. |
christejames:Now to come and ride on the back of Peter Obi. Is she wins, she may return to APC. Hopefully with the rules NDC put in place, some of these people should sit up. |
zoedew:How did you forget to include Regina Daniels? |
What passes through the mind of a killer when he shouts “allau akbar” in the course of committing murder? Is it that it is the rule or a symbol to show that they are doing the right thing? What kind of religion permits such evil. |
simpleseyi:And people that drag the UK with the owners, how can they understand what racism is? When your tribes woman has rejected your tribe and country and wants to become the UK prime minister, how can you define your poor level of thinking? |
Alliswell248:Shameless youths. Why not make sure that BAT represents Nigeria in Lagos, or Wike represents Abuja in Rivers state? When you do not know what “charity begins at home means”, you comment with no sense. |
simpleseyi:They are your carbon copy, so just know that the name that you call them represents your complete person. |
Depriest2020:Yes, he retains the right to represent Nigerians in whatever capacity that he can and in any state of his choice. Why are you not residing in your own home region (south west) to manage your own luck? |
XTruth:Ran away? My business is history and diplomacy. I noticed that you accused me of using Ai and kept away from you. I discuss history and diplomacy with those who are able to exchange with knowledge, insight, information and incontrovertible facts and not sentiments. It is not my business to discuss established facts with people who choose to blind themselves to the realities on the basis of religious sentimentalism. I do not engage in the business of tell you that the one plus one that I showed to you is two, when it is very clear that you blind yourself to the fact of the stark reality facing you. Talking about the Abraham accords requires you to understand the reasons, the intended effects and benefits to the members states. You just do not talk with no adequate knowledge or information. “No one wants to sign the Abraham Accord…”. Surprisingly you are not aware that some countries already are partners, having signed and are benefitting from normalizing their relationships with the state of Israel and by extension the USA. You are not aware that but for the irresponsible attack of Hamas against Israel on the 7th of October, 2024, Saudi Arabia was on the edge of normalizing relations with Israel. That would have opened the door for other Arab or Muslim nations. “And is Oman also sponsoring terrorism…”. Do you by any inkling understand the reason for the threat from the USA? Do you by any reason understand why that threat was issued in the first place? How did you jump to such comment with no idea of the reason for the USA attempting to force the hand of the state of Oman? If to you so far there is no clear proof of Iran sponsoring terrorism worldwide, why do you accuse the UAE of sponsoring terrorism in Sudan when there’s no such evidence. If you want to rely on the accusation of the Sudanese government and the UN of the UAE supporting paramilitary groups in Sudan, why do you delude yourself in the face of well established facts of the atrocities committed worldwide by the mullahs since they came to power in 1979? |
Trump and Netanyahu are on a mission to protect and save humanity from the hands of the mullahs and their different terror groups all over the world. Thank you Mr. Trump for remembering Nigeria. |
kad199:So you have been writing without reading what you wrote? Na waoh. So, you just go writing and writing and writing, with no understanding? What gave you been writing about since, if not about Delta south and APC. Make I no go suspect say colos dey work for your side. That must truly mean operating with the spirit of APC. What did Okowa need to admit when he visited the LGs, after having said it several times, even as the state governor, that he is an Igbo man. Are you afraid of identifying yourself as one? Do not deny your identity. Monkey go London come back, e must remain as monkey. |
decatalyst:Just to let you know that terrorists do not understand the word “diplomacy”. If they did, the world would not have such horrible people like the mullahs who rule in Iran, killing their own people and exporting terrorism to the rest of the world. Trump understands the language of terrorists. Maybe you want the language directed to you so you an get some understanding. Trump treats them with the viciousness that they deserve. Oman is getting ready to agree to tolling the strait with Iran. If they do that, they choose the path of trouble. They must be advised to sign the Abraham accords and let there be peace in the middle east. |
End of school for the students. Thankfully touting is a business that pays. They can immediately begin their touting careers and never blame anyone for their lack of education in the future. |
kad199:No wonder. I just spotted a sentimental youthful person. Have you referred to the same Anioma state talked about by Okowa? Or you have forgotten that at different fora, Okowa has openly stated that he is an Igbo man. While you live in grand illusion, know that Anioma state will become a reality in the SE, as the sixth state. Since you know that politics is based on realities, how come that you do not know the current reality that APC does not have popularity in Delta south? By the way, do you have a voter’s card at all? |
kad199:Why would he not secure the VC for himself and Governorship for Sheriff at the same time? By your own mouth, you have exposed the limitation of Okowa. Atiku was the Presidential candidate and ensured that he won his state. What’s the mark of a strong political leader, if he misses such basics? Okowa was on the ballot against Obi in 2023, in Delta, which is Okowa’s state and Obi crushed him. If Nwoko, backed by Okowa had a slim margin win against Kennedy in 2023, where’s the hope of Okowa himself in 2027? Or you think that the tiny areas where Kennedy lost little votes in 2023 will not be covered in 2027? Maybe you need to do a little popularity test. |
kad199:If Okowa was defeated by a very wide margin in 2023 as the then sitting governor and the vice presidential candidate of PDP, do you not think that you are the one dreaming? Okowa scored less than half of Obi’s votes in Delta state, which is not even Obi’s state. With Obi again on the ballot in 2027, where are the chances of APC, combined with a factionalized PDP against NDC and an aggrieved Nwoko in Delta north? Are you not day dreaming of an impossible Okowa success? |
To what benefit keh? Alright, to what benefit did you count the numbers that way? To what benefit did you assume that live videos have become AI generated? To what benefit are you lying against AI? To what benefit bare you now telling us this story, knowing that the whole world saw what you did and accused you correctly? To what benefit are you trying to changed the already very clear narrative To what benefit are you now telling a lie to cover up for your very shameful act? Even your children who saw it must be ashamed of you. When you order your children not to tell lies and you brazenly tell lies publicly with the whole world viewing you, where is the moral right that you possess to instruct your children never to lie? |
EyeCumInPeace:Trump saved the Mullahs in Iran in April. Left with Netanyahu, they would have been history by now. Those infrastructures targeted in April, along with the human shield around them in Iran, would have completely been obliterated, left for Netanyahu alone. He alone knows that terrorists only understand the language of violence. |
SmartPolician:Sorry, which of the factions of PDP should he return to? By the way, it is late already, going by the primary that he has contested in. Secondly, if a serving President could be defeated, what makes it difficult to defeat a former governor who has lost his popularity? Okowa lost his so called popularity in 2023. He managed to squeeze the votes out of Deltans to secure the governorship for Sheriff in 2023, just the night before the election. Sheriff would have lost the governorship after the defeat of Okowa during the presidential election. Next was Nwoko who collaborated with Okowa in Delta north. He also managed, as Delta north was an LP controlled area and the LP senatorial candidate, Ken Kanma, lost by a very slim margin, going by the courts. He is waiting to get his pound of flesh under NDC. Do not forget that Okowa and Ibori led Sheriff and the entire PDP structure to APC. The same PDP is factionalized and a part of the faction is waiting to stop APC in 2027. If APC fails to address the Ned Nwoko question, know that he will get his supporters to vote for the NDC candidate, thereby stopping Okowa from winning the election in 2027. That will be his joker. Again, Ned Nwoko has been a strong agitator for Anioma state creation. Okowa plays politics with it and does not view it strongly. That may count against Okowa in Delta north, as most of the people are in strong support for the creation of a new state to add the the SE states. |
Very creative. Very attractive. Very beautiful. Very presentable. Now who will see this and not wonder the effort put together by the lady to ensure hygiene, food quality, proper nutrition and health safety for consumers. And physically, she looks very clean and presentable. She gives her consumers no doubt about their safety. She must be commended. |
Now the same commanding officer will be in a guard room, ordered by her own superiors and serving her own punishment. Now the Navy Chief of staff must be interested in the case, as it should be in his desk now. Her punishment hopefully should include sacking from the job and trial in a court of competent jurisdiction, that should keep her in jail all her life. The careless commanding officer should have known as a fellow woman, that women even though they appear strong as military officers, also face similar health challenges like regular civilian females from time to time. If only she believed and gave her some time to rest in that same sick bay, no one would hold her responsible for the lady’s death. |
XTruth:I wonder why youths like you never take you time to read and research. How is it that you simply follow the crowd and assume that the regime in Iran is innocent of the accusations against them. Have you ever heard of El Zakyzaky and his IMN? If you have heard it, should you not wonder why Buhari held the leader for the long periods in detention? Have you not wondered why El Rufai ensured the man’s detention for such long periods. El Zakyzaky belongs to the Iranian Shia Muslim group. The group has deep ideological ties to Iran demands an Iranian style of leadership in Nigeria and always organizes solidarity rallies in support of Iran. IMN imams preach that the West conspires to “dominate minds and resources” of Muslims by converting them to Christianity and secularizing them, Jews are the “lowest creatures on earth” and the “children of monkeys and pigs,” the West fabricated the 9/11 attacks on the United States, and the Nigerian government created Boko Haram to justify Western-Christian “occupation” of the Muslim world and northern Nigeria. This rhetoric appeals to broad sectors of Nigeria’s Muslim population, including Sunnis. For example, at more than ten IMN-led protests over the U.S.-made film Innocence of Muslims in August 2012, most participants were neither IMN members nor Shi`a and never saw the film, but were persuaded by the IMN’s message. Boko Haram also capitalized on the upsurge in anti-American sentiment by issuing a widely viewed YouTube video in which its leader, Abubakar Shekau, promised retaliation against “evil plotters of the blasphemous film.” The IMN’s rhetoric has in some cases translated into violence. In 1991, an IMN imam in Katsina (who also spoke at film protests in 2012), Yakubu Yahaya, whose hero was Khomeini, led hundreds of IMN members in an attack on the office of the Daily Times newspaper after it portrayed the Prophet Muhammad in a cartoon marrying a prostitute. In the 2000s, the IMN clashed most frequently with Sunnis in Sokoto, which is the seat of the sultan of Sokoto and where Nigerian intelligence reported that IMN established training camps for recruits from across northern Nigeria. In 2005, IMN imams sought leadership positions in mosques in Sokoto, which led to violence between Sunni and Shi`a. In 2007, Nigerian security forces destroyed the IMN’s headquarters in Sokoto and arrested an IMN imam after a Sunni cleric was assassinated at a mosque allegedly by the IMN in revenge for the cleric’s support of the crackdown on the IMN in 2005. Al-Zakzaky, however, claimed the IMN was framed to justify ousting the IMN from Sokoto. In 2012, al-Zakzaky again accused Nigerian security forces of a plot to assassinate the IMN’s imam in Yobe, Mustapha Lawan Nasidi, while Nasidi was leading prayers, but the attack failed insofar as it killed Nasidi’s brother, driver, and two people seated near him. When Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman visited Abuja in 2009, El Zakyzaky said that Nigerian security forces targeted the IMN for Israel because “Iran is waxing stronger in Nigeria through me, and this is why they want to attack us, to finally slay the growing Iranian influence and our movement.” In several cases, IMN members have been radicalized in the movement but then formed or joined more violent groups. One example was when a mob of former IMN members turned Salafi-jihadists publicly beheaded a Christian Igbo trader in Kano in 1994 for allegedly desecrating the Qur’an. According to a prominent Zaria-based Salafist imam and Nigerian scholars, Boko Haram founder Muhammad Yusuf also met and followed El Zakyzaky before Yusuf became Borno State amir of Jama`at al-Tajdid al-Islami (Movement for the Revival of Islam, JTI). JTI was a Kano-based IMN breakaway group founded in 1994 that continued El Zakzaky’s confrontational stance toward the government but through Salafist doctrine and whose members reportedly carried out the beheading of the Christian trader in Kano. In 2002, Yusuf founded Ahl al-Sunna wa al-Jama`a (Companions of the Prophet), which was known locally as the “Nigerian Taliban” or “Yusufiya” (Followers of Yusuf), and became the Borno representative on the Supreme Council for Shari`a in Nigeria. In July 2009, the Nigerian security forces killed Yusuf and 1,000 of his followers, who were by then known as “Boko Haram” because of the radical teachings of Yusuf and his deputy, Abubakar Shekau (“Boko Haram” means “Western education is sinful” in Hausa). In July 2010, Shekau announced that he succeeded Yusuf, and he formed the Salafi-jihadi group Jama`at Ahl al-Sunna li al-Da`wa wa al-Jihad (Sunni Group for Preaching and Jihad), which has continued to be known as “Boko Haram” since it began waging an armed insurgency in September 2010. Yusuf and Sunni leaders of JTI and the more popular Izala movement that subsumed JTI in 1999 likely split from the IMN because of three main reasons: first, they started to believe al-Zakzaky was “smuggling a Shi`a agenda” into the purported “Islamic Movement”; second, the war between Shi`a Iran and Saudi Arabia-backed and Sunni-led Iraq from 1980 to 1988 polarized Shi`a and Sunnis throughout the Muslim world and, third, Nigerian Sunni leaders, including Yusuf, began receiving funds from Arab countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Sudan, to promote Sunni Islam and Salafism to counter Iran’s influence. Nonetheless, Boko Haram and IMN still share similar doctrines, including: demonizing the United States and its allies; comparing their conflict against the Nigerian government to conflicts between the United States and Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan; viewing the secular state as “illegitimate”; blaming the “corrupt” government for poverty of the masses while proposing an Islamic system as the solution; claiming Usman dan Fodio’s legacy (while condemning Dan Fodio’s heirs, such as the sultan of Sokoto), exploiting sensitive issues to Muslims; and targeting northern Nigeria’s unemployed youths for membership. Unlike the IMN and virtually all Nigerian Salafist movements, however, only Boko Haram prohibits Western education, service in the government, female membership, and looks to the Taliban and al-Qa`ida (particularly al-Qa`ida in the Islamic Maghreb and al-Qa`ida in Iraq) for inspiration in carrying out violent jihad, including assassinating Salafist imams who preach non-violence and Christians—although Boko Haram has never targeted Shi`a. It is therefore believable that a former Boko Haram member interviewed in August 2013 claimed he was a member of an “Islamic movement” called “the Shi`a” that sent members to Iran for training before he joined a Boko Haram faction in Kaduna that attacked Christians and security forces. Iran’s Quds Force and Hizb Allah’s global operations have involved Nigeria for more than a decade, but their activities were exposed in October 2010. Nigerian customs officials in Lagos seized 13 containers of weapons from a ship operated by the same French-Lebanese businessman’s company that in March 2011 saw a ship bound for Sinai, Egypt, via Syria to supply weapons to Hamas in Gaza intercepted by Israeli naval commandos. The containers in Lagos, which included 107mm Katyusha artillery rockets used by Hezbollah against Israel in 2006, were shipped on behalf of a Tehran-based Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) “front company” and were picked up at Bandar Abbas in Iran, where the IRGC has a naval base. According to the then Nigeria’s foreign minister, the weapons were destined for a warehouse in Abuja, but shippers altered documents to send them to Gambia (presumably for anti-Senegalese rebels in Casamance). Nigerian security officials arrested four individuals: a senior Quds Force officer; a Nigerian who formerly studied in Iran and worked at Radio Tehran’s Hausa language service; and two Nigerian customs officials. A fifth Iranian suspect, Sayyed Akbar Tabatabaei, who was the Quds Force Africa Corps commander, took refuge in the Iranian Embassy, flew back to Tehran with Iran’s foreign minister and was reportedly reassigned to Venezuela to run Quds Force operations in Latin America. One month after these arrests, $10 million worth of heroin hidden in auto engine parts suspected of being linked to the weapons shipment in October was seized in Lagos from a ship originating in Iran. Iran’s role in weapons trafficking resurfaced in May 2013 when Nigerian security forces uncovered a weapons “armory” in a Kano home owned by the Lebanese consul to Sierra Leone. The security forces arrested three individuals, all of whom admitted to receiving training from Hezbollah including: a Lebanese citizen, who owned a supermarket and amusement park in Abuja; a second Lebanese citizen, who was arrested at the airport in Kano before boarding a flight to Lebanon; and a dual Lebanese-Nigerian citizen. Although the weapons were rusted, Nigeria’s director of the State Security Service said they were “serviceable,” and a Nigerian brigadier general said they were intended for attacks on U.S. and Israeli targets in Nigeria. Nevertheless, some of the munitions, such as anti-tank mines, are more compatible with rebel groups than a terrorist group and may have been linked to the weapons and heroin shipments in Lagos in 2010. In February 2013, three months before uncovering the “armory,” Nigeria announced it also uncovered an Iranian-funded cell whose leader admitted to plotting attacks on “prominent Nigerians” to “unsettle the West. Such leaders included Nigeria’s former military leader, Ibrahim Babangida, and former sultan of Sokoto, Ibrahim Dasuki, as well as Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Nigeria. The cell also conducted surveillance on USAID, the Peace Corps, an Israeli shipping company, a Jewish cultural center, and hotels frequented by Americans and Israelis in Lagos. The cell’s leader, a Shi`a imam in Ilorin, attended a course at Imam Khomeini University in Qom in 2006. In 2011, he trained in the use of AK-47 rifles and improvised explosive devices in Iran, and in 2012 he traveled to Dubai to receive funding to form the cell. Iran primarily operates in Nigeria and Africa through IRGC and Hezbollah, focusing on weapons smuggling, intelligence gathering, and attacking Western or Israeli targets. Hezbollah maintains sleeper cells and conducts logistical, financial, and weapons-smuggling operations across Africa. They have been tied to historical attacks, such as facilitating the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Reports indicate tactical and operational cooperation between Iran and the Somali-based al-Qaeda affiliate, particularly in maritime security and technical/drone training. Should I continue or you want to carry out your research? Do not be lazy. Read and understand. |
obedience4:But you know that the fellow that you quoted is absolutely bereft of information on Middle East politics and power. |
Leepeak:What do you know? Why not try to focus on football matches, instead of this unknowledgeable comment? |
God1000:Funny how you do not know the difference between a murderer and a murder’s victim. Funny how you accuse the USA of murder and terrorism, while you want BAT to end terrorism in Nigeria. The sand terrorism sponsored by Iran. Well, your comment is termed reverse psychology. The world needs Trump and Netanyahu, whether you and your group like it or not. The world is safer with them. Netanyahu is the only world leader who knows that terrorist need equal and far measure of response of aggression. Trump shows pity. With Netanyahu, there’s no pity, so thank Trump for discussing that ceasefire. With Netanyahu, the Mullahs would have been history by now. Hopefully, the Mullahs can dare to respond to the attack. |
All for the good of Nigeria/Nigerians and he is not the President yet. Meanwhile, we are waiting for the authorities to address the matter of xenophobia with the seriousness that it needs. |
DeepSightZ:This kind of fellow, if you owe him a dime, know that you will never have peace. He will call OPC, soldiers, police, VIO, agberos, just to get his money. He will take your name to native doctors, Pastors and Alfas. Imagine 0.04 in the domiciliary account and he’s publicly displaying that shamelessly and seeking help. Na wicked man be that. |
OK were completely right then. The battle is not over in ADC. Kachikwu by his words, recognized the leadership of David Mark and yet proceeded. Well, they can continue with their battles. OK continues with peace in NDC. |
DeepSightZ:I think I agree with you. He probably was one of those who supported baba in 2023 and ended up crying ebi n pawa. So if he had 1m in any of his accounts, what would he have done? With 0.04 in his dollar account and others with less than 5 naira, where’s the evidence that he has money anywhere else? Na lack of money worry the guy. Hunger has showed his the other side of life. He should have dared to create the scene in the bank. |
Deximuz84:Nothing more, nothing less! |
gaddafe:Iran had the capacity to humble the USA and Israel, yet when confronted with the total destruction of their infrastructures, they used women and children as shields to cover the areas and cried to the rest of the world for help? All of you were lucky that Donald Trump put a hold on the attack. Left with Netanyahu alone, the mullah madness would have been history since April. You should thank Donald Trump for saving you all from the hands of Netanyahu. Of course you all know that Netanyahu is the only man who knows how to repay madness with madness. |
