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Babangidapikin:
Oga Donald Trump should have better stick to Business where you can threaten and fire people. But when dealing with countries diplomacy is key .. it's a completely different terrain from politics.. because you are dealing with people who have seen it all. You killed most of their political actors you think they give a shit what you think, you have your stakes to guide, it is foolish to fight Iran.Before Khomeini was elected as the Supreme Leader he said something very significant he said he knows he is just a leader on the surface with no significant powers. So that tells you they are men behind the curtain who runs the country that you have no idea of, because everyone knows political actors and actresses are usually profiled by other countries to manipulate economics and events. The same thing is happening in Nigeria, you would think Mr President isn't trying his best, but he could be manipulated by other powers .

Does Iran use diplomacy when relating with Israel bu sponsoring Hezbollah, hamas, etc?

Person wey dey kill no dey gree make dem carry knife pass him back.

franchasng:
No wahala, America will use what they also have; military might to bend Iran and we don't want to hear that America is committing genocide.


This was how America warned Japan in the 1940s and also warned Germany.

That's what they usually resort to once you start dealing with them.

They said the same thing when Ihejirika dealt with islamic terrorists.

They said the same when Israel dealt with hamas.

They said the same when Israel dealt with Hezbollah

They said the same when USA and Israel dealt with Iran

So you all can now respect Israel.

Where are those islamic terrorists supporters who call out Israel for the death of civilians?

Flangelo12:
AI creation.

Dey wind yourself.

I am not a terrorists supporter so I cannot engage you

Netanyahu in Lebanon: 'The war continues, there is more work to do'


PM says operations continue inside the security zone to push back infiltration, anti-tank missile fire and rocket threats, as Israel says more work remains despite major gains
Itamar Eichner, Elisha Ben Kimon | published:19:02

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that fighting was continuing in southern Lebanon, including inside the Israeli-controlled security zone.

“The war continues, including inside the security zone in Lebanon,” Netanyahu said during a visit to the area with Defense Minister Israel Katz, IDF chief Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and Northern Command chief Maj. Gen. Rafi Milo.

He said Israel had blocked the threat of infiltration from Lebanon through the security zone and was working to push back the risk of anti-tank missile fire and rocket attacks, but said further operations were still needed.

“We have done enormous work, tremendous achievements. There is more to do, and we are doing it,” Netanyahu said.

Katz, who joined the visit, said Israel had launched an operation to destroy terrorist infrastructure in the first line of border villages in southern Lebanon. He said the operation was called “Silver Plow.”


https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjtm3ut2wx

Macphenson:
I just read the thread about ships stuck in the strait of Hormuz and pearl harbour came to mind, scrolling down I saw you opened a thread on it.

That's exactly what's going to happen in the end. America is just buying time so that when eventually they unleash hell, nobody will blame them.

Iran is playing with fire.

God1000 and co should rush down to Iran ASAP.

owagbeba:
Strait is closed to all now.
Qatar, Bahrain, UAE and Kuwait are also blockaded.
Oil and gas prices will go up.
This wil inevitably affect US allies far and now
It will also affects pumps prices at gas stations in the US
Iran will maintain links to Asia through the Caspian Sea

Who lose?

They will target any and every oil laden tanker leaving Iran. You think that the USA and Israel are dumb?

Trump announces US blockade of Strait of Hormuz after Iran talks collapse

Trump warns Tehran may have mined the waterway, calls the situation 'world extortion,' and says the US could 'finish up' Iran at an appropriate moment as tensions rise after 20-hour negotiations failed to resolve nuclear disputes
ynet | published:14:03

U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that the United States would begin a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz following the collapse of talks with Iran over its nuclear program, and warned of further escalation as tensions rise in the region.

The announcement came after negotiations with Iran ended without an agreement. Trump said the talks, which lasted nearly 20 hours, “went well, most points were agreed,” but that the sides failed to reach a deal on Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.

“The only point that really mattered — nuclear — was not,” he wrote, reiterating his long-standing position that Iran must not obtain a nuclear weapon.

Trump accused Iran of failing to uphold a commitment to reopen the strategic waterway, writing, “Iran promised to open the Strait of Hormuz, and they knowingly failed to do so. This caused anxiety, dislocation, and pain to many people and countries throughout the world.”

He added that Iran had suggested it may have placed mines in the water, saying, “They say they put mines in the water … but what ship owner would want to take the chance?”

Trump said the United States would also target vessels that had paid tolls to Iran.
“I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in international waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas,” he wrote.

He said U.S. forces would begin clearing mines allegedly laid by Iran and warned of a forceful response to any attacks.

“Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be blown to hell,” Trump wrote.
He added that other countries would join the effort and said Iran would not be allowed to benefit from what he described as an illegal act, warning that the United States is “fully locked and loaded” and could act further “at an appropriate moment.”

Shortly before Trump’s post, Iranian state-affiliated media reported an exchange between Iran’s Revolutionary Guard naval forces and U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz, claiming American vessels were warned not to pass through the area.
Iranian outlet Press TV said an attempt by U.S. forces to move two destroyers through the strait had failed.

The U.S. military’s Central Command, however, said it had begun “establishing conditions” for an operation to clear mines in the waterway and stated that two U.S. guided missile destroyers had transited the strait, contradicting the Iranian reports.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hkncpmy2zg

Galactics:
You hate America and Israel simply because they know how to cure madness of your terrorist brothers. Your hatred for them ends on nairaland.

Exactly.

He and his fellow Islamists will learn the hard way. Israel has stopped running. She now stand to face anyone who threatens her.

Righteousness2:
Oga Pope, Stand with Those that Love Peace.

Stand with those that Stand with Word of GOD, the Bible which you claim to carry.

Be bold against TERRORISTS and KILLERS and those who seek to Destroy and Eliminate GOD'S COVENANT PEOPLE.

Don't be Neither here nor there. GOD ALMIGHTY Hates such.

STAND BOLDLY WITH THE MORAL ARMY OF THE WORLD AND GOD'S COVENANT NATION ISRAEL.

Most Important, STAND WITH GOD, THE BIBLE AND THE WORD OF GOD.

YOU cannot Claim to be a Christian and Be against ISRAEL. Such a Person no matter the Title or appointment or whatever is FAKE.

Bros leave those people.

Their assignment na to make us hate Israel. No Christian will hate Israel. Simple.

God1000:
so the Pope is now a terrorist


At this point, I strongly believe that even if the orange clown r@pes your family members, you will still support him

Christian do not worship the pope. Many of us do not recognise his authority. We are not answerable to him oooo

If he likes, let him support hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, Alqeda, boko haram, ISWAP, etc. That is his business. He does not run the race for any of us.

Oga go and rest.

I was not raised to see the world through the eyes of Israel. I was raised, like many in the Arab world, on stories of power and resistance, of pride and grievance. But life has a way of breaking the simplicity of inherited narratives. It forces you to confront reality, not as it is told to you, but as it unfolds before your own eyes.

And today, what I see is this: a small nation, surrounded by those who have sworn its destruction, refusing, once and for all, to live on borrowed time.

Let me speak plainly, as a Moroccan Muslim who has seen both sides of this story.

There are voices, loud, dramatic, endlessly pessimistic, claiming that Israel’s war was unnecessary, reckless, even futile. They speak as if strength itself were a sin. As if survival should come with apologies. As if a nation under constant threat must forever negotiate with those who dream of its disappearance.

But history does not remember nations that survived by hesitation. It remembers those that understood a simple truth: when your enemies prepare your grave, you do not debate, you act.

What we are witnessing is not a moment. It is a transformation.

For decades, Israel practiced restraint. It absorbed blows, calculated responses, managed threats. It lived within a framework that prioritized containment over victory. But containment is a slow death when your adversaries grow bolder with every concession.

That era is ending.

A new doctrine is emerging, one that does not wait to be struck, but moves first; one that does not merely defend borders, but reshapes the battlefield entirely. From Gaza to Lebanon, from distant fronts to hidden networks, the message is unmistakable: Israel will no longer be hunted.

It will hunt.

And this reality makes many uncomfortable. Because it shatters a narrative carefully cultivated across the region, that Israel is fragile, temporary, dependent. That with enough pressure, enough patience, it will eventually collapse under its own weight.

But illusions are powerful only until they meet reality.

What has been exposed is not just military weakness in Israel’s enemies, but something deeper: the collapse of myth. The myth of invincibility. The myth of strategic dominance. The myth that propaganda can replace power.

And nowhere is this more evident than in Iran.

For years, the Iranian regime built an image of itself as untouchable, a force extending its reach across capitals, commanding proxies, shaping the region’s destiny. But when confronted directly, that image cracked. And once a regime’s image cracks, its authority begins to bleed from within.

Because power is not only measured on the battlefield. It is measured in the minds of its own people.

When a government must silence millions with bullets, it is no longer governing, it is surviving.

And survival, for such regimes, is temporary.

The deeper shift we are witnessing is not only military, it is psychological. The region is learning, slowly but irreversibly, that strength compels respect in ways that rhetoric never will. That peace, when it comes, is not born from weakness, but from clarity, clarity about who cannot be erased.

This is why normalization happened. This is why more may come. Not because hearts suddenly changed, but because reality imposed itself.

As someone who believes in coexistence, I do not say this with joy for war. I say it with clarity about human nature. Peace is not built on illusions. It is built when illusions die.

And so, whether one likes it or not, a new Middle East is taking shape, one where Israel is not asking to be accepted, but ensuring it cannot be denied.

You may disagree with the method. You may question the cost. But do not misunderstand the direction.

Nations that choose to live do not apologize for surviving.

They endure.

Mustapha Ezarghani

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1664622568163674&set=a.403567880935822

Bigkoko:
I think these two should form basis of their fear:
1. They know he won 2023 elections, and will win again.
2. They know he is incorruptible, hence will give anti graft agency free hands to jail as many as possible, especially recent crooks from Bola regime.
3. They know his talk of a “New Nigeria is POssible” needs raw material to make it possible indeed, and the raw material that would make a real orishorishi is to jail a former president & a former INEC chairman.

This is their fear

Gbam!!!!

Flangelo12:
No one can cut a deal with US in good faith as long as Teump is in power.

Twice, in fact, 3 times he's attacked Iran in the middle of negotiations.

Trump tore up trade deals he himself pitched and agreed.

Best Iran sets the bar as high as possible.

Na wa ooooo!!

No be the same talk say the USA accepted all the conditions given by Iran?

Bigkoko:
I agree with you 100%

Ask yourself why they are only interested in stopping PO? Watch their supporters. Their anger is majorly targeted at Obi.

bigpicture001:
Adeosun is a fraudulent lady... she paid to get her NYSC certificate... The Enugu lawmaker who was caught in act of certificate manipulation fraud simply resigned..

What is so difficult for a public figure to take the path of honour and resign

Their boss nko?

US said pushing Israel to agree to ceasefire ahead of Tuesday talks with Lebanon.
10 Apr 2026, 8:51 pm

Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter is slated to hold a first-of-its-kind phone call this afternoon with his Lebanese counterpart Nada Hamadeh-Moawad in preparation for the pair meeting in-person in Washington for direct talks on a long-term ceasefire, the disarmament of Hezbollah, and normalization between Jerusalem and Beirut, Channel 12 reports.

A senior official from the US State Department will also be taking part in today’s phone call, as well as next week’s in-person meeting on Tuesday.

Ahead of the Tuesday meeting, Washington and Beirut are pushing Israel to agree to a ceasefire in Lebanon as a demonstration of Jerusalem’s seriousness about reaching an agreement, Channel 12 says.

In making the case to Israel, US officials have argued that the ceasefire would be framed as an achievement by the Lebanese government, as opposed to a win for Iran, which had been demanding its truce with the US cover Lebanon, to no avail.

Israel hasn’t yet made a decision on the matter, but there are some senior officials in Jerusalem arguing in favor of agreeing to a ceasefire, as it would merely return the sides to the terms of the previous truce from November 2024, under which the IDF is allowed to carry out attacks against threats deemed imminent.

Such strikes have taken place in southern Lebanon over the past year and a half on a very regular basis.


https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/us-said-pushing-israel-to-agree-to-ceasefire-ahead-of-tuesday-talks-with-lebanon/

If he had been against Israel and is an islamic terrorist or supports them, you would have been in a state of euphoria

HacheNoire:
😂🤣😂🤣. Biggest Lie!

No one familiar with how the West operates will believe that.

So you actually or already believe Ibrahim Traoré is committing war crimes right?

Whatever tickles your fancy or makes you high is allowed here bros.

Enjoy bros.

It is about justice. If fulanis a treated unjustly on their land, I will condemn it. It is not about fulanis.

It is not like the eternal demon-backed hatred you guys have for Israel, Christians, and the Igbos.

HacheNoire:
“If Hezebollah did not destroy it all these years, then Israel has a right to destroy it”

-Nigerian IDF

Of what use is a shrine or grave to a Christian whose hope is to make heaven through the son of GOD?

Is Peter still in the grave?

floss:
Orji uzor kalu is in Apc
Dave Umahi is in Apc
Rochas okorocha is in Apc

Guess what, these men can’t pull any vote in SE you know why ?

Igbos support credibility and integrity, hardly you see igbos leave an honest man to support a thief

The only man that will give obi a run for his money is Governor Alex Otti…. He might win obi, under probability….

If you understand these, you’ll see why igbos don’t support a Tulumbu government…. Not out of hatred but integrity, performance and credibility… Tulumbu lack everything…


If only Apc will give Osinbanjo the ticket…. That’s the only problem that can give obi problem in a free and fair elections.

And this is the main reason why it will be difficult for Nigeria to have good leaders. They haters of the Igboman will always vote and rig to spite the him, thereby, voting criminals or criminal minded people.

Bigkoko:
The Fear of the Clean Slate: Why the System Trembles at Obi

In the high-stakes game of Nigerian power, people often ask: Why is the establishment, led by Bola, so viscerally afraid of Obi? On the surface, it’s about votes. But in the deeper, darker corridors of the "Shadow Power," it’s about the functional independence of the EFCC. The Logic of the Un-compromised. The math is simple, yet terrifying to the old guard:

If the Head is not stealing, he has no reason to blunt the sword of the law. Obi will not defend any employee caught stealing State resources. Infact, his appointees for EFCC will do wonders more than Ribadu....the most efficient anti-graft boss so far in Nigeria.

If the First Family isn't siphoning contracts, the President has no motive to protect a thieving Minister or a rogue Director. Bruhn you heard me right. Okute na aka-gum. He will never ask you to inflat contract for his purpose, and trust me, he will never interfere with the process too, for your sake! However, we are yet to see if the so-called CURSE OF ASO ROCK will affect him too! Na so Dem hype Buhari, until he stepped him, and next we heard, bruhn na sicky sicky...... Peter Obi must stay away from the UK, because na there all plot dey hatch.

This is the "New Nigeria" that Obi harps on—a nation where the agencies (EFCC, ICPC, Military, Police) are finally allowed to function without a "call from the Villa" telling them which files to burn. The fear isn't just that Obi might win; it’s that his victory would turn the state’s investigative machinery into a mirror. And for those with decades of "unexplained wealth" and "front-man" banking, that mirror is a death sentence.

The Raw Materials of Justice
Could it be that the "New Nigeria" is literally banked on the prosecution of the old? There is a growing sentiment that for Nigeria to be POssible, it must first be Accountable. Is the present government accountable?

The vision is clear: using the likes of Amupitan and Bola as the "raw materials" for a judicial reset. Yes, most of the developed nations on earth jails their corrupt past leaders and officials. South Korea, Israel, France, USA, etc You do anyhow, you see anyhow. You no get two head!

One for the alleged decades of systemic corruption....from unexplained wealth, after a brief stint dealing drugs in the US.

The other for the brazen attempt to subvert the collective will of a nation through institutional capture....Nigerians are currently roasting and dragging his Ronunized ball on X.

A Leader Without a "Cult"
Look at the optics: Bola stands on a platform supported by the machinery of the state, yet he remains a man without a natural, "cult-like" following. Outside of the paid "2k gents" on Nairaland and the professional sycophants, where is the organic love? Nowhere.

Contrast this with the "Obidient" movement—an organic, self-funded wildfire that doesn't need a "front-man" banker to buy its loyalty.

The Final Count
The signs are all there. A system that must cheat to win is a system that knows it cannot survive a fair fight. If the agencies are allowed to work, the "Jagaban" myth evaporates. Never mind he lost in his adopted home state Lagos, his alleged home State Osun and the place he is supposed to lead from, FCT. The "New Nigeria" isn't just a slogan; it’s a courtroom where the past finally meets its consequence.

As we say in the Rwanda Diary: The ink of justice may be slow, but it never forgets a signature.

Time will tell.

If you know the real/true results in 2023, you will understand why. The shock still aches. It reverberates.

BetterScottish:
Na their way nau, you can see through their hypocrisy..make iran throw knockout now you go see dem rush with speed update am

Na their way na. That's why they are not bothered by the killings done by islamic terrorists in their country and continent.

thrillionaire:
Yes! As long as islamic terrorists are hiding there.. bomb them to smithereens.

Jesus is alive!

If now na around 1,600 years ago, israel for kill someone, a person who brought suffering to mankind.

Runaway22:
There is no kind of article these assalamualaikum people have not written 😁😁😁😁


God bless Donald J trump

God bless Israel

Death to all terrorist and people who don't want the earth to rest

Their task na "make Christians hate Jews". Na herculean. Infact it cannot work on real Christians.

Is that all?

And then?

Destroying the so-called tomb of "apostle Peter" if at all it can be identified is not weightier than crucifying CHRIST JESUS, the son of GOD Almighty.

So bros make una go and rest abeg.

We have no business with graves of those who have gone to be with GOD Almighty in heaven through CHRIST JESUS.

This assignment wey dem give una to make Christians hate jews no go work bros.

fuckingAyaya:
World bank and lies are 5 &6, we are teaching some people a political lesson there's no inflation in Nigeria.

This your photo of those women na epic one. Some of dem go dey disturb those who no vote Tinubu to help in this perilous time of Tinubu’s "onslaught".

Kukutente23:
That's not true
It was 69% when he was gov
He's still 6% short of target which means he's not done with y'all

Please, explain to us in 50 words how you will make heaven with this comment.

Savages everywhere.

BetterScottish:
people like god1000 and FreeStuffNG sympathizers club..dey tag dem abeg make people dey see dem for who they really are, online foot soldiers

They prefer people to sit idle and be killed by islamic terrorists. That's why they hate Israel. That's one of the reasons why they hate the Igboman.

Na their way na. That's why they are not bothered by the killings done by islamic terrorists in their country and continent.

Have you ever seen dem wail over killings in Nigeria?

dangermouse:
America should just borrow a leaf from Israel on how not to treat terrorists.





Israel will strike terrorists anywhere they are found hiding, even in the kitchen and do not make much noise.

Bros you are correct ooooo

Israel go even strike person pot of soup as long as those who attack dem are there.

CodeTemplar:
Half-hearted directive. Since Hezbollah has been in charge and have been attacking israel why wasnt such directive given?

Exactly!!

Don't mind dem

This one touch dem wella.