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Rest in peace Brother Solomon.

See people wey wan go world cup.

Very boring match.

Broke guys should leave girls for reach men like us. Go and hustle.

pigmania:
Shots fired on rapid mode, shots fired! Pls tell me it was intentional.

what?

As if dem get choice. Holidays wey we don already declared by ourselves. As a matter of fact, government should forget the whole of next week. We are not coming to work. E don go.

Has she been boughting other people's own?if she has not been boughting other people's own, definitely her own too won't be boughted by othe people.

OgaTheTop2:
Who told you they are coming home? Na for that Naija you go rot.

naija sweet pass any other country if you get your connections especially in the government

OgaTheTop2:
Enemy of progress... Who told you they are coming back? You don't even understand what this thread is all about... Cho cho cho cho

This news just dey make me happy. All my friends and neighbors wey dey do gra gra to me because of America will now come back home and level up with me. I'm so happy.

This one go just dey talk anyhow. Him don forget sey him be person papa.

This news just dey make me happy. All my friends and neighbors wey dey do gra gra to me because of America will now come back home and level up with me. I'm so happy.

God knows that I'm only here to read lies from the pit of hell.

I still never understand the whole thing o

At least 10 if I'm really really hungry.

Who were they raising the alarm for? I hope they know that we are against the yeye tax policy?

Education is a very big scam.

What has light got to do with darkness? This must be an end time visit.

The teeth family. Donald Trump is dealing with all my enemies both dead and alive

Tinubu don dey put hand for the matter be dat.

No peace for the weekend. We must get our pound of flesh from him.

Nigeria for no dey inside the list, but na Wike and him people smuggle us inside am

Fake news. It is Ai generated.

Yeye people wan go to world cup through the back door.

Buhari himself should be arrested, prosecuted and jailed.

Na so dis woman take escape me. The woman too dey hungry me. I keep imagining her ringtones. E go be like" enemyofprogress duallah kanda kanda" "bura ya yi da di so se."

See people wey wan go world cup?

A Soldier Deserves His Rank: On the Promotion of
Colonel Nurudeen Alowonle Yusuf to the rank of a One-Star General.

(Long read, but be patient and learn)

The conversation following the news that Pres. Bola Tinubu approved a “special presidential promotion” for his aide‑de‑camp, Colonel Nurudeen Yusuf, in a decision conveyed in a letter by the National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu to the Chief of Army Staff, which also noted that Yusuf would stay on as the president’s ADC despite the rank change, appears to be going in the wrong direction; usual pattern of interest with most issues of National importance in Nigeria, where people are more interested in money, relationships and general Ghaghagha.

But first, I must state that A Soldier Deserves His Promotion. And I consider any attacks against Brig. Gen. Yusuf to be misguided and misinformed.

For there is nothing inherently wrong with the promotion itself, of President Tinubu's military assistant; aka, aide-de-camp or ADC.

Within military tradition, double promotion is not unprecedented. Nigerian military history offers several examples, the most prominent being the elevation of Yakubu Gowon from Lieutenant Colonel directly to the rank of army General. In 1966, Gowon was still a lieutenant colonel and a battalion commander. But by 1967, shortly before the civil war, he was promoted to a Major General; jumping the ranks of Colonel and Brig. Gen.

It is also worth recalling the case of the late General Sani Abacha. Throughout his career, persistent and widely circulated reports (rumours, if you may) suggested that he repeatedly failed his promotional examinations. Whether fully accurate or not, the crucial point is that professional merit was clearly not the decisive factor in his rise. He nevertheless attained the rank of General and ultimately became Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

My submission here, with the Abacha and Gowon examples, is not necessarily about Abacha and Gowon as individuals, but about the Nigerian systems and what to look out for.

No doubt, the now, One Star army general, Brigadier Nurudeen Yusuf is a fine soldier. And my understanding is that the position he occupies today is not by application. He didn't' apply for the position. He was referred, promoted and assigned. No one can or should hold anything against his promotion.

What is important now is that, he is a heart-beat away to the president. And he must have earned the trust of his Commander in Chief.

Brig. Gen. Nurudeen Alowonle Yusuf is not the issue. The issue is the system.

When military advancement becomes detached from transparent, institutional standards and instead hinges on political utility or personal loyalty, the armed forces are quietly repurposed; from a professional national institution into an instrument of regime security. And this is what Nigerians are not talking about; their focus is on the promotion of one military officer.

Make no mistake, a soldier must earn his rank. And if there is any single person who makes the decision on what rank a soldier earns, that person is the Commander in Chief.

Who knows, if any, the role the president's ADC may have played in foiling the recently rumoured coup against his boss?

But, this piece is not about speculations and conspiracy theories. It is about military traditions, facts and security and "military politics."

Therefore, my concern lies elsewhere: the appointment of a Brigadier General as Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to the Commander-in-Chief.

What is the game plan?

Why promote Colonel Nurudeen Alowonle Yusuf twice if his new role does not match his new rank?

Historically, even under military dictatorships, from Gowon through to Gen. IBB and Abubakar Abdulsalami, the ADC to the Head of State did not exceed the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

And there are purely military reasons for these restrictions.

The ADC role has always been deliberately restrained in rank, precisely to avoid the concentration of excessive command authority around the person of the ruler; which the promotion of the President's ADC to a one-star general in the rank of a Brig. Gen., effectively points to.

That this appointment reportedly emanates from the Office of the National Security Adviser suggests even something more serious; considering that the promotion will also leave Brigadier Nurudeen Yusuf in his role as the President's ADC.

The move suggests that, the promotion may be justified by sensitive security considerations, not available in the public domain.

Be that as it may, the implications remain troubling because, a Brigadier General does not merely serve as a ceremonial aide; by virtue of rank, the role exercises operational command.

In practical terms, such an officer would be capable of commanding a company-sized force, potentially between 2,000 and 3,000 troops, thereby combining close-protection duties with direct field authority.

Major generals in command of several large divisional formations of over ten thousand soldiers supervise the roles and functions of Brig. Generals, will now have to key-in the President's ADC into the national or theatre level directives for all their operational plans; as Brig. Gen. Nurudeen Yusuf is now in a position to directly advise the Commander- in Chief on military and security matters, rather than acting as just a"military Assistant" (bearing the President's "security Bag" which is the limited function of a Lt. Col. in the same position; the ADC is no longer a "messenger". The ADC is now a "Commanding Military Adviser."

As person wey don work in military intelligence, the question Nigerians should be asking is not about promotion per se, but about doctrine and intent. And before I say what I should have said in a shorter post, I must say this: the soldier deserves his rank; Sacrifice, Trust and Growth.

However, my suspicion is that, the Presidency is deliberately, not inadvertently, constructing a personalised security formation, akin to a Revolutionary Guard; designed not merely to protect the state, (like fighting in the North East against Boko Haram, Bandits and Terrorists) but to insulate the President against internal military pressure or coups?

Look at Russia for example and Aleksey Dyumin (ADC/Chief military Assistant to President Putin), in particular.
On 14 May 2024, President Vladimir Putin appointed Dyumin as an aide with responsibilities that include oversight of the military-industrial complex, State Council activities, and sports; and from 29 May 2024, he also took on this senior political position, making him part of Russia’s top policy‑making apparatus. After serving as deputy defence minister, Putin promoted him to the rank of a Lieutenant General in 2021; a promotion that placed Lt. General Dyumin’s directly in the midst of the Kremlin’s senior officials and close to key decision‑making.

Today, Lt. Gen. Dyumin commands The "Rosgvardiya"; a Unit made of tens of thousands of special forces dedicated to the protection of the Russian Dictator.

I think, Tinubu's retention of a Brig. General as his ADC is the very example of a classic dictator-di!ck-move.

There is No decision anyone can make in the Nigerian army today, including the movement of troops, without the President's ADC being in the know; less it be considered high treason; the ADC to the president is now a member of the military high command, by virtue of his military rank.

The Independence of the Nigerian Armed Forces as long as Operational Plans are concerned, is gone.

Nigerians, let us begin to ask the right questions. Now!!!

As you can see, history teaches that when regimes begin to blur the lines between national armed forces and personal security structures, the consequences for civil-military relations and democratic stability begin to look like absolute dictatorship.

The promotion is not the issue. The promotion stays. The intent is what Nigerians should pay closer attention to.

In a real democracy, there are institutions that ought to operate independent of the Executive arm of government. Institutions like the Legislature and the Judiciary. Of course we all know the positions of these two under the current Tinubu government as "rubber stamps."

Now, the National armed forces will follow suit; effectively under the command of the President's personal security structure.

The Commander-in-Chief, as far as Nigeria is concerned, serves as the symbolic head of the armed forces and makes all decisions on defence and security. But operational command is exercised by professional military officers. Now, with the President's ADC, a one-star -general, all operational command, rests with the President.

In my studies,This is the first decisive step in purging the armed forces; potentially making way for a dictatorship.

May monkey never dash you banana.

God bless.
Mike Ikem Umealo

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Lanretoye:
see competent fossil that has not even passed to be head of his family calling a two term governor and a present head a nation incompetent.how do you define competence in your own house

all his actions so far do not show that he is competent, except to his blind supporters.

KingDashx:
All this don't matter
Death is the only way out.



Just yesterday one of my sec school buddy died on route to Jos, he was a Rich kid back in the days, he's money couldn't predict he's TOD.

make una no dey use death to terrorise people here o. Death is overrated jawe.

The place wey hungry mohamadu Buhari to die, but his evil work no gree am die there.

You're just being childish with the whole drama. You better do what you need to do before losing her to another man. Stop feeling like without you she won't survive or see someone else to marry her.