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Seamen have been reported earlier attempting to desert their positions onboard the vessel by jumping into the water.


Conditions must be extremely horrid for a Sailor to want to commit desertion during war time deployment that would have seen to them being criminally charged, imprisoned and dishonorably discharged that will see them lose everything including life time veteran pay and status.

The incident erupted after an adviser to US Central Command (CENTCOM) Chief Brad Cooper boarded the carrier to address mounting complaints from crew members following protests by their families over the ship’s prolonged deployment.

The adviser was reportedly met with boos and had water bottles thrown at him while addressing a gathering of personnel.

The confrontation subsequently escalated into a "fight among crew members" involving knives and other bladed weapons, leaving seven personnel dead and several others wounded, according to the source.

BlackViper:
Why does this sound like fake news?

People don't die from brawls, lol.

That's the official Pentagon narrative.

They didn't die from a brawl between sailors.

They were killed by Marines MPs deployed to put down a riot .

Flangelo12:
Appears to be propaganda.

I can't see that ever happening.

USS Gerald Ford was withdrawn because of serious sabotage by crewmen on the plumbing system that made the ship inoperable due to hazardous human waste.

Several sailors are facing serious disciplinary action over their roles in sabotaging the plumbing system so as to get the vessel withdrawn from the ME.

Relatives of sailors onboard this vessel have been complaining on behalf of their relatives on board the USS Lincoln of the deplorable conditions and poor feeding rations and quality they are being fed.

This led to a meeting being organized by the Pentagon between relatives with Pete Hegseth who lied that their feeding was adequate.

But you are the one sitting in your 2x4 shop that knows better.

7 sailors onboard the US aircraft carrier , USS Lincoln have died in what the US Navy says was as a result of an onboard brawl among sailors .

The official narrative is however bullshit and the deaths are most likely as a result of efforts made by the Captain to put down a mutinous riot by sailors on board the vessel.

The USS Lincoln has set a record for longest deployment at sea with crew members reaching their maximum limits.

The vessel has been at sea for over 286 days .

A typical deployment is usually 3 to 6 months maximum.

Conditions onboard the ship has also deteriorated with severe plumbing issues . Showers have been restricted and the ship's laundry service has also crippled. Sailors are going days without a shower and hygiene levels has deteriorated significantly.

The food rations and quality has also been severely affected as the destruction of US bases in the ME have made it very difficult to supply the ship with fresh and adequate rations.

Family and relatives of crew members recently complained directly to Pentagon officials and the US secretary of war , Pete Hegseth on the gruelling conditions their family members are going through and painted a picture of near starving seamen being fed rations not fit for a dog. A relative of a crew member posted on X a picture of rations given to sailors taken by a sailor on board which attracted much condemnation from viewers.

Pete Hegseth has denied the food situation on board and said sailors are being fed very well.

Now we have this so called brawl (according to the Pentagon ), that left 7 sailors dead.

My hunch is that there was a riot bordering on mutiny which led the Captain to send Marines to quell the mutiny using extreme force.

https://en.mehrnews.com/news/246919/Deadly-brawl-reported-aboard-USS-Abraham-Lincoln

Bloggers and their click bait shitz

Very reckless coming from a senator .

Inciting violence on a population is a serious threat to peace and tantamount to a terrorist threat.

Bigkoko:
When they come to your country, allow them break your laws.

Don't forget to send illiterate security agents to guard them. Ohhh the corrupt politicians must shield them

See am.

Always trying to make excuses for rubbish.

This is why I refused to condemn SA for chasing foreigners out .

Nword22:
I think effiong who was the second president of Biafra is from your region or family... Mr stranger and emergency lover of a region you have never been to.

Joe Igbokwe is also from your region.

So?

givedemwotowoto:
They will tax Nigerians to death if people let them. January is coming

So Niger Delta oil and Lagos VAT should keep feeding you abi.

givedemwotowoto:
Over two years ago, petrol subsidy was removed, causing the prices of petrol and other products to skyrocket.

Where is the money saved from the fuel subsidy removal? What exactly was done with it?

Nigerians need transparency and accountability.

Go and ask that your dwarf governor

esnbrutality:
Who is SS ?

Mr. SS from EDO, itsekiri, ijaw, unrobo

Ypu are from Midwest Nigeria and your brothers are the Yoruba from SW.

Just stay , your lane..

Anioma people are also from Midwest .

Why dragging them into your Biafra ?

And also , why did Ojukwu invade Midwest ?

Why was Kanu and Ekpa including the entirety of Delta and Edo into your Biafra ?

Nword22:
It's part of the north west,mpi..what makes the former Biafra illiterate.

South South was never part of your Biafra.

You dragged them into it after Gowon created states for the minority people who had been agitating for their own separate region immediately after the British colonial govt created Eastern Nigerian out of Southern Nigeria in 1951.

No single minority person was consulted by the British when they lumped minority provinces into the old Eastern Nigeria .

LagbajaTheBEREAN:
To the mods,

You all need to do better, you can't be pushing every news to the front page without proper scrutiny and asking the right question, we don't know what warrant this now and you know we have a lot of people who act before they reason here, most of them if not all will want to sensationalise the whole story and that will not be too good for the image of the country.

Please do better.

Topic reads: Two Nigerian men arrested in china.

Original Post has the follow-up post that one of them was begging and crying to the cops and contains a video of that exactly.

What is your problem with the topic exactly ?

kpankpangolo:
I heard someone mention about a passport. Those were likely men who overstayed their visas. I’m sure they were working illegally. Na sure deportation dey make that guy cry like that? Give him a day or two of grace and watch him return to breaking the law once again. The second culprit did the best form of action; silence.

Nah drugs and nothing more .

The guy begging knows he is going to a Chinese labour camp for the next 20ys at least or getting shot in 3 days after his sentence.

E no go pass drugs.

China doesn't fck around when it comes to drugs.

They have very vivid memories from the British govt selling opium to their people that led to the century of humiliation.

The guy own done be.

He go chop half boiled rice with lemon grass for the next 20ys while working hard labour in a Chinese labour camp.

agadez007:
You think I’d waste my time over you,I have seen your Joblessness all over this forum and I don’t bother quoting you so I expect you to do same
So scram

Keep drawing maps...in your head.

jmoore:
Nigeria is an underdeveloped country with a population of more than 180 million sharing 5,000 megawatts.

A manifesto made for 1960 can still be used in 2027 cos Nigeria lacks the basic things.


The ghost agencies of Tinubu government, are they part of APC manifesto?

In 1960, Nigeria's population stood at 50 million.

The expectations of the population are not the same as today with a population of 200 millio

agadez007:
They swear they don’t want to live in same Nigeria with Ndigbo but still get hard on if they hear “divide”

If you did your Biafra without dragging an inch of territory outside your Sit at home region , no one will care.

Wallade:
Thanks for being honest, this time. It is all in your head, mind or imagination.

So the ones Kanu and Ekpa drew up that looked exactly like the OP's map nko?

agadez007:
if that will make you sleep well at night,believe it

You forget how Kanu and Ekpa were drawing similar maps abi

franchasng:
The op wrote an interesting piece that ought to be argued and criticized constructively without bitterness, but within seconds, you turned the thread to another tribal attack on the great Igbos that you and your kins hallucinate about on daily basis, isn't it time for you guys to have a rethink and ask yourselves some questions if all these unprovoked attacks on Igbos because of one man's personal ambition is truly worth it

The OP only sees tribalism in others.

He wants others to shun tribalism while saying nothing about Ibo crass tribalism

You want others to drop their identities but I pushing yours.

What hypocrisy!

If you were Igbo and decided to migrate with your family to another land, eg Ijebu or Oyo,

You will summarily be kidnapped before you crossed the River Niger and sold by your fellow Ibos in the Aro cult to Jewish slavers waiting in Calabar.

You dared not cross beyond the boundaries of your village or risk losing its protection.

This is why being expelled/ostracized from your village back then was tantamount to a death sentence or condemnation to a life of slavery.

Villages and communities back then depended on each and every member to keep the community and it's individuals safe from both internal and external aggression.

There was no police back then.

Outside the protection of your village enclave, you were prone to being kidnapped to be sold as a slave , eaten by cannibal tribes, head hunted for sports by young men wishing to climb the ladder to manhood or kidnapped to be used in a voodoo ritual .

That's why tribal marks were very important because anyone not of the same tribe or village could easily be picked out as a stranger thereby marking you was fair game.

The Oba of Benin issued a decree barring the sale of any Edo son or daughter to be sold into slavery.

Did you think the Oba back then did not understand the concept of "us Vs them" and that the Oba had his own soldiers raid the neighbouring adjacent lands of present day Kogi central and the SE parts of Nigeria for slaves and to exert tribute and spoils ?

You guys think pre colonial Nigeria was all peaceful and tribes holding hands singing kumbaya?

What a naive delusionist you are.

The most peaceful and prosperous years this country had ever experienced were the 64years of British colonialism because the British put an end to the senseless wars ,pillaging, slave raiding , human sacrifices that plagued the land .

In the north, the Fulani were waging full terror on other ethnic groups

That same glory years under Uthnan Don fodio is what his Fulani descendants today are recreating by targeting every other nationality/tribe.

After seizing power by the barrel through a bloody tribal cleansing coup and getting his co-ethnic , Orizu to hand power to him, Ironsi will hypocritically claim that tribalism/regionalism was the greatest threat to national unity. This was what he used to justify his Unification Decree.

The Unification Decree 34, was the second phase of the Ibo agenda after seizing power through a bloody coup.

And if Ironsi had not been eliminated, he would have started issuing decrees to criminalise any one who identified as anything else but Nigerian.

Ironsi would have surely clamped down on all traditional stools that are the custodians of ethnic identity and have them derecognised and scrapped.

Ironsi will continue using his new found illegal supreme powers to appoint and promote only his fellow tribesmen into positions of power and authority. In the Nigerian army , out of 23 promoted officers approved by Ironsi, 19 were Ibo.

Ironsi wanted Nigerians to stop tribalism because the more Nigerians looked into the outcome of the coup and those who came to power through it, the more Nigerians will see the ethnic agenda behind that coup.

All revolutions have at their core a tribal/race agenda.

Don't let the ever tribalistic hate filled IPOBidients preach to you about tribalism when they are the biggest hate filled bigots on the planet.

Kukutente23:
How does Jingir's outburst fit into your theory
I see you conveniently left that out
You should have simply said he was cloned by Obidients to complete you're circle of delusions

It fits because no one including yourself never heard talk more of knew the guy existed .

The guy from all indications belongs to an ultra fringe outlier group with hardly any followers nor is he even influential in politics.

The only people that made him go viral are the Obidients who were searching the net to look for any character and material to amplify islamic radicalism .


Can you honestly tell me you knew this Jingir or whatever existed before his videos began circulating ?

Obidients just looked for one radical Islamist, and used his fringe fanatic speeches to his miniscule followers and tagged it as evidence of Muslims planning against Christians.

Napata77:
Our politics and national life is so divided along ethnic lines, it's an absolute disgrace.

I have read that before colonial invasion, there was NO SUCH THING as ''I am Igbo'', ''You are Yoruba'', ''I am Hausa''.

These language blocs we call ''tribes'' were deliberately created as IDENTITY GROUPS by the EUROPEAN COLONIZERS as a Divide and Rule tactic in Africa.

Prior to their invasion, we had those languages of course, but people who spoke them NEVER IDENTIFIED AS A SINGLE GROUP.

Why? Because language spoken was changeable at anytime depending on migration.

There was no ''lingua franca'' across the territory we now call Nigeria.

If you were Igbo and decided to migrate with your family to another land, eg Ijebu or Oyo, perhaps for better access to water, arable land or whatever, or to escape a conflict, you would arrive there and be COMPELLED by necessity to learn the Yoruba language. FAST.

Within a generation or two, your entire family has become ''Yoruba people'' as you would term them today.

IN FACT I CAN GUARANTEE YOU 100% that there are millions of you walking around today who call yourselves ''Igbo'' but actually descended from Yoruba, Efik, Edo and even Hausa or Fulani speaking migrants that arrived your village maybe 300 years ago. 400 years ago. Even as early as 200 years ago in some cases.

Likewise, many ''Yoruba people'' today, if you did an Ancestry DNA test on them, their results will show their ancestors migrated from ''Igboland'' or even from Ghana or Togo 200 years or 500 years ago.

BEFORE COLONIAL INVASION, our people based their identity on their traceable LINEAGE, city, region, or village, NOT the language they spoke.

It was the BRITISH INVADERS who came in and saw a more or less UNIFIED PEOPLE who traded among themselves, intermarried etc etc, and decided to DIVIDE them into competing large language blocs they called ''tribes'', so as to engender rivalry and competition for colonial favours among the ''tribes'' instead of the people rising in unity to drive out the thieving colonial invaders.

So, by perpetuating this nonsensical ''tribalism'', you are simply a colonial puppet, led by the nose by greedy European imperialists.

When will you wake up?

One more thing.

Are ANCESTRY DNA TESTS conducted in Nigeria?

They are very popular overseas among the black diaspora eager to know their origin.

WE NEED THAT HERE TOO IN NIGERIA.

My guess is that MILLIONS of you would be SHOCKED by your test results.

It would also provide a perverse pleasure to PAN-AFRICANISTS like us to watch you tribalists SQUIRM IN YOUR SEATS upon receiving your test results showing that you are not ''IGBO'' but actually of ''Fulani origin''.

That you are not ''YORUBA'' but are actually of ''Igbo origin''.

That you are not ''HAUSA'' but actually of ''Yoruba origin'', your ancestors having migrated from Ekiti 250 years ago, etc etc..

IN FACT I STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT MASS ANCESTRY DNA TESTING CAN END TRIBALISM AND TRIBAL POLITICS IN NIGERIA.

IT WOULD CONFUSE ALL OF YOU TO THE PONT WHERE YOU FORGET ABOUT ''TRIBE'' AND CONCENTRATE ON BUILDING THE COUNTRY.

Arrant nonsense .

Tribal marks existed for a reason.

They were the first NINs.

There's nothing wrong with being proud of ones acancestry and tribe.

The only people that have been against tribal identities are the Ibo Marxists who felt that tribal identities stood behind their quest to take over and dominate the polity.

That's why their descendants today in the form of the Obidients are the ones denouncing tribal identities while ironically and hypocritically pushing for their Obi on the same tribal sentiments they claim they are against.

Tribalism is only good when it elevates and benefits them but evil when it stands in their way.

Uche go don run his mouth