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Wike and his supporters in Rivers should go to court

The police commissioner in Rivers state is failing in carrying out his duty

I bought a 100 gram cake for 2k at a supermarket few days ago, I was so pissed off when I saw the price on the receipt when I got home, the cake was not that delicious sef.

Policemen left the secteriat this morning

zhike:
FYI, there is royalty fee that goes to Ireland for each bottle of guinness.
It will be better if Nigeria can have their own brand of alcohol.

Nigerians drink Guinness does not mean Guinness is the only alcohol in Nigeria.

Tinubu administration is doing a far better job compared to the military administration in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.

More work still needs to be done sha

Jihadist attacks surge in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger

Violence driving spike in migration from region to Europe

Expelled by juntas, West has few options to respond

U.S. general: jihadi groups aspire to strike U.S. targets

DAKAR, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Having slipped undetected into Mali's capital weeks ago, the jihadis struck just before dawn prayers. They killed dozens of students at an elite police training academy, stormed Bamako's airport and set the presidential jet on fire.
The Sept. 17 attack was the most brazen since 2016 in a capital city in the Sahel, a vast arid region stretching across sub-Saharan Africa south of the Sahara Desert.

It showed that jihadist groups with links to al Qaeda or Islamic State, whose largely rural insurgency has killed thousands of civilians and displaced millions in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, can also strike at the heart of power.

Overshadowed by wars in Ukraine, the Middle East and Sudan, conflict in the Sahel rarely garners global headlines, yet it is contributing to a sharp rise in migration from the region towards Europe at a time when anti-immigrant far-right parties are on the rise and some EU states are tightening their borders.
According to the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration (IOM), the route to Europe with the steepest rise in numbers this year is via West African coastal nations to Spain's Canary Islands.

IOM data shows the number of migrants arriving in Europe from Sahel countries (Burkina, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal) rose 62% to 17,300 in the first six months of 2024 from 10,700 a year earlier, a rise the U.N. and the IOM have blamed on conflict and climate change.
Fifteen diplomats and experts told Reuters the swathes of territory under jihadist control also risk becoming training grounds and launchpads for more attacks on major cities such as Bamako, or neighbouring states and Western targets, in the region or beyond.


Jihadi violence, especially the heavy toll it has taken on government troops, was a major factor in a wave of military coups since 2020 against Western-backed governments in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, the countries at the heart of the Sahel.
The military juntas that replaced them have since swapped French and U.S. military assistance for Russians, mainly from Wagner's mercenary outfit, but have continued to lose ground.

"I don't really see the regimes in Mali, Niger and Burkina holding on forever. Eventually one of them is going to fall or one of them is going to lose a substantial amount of territory, which Burkina Faso already has," said Caleb Weiss, an editor at the Long War Journal and an expert on jihadist groups.

"Then we're dealing with a jihadi state or multiple jihadi states in the Sahel," he said.
GLOBAL TERRORISM HOTSPOT
Western powers that previously invested in trying to beat back the jihadists have very little capacity left on the ground, especially since the junta in Niger last year ordered the U.S. to leave a sprawling desert drone base in Agadez.
U.S. troops and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used drones to track jihadists and shared intelligence with allies such as the French, who launched air strikes against the militants, and West African armies.

But the Americans were booted out after they angered Niger's coup leaders by refusing to share intelligence and warning them against working with the Russians. The U.S. is still looking for a place to reposition its assets.
"Nobody else filled the gap of providing effective air surveillance or air support, so the jihadis are roaming freely in those three countries," said Wassim Nasr, a senior research fellow at The Soufan Center, a think-tank in New York.

A Reuters analysis of data from U.S. crisis-monitoring group Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED) found that the number of violent events involving jihadi groups in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger has almost doubled since 2021.

Since the start of this year, there have been 224 attacks a month on average, up from 128 in 2021.

Insa Moussa Ba Sane, regional migration and displacement coordinator for the International Federation of the Red Cross, said conflict was a major factor behind the increase in migration from the West African coast, with rising numbers of women and families seen along the route.

"Conflicts are at the root of the problem, combined with the effects of climate change," he said, describing how floods and droughts are both contributing to the violence and driving an exodus from rural to urban areas.
Map shows violent attacks by jihadi groups in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger in 2024. Burkina Faso appears as a hotspot, with the most attacks so far this year.

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In Burkina Faso, perhaps the worst affected of all, jihadists affiliated with al Qaeda slaughtered hundreds of civilians in a day on Aug. 24 in the town of Barsalogho, two hours from the capital Ouagadougou.
The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) in Sydney said Burkina Faso topped its Global Terrorism Index for the first time this year, with fatalities rising 68% to 1,907 - a quarter of all terrorism-linked deaths worldwide.
About half of Burkina Faso is now beyond government control, the U.N. has said, a factor contributing to soaring rates of displacement.
"The two, big veteran terrorist (groups) are gaining ground. The threat is spreading geographically," said Seidik Abba, president of the CIRES think-tank in Paris, referring to al Qaeda and Islamic State.

A U.N. panel of experts that monitors the two organisations' activities estimates that JNIM, the al Qaeda-aligned faction most active in the Sahel, had 5,000-6,000 fighters while 2,000-3,000 militants were linked to Islamic State.
"Their declared goal is to establish Islamic rule," said Nasr of The Soufan Center.

Jihadists use a mixture of coercion and the offer of basic services, including local courts, to install their systems of governance over rural communities that have long complained of neglect by weak, corrupt, central governments.
"Come with us. We will leave your parents, sisters and brothers alone. Come with us and we will help you, we will give you money," said a man from Mali, describing his encounters as a teenager with jihadists who attacked his village. "But you can't trust them, because they kill your friends in front of you."
The young man fled and made it to the Canary Islands last year before moving to Barcelona. He declined to be identified fearing reprisal attacks on family members still in Mali.

LAUNCHPAD SCENARIO

The jihadi groups operate in different areas, at times fighting each other, though they have also struck localised, non-aggression pacts, reports by U.N. experts say.
The groups receive some financial support, training and guidance from their respective global leaderships, but also collect taxes in areas they control and seize weapons after battles with government forces, the reports say.

European governments are divided on how to respond to the conflict. Southern European nations who receive most migrants favour keeping communication with the juntas open, while others object because of human rights and democracy concerns, nine diplomats in the region told Reuters.

One African diplomat said the EU needed to remain engaged as the issue of migration was not going to go away.
Even if Europe were to agree a shared approach, it lacks the military capacity and political relationships to help because the Sahelian countries don't want Western input, the diplomats said.
"We do not have any influence in those countries on extremist groups," said General Ron Smits, head of the Dutch Special Forces.
The other major worry for Western powers is the potential for the Sahel to become a base for global jihad, like Afghanistan or Libya in the past.
"All these violent extremist organisations do have aspirations of attacking the United States," General Michael Langley, head of U.S. Africa Command, told reporters this month.
Other officials and experts, however, say the groups have not declared any interest in carrying out attacks in Europe or the United States as yet.
Will Linder, a retired CIA officer who runs a risk consultancy, said the attacks in Bamako and Barsalogho showed that efforts by the juntas in Mali and Burkina Faso to shore up security were failing.
"The leadership of both countries really need new strategies for countering their jihadist insurgencies," he said.


https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/west-africa-becomes-global-terrorism-hotspot-western-forces-leave-2024-09-24/

Insecurity has gotten worst in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger republic.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/west-africa-becomes-global-terrorism-hotspot-western-forces-leave-2024-09-24/

Civilian government in Nigeria is doing far better than military regime in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso.

bidexiii:
[/b]The Brave Escape: A Soldier’s Heroic Drive Through an Ambush[b]


It was just after dawn when Troops of Sector 1 Dansadau, began their routine patrol along the dusty, narrow road that cut through the dense, unforgiving terrain in the North West of Zamfara.
The road, from Mashayar Zaki area on the Dansadau - Yar Galadima road in Maru LGA, though familiar, was often treacherous. It wound through the outskirts of a notorious area where enemy attacks were a constant threat.
The patrol convoy was driving through a narrow, route to Hanutara, escorting soldiers going on pass and a convoy of civilian vehicles heading to the market, when they were suddenly ambushed by enemy fire.

With bullets spraying from all sides, the driver made a quick decision. Instead of retreating, he floored the accelerator, swerving through gunfire. He gripped the steering wheel tighter and continued accelerating.
Despite intensified enemy fire with bullets shattering on the vehicle, his focus was unwavering. Though, one soldier paid the supreme price while four others got minor injuries in the attack,but the driver’s act of bravery saved his entire crew from being killed.


R.I.P to the fallen soldier & quick recovery to the W.I.A.

Source: @Zagazola

Soldiers are still using Hilux at the battlefront Soldiers dey try o

MEGAWATCH:
Did you see him supporting any party?

Most of you are just too stupid and useless in this forum.

Seun Mynd44 fergie001 nlfpmod. MEGAWATCH has broken rule 2

Funkyswagzz:
Stop promoting criminality instead fight against it. Tomorrow you will stand in a position your right will be taken from you by then who will you complain to

Tchewww

Beremx:
And you wonder why APC swept all of Kwara State. Lol

Hope you're also wandering why PDP is sweeping the whole of Enugu state too?

sholatech:
That you can even call these two projects 'Private Projects' means you and I cannot seat on the same table for a discourse. You are thus 100% right in all your posts, President General of Edo State

Shey you will not wail if the Dangote refinery is called Buhari and Tinubu project?

Edo no b Abia

10mobile:
Did you watch the video? Was he given a hearing?

So if you're in his position, you will behave the way he's doing? This is not the street bro

10mobile:
I don't know. That's why I haven't said they should jail him as you did.

He's accused of stealing and he didn't deny

10mobile:
The way most Nigerians judge things is poor. Just because someone is accused by someone else doesn't make the accused guilty. In fact, in many cases, the accused are not guilty.

So how do you know the soldier is not guilty?

He might be selling the ammunitions to criminals. He should be court martial and jailed.

Penguin2:
As far as Okpolo no win, no wahala.

LP lost their chance when they failed to get their candidate from Edo Central.

Don't sha start claiming the election is rigged when your candidates lose

fergie001:
Polling Unit 001, Ward 2, Udomi Primary School, Irrua, Esan Central LGA

Results:
APC (Monday Okpehbolo): 102

PDP (Asue Ighodalo): 001

LP ( Olumide Akpata): 001

The winner of this election is going to be between the APC and PDP candidate

Ikaeniyan0:
If the APC does not win, then the PDP will win it, LP can't win.

winterfell007 but my money is still on the APC

winterfell007:
Don't be too sure about that

If the APC does not win, then the PDP will win it, LP can't win.

The APC will win this election in Edo state

soarnews:
Hardship protest Tinubu Is the worst if Nigeria fail to fight now the next president will be worser


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMVZa1nUEtw

delkuf:
I just open a thread like this few minutes ago. I wonder about the quietness of Nigerians. We just shout on social media. God help us

What's stopping the two of you from starting the fight?

washmibili:
What is the essence of 6G in Nigeria? Even 4G is not good yet

6GHz is different from 6G

BlindAngel:
I will get the name of what the scanner man said needs to be changed, or probably snap it and post it here, I really need to know if it'd make the odometer and speed meter read again, my mechanic said the speed meter not reading is affecting the jar box selector and not making it select fast. I don't know how true is it.

A car you just bought don get all this different issue? Is it a Nigerian use car?

Look at how arsenal thread dry

hisexcellency34:
Who cares

Edo voters care

75k at my location in Lagos

malali:
Dont shut them down.

Re-purpose them
Punish them with a fine, give them 6 months to correct all infractions and submit to independent testing, if not corrected, then shut them down.
Re-certify them
Lab test their products
Give them standards to meet
The government should set up an independent lab to test the products and makes sure it meets universal standard.
Give them loans, and send them abroad for training on how to make original cosmetics.

The cosmetics sector is a billion dollar industry all over the world.
Shutting off people's effort to make money is not the right thing to do.
You are protecting the consumers........which is good
But you have to know a lot of people depend on these as a source of livelihood.

Did you go through tye article?

Redemption1:
I swear na one girl here wey me no even know her papa from anywhere, you know as nairaland be, person go know you make you no know the person, the girl go submit all the names of cdt wey don come before, naso CB and MP start investigation, them come say the age i used the first time and the second no be the same thing, naso them charge me and some people for forgery,naso i take go house.



I regret say I be nairalander, I cry tire, naso I take waste my twenties for Nigeria military, I go turn kidnapper in future, I must make am oo

Omo😦 some people are cruel o

Mo4