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Stepmum found guilty of scalding bath water killing of 5 year old stepdaughter in 1978

26 May 2026

A woman has been found guilty of killing her five-year-old stepdaughter by scalding her in a hot bath in 1978.

Janice Nix, 67, who had denied the manslaughter of Andrea Bernard, punished her by forcing her to take the scalding bath in Thornton Heath, south London, nearly 50 years ago.

Andrea suffered serious burns to half of her body and died in hospital on 13 July 1978, five weeks after the incident. The jury was told Andrea's death had been treated as an accident until her older brother Desmond Bernard went to the police in 2022.

Nix, of Clapham, south London, was also convicted of cruelty to Bernard between October 1975 and June 1978, when he was aged between seven and nine.

Bernard, now 56, said Nix regularly beat the children, even for things as petty as not folding their clothes "to her standards".

Andrea Bernard died five weeks after suffering severe burns

Giving evidence during the trial, Bernard, now 56, tearfully told jurors he had initially described his sister's death as an accident because he wanted Nix to stop beating him.

Bernard said that Nix beat him with a belt, burned him with a cigarette, bit him and made him eat cat food.

He said Nix regularly beat the children, even for not folding their clothes "to her standards".

Bernard described Nix as physically "strong" with a "heavy-set build".

Jurors heard that on 6 June 1978, Nix was "furious" after Andrea ignored instructions not to leave the house and to help clean instead.

Nix shouted at Andrea in an "extremely loud" voice before beating her, the court heard.

Bernard said he later heard the bath running.

He went on: "I could hear Janice shouting 'get in the bath' and I could hear Andrea saying 'the bath is too hot mummy'.

"I could hear Janice shouting 'get in the bath, get in the bath' and then I heard screaming and splashing.

"Then I heard the screaming stopped and I could hear Janice calling Andrea to 'wake up, wake up'."

Nix was arrested at Heathrow Airport after returning from Antigua in February 2025

Asked by prosecutor Kerry Broome how Nix sounded, Bernard replied: "She sounded scared".

He said he then entered the bathroom and saw Nix cradling Andrea, who was "limp" and wrapped in a towel.

Bernard said that Nix asked him to say it was an accident and "to say that we were in the garden when it happened and that she would never beat me again".

"I lied, I told everyone that story," he said.

Asked why, Bernard replied: "Because I didn't feel protected, I just wanted it to stop."

He told jurors he lived in "constant fear" of Nix's beatings and did not tell anyone because he feared being "punished more".

Speaking about why he decided to tell others about his sister's death, Bernard said: "I couldn't carry on dealing with it, so that's what I did."

He added: "To place this burden where it should go."

In a written statement issued following the court hearing, Bernard said the guilty verdicts "bring a sense of justice and accountability" for the "incredibly horrific and tragic events of 48 years ago".

"The degrading and sometimes sadistic punishment and beatings kept out of view of my parents and other family and friends culminated in my young sister Andrea's life being so cruelly taken away from my family."

He added: "While no verdict can bring Andrea back or undo the impact and pain this has had on myself and my family, I hope today's outcome sends a clear message that such actions have consequences and that victims should never be afraid to come forward, no matter how much time has passed."

David Malone, a deputy chief crown prosecutor in London, described the case against Nix as the result of a "remarkable investigation".

He said the case was the oldest Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) London homicide prosecutors could recall handling, with Andrea's death predating the organisation itself by eight years.

He said prosecutors faced the "wholly different challenge" of building a case nearly five decades after the incident, with many investigators and experts involved in the original inquest into Andrea's death having died.

"We take for granted now CCTV, audio, mobile phones - all of the technology that generate documentary evidence," he said.

"What we found, looking at that and looking at what Desmond had to say, is that Janice Nix's story simply didn't stack up."

Malone said Nix's account changed, and that the investigation hinged on Bernard's testimony and the expert reconstruction of Andrea's burns.

He added that "you can't stereotype" when victims may come forward, saying some speak immediately while others wait years or even decades, and that it was "not unusual" for accounts to emerge up to 40 years later.


Criminal history of the step mother revealed 5 years ago in a BBC article below.


Janice Nix: The drugs kingpin who joined the Probation Service

24 January 2021

Janice Nix led a life of crime in the 1970s and '80s and spent more than 17 years in prison

BBC London News

Janice Nix used to be a notorious London drug dealer. Known as Mamma J, she drove flash cars and had money to burn.

Her crimes caught up with her though and she spent many years in prison. The suicide of a fellow inmate would lead to Janice to turning her life around, and she went on to become a probation officer.

The 62-year-old, who has released a memoir about her eventful life, has now left the Probation Service but still works voluntarily to help vulnerable women in the capital.

She describes her transformation from drug dealer into Probation Service engagement officer as at one point being "the most talked about thing on Brixton High Road".

People who remembered her dealing and driving fast cars were speechless to meet her again when they walked through the doors of Brixton police station.

Sometimes her past still makes her uncomfortable.

"I am not proud about it," Janice says. "Sometimes I cringe when I think about my criminal history but then I am gentle with myself, because I also understand that without that past I couldn't have what I have in front of me today - [the chance] to teach people, to support women."

She had started out as a shoplifter in the mid-70s, stealing furs from Harrods and dipping into the bags of wealthy shoppers in London's West End.

In the evenings Janice would return home to her sleeping toddler Nadia, who soon learnt to count her mother's earnings and had excuses ready when the police called.

By the 1980s Janice was firmly established as a drug dealer. By the 1990s she was serving a long prison sentence.

In the 15 years since her release, Janice has worked as a ward clerk in a hospital and supported ex-offenders through the St Giles Trust.

She joined the Probation Service just before the decision in 2014 to part-privatise it.

She describes the policy - since reversed - as "a bad idea", and one that eventually saw her spend more time behind a desk instead of having face-to-face meetings with offenders.

The women she worked to help were often not there through choice, but to avoid custodial sentences, and Janice talks about them with affection.

She says they faced the same problems she did, the same problems so many young women face today: a lack of role models and a sense of isolation magnified by poverty.

Aged 62 she is busier than ever, supporting women struggling to survive under the government's lockdown restrictions.

Janice is used to hearing about troubled lives damaged by domestic abuse, drugs and violence. She thinks the strain put on women by the coronavirus pandemic hasn't been fully appreciated.

"I've had one lady that's locked off completely; I had to go there because her mental health was that bad I felt she would have harmed herself," she says.

Janice says she worries about the single mums the most, cooped up in high-rise flats with young children, struggling to put food on the table.

The idea that someone might injure themselves because she had not done enough to help is something that haunts Janice from her time in prison.

It was there she spent hours trying to console another inmate, a desperate mother whose children were being taken into care.

The woman killed herself the following day.

In 2016, Janice received a Diversity and Engagement Award for her work as a probation officer

Janice's father had come to England in 1957, and her mother followed. They set up home in west London. Amid the ever-present atmosphere of racism, Janice remembers sleeping under the bed because her father feared teddy boys in Notting Hill would identify their curtains as those of a black family and throw a petrol bomb through the window.

He was desperate for her and her brother to get a good education, enrolling them in violin and piano lessons, but she says feelings weren't discussed in their home.

When her parents split up, Janice lived in Antigua and then Leicester with her mother before running away to London, where her crimes caused her to become estranged from her family.

Now reconciled with her daughter Nadia, Janice has dedicated her memoir, Breaking Out, to her.

Janice hopes the book will find its way to people looking for help, as well as those curious about her gangster past. Her great sadness is that her father, who died in December, will not see it published.

She cries as she talks about him, the man who once lambasted her for becoming "a blasted thief and drug dealer".

He had refused to visit her during her last prison sentence, but Janice takes comfort in their final parting, saying "his eyes and tears told me he forgave me".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4p2dd5z97o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55766678

I don't trust Tinubu that criminal in Aso Rock not to be planning and scheming day and night to frustrate and cancel the 2027 elections on the guise of insecurity or a blanket state of emergency if he thinks he may lose.

Babanla werey ni Tinubu o. (Tinubu na certified mad man o).

In addition, I personally think that Tinubu has stolen so much money from Nigeria in the past 3 years that Tinubu is now richer than Nigeria and allowing ANY opposition to win the presidency in 2027 will open a can of worms that will either send Tinubu to life in prison or judging by his level of criminality make him run into exile until another criminally minded soulmate of Tinubu reclaims the keys to Aso Rock in an election funded with money Tinubu has been stealing from Lagos State since 1999 and from the Nigerian Treasury since 2023.

I ask people to bookmark my posts about Tinubus unmatchable level of looting so that when he is finally exposed they will realise that Tinubus stealing from the Nigerian Treasury is at Abachas level or even greater.

Tinubu will do anything and everything to prevent any one who will expose the level of his stealing from getting into Aso Rock.

By definition, you don't become a Drug Lord if you have a conscience.

I saw a YouTube video if the drug lord telling his supporters yesterday to just come out and vote and afterwards to Figbe le fagbepo meaning that after they ensure they have come out to vote for him, they should leave shit for night soil man to carry i.e he will do the dirty work afterwards to ensure he wins.

The same criminal direct primaries that Tinubu and MC Oluomo and his thugs used to deny Ambode a second term in Lagos is currently playing out all over Nigeria in APC primaries.

I don't have any iota of respect for ANY Nigerian big man - be that lawyer, SAN or politician because they are all part of the people who pillaged and continue to plunder our Nigerian commonwealth.

When Olisa had the chance to use his so called legal acumen to challenge theft in high places, what did he do

Most of these SANs are the same people fighting cases for politicians at election petition tribunals and they get paid a lot of money in foreign currency by the corrupt politicians from the moneie the bastard's looted from you and I.

So, Olisa and his ilk can go fork themselves for all I care.

About the only Nigerian lawyer I have respect for is the late senior advocate of the masses - The late Gani Fawehinmi.

The late Senior Advocate of the masses Gani Fawehinmi warned Nigerians many years ago that Tinubu is a criminal but we did not listen.

Tinubu Is A Criminal, Deserves 10 years In Jail - Gani Fawehinmi
https://www.facebook.com/nativereportersng/photos/a.1565382027077091/3343276239287652/?type=3

The Truth Tinubu Must Be Told By Dele Momodu
https://www.nairaland.com/7868333/truth-tinubu-must-told-dele

franchasng:
If the next President fails to jail Bola Tinubu, we will take it up legally against that next President.

Tinubu must end in jail for destroying Nigeria without mercy.

What a heartless man.

Imagine how the inflated the cost of their useless coastal highway to perdition and still nothing to show for it.

He and Wike keep executing rubbish white elephant projects they have been using to steal Nigeria's money and they think we are all dafts

You've said well.

In addition, I personally think that Tinubu has stolen so much money from Nigeria in the past 3 years that Tinubu is now richer than Nigeria and allowing ANY opposition to win the presidency in 2027 will open a can of worms that will either send Tinubu to life in prison or judging by his level of criminality make him run into exile until another criminally minded soulmate of Tinubu reclaims the keys to Aso Rock in an election funded with money Tinubu has been stealing from Lagos State since 1999 and from the Nigerian Treasury since 2023.

I ask people to bookmark my posts about Tinubus unmatchable level of looting so that when he is finally exposed they will realise that Tinubus stealing from the Nigerian Treasury is at Abachas level or even greater.

franchasng:
NDC the biggest opposition party in Nigeria today and the future ruling party insha allah

I don't trust Tinubu that criminal in Aso Rock not to be planning and scheming day and night to frustrate and break NDC before the election.

Babanla werey ni Tinubu o. (Tinubu na certified mad man o).

Who is this LEGEND.

What if the Principal himself or herself dey use steady ?

Why Do We Use Professional Titles So Much More Than The West

Because we are full of sheet.

Nestaraph:
Tinubu is afraid of the election because he have nothing to show as achievement

That's true but personally, I think that Tinubu has stolen so much money from Nigeria in the past 3 years that Tinubu is now richer than Nigeria and allowing ANY opposition to win the presidency in 2027 will open a can of worms that will either send Tinubu to life in prison or judging by his level of criminality make him run into exile until another criminally minded soulmate of Tinubu reclaims the keys to Aso Rock in an election funded with money Tinubu has been stealing from Lagos State since 1999 and from the Nigerian Treasury since 2023.

Just bookmark my posts about Tinubus unmatchable level of looting so that when he is finally exposed you will realise that Tinubus stealing from the Nigerian Treasury is at Abachas level or even greater.

According to ChatGPT, 10 kg of this colourless, odourless Thallium Sulphate that has a history of being used for political assassinations during the cold war in Russia is capable of killing up to 10,000 humans which is more than the total number of opposition leadership and the symptoms will include dementia, confusion, and coma.

Thallium sulfate is a potent, cumulative poison that is colorless, tasteless, and odorless. It is easily absorbed through the skin, inhalation, or ingestion, with a lethal dose for adults estimated at only 10–15 mg/kg.

Someone who is now richer than Nigeria through looting out common wealth seems desperate to cover their tracks by ensuring no entry into that position by anyone who will expose the level of their looting.

Remember the Oyi of Oyi - Dr Chuba Okadigbo - who met his death on a protest ground during Obj's tenure when policemen shot teargas into his face and him being asthmatic died soon afterwards from an asthmatic attack triggered from his inhaling the teargas.

Nigerian politicians practice "Do or Die" politics to ensure their looting is covered up forever by ensuring only their cronies succeed them.

Dotherightthing:
Hahhahahahahahaha

Trump is power drunk I swear

Trump's main goal is to stay out of prison by ensuring he does ANYTHING to divert the attention of Americans from the Epstein files and IF he can appeal to his Racist white fan base across the world and the ignorant brown and black ethnic people across the developing world whilst stealing, oil, rare earth minerals, sovereignties along the way to clear America's $38 billion debt mountain then so be it.

Nigerians supporting this racist Trump (who has not hidden his disgust at the sight of black people and has called Nigeria a disgraced country and a shit hole country) will all learn the hard way when a racist oil grabbing Trump bomb misses it's way and lands on the roof of your family home turning you and your children to Ashes in your sleep or if you live abroad the stray bomb hits and destroys your plane on your way flying into Nigeria for a family visit.

For starters, Trump has kidnapped the Venezuelan president and his wife yesterday and said that America will run oil rich Venezuela indefinitely from yesterday

Nigeria is next and even though I am a proud Yoruba man who hated and still hates Tinubu's guts for being a criminal Treasury looter, I still will NOT agree to Nigeria being invaded by ANYONE or Nigeria being enslaved or colonized a second time by any one.

Israel's Netenyahu emboldened by what Trump has gotten away with in Venezuela is already licking his lips and has already declared a day ago that Nigeria is his next front war crimes killing zone in his war on terrorists oil and rare earth minerals raid in Nigeria.

Nigerians in their typical shortsightedness and amnesia seem to have forgotten how many innocent civilians were massacred by Netenyahu in Gaza.

Keep supporting Trump and Netenyahu's war crimes and impunity and you may just be rewarded by a bomb sold to Netenyahu by the Racist Trump blowing off your head whilst you sleep in your bed in Nigeria.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4KWnQU6mVA&pp=ygUPSXNyYWVsIE5pZ2VyaWEg0gcJCU0KAYcqIYzv


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxlnGuCL274&pp=ygUPSXNyYWVsIE5pZ2VyaWEg

https://www.nairaland.com/8591091/israeli-pm-netanyahu-announces-new

HacheNoire:
Some Nigerians know more than Kamala

They have been ranting it’s not about oil even when Trump has publicly thrown it to their face.

It’s just really a sad time in history! We have learned, learnt and re-learnt, but glaring the majority of Africans will never escape from mental slavery.

They are clapping for same stroke that was used on them. 🤣😂🤣😂

The same strike that Israel has now said it will use on Nigeria under the guise that he Netrntahu is coming imminently to Nigeria to save Christians and fight terrorists.

Trump and Netrntahu are in this plan to invade Nigeria for resource control and the first testing ground was Trumps Christmas day strike unannounced and uninvited on Sokoto - a part of the supposedly sovereign state called Nigeria.

Now emboldened by Trump getting away with annexing Venezuela and it's oil, Netenytahu has now smelt blood and has just revealed his next plan in the video below to do the same invasion on Nigeria only that this time, the convicted war criminal Netenytahu who is wanted by the international criminal court for his war crimes in Gaza combining with the 34 times convicted felon Trump, their imminent invasion on Nigeria once and IF it starts will be bloodier than their slaughter in Gaza.

To those encouraging Israel and America to carry out their illegal invasion of our sovereign territory in Nigeria, just remember that Israeli and American bombs and missiles sometimes go off course and bombs can miss their targets and turn your house and its occupants (you and your family) into dust and rubble within the blink of an eye. And if you think that because you live abroad that the bombs will not affect you, remember that a) you still have family in Nigeria and b) whenever you fly into Nigeria and if that coincides with Netenyahu and Trump raining down bombs onto Nigerian soil, your aeroplane is also a possible target if Netenyahu and Trump's racist and illegal and misguided bombs go astray.

If Israel and America go ahead with their illegal bombing campaign in Nigeria, they should please find a way to spare the long suffering downtrodden Nigerians and go after those who have stolen Nigerians blind to the extent that when Boko Haram started, some followers joined just by being given a mere 1,000 Naira to blow themselves up as suicide bombers.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4KWnQU6mVA&pp=ygUPSXNyYWVsIE5pZ2VyaWEg0gcJCU0KAYcqIYzv


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxlnGuCL274&pp=ygUPSXNyYWVsIE5pZ2VyaWEg

https://www.nairaland.com/8591091/israeli-pm-netanyahu-announces-new

Na with 2 comments wey I don report now I take confirm that Nairaland has a high proportion of borderline lunatic people (men and women) who just because you want other people to learn from your experience they decide to either cook up stories about you doubting your story or your age or by being outrightly rude unnecessarily maybe because of their own personal frustrations as an ageing single frustrated woman in America or because they are not intellectual enough to know that not every one needs to hide behind lies or fabricate stories to feel relevant.

Talk of spreading your pearl before swine.


To avoid further stressing myself by coming back to talk with swine, I will delete my personal story 'cos it's not worth my while.

Nairaland is no longer worth my while.

To be honest, this is not how Tax works in Civilised countries and IF Tinubu was really a qualified accountant as he "claimed", then he should know this.

Tax is not just deducted by raiding any money that comes into peoples bank account - only an illiterate Agbero President cum Treasury looter would think this was the right way to collect tax.

What happens to gifts from family members and gambling winnings which are tax free What happens to school fees paid into a students account by his parents

Normally, the Inland Revenue would send an assessment form to registered taxpayers who will fill it in stating all their income, expenses, tax deductable allowances they made for the just ended tax year and send it to the Inland Revenue who will then send the Tax payer a tax calculation and assessment for the tax year which will have deducted any statutory allowances like Married Couples Allowance, Personal Allowances etc that are free from tax leaving just the taxable amount to which various tax rates are then applied in segments and then a demand for tax is sent to the tax payer with a generous deadline for payment failing which interest will be applied at a specified rate until fully paid.

But juxtapose this sane tax collection system with Tinubu's plan to fill his bullion vans with money hurriedly grabbed from long suffering Nigerians in yet another attempt by the greedy pig to amass more loot to corrupt the Nigerian electoral system and perpetuate himself and his cronies into power FOREVER.

For starters he has already managed to "convince" almost EVERY Nigerian politician to defect to the APC.

Again I say, God Please help the long-suffering Nigerian masses.

LordIsaac:
Since the "debt" is in dollars, US should just forgive itself.of.the debt and be free na...

Most of their $34 Trillion debt is owed to Japan and China in that order.

Obviouslyblunt:
Tinubu should please fire this minister.

That is welcome but it still will not solve the problem because the fish rots from the head and when you have an extremely corrupt Agbero - Tout - running Nigeria, he can only run it aground whilst he steals as much as possible to perpetuate himself and his cronies into power FOREVER.

You think say na play say almost every politician in Nigeria has defected to APC

Nigeria is in deep shit and a critical mass of Nigerians don't realize how deep the problem is and they are busy catching cruise online whilst their future and that of their unborn children is being destroyed daily before their very eyes.

Chimarto:
My concern is, when there's no light are they not suppose to downgrade to Band C?

A lot of Nigerians still don't understand Tinubu's modus operandus.

All he is after is grabbing money from the masses and stealing as much from the Treasury in order to have the most money in his bullion vans to compromise anybody in Nigeria during elections.

The Band A - C thing was not an attempt by Tinubu to supply power stability long term but to him it was all about stealing as much money from the masses just like his hurriedly gazetted Tax bill that comes into force in 2 days time that he forged and padded with money grabbing and right of arrest amendments forgeries after the bill had already passed through the national assembly.

We shouted from the rooftops here on Nairaland and offline from 2021/22 that Tinubu should not be allowed to enter Aso Rock but our voice was not heeded and now that Tinubu in my estimation (based on his antecedents in Lagos) is richer than Nigeria we are all seeing the calamity that has befallen Nigeria and it's Treasury and citizens in technicolour.

God please save Nigerians is all I can say at this point.

Maybe she "garnished" the place with Alum. A well known trick that has been around for a long time and that can make a man "capitulate" while trying to "gain entry".

She may have tried the above well known trick to make you think that she is a good girl underneath so that you will consider marrying her.

Wallade:
Considering that the USA🇺🇸 recent strikes in Sokoto, Nigeria, had no recorded casualties, so I started to wonder what the intentions of the USA 🇺🇸 was?

Could the USA🇺🇸 have miscalculated?

If it was miscalculation, then couldn't they have mistakenly hit residential areas.

The above was my exact fear when I heard of Trump's ill conceived, ill adviced and ill informed misadventure in striking Nigerian sovereign soil with bombs just because he was trying to divert the attention of Americans away from the Epstein files and because we have a compromised President in Bola Tinubu who has no iota of integrity with which to look Trump square in the eye and call his bluff.

Trump (a disgraced and 34 times convicted felon) already called Nigeria a disgraced country some weeks ago and the fact that a) Trump announced the strike first, b) Tinubu has still not personally addressed the nation and c) our NSA - Ribadu - was no where near Sokoto at the time Trump dropped bombs on Nigeria but Ribadu was in far away Lagos paying obesiance to Tinubu at a mosque tells us that the proud racist called Trump has so much disdain for Nigeria and Nigerians that he chose not to tell our President before violating international law and sending bombs into our country unannounced and in his words he said only America can do this.

Trump's calling the terrorists he bombed in Sokoto "Terrorist Scum" is his way of calling Nigerians and Africans scum since he has recently called Nigeria a disgraced country and has also called African countries shit hole countries.

To those Nigerian's hailing Trump's brigandage, just know that when Trump's bombs start dropping into Nigerian airspace, even you and your family are not safe because even if you don't live in the North, a stray bomb might locate you and your family and turn you to ashes especially since Trump and Pete Hesgeth from their recent antecedents in bombing Venezuela prefer to turn innocent victims to ashes to hide their war crimes.

And even if you think you are safe because you live abroad, it only takes one stray shrapnel from Trump's bombs to hit your plane on its way into landing in Nigeria for your plane to crash-land and kill you. So, be careful in your wish for a foreign entity to come and bomb your fatherland because it is a lose-lose situation that may claim your life and the lives of those you care for.

On a longer term basis, WW2 ended in 1945 (80 years ago), but even up till now, unexploded Hitler bombs are still being discovered on European soil, so be careful what you wish for.

The American Government Did Not Get Any Approval to Bomb Nigeria - says Former Nigerian diplomat Auwal Rafsanjani

The way and manner Trump made his announcement to carry out this action shows there was no discussion and dialogue.

Rafsanjani made this assertion on Friday, while speaking on Arise Television, where he criticised Nigeria’s handling of the situation and described the federal government’s response as an attempt to manage public perception rather than assert sovereignty.

Civil society organisation leader and Executive Director of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Auwal Rafsanjani, has said that the United States did not inform Nigeria nor seek its permission before carrying out airstrikes against terrorists in the Northwest, stressing that Washington acted independently of the Nigerian government.

Rafsanjani made this assertion on Friday, while speaking on Arise Television, where he criticised Nigeria’s handling of the situation and described the federal government’s response as an attempt to manage public perception rather than assert sovereignty.

According to him, the United States proceeded without consulting Nigerian authorities, insisting that no formal approval was requested or granted.

“The American government did not get any approval for it to take any action in Nigeria. In fact, as a matter of fact, what the Nigerian government has done is face-saving,” Rafsanjani said.

He further argued that the posture of the United States, as reflected in the public announcement made by former President Donald Trump, showed clearly that Nigeria’s consent was not required for the action taken.

“America does not need Nigeria's approval to carry out their action, it's clear even in the way and manners in which Trump had made his announcement,” he added.

Rafsanjani linked the development to what he described as Nigeria’s weak foreign policy and failure to effectively communicate its position on security matters to the international community. He said the situation underscored broader governance and policy challenges confronting the country.

“This incident is a pointer to the fact that the country is failing in its constitutional obligation, the country is failing in its mandate,” he stated.

He maintained that the inability of the state to protect lives and property had further weakened Nigeria’s standing and leverage in its engagements with foreign powers.

“The mandate to protect lives and property has been failed. We probably have an outdated foreign policy document that fails to allow us communicate properly,” Rafsanjani said.

The CISLAC executive director also cautioned against narratives suggesting that insecurity in Nigeria is driven by religious conflict, warning that such claims are misleading and dangerous.

“This attack promoted misleading information that the country is in a religious war between the Muslims and Christians and that is a very dangerous framing. We all know as Nigeria is and that is not the case,” he said.

He stressed that violent extremism affects Nigerians across religious and geographical divides.

“We have terrorists terrorising Nigerians irrespective of their religion, geo-graphical locations,” Rafsanjani added.

Rafsanjani called on the federal government to urgently review its security and foreign policy frameworks to strengthen Nigeria’s sovereignty, improve international engagement and restore public confidence.

Earlier, the Nigerian Government confirmed that President Bola Tinubu had approved the recent U.S. airstrikes against terrorist targets in Nigeria’s North-Western region, dismissing claims that the operation violated the country’s sovereignty.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, disclosed this on Friday, hours after the U.S. Department of War and President Donald Trump announced that American forces had carried out strikes against terrorists operating in the region.

According to Tuggar, the airstrikes were conducted with Nigeria’s full knowledge and consent, following consultations at the highest level of government.

The minister said President Tinubu personally gave the go-ahead for the operation, stressing that the action was part of joint efforts to combat terrorism and protect Nigerian lives and property.

“Now that the US is cooperating, we would do it jointly, and we would ensure, just as the President emphasised yesterday before he gave the go-ahead, that it must be made clear that it is a joint operation, and it is not targeting any religion nor simply in the name of one religion or the other,” Tuggar said while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.

He emphasised that Nigeria remains a plural and multi-religious society and that security operations are not directed at any faith group.

“We are a multi-religious country, and we are working with partners like the US to fight terrorism and safeguard the lives and properties of Nigerians,” the minister said.

The airstrikes have sparked public debate, with some critics describing the action as a violation of Nigeria’s territorial integrity and an infringement on national sovereignty.

However, Tuggar rejected such concerns, insisting that the Federal Government would not authorise any military action that undermines Nigeria’s independence or territorial control.

He maintained that the strikes were carried out within the framework of international cooperation and mutual respect between Nigeria and its allies.

The minister’s clarification comes amid heightened security challenges in Nigeria’s North-West, where armed groups have continued to carry out attacks on communities, security personnel and critical infrastructure.

https://saharareporters.com/2025/12/26/us-didnt-seek-nigerias-approval-airstrikes-terrorist-targets-says-rafsanjani


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

Daejumong:
Bishop Abioye and Matthew Ashimolowo once praised Chris Okafor as a man of God and a blessing to the people. Their endorsements suggested deep conviction about his pastoral calling.

But in light of recent revelations-allegations from Chris’s alleged daughters and lover, can their words still be trusted? Were they truly discerning, or did they misjudge?

This raises deeper questions:

• Do these fathers genuinely hear from God?
• Should we continue to rely on their past and future endorsements?
• Was this a one-time lapse in judgment or have we overestimated/overrated their spiritual insight?

1 John 4:1 (NLV)
“Dear friends, do not believe everyone who says they speak for God. Test them to see if their message is really from God…”

Dae Jumong

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Donald Trump and the White Man's Burden in Nigeria

Dec 26, 2025 by Adekeye Adebajo

US President Donald Trump has made good on his threat to take military action against Nigeria to save Christians from a “genocide.” Trump has three possible motives: his mercantilist quest for rare-earth minerals, his pandering to evangelical Christians, and his racist grievances.

PRETORIA – On the eve of America’s imperial invasion of the Philippines in 1899, the British poet and defender of empire Rudyard Kipling urged the United States to:

Take up the White Man’s burden–
The savage wars of peace–
Fill full the mouth of famine
And bid the sickness cease;

Over the next decade, Kipling’s injunction became the leitmotif of the West’s “civilizing” mission, justifying the imperial scramble to annex African and Asian territories. Under the cover of stopping wars by truculent savages and saving lost souls, Western powers exploited the resources of their colonies. As the late political scientist Samuel Huntington observed, it was not the strength of the West’s ideas, but rather the brutality of its actions that enabled these imperial conquests.

Still, in addition to the gun, European colonization of Africa relied on the Bible: colonizers would turn pagan infidels into righteous Christians. US President Donald Trump seems to be following a similar playbook, launching a military strike on Christmas Day on a terrorist camp in northwestern Nigeria – an oil- and mineral-rich country of 230 million people – to save the country’s Christian population from a “genocide.” Echoing old justifications for imperial land grabs, Trump recently posted on social media that the US may “go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists.

”But while Nigeria’s complex conflicts have indeed resulted in more than 100,000 deaths since 2011, with around 8,000 people killed in 2025 alone, Trump has shown no concern for saving lives in Nigeria – one of the “shithole countries” he denigrated in his first term. After all, his administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development, which provided life-saving humanitarian assistance to 270,000 Nigerians and funded about 21% of Nigeria’s national health budget.

Given this context, Trump has three possible motives for threatening to invade the country.

The first is his mercantilist quest for rare-earth minerals, approximately 30% of which are located in Africa. His crude pitch to the five African presidents who visited the White House in July was focused on minerals, as was his vanity peacemaking efforts between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.

This is not the first time that Trump has set his sights on another country’s natural resources. Starting in 2011, Trump proposed stealing Iraq’s oil to “reimburse” the US for its interventions in the Middle East. More recently, his reckless military moves against oil-rich Venezuela, including the seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker in international waters, represent a form of piracy.

Nigeria appears ripe for plundering. Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu – a politician steeped in what political scientist Richard Joseph termed prebendalism (the use of public office to generate material resources for office-holders and their clients and cronies) – and previous Nigerian administrations have waged an inept counter-insurgency. Their gross incompetence and malfeasance, combined with the greed of a kleptocratic elite callously indifferent to the plight of their fellow citizens, has cast doubt on the future of Nigeria’s democracy.

Profligate politicians’ raids on the state’s coffers have left Nigeria’s military (once widely respected for its peacekeeping efforts in Liberia and Sierra Leone in the 1990s) and police in a parlous state – a major obstacle to tackling security challenges. Nuhu Ribadu, Nigeria’s national security adviser, has accused soldiers and police of selling and loaning their weapons to “bad people,” while some government officials are suspected of colluding with terrorists. US sanctioning of such individuals would be immensely popular in Nigeria.

In such a volatile political atmosphere, attackers often go unpunished, and officials are rarely held accountable for failing to protect local populations. As a result, jihadist groups like Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province have operated with impunity in northeast Nigeria for years. But what Trump and many others overlook is that these terrorists kill far more Muslims than Christians.

In Nigeria’s fertile Middle Belt, an equally explosive conflict has erupted between Muslim herders from the Fulani ethnic group – backed by powerful political and business interests – and mainly Christian farmers, resulting in some 12,000 deaths since 2010. But these disputes are about land, grazing rights, and water more than religion.

Meanwhile, the kidnappings in Nigeria’s northwest, which have spread to other parts of the country, are motivated largely by banditry. Despite Tinubu’s claims to have eliminated more than 13,500 terrorists since taking office in May 2023, the death toll continues to mount: Amnesty International estimates that at least 10,217 terror-related fatalities occurred over the same period.

Another possibility is that Trump is catering to white evangelical Christians, who continue to be among his strongest supporters. Christian nationalist and right-wing US think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Gatestone Institute have fueled false narratives of “Christian genocide” in Nigeria, a framing that was recently reinforced by US Senator Ted Cruz. By threatening a full-scale humanitarian intervention in Nigeria, Trump can position himself as a staunch defender of Christianity.

The third explanation is that Trump is promoting racist stereotypes – he is playing the “white savior” trope – to shore up his MAGA (Make America Great Again) base. Trump has long said the quiet part out loud, emboldening white Americans to act on their most racist impulses. This year alone, he has falsely accused South Africa’s Black-led government of committing a “genocide” against white farmers, some of whom he invited to the US as refugees, and expressed his disgust for Somali immigrants, dismissing them as “garbage” he does not want in the US. His new National Security Strategy openly called on Europe to halt immigration to ensure that it remains “European.

Any one of these reasons, or some combination of them, suggests that Trump’s threats to invade Nigeria reflect an imperial mindset. On Christmas Day, Trump – supposedly in coordination with the Nigerian government – ordered Tomahawk missile strikes from a US warship in the Gulf of Guinea against what he termed “ISIS Terrorist Scum” in Islamic State-Sahel camps in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Sokoto. “MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues,” Trump warned in a social media post.

While some Nigerians are grateful to this delusional wannabe emperor for exposing and acting against their government’s security failings, for Trump and his MAGA base (and ethnonationalist allies in Europe), Nigeria is just part of a civilizing mission focused on reviving an era of white Christian supremacy.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-threats-to-invade-nigeria-reflect-colonizers-civilizing-mission-by-adekeye-adebajo-2025-12-1-2025-12

A 34 times Convicted US Felon invaded Nigeria without US Congress Approval and some Nigerians are hailing him.

Trump who is currently running scared of his full association with the late pedophile Epstein being released in the Epstein files in spite of 1,000 FBI officials dedicated to scrubbing his name from the files has now in spite of US congress not being in session nor approving his military strike on Nigeria, gone ahead on Christmas day to send Tomahawk missiles into the peaceful part of Sokoto to bomb a sovereign country and some Nigerians are hailing him

Our fathers fought the British and got us delivered from their colonialist grip 65 years ago and now a drug lord President in Tinubu scared that Basketmouth Trump may imminently spill his drug past in Chicago, sells our National Sovereignty to a deranged American President in a bid to cover his drug secrets and thus makes us the shit-hole, disgraced 51st state of America and some people are happy with this in their narrow minded thinking

Regardless of what is happening in Nigeria, no foreign country has the right to take military action against any inch of Nigerian soil.

Thousands of Christians have been killed by Israel in Gaza, thousands of Christians have been killed by Russia in Ukraine in Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine but Trump does not condemn Israel or Russia for their atrocities and he in fact supports both countries in spite of Israels action in Gaza being called a war crime and their Prime minister being declared a war criminal and the International Criminal Court recently issuing an arrest warrant for him but Trump still sells weapons to him to carry out his genocide of Palestinians.

The same Christians Trump falsely claims he wants to come and save in Nigeria were not exempted from the visa ban he unilaterally imposed on all Nigerians some days ago. if he really wanted to save Nigerian Christians, why is he allowing them to be trapped in the same country with his Visa ban

Trump has three possible motives for his latest reckless military strike within Nigerian territory :-
1. His mercantilist quest for rare-earth minerals.
2. His pandering to the evangelical Christians for political reasons.
3. His racist grievances.

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Some of us men just like punishment and bondage. With clear eyes, we go see danger and still go chook our head. It's similar to a man going bareskin with a woman he clearly knows is an Ashewo despite the VERY high risk that he may catch HIV. Yet he still goes ahead a lot of times under the influence of alcohol.

Although 2Baba's is also "rumoured" to be on drugs along with his junkie wife but 2Baba is too soft because with her having the courage to slap him on a live video and attacking him physically multiple times in the past and drawing bottle in him at least twice in the past.

Making him abandon music engagements because she thinks this music thing is getting to his head and he needs to be cut to size, controlling his bank account and the phone that receives alerts and promptly transferring multiple amounts out of his bank account once his royalties and engagement monies come in.

Spending some of the money behind his back, attacking him at the hotel immediately UK police released him from the injury she instigated herself by breaking bottle and attempting to stab him .

2Baba himself told his Ex Manager in her presence that he is a House Husband and this was immediately after UK police released him and her response was to tell him to shut up before she then physically attacked him and his manager had to lie down on 2Baba to cushion her blows whilst his wife tried to hold the Jezebel tout of a wife.

2Baba's softness is his undoing and he clearly needs help before that woman Devil slashes his throat one day.

2Baba should run away from their marital home, change his phone number and bank account and get a PERPETUAL restraining order against her both in the UK and in Nigeria - the type that forbids her from coming a certain mileage around him or near his house and he should immediately go into rehab to treat his drug addiction problems or else

He should learn from Mohbad, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Prince and do the needful now be before it's too late because any thing you don't deal with in private WILL one day disgrace you in public.

Whoever in the Army that allowed pictures of the corpse's of these brave underpaid soldiers to be posted on the internet deserves to be sacked and decommissioned without honours immediately. If you couldn't protect them in life, why can you still not protect their dignity in death.

Shame on our compromised security chiefs and our equally compromised and shameless politicians. No wonder Trump called Nigeria a disgraced country.

Just like Ned's brother or cousin said in the below video, Ned is a confusionist who sows discord in the lives of those close to him or who have helped him and when Ned's rich Aunt refused to sponsor his education abroad and this cousins elder brother funded Ned to the UK to study, Ned allegedly sowed so much confusion in the family of his UK host that the man had to relocate away from London to another city to get away from Ned.

A husband is meant to be like a covering for his wife and vice versa but for a 65 year old cradle snatcher to be proud that he is exposing his 25 year old wife's addiction problems to the world to score a point is the lowest of the low and shows that in spite of the hundreds of millions of dollars that Ned got ripped off the Nigerian state in excessive commissions from ALL the local governments and states of Nigeria from the Paris club debt refunds, Ned has no iota of maturity or sense as money can not buy such and his childish behavior at 65 confirms what his cousin said in the below video.

Nigeria is a country where anything goes and Ned would not dare do this in the UK where he studied law and had a law practice.

I bet Ned has not heard that silence is golden.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8LPAQytqKw&pp=ygUTbmVkIG53b2tvJ3MgYnJvdGhlcg%3D%3D

I thought foolishness was in the heart of every child. Which one con be this kain foolishness from a grown man A father at that

What a share of Nigeria's Paris club refund cannot do does not exist.

One day, anyone who has benefited from looted funds or who has ripped off the national purse will be held to account including their families and associates.

Delusions of grandeur.

See the face of the woman calling men a gargoyle