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The encouraging claim made by this Nigerian YouTube video publisher is that US drones have completed sufficient GPS mapping of terrorist encampments and troop formations in northern Nigeria, to now embark on a methodical explosive demolition of those terrorist bases using drone munitions, but WITHOUT any public announcement that could trigger protests from the northern governors who have been secretly funding and arming those same terror groups that are about to be liquidated in rapid sequence with surgical precision.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgolUZB-go4

Is this YouTube personality a rumor-monger seeking more views of his channel by fabricating a story guaranteed to gain attention, OR is it true that Islamist terror gang gatherings, bases and training grounds are in fact ALREADY being blown to smithereens by US drones, as these words are typed. Tell us your thoughts, pellow kwantiri-mans.

aribisala0:
Did you read the story?

It is not compulsory to talk

I have zero patience for sense. Less talk

Please accept my insincere apologies if my opinion caused you to become upset.

Have a delightful day, Madam!

aribisala0:
Air strikes on men on foot?

Did they gather at an Assembly point to be struck

A drone can position itself to fire cannons at a convoy of vehicles, or a single-file line of men walking along a road, reducing them to crispy critters with a a burst or two.

Reference:
The fact is that people see the massing of these armed groups before their operations but there are no structures or channels on ground for the average citizen to report to.

Security they say is everyone"s business but where is the market to trade information.

Developed countries have emergency networks. You call and there is always a reply and always a dispatch. No matter where you are there is security jurisdiction, someone's responsibility. There are no un-policed spaces.

Someone is responsible for that area and in rural places in other countries most citizens know the policemen by name, know where they live and interact with such officers on a daily basis. That is security being everyone's business in truth. Policing at the grassroots, at the street level and at the service to the people.

It does not take 'special orders' for police to be deployed to incident scenes in America, Great Britain, China, India or Saudi Arabia.

Watching a recent video clip showing civilians running helter-skelter as gunfire rent the air during broad daylight in the major town of Lokoja, with no sign of a Nigerian military counter-attack underway, it dawned on me that there is NO emergency response phone number available to Nigerian citizens so that they can alert the armed forces of any ongoing terrorist activity.

In other words, if a major town like Lokoja that is home to tens of thousands of people could be so easily overrun by armed terrorists without any response from nearby military formations, it follows logically that NO town or city anywhere in Nigeria is safe from falling to a murderous Islamist army of occupation specializing in mass abductions similar to the slave raids of history.

One can only hope that this presumption of mine is NOT accurate, and that all state and federal governmental information services in Nigeria will soon publish emergency terror alert contact numbers that can be texted to all phone subscribers preemptively.

Heffalump:
All over the world, when there's a military strike they will provide evidence. Even the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine continues to provide details of military campaigns that show strategic targets with real pictures and videos. What of Israel, they deal a mighty blow on terrorists and give you evidence of what they've done.

Nigeria military will only narrate stories of their attack without any picture or video to support it. How do we believe without a single clip of evidence?

The fragmentation pattern of that bomb damage might be recognized in pictures by trained eyes, as being damage inflicted by US drone-delivered munitions. The agreement might be for no bomb damage pictures to be shared by the Nigerian military on social media, so as not to draw attention to the collaborative cleanup exercise that is hopefully in progress even as these words are typed.

silverkings:
And I wan go Abuja January 8th. God.... How I go take do this bikonu

If you are not willing to travel to Abuja by air, then consider an outright cancellation of the trip to avoid the growing danger on those roads.

This highway attack by hundreds of armed men is an indication that an army of occupation is advancing on Nigeria, town by town.

The level of organization that it takes to set up a massive highway ambush with hundreds of shooters, means that an effective and battle-tested company-level command structure is in place where small disorganized armed terrorist groups once operated.

Kushites:
This is the type of military analysis I like, not all this beer parlour analysis on this forum. Thanks OP.

Beer Parlor analysis by armchair generals like myself is a key component of any offensive operation. We beer drinkers are usually the first to report the advance of enemy forces because after quaffing the fourth serving of Sapele wata, we are so intoxicated as to mistake the sound of a drunken fight for the outbreak of warfare.

If Uncle Sam has finally been "enlisted" or "inducted" into the Nigerian Air Force, that would be the most encouraging news to emerge from Nigeria in the past decade. Nothing under the sun will escape the unblinking eye of the airborne sentinels, meaning that all groups of freelance gunslingers roaming Nigerian territory must surely know by now that things are about to get very interesting for them.

Enquiring minds will naturally be intrigued to find out whether the Nigerian Air Force is already enjoying intelligence and more from The Hand of God, but that said, truth can be stranger than fiction, and is often best left to the realm of conjecture and emergent folklore.

Sowore like to put hand for matter when no concern am, come carry anoda pesin matter put for head.

Sowore no even care about all the people when Kanu thug don kill for dat terrible "sit-at-home" sufferment when Kanu start for Igbo land,

Anyway to see Sowore dey shout no be new ting when we never take eye see before.

After when Sowore shout finish for this matter, he to come go tanda for house dey rest, until anoda new wahala enter him mind to start.

otipoju:
Unfortunately this is the exact reason why they are suddenly kidnapping in large numbers instead of killing.

They are getting human shield to protect them from the bombs.

While the extremely high magnification cameras that drones use to identify targets can easily distinguish between an armed man and a hostage, it is likely that missiles will fly DESPITE the close proximity of the bad guys to their hostages.

Sincere efforts by US drone operators to minimize civilian collateral damage will NOT result in any hesitation to fire once enemy combatants have been approved for instant annihilation by the regional chain of command, as this necessary and long-overdue sanitation exercise commences in earnest all across northern and Middle Belt Nigeria.

otipoju:
Na these nomenclature dem dey take confuse everybody.

Whatever you choose to call them, they are mass murderers,armed robbers, and kidnappers.

Hence they should be arrested and if they die in the process of resisting arrest as criminals, so be it.

You are absolutely right, my brethren. The US drones will not distinguish between Islamists, Jihadists, terrorists, bandits, or kidnappers. Their encampments, convoys, training grounds, and gatherings will be bombarded with clinical precision and reduced to red rubble, so that God can record the exact criminal classification of the cadavers as they are all dispatched to report for duty under Mr. Lucifer of the fire and brimstone fame.

Opioid drugs of the sort these men are peddling can take the life of addicts with one single overdose, therefore anyone caught trafficking in these deadly chemicals deserves to face life behind bars as their reward for selling poison.

On the mean streets of any given city in the USA it is relatively easy to find enough jobless drunkards or drug addicts who will gladly participate in any protest or demonstration whose organizers can offer to foot the bill for their next pipe of crack cocaine or methamphetamine.

The poor spoken English of the "protesters" interviewed in the above video clip suggests that they are either illiterate or minimally educated, meaning in turn that they will do almost anything for a small cash reward. Most likely these protesters had no idea what was written on the placards they were displaying, which is why they were so reluctant to discuss the purpose of their sponsored protest.

Dotherightthing:
Fulani terrorists don't stand any chance anywhere in the south without military protection from their brothers

That military support for terrorist farmland-grabbing, crop stealing and and kidnapping gangs is the ONLY reason the invasion of Nigeria has gathered pace in recent years. The terrorists knew in the past that they could always contact the nearest Nigerian army barracks any time that farmers put up resistance to the theft of their precious crops and forcible annexation of their ancestral land by invading Fulani Islamist hordes from as far afield as Senegal.

With this new law that outlaws all free gallivanting of cattle and their terrorist herdsmen accomplices in Nigeria, coupled with the strategic replacement of Nigeria's top military service chiefs by a cadre of officers that will NEVER support Islamist land theft in Nigeria, the Nigerian police and armed forest guards can finally neutralize Islamist Fulani invaders without any worries about soldiers being deployed to take the wrong side in the conflict.

The invaders will soon realize that they are sitting ducks without army support. Long live President Bola Ahmed Tinubu the Great of Africa.

This is a worrisome development. Despite the new federal directive that re-classifies armed farmland trespass as a CAPITAL offence under historical legislation to be passed shortly, long-victimized Nigerian farmers are NOT being empowered by the government to take the law into their own hands by confronting farmland invaders directly, since the police are FINALLY empowered to evict or arrest trespassers from all of rural and residential Nigeria.

The process of constructing and fencing vast cattle feed-lots to house the teeming millions of northern Nigeria's free-roaming cattle will take months of construction and logistical preparation in the various allocated areas of northern Nigeria best suited for this laudable project.

That said, Nigerian farmers and residents of her hinterland can now rejoice because the powerful men who from the shadows sustained the repressive "free roaming cattle" practice that nomadic cattle herdsmen from Mali and Senegal had been using as a pretext to simply grab arable land by force of arms in Nigeria, have been showed the door and swiftly replaced with military top-brass officers motivated by a national outlook, rather than by a regional, tribal, or religious hierarchy of covert priorities.

The simple reporting to the police about farmland invaders and squatters, be that on private or government landed property will now, at long last, become a routine matter as it is in Ghana, where crop destruction and trespass are neutralized promptly with direct police action, occasionally supported by military personnel as needed to maintain order during such evictions and arrests.

Islamist terrorists, along with their cattle-herding "peaceful and nomadic" informants are all now on formal notice that The Nigerian Army will no longer deploy men to defend invading cattle herdsmen who are reported by farmers for destroying crops. Instead, the Nigeran police, supporting the Forest Guard Brigade, will round up the trespassing herdsmen for expedited criminal prosecution leading to jail sentences, while those who dare put up armed resistance will be reduced and overrun at the crime scene with no paperwork required.

DeepSight:
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Therefore, they eventually found him in a country where he was not initially. Do remember a few things.

1. Bin Laden was a Saudi National. Did they ever invade Saudi to look for him?

2. Bin Laden was trained by the CIA to resist the invasion of Afghanistan by Russia. He is a product of the CIA and US double faced imperialism itself.

3. Bin Laden was one man. Are you saying they were hunting one man for twenty years and only found him when he was in Pakistan (an American ally), where he had been living in a compound for several years already?

4. But here is the question I repeat: did the security situation in Afghanistan improve? Hell no. The Taliban remains firmly in charge today with the benefit of billions of dollars of abandoned US weapons.

Overall, you have to see the trajectory over history.

They have pretty much failed in any so called effort to bring security to any country.
In Libya, we see what happened. In Somalia, we see what happened. In Iraq, we see what happened.

Not to speak of the spectacular failure in Vietnam in the 60s. But you will say technology was different. Regardless, the same issues remain.

Nigeria is more complex than every one of these countries. It is also a black nation which the US looks down on far more than any of these countries. It will have no altruistic intention for Nigeria. If at all it does anything, it will deliberately and intentionally destabilize Nigeria further and take advantage of the fallout to make Nigeria a client state.

These powerful and pertinent points you have highlighted about American foreign intervention cannot be refuted, yet the gradual spread of Nigeria's kidnapping and rural massacre epidemic has thus far confounded all countermeasures attempted by the Nigerian military, while the terror gangs have already begun to use consumer-level drones to drop fragmentation grenades on Nigerian military emplacements.

Leaving the Nigerian military alone to fend for itself against a powerful and well funded Islamist enemy that is likely financed by Middle Eastern players who would love to see the entire Nigerian federation reduced to an Islamic caliphate, is a worst-case scenario that can only be averted by calling in the US, but NOT China or Russia, as a counter balance that will checkmate the terror infestation in Nigeria for better or for worse.

DeepSight:
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He was located in Pakistan.

Bin Laden fled to Pakistan from Afghanistan across the mountains ,and would not have needed to do so if the US did not launch that Afghan operation.

Yankee101:
Unfortunately, it is better to import beef if cattle rearers won’t adapt to modern techniques of rwnching and wish to continue open grazing that is destroying crops, property and lives

Brazil can easily satisfy Nigeria's beef requirements with fresh frozen imports, if a total boycott of Fulani cows is organized across southern Nigeria

DeepSight:
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Can you point to one thing they achieved in Afghanistan?
Anything which has improved the security in Afghanistan?

Afghanistan was a failure in general terms but it was subsequent to that conflict that the dreaded and elusive terror mastermind Osama Bin Laden was finally located and terminated with extreme prejudice before he could hatch any further terror attacks on the free world.

DeepSight:
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I am certain you know the US left Afghanistan in a disgraced haste only four years ago, not two decades ago.

Such a haste that they abandoned billions of dollars of weapons for the Taliban.

This alone is enough to tell you that your argument doesn't work.

You are right that I was wrong about the time scale. It is the Iraq conflict that is twenty years old, and not Afghanistan. All the same, the capabilities of drones today can make a huge positive difference in Nigeria's war on terror.

DeepSight:
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Just the way they successfully pin pointed and eliminated the Taliban in Afghanistan after twenty years of trying right?

Come on.

Drone technology has advanced in leaps and bounds since the US involvement in the Afghan conflict two decades ago. The ultra-high level of image magnification and resolution that drone cameras offer today mean that specific individuals' facial features can be identified and compared to database libraries of wanted people's faces in real time, while a surveillance drone loiters too high up to even be audible on the ground.

Once positive identification has been made via imagery AND communication signals intercepts, the fire directive can be issued to a nearby ground attack drone, or to a SWARM of small and nimble kamikaze exploding drones programmed to dispatch multiple targets simultaneously. Eliminating Islamist terrorists in northern Nigeria will prove to be an exciting video game with real bloodshed in store for the losers - the terrorists, WHEREVER they may lurk amid the desert scape of northern Nigeria.

ebukal67x:
Bandits work in an organized fashion and they have their own intelligence system that tells them when to relocate. The US airstrikes will only push the bandits to safer places, without solving the problem.

This is a fallacious presumption that only a chronic Play Station video game armchair warrior could dream up. The USA has for over twenty years been selectively culling known terror kingpins in Somalia and Sudan, using clinically precise drone strikes.

The same methodology of signal interception, overhead surveillance, leading up to precision annihilation of terror gang leaders has been honed to a fine art by the US military, who are more than welcome to expand this special service to protect the Nigerian state from Islamization by force of arms.

DeepSight:
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The poor gentleman has not seen where men spend millions only to be ghosted.

Man pikin will spend his very last penny just for a taste of the Promised Land for which every beautiful woman is the expensive gatekeeper.

DyshApp:
A man has taken to X (Twitter) to share a costly and disappointing first-date experience, revealing that he spent over ₦100,000 on food and transportation only for the relationship to fizzle out immediately afterward.

In his post, he explained that he went on a first date where he spent ₦109,000 on food and an additional ₦18,000 on a Bolt ride.

Despite the grand gesture, the connection didn’t last.

He recounted some of the frustrations from the date, saying that they first ordered food worth ₦90,000, which they couldn’t finish.

Only for her to order more stuff, then pack the whole food, the leftovers, and the newly ordered ones home, without asking if he cared for any.

Reflecting on the experience, he advised caution for future dates, promising never to involve himself in such again.

He concluded his post with a blunt takeaway, saying he thinks he’s better off alone because he’s tired of meeting ‘funny’ people.

The post has since resonated with many online, sparking conversations about first dates, expectations, and the modern dating experience.

His tweet read;

“Went on a first date two weeks ago. Food 109k, bolt 18k. Now we aren’t talking anymore. Learned to never do that again. If you aren’t going on a walk or to a restaurant I recommend, and you recommend more expensive ones, I’ll ghost from there.

First ordered food of 90k, which we couldn’t finish. Only for her to order other stuff. Then they packed the rest of the food, and she took it all without asking if I cared for any. ngl I’m better off alone. Tired of meeting funny people.“

Over time this Man of Culture has squandered enough money on wine, women and song to fund a presidential campaign, but when I consider the returns on my investment, averaged over time, I can attest with full authority that all is well in the known universe at this time.

BAILMONEY:
HOW IS THIS A GREAT NEWS

Open cattle grazing is a a wing of terrorism in Nigeria but not the ROOT. Whenever Nigeria government is ready to tell themselves the truth, then they should start with Nnamdi Kanu, Boko Haram, Herds-terrorists and their sponsors in the government period.

The historically friendly, reserved and innocent nomadic "cattle herdsmen" of the Nigerian landscape have evolved over the past few years to become the intelligence arm of the Islamist terror and kidnapping network that is currently infesting Nigeria. The herdsmen know every bush road, every church, every school and every residence in rural Nigeria, from the desert-fringe northern states, to the churning waves of the Atlantic Ocean in the south. That memorized geography of Nigeria's hinterland is then passed on to terrorist gangs now intent on dragging the nation of Nigeria into the flames of open warfare.

The zero-tolerance attitude that Ghana has implemented to repulse land-grabbing, crop-stealing Fulani herdsmen from Ghanaian territory must be emulated by the Nigerian government as a template upon which the architecture of lasting peace can FINALLY be constructed in Nigeria. If this newly announced federal directive to halt free roaming cattle in Nigeria is TRULY going into effect, then all means of ENFORCING this new law, from surveillance and ground attack drones, to special forces strike teams, must be placed at the ready for action.

His Excellency President Bola Tinubu has proven himself to be a thinking and fearless leader with an eye on the future, who has finally taken the bull by the horns to curb the anarchic impunity with which numerous Islamist and cattle-herding terror groups have migrated into Nigeria to wreak mayhem. The recently pledged US military intelligence assistance that is now in the pipeline for Nigeria hints at further political masterstrokes bearing the Tinubu hallmark.

gidgiddy:
I dont think you guys ever did understand that jailing Kanu only made him far more popular, same as the South Africa jailing Mandela only made him more popular

Jailing Kanu for life literally turned him into a living legend amongst his fellow Igbos and made them believe in Biafra even more

In the meantime Kanu is in jail, you guys are seeing more being released, more bandits given peace deal, more killer herdsmen get ruga, and more negotiations with ISWAP that just executed a Brigadier. So as your country gets worse, you can congratulate your selves that managed to jail one man

Yes, Ogawa GiddyG, It is true that Crying Kanu would love nothing more than to be mentioned in the same breath with such revered historical ions of change as Mandela, Che Guevara, or Patrice Lumumba, however, the sadistic blood-lust displayed by Kanu more accurately likens him to those convicted radio announcers from Rwanda now serving life jail in Den Haag, The Netherlands, for using radio announcements to instigate organized genocide that claimed 2 million Rwandan and Burundian Tutsi souls over just 6 months back in the early 1990s, during a nationwide medieval machete bloodbath fueled PRIMARILY by radio announcement indoctrination speeches disparaging Tutsi minority tribes people to "cockroaches" who were then hacked down on sight by Hutu men wielding thousands of brand new machetes.

The only champagne glasses likely to be raised to toast Kanu's violent extremist philosophy, now that the deadly price of his words is a matter of court record, will be confined to gatherings of the terror kingpin's die-hard acolytes who still sadly choose to regard as inevitable collateral damage, the scores of Igbo deaths and injuries attributable DIRECTLY to Kanu's frenzied online exhortations to anarchy beamed online to sow havoc all over Nigeria's south east, where every Monday empty streets were prowled by Kanu's illegal militia gunmen who kept entire populations under armed lockdown, killing defaulters, many perhaps embarking on unavoidable emergency medical road trips.

Justice has been served upon Kanu and Simon Ekpa. They are both justly-tried convicts sentenced to jail for mob massacre advocacy rhetoric that constituted a reign of terror in Igboland for over a decade. Even today in 2025, the offramp from Kanu's highway to hell is not yet in view.

Coincidentally, both Kanu and Ekpa stand to lose their British and Finnish citizenships, since Western democracies maintain a zero tolerance when it comes to terror related offences committed by NATURALIZED citizens of those countries.

A formal petition from the Nigerian government to the UK Home Office and the Finnish authorities, augmented with the court trial conviction records of both men, would be all that is needed for the UK and Finland nullify the citizenship of Kanu and Ekpa, while also slamming them with a life-long no-fly and no-visa status , applicable to both countries and other signatory nations with immediate effect.

That way, Ekpa will be instantly deported back to Nigeria on his release from that Finnish jail a convicted terrorist in 6 years time, while Kanu will discover soon in his jail cell that he can never in life set foot on British soil again in the unlikely event that he gains his freedom as part of a politically nuanced "act of compassion" effected by any future Nigerian head-of-state.

gidgiddy:
Quite remarkable for someone who has never saud a word about the herdsmen slaughtering his people in Kwara, Oyo, Ogun and Ondo

Herdsmen are about to finish your people in Akure North but your problem is Nnamdi Kanu who has been in DSS detention for the 5 years?

Common sense is not common

Thankfully Mr. Kanu is no longer a concern to anyone that is not one of his cult followers, now that Crying Kanu is languishing in his jail cell for life and with all communication channels blocked for him until hell freezes over.

Good riddance to a really horrible person whose hate speeches led to so much killing.

The simple fact that no long-winded legal dissertation can dispute is that Kanu delivered numerous fiery speeches that SPECIFICALLY encouraged arson, shootings, torture, murder and the patently ILLEGAL deprivation of an entire people's right to free movement.

Any one of the above capital felonies is sufficient to land a convict in jail for life, or on the hangman's scaffold, therefore Kanu's life in prison sentence was an act of mercy and compassion that was extended by the presiding judge despite egregious unruly in-court-provocations, to a cruel and sadistic convicted man who never once displayed mercy or compassion at any point during his entire wasted existence.

Kanu is FINALLY where he belongs and where he will grow old, thankfully. Justice HAS been served.

WizardOfNG:
You're 💯% correct. Those who are British by naturalization, as is the case with Kanu, can and will have their British citizenship revoked for terror-related conviction or serious criminal conduct.

Even Shamima Begum, who is British by Birth, had her citizenship revoked and was mad stateless after she travelled to Syria to join ISIS. She was only 15 as well.

IPOB lackeys are never educated and don't have world view beyond Upper Iweka, Aba or Nnewi so I am not surprised many don't appreciate the trouble Kanu is in as a 58 year old.

It is astonishing that nobody in the UK warned Kanu that his incitements to mass murder in Igboland neatly categorized him as a terrorist thus eligible by virtue of his own damning recorded words, to lose his prized UK citizenship forever and irrevocably, and also to earn a place among the terrorist rogue's gallery in MANY no-fly, no-visa lists worldwide.

The Begum case cited by Wizard of NG was among several precedents that Kanu's cult members likely never bothered to research online. Ignorance is NOT bliss.