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We have effectively ceded parts out territories to criminal elements. Funny enough the president is an ex-general.

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Oga no go disgrace yourself there o. Wild N Out na 4 people wey sabi spit bars b4 Nick and Justina dem go roast you

Before you blame Buhari, first swear for the useless, dumb and greedy political leaders we have in the South-south.

modestbrowser:
This should be free.
Jesus Christ never sold anything.
Not even a needle.
They should give this to the homeless

Jesus Christ did not come to this world to sell anything. It doesn't mean all Christians should be charity workers. Jesus Christ did not also say it is evil for Christians to engage in commercial activities.

Best Service chief by far. well done CAS

CreepyBlackpool:
Christianity is the largest religion on earth.


But for some reason christians always seem to believe the entire world is against them


Funny how no one ever talks about the christian crusades

It's all political and part of the liberal agenda. To demonize Christianity because that is the religion of White Evangelicals who are massive Trump supporters and pander to Muslims promoting them as the downtrodden, the oppressed people of the world to get sympathy votes from them. It's the same thing they do when it come to racial politics. White vs Black

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A Twitter user @FulanNasrullah has summarized the ten-year long Boko Haram War in a series of tweets. Read and be enlightened.

2009-2019, ten years. That's how long the war in Northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad region has raged. In that time I have been involved in various capacities on various sides in how this war has evolved. Today my involvement is solely to study it, and aid civilians
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In that ten years a lot has changed, a lot has remained the same. My first takeaway is, ISWAP/Boko Haram etc are ONLY as strong as Nigeria allows them to be. Today tje war is at a stalemate, neither side is able to force a victory. Statements of bravado aside
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In that ten years insurgent groups have overrun nearly the whole of three states, and have in strength overrun two state capitals (Damaturu and Gombe), and multiple other cities and towns.
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In that ten years the insurgents have been pushed back to hold only isolated swathes of terrain, and have come back to control large areas of rural Northern Borno and Northern Yobe. In that ten years over 100,000 people have died from war, and millions displaced
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From my involvement in various capacities on various sides, i do know and understand a lot more than the average Joe about how this war is progressing and has progressed, day after day, year after year.
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And my second take away is: This war has been 10years of the Nigerian Government, intelligence services, and Armed Forces largely LEARNING LITTLE, KNOWING NOTHING, AND DOING THE SAME THING over and over again and expecting a different result.

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This is not to shit on individual soldiers, DIA/SSS/ONSA/NIA operatives and airmen, who in their personal capacities do a great lot of good. Rather it is to indict the system that has failed, and continues failing, in institutionally improving even the slightest bit 7/

I will begin with the basics of modern warfare. Training, logistics, medical, communications, intelligence.
Anyone who knows anything and is being sincere, knows that failures to improve in these areas is causing more avoidable deaths than Boko Haram or ISWAP are causing. 8/

Not an infantry person, my mode of service was way different as those who know, know.But 10yrs and soldiers in the outposts in contested territory CANNOT still properly prepare perimetre defences?? Improperly prepared defences kill soldiers that otherwise wouldn't have died 9/

Preparing proper fixed perimetre defences is not rocket science. Training soldiers to be able to do some form of initial battlefield first aid isn't either.But this training is not institutionalised and soldiers die, when they bleed out, or ISWAP overruns their trenches 10/

Logistics.First aid kits, are a scarce commodity.10yrs and food delivery is still not sorted out.Vehicle maintenance is still an issue. Weather complaint clothing is still a problem.Soldiers getting their benefits on time is still a problem Ammo availability is still an issue 11/

10yrs and we still have situations where 7.62mm ammo stock levels in the Northeast are terribly low and the Army has to do emergency purchases/airlifts from Belarus. The Nigerian soldier is brave, will do his job once told to,but the system fails him everyday for ten years 12/

10yrs and basic medevac is a problem. Soldiers I know bled out and died on the battlefield because there was no fucking medevac to get them to a hospital. 10yrs and we still throw bodies of dead on the floor in the mortuary at UMTH. 13/

10yrs and we still don't have a trauma support centre to handle soldiers post surgery recoveryi n the Northeast. Still don't have any form of psychological support for soldiers who have seen hell in combat in the Northeast. We are not Niger or Chad for crying out loud! 14/

There was a battalion CO at Kumshe. Those who know, know him. When he was deployed in theatre he was cheerful. 3yrs+ of holding the line against Boko Haram drained him of his soul. 15/

When he left for a course in Pakistan, he was a broken shell. Yet no psycho support for him or his men. When the first 21 Chibok girls were released, this CO singlehandedly saved the handover from turning into a bloodbath, when Abuja bungled comms with units in the bush 16/

Communications. 10yrs and units out in the bush are still lacking proper radios spread in a manner that actually helps in tactical coordination. 17/

10yrs and intelligence collection /dissemination is still a mess. 10yrs of this war,yet SSS won't talk to DMI and DIA and NIA are still beefing over silly things.10yrs and special forces raids are largely still movement-to-contact affairs because the SOF guys have no intel 18/

10yrs and the intelligence services continue to write reports that are largely summations of openly available rumours, or bits of stuff people like myself and @A_Salkida write or say in conversation. 10yrs and the hundreds of islands in the Lake are still unmapped and unknown 19/

10yrs, and 3yrs since New ISWAP was formed, and the intelligence services cannot with any confidence based on knowledge and certainty say how ISWAP is organised or who runs what within ISWAP. Nor can they with certainty say what the health state of Shekau is 20/

10yrs and the intelligence situation is so terrible that soldiers are fighting ISWAP/Boko Haram units and know nothing about which unit they are engaging , what resources are available to that unit, and what the order of battle for that unit is. 21/

10yrs and we kill/capture relatively important people and we don't know. We still don't know which island on the Lake is ISWAP's headquarters. Nor do we know with certainty who is the Wali of ISWAP. 22/

Close air support, mobile fire support, aerial reconnaissance is still a hot mess. This is not to shit on the Chief of Air Staff @CAS_AMSadique, who has been hands down the best service chief in the past 20yrs, bar none. But it is to shit on the process which is just shit /23

Fast attack jets delegated to CAS missions and ill suited to the task, still have to fly from Maiduguri. Attack helicopters which are better suited, also have to fly from Maiduguri to support troops in the Lake area. oftentimes arriving too late to make any difference 24/

Anyways I have been asked by someone i respect to stop this thread. So i will end here.

However, 10years of this war and Nigeria has still not sorted out or improved or in anyway reorganised our way of war to actually win or degrade insurgent capabilities into irrelevance 25/

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1119575572492038145.html

https://mobile.twitter.com/FulanNasrullah

Mynd44

You fit put food for ground eat from there.

Road Accidents is probably among the top 5 biggest killers of Nigerians. This is enough to declare a state of emergency on our roads. FRSC, FERMA, NURTW, RTEAN, Ministry of Works & Ministry of Transport, what the hell are these guys doing to find a solution to this issue.

Powerful

I think say this girl being dey school. Tomorrow we go hear say she don knack For at class

Democracy sometimes can be very funny. 341 people ultimately decided the outcome of the election of over 1m participants and made the choice of over 500k people irrelevant. Lol. Congratulations are in order for Gov. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal. You are truly loved by your people

nineone:
how many children does Ezechime have? How many clans claim Ezechime ancestry? If you claim to have a recent book by one of the descendants king, do you have that of the rest which are majority? Which Ezechime clan is more populous and powerful than Onicha Ado, Isele Uku? These people said Ezechime is an Edo man. These other kingdoms like Obior, Onicha Olona, Onicha Ugbo, Onicha Uku etc, can you name the ones that claim Ezechime being an Igbo man? So you have one book and you ignore the other books and facts and oral history of all the other kingdoms which happen to be the majority? Like I said earlier, I'm not interested in this Ezechime argument because my Ika has nothing to do with Ezechime. Rather, Ezechime is a descendant of Agbor according to Agbor oral tradition. If he was actually from Agbor or sojourned in Agbor is debatable and I'm not ready for that argument. My purpose of responding to your comment was your false claims that majority of Anioma are descendants of Ezechime. Do you know the meaning of Majority? Ezechime descendants in Anioma are less than 2%. Among the hundreds of clans in Anioma, about 5 are Ezechime descendants. Among those Ezechime descendants, some quarters are not descendants of Ezechime.

One thing is very common among you guys from the East. You like to claim knowledge in something you're ignorant about. And your confirmation bias is just too potent that it always becloud your sense of judgment thereby betraying your claims

First of all, I'm not from the East. What I have observed and read is that almost all the communities in the Nine local governments of Delta North share great similarities with the Igbos across the Niger in terms of language, dressing, food , rites and customs, marriages etc more than they do with the Edo Nation. Also Anioma does not just end in Delta. There are Anioma communities in Rivers, Anambra, Edo. The Igbankes in Edo state have Benin names but their language is nothing like the Benin language. It is actually closely related to the other Anioma communities than to Benin language.

nineone:
Ezechime's descendants said he's from Benin but where he's from is not my business. But what do you mean by MOST people in the Anioma group tracing their ancestry yo Ezechime? Why are you guys so ignorant? Do you even know anything about Anioma?

Ezechima was not a Bini man. If you have counter proof , state it here. I can refer you to book written by an Anioma King for clarification.

Most people in the Anioma group trace their ancestry from the Ezechima clan. Ezechima was not a Benin man to the best of my knowledge but he did spend some time in Benin kingdom.

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Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa(PDP) a.k.a #RoadMaster a.k.a #SMARTGOVERNOR of Delta State has rendered Chief Great Ogboru and the APC in Delta State politically useless with his emphatic victory at the March 9th Gubernatorial polls. Here are the final results as declared by INEC.

(PDP- 23 LGAs, APC - 2)

01. Ukwuani
APC - 7264
PDP - 18,328
02. Ethiope East
APC - 21,141
PDP - 11,489
03. Ethiope West
APC - 6,211
PDP - 62,044
04. Ika South
APC - 3,877
PDP - 33,371
05. Ika North East
APC - 2,303
PDP - 67,417
06. Patani
APC - 3,288
PDP - 19,683
07. Oshimili South
APC - 2,700
PDP - 54,766
08. Okpe
APC - 9,424
PDP - 20,415
09. Aniocha North
APC - 4,653
PDP - 17,054
10. Aniocha South
APC - 3,138
PDP - 20,947
11. Isoko South
APC - 14,259
PDP - 43,730
12. Oshimili North
APC - 2,906
PDP - 37,744
13. Isoko North
APC - 9,817
PDP - 29,648
14. Sapele
APC - 10,457
PDP - 18,572
15. Ndokwa East
APC - 4,306
PDP - 30,670
16. Ughelli South
APC - 20,233
PDP - 32,086
17. Udu
APC - 8,605
PDP - 9,042
18. Warri South
APC - 12,982
PDP - 34,977
19. Burutu
APC 3,645
PDP 49,722
20. Ughelli North
APC 22,081
PDP 19,045
21. Ndokwa West
APC 5,722
PDP 30,971
22.Uvwie LGA.
Gov- PDP 15,480.
APC. 10,471...
23. Bomadi:
APC 4437
PDP 63851
24.Warri North
APC 11,116
PDP 44,713
25.Warri South West
APC 10,906
PDP 139,534

TOTAL:

PDP : 925, 299

APC : 215, 942

MARGIN: 709, 257

Mynd44

#SMARTGOVERNOR #RoadMaster #Okowa2019 #DeltaState #Testify #Ekwueme

Please....Someone should please give us the true state of affairs in Ibadan especially around Ojoo, Orogun, Agbowo areas for those of us who will be travelling this week...please set political sentiments aside....nothing is more important to life. Dead people don't argue politics.

Clash of Political egomaniacs. No where in all this squable are the people's interest prioritised

andico34:
you are very correct.....the video nailed it
before video it was a clear coast for ganduje

Then we as a Nation have a lesson to learn from Kano State. For an incumbent governor with a very strong party base to be dethroned based on unethical actions is true display of political sophistication from Kano.

BlackAfrican:
Please keep quiet. PDP stronghold and PDP was beaten black and blue their 2 weeks ago

Bro...PDP did not come this close two weeks ago in any LG in Kano. Kano is the surprise package of the governorship elections. Like I don't understand how people changed their minds in two weeks and not just in one LG, across the entire state. Lagos really needs to learn from Kano.

Nigerian Army is busy doing errand boys for Rivers politicians

Seetto:
I have watched and observe the kind of politics played in the west, it is just too awesome, atiku right hand man supporting an APC candidate without bitterness, it is obvious APC is loosing Oyo states, thank to ajimobi, the political awareness and sophistication is manifesting, I believe this is the best for democracy to strive.

The group of voters I admire most in Nigeria at this point in time are the voters in the South West. I just like the way they protest against nonsense with their votes.

One point I would love to make is that the SE needs to take election and politics in general more seriously. This kind of poor showing with regards to election turnout is the region's biggest hindrance. Unless there is a new political system in place, the SE will always fall behind other zones in terms of their impact on elections. If you don't improve on your political participation, igbo presidency( not that it is important to me) will always be a mirage.

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If you are from the SW and you agree with this statement in anyway, then you are nothing but a political slave. Juicy appointments and a railway line is the reason you should tow behind a candidate It is truly shameful that some people should feel entitled because of political appointments. How has Osibanjo or Fashola's appointment improved the standard of living generally in the region? This is an insult on the intellectual class

This was one of the few APC politicians I really wanted to see in the National Assembly. Chai...Better luck next time igodomigodo.

Rich Yorubas and Igbos relating well while the hungry ones are busy fighting each other on Nairaland over politicians who don't know about their existence

xynerise:
It beats my imagination that most people take this election like a game of football. "The team I support is winning so I am happy"

This is your future, damn it !

I swear, you just posted my mind. They think it's Arsenal vs Chelsea or Man. U vs Man. City. Most of them here will not be direct beneficiaries of either govt. Just the fact that their tribesman is in power gives them satisfaction. Like Katsina has produced two Presidents in Nigeria but you can't point out what impact it has had on their population. Even so-called educated people cannot resist the venom of tribalism. Whoever emerge as President has no benefit on the tribe of the individual except his inner circles. I think wise Nigerians should have known this by now. That is why what is most important now is to elect a leader who understands the country problems and can do something about it