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It's their method of raising false alarm in order to paint any country they want to tarnish her government or planning to destroy via propaganda.

All these strategies are all about 2027 general elections.

The coup has been countered by other groups of armed forces that claiming of defending the Benin Republic constitution.

Above information is counter breaking news. The presidency says those soldiers only have control of the TV station of where they announced false information.

That's the update for now.

Omo Igbo den dey deceive themselves.

Where Enugu will top P/H and Lagos.

Enugu wey no fit top Kano and Anambra State

Na so de go put am for google say igbo be the most intelligent black people 🤣

They can never be at the same level till when the world,

Tinubu is on upper level, Obi is mate of Tinubu's boys.

kiss the truth.

Freshtruth:
Omo Reno dey cash out with him mouth



He was attacking obi who wan 2023 election n that made him tinubu friend

Where Obi won 2023 election, in 2027 Obi will yet have imaginary victory and reality defeat.

These are one of the people of a particular concern in this country.

Congratulations to her, focus, resilience, determination and exceptional marketing strategies brought her to when she is now.

Legit business pays for those that has patience.

They just want to have a of power and embezzling the country without vision towards progression.

Malians, Burkinabes, Niger, Chad etc can testify to government behind the barrel of guns.

jrobbins:
Allegations against ISWAP terrorists you call it? What has pleading guilty got to do with killing people? So anyone can go about committing grievous crimes of killing and abducting people and when caught, pleading guilty means they should be pardoned and reintegrated or given light sentences? Is that how laws should work?

He was not pardoned, after acception of him for being guilty. The judge sent him to 20 year imprisonment.

My

Omoawoke:
Nigeria matter pass tears
Why would nnamdi kanu get life imprisonment while ISWAP terrorist got 20 years

This injustice cannot be sustained

Terrorists are moving freely in the Forrests making life unbearable for citizens

The ones caught are said to be repented and rehabilitated, what sort of madness is this?

ISWAP terrorist accepted allegations against him, IPOB terrorist leader didn't accepts the allegations against him, arrogant, insulting jury and disrespectful to the constituted authority.

Hankim:
He’s worried now because the terrorists are already in some part of Yoruba lands in Kwarra state. And they might recruit some radical Yoruba Muslims to easily over run all the southwest states fast.

They cannot succeed in South West.

Thanks very much to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu

slivertongue:
They know the consequences and took their destiny in their hands. They know the otp in power will be replaced in 2027

You said it in 2023, you'll still say it in 2031 after this administration completed its second term.

DR Congo deserve the victory.

Their players more skillful, energetic, resilience, pacy and determined for victory.

For Super Eagles, those players deserve their defeat. Poor penalty kicks sealed their failure.

NFF failed this country, it is disgraceful and unthinkable eventuality for Naija football.

simeonabio:
Remove Tinubu Bsc accounting...it is fake

It seems some of your types are sadist1c and having obsess1on of Tinubu.

If you know what it means to work with European or American companies. Any one that works with these reputable companies. They will surely verify his academic qualifications

Tinubu work with Exxon Mobil and reached top managerial level in the company. Yet you're doubting the authentication of his qualifications. Very illogical.

Actually, this is good message for those that care to reason with it.

They're frustrated that Tinubu ignores US systematically and aligning with Southern powers led by Russia and China.

My

omojeesu:
Trump Is Not After Nigeria but China — The Hidden War for Nigeria’s Soul

By Anngu Orngu

I am following with deep interest the ongoing debates that are erupting over Donald J. Trump’s designation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) for religious freedom violations. Many Nigerians, including analysts I respect, are rushing to interpret that decision through the narrow lens of Western imperialism or anti-Islam bias. Others are dismissing it as another of Trump’s theatrics; a foreign leader speaking loudly to his conservative Christian base.

But as someone who is studying policy, governance, and environmental security — and as a Nigerian who lovws his country deeply, I am insisting that President Trump is not after Nigeria. He is after China. And Nigeria, whether we are realising it or not, is standing today as one of the hidden battlegrounds in the long-running strategic rivalry between the United States and China.

Trump’s Silence on China and His Sudden Shift to Nigeria

What is capturing my attention is how Trump is behaving immediately after his meeting with the Chinese President in Tokyo just some few days ago. He said nothing too detailed about the content of the meeting. Instead, he is stepping out and talking about Nigeria — about the mass killings of Christians, the destruction of rural communities, and the rise of religiously-motivated violence in the Middle Belt.

To a casual observer, that shift looks random. But in the language of global diplomacy, it is a signal. You don’t move from Tokyo to Nigeria in one breath unless there is a linking thread. Trump’s intelligence briefings are showing that Nigeria’s crisis is being tied to Chinese economic interests. That is what many of us are failing to see.

China’s Deep Hand in Nigeria’s Bloody Mining Economy

We are not deceiving ourselves when we say Nigeria is sitting on gold. Real gold. And not just gold — we are sitting on columbite, tantalite, lithium, and other rare earth minerals that are vital to modern technology: electric cars, smartphones, satellites, even weapons. Whoever is controlling the supply of these resources is controlling the future of global power.

China is dominating global rare-earth production and refining, but as its domestic reserves are depleting, it is expanding into Africa — and Nigeria, with a weak regulatory system and persistent insecurity, is looking like a prime target.

Across Zamfara, Niger, Nasarawa, Plateau, Benue, Taraba states, illegal mining is exploding. Beneath the surface of that chaos is a powerful network of Chinese-backed miners, local collaborators, and militia protection rackets. In some communities, entire villages are being emptied out by attacks so that the land is being “freed up” for mining.

A visit to some communities in Benue, Plateau and Nasarawa where the soil is carrying visible scars of reckless excavation. Locals are speaking of strange foreigners arriving at night and trucks loaded with ore moving under military escort. These are not fairy tales — they are the daily reality of a nation losing its wealth to foreign hands under cover of terror.

Terrorism as a Tool for Resource Control

We often view terrorism in Nigeria as purely ideological — a religious war or a clash of civilizations. But when we look closely, we are seeing that terrorism is becoming a deliberate tool for resource control.

Groups that label themselves as herders, bandits, or insurgents are aligning with illegal miners. They are attacking Christian farming communities, killing or displacing the inhabitants, and leaving behind ungoverned zones/spaces ready for exploitation. Chinese middlemen and local cartels are moving in to dig, extract, and export. The minerals are leaving Nigeria illegally, ending up in Dubai, Hong Kong or Shanghai — enriching foreign economies while Nigeria bleeds.

When Trump is talking about Christian persecution in Nigeria, many people are thinking he is pandering to faith-based voters. But he is also responding to strategic intelligence. His government is discovering that China is using Nigeria’s instability as a shield for illegal extraction — and that thousands of Christian lives are not being lost randomly, but as collateral damage in a global economic war.

The Buahri Waterways Bill — China’s Trojan Horse

We are remembering how, under President Buhari, the Water Resources Bill was being pushed. Nigerians from every corner resisted it and rightly so. On the surface, the bill seemed like administrative reform to bring all inland waterways and adjoining lands under federal control. But beneath that surface was something far more sinister.

Those waterways; rivers, streams, wetlands are not just water routes; they are mineral corridors. Many of Nigeria’s richest alluvial gold and rare earth deposits are located along these river systems. By centralising control of the lands, the bill if pass was paving the way for foreign interests especially Chinese-linked companies to gain access through federal licences, bypassing state governments and local communities.

I believe Chinese advisers and investors were quietly lobbying for that bill. They were seeing it as a legal shortcut to Nigeria’s mineral heartlands. Fortunately, Nigerians resisted it fiercely. But the attempt itself exposed how deeply Chinese mining ambitions are penetrating our policymaking corridors.

Trump’s Intelligence Briefing and the Bigger Picture

Now imagine Trump sitting in the Oval Office, reviewing a classified intelligence briefing ahead of his meeting with the Chinese President. The report might read:

“China is funding illegal mining operations in Nigeria through proxies. Minerals are being smuggled to China. Terrorist groups are clearing Christian farming zones to open mining fields. Nigeria’s government is aware but failing to act.”

If I put myself in Trump’s shoes — a man obsessed with America First, economic nationalism, and confronting Chinese influence, I see why he is doing what he is doing.

That explains why after his meeting with the Chinese President he is saying nothing about the trade war or Huawei. Instead, he is focusing on Nigeria. He is not only expressing moral outrage, he is sending a geostrategic message to Beijing and Abuja alike: “We see what you’re doing in Nigeria, and we are watching.”

The CPC designation thus becomes a diplomatic weapon; not just to defend religious freedom, but to pressure Nigeria’s leadership to confront internal terrorism, regulate its mining sector, and cut off China’s exploitation routes. It is also telling China that the U.S. will not silently allow Africa’s mineral corridors to slip into Beijing’s hands.

The Blood of the Poor, the Gold of the Powerful

As a development professional, I am telling ourselves that underdevelopment is not accidental. It is a system maintained for the benefit of those who profit from chaos. The violence ravaging Nigeria’s north and middle belt follows an economic logic. It is driving farmers away from ancestral lands, weakening resistance, and clearing the field for predatory extraction.

In many of these regions, the victims are overwhelmingly Christian farmers. Their lands sit on mineral deposits. Their displacement often labelled as “herder-farmer clashes” is enabling illegal mining. Every truckload of gold leaving Zamfara or Niger without record is carrying stolen wealth plus the blood of innocent people.

When Trump is referring to “Christian genocide,” it may sound dramatic to some. But to me it is truthful. He is naming what the rest of the world is refusing to name: a systematic campaign of dispossession combining religion, resource greed, and geopolitics.

Nigeria at the Crossroads of Global Power Politics

Nigeria is now standing at a dangerous crossroads. On one side is China — aggressive, patient, and comfortable operating in the shadows. On the other side is the United States — loud, moralistic, and determined not to lose strategic ground. Both are seeing our country as strategic: China for minerals; America for influence.

For Beijing, Nigeria is a silent goldmine. For Washington, Nigeria is a partner slipping away. And for Nigerians like us, we are caught in the middle — a proud nation being turned into a chessboard for foreign powers.

The truth is uncomfortable: our leaders allowed it. Through negligence or complicity, they permit foreign powers to profit from our insecurity. Every village burned in Benue or Plateau, every displaced farmer in Nasarawa, every illegal mining pit in Niger is part of the same global script — the conversion of African lives into raw material for foreign profit.

What Trump’s Move is Actually Signalling

Trump’s move is not hostility toward us. It is a wake-up call. He is using America’s legal and diplomatic tools like the CPC designation to jolt our leadership into action. He is highlighting the shootings in Plateau, Benue and Southern Kaduna not just out of empathy, but because those regions sit atop mineral deposits that feed China’s industrial machine.

When he says “The persecution of Christians must stop,” he is also meaning “Nigeria must stop enriching our biggest rival through the corridors of instability.” His message, though blunt, aligns with what every patriotic Nigerian should demand: a state that protects its people, its land, and its resources.

Nigeria Must Wake Up

Nigeria cannot continue to live in denial. We must stop pretending our insecurity is purely domestic. It is not. It is being sponsored, exploited, and sustained by global powers who see profit in our pain.

We must press for urgent reforms — a national mining framework that shuts down illegal foreign operators; a security architecture that protects communities; and leadership that understands that when a Nigerian village falls, the nation’s sovereignty is being stripped.

We must draw the connections from the blood on our farmlands to the gold in Chinese vaults. From Christian families fleeing in the Middle Belt to the wealth fueling Asian factories. From the failed waterways bill to the shadowy corridors of global mining diplomacy.

Conclusion

President Trump is not after Nigeria. He is after China and Nigeria is just one of the theatres where this global confrontation is playing out. His warnings about Christian killings and religious freedom are carrying more than moral weight; they are linked to strategic intelligence.

As a Nigerian, I accept his message not as an insult, but as a challenge — a reminder that sovereignty lies not only in our flag, but in how we protect our people, our land, and our resources.

If we fail to act, the silent war between the United States and China will keep being waged on our soil — not with tanks or missiles, but with shovels, mineral flows, and human suffering.

It is time for Nigeria to wake up.

Anngu Orngu writes from Koti-Yogh, Ute, Vandeikya Local Government Area of Benue State.
oranngu@gmail.com

Both China and US are the same. Nigeria government needs to be proactive in protection of lives, property and her natural resources.

The same aid they secretly diverted for the funding of terrorism in Africa under the camouflage of USAID.

I don't know how and when Africa will learn because it's disheartening seeing a continent accepting fund that also instrumental to their destructions.

Vadese1:
You are talking of the world most powerful nation. US will invade Nigeria and nothing will happen. The world are even tired of us. Our military are like pregnant women. Who will defend Tinubu from this mess he has created

Being most powerful does not give her license to invade any sovereign state. What she's doing now presently can be describe as interference in another country's internal affairs.

Ttalk:
Taming the insurgency should be the priority of a sincere Nigerian now and not hunger in the US.

It is high time the FG take decisive action against the perpetual killings of the Christian in the north.

The insurrection of Jihadists in the form of Boko Haram, ISWAP, Bandits and Kidnappers are out on one mission to destroy anyone who doesn't practice their faith and take their land.

Their targets are

The Christians

The indigene either Christians or Muslims who doesn't allow them perpetuate their evil agenda

The Muslim individual or community who is perceived to disagree with their doctrine and actions

Every other faith who doesn't agree with them.


Have you ever seen Sultan publicly condemn any attack?
Have you seen any Muslim political leader condemn their actions publicly?
How many BH, Bandit have the Sharia law caught and prosecuted?

It is high time the world intervene and expose al the people who directly and inderectly support these terrorist.

Killing must stop or outright dissolution of Nigeria through referendum should take place.

The blood of millions of innocent lives including Deborah is crying for justice.

There is no excuse from the government. Enough

Why US is not focusing on her citizens that are dying of hunger but interfering in Nigeria challenges with war threats instead of advising and supporting FGN for a solution.

If US wanted to destroy any country. They will be looking for excuses and make use of what differentiate people of such nations. Such as ethnicity or religion.

That's the loop hole they have found in Nigeria. Though, US cannot invade Nigeria simply because it'll expose their continuous abuse of international law and it'll picture their invasion that it's more for political reasons than protection of Christians.

Nigeria needs to grow militarily because a country that want peace must always prepare for war.

MURIC has time for the clown in the white house. The souls of Christians slaughtering daily in Palestine were not valued to him and that of Nigeria more important.

He is just looking for attention around the world. Any identification or sanction that's not from UN not ought to be given attention by any member state of United Nations.

ALLNIGERIANSMAD:
Russia is a coward, they can't do nothing, they too like show off

You can't understand the game of international power politics.

If you want peace, you must always prepare for war.

That's the message Russia is passing to her foes.

Many reactors forgetting that Trump banned Muslims coming to America. Even directed US embassies to deny visa to any applicant with Muslim's names.

Non amongst Christians in Nigeria found no fault on that. They didn't call Trump extremist or religion fanatic.

Hypocrisy is very bad. I'm not supporting Eadogan if this report is truth.

Bubu4Sea:
Considering the fact that the only drug lord to rule Nigeria is from your region.

With all these fabricated pictures used against Tinubu during the presidential election campaign of calumny.

If you were called to defend this, you may end in jail. Because a day is coming when every social media users must learn to prepare for defending what ever he/she sent on SM in court of law.

I'm not supporting anyone. Think twice before doing some sensitive things because the information on the guy caught lased with undisputed concrete evidences.

Great RY
. rest in peace the legend.

Hamas needs to drop arms and give a doubtful Israeli government aggression a chance under supervision of international community.

Lagos - forward for ever

Backward never..

God bless Nigeria.

LagosOrigin:
The juice served here will be different from the juice sold to the public.

Don't ever trust APC people.

You're really serving masters that are paying for this sadistic services, this one no be job o

Ratthemout:
John Babatunde, you are the most NEGATIVE human out there! To break down your myopic views:
If not for Osimhen: Oga! Is Osimhen now part of the team? Is he from Togo? The previous two games, did Osimhen score?
Moses Simon was quiet in the second half: how many people can hold the ball at the same time? Chukwueze was running things in that first half and when he was removed, Things moved to the other side and let me remind you of goal number 3 and 4; Simon was fully involved…
Passes: the team changes formation to counter the 4:3:3 of the Benin team and the coach realised our players are not a passing team but a running team so we used the flanks- Nigeria normally has not played this formation since the days of Westerhoff but we have no creative midfielder at the moment but we have pretty decent wingers along with Osimhen who is really good with his head and Arokodare is the tallest in Africa at the moment and also good in the air. Our coach should be praised because he realised we must play to our strength and that’s exactly what we did! We as Nigerians ALWAYS find a way and watch this team make it to the World Cup! When you were in school, did you not see people who are given assignments and told to submit in 1 months time but they do the whole work on the morning of the submission and still score high grades? I don’t believe you are a Nigerian because if you were, you would understand that our preparations might be shaky but our final output is always surprising… Nigeria will shine 💪🏽[color=#006600][/color]

I really enjoys your analysis, that of late preparation in school's days makes me concur with you. Yes Naija can do it.