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OgbeniOja1:
small nyanssh dey shake ooooo.

In the 2023 Plateau State governorship election, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda of the All Progressives Congress (APC) lost to Caleb Mutfwang of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to official results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mutfwang won with approximately 525,299 votes, while Yilwatda received about 481,370 votes. The margin of victory was roughly 43,929 votes, representing a ~4% difference in the total vote share.
These figures confirm that Yilwatda’s loss was by a relatively slim margin, as noted in some sources, but still a clear defeat in the election.

For state with a seating APC governor was defeated by more 40k votes? That's huge. Imagine APC with all the state and local government structures in it favour. The immediate past governor was a complete failure to have this kind of defeat. He even fails his Senate seat and didn't deliver his LGA to Tinibu as campaign DG

He couldn't deliver himself when he contested with the current PDP governor is it Nigeria that he would deliver?

FreeStuffsNG:
The US has been the biggest single donor of military aid to Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, supplying Ukraine with air defense systems, drones, rocket launchers, radars, tanks and anti-armor weapons, leading to concerns over dwindling US stockpiles.

You provide weapons to kill in Isreal and Ukraine yet calling to mediate. Is that not hypocrisy.

Incidentally, some of the Ukrainians are in their adopted Isreal, committing genocide in Gaza while their original homeland in Ukraine is being bombed recklessly by Mr Putin while US and Israel Defense companies shares soar and smile to the banks with blood money.

If the Israel homeland is Ukraine as you said, there are more Russian Israeli than Ukraine. One thing is certain, both Russia and Ukraine will stand with Israel regardless of any differences

Seems so. Plateau shall rise again. If decamping to APC will make his administration have more dividends it's a welcome one

damilola4162:
What's really happening in Kwara State for God sake,

Religion of peace that conquered there forefathers

He has slept two days in Rivers when Wike invited him to commission two projects

iwaeda:
https://saharareporters.com/2025/06/30/exclusive-new-terrorist-group-mahmuda-plotting-establish-independent-government-kwara

Why islam allows all these terror groups to fester in it enclaves

Leave my boss alone . 40 characters is not enough now

God1000:
It seems Russia is having upper hand this time, Ukraine is all alone fighting Goliath since Donald trump withdrew US support, he even redeployed the missile defense systems from Ukraine to the middle east to protect Israel

537 drones and missiles will surely overwhelm any air defense system.

Iran was very careful to have fired only 550 missiles and some drones in their 12 days war with Israel, imagine sending between 100 - 200 ballistic missiles, drones and cruise missiles at the same time like Russia always does, the destruction and casualties in Israel will be much higher

Keep consoling yourself with illusion. Iran sents more than a thousand missiles into Israel of which 97℅ were intercepted

God1000:
Iran has already proven to the entire world what they're made of, they should just leave the unhinged guy in the oval office, Israel would have been reduced to rubble if it wasn't for USA, a country that cannot fight on their own cannot claim to be powerful

As we've seen so far, Such unprovoked attack will only solidify nationalism and national unity among the Iranian people

Someone who controls the airspace of that country! What's another name for self deceit again? Find it and educate your delusional brain with it. Yesterday Al Jazeera showed how the military formation of noise maker country was burying it Generals and scientists during a state funeral. If that crises had lingered up to a week, Gaza would have been child play compared to Tehran

BREAKING: FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, and Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara reach truce after closed-door meeting with President Tinubu at the Presidential Villa

Gov. Fubara also met with the Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, Martin Amaewhule in Abuja

tollyboy5:
There's no mountain in Nigeria

We have rocks and hills

We have mountains in Plateau , vom and Pankshin LGAs

Avedonn:
What I don’t understand is, I thought Russia was a Christian country. Why are they not supporting Israel, as most Christian nations do? They consistently oppose Israel, even though it is stated in scripture that the Israelites are God’s chosen people. This seems contradictory for a country that identifies with Christian values. Is there a political or historical reason behind this stance?

There is no place that Russia has oppose or attack Israel. Israel has 20℅ Russia jews and Russian has more than 2million jews. Even during Assad regime in Syria which Russia was in control of Syria's airspace, do allow Israel to attack anything that seems a threat to it existence. The Iran-Israel conflict saw Russia widthraw from some key Iranian site to pave way for Israel's attack. Russia and Israel are key allies.

The reason Russia uses Iran is to serve as a tool of Western influence

The governor can't make a great mistake of leaving Jang. Jang decides Plateau northern votes which constitute 65℅ percent of the voting strength of the state. Any party Jang supports will win in Plateau

But seems Jang and Tinibu are already aligning. All the stakeholders of the states are Wikes' allies

The villagers slaughter on daily basis also need justices. But jungle justice on innocent travelers should be discouraged

This is not good for our society. They community thought it was Jihadis Fulani herdsmen who had been attacking them all the while

Bigchris01:
First Iran never started this war, and don’t expect to hit any country and they will quiet, they will fight back against you, Russia on the other hand can’t be fixed like you said in your post, you don’t see how carefully US is shying away from confronting them? 👇👇👇

To say Iran didn't start this war sounds like you live in the moon. Aside sponsoring Hezbollah, Hamas, Hourtis and other terror group against Israel, Iran has sent more 200 barrage of missiles to Israel last two months which were mostly shutdown by US, UK and Jordan defense systems

Dead on arrival. Russia has pulled out it personnel from Iran. Russia would not meddle in Israel matters. Russia pulls its scientists out of Iranian nuclear plant, as Israeli strikes threaten decades of collaboration
Fire and smoke rise into the sky after an Israeli attack on the Shahran oil depot in Tehran, Iran, on June 15, 2025. (Stringer / Getty Images)
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Russia built and runs Iran’s only functional nuclear power plant, part of a longstanding atomic network that’s now in jeopardy

by Kollen Post
June 20, 2025 4:02 PM
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Israel’s strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities have alarmed none more than Russia, the country that first brought nuclear power to Iran in defiance of Western objections.

We’re “millimeters from catastrophe,” said Kremlin spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on June 18 in response to a bombing campaign that Israel launched against Iran on June 13.

Decades of conflict with the West have united Iran and Russia, despite a cultural gulf between the two nations that dwarfs the Caspian Sea that physically divides them.

Russia has spent the past decade backing Iran-aligned regimes and militia groups throughout the Middle East. Most famous is Bashar al-Assad, a longtime dictator in Syria, on whose behalf Russia began actively fighting against rebels back in 2015. Assad fell in December.


"We're dealing with the domino effects of those changes," Anna Borshchevskaya, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute focusing on Russia's policy toward the Middle East, told the Kyiv Independent.

"In my view, the Russians were not just mere opportunists. They weren't just hedging their bets. They weren't just watching on the sidelines. They were actively fueling chaos across the Middle East."

"Of course, they've (Iran and Russia) had such extensive nuclear cooperation because it was Russia that built the Bushehr nuclear reactor in the first place."

In addition to a broad sense of being at war with the West, nuclear energy is a rare concrete tie joining Russia and Iran, alongside the arms trade and a shared interest in dodging sanctions on fossil fuels. Strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities are, for Russia, personal.


"Of course, they've had such extensive nuclear cooperation because it was Russia that built the Bushehr nuclear reactor in the first place," said Borshchevskaya.

Opened in 2007 and providing power by 2010, Bushehr is to date the only functioning nuclear power plant in Iran. Originally a project by German company Siemens, construction was on hold for decades following the toppling of the Shah in 1979. Built and maintained by Russia, it was the first nuclear reactor in the Middle East.

The Bushehr nuclear power plant is seen in a coastal village in Bushehr province, Iran, on April 29, 2024.
The Bushehr nuclear power plant is seen in a coastal village in Bushehr province, Iran, on April 29, 2024. (Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on January 17, 2025.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) meets with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (R) on Jan. 17, 2025. (Kremlin Press Office / Handout / Anadolu via Getty Images)
On June 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had agreed with Israel as to the safety of the "over 200" specialists working at Bushehr on behalf of the Russian nuclear agency Rosatom.

The same day, Rosatom Head Aleksei Likhachov said at a conference in St. Petersburg that the agency had evacuated “tens” of their employees from Bushehr and were weighing a full evacuation, Russian news outlet Interfax reported.

Bushehr has yet to fall under Israeli strikes, at least in part because that would be a nuclear disaster.

The West stonewalled the Bushehr plant that Russia ultimately built out of concern that at least expertise, if not materials, would be redirected to Iranian nuclear weaponry. But Russia wanted a sale. Experts note that the uranium that Iran uses at its enrichment sites is separate from Bushehr, where Russia holds a monopoly.

But why Iran would pay Russia to build Bushehr and supply all of its uranium, as it does to this day, is an odd arrangement given that the oil and gas-rich Iran has little real need for nuclear energy.

"It is dubious to say that the reason why (Iran) did so is because they were absolutely desperate for having a nuclear power program. It is my belief that they did it to have a weapons program," Richard Nephew, a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s energy program and former U.S. President Joe Biden’s special envoy to Iran said to the Kyiv Independent.

Even U.S. President Donald Trump recently floated the idea of Russian President Vladimir Putin functioning as a mediator between Iran and Israel, which he subsequently backtracked.

Rosatom, Russia’s nuclear agency, announced the construction of another nuclear plant in Iran in 2019. And on June 9 of this year, news broke that Iran’s nuclear agency had inked a contract with Rosatom for eight more reactors, including four at Bashehr. On June 13, Israel’s strikes began.

Even without Israel attacking, experts were doubtful that Russia would build these new plants. Their announcement was, rather, a "symbolic" gesture of support.

"They want to show cooperation with Russia," said Erath. "The nuclear power sector is something that's important to the Russian government. It's one of the areas that they export that has high value, that the Russians still are exporting, profiting from, when the rest of their economy is in big trouble."

madridguy:
Both the Plateau and Benue state governors are not doing enough to protect their citizens.

No emergency number, no rapid response team, no vigilante group finance and trained by the states. All they do is to sympathize and left.

Who told that? Plateau has been under attack for more than 20 years. It's God that has been sustaining it to this day and gallant youths whom have not rested if not because of gorilla war fair of the hit and run of the Jihadis, supported by State actors, Fulanis are no way match to Plateau youths. If not the Buhari regime that had emboldened the Fulanis, Plateau youth had already placed this satanic incarnate in their place.

stuffs2002:
Stop justifying the murders just because the killers are Christians

This was not a mistake in any form. The killers are ethnic northern Christians who knew exactly who the victims were.

Besides, who goes to attack a community with their children and women and without arms and riding in a bus belonging to Ahmadu Bello university.

No body is justifying anything. The truth is that the community people mistook them to be fulani herdmen who had attack the community few days ago

Okene legislative bus was apprehended with full of Arms in jos during some crises period. The jihadis keep on changing tactics on attacks on the Plateau

It's unfortunate what happened to to innocent travelers it could be anybody. No body should die because of it affiliated Tribe or religion

YourGFsnatcher:
This is why I kept telling Christians in jos that are always supporting igbos that they don't have sense cos the igbos don't care about them. They think that because they are Christians and igbos are Christians then igbos will like then. They don't know that igbos don't have the heart to care about other people. I just dey laugh them anytime they defend igbos like they are brothers. If only they know that they are supporting the enemy.

We will stand with Igbos regardless of your narrative than with blood thirsty jihadis who only think of killing and annexation of our lands because they fill we don't deserve to live because of our faith

Cutezt:
I understand that many fulani dwell in Plateau communities in their numbers, however, the narrative I am trying to clear is that our people have not run away and left those communities for them, they still live in parts of those communities despite the fighting and chaos. The southerners think once fulani attack, the locals will run away and leave their ancestral lands for them, but that's not the case. As for neighboring communities, you will definitely get that considering that Nasarawa and Kaduna have almost entirely been taken over by Hausa/Fulani's. Nobody is doubting their agenda which is to steal the lands, but the narrative out there is that they ransack, take, and rename any community they like, and that's not the case.

The attacks on the Plateau is mostly gorilla warlike ( hit and run). Most of the attacked communities don't even have Fulanis. They attack and retract with the aid of the Nigerian armforces

themosthigh:
I have never heard an apology to the Igbos from plateau people or elders. When I hear it, I will be happy. Most of the killings are in rural areas, not in the towns where most foreigners live, so don’t come and drag people into your issues needlessly with false narratives.

Was it Plateau people that killed Igbos or the Nigerian state that you require an apology from Plateau. Plateau state has always stood with Igbos in politics and ideology. We gave Obi more votes than most South Eastern States. Step out and be expose than wallow in the illusion of Biafran war long gone

Cutezt:
Plateau State, And The Truth Behind The Narratives By Cutezt

Some of your narrative is not correct! I am from Plateau. Some of our villages are under the control of Fulani herdmens backed by Buhari through buratai when he was chief of army staff. They even dig boreholes to them. And give them all the necessary cover!

The truth about the Plateau like many other middle belt region is about gracing land which the Fulanis needs our conical mountains with lush green grasses, the initially conived with Hausas and declared Jihad which means to eradicate Christians and take over the lands. The Hausas have now become their victims which has long been the Fulani's tactics of land grabbing and power ( Using Islam)

Until date we are battling with the Fulanis in remote villages bordering Kaduna and Nasarawa. Now they are not in power that's why the attacks against is has reduced

themosthigh:
Plateau State lies at Nigeria’s center, where cultures have long mixed. During the civil war, its natives, lead by General Gowon who is a Plateau Christian, were used to support the federal side in expelling and killing Igbos. Yet after the war, they too faced attacks from within, and began to cry “they are killing Christians” . Did they remember Christianity when they were killing Igbos before and during the war? Did Gowon remember Igbos where Christians when he starved 2 million of them the death?

Today, tribal clashes often with Hausa-Fulani groups are reframed as religious persecution, drawing Christian sympathy from the South. But many of these conflicts are ethnic at their core, not religious, and outsiders often get drawn into a narrative that oversimplifies the truth. But we should all forgive and forget and help protect anyone who is being oppressed irrespective of their background and evils deeds of their fathers

Are the Igbos speard in both jos and their homeland when the terrorist strike? You're naive, Igbos Occupies 4 council wards in the city Council of Jos, Hausas 5 and Yorubas two.

This carnage happening in Nigeria goes round. If you play a blame game, no region is safe

richmond500:
Israel were the terrorists here.
They did to Palestinians and now doing it to Iran, but trust Iran na. They have enough nuclear and air defence system that surpasses Israel

The air defense destroyed by Israel or which one? If not the professionalism of Israel in trying to avoid civilian casualties, some parts of Iran would have been reduced to stone age

That's how my area is. Those of us from Rocky city of Jos have this kind of environment across the city

Same thing with Nigeria. Only that the Malian was bold Enough to do it in public

The only City in the world that display crucifix of Orthodox Christianity with pride

Yes

helinues:
The commissioner of health who disrupted the event, how many women has she personally empowered.

Bitterness can't make one to be progressive in life

Stop this lies. Adaeze is well brought up by parents not on the streets. I was offered an appointment in one of the university in the state base on her recommendations. She has offered jobs to more than 3000 person within this period and won for the state $500, 000 for the best healthcare delivering program of the South South. The money is channeled to Primary healthcare centres and medical personnel are recruited to deliver quality healthcare services to the utmost or remotely citizens of the state