₦airaland Forum

White House:

If the Nigerian government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the United States will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria and may take action to wipe out the Islamic terrorists committing these horrible atrocities. pic.twitter.com/2pxEPfNJbc

— Clash Report (@clashreport) November 4, 2025

shoodboi2:
This right here is the truth. If the Americans are sincere, they will impose sanctions targeting these fuulish leaders and their families, and not on we ordinary citizens. For more effect, they should even extend those sanctions to third-party countries so that our so-called leaders cannot go there either.

The sanctions should cover those who lead us along with their nuisance supporters that make very careless ethnic and religious statements. Garba Adamu and the other Ahmed Bashir or whatever he calls himself should be the first to eat that sanction. They have crossed all boundaries crossable.

But as usual, the US will never do that and are only riding on the sentiments that we created ourselves to get what they want.

Once Tinubu shows up in Washington and strikes a deal with them, they will keep quiet about the whole thing until they need more resources and then repeat the cycle and will keep quiet once again once they get what they want.

If our leaders can do it repeatedly and get away with it, then the US can do it and get away with it too.

And when our leaders get tired of being thrown around by the Americans, they will be encouraged to pass and enforce laws criminalizing ethnic and religious sentiments made by politicians.

But I know it will take them a while to get to that point where they pass such laws because ethnic and religious sentiments is what got them into power in the first place.

The idiot called Buhari famously rode on Fulani superiority sentiments and we saw the consequences, particularly during the 2011 elections. Later as president, the same Buhari openly and confidently went on to refer to Igbos as a dot in circle. Imagine talking about a major ethic group that way. If he could say that in public, then heaven knows what he says in private.

The same Buhari also violently attacked the unarmed IPOB and Yoruba nation, which forced IPOB to pick up arms, before he hurriedly went on to declare IPOB as terrorists. Meanwhile, the same man dragged his feet on declaring bandits as terrorists and even started a nonsense rehabilitation program for boko haram.

Overall, I have very little trust or faith in the Americans themselves and I do not want them here. They are not genuine. The fact that our leaders are bad does not make the Americans good.

Instead, what we need are foreign PMCs who come in, do their job, take a handsome pay, and get the fvck out. Eeben Barlow from South Africa did a great job around 2014/2015. But the same US sanctioned his company and ensured that Buhari kicked him out. We need someone like him. The government should bring him back. But I am sure the US will go on to sanction him again.

I also learned that some Chinese PMCs are active in Africa. We can explore those too.

Foreign troops, especially Americans, are a no-no. They attract flies. Even worse, their careless methods of bombing everything will create serious divisions in the country. At least the Nigerian government still acknowledges it when it mistakenly bombs people. The Americans won't acknowledge anything. They call it "collateral damage". Case closed.

I won't even encourage Nigeria to turn to Wagner/Afrika Korps because it will just end up becoming another geopolitical struggle. Ukraine openly funded and armed JNIM against Wagner in Burkina Faso. They will do the same here too.

As for our leaders, they are the ones who got us here. Their habit of saying all sorts of BS just to win elections has come back to bite them. It is funny. But we should not be happy.

Is it smart that we citizens cheer and celebrate the fall of our leaders? Nope. Because whatever happens to them will affect us too. And unlike them who can afford to travel out and live a life of luxury wherever they flee to, we here will be stuck in this country.

In all, we must not support the Americans coming here but we must acknowledge that there is a serious ethnic and religious problem in this country and we must find a solution to it.

IMEI:
Oh no!! I should have known that the charade would be exposed with lordadam on the thread 😨. I mean this is the same guy who conjures up and foretells events and conflicts, down to the fine details and prescribes solutions all by himself

From all you've typed there, it seems you wouldn't mind seeing the Americans come on a civilizing mission, to reform those barbaric Northern Muslims

Let me tell you something about Northerners. We're a deeply flawed people with many faults, there are a lot of things you can pick on and mock concerning us, but we will never waiver on an issue we know we're not wrong on

You see this smearing of us with a collective brush that you and your likes are doing, it'll change nothing. You can make all the noise you want, it'll still change nothing. We're used to being demonized in this entity called Nigeria, it's nothing new, so you can say whatever the hell you please

The reality take it or leave it, is simple. Whoever comes in, under whatever guise, to achieve whatever goal, mustn't do so at the expense of the wellbeing of the people of the region. Anything outside of that is better left imagined

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Meanwhile, seems like another Ukrainian city is about to turn fully red

LordAdam16:
In the time you have typed all these missives defending terrorists because it was Trump driving awareness, Nigerians have been killed in Plateau, Kwara, and Benue.
Three different states In 3 days.

Tell us when the killings will stop? No way.
Let someone else stop the killings? No way.

Nonsense!
You expect me to mince words because of the "sensibilities" of people who have not once talked about bringing the killers of Deborah to justice.

-Lord

Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado:

Russian and Iranian agents are freely operating in Venezuela, and Hezbollah and Hamas are also present in our country. pic.twitter.com/S6YmURDgpo

— Clash Report (@clashreport) November 4, 2025

WriteerNg:
⚡Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado:

Russian and Iranian agents are freely operating in Venezuela, and Hezbollah and Hamas are also present in our country.

Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado:

Russian and Iranian agents are freely operating in Venezuela, and Hezbollah and Hamas are also present in our country. pic.twitter.com/S6YmURDgpo

— Clash Report (@clashreport) November 4, 2025

IMEI:
I don't expect anything from you

I commented because I had something to say and I've done that

What you do or say is of no importance to me

LordAdam16:
it is your comments running cover for terrorism while Nigerians are being killed as you type that are of importance to me.
i will deposit the comments in the bank tomorrow.
or send them to Northern Christians to show terrorists so that when the terrorists read the admonitions of a certain IMEI they'll call off their attack.

jor dey type premium rubbish!

-Lord

IMEI:
Also you should stop with the gaslighting thing. No one is trying to gaslight you, it's probably your pre-programmed prejudice deluding you

Alamkiir:
👍👍👍
I am tired of this issue sef. Everyone has become emotional, making irrational posts all because of religious sentiments. If it were tribal sentiment, I would understand. That's why I don't want to speak on it anymore. Once religious issues enter any discussion, rationality is lost. It's no wonder our politicians easily use our religious sentiments to manipulate us.

Vado:
You guys analyze so much you lose touch with reality. Sanction on Adamu Garba or Bashir? Lol these are inconsequential non-state actors who doesn't have any tangible thing in the US. They do their Masters in Egypt, Pakistan or Sudan, they buy properties in UAE & Qatar.

IMEI:
Send the comments to your daddy Trump

Gbadebo19:
Once again, Pokrovsk WILL NOT FALL!!!

WriteerNg:
⚡Marco Rubio:

"The reason the U.S. is preparing to attack Venezuela is the influence of Iran and Russia in that country. The Iranians are exploring the possibility of building drone manufacturing plants in Venezuela."

obedience4:
Intervention with sanction are fine by me, but unilateral military operations are a no. The best military intervention would be clearance and sales of sophisticated weaponry.. and maybe military training on counter terrorism techniques?

LordAdam16:
i have distilled my position into two sentences.
the Nigerian government/military should end this menace. If they fail to do so, external intervention is necessary.

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i don't want to engage in the ongoing lamba olympics because it is abundantly clear that most northern nigerian muslims are completely fine with the status quo. they would rather tens of thousands of christians (and muslims) die every year as long as the US or any foreign power does not unilaterally intervene.

it is vile witchcraft!

there is no red line. no limits. bh and militias could kill every Christian in the north and they'll keep saying "tHe US intervention wIlL lEaD tO wOrSe CoNsEqUeNcEs".
these are professional gaslighters.

-Lord

WriterrNg:
⚡Pete Hegseth to ASEAN members:

We must ensure that China is not seeking to dominate you or anybody else.

Pete Hegseth to ASEAN members:

We must ensure that China is not seeking to dominate you or anybody else. pic.twitter.com/tlm5PLvyvU

— Clash Report (@clashreport) November 1, 2025

WriterrNg:
⚡Ukraine prepares new graves for the aftermath of Pokrovsk.

🇺🇦 Ukraine prepares new graves for the aftermath of Pokrovsk.

So many graves … pic.twitter.com/aLZsUwGhOv

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) October 31, 2025

shoodboi2:
Let me chip in certain important facts about northern Nigeria with respect to my experience as a youth corp member who served and lived in the north, specifically in Kaduna South (and Zaria) many years ago. (I will break it into multiple parts.)

We southerners have a very poor knowledge of northerners in general. We usually view them as if they are from another country, but I can confidently say many of us have never even interacted with a real northerner before, outside of those mallams who sell provisions and do mai suga. Those ones are usually (but not always) Hausas.

But you see those okada riders, cart pushers, shoemakers, and those tailors that carry their sewing machine around, they are usually not even Nigerians. Many are from Niger, Chad, and Mali, and come to Nigeria to work. That is why many of them don’t even understand pidgin and will start looking like they are lost when you talk to them. But they will usually pretend to be northerners just to avoid immigration issues.

So the main issue is why do we southerners not have knowledge of the north. A good reason is our textbooks. They tell us Nigeria is divided into Hausa/Fulani in the north, Yoruba in the southwest and Igbo in the southeast. They don't even talk about other ethnic groups that are politically and culturally important, such as the Ijaws and the Benin, not to talk of the minority tribes all across the country.

There are over 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria. Around 200 of those ethnic groups are in the north. And in the core north itself, the number of ethnic groups there is almost 100. So, it is wrong to say the north is Hausa/Fulani. This applies everywhere too, including Lagos, where we have the Egun tribe, who are indigenes. But the south is generally more ethnically homogenous than the north.

But the bigger reason we do not know about the other ethnic groups in this country is the media industry.

Our media industry is fractured into the northern and southern sections. Southerners and northerners do not watch the same movies or tv stations or even read the same newspapers. Northerners watch Kannywood. We watch Nollywood. We do not listen to their music, or know their famous musicians, and they too do not know ours. They know Davido and Wizkid and Burna and the other top dogs that are internationally famous.

But they do not know less popular but internationally recognized ones like Arya Starr or Tems or Fireboy. At most, these ones can have a fanbase in major cities and metropolitan areas but that is where it ends.

This north-south media divide thing has led to the common recurring issue of southerners accusing northerners of harboring terrorists and not condemning the killings in the north.

This is a false narrative. The truth is that northern media reports the terrorism in the north, but we often do not hear about it down here because we do not watch their news or read their newspapers.

During Buhari’s era, northern and southern journalists and media were even openly fighting against themselves over the insecurity and terrorism issue in the north. In the heat of the back and forth accusations, someone from the north (who I sadly do not remember) referred to southern media as “Lagos-Ibadan expressway media.” That person was clearly referring to Punch newspapers that has its headquarters on that expressway.

Punch is the most popular newspaper in the South here. And we read Tribune and Vanguard and The Nation too. In the north, it is Daily Trust. Then they read other ones like Blueprint and Leadership. Daily Trust condemns terrorism in the north. But then we do not know because we rarely read it down here. This is why we think they do not condemn it.

Northern media and journalists themselves have also accused southern media of underreporting the terrorism in the north. And when southern media reports it, they sometimes do so days after the incident, or frame it along ethnic and religious lines, even when it wasn’t so.

This leads to the other issue of southerners always dragging all northerners (and sometimes, all Muslims) into anything a northerner does to a southerner or to a Christain.

Then another bias that northern media pointed out is that southern media tends to focus on religious issues involving the north. For instance, southern media will often cause an uproar when the presidency drops money for muslim pilgrimage but will say nothing about when the presidency drops money for crhristian pilgrimage.

Search for these two terms and compare what you see:

federal government subsidizes muslim pilgrimage

federal government subsidizes christian pilgrimage

You will notice that southern media extensively focuses on the costs of the muslim pilgrimage while the same southern media says nothing about christian pilgrimage. This is the bias the northerners are always talking about.

Again, these are not my words. I am indifferent to religion for the most part. But I am only showing you the bias I have heard from northerners in person, on social media, and from their media and journalists.

The same way, northern media points out that when a northern governor builds a mosque, we start hearing uproar from southerners about how northerners are this and that but southern governors almost always build churches and no one bats an eye.

The same way, southern media caused an uproar when Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped the Chibok girls. The girls are from one of the minority tribes in the country and are majorly Christians. (I will address this northern ethnicity issue and politicization of religion in another insight.)

Northern journalists pointed out that southern media consistently reported the news and heavily referenced the Christian background of the girls, but didn’t do the same when Boko Haram and those bandit terrorists kidnapped girls in Dapchi (Yobe), Jangebe (Zamfara), Kankara (Katsina), Tegina (Niger), Kagara (Niger), and Kuriga (Kaduna).

The majority of the girls (and sometimes, boys) in these schools are Muslims, but their kidnap did not receive the same or even considerable, attention as the Chibok girls received in southern media. Many of us are even hearing of these kidnaps for the first time except maybe Dapchi, which went viral because of Leah Shuaibu, the Christian girl who Boko Haram/ISWAP refused to release.

Meanwhile, northern media always reported them, which is what pisses them off when we accuse them of not condemning terrorism in the north. They, in turn, say they do and accuse southern media of underreporting news about terrorism in the north.

Outside of the media rivalry, another interesting thing is that many southerners do not know of the serious rivalry that this kidnapping, banditry, and terrorism issue has caused between the Hausa and the Fulanis. During Buhari’s era, Hausa vigilantes were even attacking and killing Fulanis.

The whole banditry and terrorism thing is even causing severe rivalry between the Fulanis who live in the bush and herd cattle and the Fulanis who live in towns. Fulanis in towns are even trying to distant themselves from the ones in the bush.

Believe it or not, even Fulanis are victims of the herdsmen. During my NYSC, I had an issue where a Fulani man had to hide two of his children because a Fulani bandit threatened him to pay 1.8 million (900k per child) else they would kidnap them. He hid the children and stopped them from going to school until he could rally the money. And he said other Fulanis in the area had received similar threats.

In all, most of us southerners have never lost a single family member to the terrorists roaming the north. But many northerners irrespective of ethnicity and religion have lost family, homes, and businesses to it.

The whole misinformation issue goes back to the media. Always remember: We watch different news programs and read different newspapers.