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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

Can you create a separate thread for this.

Ots not any resources ooo USA is not after any resources...why didn't Trump go to Ghana or South Africa for their resources....some pple can be so deluded.....
Its just to protect Nigerian churches and Christians... and to help Nigerian compromised Securities...but Tinubu know what to do but he want to secures victory in the 2027 Elections first....
But Trump wan spoil his show

Nonsense and ingredients!
Since the useless government has refused to do the right thing on insecurity and its worsening state, it's high time, foreign intervention came it.
What sort of useless presidency tells people attacked in Benue state, losing more than 200 individuals, to go and make peace with their killers.
What useless government only reshuffles security chiefs, at the whiff of threat of military coup?
What useless government promotes rehabilitation of "repentant terrorists" granting them presidential pardon, integrates them into the society and security services?
What normal, leaders conceive such ridiculous ideas?
Where has it ever been heard that a lion changed from eating meat to eating grass?
A terrorist is dealt with in either of two ways_Neutralize or Imprisonment.
Even America in all her long history of combating terrorism, has never ever rehabilitated terrorists, not to talk of conceiving the idea. Europe and Asia have never.
Even Kenya, Chad, BF, Mali, Niger deal with terrorists in neutralizing or imprisonment.
They have never rehabilitated terrorists.
Why should Nigeria do it if not that terrorism is state sponsored here, and benefiting animals in human form in the corridors of power.
In my Igbo language, a proverb goes this" Ala adighi mma bu uru ndi nze" meaning the instability of the land is the elite's benefit.
Trump's single threat has really unsettled the useless government and politicians.
Nigeria is really a Disgraced Country, as Trump rightly said.

MaziObinnaokija:
useless talk.
Who kpai Baba Fasoranti's daughter?

Tinubu is still looking for cows 🐄 to help him identify the killers.

Oniranu Lagos lootocracy master planner.

Highways:
Where Are The Cows? Is Evans A Herdsman?'


When Funke Olakurin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti was murdered instead of Bola Tinubu to make sure that the perpetrators were brought to book, he ended up making fun of the death of the young lady by turning everything into tribalism by showing his hates for Igbos.


Tinubu has never spoken against the deadly activities of Fulani herdsmen across the country

The same stand Adeyinka Grandson gave on the death of Fasoranti's daughter is where Tinubu, the leader of the Yoruba Conservatives stands. Please see Tinubu's video below. pic.twitter.com/COhiSvabqW

— Adeyinka Grandson (@deyinkagrandson) July 14, 2019

Mrs Olakunrin died of gunshot wounds in July 2019 after her vehicle was attacked by armed men, suspected to be marauding Fulani bandits whose violent activities had reached a frightening level across the southwest states.


Those arrested suspects include Lawal Mazaje, 40, from Felele area of Kogi State; Adamu Adamu, 50, from Jada area of Adamawa State; Mohammed Usman, 26, from Illela area of Sokoto State and Auwal Abubakar, 25, from Shinkafi area of Zamfara State....

However, the leader of the team, identified only as Tambaya, and three others are yet to be found.

Tambaya has been declared wanted by the police and he is said to be capable of communicating in Hausa, Fulfude and Pidgin English.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/388382-afenifere-police-speak-on-arrest-of-alleged-killers-of-fasorantis-daughter.html

Kalvan:
All bullshit.

Don't have time to debunk the rest of your bogus post, but at least google the University of Ibadan before you claim there were zero universities during colonial rule.

University of Ibadan was not a full-fledged university until 1962.

Nigeria has built 300 universities in 65 years of Independence.

How many did the British build in their 80 year rule prior?

0?

1?

Take your pick. Oyibo worshipper.

Why didn't the whites you worship consider you worthy of higher education?

The same whites that want to come in now and ''save you'', ie STEAL from you AGAIN?

HacheNoire:
Have you ever checked the FG allocation of Bayelsa state and blame time visited the state?

The idea of blaming everyone in Abuja is outdated. Have you ever castigated the governor of your state for his incompetence?

Not saying politicians are not corrupt, but it starts from your own LGA. I am sure your LGA chairman is just embezzling funds without doing nothing, and same my line is doing. But we all blame Abuja.

You don't get it, do you? Your political class oppresses the poor and the vulnerable in your society. All the government policies are geared towards making the poor poorer in the society. One of your top politicians in Nigeria, even suggested reducing the purchasing power of the masses and that exactly what he did...And this is the same way you guys blamed those that those marauding killers killed in Benue state for not defending themselves with their bare hands. How are the poor going to hold their governors accountable when the judiciary, EFCC, and the INEC do what the please? Yes, all the politicians live in Abuja, by the way. Go and check...

Go and check, all those places that USA had cause intervened militarily had despots as their leaders. They all had self-styled, self-seeking politicians that cornered their countries Commonwealth for personal use.

Kemetian:
Tinubu’s efforts to make Nigeria stand firm behind Trump’s war threat — Afenifere


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/11/tinubus-efforts-to-make-nigeria-stand-firm-behind-trumps-war-threat-afenifere/

These low life thought Trump is interested in their motor park agbero business...

Last las their brain go set....Same people fulani terrosit have been flogging, kidnapping and killing their obas and their fellow afeniferes on an industrial scale coming out to say this nonsense really got me suprise..
A typical case of suffering and smiling....

Summary: China is sponsoring killings in areas of the country that possesses rare earth minerals so that they can be mining those minerals for free. Nigerian govts have been aware but turned a blind eye.
Trump has gotten to know and wants to stop it purely because of economic superiority battle with China. Solution: Nigeria govt to tell China party over, we are going to officially recognise we have these minerals and do open bidding for all foreigners to equally benefit from them. Killings stop. Everybody rest.

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

TRUMP is not coming. Nor is he sending troops.

Trump is

1.Speaking to his supporters. The Chrisitian right, who form a large bulk of his supporters, and who mostly vote for the republican party(and who have extensive connections and linkages with Nigeria's christian population). Something similar happened with Obama and his comments re Chibok in 2014. Again, speaking to his supporters (see his comments too about gay rights in senegal in 2012...he was not spekaing to Africans, he was speaking to the people back in the USA)

2.A declaration of war is not something a US president can just do on his or her or their own...they have to get congressional approval. And that is not a guarantee. USA is tired of policing the world...that's even part of why they voted trump (even some lefties like trump for his non-interventionsim). Remember this is the same trump who repeatedly before he became president stated Afghanistan invasion was a bad idea, and who initiated the process of withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan (Biden finished it, but then again large segments of the democrats were not too sold on running Afghanistan either)

3. Let's not even forget the potential for destabilizing a large part of Africa self. The war in Liberia eventually messed up SIerra leone. Same thing can happen with a destabilized nigeria.

One more thing, I don't like APC, never voted for tinubu, think he is too cunny and evil for naija...and yet....the way the oppositon is behaving shows that they are ready to support destroying their country just to remove tinubu. Why are people so bitter about their side losing. Look at me, I have never had any one I liked win presidency since 1999...up till today, YET...a coup or foreign intervention I will not support.

"Owambe" people at it again.

HacheNoire:
Only a novice does not know that!

Same US 😂🤣😂🤣😂

Once that country start dishing out propaganda towards your country, YOU DEFINITELY DOING something right.

They don’t attack people who do wrong and listen to their commands.

Saudi, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait don’t need democracy, but Venezuela needs democracy.

UAE sponsoring rebels in Sudan and killing people in thousands, but they don’t deserve military intervention because UAE is a top best friend of the US. Gold reserves at stake.

Congo been burning for decades and not even a mention of them. It’s legit when they rob you of your resources, but illegitimate when you nationalize your resources.


They don’t attack you if you on the wrong path. The moment you step on a to right course, you accused of having weapon of mass destruction.

People

The people supporting the US aggression are mostly unpatriotic ipodians.

There's banditry in the north but they want to setup military base in Portharcourt. Abeg give me a better description of barawo than this?

HacheNoire:
Only a novice does not know that!

Same US 😂🤣😂🤣😂

Once that country start dishing out propaganda towards your country, YOU DEFINITELY DOING something right.

They don’t attack people who do wrong and listen to their commands.

Saudi, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait don’t need democracy, but Venezuela needs democracy.

UAE sponsoring rebels in Sudan and killing people in thousands, but they don’t deserve military intervention because UAE is a top best friend of the US. Gold reserves at stake.

Congo been burning for decades and not even a mention of them. It’s legit when they rob you of your resources, but illegitimate when you nationalize your resources.


They don’t attack you if you on the wrong path. The moment you step on a to right course, you accused of having weapon of mass destruction.

People

How are you benefitting from the resources now ? They steal it or government steals it. It doesn't change anything for the masses

Kemetian:
University of Ibadan was not a full-fledged university until 1962.

Nigeria has built 300 universities in 65 years of Independence.

How many did the British build in their 80 year rule prior?

0?

1?

Take your pick. Oyibo worshipper.

Why didn't the whites you worship consider you worthy of higher education?

The same whites that want to come in now and ''save you'', ie STEAL from you AGAIN?

Yawnn... you're boring and off-topic. All this lamenting because you'd rather your fellow citizens be quiet about being killed by Fulani militias .

Bunch of jokers
These afeniferi àbí afefe people

He can have them! Because if what benefit have the resources been to the average Nigerian since 1960? They have been looted by politicians and their cronies. Let a foreigner come and plunder them so our politicians don’t have access to them

Omo someone needs to stop this clowns o

What resources?
I stopped reading at "Banditry is not religious"
Smh
🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️

nairalanda1:
TRUMP is not coming. Nor is he sending troops.

Trump is

1.Speaking to his supporters. The Chrisitian right, who form a large bulk of his supporters, and who mostly vote for the republican party(and who have extensive connections and linkages with Nigeria's christian population). Something similar happened with Obama and his comments re Chibok in 2014. Again, speaking to his supporters (see his comments too about gay rights in senegal in 2012...he was not spekaing to Africans, he was speaking to the people back in the USA)

2.A declaration of war is not something a US president can just do on his or her or their own...they have to get congressional approval. And that is not a guarantee. USA is tired of policing the world...that's even part of why they voted trump (even some lefties like trump for his non-interventionsim). Remember this is the same trump who repeatedly before he became president stated Afghanistan invasion was a bad idea, and who initiated the process of withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan (Biden finished it, but then again large segments of the democrats were not too sold on running Afghanistan either)

3. Let's not even forget the potential for destabilizing a large part of Africa self. The war in Liberia eventually messed up SIerra leone. Same thing can happen with a destabilized nigeria.

One more thing, I don't like APC, never voted for tinubu, think he is too cunny and evil for naija...and yet....the way the oppositon is behaving shows that they are ready to support destroying their country just to remove tinubu. Why are people so bitter about their side losing. Look at me, I have never had any one I liked win presidency since 1999...up till today, YET...a coup or foreign intervention I will not support.

One more thing, I don't like APC, never voted for tinubu, think he is too cunny and evil for naija...and yet....the way the oppositon is behaving shows that they are ready to support destroying their country just to remove tinubu. Why are people so bitter about their side losing.
This one has finally exposed himself

Lol... Funny.

Kemetian:
Keep chatting like a hyena until terrorists bombs start exploding in your southern cities in retaliation for US bombardment of the north.

You've been shouting ''insecurity'' for years while not being personally affected.

With Americans here, that insecurity will finally reach your beer parlour or Shoprite and markets in Onitsha or Lagos or Enugu.

Then una eyes go clear.

You want American troops abi?

Just PRAY you don't get them.

Thoughtless people.

I also reasoned this way, but do you think if the government of the day was really genuine about eradicating insecurity, they couldn't isolate these terrorists and wipe them out once and for all? If they cooperate with the US, within a few weeks, they'll all be exterminated. Besides do you believe people in government wth large businesses and stakes in Lagos would allow this to happen?

Bandits don't care about anyone's religion. Bandits and kidnappers have attacked more Muslims than Christians.

stuffs2002:
Bandits don't care about anyone's religion. Bandits and kidnappers have attacked more Muslims than Christians.

Show us proofs of this.

socialmediaman:
How much of those resources has impacted your life?

The US has far more oil than Nigeria, even Dangote Refinery buys Crude oil from the US. The US produces 12.9 million barrels per day against Nigeria’s meager 1.5 million barrels pd.

If the US wants rare earth minerals, the DRC has willingly offered it to them. DRC has one of the largest deposits of rare earth minerals in the world.

These people know they’re lying, but they hope that by continuously echoing the lies, unsuspecting Nigerians will believe them.

These are the evil men in Nigeria and I hope people are taking note, they don't value human lives, they are very selfish, ask them to swap positions with those being killed now ,you will see their arguments changed

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

By Anngu Orngu

Nigeria Must Wake Up

Nigeria cannot continue to live in denial.
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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

Plenty oil dey your head, brilliant man. 👏

Nonsense talk. People are being killed on a daily basis in Nigeria and Nigerian government could not do anything.

Which resources ⁉️

US is the largest producer of Crude Oil🛢️
Afenifere don't divert our attention please.

No going back 🔙

Which resources you get

Innocent people are losing their precious lives to islamist militants fighting for allah and now that help is on the way to flush them out, you are talking about resources!

socialmediaman:
How much of those resources has impacted your life?

The US has far more oil than Nigeria, even Dangote Refinery buys Crude oil from the US. The US produces 12.9 million barrels per day against Nigeria’s meager 1.5 million barrels pd.

If the US wants rare earth minerals, the DRC has willingly offered it to them. DRC has one of the largest deposits of rare earth minerals in the world.

These people know they’re lying, but they hope that by continuously echoing the lies, unsuspecting Nigerians will believe them.

1. Is it still a secret to anyone that Trumpnis hunting rare earth minerals everywhere he can find them in the world; Ukraine, Venezuela, it was even a crucial agenda of his meeting with Xi yesterday.

2. Is it because the Oil exploration dropped?

3. Did Ukraine's rare earth minerals stop Trump from seeking more from Venezuela, China? Why do you think that of DRC will satisfy them.

What elders see whilst sitting would not be visible to a child on a tree top. Go and check Lybia, Iraq, Afghanistan and all countries US has had military interventions in the last 25 years to be able to visualize what will become of your country of you would not have turned to a refugee of another country by then.

LZAA:
One more thing, I don't like APC, never voted for tinubu, think he is too cunny and evil for naija...and yet....the way the oppositon is behaving shows that they are ready to support destroying their country just to remove tinubu. Why are people so bitter about their side losing.
This one has finally exposed himself

Well, considering that tinubu is not my cup of tea and considering that he is running the same resource dependent policies that his predecessor run which I don't like well....I don't support him.

And then he is devious and corrupt. See alpha beta.

I also did mention that I don't support your beloved GEJ and pdp when their time in power , ditto buhari.

But it does not make me angry and bitter to consider overthrowing tinubu or in the past overthrowing GEJ or any other person. Or to support their removal other than the ballot box

But you are free to believe what you want because you arelike the tinubu supporters. Very much so

Good morning and good luck

Lies: See the truth here. All NIGERIANS please read:


https://www.nairaland.com/8554810/throwback-2019-bokoharam-lost-90

https://www.nairaland.com/8554785/debunking-myth-trumps-concern-nigeria

https://www.nairaland.com/8554777/afenifere-when-tribe-resources-religion