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| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by themanderon: 2:09pm On Nov 06, 2025 |
SonOfDSoil01:Sovereign country my foot. Who taught you the word sovereignity? WereLibya, Iraq and Afghanistan not sovereign countries? Weren't they invaded? |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by OBA2503: 3:10pm On Nov 06, 2025 |
Just one assignment for the US armed forces coming into Nigeria. Help us secure the middle-belt. Help us secure Plateau, Benue, Nassarawa, Kogi, Kwara, Taraba states. Leave the remaining northern states under the watch of the caliphate. Let them deal with the monster they created. You can't create a problem and push it on another person to contend with. We warned on this Almajiri system. We warned on this unchecked birth rate. We warned on this child/mass marriages. We warned on the failing education/health system. We warned on this religious/sharia extremism. We warned on this unchecked lust for power without development. We warned on deforestation/climate change. We warned on this failed herder/farmer/pastoral way of plant and animal husbandry. All our warnings fell on deaf ears. The religious leaders were deaf and dumb. The politicians were busy using it as a tool to steal power and money. The northern army generals turned a blind eye. Now, it is upon them. They are crying wolf. The US government should just do me two favors. 1. Freeze all the assets of all past and present politicians from the 12 northern states in Nigeria for proper investigation. 2. Deport all the wives and children of all past and present politician children from the 12 northern states in Nigeria. I guarantee you, insecurity will stop in the north completely in 2 years. |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by Sonofgod1990(m): 3:56pm On Nov 06, 2025 |
Boko haram go use them do pepper soup |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by Ebubu6: 4:09pm On Nov 06, 2025 |
NaijaRoyalty:There might be inflation of food prices if the attacks are heavy. |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by Ecomfreecourse: 4:18pm On Nov 06, 2025 |
NaijaRoyalty: |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by Ecomfreecourse: 4:20pm On Nov 06, 2025 |
Tinubu the maker of Lagos, and the destroyer of Nigeria |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by Ecomfreecourse: 4:21pm On Nov 06, 2025 |
Berankis:Very smart idea brother, the question now is how do we go about it, I am ready for this |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by Ecomfreecourse: 4:28pm On Nov 06, 2025 |
Focusmind:Everything has triggered, infact everything has triggered me to want this country to run in smoke, Nigeria has become an evil trap for any human on earth |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by aswani(m): 7:15pm On Nov 06, 2025 |
NaijaRoyalty:So if Nigerians that you warned had voted Peter Obi, the northern insurgency wouldn't have happened àbi? By the way, you Obidients never believed in our great country anyway, you want your Biafra but are too cowardly to go and ask for it in Abuja. Elections are over, President Tinubu won, rest. |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by IGBOPROMISE1: 7:21pm On Nov 06, 2025 |
chiiraq802:Just incase they type in the wrong coordinates and send a missile in error to your street in Port Harcourt! ![]() |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by IGBOPROMISE1: 7:24pm On Nov 06, 2025 |
Ecomfreecourse:And don’t forget ’conqueror’ of the mighty Atlantic! ![]() |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by DeeGov123(m): 8:53pm On Nov 06, 2025 |
Sharia law should be removed from the Nigeria constitution |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by Blackdisciple(m): 10:18pm On Nov 06, 2025 |
E go be since federal government of Nigeria continue to handle insurgency with kidgloves |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by Lampy336: 4:59am On Nov 07, 2025 |
SonOfDSoil01:The supporters of evil will receive the evil back in a multiple folds. |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by Lampy336: 6:05am On Nov 07, 2025 |
DeeGov123:It's going to be completely taken out and those that brought it into law the USA government will go for them.. |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by Lampy336: 6:06am On Nov 07, 2025 |
The heaven has heard the cries and tears of the Nigerian christian.. |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by Expanse2020(m): 8:49am On Nov 07, 2025 |
doffman:For me personally... I will invoke the black Jesus to come and do the wonder antiislam ✌️
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| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by WizardOfNG: 9:00am On Nov 07, 2025 |
NaijaRoyalty:Keep fooling yourself. Beyond the empty noise of Trump, US intelligence and governance expert analysts know Tinubu is best. They work with facts and know Obi is a weakling who cannot take Nigeria where she needs to go. They know Atiku cannot either as they have tonnes of info of his sleaze connected to the USA. They are also aware of the ethnic dynamics of Nigeria to understand our nation will only only tend to make serious progress when Southerners, more progressive than Northerners, are in power. Yet they will know the Southerner to bring the anticipated progress must be a strong, resolute, well-entrenched, well-supported and brave leader. Narrow it down using any index and only Tinubu ticks all the box. You can continue being emotional but the above is what the intelligence analysts of most nations would conclude in seeking a progressive Nigerian Preside to work with that will improve Nigeria to the extent unwanted Nigerian immigration to their nation reduces. In conclusions the pragmatic and critical-thinking world, beyond Nigeria, will view Tinubu the best by far from what is available whereas your thinking will continue to be limited by ethno-religious bigotry, emotions and sentiments. |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by Antilsiaam: 9:09am On Nov 07, 2025 |
Expanse2020:You see wetin I dey talk now, na you know who black Isa is so enjoy your time with him |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by AlphaTaikun: 9:54pm On Nov 07, 2025 |
[quote author=MadeIn.Tokyo post=137377244]The heavy option, military officials said, would be to move an aircraft carrier group into the Gulf of Guinea and to deploy fighters and perhaps long-range bombers to conduct strikes deep in northern Nigeria. The medium option being put forward by Africa Command, officials said, includes drone strikes on militant camps, bases, convoys and vehicles in northern Nigeria. American Predator and Reaper drones can loiter for hours before striking, and other U.S. intelligence can gather information on specific targets’ pattern of life. First, the self-evident: Despite President Trump’s order that the Pentagon prepare to intervene militarily in Nigeria to protect Christians from attack by Islamic militants, U.S. forces are unlikely to be able to end a decades-long insurgency that has claimed lives across sectarian lines in Africa’s most populous country, military officials say. The American military cannot do much to quell the violence unless it is willing to start an Iraq- or Afghanistan-style campaign, the officials said, something that no one appears to be seriously contemplating. But they said there were some steps available to American war planners that could have limited impact on the militants. The Air Force could conduct airstrikes on the few known compounds in northern Nigeria inhabited by militant groups, officials said. American drones like the MQ-9 Reaper and the MQ-1 Predator could attack a few vehicles and even a handful of convoys. And American forces could team up with Nigerian soldiers to raid villages to root out insurgents who have ensconced themselves in rural hamlets in the country’s north. These were all part of the options that officials with United States Africa Command drew up this week, defense officials say, to forward to the Joint Staff at the Pentagon. They generated the plans after Mr. Trump’s announcement over the weekend threatening military action to stop what he described as attacks on “CHERISHED Christians” but in reality is a campaign of violence and land disputes that have killed thousands of Muslims and Christians alike. Militant groups like Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province have targeted Christians in Nigeria, along with many Muslims accused of not being devout enough. Any major military operation by the United States would be likely to fail, current and former military officials said. “It would be a fiasco,” said Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton, a retired Army veteran of the war in Iraq and U.S. efforts to counter the insurgency there. The American public had not shown much interest in repeating the Iraq- or Afghanistan-style military campaigns in Nigeria, he noted. Nor had the president, beyond his recent social media posts. Any potential effort by Mr. Trump to direct the military to target Nigerian insurgents through his preferred method — airstrikes — would be likely to cause shock and awe but not much more, military officials said. General Eaton likened such an effort to “pounding a pillow.” Current and former military and national security officials, including those with experience fighting Islamic militant groups in West and Central Africa, said Mr. Trump’s latest directive had left them stumped. “I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action,” Mr. Trump wrote in a social media post on Saturday. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was quick to respond, also on social media. “Yes, Sir,” he wrote. Mr. Hegseth’s office quickly directed Africa Command to send plans for possible strikes Officials at the command, which is based in Stuttgart, Germany, and which like much of the U.S. military apparatus has plans for every conceivable contingency, duly dusted off their options for the Sahel and sent them to Washington. The new AFRICOM commander, Gen. Dagvin R.M. Anderson, has a previously scheduled trip to Nigeria in the next month or so. Three defense officials said the plans from the command had three options — light, medium and heavy — and were intended to be escalatory. The light option, the officials said, included what the military called partner-enabled operations. Under that option, the U.S. military and the State Department would support government forces in Nigeria to target Boko Haram and other Islamic insurgents who have attacked, kidnapped and murdered civilians, mostly in northern Nigeria, where sectarian and ethnic violence has raged for almost 20 years. The United States would have to conduct these operations without the expertise of the U.S. Agency for International Development, whose office in Abuja, the capital, officially closed in July, after the Trump administration shuttered the agency. But that action would come with a host of issues, the thorniest being that the violence in the northern Nigerian Sahel falls along linguistic, cultural and religious lines. Much of it is based on land use and tenure and is fomented in some cases by corruption in the Nigerian government. Farmers and herders in the region have battled one another over land use for decades, and militant Islamic groups have taken advantage of the distrust to push their own agenda. Boko Haram has attacked, kidnapped and killed both Christians and Muslims. Previous American governments provided Nigeria with intelligence and security to help target the group but balked at selling some weapons because of concerns over human rights abuses by the Nigerian military. The medium option being put forward by Africa Command, officials said, includes drone strikes on militant camps, bases, convoys and vehicles in northern Nigeria. American Predator and Reaper drones can loiter for hours before striking, and other U.S. intelligence can gather information on specific targets’ pattern of life. But that option comes with its own issues, not least being that the U.S. military in August vacated its two nearest drone bases, in Agadez and Niamey, both in neighboring Niger. Russian forces now occupy those bases. Drones launched from Niamey or Agadez could reach Nigeria in an hour, one military official said. But now, the closest known places from which the United States could launch drones are southern Europe and perhaps Djibouti, in East Africa, where the U.S. military has a large base. One official suggested that West African countries seeking favor with the Trump administration might allow their territories to be used, but that is less clear. Doing so would also go against the wishes of the Nigerian government, which is hugely influential on the continent, and could open up another set of problems for neighboring countries. The Nigerian government has said it welcomes U.S. assistance in targeting Islamist insurgents but added the caveat that any action must respect Nigeria’s sovereignty and its territorial integrity. The heavy option, military officials said, would be to move an aircraft carrier group into the Gulf of Guinea and to deploy fighters and perhaps long-range bombers to conduct strikes deep in northern Nigeria. But the United States is already in the process of moving one of its aircraft carriers, the Gerald R. Ford, from its deployment in Europe to the southern Caribbean, where Mr. Trump has declared war on drug cartels. Other aircraft carriers are currently deployed in the Pacific or in the Middle East or are undergoing maintenance. Deploying an American aircraft carrier to the Gulf of Guinea to take on Islamic insurgents in Nigeria was not deemed to be a 2025 national security priority as recently as Friday, several military officials said. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/us/politics/nigeria-us-military.html https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/833159-us-military-presents-plan-for-potential-action-in-nigeria.html[/quote] |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by SonOfDSoil01: 11:10am On Nov 08, 2025 |
Lampy336: yes, so as the people killed or have their loved ones killed deserve justice too……and cownu won’t escape justice ![]() |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by doffman: 11:55am On Nov 08, 2025 |
AntiisIam:Are you not in Libya ni ? No need to be in shame nah . Libya na good country for you nah . Manage it 😀😀 |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by AntiisIam(m): 9:42pm On Nov 08, 2025 |
doffman:If e sure for you tell us your local place, I dey VGC, anytime you are ready to come just indicate |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by SonOfDSoil01: 7:05am On Nov 10, 2025 |
Lampy336: Arindin….you have been noticed, now you can deposit your tears here😂😂😂
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| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by doffman: 10:11am On Nov 12, 2025 |
AntiisIam:First tell me your place in Libya nah 😀 You are still afraid nah |
| Re: US Military Presents Plan For Potential Action In Nigeria by AntiisIam(m): 11:09am On Nov 12, 2025 |
doffman:Sule, I dey VGC na you I talk say e dey Libya since you kuku no say na break time you dey show face after which dey don give you chance to use your phone |
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beautiful tears……so Nigerian should rather vote for bitter obi, the yes daddy religious bigot? You clowns should change strategy because this blackmail ain’t working…..so trump will send soldiers into Nigeria, a sovereign country? Dey play, we will vote the Muslim/Muslim ticket again come 2027 

