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erad:
I think the US is more particular about destabilizing Nigeria than actually helping. Why have they not asked Saudi and other Islamic countries to ban sharia law. You don't just propose such unreasonable solution at such a fragile moment.

Sharia law is what Muslims practice, what you should be talking about is how to standardize it with written down non-barbaric punishment for offenders. Also for the government to make sure it's binding on only willing muslims and subject to appeal at higher courts.

This is not a solution in any way, it's rather the creation of another problem because it will no longer be war against bandits, it will now be war against Islam which Nigeria is not ready for.

Good, get ready to secceed where you can practice your sharia in peace..
You can’t be creating laws inside law, that is not just nonsensical, it’s total madness

As e dey hot 🥵🔥📌💯

CyynthiaKiss:
Intelligent post indeed !!

Everything is not politics, human lives are very important, and must be protected at all cost above any other thing..

Don’t tell me you so much love to see human bloood being shed !
Are you a wicked and heartless person ?

I agree. If you are fair you will see drastic steps are being taken to improve security. There can't be many here who respect the sanctity of human life more than myself.

I have spent majority of my life in a nation where human being aren't killed daily like cockroaches, without sanction against their known murderers who then strut around arrogantly as is the reality of Nigeria today that Tinubu did not cause. Northern leaders caused that.

Were you on Mars when the murderers of poor Deborah (RIP) bragged in videos we all saw only for virtually all Northern leaders, from their political and cultural plus religious leaders, to endorse and cheer the action of Deborah's killers as just 'preservation' of the dignity of Islam?

You think that sort of deep ideological and fundamentalist devotion, gripping the entire North to include members of our armed forces from the region, can be fought with brute force only?

Is it everything they must spell out to you or you do not understand at the need to fight certain problem with guile considering we have a large population of Moslems from the North with fundamentalist thinking?

Malami, as AGF, tried to outlaw Amotekun for God sake while illiterate Fulani herders were carrying banned assault rifles across the SW under his watch as untouchables.

Bala Mohammed, a whole Governor, argued it is right for Fulanis to carry AK47, when Nigerian firearms law prohibit such, for "protection". When will you Southerners wise up for Christ sake? When we are all dead?

Yes, what we are experiencing is nauseating. Yet the problem is huge today and ideological as one that even Jihadists who are not Nigerians will troop into our nation to fight for.

Can you or any force stop the jihadist Fulanis from Mali, Chad, Niger Republic, Senegal, CAR etal from entering Nigeria via our porous borders up North , in many thousands, to prosecute Jihad against us?

Do you even know what Maitatsine from Cameroon attempted to do in Nigeria under Buhari's tenure as military head of State? Now multiply that by a thousand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitatsine

This is a problem some of you do not understand the severity and scale of to note it will take time, reforms, policies and tact to resolve.

While urgent moves must be made to stop the senseless and heart-wrenching killings of Nigerians going on daily, we must think like adults and not emotional kids.

What can save Nigeria permanently is not hasty moves that temporarily improve things. We need reforms that will ensure Nigeria is secure forever.

That is what having the right leaders in power for a good period of time, so they can deliver those reforms will achieve i.e save millions of lives and usher in a new age of ideas that will guarantee permanent and decent security of Nigerian lives and property.

they know tinubu doesnt have the balls...

its a set up against 2027, they will support the opposition to push tinubu out.

congratulations nigeria....emilocorn is an OTP

Truthissupreme:
Sharia and hisbah ultimatum would only make all the north to officially stand with bandit

And timubu no go ever split with north

Trump is the fool here cos I don't know how he wan invade a sovereign state when no be him create their law

Even in USA, europe there are sharia laws in Muslim areas why e no abolish am

This post is the dumbest post in year 2025.

We're waiting for King Bulaba to tell us which pressing dey harder:

The one on his neck or the one on his blokos

This is looking like Abami Eda Fela's Ojuelegba song.

Sirjamo:
Lol
Kiriyos wants to hide under terrorism to fight Islam.
US should first abolish lgbtq law and also ban the gun violence which is killing 30 000 Americans annually.
I am waiting for any Nigerian President that would be unfortunate enough to ban sharia law.
I want to see how he would do it.

Sharia law will be banned, do your worse

mrvitalis:
Oh please shut it... The only reason North is this arrogant is because of Yorubas every single time it's Yorubas

It was under a Yoruba man they got sharia
It was because of Yorubas they got back to power through Buhari

Plan was to starve them of power after Jonathan for 24 years minimum

Igbos don't need you anymore , the igno lobby group USA are doing a great job

We know they won't agree
We know they would sabotage the security deal
We know they would leak information to bandits

We just want USA to Independently confirm what we already know that to protect Christians Nigeria must divide

Lol. Too much to expect an emotional individual to be sensible beyond one post.

Your mindset, and that of most of your kinsmen, will never evolves beyond blaming Yorubas, that you envy deeply, for everything.

You can keep crediting your Igbo lobby group, a bunch of bitter and vengeful paper tigers who do not give a toss about fellow Nigerians they hate passionately and are only still upset Tinubu denied them 'Igbo Presidency', with strength they do not have merely because an American President who does not think things through before he talks, like you delusional lot, is sabre rattling emptily.

Last last, stay away from the SW when the worst happens since you irresponsible and emotional lot have never understood the need to deploy critical thinking over serious issues.

WizardOfNG:
Most intelligent post here. Those who are critical thinkers and pragmatically intelligent observers reason as you do.

Nigeria is not the typical nation others have experience of. We are extremely divided and disunited. Essentially several very different nations forced to co-existence as one.

To deliver change in a nation that is one of the most self-destructively difficult in the world to lead and reform, a focused leader must be in office that gives him power to deliver those crucially needed reforms.

Compromises must be made so a second term can be realised that will allow Nigeria be totally and uncompromisingly reformed and overhauled as she needs to be.

See as dis one just dey somersault without direction. Oga, Politics is not leadership!.

All we have had up until now, masquerading as leaders, were merely politicians, and where exactly have they led us to?, the failure the country has become.

This failed and fragmented state we call a country needs a leader who is decisive, firm, and capable of asserting authority over those who believe the rest of us exist to serve their economic, political, and feudal interests.

The man in Aso Rock is not that leader; he is simply another politician.

WizardOfNG:
Most intelligent post here. Those who are critical thinkers and pragmatically intelligent observers reason as you do.

Nigeria is not the typical nation others have experience of. We are extremely divided and disunited. Essentially several very different nations forced to co-existence as one.

To deliver change in a nation that is one of the most self-destructively difficult in the world to lead and reform, a focused leader must be in office that gives him power to deliver those crucially needed reforms.

Compromises must be made so a second term can be realised that will allow Nigeria be totally and uncompromisingly reformed and overhauled as she needs to be.

Yoruba pragmatism
😂😂😂
Who's fooling who?
Or you think that the Northerners are fools?

WizardOfNG:
I agree. If you are fair you will see drastic steps are being taken to improve security. There can't be many here who respect the sanctity of human life more than myself.

I have spent majority of my life in a nation where human being aren't killed daily like cockroaches, without sanction against their known murderers who then strut around arrogantly as is the reality of Nigeria today that Tinubu did not cause. Northern leaders caused that.

Were you on Mars when the murderers of poor Deborah (RIP) bragged in videos we all saw only for virtually all Northern leaders, from their political and cultural plus religious leaders, to endorse and cheer the action of Deborah's killers as just 'preservation' of the dignity of Islam?

You think that sort of deep ideological and fundamentalist devotion, gripping the entire North to include members of our armed forces from the region, can be fought with brute force only?

Is it everything they must spell out to you or you do not understand at the need to fight certain problem with guile considering we have a large population of Moslems from the North with fundamentalist thinking?

Malami, as AGF, tried to outlaw Amotekun for God sake while illiterate Fulani herders were carrying banned assault rifles across the SW under his watch as untouchables.

Bala Mohammed, a whole Governor, argued it is right for Fulanis to carry AK47, when Nigerian firearms law prohibit such, for "protection". When will you Southerners wise up for Christ sake? When we are all dead?

Yes, what we are experiencing is nauseating. Yet the problem is huge today and ideological as one that even Jihadists who are not Nigerians will troop into our nation to fight for.

Can you or any force stop the jihadist Fulanis from Mali, Chad, Niger Republic, Senegal, CAR etal from entering Nigeria via our porous borders up North , in many thousands, to prosecute Jihad against us?

Do you even know what Maitatsine from Cameroon attempted to do in Nigeria under Buhari's tenure as military head of State? Now multiply that by a thousand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitatsine

This is a problem some of you do not understand the severity and scale of to note it will take time, reforms, policies and tact to resolve.

While urgent moves must be made to stop the senseless and heart-wrenching killings of Nigerians going on daily, we must think like adults and not emotional kids.

What can save Nigeria permanently is not hasty moves that temporarily improve things. We need reforms that will ensure Nigeria is secure forever.

That is what having the right leaders in power for a good period of time, so they can deliver those reforms will achieve i.e save millions of lives and usher in a new age of ideas that will guarantee permanent and decent security of Nigerian lives and property.

No, I don't agree with you.

Tinubu can influence the Southern governors to issue a statement regarding abolition of Sharia or secession.

There's no better time to do it than now, there's no guarantee that you, I or Tinubu will see tomorrow not to talk of him winning 2027.

The rate at which the north is being radicalized into terrorism is mind boggling, we may wake up tomorrow to see Nigeria in flame.

There is total difference between a northern ideology about death from Southerner, Nigeria cannot be patched. If the Southern governors can initiate it it won't take a year before we peacefully separate, as it is, there's a dark cloud of crisis, looming, it can happen anytime

00FFT00:
See as dis one just dey somersault without direction. Oga, Politics is not leadership!.

All we have had up until now, masquerading as leaders, were merely politicians, and where exactly have they led us to?, the failure the country has become.

This failed and fragmented state we call a country needs a leader who is decisive, firm, and capable of asserting authority over those who believe the rest of us exist to serve their economic, political, and feudal interests.

The man in Aso Rock is not that leader; he is simply another politician.

Please name that leader.

erad:
I think the US is more particular about destabilizing Nigeria than actually helping. Why have they not asked Saudi and other Islamic countries to ban sharia law. You don't just propose such unreasonable solution at such a fragile moment.

Sharia law is what Muslims practice, what you should be talking about is how to standardize it with written down non-barbaric punishment for offenders. Also for the government to make sure it's binding on only willing muslims and subject to appeal at higher courts.

This is not a solution in any way, it's rather the creation of another problem because it will no longer be war against bandits, it will now be war against Islam which Nigeria is not ready for.

When did Nigeria become Islamic country like those countries you mentioned?
Quit whatever you are smoking because it’s not good for your brain

Ttalk:
No, I don't agree with you.

Tinubu can influence the Southern governors to issue a statement regarding abolition of Sharia or secession.

There's no better time to do it than now, there's no guarantee that you, I or Tinubu will see tomorrow not to talk of him winning 2027.

The rate at which the north is being radicalized into terrorism is mind boggling, we may wake up tomorrow to see Nigeria in flame.

There is total difference between a northern ideology about death from Southerner, Nigeria cannot be patched. If the Southern governors can initiate it it won't take a year before we peacefully separate, as it is, there's a dark cloud of crisis, looming, it can happen anytime

We will see how it goes. Everyone is emotional and frustrated right now so I can understand drastic talk. Ultimately, and especially in the case of Nigeria, realities are realities.

Sirjamo:
Lol
Kiriyos wants to hide under terrorism to fight Islam.
US should first abolish lgbtq law and also ban the gun violence which is killing 30 000 Americans annually.
I am waiting for any Nigerian President that would be unfortunate enough to ban sharia law.
I want to see how he would do it.

It will be banned or the country split, use your sense for once

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tishbite41:
Yoruba pragmatism
😂😂😂
Who's fooling who?
Or you think that the Northerners are fools?

You need to work on your comprehension capacity. No one told you Northerners are fools neither was it insinuated. The point is that it is policies and reforms that can defeat entrenched ideology.

Listen to what the man below is saying, a Hausa who is now a USA citizen, and stop thinking like Americans who intrinsically believe bullying of others, dictatorial disregard for the realities on the ground in nations outside the USA and brute force is the solution to everything.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEczxfZ1s7Q?si=pGfLv4RRJW-mHseP

WizardOfNG:
Please name that leader.

I dont know who he or she is, but I know the requisite character and composition. Read my post again.

00FFT00:
I dont know who he or she is, but I know the requisite character and composition. Read my post again.

I read your post and understood it completely. I ask you to mention a leader. Do so. You must have a name on mind.

You cannot be vague , or delegate your duty of making an adult choice to fellow Nigerians ,over what is your own adult responsibility.

Mention that leader let us critically inspect what he/she has done, in leadership capacity, that makes that makes that individual fittest to lead what is a very malevolently complex nation.

Amotolongbo:
These requests are coming at a wrong time.
I know that Tinubu can execute these requests from the US but that will be after winning the second term election in 2027.
Tinubu is just one of the very few Southern politicians that can call the bluff on the northerners but there is always a timing for everything.

So, to some of you 2027 election is more important than the lives of Nigerians. Tinubu has to embrace US request whole hog or Trump list him for the next phase of Maduro must leave.

CyynthiaKiss:
United States lawmakers on Tuesday were urged to mount direct pressure on the Nigerian government to declare Sharia law unconstitutional in the 12 northern states where it has been in force since 2000.

They were also urged to dismantle the Hisbah religious-police commissions accused of enabling extremist abuses.

The call came as American legislators examined escalating violence and what several witnesses described as state-enabled religious persecution targeting Christian communities across northern Nigeria and the Middle Belt.

Appearing before a joint House session convened in response to President Donald Trump’s October directive on Nigeria’s Country of Particular Concern (CPC) designation, the Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow, Dr. Ebenezer Obadare, warned that Sharia-based governance and Hisbah enforcement structures have become tools exploited by jihadist factions and radical actors.

According to him, the frameworks provide ideological and operational cover’ for Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), and radicalised Fulani militias who enforce forced conversions, impose extremist rule, and operate with near-total impunity.

A statement issued by the House Appropriations Committee quoted Obadare as laying out a blunt two-step strategy for Washington: “The policy goal should be two-fold: first, work with the Nigerian military to neutralise Boko Haram.

“Second, the United States should put pressure on President Tinubu to (1) make Sharia law unconstitutional in the twelve northern states where they has been adopted since 2000 and (2) disband the various Hisbah groups across northern states seeking to enforce and impose Islamic law on all citizens regardless of their religious identity.”

Obadare acknowledged that Nigeria has responded to recent U.S. pressure but insisted that far more assertive diplomacy is required.

“As recent events have shown, the Nigerian authorities are not impervious to incentives,” he said.

“Since the country’s Country of Particular Concern (CPC) designation and President Trump’s threat of unilateral military action against Boko Haram, President Tinubu has made several moves, including ordering air strikes against Boko Haram targets, the recruitment of an additional 30,000 policemen, and, most recently, declaring a national security emergency in the country.”

Still, he maintained: “Washington must keep up the pressure.”

The session, led by Appropriations Vice Chair Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL) and including House Foreign Affairs Committee members, was dominated by stark warnings that the Nigerian state is failing to prosecute — and in some cases enabling — what lawmakers termed “religious cleansing.”

Witnesses referenced the November 22 abduction of schoolchildren and teachers from St. Mary’s Catholic School, Papiri, Niger State, ongoing blasphemy imprisonments, and systematic mass killings that have displaced entire Christian communities.

Obadare stated: “The deadliest and most serious threat confronting the Nigerian state today is jihadist terror, perpetrated by the Islamist group Boko Haram.

“Boko Haram translates to ‘Western education is forbidden.’ Boko Haram’s barbarous and implacable campaign to overthrow the Nigerian state and establish an Islamic caliphate in its stead is the source of Nigeria’s present discontents.

“Every proposal to solve the Nigerian crisis that does not take seriously the need to radically degrade and ultimately eliminate Boko Haram as a fighting force is a non-starter.”

However, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) described Nigeria as “ground zero for global anti-Christian persecution,” while Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) demanded immediate disarmament of militias and the prosecution of attackers.

U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Chair Vicky Hartzler and Alliance Defending Freedom International’s Sean Nelson detailed atrocities and urged the U.S. government to leverage security assistance, early-warning tools, and targeted sanctions to “force accountability” on Nigerian authorities.

Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers signalled readiness to support Díaz-Balart’s FY26 appropriations language aimed at addressing the crisis.

They confirmed that a formal congressional report is being prepared for President Trump, potentially recommending conditionality on U.S. assistance to Nigeria.

Nigeria was first designated a Country of Particular Concern in 2020 under President Trump but was delisted by President Joe Biden.

Trump, however, reinstated the designation on October 31, warning of possible military action and suspension of aid if Abuja failed to confront anti-Christian attacks and extremist violence.

This month’s hearing follows a separate November 20 House Subcommittee session on the CPC redesignation, which featured senior State Department officials and Nigerian religious leaders.

Tuesday’s briefing reinforced a rapidly growing consensus in Washington: that dismantling Sharia criminal law in northern Nigeria — alongside eliminating Hisbah religious police — is now viewed by U.S. lawmakers as an essential prerequisite to halting what they describe as one of the world’s deadliest and most neglected religious-freedom crises.

https://saharareporters.com/2025/12/03/us-congress-urged-pressure-nigeria-abolish-sharia-law-disband-hisbah-over-alleged?fbclid=IwZnRzaAOc4zNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeU0xnSZ_I8bAwtuJDP3E6RTJq1ZLxhqjv8_gnkKW9sofMzhZ4go5OuXsz3Jg_aem_1YWHi-BF2kRIB_bF1L2-_A

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If you investigate, you'll probably discover that this account is being operated out of India or israel, like the anti-Islam twitter accounts that Elon Musk exposed

Those ones also impersonated other countries only for their locations to be revealed

More than 90% of them were based in either India or israel

WizardOfNG:
We will see how it goes. Everyone is emotional and frustrated right now so I can understand drastic talk. Ultimately, and especially in the case of Nigeria, realities are realities.

If you live in Nigeria, or witness what is going on, you would wish the country is divided today.

100% population of people who live in NC have either directly or indirectly suffered in the hands of these terrorist.

There's no one living in the north who doesn't know someone who has been kidnapped, over 50% are traumatized of the gunshot experience from these killers. This is something that wasn't here in the last 10 years.

What would be the fate of Nigeria in 20years?

A stich in time saves nine

Amotolongbo:
These requests are coming at a wrong time.

I know that Tinubu can execute these requests from the US but that will be after winning the second term election in 2027.
Tinubu is just one of the very few Southern politicians that can call the bluff on the northerners but there is always a timing for everything.

So he would rather not do the right thing , because he has an election to win? Same problem GEJ had, even the second tenure he couldn't see.

Amotolongbo:
These requests are coming at a wrong time.

I know that Tinubu can execute these requests from the US but that will be after winning the second term election in 2027.
Tinubu is just one of the very few Southern politicians that can call the bluff on the northerners but there is always a timing for everything.

No, he has to choose one now that he has something to lose (2027)

If he wins 2027, he wouldn't be under pressure to impress either the US or the North. Nobody would know where he would dance to after winning 2027, but an amateur student of politics would know for certain that he would call the US bluff if he wins 2027.

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Well, tinubu can't end sharia law.

The way sharia law works as per our constitution, it is the states that can determine whether sharia is implemented or not in their area, not elsewhere.. it is not the decision of the federal government or of the president of Nigeria passing a decree to end sharia and it goes by magic.

Even if tinubu wanted it to go, it would require a constitutional amendment which is a very very long process ( that's why we don't have new states since 1999 because the said constitutional amendment process is too long as an example) and since it involves religion it would be a very messy affair. That could lead to massive anarchy. ( Which means splitting the country which is what the people speaking into trump's ears want)

This time trump is asking for something tinubu cannot do under our constitution. Even if he sent a law to the national assembly to pass a amendment removing sharia it may not even get past the reading stage. It may even be voted out because many senators would be thinking about the potential fall out.

Trump would be better off lobbying sharia governor's to reverse the thing. Which is a longshot but a safer alternative.

Though sharia is a good example of how we practice true federalism. States that want it get it, those that don't want it don't, and that includes states like Kwara which so far has refused to get it.

( Also kind of funny that a lot of Nigerians who hate sharia run to the UAE which practices sharia law too. So harsh that if two 17 year olds have consensual sex there and both are foreigners , they can be arrested, like one UK lad whom it took the British government a lot of sweating and struggle to get him out otherwise..)

I speak as someone who thinks the sharia law is archaic and has no business in our legal system, and who thinks a secular legal system should be the norm for Nigeria because it is a neutral system and better protects the rights of my fellow christians resident in sharia states.

nairalanda1:
I
Well, tinubu can't end sharia law.

The way sharia law works as per our constitution, it is the states that can determine whether sharia is implemented or not in their area, not elsewhere.. it is not the decision of the federal government or of the president of Nigeria passing a decree to end sharia and it goes by magic.

Even if tinubu wanted it to go, it would require a constitutional amendment which is a very very long process ( that's why we don't have new states since 1999 because the said constitutional amendment process is too long as an example) and since it involves religion it would be a very messy affair. That could lead to massive anarchy. ( Which means splitting the country which is what the people speaking into trump's ears want)

This time trump is asking for something tinubu cannot do under our constitution. Even if he sent a law to the national assembly to pass a amendment removing sharia it may not even get past the reading stage. It may even be voted out because many senators would be thinking about the potential fall out.

Trump would be better off lobbying sharia governor's to reverse the thing. Which is a longshot but a safer alternative.

Though sharia is a good example of how we practice true federalism. States that want it get it, those that don't want it don't, and that includes states like Kwara which so far has refused to get it.

( Also kind of funny that a lot of Nigerians who hate sharia run to the UAE which practices sharia law too. So harsh that if two 17 year olds have consensual sex there and both are foreigners , they can be arrested, like one UK lad whom it took the British government a lot of sweating and struggle to get him out otherwise..)

I speak as someone who thinks the sharia law is archaic and has no business in our legal system, and who thinks a secular legal system should be the norm for Nigeria because it is a neutral system and better protects the rights of my fellow christians resident in sharia states.

This is where the southern politicians are useless, what are they doing when the north lobby military to insert Sharia penal code into the 1999 Constitution?

Since the return of democracy in 1999 the South have had the larger chunk of rule. What have they done to place the South at advantage over the draconian Sharia law that is a danger the South and the Christian north?

Is there no any bargaining chip, the southern politician can use to compel the north to suspend this killer law?

Why is it on only political issues that the South are always taking stand and no common position on grazing, Sharia law, north- South migration, resource control, equal share of military institutions?

Why are all Southern politicians docile?

What

I was waiting for your comment.

I would like to know your best case scenario

CyynthiaKiss:
Tinubu that is afraid of fighting insecurity in the north because of his worthless 2027 ambition, can never have the balls to abolish sharia law.. Infact, Tinubu is negotiating with terrorists, because he believes that they would vote for him in 2027 election..

Meaning that the Constitution must be reviewed. Sharia is in Nigeria Constitution, unfortunately though.

I wish there were a northerner as president right now. Trump and those Christian fundamentalist legislators in America think they can pressure Nigeria into submitting to their demands, but they need to understand that Nigerians are not cowards. No one can simply declare Sharia law to be banned. I don’t believe that a solution is on the horizon.

While Hisbah, which operates in only a few northern states, could be disbanded, suggesting that Sharia should be banned is akin to saying that Islam itself should be banned. Just as the U.S. and Trump assert their own red lines, they must recognize that others have their own boundaries as well.