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At least eight Nigerian soldiers have been killed after a landmine struck an army patrol vehicle in Borno State, with military and local security sources blaming the attack on Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).

The incident occurred on Saturday in Kinuba village, about 25 kilometres from Gamboru, near Nigeria’s border with Cameroon, according to defence sources who spoke to Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Sunday.

The attack came on the same day the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, visited Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, following an earlier assault on a military base that reportedly killed 15 soldiers and five members of an anti-jihadist militia.

According to the sources, troops were inspecting militia members engaged in clearing thick vegetation along a highway outside Gamboru when their vehicle ran over the explosive device.

The explosion killed all eight soldiers travelling in the vehicle.

“All eight soldiers in the vehicle were killed in the explosion,” a military officer in the region told AFP.

Ibrahim Liman, a member of an anti-jihadist militia supporting the military, corroborated the reported death toll, saying the explosive had been planted on the dusty road and remotely detonated.

“The explosive was planted on the dusty road and remotely detonated by a detonating cord,” Liman said.

He added that a militia member supervising the vegetation-clearing operation sustained shrapnel injuries in the blast.

The sources attributed the attack to ISWAP, an armed group active in the region. However, the attribution was based on the accounts provided to AFP.

Landmine Attacks Raise Security Concerns
The incident highlights the continuing threat posed by improvised explosive devices along roads used by military personnel and civilians in Nigeria’s North-East.

ISWAP and its rival, Boko Haram, have increasingly used landmines and other explosive devices to target military patrols and civilian traffic.

Dense vegetation along highways also provides cover for ambushes against troops and motorists, further complicating security operations in the region.

Nigeria’s jihadist conflict began in 2009 and has killed tens of thousands of people, while displacing an estimated two million residents from their homes in the North-East.

Although the violence declined from its peak about a decade ago, attacks have increased in recent years, according to the AFP report.

The insurgency has also affected neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, prompting regional cooperation and the deployment of a multinational military coalition to combat the armed groups.

Willy2025:
The army commanders should invest heavily in MRAPs

Willy2025:
I still don't know why the army is still using light-skinned vehicles to patrol in the war zone like the NE. The army commanders should invest heavily in MRAPs to avoid these avoidable deaths of personnel and increase warfront viability.

chisomkachy:
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s first supplementary budget includes a fleet of SUVs for himself and his wife, a presidential yacht and the renovation of his villa amid a cost-of-living crisis for some of the poorest people in the world.

The proposal — which seeks additional funding beyond the annual budget approved by Tinubu’s predecessor — comes as the government asks Nigerians to persevere through pain caused in part by a raft of economic reforms ushered in by the new president. Africa’s most populous country faces rampant unemployment, soaring food prices and a plummeting currency.

Federal lawmakers approved the president’s request for extra spending on Thursday, but eliminated the provision of 5 billion naira ($6.01 million) to buy a presidential yacht. Instead, they doubled the allocation to a student loan fund to 10 billion naira, according Abubakar Bichi, chairman of an appropriations committee in the House of Representatives.

The lawmakers approved 1.5 billion-naira proposed to purchase SUVs for the office of First Lady Oluremi Tinubu — an amount larger than that allocated to many individual federal colleges. The supplementary budget also proposes almost 6 billion naira to purchase SUVs for the presidency — more than the amount initially allocated to fund a student loan program for poor families.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-02/nigeria-budgets-for-suvs-and-yachts-amid-economic-hardship

anonimi:
The eyesore on Bourdillon Road
2nd January 2025

Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty.

If all these years, impoverished people hang around you and you remain comfortable enough to keep them just so they can be handed tokens of your large heart, then it means you have a pro-poverty mindset. Such a frame of mind is oriented toward cultivating poverty rather than stimulating abundance.

That is why he could unproblematically relate the story of his “friend” who went from using five Rolls Royce to a far-less valued car and not consider the import of the nonsense he was saying. That spurious account was an indication that this is a man for whom poverty—of others, not himself—is an ideal.

https://punchng.com/the-eyesore-on-bourdillon-road/

UkoAnnang:

South East South-south boys killed as landmines hit army vehicle in Borno

Sunnyski:
It's a normal thing, I won't wish my enemy to join the Nigeria Army.

Political power is not served in a restaurant. They don’t serve it à la carte. At all cost, fight for it, grab it, snatch it and run with it.

-Tinubu pic.twitter.com/7zBTCor71X

— Uchen (@Elen_net) August 23, 2026

Maxymilliano:
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has explained why he delegated some members of the party to respond to questions posed to him.
According to the former Lagos Governor, he adopted the delegation method “to show team-ship”.

Tinubu spoke at the Chatham House lecture titled: ‘Nigeria’s 2023 elections: In conversation with Bola Ahmed Tinubu’, monitored by The Nation.

At the lecture, Tinubu after his opening remarks, assigned Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai to speak on how his (Tinubu-led) government would address insecurity and asked the Director of Strategic Communication of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Aleke, to respond to the question on oil theft.

https://thenationonlineng.net/why-i-delegated-el-rufai-ayade-others-to-answer-questions-at-chatham-house-tinubu/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1670262252

Honeydew3040:
Now i believe that the bandits rhe the help of foreign machineries are fully incharge of the minerals and mining site in the north, because dis bandits have enough weapons and are fully prepared before operations. Can u imagine or afford to buy and activate "landmine" dis shows the kind of forensics and digital training dis bad guys have gone..... until nigeria start using drones for counter attacks, we are still backwards...

Originalsly:
ISWAP .. Boko Haram .. ISIS ...and whatever else ... let's pause for a moment and chew on this ... are they really Islamists? Note... being a Muslim and being an Islamist are not the same. An Islamist is pretty much a Muslim extremist .. same as a Christian extremist. If yes.. they are Islamists .. then why are they killing their own? The overwhelming majority of victims are Muslims. Does that make sense? It will.. if the group was if one faction and the victims of a different faction ... as in Catholics killing Pentecostals .. but this is not the case. So what is the motive behind these attacks? Can we think of a reasonable one?

It seems clear to me ..from information I gathered over various platforms ..that these are foreign sponsored groups aimed at destabilizing areas where the sponsor has an interest ..and destabilizing governments that get in their way.It seems to me the aim of these groups is to drive fear in the North ... to make the areas they want inhospitable. The sponsors want two things ... fertile land ... and areas rich with rare earth minerals.Attack the farmers..they will leave the land. Attack the villages..villagers will move out. Their religious affiliation does not matter . Who will take the land? Bill Gates comes to mind. He is the largest private land owner in the US and he is into agriculture... producing fruits that can carry "vaccines"... so why would he not want vast fertile soil in Nigeria? Then the North has large deposits of rare earth minerals. Yyouncannfigure that one out ..same blue print as in the Congo etc.

We need to get beyond the narrow minded Islamist jihadists and widen our view before it's too late

I

InfoGuru118:
https://verynigerian.com/eight-nigerian-soldiers-killed-as-iswap-landmine-hits-army-patrol-vehicle-in-borno/

Originalsly:
ISWAP .. Boko Haram .. ISIS ...and whatever else ... let's pause for a moment and chew on this ... are they really Islamists? Note... being a Muslim and being an Islamist are not the same. An Islamist is pretty much a Muslim extremist .. same as a Christian extremist. If yes.. they are Islamists .. then why are they killing their own? The overwhelming majority of victims are Muslims. Does that make sense? It will.. if the group was if one faction and the victims of a different faction ... as in Catholics killing Pentecostals .. but this is not the case. So what is the motive behind these attacks? Can we think of a reasonable one?

It seems clear to me ..from information I gathered over various platforms ..that these are foreign sponsored groups aimed at destabilizing areas where the sponsor has an interest ..and destabilizing governments that get in their way.It seems to me the aim of these groups is to drive fear in the North ... to make the areas they want inhospitable. The sponsors want two things ... fertile land ... and areas rich with rare earth minerals.Attack the farmers..they will leave the land. Attack the villages..villagers will move out. Their religious affiliation does not matter . Who will take the land? Bill Gates comes to mind. He is the largest private land owner in the US and he is into agriculture... producing fruits that can carry "vaccines"... so why would he not want vast fertile soil in Nigeria? Then the North has large deposits of rare earth minerals. Yyouncannfigure that one out ..same blue print as in the Congo etc.

We need to get beyond the narrow minded Islamist jihadists and widen our view before it's too late

I

Willy2025:
I still don't know why the army is still using light-skinned vehicles to patrol in the war zone like the NE. The army commanders should invest heavily in MRAPs to avoid these avoidable deaths of personnel and increase warfront viability.