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Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by seunayantokun(m): 2:34pm On Oct 02, 2018
In view of the security situation in Nigeria, it's a good development.

Those who think the world would keep quiet while Fulani Islamic warriors, with stealthy support of their leaders in power and collaboration of certain Afonjas in the South West, continue to carry out ethno-religious cleansing in Nigeria should think twice. The end of the road won't be profitable for anyone. The earlier they know that, the better.
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by NothingDoMe: 2:38pm On Oct 02, 2018
HarryDuce:
Who is Nigeria? There can never be a country without people. The citizens and leaders alike are responsible for the loving . All you're doing is selling yourself short. Does America care that you adore them? No. They take what they want regardless.
Lol. I could say the same about the Nigerian government. Does the Nigerian government care that you adore them? No. They take what they want regardless.

Beautiful thing about America and Canada, they value skilled and gifted people. Yes to use them to grow their economy but they reward these people as well.

Tell me the reward you have received for your skills and gifts from the Nigerian government.
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by Elfaris(m): 2:39pm On Oct 02, 2018
Rollitout:
The solution to this problem is to build air defensive system in lagos, abuja, PH , Ibadan and kaduna.
Also build a drone that is capable of carrying tones of misile that can strike from air to ground
Build a radar that will monitor the activities of any object flying within the Nigerian air space.
Buy sophisticated tanks for the military and equip the navy with the latest submarine ship
hehehe this sounds very sweet to the ears but, where is the money and political will?
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by Ugosample(m): 2:41pm On Oct 02, 2018
jomonic:
No one but Nigerians are inviting political strife to themselves. In Nigeria there is no love for one another. Very soon Buhari will be back in power and deepen his style of leadership which has up to now divided Nigeria more than ever before. His supporters will acclaim, not because he is the best but he fits into their idea of a leader that will contain those they do not love. The environment we have in Nigeria is the outcome of the predominant mindset. It is a very ugly mindset. Development is not just about building roads and bridges or physical structures. These are whited sepulchers as long as the people as extremely hateful. So I am indifferent to where America is having a military base. It might even be to the advantage of the oppressed people of Nigeria. Ghana deserves every recognition that they are getting from the developed world. Ghana is a very serious country. They definitely want to get it right.
you have a point


a lot of Nigerians are hateful /spiteful

which is very bad


a lot more are good, but the spiteful ones blinded with tribalism and ethnocentric nonsense are a big problem yo out country


imagine suffering youths shouting sai baba to spite their country men from the other side?

well sha
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by Horus(m): 2:54pm On Oct 02, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH9MBIybrLc

CIA launches drone strikes programme in Niger
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by pgodson7(m): 2:54pm On Oct 02, 2018
That is why nigeria shud seek stronger ties with russia and china, let dem come n build military bases too just to spite america the more
lonelydora:
US destroyed Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc and are gradually inching to destroy Nigeria. All because of oil. Check all the wars currently going on and see the role US played.


And this why i love Putin. He is somehow helping in checkmating the excesses of US.
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by Bambambiglo: 2:55pm On Oct 02, 2018
GBOKASINCHA:
grin anything to bring about an end to the cesspit is highly welcomed....God bless america....home of the free land of the brave
If this isn't madness then what is?
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by Elfaris(m): 2:58pm On Oct 02, 2018
NothingDoMe:
That's a fact and you know why? What love does your country have for you? You supply your own water which they want to even tax. You patch your roads. You pay for security. You pay for your own medical health care.

What does Nigeria do for you?
Don't always think of what your country does for you, think of what you can do for your country.
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by HarryDuce(m):
NothingDoMe:
Lol. I could say the same about the Nigerian government. Does the Nigerian government care that you adore them? No. They take what they want regardless.

Beautiful thing about America and Canada, they value skilled and gifted people. Yes to use them to grow their economy but they reward these people as well.
Tell me the reward you have received for your skills and gifts from the Nigerian government.
@The bold. You digress. I could say the same for many other countries that don't meddle in the affairs of others.

Well, I'm being realistic here. I'm not particularly bothered about any supposed US conspiracy in Nigeria. Nigeria is too unstable for any further external meddling. Nigeria will always exist; Unified or not is of little importance. All I'm saying is we should not let ourselves be tossed about. History is there to learn from.
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by HarryDuce(m): 3:09pm On Oct 02, 2018

Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by BeansAndBread(m): 4:06pm On Oct 02, 2018
lonelydora:
US destroyed Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc and are gradually inching to destroy Nigeria. All because of oil. Check all the wars currently going on and see the role US played.


[s]And this why i love Putin. He is somehow helping in checkmating the excesses of US.[/s]
None of the European countries love any of us, they all have their interests. The Russians have also destroyed Afghanistan and Syria all because they are against US, they never confront each other but using countries as pawns.
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by BeansAndBread(m): 4:15pm On Oct 02, 2018
Haywhaie:
So many moröns on this thread. I really pity this Western-sodomized imbéciles.

America is always WILLING and very much capable of doing worse things than this. History has shown that over and over again. Yet we have some cretins dismissing this out of hand as a conspiracy theory. These are the kind of retärds the Nigerian education system is designed to churn-out every new year. Brainwashed Western Puppets.

It is one thing to know what America stands for, but decide to refrain from swallowing this report hook, line, and sinker, for rationality's sake, whilst keeping an open mind (since we all know the Americans can be dirty like that - except for the stupid ignorant ones who know zilch, since the cretins never pick up a book and read). It is another thing entirely to choose to be a myopic, close-minded idiot, dismissing it as propaganda.

One idiot accused the author of being a terrorist and ISIS sympathiser. But ask the brainless fool, what is America doing in Syria? Does America believe in freedom and democracy? Do Americans have values, or do they just go around the world doing whatever they like, believing that might is right and that the end justifies the means, and fück "human rights", freedumb and dumbocracy? What exactly makes the claims in the OP unbelievable? Isn't that what the Yankees have been doing for the past 7 decades? [s]The same America poured resources into the Mujahideen in Afghanistan against the atheist Soviets. And they've never stopped sponsoring terrorists and rebels since then. What do you think 9/11 was about? It was their very own handiwork coming back to scorch them in form of Osama Bin Laden.[/s]

Any interested person can read up on Operation Northwoods to know just how despicable these people are.
Stop calling the Majahedeens terrorists, they were ordinary Afghan citizens that stood up to fight the invasion by the Soviets. If someone invaded your home, you'll fight and that's what they did. And the Soviet battalions in Afghanistan were comprised of Muslims, Jews and Christians.
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by BeansAndBread(m): 4:25pm On Oct 02, 2018
adedehinbo:
america are the world sponsor of terrorist across the globe for its own selfish interests, hardly you would see a country which is enrich with crude oil not facing one or two terrorism,america sends their Isis foot soldiers to countries to dis stabilize the region and use that as an excuse to invade the country to steal oil,thanks for Russia and Putin who is checkmating their attitudes either good or bad this days
The Russians aren't checkmating anything, they're all the same thing. They kill and destroy countries that don't support them, you guys should stop all these nonsense. Stop exonerating them, Europeans are one and the same
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by Nobody: 4:34pm On Oct 02, 2018
NothingDoMe:
I actually beg to disagree. Nigeria's problem are more of internal than external. Reason being a house divided against itself cannot stand.

We are still busy practicing do me I do you politics and policies. Tribalism is superior to nationalism. We refuse restructuring and wallow in crude oil over dependence.

If the US is surrounding Nigeria then it is simply because an implosion is imminent and it has to be contained otherwise surrounding African nations and non African nations will also bear the brunt.
Abeg leave them. Some like conspiracy theories and can't see anything but conspiracies.

The only reason Nigeria looks fresh like this is because Jonathan conceded result so easily unlike a black man.

Yet terrorism still found its way in herds men / farmers clash. Nigeria implosion is not far away just that the whole country are indirecly govern by top Arab governments. Many northern leaders knows this a nd have been finding ways to impose sharia law on everyone.
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by dokyOloye: 4:35pm On Oct 02, 2018
lonelydora:
US destroyed Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc and are gradually inching to destroy Nigeria. All because of oil. Check all the wars currently going on and see the role US played.


And this why i love Putin. He is somehow helping in checkmating the excesses of US.
Bros,that write up is speculation built on speculations and besides, d era of oil importance is gradually coming to an end with the coming of Electric cars and d US knows this more than anyone else.
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by mutvy: 4:43pm On Oct 02, 2018
God bless you DDGN .People like you are rare on Nairaland. What Nigeria needs to do is INVITE RUSSIA TO COME AND ESTABLISH AIR AND NAVAL BASE IN NIGERIA.
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by jumpandpas(m): 4:49pm On Oct 02, 2018
yazach:
Will you please stop jumping according to your moniker, we are discussing important topic here so don't bring your hate speech.

Besides the post is for mature minds not kids
Mr matured mind, you have not answered my question. Why won't the U.S army encircle your blood sucking country?.
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by NothingDoMe: 5:26pm On Oct 02, 2018
HarryDuce:
@The bold. You digress. I could say the same for many other countries that don't meddle in the affairs of others.

Well, I'm being realistic here. I'm not particularly bothered about any supposed US conspiracy in Nigeria. Nigeria is too unstable for any further external meddling. Nigeria will always exist; Unified or not is of little importance. All I'm saying is we should not let ourselves be tossed about. History is there to learn from.
@the bold. Skillfully to drive home a point and it appears I succeeded since you avoided the bait.

We simply cannot thrive on conspiracies. Like I said, the US bases are all over the world. Type "Number of countries with US Bases" and see for yourself. America is simply the number one country in the world and they believe it strongly. Some other countries may disagree only to start throwing tantrums when America decided to recognize Jerusalem as the capital Israel. The countries in the world(UN) had to sit down and pass a resolution against the personal decision of just one country to declare it void. Lol.

The Americans are proactive. You don't stay the best by folding your arms and expecting trouble to waka pass. See how the Syrian conflict spilled into north America and Canada is currently playing hosts to over 35,000 of them. Prevention is always better than cure.

Talking of history, if America steps in tomorrow to fully combat Boko Haram I am very sure we will accuse them of creating the menace, forgeting BH is a monster of our own making. We are the architects of our own destinies. Let's not blame someone else for the path we chose.

NB: Anyday you remember what Nigeria has done for you just give me a mention. I will be right here.
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by Newboss(m): 5:26pm On Oct 02, 2018
lonelydora:
US destroyed Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc and are gradually inching to destroy Nigeria. All because of oil. Check all the wars currently going on and see the role US played.


And this why i love Putin. He is somehow helping in checkmating the excesses of US.
Everyone should know by now that US is a big bully angry
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by NothingDoMe: 5:34pm On Oct 02, 2018
Elfaris:
Don't always think of what your country does for you, think of what you can do for your country.
Hahahaha. Have we not be doing enough oga Elf? Even the blood of Corpers were shed in service to Nigeria. Wetin again you want oga Elf?

I am still asking for one thing Nigeria has done for any of you? Just one oh and nobody is answering. huh

Please someone speak up for Nigeria na. One thing only. cry
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by kokomilala(m): 5:48pm On Oct 02, 2018
When Jonathan objected to AFRICOM,African Command, a US purported military in the gulf of Guinea,America hated him and he was ousted.
America,through the CIA, has overthrown over 40 governments.They turn their blow touch on any country capable enough to challenge their hegemony. But they failed abjectly with China because China weakened the CIA.Over 20 of their agents were killed.
Nigeria should learn from China.Unfortunately, however,we have leaders who are too lazy to be single-minded enough to act proactively.
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by GetCofOProperty: 5:52pm On Oct 02, 2018
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Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by kollinz1234(m): 6:14pm On Oct 02, 2018
DDGN:
The U.S. military is encircling Nigeria with a chain of air bases, drone bases and surveillance facilities. The latest link: a $150 million drone base airstrip Niamey, Niger Republic and Garoua, Cameroon. The U.S. Air Force is planning to lease 33 acres of land on the island for the next 50 years to build a “divert airfield” in Benin.

The plan is to usurpe Nigeria's traditional diplomatic leadership in the region with Ghana, replace Nigeria's economic leadership with Morocco and weaken Nigeria's military power with never ending conflicts. As of this writing the U.S First Lady Melania Trump is in Ghana for a state visit.

In March 2018, despite strong objections by Nigeria, Ghana approved a controversial military agreement with the United States . The agreement grants the United States unrestricted access to a host of Ghanaian military facilities and wide-ranging tax exemptions to the most powerful military the world has ever known.

The agreement will also permit the US military to use Ghana as a base for staging and deploying forces. Ever hungry for power and competiin with Nigeria, the Ghana-U.S agreement is a grave strategic blunder for Ghana. For a country that touts its political stability and peace, the American military bases will make Ghana a magnet for terrorists.

There are also unconfirmed report that the United States Air Force is planning to lease 33 acres of land in Benin for the next 50 years to build a “divert airfield” there. History has shown that to be surrounded by America comes with its attendant risks.

In addition to the site on, the Air Force plans to send aircraft on regular deployments for the first time to bases ranging from Cameroon to Mali as part of its bulked up force in the region. These plans include regular deployments to the already existing drone bases in Garoua, Cameroon, Air Base 201 in Niger, and possibly bases in Mali and Ghana.

As I’ve written in the past, these Pentagon plans are part of the Franco-American strategy contain China's growing influence, and also to keep the giant Nigeria in a self-perpetuating ecosystem of political instability and strife. 

China's engagement in Africa. 





Franco-American engagement in Africa.



The idea is to have enough US bases and Air Force capabilities peppered throughout the region so that Nigeria would be too surrounded to safely attack in the event of a conflict.

As it stands today, if the Franco-American power decides to pull a Libya style intervention in Nigeria using a false flag stint, American drones, French aircrafts and even submarines can knock out any target or site located deep inside Nigerian territory. The initial ‘blinding campaign’ would be followed by a larger air and naval assault. The Nigerian government will capitulate. It will be over within hours. 

One would expect the Nigerian government will be none-too-pleased with the fact that the nations that carried out several wargames and is planning contingencies to “intervene”, is encircling Nigeria on virtually all front. By 2019 the only place that will be devoid of Franco-American presence for Nigeria will be the Atlantic.

Imagine the calls for war in Washington if China was backing various Latin American countries with money and weapons and building air and naval bases in the Caribbean with the explicit aim of bombing United States to smithereens. This is exactly what the powers that be have done to Nigeria.

The Nigerian government in asleep. Self absorbed and too distracted with domestic politics and internal strife to notice the noose being tied around the country's neck. That's the plan.

Nigeria is threading on dangerous ground with its complacency and nonchalance. There is a dangerous tendency toward alarmism that is exaggerating the "threat and use it as an excuse to intervene militarily. They did it with Iraq, as it later turned out there was no WMD.  They did it with Libya. Under the excuse of protecting the Libyan people from the tyrant Myanmar Gaddafi, they destroyed an entire country and created an ecosystem of self-perpetuating violence and strife that continues till this day. Fifty years of Libya's development wiped out within months by NATO.

No, there is no ISIS in Nigeria. No, Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi is not hiding in Nigeria. Boko Haram has not and cannot challenge core "U.S. interests". The dying European power simply objects to resurgent Nigeria living up to its full potential after seeing the progress made in just under a decade of democratic governance.

The powers that be object to Nigeria's growing economy and military power at the same time China's influence on the continent. Such powers are reserved for France and America, goes the thinking. So, we’ll threaten anyone who challenges that with war.

https://defensenigeria.blog/2018/10/02/why-nigeria-is-being-encircled-by-military-bases/
nice write up, though I doubt the authenticity of the news as am just seeing it for the first time but if its true, The solution is simple. Since Ghana signed such a controversial agreement with the US despite Nigeria's objections, Nigeria should simply go and sign similar agreement with China and Russia to protect the integrity of the country. But our cow head president is a coward. He won't do nothing
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by Organs(m): 6:34pm On Oct 02, 2018
Ebimor96:
grin grin grin grin grin grin cheesy

Can the Python Dancing Nigerian misfits you call soldiers face the highly trained soldiers of the United States Marine Corps or the US Special Forces?

I laff in Chinese version of laughter.
That is why you cannot be trusted traitors, left for you guys you will sell Nigeria off. Useless set of folks.
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by Nobody: 6:53pm On Oct 02, 2018
Forget the US, lets review the distribution and security apparatuses of the Nigerian Internal security.

*The current Nigerian Military was structured along colonial interests i.e. not in anticipation of an external threat but rather internal.*

The Colonial administrators built military bases in strategic towns and places in Nigeria as a precursor in stemming internal strife.

*This same handed sown military doctrine is what the Nigerian security policy and stratagem is based on.*

BRILLIANT COMMENT!!!
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by lonelydora: 7:09pm On Oct 02, 2018
BeansAndBread:
None of the European countries love any of us, they all have their interests. The Russians have also destroyed Afghanistan and Syria all because they are against US, they never confront each other but using countries as pawns.
Exactly
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by Sunymoore(m): 7:18pm On Oct 02, 2018
jaxxy:
America will never go after/invade a sound/true democratic government they only go after/observe countries with terrorist ties or anti democratic tendencies. Nigeria has one already and is leaning toward the 2nd.

Then off course we are getting to attached to China in a risky business/loans arrangement.

That’s all.
You say? Ask about Iran and most South American countries..
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by BeansAndBread(m): 7:34pm On Oct 02, 2018
lonelydora:
Exactly
I was watching a doc yesterday, I was seriously scared about the future. The next world war would be in Africa not Europe as many think, can you imagine that the French cooperates with terrorist group so as to have an excuse to stay in Africa? Northern Mali is rich in uranium and gas and this is exactly why the US and French are based there. The US, French, Al Qaeda, Russians, etc are all the same and it's unfortunate that we would all suffer for it. The Berlin conference that ended over 140 years ago is here again, the scramble for Africa is here again and we alone can stop it.
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by jaxxy(m): 7:38pm On Oct 02, 2018
Sunymoore:
You say? Ask about Iran and most South American countries..
Iran has terrorist ties they support sm of them indirectly. Do they bother Mexico? They only even cut ties with Cuba they didn’t invade them depite smwht communist/dictatorship government going on for many years.
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by Ebimor96: 7:40pm On Oct 02, 2018
Organs:
That is why you cannot be trusted traitors, left for you guys you will sell Nigeria off. Useless set of folks.

Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by TunAb8(m): 7:42pm On Oct 02, 2018
Tonero231:
I dont think that American need all those things to deal with Nigeria that has the lifeless one as the president.


They can just come straight from their base, beat us and go back. They can even beat us home and awayaway grin
It's not that easy, they wouldn't want it to drag, if it takes longer than they want, Russia, China, Iran could intervene.
But if it's swift, the deal would have been done before the world knows.

USA also surrounded the South China Sea just because of this.

Note that Syria doesn't have half our population but have been resisting the US for seven years of deadly war. Same with Vietnam. Libya fell, but we should know that when it comes to war, this northern brothers would fight to death, they aren't cravens like us in the South.
Re: Why Nigeria Is Being Encircled By Military Bases. by Susu888(m): 7:49pm On Oct 02, 2018
All the so called nigerians against this write up are either children not knowing wht they r writing or jst so fvcking dumb and stupid who prefer to stay slaves to the western world. Idiots! Nd later will be the first to cry hunger or slavery when the country is turned to libya. U all r a disgrace to the black race.

No one is holding u hostage in this country so if u don’t like ur fatherland fvcking migrate to ur white masters nd stop whining nd complaining.... ur not the only ones suffering or in pain in this world, if u can’t be patient till things get better then screw u all. Pls commit suicide cuz ur all a waste of effort.


Imagine u got a fracture nd ur in a hospital ... ofcourse there would be pain before nd during ur healing process! That’s exactly our dear nigeria ryt now... 16yrs of rot can’t be fixed without pain nd sacrifice. So shut the fvck up or leave to ur dear U.S or Europe whom would rather treat u as slaves nd feed u crumbs than let ur home countries develop themselves. I don’t even hv the time to type nd educate u dumb morons so abeg make none of u slaves qoute me!
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