I agree with the bolded, but who will speak for muslims? Does muslim lives not matter too?? And I speak as a christian.
We need to be wholistic in this matter. Is america going to come and help us bomb only the terrorists 'targetting' christians in the middle belt and neglect the terrorists slaughtering the muslims killed in kwara, zamfara, kaduna, maiduguri etc? If the answer is 'No', then why do we make it seemallow non-state actors and disgruntled nigerians to make it seem the terrorists are targeting ONLY Christians??
madridguy: I am a Muslim and every killings in Nigeria has reasons. What is happening in the middlebelt is different from what is happening in Northwest. If President Tinubu ban open grazing today, the middle belt will have atleast 60% rest of mind from herdsmen attack.
Trump will be disappointed with this move by Tinubu. He is seriously looking for every possible reason for a rofo-rofo fight. He doesn't want a truce - which will ultimately happen with this visit.
Cajal: Trump is avoiding him rather Olodo Did u not read TRUMP delegated ?
And who were being (majorly) killed in kwara, zamfara, maiduguri etc? Are they not muslims? It just so happens that christians are the majority in the middle belt, hence making it seem christians were being targeted.
These terrorists care about their goals: resource (land and mineral) grabbing. Whatever obstacle in front of them - be it muslim or christian - becomes 'xollateral damage'.
It's Only an ignorant or lying nigerian who doesn't know that more muslims have been killed by these terrorists than christians.
madridguy: Na only Chriatians dem dey kpai for middlebelt. You don't understand invasion.
From the impulsive tone of your write-up, I can safely guess you are from south east or laslas igboid.
MadPolitician: Cowardly move.. This is what gets me irritated with these blundering colony of administrative misfits that run Nigeria. How can the leader of the biggest black nation on earth be running like a terrified toad in the middle of the afternoon to the United States capital, just because the president of the United States threatened to bomb some terrorists? No other dignified way to handle that?
Note: president Trump didn't threaten to bomb Aso rock or to bomb Lagos. He threatened to bomb terrorist camps that we have been told overtime by the Nigerian government to be in the inner forrests of the north and in the deserts, and are all full of "Libyan mercenaries" and all that..
Why is the president of Nigeria more worried about the American threats towards proven terrorists than with the eliminations of these camps? Why not send "Nigerian commados" to eliminate these camps, rather than rushing to Washington like "nwa boi" to beg Trump!? What matters most? The lives of ordinary Nigerians being slaughtered by these "Libyan", or the beleaguered image of an over traumatised country/presidency?
And what if he 'mistakenly' bombed lagos, aso rock, your family house back in the village, and he tells you: "it's collateral damage", what will you do? Fight him with ESN??
The reasons he gave for planning to invade nigeria is ABSOLUTELY different from why he wants to do it, but based on your (plural) antecedents, I don't expect you (plr) to agree.
All of a sudden trump 'cherishes' nigerian christians. Na so e easy?
And who's paying? You think the Americans are doing it for free/bcus they love us? Just like they loved libyans, iraaqis right?
Nobody embarks on a FRUITLESS journey, and definitely NIT america!
Bosman17: If it’s to wipe off Fulani militia we are all in abeg … I’m sure in Tinubu’s mind he wants that! his 2027 ambition is what is crippling him! I think he’ll be more assertive against the northern powers after 2027 elections
Were they living under the rock all these years for them to just 'suddenly' realize their 'genocide'? Of course not! They know nigeria like the back of their palms more than any nigerian dead or alive. They just have to look for any excuse to go to their desired destination. Till tomorrow the Americans are yet to locate saddam hussein's iraqi weapon of mass destruction!
This was how they started with the 'liberation' of libyans close to 20 years ago. The hitherto peaceful libya has not been the same since.
teeytimi: These people are just looking ways to distabilise Nigeria. They don't give a Bleep if Christians are been killed or not. All they want is to see any African countries that is about to get things right is get into crisis.
If you are a Nigerian and you support Trump, you are a fool who knows nothing about life and how this world is ran
You guys are politically naive.....or better put, delusional! What gain/benefit did kanu and by extension - s/e - offer Tinubu as an ordinary contestant in 2023 election?? Nil! Is it now that -as an incumbent- when most of the nigerian governors have waved their olive branch by porting to his political party that kanu's release will benefit him?
Mention just ONE south east governor who wants kanu released. ONE, not two!
You guys have disappointed Nigerians. We thought you are very wise. Obviously, apart from trading and 'book', una nor too dey logically conscious like that! (Not all of you, but the vast majority!)
ShoeMarket: You see this MNK of a guy, Tinubu will use him for something, that is why he is still keeping him. What most Nairaland ranters don't know is that this is the kind of guy Tinubu likes to have around him. The only thing is time is not yet ripe, once it is many golden tongues here will become lead.
Let me ask you ranters, if you are sensible, you are a politician and you have someone like MNK in detention what will you do with him? Kill him or strategically use him to your advantage? The guy is too sound for any sensible politician to waste him just like that.
The problem of Nairaland is that most people type and don't think, no logic, no strategic thinking nothing. To them everything is about hate Igbos, unfortunately, that tendency have drained their brain that they can't reason anymore.
Mark my words.
Even if he releases him, southeast will still not support him!
When u are still romancing ipób?? **Why are igbós not 'developing' alaigbo but doing so outside the region. **Why are ndigbos afraid to venture home every Christmas??
Una no like truth!
shortgun: ....while in Nigeria we site our refineries in kaduna, hundreds of kilometers from crude oil source, yet not a single refinery has been built in the Southeast, despite the region’s abundant oil reserves.
And why not? I've not seen any region intermeddling with the affairs of ndigbos. But ndigbos believe that because of 'one nigeria's it's their right to chuuk mouth into other ppls affairs. Den take am do una??
From sw to ss to north to ghana to Togo to kenya to south africa to china to Vietnam to nepal to Singapore to indonesia to Malaysia to ...... same old story. The world now know you all. Ahn-han, na only una waka come??
The stubborn fly will surely be buried with the corpse. I hope this won't be ndigbos case laslas.
Irony1: One the contrary you are the one that is triggered because of the energy you are expending in answering me. That means what I said is the truth. Can a Lagosian whose ancestral home is in Lagos contest for councilor position in Oyo or Ekiti swear by Sango that ot has happened before.
Moveittothem: But can someone from Ekiti go to Ogun state and become a Governor?
The bolded is what we have been telling igbós for eons. Yoruba culture is totally different from igbós. Yorubas are one. It's igbós that always try to divide them by flying the flags of 'yoruba-christian vs yoruba moslems' 'lagos yoruba vs ekiti yoruba vs ibadan yorubas' etc.
That division that's entailed in alaigbo is what they are projecting on others.
Common sense demands that when u - as a stranger - get to a foreign land, you keep your mouth shut and don't meddle with their affairs, but ndigbos say no. And this is why igbós will continue to have problems in every locality they find themselves.
Moveittothem: So, it's okay for someone from Ekiti state to become a governor in Lagos state, but someone from Lagos state can't be a governor in Ekiti State?
This confirms that Lagos is truly a no-mans-land, albeit, for yoruba people.
I work in cybersecurity, stop saying things you don't know. It doesn't work that way even in countries with very high internet surveillance.
A primary 6 student good in bodmas and a 400 level of undergraduate good in laplace transform are BOTH 'mathematicians', but we all know say shoe get size. Our ppl talk say na as we waka reach we dey see reach; E get as person go waka reach, e go see hunched-back squirrel!
Na the main tin be that. Any other shalaye is surplus to requirement.
franchasng: For your information, he is an Igbo man from Rivers state, Oyigbo Rivers state....we will never deny him being Igbo just because of this....just as we Igbos never denied Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu as Igbo man from Delta state when he organized the January 1966 coup.....but the same you and your kinsmen will be the ones ranting tomorrow that Rivers state does not have Igbo people or that Ikwerre people are not Igbo when it suits your evil minds
Omoawoke: Don’t be a coward, go public and say this with your full chest
He doesn't need to say it on top of the mountain for him to be exposed and picked up. Govt never get hin time . When den reason hin matter, e go know say Nairaland is only 'anonymous' to bloody civilians, not to govt.
cyberbro: You're not as anonymous as you think, keep yapping. If DSS writes Nairaland to supply your IP and personal details, e don be for you.
Hehehehehe.... DSS (Nigeria's equivalent of FBI) DOESN'T NEED to write to anybody bro. Technology has evolved to the extent that the 'ppl that matters' can see your screen and your face realtime as you type, talkless of your location. This one nor be go-come matter.
Which tallied exactly with what I said earlier: a crime was committed, let's all join hand to call out the criminal, not drag their tribe/race/Country!
Na mango wey ripe dey make small pikin dey stone hin mama. We must learn to let sleeping dogs lie!
1. Whatever those girls said/did to him did not justify what this animal did....and NEVER will!
2. If you are well trained, your parents must have - at one time or the other - told you NEVER to accept gifts from strangers. Many kingdoms have been lost to greek gifts.
**Someone bought you what he has never bought for his mother and sisters and in your naive mind you think he expects nothing in return??
**Someone buys you expensive meals while he's sipping on water and in your infantile mind you thought he's 'father Christmas' abi??
** Someone takes you on an all expense paid journey to Dubai. At night when he asks you to "off your paynt", you say "my body my choice; I didn't force you to take me on this trip!".
Hallo??
babakb: I know you support the murderer but do it quietly, stop spamming every post.
He offered to to spend on them, they didn't force him, how much could he have possible spent that warrant him killing two humans.