khalling2008:
Israel which can never face Hizbollah in Lebanon wants to face Iran of all countries in the Middle East. Remove US support for Isreal, Bandits from zamfara will defeat Isreal in a war

khalling2008:
Israel which can never face Hizbollah in Lebanon wants to face Iran of all countries in the Middle East. Remove US support for Isreal, Bandits from zamfara will defeat Isreal in a war

Some bandits in large numbers observed this year's Eid-El-Fitr prayers and other festivities in the open in zamfara State, Northwest Nigeria.

The terrorists, who seem to be unperturbed, gathered at the Eid ground in Munhaye town in zamfara on Wednesday to perform the two raka'at prayers to mark the end of Ramadan fast.

In a viral video posted by a security analyst and counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad basin, Zagazola Makama on his X handle, the bandits calmly celebrated Eid-El-Fitr without any visible apprehension. The bandits could be seen with their guns. They reportedly took hours to recite the Quran and also engaged in wild jubilation.

“Bandits in zamfara state have released a new video showing its members celebrating the recent Eid-el-Fitr  festival in Munhaye community in zamfara state,” Zagazola said.

Some Nigerians have taken to their X handles to express displeasure with the terrorists' gathering without being arrested or challenged by police personnel or soldiers.

For instance, Blessed (@BlessedOdoba) tweeted, “There’s no way the community or government securities will not know that they’re gathering.”

@swiss_basquiat wrote: “This is what APC has reduced Nigeria to. A taliban state like Afghanistan.”

Adafi (@opeyemi44238349) tweeted, “Does this mean that an entire village is a bandit group?”

Chado (@realchado) wrote: “The government, security agents, community didn't know they were gathering? This country is so funny.”

The Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād has released pictures of its members celebrating the recent Eid-el-Fitr festival in a yet-to-be-identified section of the Sambisa Forest, Borno State.

Muslims in Nigeria last Wednesday joined their counterparts around the world to celebrate Eid-El-Fitr, signalling the end of the one-month Ramadan fast.

The Nigerian government initially declared Tuesday and Wednesday as a public holiday and later extended it to Thursday. In pictures released by ISWAP, sect members are seen praying in an open field, some with their guns by their side.

The images may be part of the sect’s efforts to counter statements by the Nigerian military that the Islamist insurgent fighters were on a steady retreat, with troops seizing a sizeable territory hitherto occupied and controlled by members of the terrorist sect.

Since the death of JAS leader, Abubakar Shekau, ISWAP has been consolidating its grip in locations around Lake Chad.
But the military has been launching offensives against terrorists and bandits’ positions in North-East and North-West Nigeria.

Last Thursday, SaharaReporters reported that some bandits in large numbers similarly observed this year's Eid-El-Fitr prayers and other festivities in the open in zamfara State, Northwest Nigeria.

The terrorists, who seemed to be unperturbed, gathered at the Eid ground in Munhaye town in zamfara on Wednesday to perform the two raka'at prayers to mark the end of Ramadan fast.

Thormentor:
LACK OF ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER 2022

Percentage of Population
1 🟤Bayelsa: 64.1%
2 🔴Kebbi: 58.1%
3 🟠Benue: 54.3%
4 🟠Plateau: 52.7%
5 🔴Sokoto: 52.4%
6 ⚫Gombe: 49.9%
7 🟤Cross river: 47.5%
8 ⚫Taraba: 46.2%
9 🟣Ogun: 44.2%
10 🔴zamfara: 37.5%
11 🟠Niger: 35.3%
12 ⚫Adamawa: 31.5%

🟠NC ⚫NE 🔴NW 🟤SS 🟣SW

all those shouting Enugu Enugu how far?

Thormentor:
LACK OF ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER 2022

Percentage of Population
1 🟤Bayelsa: 64.1%
2 🔴Kebbi: 58.1%
3 🟠Benue: 54.3%
4 🟠Plateau: 52.7%
5 🔴Sokoto: 52.4%
6 ⚫Gombe: 49.9%
7 🟤Cross river: 47.5%
8 ⚫Taraba: 46.2%
9 🟣Ogun: 44.2%
10 🔴zamfara: 37.5%
11 🟠Niger: 35.3%
12 ⚫Adamawa: 31.5%

🟠NC ⚫NE 🔴NW 🟤SS 🟣SW

all those shouting Enugu Enugu how far?

By Idowu Isamotu

Anyone mistakenly seeing President Bola Tinubu as a failure or a weakling is either blind or misguided and unable to see the new Nigeria that is emerging, according to Bello Matawalle, Minister of State for Defence.

He said this while responding to the threat that the North might vote against Tinubu in 2027.

Daily Trust had reported that the forum, through its spokesman, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman expressed regrets that the region voted for Tinubu during 2023, noting that going forward, the region will prioritize unity and consensus in selecting a candidate for the highest office in the land.

But the immediate past governor of zamfara State described the forum as a “political burden”, insisted that NEF is not, and can never speak for the region.

He added that he and other leaders would not allow “some elements” to bring Northern region into disrepute.

In a statement on Saturday, Matawalle wondered why many people overlooked what he termed “overbearing attitude” of the forum on issues that affect political unity and cohesion of the country.

"This NEF is more of a political burden to Northerners. The group is seeking to erode other people’s rights in order to be recognised or made relevant in the scheme of things despite the failure of their sponsored candidates in the 2023 general elections.”

“In as much as many have overlooked them in respect of their utterances, it is pertinent to underscore their overbearing attitude on issues that affect political unity and cohesion.

"They cannot offer any positive idea or thought about the future of Northern Nigeria or, indeed, of Nigeria and its unity and togetherness.

“We all know President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR won the February 2023 presidential election convincingly. So, who is the NEF to want to undermine the president’s victory and even threaten to unseat him?”

The group is yet to visit any of the ministers dealing with issues of security, agriculture, water resources, police affairs, education, health, budget, foreign affairs or any head of security agencies in the country so far for first hand knowledge of government programs and actions. ”

“The majority of them are more interested in faulting the government so as to be recognised or accorded some relevance.

"Our region, the North, is united, disciplined and politically-driven enough not to listen and accept being teleguided by any group of elites who had fed fat in the past on the North’s resources and opportunities which had retarded development in the region and nation due to their selfishness.

“President Tinubu is poised to do a lot for the North as President of Nigeria, elected by the people of Nigeria, not by one ethnic group or the other, therefore, anyone mistakenly seeing President Tinubu as a failure or a weakling is making a mistake and should rethink.

"Such a person or group is either blind or misguided and unable to see the new Nigeria that is emerging. Therefore, the NEF’s statement allegedly expressing regret for voting for President Tinubu is unfortunate.

“NEF is not more than a group that has refused to accept reality and is living in delusion. The truth is that the North is proud of its support and vote for President Tinubu and will continue to be proud of her relationship with the President given the enormous change and development his government has brought to the region.”

coputa:


Philip Shaibu has been impeached as the deputy governor of Edo State and replaced by 38-year- old Omobayo Godwin. He has declared his impeachment illegal, but until a court of law follows suit, such a declaration would remain beyond his fiat as an erstwhile deputy governor.

In Nigerian politics, the heads that are reared up too soon are swiftly cut off and served in salomenic style as the prize for ambition in a gathering of power. Whenever deputy governors have replaced governors, it has been a case of restraint, and sometimes helplessness. Otherwise, it is only hostility that is displayed. That hostility now haunts Shaibu.

Since he indicated his intention to become governor, he has become the number one enemy to power in the state. Godwin Obaseki, the governor, has been open in his opposition to Shaibu’s bid. Obaseki’s grouse that Shaibu did not tell him has quickly become fierce opposition to his bid in all respects. It is a strange case of a governor being in the opposition together with the legislature, all arrayed in battle against one man.

As the theatre has unfolded in Edo State, turning theatrics to weapons in one of Nigeria’s most politically conscious states, the impossible fate of a deputy governor who aspires to be more than a figurehead has been laid bare.

Snippets from Shaibu’s side of the story which have come more out of compulsion than actual consternation or contempt betray feelings of betrayal. Having sunk his resources into a joint ticket, he feels he should now be the first name on what is a testament to its success story. But that is not how things work. In the cut-throat world of Nigerian politics, loyalty is often a knife sharpened for one’s back.

In his bid to become governor, Shaibu has evoked the homeboy trope. A career activist and unionist who rose to fame during the heady days of student unionism in Unijos, he considers himself the quintessential homebred politician who not only knows where the pulse is in Edo State but feels it first-hand. In this wise, Shaibu favorably compares himself to a certain favourite for the son of the Edo State governorship who needed a translator to commune with his kinsmen and spirits when he visited his community.

What iniquitous offence did Shaibu commit to impel his impeachment? What has changed to make a pariah out of a man who has claimed to have bankrolled elections in 2016 and has not been challenged?

Obaseki and his stooges in the state legislature sure have no coherent answer. Shaibu’s fate sealed from the moment private disaffection over the next governor of Edo State spilled into public disagreement is a remaking of the impossible remit of the Nigerian deputy governor. An office hamstrung by the Constitution itself is often made impossible by the clownish tendencies of governors who act like emperors, and crave control of everything.

What is happening in Edo State is history repeating itself. In 2010, as President Musa Yar’Adua dangled between life and death from the threads of a terminal illness, his closest aides and family members cared less for the president’s survival than to check his inevitable replacement by the Vice President to the office. This was until death checked them all.

·Ondo State also required death to ultimately disarm the bomb that was about to detonate in the state. Since 1999, deputy governors in zamfara, Oyo, Kogi, Ekiti, Imo, Lagos, Osun, Akwa Ibom and Bauchi have all been impeached for farcical offences. It is a battle that is never far away from government with the prudent question being where next.

It Is disruptive that a governor should spend his last days in office orchestrating the impeachment of his deputy rather than consolidating his legacy.

The clearest lesson for Shaibu and other deputy governors, may yet be that in a duel of big dogs, it is impolitic to show sharp teeth.

THISDAY is published by THISDAY NEWSPAPERS LTD., 35 Creek Road Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria

lexylaw09:
Nigerian Air Force Bathes Terrorists With Fire In zamfara — Death Toll Huge
thengblog.com.ngApr 11, 2024 3:09 PM

Nigerian Air Force Bathes Terrorists With Fire In zamfara — Death Toll Huge
Following carefully conducted observation missions over the Camps of terrorist kingpins, Abdullahi Nasanda in Zurmi Local Government Area (LGA) and Mallam Tukur’s camp in Gusau LGA of zamfara State, air strikes by the air component of Operation Hadarin Daji on 10 April 2024, have led to the elimination of several terrorists and their structures.

Director of Public Relations and Information Nigerian Air Force, Air Vice-Marshal Edward Gabkwet, disclosed this Thursday in a statement.

He said Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) mission conducted on Abdullahi Nasanda’s Camp had revealed terrorists’ activities around some huts and thatched roof structures.

Some of their motorcycles were also observed hidden on trees.

Having established that their activities were consistent with terrorists’ modes of operation, the location was struck by multiple aircraft passes, thereby neutralising several terrorists.

Similar ISR missions were conducted at Mallam Tukur Camp, where terrorists’ activities were also observed. Air strikes conducted on the Camp neutralised several terrorists and showed several structures set ablaze and destroyed.

Air strikes were also extended to Kani kawa in Maradun town, under Maradun LGA of zamfara State, where terrorists, their enclaves and equipment were attacked and destroyed.

OLAADEGBU:


The terrorists, who seem to be unperturbed, gathered at the Eid ground in Munhaye town in zamfara on Wednesday to perform the two raka'at prayers to mark the end of Ramadan fast.

https://saharareporters.com/2024/04/11/terrorists-release-video-showing-their-eid-el-fitr-celebration-openly-large-gathering

successmatters:


We are sounding logical. You will support the whole Delta state to be killed and give us audio report of terrorist killed in zamfara.

Double standards.

helinues:



Some of you don't even have an idea how you have been sounding lately.

Terrorists Release Video Showing Their Eid-El-Fitr Celebration Openly In Large Gathering At zamfara Community
April 11, 2024
NEWS

Some bandits in large numbers observed this year's Eid-El-Fitr prayers and other festivities in the open in zamfara State, Northwest Nigeria.

The terrorists, who seem to be unperturbed, gathered at the Eid ground in Munhaye town in zamfara on Wednesday to perform the two raka'at prayers to mark the end of Ramadan fast.

In a viral video posted by a security analyst and counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad basin, Zagazola Makama on his X handle, the bandits calmly celebrated Eid-El-Fitr without any visible apprehension. The bandits could be seen with their guns.

They reportedly took hours to recite the Quran and also engaged in wild jubilation.

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“Bandits in zamfara state have released a new video showing its members celebrating the recent Eid-el-Fitr festival in Munhaye community in zamfara state,” Zagazola said.

Some Nigerians have taken to their X handles to express displeasure with the terrorists' gathering without being arrested or challenged by police personnel or soldiers.

For instance, Blessed (@BlessedOdoba) tweeted, “There’s no way the community or government securities will no know that they’re gathering.”

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Sarki Sulieman (@Sir_Dongizle) wrote: “There's no way the army will say they don't know where these guys are, it's just disgraceful! Damn.”

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@swiss_basquiat wrote: “This is what APC has reduced Nigeria to. A taliban state like Afghanistan.”

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Adafi (@opeyemi44238349) tweeted, “Does this mean that an entire village is a bandit group?”

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Chado (@realchado) wrote: “The government, security agents, community didn't know they were gathering? This country is so funny.”