₦airaland Forum

helinues:
Let Boko Haram, ISIS and ISWAP finish themselves all in the name of who is relevant... Easy job for our gallant soldiers

PissfulProtester:
You are obviously a confused being.. why you change topic and content?

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Women mourn the death of aid workers who were executed by Islamist militants, in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, Nigeria on July 23, 2020. Kolawole Adewale/Reuters

The Western media is focused on the struggle between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, with searing images of the humanitarian disaster that is unfolding. Yet the magnitude is tiny compared to the humanitarian crisis in northern Nigeria. Total confirmed deaths number 239 in the current round of fighting between Hamas and the Israelis. In comparison, there have been at least 755 deaths since January 1, 2021 in northeastern Borno State, the epicenter of the Boko Haram insurgency; in northeastern Nigeria alone, over 2.9 million are internally displaced.

In northwestern Kaduna and Zamfara states, both heavily afflicted by armed banditry, cumulative deaths since the turn of the year are at least 705. (Many more have been kidnapped.) Reporting from northern Nigeria is difficult, and thus casualty figures are likely an undercount. Now, the World Food Program is sounding the alarm over the looming prospect of famine. Already, a large majority of Nigerians (86 percent) lack access to a safely managed source of potable water.

In northeastern Nigeria, food and other relief is provided almost entirely by UN agencies and some 150 Nigerian and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Yet their personnel are under attack from Boko Haram and other jihadi organizations who accuse aid workers of, among other things, "Christianizing" the indigenous Muslim population. The other bookend of humanitarian frustration is that relief workers credibly complain that their efforts are too often thwarted by the army and the police in the name of "security." At least some security operatives complain that humanitarian relief reaches jihadis.

Why does the ongoing tragedy in northern Nigeria—and indeed much of the rest of the Sahel—attract so little attention in the developed world? Part of the answer is that the Sahel and northern Nigeria are far away. Few Americans have a personal link to it, unlike the large number that are invested in Israel and Palestine in one way or another. Many, perhaps most, Americans are convinced that what happens in Israel and Palestine directly affects U.S. interests. Further, issues in the conflict in northern Nigeria and the Sahel, in many ways a civil war within Islam, are obscure to twenty-first-century Americans. Popular media coverage is also limited: for a long time, media access to the war zone has been inhibited both by jihadis and the security services. "Compassion fatigue" in the aftermath of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria also plays a role.

Whatever the reasons, the bottom line is that the ongoing tragedy in the Sahel and northern Nigeria merits more humanitarian attention from the United States than it receives.

PissfulProtester:
Ffk confirms...


....As who?

Simplyleo:
By the end of this month, ipob would have come up with about 2000 reasons Buhari didn't attend the burial of his fellow jihadist late COAS.

South East Govs BEG IPOB, MASSOB: Give us six months to negotiate with FG

South East Governors have appealed to agitators for self-determination in the region to halt hostilities and allow them negotiate solutions to age-long grievances with the Federal Government within six months.

Chairman of the Southeast Governors’ Forum, Dave Umahi, who demanded for understanding and time from the agitators, also said only those who want the current state of insecurity and killings to persist would oppose the recent ban on open grazing by governors of southern states.

Ebonyi Governor Umahi spoke on Thursday while featuring on the regular Ministerial Press Briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team at the Presidential villa, Abuja.

The Southeast has for years been a hotbed of separatist activities with the Movement for the Actualisation of Biafra (MASOB) and Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leading the charge against the Federal Government.

Dhury:
Nigeria is bigger than these rats from South to East.

Olatomiwami:
Y educating that slowpoke? Nk started ipob over 5yrs ago, still counting, what's his achievements? Burning and killing, is not by brawn but by brain, Igboho is just a foot warrior,his think tank are Baba Akintoye and some hidden elites, so what's the hullabaloo all about?

tempest01:
Technically, Adamu the clown is right. Even if a southerner is appointed which i don't see the cabal doing, he has no choice than to obey genocidal orders from the cabal at the top acting in stead of the unaware president.

There is actually no need to celebrate the death of the COAS by those suffering from the genocidal orders.

What should be celebrated if it happens is the ousting of the cabal.

kindlyheart:
their is nothing nepotic about Buhari's appointments.

He is simply following the laws of his faith.

it is a sin to place a non-believer above a believer...

QuotaSystem:
Congratulations.

Spare no terrorists. BH, Killer Herdsmen, Bandits and IPOB terrorists must be extinguished.

Wishing you a safe tenure sir.

juman:
"A few leaders were killed"?

If you have sense you should know that killing peoples leaders is attack on the tribes.
The leaders represent their tribes.

justtoodark:
you igbos pity yourselves too much....

wetin dey worry una....??

northerners went weyrey on una because of your boastful nature....
now,that cant happen again....

soo,stfu and move on and think about how you treat others....
igbos are not better than anybody....the quickest you learn this,the better for una....

juman:
You are right.
They killed leaders of other tribes, then making jest of the north.

Igbos overrate themselves and underrate others.

BSdetector:
Just like the 3 million biafrvad chimps that perished.

Simplyleo:
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The president and vice president aren't interested in your advice and useless conspiracy theories.

thebosstrevor1:
What state burial.

He died fighting for biafra

FarahAideed:
You must be a naive learner ...Don't play yourself, the entire NW and NE are not good for you

NewsNigeria247:
Information reaching us is that there is heavy security build up in aso rock at the moment as buhari goes into hidden.

buhari remain absence from the burial ceremony of the chief of army staff that is slated for today in Abuja.

Federickson02:
Idk how many times I have to repeat to you that I have no bias whatsoever against Ipobs. I've been supporting Ipobs untill UGM started killing police officers with most Ipobs hailing them. Anyway, it legit seems he was behind it, so whoever wanna rejoice should pls do, idc. What I don't like is your people being violent against police officers, and when the military gets your attention and deploys some personnels to take care of the crimal elements, you post fake news just to be on the right side.

Coronabirus:
Life of Sardauna & other Northern elites killed by Igbos in Igbo coup are worth more than the entire Igbos lives on this planet!

PAWG:
I still don’t understand how death is a punishment and rejoiced over when we’ll all die someday regardless

Federickson02:
Where does it say he was the commanding officer of the troops that unlawfully executed Ipobs?

Federickson02:
I'm not an Igbo hater pls, I just don't like the way yall act these days. BTW, I thought the 150 killing were of recent reason I asked "when"?.
In the meantime, you're wrong bcus the the COAS who recently got killed wasn't the one in charge of that, he recently got promoted to that position 3 months ago. I'm guessing Buratai was responsible for that not him.

NewsNigeria247:
probably too scared

Federickson02:
150 protesters? When and where?
You Ipobs are beginning to get very annoying now. Can't you guys stay one day without posting fake news just to be on the right side?

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/11/peaceful-pro-biafra-activists-killed-in-chilling-crackdown/

The Nigerian security forces, led by the military, embarked on a chilling campaign of extrajudicial executions and violence resulting in the deaths of at least 150 peaceful pro-Biafra protesters in the south east of the country, according to an investigation by Amnesty International published today.

Analysis of 87 videos, 122 photographs and 146 eye witness testimonies relating to demonstrations and other gatherings between August 2015 and August 2016 consistently shows that the military fired live ammunition with little or no warning to disperse crowds. It also finds evidence of mass extrajudicial executions by security forces, including at least 60 people shot dead in the space of two days in connection with events to mark Biafra Remembrance Day.

“This deadly repression of pro-Biafra activists is further stoking tensions in the south east of Nigeria. This reckless and trigger-happy approach to crowd control has caused at least 150 deaths and we fear the actual total might be far higher,” said Makmid Kamara, Interim Director of Amnesty International Nigeria.

“The Nigerian government’s decision to send in the military to respond to pro-Biafra events seems to be in large part to blame for this excessive bloodshed. The authorities must immediately launch an impartial investigation and bring the perpetrators to book.”

thebosstrevor1:
That is because i dont believe your propaganda for sympathy