₦airaland Forum

bnovative:
Manni given accelerated promotion? This is what the north has been doing in nigeria since independence. where there no senior officers of northern extract in the dss? was gej cso a southerner?

Platnum1:
I have been married for 5 months now.I lost my virginity to my husband but he doesn't blv cos I didn't bleed. I was use to pleasuring myself with my fingers before now,maybe that's why I didnt bleed,I don't knw. D fact that i kept myself for my husband all these yrs and he doesnt even blv me hurts so bad. How do I get over this and not let it hurt me so much?

stildude:
you have spoken like a true apc person. Always speaking from sentiment not regarding what is right. Buhari cult-like followership or islamic suicide bombers men will not hold this nation to ransom. #Never Again!

GboyegaD:
I guess this was when he was a very junior officer. Here he looks like a broke ass night however, he's metamorphosized into a fine man now.

Boko Haram, as they are known, seem to have had a long disagreement within the Jihadi movements in Africa about Abubakar Shekau’s depth of knowledge. Many of the Jihadis, especially students of late Mohammed Yusuf, Shekau’s precursor, were reported to have opted out of the movement on account of his hastiness. Some of these erstwhile members of the sect are reported to be currently fighting alongside with the Islamic State (IS) in Libya, or in other turfs — in their new obsession of dying as martyrs instead of co-existing in a multicultural society.

Boko Haram’s widely reported allegiance (or Bay’ah) to the Islamic State is said to be the result of a long drawn deliberation within and outside the group on its ideology. “The sect has expressed support to IS in the past but not Bay’ah in this formal sense, as Islam prescribed,” says a source with links to the insurgents in Nigeria. According to this insurgent, it is not a question of IS accepting their overtures or not “as long as Muslims pledged allegiance to a leader, he must accept it. In fact, it was long overdue.” What this also means is Abubakar Bagdadi will henceforth take decision for the insurgents. “Shekau’s self-governance has ended on Saturday, the 7th of March 2015,” said the insurgent.

Sources knowledgeable with the activities of the ruthless insurgents in Nigeria hinted that what we are seeing is a methodological transformation of Boko Haram into a well-organised terror and propaganda machine that may not only appeal to the deprived in society but even the well-off and people from different nationalities. Baghdadi may choose to even change the Imam in Nigeria if he so wishes or send permanent emissaries or teachers to guide what is now the local Boko Haram Shura, said multiple sources.

Insiders insist that “the emissaries by Bagdadi are already here with us, they are making a lot of changes that I cannot share but we have started seeing the impact of our Bay’ah”. But just what is Bay’ah and the implications to the four countries fighting Boko Haram? Bay’ah, according to some Sunni Islamic scholars, can only be offered to the leader of the Muslims. Once allegiance is offered, as in the case of Boko Haram to IS, it is accepted because the leader that is being offered Bay’ah assumes total and absolute authority over his subjects, except these subjects were to discover that the actions of the leader contradicted their kind of beliefs.

Many commentators have maintained that Boko Haram is on its knees, therefore, it is reaching out to IS to reinforce its bonds with other groups and individuals in the region, and save itself from drowning. Yes, there have been intensified military attacks against Boko Haram by the Nigerian Army and the multinational forces but to assume that the international borders in north-east Nigeria that overlooks three countries — Cameroon, Chad and Niger Republic — areno longer leaky is far-fetched. Even our weak institutions to guard against leakages are a cause of concern. Investigations revealed that there may still be several unmanned pathways from Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria to the Northern Mandara mountains, the new fortress of Boko Haram resistance.

A trusted inside assessment revealed that there is a difference between taking back Boko Haram territories and defeating the group’s terror network with its roots in many parts of the region. While one aspect of the problem can be defeated on the battle field, the other aspect requires deep, strategic and consistent institutional framework to be able to contain.

Another cause of apprehension is: both Chad and Niger that carried out a joint offensive against Boko Haram on Sunday share direct borderlines with Libya — IS most powerful arm outside of Iraq and Syria. However, many have dismissed the alliance since Boko Haram and IS are both confronted with large-scale military attacks. But IS is not only in Iraq, Syria or Libya, it’s an ideology that may be found in unexpected places.

There are also growing concern of Boko Haram capabilities, despite the offensive against it. On Saturday, its fighters moved into Sueram village in Cameroon, with tanks and pickups vans. Sueram, according to Chief Bisong Etahoben, a respected journalist in Cameroon, is a mere 17 kilometers from Fotokol, the location of Boko Haram’s most devastating attack on Cameroon in February.

Analyst argues that with deep seated distrust amongst the multinational forces and the absence of a command structure to streamline their activities, it becomes a major challenge to effectively police the expansive border territories. Moreover, we are referring to borderlines that host same ethnic groups, living across two imperceptible boundaries. If people can escape sophisticated airport security checks from the US, Europe and Asia en route Syria and Iraq from Turkey, how difficult will it be for people from Mali, North Africa and Europe to troop to poorly manned borders, in a poverty stricken region, being policed by one of the most ill-equipped and corrupt officials from the four hard-hit countries in the region?

Clearly, there has been progress in taking back Boko Haram territories by the militaries of Chad, Cameroun, Niger and more especially Nigeria but there has not been any headway in finding nearly a 1000 known prisoners, including over 200 girls, abducted about a year ago. For now, many in West Africa have every cause to be anxious by the new Boko Haram and IS alliance. In the absence of any intelligence breakthrough that may reveal the slightest clue on the following: who are Boko Haram’s current leaders? How many are they? What are their names? Where are they located? How are decisions taken within the group? What is their actual source of funding? How many cells do they operate outside the main war combatants? People in the region can be certain of more bloody surprises ahead.

If our intelligence community for years were repeatedly confused about whether or not Shekau was alive, his whereabouts, and were misled into believing bogus ceasefires and false alarms over the release of abducted girls, how can people trust the same security community with their borders? Boko Haram claims it is retreating for weeks to the Northern Mandara area at a time we are hearing victory songs by our military in areas far away from Boko Haram’s main command and control theatre.

Salkida, a conflict analyst, was the only journalist who had contact with Boko Haram leaders.

ConfessionsNgr:
Jega is just one man in an office. Inec is not his company and anybody can head the commission

falconey:
A household provisions seller, Kwatri, has
narrated how his claim that he was a mechanic
and a Muslim helped him to escape from Boko
Haram’s den in Mubi, Adamawa state.
Kwatri, who is a Christian, while narrating his ordeal
in Boko Haram’s den to Daily Times at the NYSC
camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at
Damare in Adamawa state, informed that he
repeatedly chanted: “Allahu Akbar” when he was
confronted with death in the hands of the Boko
Haram insurgents.
According to Kwatri, when the terrorists learnt he
was a mechanic, they knew he could be put to good
use because their vehicles often need the attention
of mechanics.
While narrating how he was kidnapped by the Boko
Haram insurgents, Kwatri, who stated that he had to
name himself Mohammed, said: “I regret the day I
chose to go to Mubi to buy goods for my provision
shop in Michika. On that fateful day, I remember I
asked my wife what should I buy for her and she
replied that I should buy anything eatable.
“On reaching Maraban Mubi, I noticed that all the
roads were blocked and I told myself that it must be
the Nigerian army because all the people there were
wearing khaki.
“Unknown to me, they were Boko Haram insurgents
and had already levelled the whole of Maraban
Mubi. There was nowhere to run to as the roads
were had been blocked.
“Suddenly, somebody barked orders at me. I
immediately knew that my life was in danger.” Then,
one of the terrorists asked: “What do you do for a
living?
“I lied and said, ‘I am a mechanic and shouted
Allahu Akbar’. One of them said they should not kill
me because of my skills as a mechanic.”
Boko Haram insurgents
Kwatri added that the insurgents then bundled him
into a Hilux pickup van and drove deep into Sambisa
forest.
He said: “There I saw thousands of people from all
walks of life doing one thing or the other. The Boko
Haram members are really prepared for anything,
seeing how well-organized they are and the
structure of their leadership.
“They took me to a place they called training camp.
There I noticed that all they do was to inculcate their
beliefs and different orientation of Islam in people.
“It was a total brain wash of strange Islamic beliefs.
What we mostly did at that stage was to maintain the
day to day affairs of domestic issues based on what
your field was.
“On a daily basis, we were made to go to a training
camp where they taught us how to handle guns and
manufacture bombs.”

Kwatri stated that his dramatic escape from the
Boko Haram’s den came the day their chief
instructor was changed and another person who
happened to be bearing his adopted name,
Mohammed, took over.
He said: “The chief instructor was given a different
assignment and they brought somebody called
Alhaji Mohammed. He asked me my name.
“Fortunately, we were namesakes; my former name
was no longer what I was answering. I answered
Mohammed and our new instructor became fond of
me.
“One day, he asked me whether I wanted to see my
family in Michika and I said yes. “The following day
oga Mohammed sent me on errand to get him one
of abducted women in the next camp which was
close to the Michika mountains, a walk of about 50
kilometers. And I told myself if I could trek that far,
why should I not try to escape?
“I told myself if I die, I die and if I live, in live. I
trekked as fast as I could. Before I knew it, I had
arrived in Michika. I discovered that the place was
still under the siege by Boko Haram.
“I looked for where to hide for the next day. At
dawn, I sneaked away through a route to Hong and
from Hong to Yola camp for displaced persons
where I met so many people from my town in a
pitiable situation.
“As I am talking to you now, I can find my wife and
children.”
http://www.naij.com/398659-i-saw-hell-in-boko-harams-den-mechanic-declares.html

ifekemmie:
Dis man own is too much, just talking like a parrot, now some pple will be saying lai mohammed talk like a woman.

DaGC:
Seems like you modified the original post. Can't see the tweets

IsaAbubakar:
go and finish your hopeless father first

hopeless good for noting goat

GeneralBosco:
I'm an APC supporter but truth be told Doyin finish you totally
I no even know where to start laugh from