₦airaland Forum

Ochiske:
them don dey fear?
I thought they said they will declare war on Nigeria?
Where is Tompolo, Boyloaf and Asari? iidiats
Those foools clamouring for Biafra, IYC just warned their youths to back out. na una dey remain

these guys know Buhari wont take shiit from them

the fear of PMB is real mehn

shut up your stinking mouth! When sane people are doing heir best to avoid unnecessary waste of life and resource, ignorant fools like you are injecting useless political gamesmanship!!

alfred5:
I still maintain that Barrack Obama remains the worst President USA ever have.

thank God the views of nobodies like you dies not matter in u.s public opinion.

As APC infighting not only continues but grows in leaps and bounds, the ruling party has changed it's national flag to accurately depict the current situation of the party!!

If you like, boil like pot of soup on fore, hopeless man!! You can't control your useless party yet you want to control nigeria, you can fight some power hungry idiotss in your party causing havoc in governance yet you want to fight oil marketers, corruption, etc.. i pity nigeria because as incompetent as I forecasted this government to be, they are beating my expectation.

An American twitted this in response to the Nigerian student who solved the years old math problem in a Japanese university!!

PvtParts:
Buhari will need to get a supplementary Budget passed before he begins doling out money.

You can bet that northern senators whose states surprisingly do not owe their workers and have a far lesser debt burden than the SW states will oppose this or use it as leverage to table their own financial demands.

The SS and SE will obviously oppose this move and will rather call for the Osun State govt to declare bankruptcy.

So I don't see how Buhari can easily help Osun.

great points, let's wait and see.

PvtParts:
If the FG is to bail a state like Osun out it should only be for Salaries owed only.

The FG will thus have to do a personnel audit of all Osun State workers and an embargo place on employment, promotions and allowances.

The case of the pensioners should be priotized with whatever revenue still coming to the state's coffers should be directed towards settling them and also the inclusion of all current Osun state civil servants into the Federal Pension plan.

Aregberascal should not be given a dime as we know he will still divert the money to pay Tinubu and himself for all the useless abandoned contracts.

The FG should also probe Osun state govt and also sponsor a bill preventing states from running a deficit budget based on bank loans.

exactly! These are the measure expected of the federal govt. To take against an irresponsible state but I doubt this federal government will want to play hard ball with a state government in the same party. This will be one of the test of pres.buhari's "I belong to no one, I belong to everyone" quote.

Well, this is a result of the gross incompetence of the state government who in all their years in office could'nt create a revenue base rather choose to spend and spend federal pocket money....the state ultimately will have to be bailed out by the federal government and a financial administrator in conjuction with the national assembly shall control the purse of the osun state government until the crisis is over and they are made to pay back what they owe the Nigerian people.

You can tell from this man"s latest fixation on the federal government leaving his state, that he is gearing up for a national run or role of some sort after he leaves office next year, well if that is the case, then he is as dumb and stuupid as he is ugly.

Leave some nigerians to their stupidity, they can never be delivered from it! They claim to want a better country but are terming the probe of corruption "witch hunt" due to idiotic party affiliation that has done them no good! If buhari wants to probe wike's time as education minister, FINE!!! We need such things to move the nation forward. Your patriotism should be to your country and people not stupid political parties that could care less who you are.

Calling buhari a snail is an insult to every snail on earth.

All hand on "desk" or "deck"...proffesor indeed!!!

Boko Haram is winning.

That's the assessment of both U.S. counterterrorism officials and many experts who cover West Africa. After several months of optimism, and military successes by Chadian and Nigerian forces that rolled back the terror group's gains, Boko Haram has retaken the initiative.

The Islamist terror group attacked a police academy in Chad's capital city of N'Djamena this weekend, killing dozens of officers and recruits. Boko Haram had also killed dozens of Nigerians, including police officers, in a series of recent attacks around Maiduguri, the biggest city in Nigeria's northeast. On Wednesday, a sack of bombs killed more than 60 people in Bauchi, Nigeria.

"You can quibble on this and that, but yes, they are winning," said John Campbell, the Ralph Bunche Center director at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria. Campbell said that Western observers had "way overstated" the territorial gains by Nigerian and Chadian forces that dislodged Boko Haram from small towns it had overrun in the spring.

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"There have been successes," said a U.S. counterterrorism official. "But it's whack-a-mole. Boko Haram does strategic retreats. ... They will move out from the forest into the countryside, attacking villages, then when confronted will beat a retreat and carry out bombings in Maiduguri. ... We've just had three days of bombings in Maiduguri. It had quieted down in Maiduguri."

Officials in Nigeria and four neighboring countries -- Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin -- have been trying to form an 8,700-man fighting force to battle Boko Haram. Both the United States and France has been helping with intelligence and other support, but the multinational force is still has no central command.

"THERE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSES ... BUT IT'S WHACK-A-MOLE."
So Boko Haram retains the initiative, and commands the pace. The group has also solidified its connection with ISIS, referring to itself in a June 1 video as the "Islamic State, West Africa Province," ans is borrowing the Arab terror group's military ideas.

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Though U.S. officials say there's no evidence that ISIS has supplied Boko Haram with anything other than production help on social media, J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center, says there's evidence of what he called "revolutionary" military tactics inspired by ISIS.

"What I have seen is increasing sophistication in confronting Nigerian forces," said Pham. "In attacks on Nigerian forces, it's always been see-saw battles for control. What's interesting is that tactics have changed."

Before, said Pham, the Nigerians would flee and Boko Haram would advance. "That's still ongoing," he said. "Now, however, Boko Haram is attacking on two of three sides and will put the bulk of their forces on the escape route and the Nigerians are getting ambushed. That's a military revolution."

The counterterrorism official agrees, saying Boko Haram is showing "a lot more nimbleness."

The attack on N'Djamena is a bold move by Boko Haram, say experts, because it will spur reprisals from Chad. The French-trained Chadians, who already have 5,000 soldiers committed to the fight, are seen as the "warriors" of the region, U.S. officials say, compared to the other national armies. But there are issues with the way Chadians fight.

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"They are fearless and have the best training in the region. In short, they bring it," said an official. "On the other hand, they think direct combat is the best. As a result, they tend to lose more people. They think body armor wimpy," said the official.

In a long war, that tends to be problematic, the official added. "Neither Chad nor Nigeria nor Niger nor Cameroon have the troops to sustain a long-term effort."

Pham thinks the attack on the police academy will have consequences, ending an implicit agreement under which Boko Haram was permitted to keep its families there. Even Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau had a favorite wife living in Chad. "That tacit understanding is over," said Pham. "Expect the families to be rounded up." Some in the U.S. note that Chad's military, like Nigeria's, has a record of human rights abuses.


Boko Haram soldiers fighting in Nigeria. NBC News
Chad has asked for U.S. help, but so far the U.S has been reluctant. "Do we want to get involved in yet another civil war within Islam?" asked Campbell. "Not small arms, not intelligence sharing? A war. Do we?"

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On Monday in Johannesburg, South Africa, Undersecretary of State for Africa Linda Greenfield Thomas announced he U.S. was sending $5 million to help build the five-nation coalition, but that's seen as a token contribution.

The next steps militarily could be up to Nigeria's new government, which is headed by a former military dictator, Muhammadu Buhari. He said this week he will go to Cameroon soon to help make the multinational coalition happen, but previous talks were fraught with in-fighting based on past border disputes. And, said a U.S. official, "We have seen no big changes in the Nigerian military. They're still not a good fighting force."

Campbell says it looks like a long fight. "Boko Haram seem intent on recreating the pre-colonial Islamic Emirate of Borno," he argued. "Pieces of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon were all part of that pre-colonial emirate."

How ambitious is that? Said Pham, "We're probably talking an area that's close to 100,000 square miles -- the size of Wyoming.

So a country as advanced as Japan can have so much problems handling the fukushima nuclear plant when tragedy struck, an underdeveloped entity like nigeria want to try it's hand on nuclear power. God forbid, that'll be after I move out.

Seen this a lot on my sisters Facebook wall. Pathetic!!

Stuupid nigerians on this thread condemning the right thing because of political affiliation but tomorrow they will shout that they want a better nigeria.

At least they met an open judiciary where they were able to tender their case, under ameachi, the judiciary was locked for 2 years..rule of law and separation of power has returned to rivers state after the regime of generalissimo rotimi ameachi!!

Nobody can accuse wike of irrationality after retaining prof. Barinene fakae as vice chancellor if RSUST despite being one of the most divisive figures of the ameachi years, if you have done well, you retain your job...every rivers person will admit that timariv is the most useless, self serving law enforcement agency ever set up. A conflagration of retired and active touts.

I thought they said a begger has no choice? In this case the begger is even criticising it's benefactors.. what an incompetent and idiocy ridden government.

Would this man just move into the presidential villa? This is just stuupid!!! Imagine the national assembly meeting in the international conference center nearly a month after swearing in. This is just rubbish..

feran14:
too much ncis and mentalist is doing you... they are already found guilty.

by a court of law or the DSS?

Is'nt that axe suppose to be evidence? Sealed in a paper bag? Why is it being brandished by the garrulous governor? Law enforcement in nigeria is a joke!!

Those who were criticising goodluck jonathan for always wearing his black traditional wear and fedora hat are now blind to the fact that on all his foreign trips since swearing in, buhari has been wearing this blard dark chaftan and cap. I will not criticise him because It would be petty... i will not stoop to the level of those bigots and tribalist.

Those of you saying a chalkboard is not possible in a Nigerian university today is in over their head.

Incredible! Saw this in a class room I went to read in after lectures, don't know if it is an actual problem they solved in class or a sick joke by students...

Man: little girl, take two hundred thousand dollars.

Girl: God forbid! You wan insult me? Wetin I wan carry am do?

What more is there to say? This sums it up!

Who wants to be a trillionaire?

Economics class in Zimbabwe with Prof. Mugabe.

When you go to buy a bottle of beer in harare.

A new kind of billionaires..

15 million for sweets and chewing gum, 60 million for a pack of pasta.

Chickens for a handful..

The reserve bank of Zimbabwe has recently launched a program to revive the inflation hit country's economy by buying off old Zimbabwean dollars for u.s dollars. When the sell off commences 350,000,000,000,000 zimbabweans. Dollars will go for $1. As the end to this crisis is in sight we look at it's funny moments...