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Foreign Affairs › Re: Place Your Bets On How Much Longer Mali Will Survive by TookDownYourMum: 8:37pm On Aug 27, 2023

Cromagnon:
Where has coup worked?

I believe his being sarcastic sir.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Place Your Bets On How Much Longer Mali Will Survive by TookDownYourMum: 7:54pm On Aug 27, 2023

They reap what they sow.

Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Economy Grows By 2.51% In Q2, Service Sector Leads Growth By 4.42% by TookDownYourMum: 11:44pm On Aug 26, 2023

Nigeria wont be the biggest economy for much longer, Egypt will. Not to mention Nigeria is competing with South Africa for highest unemployment rate in the continent.

Politics › Re: Kenyans Are Far Behind Nigerians In Every Aspect – Fani-Kayode by TookDownYourMum: 11:28pm On Aug 26, 2023

Mkenya2019:
Naira has collapsed and Nigeria fake GDP has collapsed

Its amazing every time Nigeria manages to get to $500 billion economy and they somehow f*ck it up and drop back down to $300 billion something. It happened in 2014 as well when they overtook South Africa as the biggest economy in the continent. Nigeria managed to get to $550 billion economy and then they dropped the ball. If they didn't, they could of gotten to a trillion dollar economy waaay before 2020.

Man, f*ck them. I hope the Egyptians take over as Africa's biggest economy in the continent, then Nigerians will have nothing to boast about to other Africans other than their multidimensional poverty rates and medieval witch hunts.

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Politics › Re: Kenyans Are Far Behind Nigerians In Every Aspect – Fani-Kayode by TookDownYourMum: 3:08pm On Aug 24, 2023

Lol, I was so hooked up the Niger thing I just noticed a bunch of pinkoids on Fascist-witter (Twitter) were crying that Julius Malema sung "kill dee boer" during his big moment not too recently.

Politics › Re: Kenyans Are Far Behind Nigerians In Every Aspect – Fani-Kayode by TookDownYourMum: 9:30am On Aug 21, 2023

vankelvin:
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So you think! and I love the way you think

For all the shit pilling Nigerians do on Nairaland onto Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa have the highest murder rates to the point both of your countries (just TWO) inflate Africa's overall murder rate to 13.0

Remove (or solve) both Nigeria and South Africa from the equation and the murder rate drops dramatically. Ghanaians are very peaceful people, an American living in Ghana would be safer than some dumbshit redneck trailer park out in the sticks back in their home country.

Politics › Re: Kenyans Are Far Behind Nigerians In Every Aspect – Fani-Kayode by TookDownYourMum: 9:54pm On Aug 20, 2023

GeneralDae:
Mali is in a tight situation now. Add that to the fact that they asked UN peacekeeping force to leave their country for not being able to defeat the insurgents after all these years.
Burkinafaso have been able to maintain some stability around the capital and close to the borders with Ghana but the fight is still just too overwhelming for the young Traore who is doing his best.

Yeah, I heard about the Mali Junta removing UN forces from Northern Mali that was providing civilians there food, water, and medicine. From the sounds of things, the West African region at least the Sahel area is fast becoming the new frontier for muslim extremist groups. They also popped up in Mozambique not too long ago before Rwanda, SADC and Mozambique government forces kicked them out of Southern Africa.

Plus, it just goes to show how useless Wagner really is other than looting Burkina Faso and Mali resources to fund almost bankrupt Russia war in Ukraine.

Politics › Re: Kenyans Are Far Behind Nigerians In Every Aspect – Fani-Kayode by TookDownYourMum: 9:31pm On Aug 20, 2023

GeneralDae:
That's a fact bro. Just take a look at this map to see the lands two terrorists groups are covering in Mali and Bfaso.

The terrorists groups are JNIM and EIGS marked red and black in the map.

How old is this map? If this is recent, damn they control most of the country meaning Mali and Burkina Faso wont exist for much longer.

Christianity Etc › Re: Religion And It's Decrease In Relevance In 21st Century by TookDownYourMum: 6:12pm On Aug 19, 2023

Organized religion, it has always been a scam. Its decreasing in Europe, US, Canada, Australia, and Asia. All nations in these continents that far surpass African ones in quality of education except South Africa. Even Muslims in the Middle East are leaving Islam than joinning.

But it seems Africa is becoming the new frontier for Islam and Christianity due to a lack of access to information and poor education overall. An example would be scientific theories that negate religious fantasy such as Evolution not being taught in nearly all schools in Africa with the exception of South Africa. Instead propaganda like creationism is taught.

Politics › Re: Kenyans Are Far Behind Nigerians In Every Aspect – Fani-Kayode by TookDownYourMum: 5:46pm On Aug 19, 2023

chrisooblog:
As bad as the sanctions are it seems to be working rumours of a mutiny in Niger over unpaid salaries

https://twitter.com/ZagazOlaMakama/status/1692913402815881419?s=20[/quote]Rumours are best to be taken with a grain of salt but I wouldn't be surprised if its true. Not all of Niger military is with the coup leader. If it ends with a counter-coup, then hopefully it returns back to civilian rule.

Politics › Re: Kenyans Are Far Behind Nigerians In Every Aspect – Fani-Kayode by TookDownYourMum: 3:59pm On Aug 19, 2023

GeneralDae2:
Yes I agree with your argument in principle and it's more logical to me than the other opposing arguments here. I also support this pathway now thinking about it. The only problem would be if Mali, Burkinafaso, and Niger, begin to establish ties with Wagner and North Korea. That is also a possibility.

Ehhh, them establishing ties with another autocratic state like North Korea only shows how desperate the Junta's are not like North Korea can actually afford to aid any of these countries thousands of miles away from their nation. North Korea is only able to stay afloat because of China thats upholding Kim Jong Un's regime otherwise it would have fallen long ago. Reason China is doing this is because CCP doesn't want the US military on its borders thus creating a buffer zone between them.

Only reason North Korea is ranked so high on the Global Firepower index is because of their nuclear weapons that doesn't have a far reach otherwise vast majority of their tech are ancient junk from the Soviet era (1950s ~ 1970s).

As for Wagner, they are a PMC mercenary group, last I checked at least 20,000 of them have already been killed in Ukraine and they dont specialize in conventional warfare. Wagner trying to help Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger would overstrench the group so they wouldn't be of much use anyway and its not like Russia can aid them either considering they are pretty close to bankruptcy themselves.

Politics › Re: Kenyans Are Far Behind Nigerians In Every Aspect – Fani-Kayode by TookDownYourMum: 3:37pm On Aug 19, 2023

GeneralDae:
But thesame Mali is backing Niger today. 2025 from 2021, that's 4 complete years of civilian rule. You see how they played with ECOWAS? If ECOWAS doesn't get tough against Niger, by 2025, same Mali would call ECOWAS bluff again and do nothing. Can't you see this? It was initially supposed to be a one year transition period but the Malian Junta have kept postponing it. Now they say 2025.

When by that 2025, Mali postpones it again to 2030, we allow Mali be and situation has not changed with Bfaso, Niger, Guinea, another dissatisfied soilder in another Francophone West African country (who is about to get sacked) would again carry out a coup, immediately ignite anti french sentiments as the reason (in order to gain sympathy) and then you would come here again to ask ECOWAS to just dialogue and negotiate or use sanctions only and it goes round and round.

These Francophone countries were already politically unstable to begin with and going to war with Niger will just destabilize the entire region and create a massive refugee crisis which the Jihadists will take advantage of. The sanctions placed on Niger has already been seeing effects on ground. Food inflation has skyrocketed. The Chinese have stopped working on the Niger Dam. Elecricity has been cut off from Niger with constant blackouts for most of the day. 90% of Niger's budget that came from International foreign aid has been cut off. The World Bank and IMF has stopped all development loans in Niger and the state is virtually bankrupt isolated from the financial system. France can increase their uriarium from Canada, Australia, and Kazakhstan decreasing Niger share in the world market. They won't survive under sanctions for 6 months since Niger (land-locked nation) is a highly dependant country on foreign aid. Rebels in the country are beginning to get impatient with the Junta over the sanctions placed on their country from ECOWAS and US and its allies EU nations, Japan, and S.Korea that hold most of the world's share of nominal GDP.

The Mali Junta can make big threats but in reality they can't afford to aid another country in a war considering 40% of Mali is already under terrorist and separatist control nor do they have the budget, manpower, or logistics to do so. So, their threats are all hot air.

If Mali goes back on their word in 2025 and postpones it again, ECOWAS can just easily place the sanctions back onto their country. Since they kicked out UN that was providing Northern Mali civilians with food, medicine, and water that would set a bad precedent for the country likely a civil war.

Politics › Re: Kenyans Are Far Behind Nigerians In Every Aspect – Fani-Kayode by TookDownYourMum: 1:28pm On Aug 19, 2023

GeneralDae:
But the coup leaders didn't cave in for Mali. Sanctions didn't work with Mali or am I missing something?

Mali was crumbling prior to the lifting of sanctions, the only reason they were lifted was because Mali Junta came back to the negotiation table and promised a date for a transition back to civilian governance in 2025.

Politics › Re: Kenyans Are Far Behind Nigerians In Every Aspect – Fani-Kayode by TookDownYourMum: 11:40pm On Aug 18, 2023

Luckily, the majority of Africa is against the threat of war in Niger.

Nigeria shouldn't be treated as some western stooge and Tinubu should be impreached if he goes to war without NASS approval. It should be resolved diplomatically instead of destabilizing the region. I support the sanctions placed on Niger by ECOWAS because I believe it will eventually make the coup leaders cave in as it did for Mali.

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Politics › Re: Why ECOWAS Is Following The Orders Of EU And US by TookDownYourMum(op): 12:20pm On Aug 11, 2023

forgiveness:
This not about EU, it's about preserving democracy in Africa.

No moral justification to excuse a coup in this era. If left unchecked, it's will jeopardize democracy in Africa and bring the continent back to the dark ages.

Funny how they didn't invade Mali, Guinea, Chad, or Burkina Faso if it was really about "preserving" democray in the region. Ironically enough, they are still under Junta military dictatorships and ECOWAS has done nothing about. They are threatening Niger because of the gas pipeline that runs through Niger and connects up with Europe. It has everything to do with Europe.

Russian Nordstream gaspipes was blown up in the sea recently by the west. The gas pipeline from Nigeria via Niger is the EU's only hope. The fact you can't see the connection with this coup and them not caring about the other coups from the examples I gave says alot.

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Politics › Why ECOWAS Is Following The Orders Of EU And US by TookDownYourMum(op): 11:54am On Aug 11, 2023

> Be the EU
> Instead of sending your own to die, get dumb African negroes to fight and die for you instead
> Secure your own national interests in the region via natural gas pipeline to lessen your reliance on Russian gas
> Profit

Nigeria makes up 80% of the funding and troops to ECOWAS, need to get the NASS to reject the invasion of Niger. Sanctions are already crippling Niger's economy and skyrocketing food inflation, why invade? The regime will naturally crumble by itself. If the EU wants war, then they can go and die instead of using us like puppets.

That doesn't mean I'm for Wagner either, they can piss off too.

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Politics › Re: Ecuadorian Presidential Candidate Has Been Assassinated by TookDownYourMum: 8:22am On Aug 10, 2023

A repeat of Haiti no doubt USA had a hand in this too.

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Politics › Re: See What Some U.S Citizens Are Saying About Nigeria Vs. Niger (pictures) by TookDownYourMum: 5:30pm On Aug 09, 2023

Wait, aren't these dumb rednecks already killing each other in the boatloads in the Russo-Ukrainian war currently going on? You would think they would prioritize preserving their dying race instead of starting a war to fasten the proccess.

I would say what Africans are doing are the least of their concerns right now.

Well, the less of them on this planet, the better, lol.

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Politics › High Power Politician In Niger Has Appealed To Tinubu Due To Tough Sanctions by TookDownYourMum(op): 4:52pm On Aug 09, 2023

Against Niger Juntas.

Former rebels have also staged anti-coup movement as impasse continues.

This entire thing is becoming a shitshow.

You can read more about it in this link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/9/former-niger-rebel-launches-anti-coup-movement-as-impasse-continues

Politics › Re: Igbos In Niger Republic Protest Against Proposed Military Action By Tinubu- by TookDownYourMum: 3:29pm On Aug 08, 2023

Nigeria is not going to war with Niger. ECOWAS has rolled back on the talks of war but have decided to go with sanctions along with the US, EU, Australia, Japan, S.Korea etc.

Sanctions are already bitting Niger hard such as food inflation skyrocketing that even the fatass Junta on the big chair has admitted the country has a "few" tough months ahead of it as if Niger would survive 6 months under economic sanctions. When even Mali was crumbling prior to the lifting of ECOWAS sanctions after it promised a date to transition back to civilian rule.

The western powers and ECOWAS are hoping to starve Niger so the coup gets couped and its already showing results.

Politics › Re: Senate Did Not Reject President Tinubu/ECOWAS Military Intervention In Niger by TookDownYourMum: 8:56am On Aug 08, 2023

Kukutente23:
Lol. When was that?

In January, 2017 during Buhari term. Ecowas soldiers entered Gambia after the ex-president, Yahya Jammeh, wannabe dictator refused to stepdown after he lost a democratic election to Adama Barrow in 2016.

The East African Federation should get some damn balls and do the same thing to Uganda and oust the brutal dictator using force.

Politics › Re: Senate Did Not Reject President Tinubu/ECOWAS Military Intervention In Niger by TookDownYourMum: 8:52am On Aug 08, 2023

t2luv1:
To answer your question: NONE

There is infact two.

1) the gas pipeline, Nigeria wanted to be the alternative to Russian gas. Europe wants to lessen its reliance on said Russian gas.

2) Niger's stability is important to Nigeria's security since all weapons from niger flows into Northeast Nigeria where boko haram happens to be located. What a surprise. Stabilizing Niger will ensure peace for those in Northeast Nigeria.

Politics › Re: Senate Did Not Reject President Tinubu/ECOWAS Military Intervention In Niger by TookDownYourMum: 8:30am On Aug 08, 2023

Kukutente23:
Stop advertising your ignorance
The president MUST seek the approval of NASS before he can declare war or deploy troops outside Nigeria. So says the constitution

Dont you remember that Nigeria invaded Gambia without the approval of NASS?

Politics › Re: Former NATO Commander Warns Of 'Devastating' Full-blown War In Africa by TookDownYourMum: 9:54pm On Aug 06, 2023

Tinubu was rejected by the Senate so theres nothing he can do about it now other than hand out sanctions and enforce them. ECOWAS without Nigeria's support would be a impossible mission.

Just get ready for more coups and military dictatorships in West Africa. Best recommended that Ghana asks for US protection as this will encourage wannabe-Juntas to take over.

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Politics › Re: Niger Military Soldiers Are Ready To Battle ECOWAS by TookDownYourMum: 5:27pm On Aug 06, 2023

The Niger rebels are already begging for help against ECOWAS.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/08/05/niger-junta-wagner-group-mali-mohamed-bazoum-ecowas/

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Politics › Re: Iranian missiles arrives Niger , may pose serious threats to Nigeria .. by TookDownYourMum: 2:00pm On Aug 05, 2023

This is as funny as the Algeria will defend Niger propaganda that was recently refuted.

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Politics › Re: Niger Military Versus Nigeria Military (Equipment) by TookDownYourMum: 6:55pm On Aug 04, 2023

Ezmans:
Russia will double niger military capacity overnight because of precious uranium in niger

How exactly is Russia going to do that?

They have already lost 2/3rd of their operational tanks (mostly modern ones), a entire flagship, dozens of planes, their most advanced firing anti tank missiles against Ukraine which they had 90-130 prior to the war, and are now rapidly depleting through their Soviet era equipment. Russia providing Niger weapons is as worthless as their grain promise.

Boy, you lot are relying too much on your new colonial master.

Politics › Re: Niger Military Versus Nigeria Military (Equipment) by TookDownYourMum: 1:00pm On Aug 04, 2023*

Military superiority is not the only factor in any eventual military engagement with Niger. USA and Russia were militarily superior to Vietnam and Afghanistan respectively but what was the outcome of their military engagements?

Going into a terrain that you are not used to and which may have peculiarities, comes with risks to your troops and equipment. The terrain in Niger geographically is predominantly desert plains and sand dunes. And it is hot and dry. Only specific types of motorized military equipment will work well there without serious challenges.

So any confrontation in Niger needs to be well thought out before engagement rather than just mouthing statistics, etc. Russia had far better statistics against Ukraine but see the cost of the war so far to them and how long it has dragged?

Your only point I agree on is the logistics but that can be easily filtered out by the fact France, UK, and the US is supporting ECOWAS otherwise the rest of your comment comes off as misinformed.

The only country that lost to the Taliban militarily was Russia during the Soviets decline. The US military never lost any engagement with the Talibans or the communist North Vietnam. Infact, they ran the Taliban off to the mountains and installed a new government for 20 years before the political sitaution in the US changed thus they were forced to pull out just like the Vietnam War. Afghan and Vietnam governments are the ones who failed their people after years of US military training. Also, I dont know why people keep bringing these up the Talibans, Vietnamese communists or even Boko Haram as if its an intelligent got'cha. Fighting an insurrgecy i.e guerilla warfare (hit and run tactics) isn't the same as conventional warfare with conventional tactics, goverment vs government. The British military alone in a conventional war can easily wipe out every African military but struggled against the terrorist group IRA for 25 years in guerilla warfare.

Also, The Nigerian Armed Forces has plenty of experience in hostile and often lethal environment (desert) especially when it comes to fighting insurrgency groups like Boko Haram. Northern Nigeria is a semi-arid evironment, thats where Boko Haram is located though now restricted to NE Nigeria beaten out of their strongholds. Three quarters of Niger is made up of the Saharan desert, the country is classified mostly arid and partly semi-arid.

Desert warfare is often a battle for control of the lines of communication, as long as the Nigerian armed forces can protect their LOC while interdicting those of the enemy is the one who will prevail. Considering most of Niger funding came from foreign aid to fight jihadists that were recently cut off, they have no chance of actually winning against just Nigeria. ECOWAS will also have the air superiority advantage considering Niger has no Mobile Rocket projecters (surface-to-air missile, SAM) to shoot down any of their JF-17s or UAVs (drones) so how will they close their air space?

As for Ukraine, thats because NATO is literally assisting them providing weapons and intelligence. Without NATO, Ukraine would of been overrun by Russia long ago. Niger and Ukraine are not remotely comparable in this sitaution. What I want to know is, what is Wagner doing in Mali? The Jihadists are a few kilometers from Bamako now, Mali wont exist for much longer same as Burkina Faso which the terrorists control half of the country.

You are also leaving out the part that Nigeria doesn't need to send their entire military to defeat Niger's small force and that Jihadists will likely take adventage of the sitaution in Niger like they did in Mali when the French were kicked out. So, Niger will be fighting two different kinds of fronts.

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Politics › Re: Niger Military Versus Nigeria Military (Equipment) by TookDownYourMum: 12:12pm On Aug 04, 2023*

For some reason the Global Firepower is not including Nigeria's drones, UAVs which it has many of.

Politics › Re: Can Bola Tinubu’s Leadership In ECOWAS Restore Democracy To Niger Amid Coup by TookDownYourMum: 7:16am On Aug 03, 2023

updatechange:
That is still tantamount to war… let them go to war. After all America will be very interested and throw in support, I know Nigerians will not open their eyes and sit and watch. All will help the disintegration of this country. 😒

Nnamdi Kanu will be freed and can rule over his people anyhow he likes… boko haram can have their own country or state too …there would be peace everywhere

Boko Haram ain't really a domestic national threat anymore, they have been restricted to a few villages up Northeast of Nigeria and dont hold any strongholds. Buhari even though his from Niger has condemned the coup voiced for Tinubu and ECOWAS to act.

Igbos down southeast at most will do their usual protesting stunts which police can handle. if it did come to war or more like a special military operation, Nigeria only needs to send a few thousand while Niger small force of 12,000 will have to dedicate their entire force to fight ECOWAS. Jihadists in Niger will take advantage of this situation so they will be split fighting two fronts. Algeria has reconfirmed they won't be helping Niger. Mali and Burkina Faso statements are hot air, Jihadists already control 25% of Burkina Faso and Jihadists control little more than half of Mali and has only gotten worse since they kicked out France so what the f*ck is Wagner even doing? Killing civilians and looting their minerals. That's why they are depending on Russia to help which won't come. China will not help Niger either as they will want to protect their investments in Nigeria which is a way bigger economy.

In short, if it came to it, Niger is basically f*cked either way. It also relied on foreign aid to fight said Jihadists in their country which was recently cut. I honestly give then 2 weeks before Niger military surrenders or commits a mutiny.

Politics › Re: Can Bola Tinubu’s Leadership In ECOWAS Restore Democracy To Niger Amid Coup by TookDownYourMum: 1:02pm On Aug 02, 2023

Biodun556:
I wish our president and Nigeria good luck.

Nigerian can use that opportunity to secure more sophisticated weapons from the US

I love Russia but sponsoring military coup in Africa is not a good one.

I dont want Nigeria to invade Niger either and would much prefer ECOWAS just sanctioning Niger instead, they wouldn't last 6 months under sanctions.

Politics › Re: Can Bola Tinubu’s Leadership In ECOWAS Restore Democracy To Niger Amid Coup by TookDownYourMum: 12:55pm On Aug 02, 2023

Biodun556:
Haa please we can't mess with Russia. That county is underrated.

I believe Tinubu will reverse his decision on Niger coup soon

Ukraine is currently kicking Russia's ass and killing scores of Wagner members. Thats why Putin is beginning to threaten to use tactical nuclear weapons (as empty as the threat of invading Finland and Sweden if they joinned NATO). Its a paper tiger bro. US and France is also backing ECOWAS so the contracted mercenary group Wagner nothing to worry about.

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