₦airaland Forum

Kemetian:
What if the terrorists head south to retaliate?

This whole thing has been largely confined to the remote north.

What if these American airstrikes spreads the violence to your southern doorstep and you're now scared to go to Shoprite or the market because a terrorist bomb could go off?

This is the kind of thing that started happening in Iraq after the US invaded to 'save' them.

The bolded is plain wrong. Different scenarios completely. The USA is not an invading force in Nigeria as it was in Iraq.

They are working with Nigeria formally as an alliance of both nations set up to defeat terror threatening to cripple and destroy Nigeria.

The EU should be solicited to join also if we are smart and wish to leverage successfully on this current state of affairs that could be an opportunity to defeat Fulani terror once and for all and redraw our constitution, plus negotiate our union, moving forward

The fact is that Nigeria has been in a state of emergency for a long time. Just that the average Nigerian adult is too childish and irresponsible to confront this fact.

Their minds is completely consumed with thoughts of 'igbadun' the extent many Nigerians fail to accept evil lurks around us.

Sometimes things must get worse before it gets better. Let the South preparer to protect herself and let the President use this opportunity to accelerate the birth of State/regional policing and placement of "heavily armed" forest guards everywhere.

There cannot be gradualist or half measured fight against killers who wish to exterminate us. We get rid of them or they finish us all. That is the option. Not fear of reprisal that will then limit us to never ever acting until terrorist are at our door anyway.

Yes we entered uncharted territory with the bombing led by the USA today on Nigerian soil. Yet it was always inevitably going to get to this level as Fulani terror has only grown in scale and impunity over time, especially as it has become a tool to blackmail Southerne President out of power, meaning something must give.

We cannot continue like this. What must happen is for a next wave of of arrest and jailing of sponsors of terror against the many evil individuals wanting to make the brutal and bloody killings of innocent Nigerians our reality for good.

nairalanda1:
So, the party line has changed, eh?

What Party line has changed? Trump threatened military action against Nigeria over "Christian Genocide".

Nigeria and the entire world stood against him to remind the megalomaniac that our Nation is a sovereign nation international law forbids any army to attack when we have not directly or indirectly threatened their territorial integrity or interest.

America withdrew and accepted the diplomatic and correct option of working with Nigeria as a joint task force.

Those of us who love our nation yet insisted on her sovereignty applauded that move. Today is the first strike of that joint alliance convened by Nigeria and the USA most sensible and pragmatically mature Nigerians backed. The USA has thanked Nigeria for her assistance and cooperation.

It is you who should tell us "what Party line has changed" because I don't see it from the perspective of adult who take principled and measured stances they stick with.

Ofunaofu:
All these Agbadorians and Tinubu APC supporters are so shameless.

Just a couple of weeks ago, when Trump threatened to take action against terrorists and bandits committing heinous crimes in Nigeria, they were screaming their lungs out. Suddenly, it was “Nigeria is a sovereign nation.”

They called Trump a bully and made ridiculous comparisons to U.S. interventions in places like Libya.

Now, they’ve made a complete 180-degree turnaround and are praising the same Trump.

Keep quiet. You are no better than bandits and terrorists from the North given the terrorism, fueled by the same extremiism motivating Northerners, emanating from your SE region also.


Sensible Nigerians insisting our Nation is a sovereign Country the USA must respect and work with, rather than bomb dictatorially, make the right call for today, tomorrow and always 100%.

Especially in regards to future generations unborn who would be forced to live with the grave danger of letting American war machine determine which Nigerians liver die in our own land when it should be Nigerian armed might, with assistance from others, that power must lie with today and always.

That is what must happen according to international law and all treaty related to military operation by an army in the Country of others. We have not threatened the USA directly or indirectly so any attack by them against Nigerian we have not sanctioned is a crime. Simple.

Yet we cannot expect someone from a region that hates Nigeria and Nigerians, that is always seeking the destruction of the "Zoo", to understand this simple yet pivotal concept.

shortgun:
Exactly, and all those who said Trump will not intervene in Nigeria should now hide in shame

You should hide your ignorant face in shame. The USA and Nigeria formally convened a joint Nigerian-American action committee, involving our NSA and defence Ministry authority, to tackle insecurity in Nigeria with Nigeria in control of critical orders. That was a development all well-meaning Nigerians backed

If this news is verified then it is the result of the decisions the committee agreed upon and not any dictatorial directive of Trump. You kids should attempt to grow up.

Trump can talk as he wishes. That is what the unhinged megalomaniac does everywhere and everyday.

Does not mean all nations of the world, sovereign and independent, are kids the USA can place on her laps to spank when she wants. Grow up!!

Odin13:
Tinubu is a one time president

He’s already on his way out ..

We’ve positioned the process and if any inec chairman did what they did the last time ..

It won’t be easy for tinubu.. put it down

Lol. You never move forward in wisdom and thinking capacity. You just regress and lose every day of your adult life. Soon you will be zero.

miracle002:
It is over for Tinubu. Notherners are even rejecting him. He doesn't even know what is coming for him

It is over for the North. It is you people who slavishly worship and fear them that are too blind to see that.

They won't continue to determine who rules Nigeria and our nation's direction. Watch the space.

matify83:
I will spell it out for you to understand.
Don't be carried away by the reprieve it claims to offer to the poor.

1- Did you hear when it was said that even prostitutes will pay their taxes?
Are these the people that government should be concentrating on if they have no alterior motive.

2- The law also stipulates that no TIN no bank account. Don't you suspect foul play at this junction?

3- small companies whose total turn over is less than 50m are said to be exempt from CIT. What government did not tell you explicitly is that, they are still required to file their financial statements through the TaxPro Max portal each year to maintain compliance status. However, if the company fails to file returns on time, the benefit of N50million threshold is lost. Trust that most companies will not keep a good enough account of their financial transactions for the year to qualify for the tax holiday

4-The large companies and high salary individuals whose taxes has risen to a 25% at the highest point are mostly the owners of these big companies and they will just plough back the taxes as cost of production thereby causing the cost-push inflation I earlier highlighted.

What the government did not take into cognizance is that the rich always have a way of avoiding these taxes as they can funnel their salaries and allowance into their company expenses and it is legal. Ask Trump why he brags about not paying taxes and he's not in jail. It's called Tax loopholes

5- with the Cost-push inflation, who takes the hit , it obviously the poor and middle class in the society.

6- This new tax policy to my mind is going to roll back the cashless policy as most Nigerians would start demanding cash payments to avoid exceeding the 800k threshold.

7- Other obnoxious clauses have also been introduced into the tax law that we are still oblivious of and it has been gazetted. It's only in court you may find out and it may be too late by then.

No government should ever be trusted. Heed this advice for the peace of your mind.

Your lenghty post, ultimately ignorant in totality, shows you know nothing at all about the new tax policy and what it seeks to achieve.

You're simply being driven by emotions, sentiments and prejudices that has made you relegate the input of the part of your brain used for logical thinking.

Go and educate yourself properly. The new tax policy is nothing but long overdue socio-economic evolution, many developed nations scaled literally decades ago, that Nigeria must now embrace to move forward significantly.

truthera:
How bad will it get before the people rise up to liberate themselves by demanding for a total restructuring (total decentralization) or dissolution of Nigeria.... Tinubu will continue with his bad government as nothing will change until he is removed.... Any one still thinking otherwise is decieving him/herself....

You think all Nigerians are emptily rebellious, senselessly anarchic and rabidly megalomaniac as you lot are?

There is nothing happening today (reforms, trials, tribulations and hardship) Nigerians can avoid if they must reach the 'promised land' after decades of accumulated hideous misrule and doing things the wrong ways

It is what we have done to ourselves to now leave us same as a cancer patient who cannot survive without painful and life-disrupting chemo.

We did that to ourselves. Not PBAT.Tinubu just happens to be the President who is brave, patriotic, well-meaning enough and possessing the political will to bell the Cat, as others before him have been unable to do, even as he knows bigots like you will come for him.

Many are behind Jagaban. Go and co-opt the Nigerian on Mars and Jupiter to come and rise up against PBAT otherwise the Nigerians in Nigeria, on Earth, will do no such thing even if you shout it fifty times a day till 2027.

It is only in Nigeria that you see so-called men of God unhealthily obsessed with politics and politicians when they should focus on their core duty of bringing God and man closer.

These are the sad realities that reveal Nigeria has a long way to go.

DeepSight:
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Alright, fair enough. But I wonder why you keep saying Mali.

Sorry. My bad. An oversight. It is Burkina Faso.

Sermwell:
No. It was because of APC that Nigeria is among the 32 others!

Rubbish. One of the reasons the USA cited for visa restrictions against Nigeria is the statistically-confirmed high risk , in comparison to others, of Nigerians to overstay in the US beyond their visa limit

You need to tell us what that has to do with APC. Or you'll blame that on Tinubu?

LagosOrigin:
You made a drug baron your president and expect trump to take you serious ?

Trump didn't only tagged Nigeria "A disgraced country" because of terrorism alone, it's also because among all the millions of people in this country, some people choosed a drug baron to lead them.

This talk displays your self-hatred as a Nigerian. It is only a self-hating, ignorant and Oyinbo-worshipping Nigerian who would deem Trump an authority fit to castigate and judge Tinubu.

DeepSight:
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It will not kill you to admit that entering the airspace of a hostile country without permission and with a military aircraft was a mess up.

Bro, where have I failed to admit that? It seems prejudice against certain posters might be affecting your capacity for comprehension. Look at the post I quoted below.

It is his insinuation that Nigeria entered Mali's airspace deliberately, and not unavoidably, I was responding to along with his other James Bond fantasies.

I did not saying anywhere that entry into Mali's airspace was not a "mess up".

Nigeria's apology acknowledges and clears up the matter for patriotic Nigerians. Unlike unpatriotic elements who want to continue dragging the issue as if they are dogs unwilling to let go of a bone.

AMINDA:
Lol. Emergency Lover of Nigeria. This just shows you how unpopular your tin-god is. Unavoidable landing indeed. You violated a country's airspace same day after bombing Cotonou and they used Russian tech to jam your aircraft, forcing a landing. You now attempt to play the diplomacy card.

Ykc2:
9when your people were fighting for abiola's mandate there was bomb blast everywhere some of your people even hijacked airplane

Always running around in circles and engaging in irrelevant/unneeded revisionism. Oga, face the topic at hand abeg.

You are simply showing mindless bigotry against Yorubas, you term "your people", by comparing a past internal event in Nigeria, concerning Nigerians , to an international confrontation with Mali.

jojothaiv:
Some patriotic nairalanders day have just be ruined with this piece of news, most of them were chanting, typing and speaking from both sides of their mouths when the planes was hijacked earlier but look what we have today.

Interesting time, I must say.

Lol. So you agree they are patriotic Nigerians. Your mocking them then means you view yourself as not one of them and thus an unpatriotic Nigerian.

Now tell me, with a simple yes or no, if it is normal for nations of the world to value, elevate and prioritise patritiotic citizens above unpatriotic elements like you.

You have inadvertently confirmed yourself a hater of Nigeria by jubilating what you believe is a negative development for those, correctly so, who love their nation.

Kukutente23:
Wrong?!!
Another APC zombie
Define wrong in the context of an airplane making an emergency landing
What do they do to these folks in that APC WhatsApp group sef

Find out the meaning of apology and what it is issued for.

AMINDA:
Lol. Emergency Lover of Nigeria. This just shows you how unpopular your tin-god is. Unavoidable landing indeed. You violated a country's airspace same day after bombing Cotonou and they used Russian tech to jam your aircraft, forcing a landing. You now attempt to play the diplomacy card.

Only you will indulge in James Bond fantasy. I don't think anyone at all takes you seriously on this forum.

hotseat:
Apology is a mark of strength and not weakness.

Sometimes, you don't have to fight to be a man.

The Nigerian government acknowledged it's mistake in its incursion into the airspace of a now unfriendly and hostile country due to a technical problem.

If Burkina Faso were to be a friendly country, the political brouhaha wouldn't have arisen.

The Burkinabe authorities were acting tough because they were being instigated by other forces who want to get at Nigeria through the back door.

Nigeria beat them to it by being politically and diplomatically wiser.

I no gree naim dey tear shirt!

Even a very powerful person also applies wisdom.



@hotseat

An intelligent post I can relate with. We all know Mali is under a junta that believe macho posturing, seemingly based on the small guy standing up to and defeating the big bullies, is essential to Traore and the narrative he wishes to create.

To a character like that, and with a nation under his spell as Germany was under Hitler, best for Nigeria to apologize graciously and move on rather than join issues with Mali.

Racoon:
Hehehe! Meanwhile the aircrew head for Ghana and not Portugal again. The truth is gradually coming out

What sort of reasoning is this? Is it not possible detention has automatically aborted their mission to Portugal? They should still proceed to Portugal if, for example, they were going for time-limited training course there ba?

You people need to find ways of lessening the hatred you have for Tinubu, your fellow Nigerians of different ethnicity and Nigeria herself that has made you default attackers of Nigeria in any and every development.

tunjijones:
Was Nigeria govt supposed to take war to them. Cos I don't understand this your talking.

Bless you ojare. He has a problem with Nigeria apologizing to "small" Mali. Had we not done that we all know his sort will attack Nigeria of arrogance.

IamAtAnger:
How about ur father? .. what can u be confidently be proud abt him For?

Don't mind him. The bottom line is that these guys cannot see that bright Nigerians understand it is their lack of intelligence that has made them believe Tinubu, they hate passionately, equals Nigeria.

Hate for Tinubu, who will leave eventually, they transfer directly to Nigeria that will endure and outlast us all.

Kukutente23:
Loubaton
See how APC keeps disgracing us
Who ever thought will see the day that Nigeria will be apologising to small countries like Burkina Faso in West Africa
First you threatens your neighbour with war
Next you decimated Ecowas that has encouraged cooperation among African countries for years
After you invaded another country's airspace
Then you bombed your neighbour under the guise of defending democracy. It's not even as if you believe in the democracy o. Na just sound bites and clout chasing you're using democracy for

Why should Nigeria not apologize to even the smallest and poorest Nation in Africa if we have done wrong against them?

Some of you transfer hatred for the political leadership/elite of Nigeria into hatred of your nation. Nigeria is an entity that must be seen as separate from her leadership.

Many things that define Nigeria have nothing to do with her political leadership or elite.

Orlandoo:
After rolling on the floor in Burkina Faso, crying and begging Traore to release them, the Tinubu led infamous government has finally publicly apologized to Burkina Faso and promised it won't happen again. Tinubu is a disgrace to Nigeria.

What is wrong with you people and inbred/patent hatred of your own nation? I have never seen this from any other people globally be it Britons, Ghanaians, Beninoise, South Africans etc.

Nigeria has apologized formally for what appears an unavoidable landing in Mali. Yet it is you Nigerians who will keep insisting Nigeria has committed a grave crime, must be shamed, punished etc.

I am surprised you people have not even suggested our detained air force personnel be executed for planning a coup against Traore.

Pootle:
dot

Precisely.

bobogogo:
Hahahahaha...
Na igbos dey run your south west economy.
Stop being a puppy.

The statement of someone who is clearly ignorant and certainly not well-informed the wealth of the SW and how it is spread.

I'll leave you to your delusions.

madridguy:
Without Nigeria that particular region will be a dead zone.

Indeed.