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This man is in his 80s. What I realised is that many elderly people like to add to their ages.
The average 80year old in Nigeria cannot categorically say when they were born. They just assume. And it is usually incorrect on the high side

Awwww this is so pitiful. Look at a homo sapien rationalising insecurity on the basis of tribe.
The first thing I'll do if I ever get into a position of absolute power is abolish tribes.
You're trying so hard to do the our tribe vs their tribe shallow talk. All because you feel your tribe was attacked by my stating that fear is what is driving compliance to the sit at home?
Well, boy, I made that analysis, because the thread is about that topic.
You can research my take on the northern terrorists or my bashing of the Tinubu's inefficient and corrupt government.
I'm above your childish tribal squabbling. They used that to cage people like you.

gidgiddy:
Look on the bright side, Nigeria is 8th most insecure country on earth. At least these ones can still sit in their homes. There are millions of people sitting in IDP camps all over the North due to insecurity that have lost all hope of ever sitting in their homes, half a million of them in are in Benue State alone. Not that you people ever think about them anyway. The only time you guys remember insecurity is it has to do with the South East

My government or the government? What is with people and tribes in this country? Anything, people want to take sides about their tribe. Oga, I'm not interested in your myopic tribal squabbling. My comment was purely about the psychological responses driving compliance and obedience to non state actors.
If there were no killings to enforce sit at home in the early days, even you will not be complying. Stop fooling yourself with this fake capping that people are complying for overwhelming love for MNK

gidgiddy:
Whatever is causing sit at home, your government can't do anything about it same as they cant do anything about rising insecurity

Fear is what is making people comply with the sit at home, after the brutal killings to enforce it in the early days. Now people are just afraid and being cautious.
It is not love for Nnamdi Kanu, its not belief in Biafra, its not solidarity with Ipob, its just fear.
Same thing is happening up north, when the bandits roll into town, people cheering are doing so out of fear. You need to show that you support them, that you admire them, in the hope they won't turn on you and attack you

Look at two wastrels in the comment section engaged in useless tribal insults.
Instead of them to collectively put their voices to demand better from those at the helm of affairs, they are squibbling like fools (that they are) over which person's tribal region is most affected as if it's some badge of honour.
The stupidity of many Nigerians is unmatched.

Shut up with this lame "you're still a boy" talk. It is now stale.
Make a point to counter what he said. You have not said anything tangible, just insults.

As for me, the writer is right, I have witnessed this firsthand. Speaking from personal experience. Even when they try to help, they do so grudgingly and take it back some other way, either by being disrespectful or even cheating, almost as in protest for doing what they feel they are ordinarily not supposed to do. Most Nigerian females have a very poor entitled mindset. It is sickening. There is virtually nothing in marriage for a man, you toil and labour till you drop.
And a lot of women are protesting that they are marginalised, that misogyny bla bla bla, but in reality, they are in control and want to remain that way

otipoju:
It is well. Some things you don't get to understand as a male because you are still a boy...it is life experience that will make you become a man.

Then you will understand and empathize with your father and uncles.

So, is the road to be open for just those 5days? ie from December 12-17th?
And the report also mentioned April 2026 for opening of same section of 47km.
And is this different from the 30km earlier commissioned but still being blocked to the public?
Honestly, calculations and permutations for this coastal road don make eye turn me.
Everytime you get there, the road is blocked, no access. Everyone just suffering on Lekki-Epe.

The same people that were angry that nobody was punished because the govt didn't want to recognise that people died during endsars are now the same people trying to twist that Nnamdi Kanu never caused the death of anyone.
Now they have selective amnesia. Now, they forget how they themselves could not travel to their own states because their own people were killing them.
Now, they want to rub powder on the whole thing and say it never happened.
Now, one halfwit is trying to "prove" that at best it should be mere "incitement", we're talking about lives of humans! Loved ones of families wasted and you're calling it "incitement".
Anyone not in support of this conviction, may you be a victim of the IPOB/ESN/UGM. After which, you can come back here to nairaland to ethnically rationalise it.

Is N29b money to Access Bank?
A bank made over N320b profit before tax in half year 2025 - that is just 6months o!
So, let's say this fake news is even true, if you deduct this N29b and taxes, won't the Bank still have made a healthy profit?
People are very funny. See all the dramatic buzzwords "tense", "shock waves", etc.
Please, nairaland is too big for this kind of misleading news to be broadcast. You want people to make a run on the Bank?

A Brigadier General is a one-star General. Not 3-star. A 3-star General is a Lieutenant General

bluebay:
A whole brigadia General a 3 star General can't be easily captured like that unless he was sold out to the terrorist but never, this is a big slap to the Nigeria Millitary. If I may ask, what's a 3 star general doing in war front ?

You spoke the truth.
The ladies are so used to multiple partners that they can't fathom really committing to one man. Yes, they envisage getting married someday, but how and to who, they've not given that a thought. For now, they just like having all options on the table, and still leaving the table for more potential suitors. Marriage isn't really the ultimate goal for them, they love been discovered by new people, the thrill of going on new dates, a new talking stage, the niceness that comes with the novelty, that faux special feeling.

I saw this firsthand with my ex wife, just a few months into marriage, she was already missing badly the feeling of being ogled over by a new person, nothing I did could substitute, it has to be a new person or nothing. So when I caught her having an affair, I didn't let the fake tears manipulate me, I didn't let the fake anger and blame shifting gaslight me. I stood my ground and simply walked away and never looked back.

Summary: China is sponsoring killings in areas of the country that possesses rare earth minerals so that they can be mining those minerals for free. Nigerian govts have been aware but turned a blind eye.
Trump has gotten to know and wants to stop it purely because of economic superiority battle with China. Solution: Nigeria govt to tell China party over, we are going to officially recognise we have these minerals and do open bidding for all foreigners to equally benefit from them. Killings stop. Everybody rest.

omojeesu:
Trump Is Not After Nigeria but China — The Hidden War for Nigeria’s Soul

By Anngu Orngu

I am following with deep interest the ongoing debates that are erupting over Donald J. Trump’s designation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) for religious freedom violations. Many Nigerians, including analysts I respect, are rushing to interpret that decision through the narrow lens of Western imperialism or anti-Islam bias. Others are dismissing it as another of Trump’s theatrics; a foreign leader speaking loudly to his conservative Christian base.

But as someone who is studying policy, governance, and environmental security — and as a Nigerian who lovws his country deeply, I am insisting that President Trump is not after Nigeria. He is after China. And Nigeria, whether we are realising it or not, is standing today as one of the hidden battlegrounds in the long-running strategic rivalry between the United States and China.

Trump’s Silence on China and His Sudden Shift to Nigeria

What is capturing my attention is how Trump is behaving immediately after his meeting with the Chinese President in Tokyo just some few days ago. He said nothing too detailed about the content of the meeting. Instead, he is stepping out and talking about Nigeria — about the mass killings of Christians, the destruction of rural communities, and the rise of religiously-motivated violence in the Middle Belt.

To a casual observer, that shift looks random. But in the language of global diplomacy, it is a signal. You don’t move from Tokyo to Nigeria in one breath unless there is a linking thread. Trump’s intelligence briefings are showing that Nigeria’s crisis is being tied to Chinese economic interests. That is what many of us are failing to see.

China’s Deep Hand in Nigeria’s Bloody Mining Economy

We are not deceiving ourselves when we say Nigeria is sitting on gold. Real gold. And not just gold — we are sitting on columbite, tantalite, lithium, and other rare earth minerals that are vital to modern technology: electric cars, smartphones, satellites, even weapons. Whoever is controlling the supply of these resources is controlling the future of global power.

China is dominating global rare-earth production and refining, but as its domestic reserves are depleting, it is expanding into Africa — and Nigeria, with a weak regulatory system and persistent insecurity, is looking like a prime target.

Across Zamfara, Niger, Nasarawa, Plateau, Benue, Taraba states, illegal mining is exploding. Beneath the surface of that chaos is a powerful network of Chinese-backed miners, local collaborators, and militia protection rackets. In some communities, entire villages are being emptied out by attacks so that the land is being “freed up” for mining.

A visit to some communities in Benue, Plateau and Nasarawa where the soil is carrying visible scars of reckless excavation. Locals are speaking of strange foreigners arriving at night and trucks loaded with ore moving under military escort. These are not fairy tales — they are the daily reality of a nation losing its wealth to foreign hands under cover of terror.

Terrorism as a Tool for Resource Control

We often view terrorism in Nigeria as purely ideological — a religious war or a clash of civilizations. But when we look closely, we are seeing that terrorism is becoming a deliberate tool for resource control.

Groups that label themselves as herders, bandits, or insurgents are aligning with illegal miners. They are attacking Christian farming communities, killing or displacing the inhabitants, and leaving behind ungoverned zones/spaces ready for exploitation. Chinese middlemen and local cartels are moving in to dig, extract, and export. The minerals are leaving Nigeria illegally, ending up in Dubai, Hong Kong or Shanghai — enriching foreign economies while Nigeria bleeds.

When Trump is talking about Christian persecution in Nigeria, many people are thinking he is pandering to faith-based voters. But he is also responding to strategic intelligence. His government is discovering that China is using Nigeria’s instability as a shield for illegal extraction — and that thousands of Christian lives are not being lost randomly, but as collateral damage in a global economic war.

The Buahri Waterways Bill — China’s Trojan Horse

We are remembering how, under President Buhari, the Water Resources Bill was being pushed. Nigerians from every corner resisted it and rightly so. On the surface, the bill seemed like administrative reform to bring all inland waterways and adjoining lands under federal control. But beneath that surface was something far more sinister.

Those waterways; rivers, streams, wetlands are not just water routes; they are mineral corridors. Many of Nigeria’s richest alluvial gold and rare earth deposits are located along these river systems. By centralising control of the lands, the bill if pass was paving the way for foreign interests especially Chinese-linked companies to gain access through federal licences, bypassing state governments and local communities.

I believe Chinese advisers and investors were quietly lobbying for that bill. They were seeing it as a legal shortcut to Nigeria’s mineral heartlands. Fortunately, Nigerians resisted it fiercely. But the attempt itself exposed how deeply Chinese mining ambitions are penetrating our policymaking corridors.

Trump’s Intelligence Briefing and the Bigger Picture

Now imagine Trump sitting in the Oval Office, reviewing a classified intelligence briefing ahead of his meeting with the Chinese President. The report might read:

“China is funding illegal mining operations in Nigeria through proxies. Minerals are being smuggled to China. Terrorist groups are clearing Christian farming zones to open mining fields. Nigeria’s government is aware but failing to act.”

If I put myself in Trump’s shoes — a man obsessed with America First, economic nationalism, and confronting Chinese influence, I see why he is doing what he is doing.

That explains why after his meeting with the Chinese President he is saying nothing about the trade war or Huawei. Instead, he is focusing on Nigeria. He is not only expressing moral outrage, he is sending a geostrategic message to Beijing and Abuja alike: “We see what you’re doing in Nigeria, and we are watching.”

The CPC designation thus becomes a diplomatic weapon; not just to defend religious freedom, but to pressure Nigeria’s leadership to confront internal terrorism, regulate its mining sector, and cut off China’s exploitation routes. It is also telling China that the U.S. will not silently allow Africa’s mineral corridors to slip into Beijing’s hands.

The Blood of the Poor, the Gold of the Powerful

As a development professional, I am telling ourselves that underdevelopment is not accidental. It is a system maintained for the benefit of those who profit from chaos. The violence ravaging Nigeria’s north and middle belt follows an economic logic. It is driving farmers away from ancestral lands, weakening resistance, and clearing the field for predatory extraction.

In many of these regions, the victims are overwhelmingly Christian farmers. Their lands sit on mineral deposits. Their displacement often labelled as “herder-farmer clashes” is enabling illegal mining. Every truckload of gold leaving Zamfara or Niger without record is carrying stolen wealth plus the blood of innocent people.

When Trump is referring to “Christian genocide,” it may sound dramatic to some. But to me it is truthful. He is naming what the rest of the world is refusing to name: a systematic campaign of dispossession combining religion, resource greed, and geopolitics.

Nigeria at the Crossroads of Global Power Politics

Nigeria is now standing at a dangerous crossroads. On one side is China — aggressive, patient, and comfortable operating in the shadows. On the other side is the United States — loud, moralistic, and determined not to lose strategic ground. Both are seeing our country as strategic: China for minerals; America for influence.

For Beijing, Nigeria is a silent goldmine. For Washington, Nigeria is a partner slipping away. And for Nigerians like us, we are caught in the middle — a proud nation being turned into a chessboard for foreign powers.

The truth is uncomfortable: our leaders allowed it. Through negligence or complicity, they permit foreign powers to profit from our insecurity. Every village burned in Benue or Plateau, every displaced farmer in Nasarawa, every illegal mining pit in Niger is part of the same global script — the conversion of African lives into raw material for foreign profit.

What Trump’s Move is Actually Signalling

Trump’s move is not hostility toward us. It is a wake-up call. He is using America’s legal and diplomatic tools like the CPC designation to jolt our leadership into action. He is highlighting the shootings in Plateau, Benue and Southern Kaduna not just out of empathy, but because those regions sit atop mineral deposits that feed China’s industrial machine.

When he says “The persecution of Christians must stop,” he is also meaning “Nigeria must stop enriching our biggest rival through the corridors of instability.” His message, though blunt, aligns with what every patriotic Nigerian should demand: a state that protects its people, its land, and its resources.

Nigeria Must Wake Up

Nigeria cannot continue to live in denial. We must stop pretending our insecurity is purely domestic. It is not. It is being sponsored, exploited, and sustained by global powers who see profit in our pain.

We must press for urgent reforms — a national mining framework that shuts down illegal foreign operators; a security architecture that protects communities; and leadership that understands that when a Nigerian village falls, the nation’s sovereignty is being stripped.

We must draw the connections from the blood on our farmlands to the gold in Chinese vaults. From Christian families fleeing in the Middle Belt to the wealth fueling Asian factories. From the failed waterways bill to the shadowy corridors of global mining diplomacy.

Conclusion

President Trump is not after Nigeria. He is after China and Nigeria is just one of the theatres where this global confrontation is playing out. His warnings about Christian killings and religious freedom are carrying more than moral weight; they are linked to strategic intelligence.

As a Nigerian, I accept his message not as an insult, but as a challenge — a reminder that sovereignty lies not only in our flag, but in how we protect our people, our land, and our resources.

If we fail to act, the silent war between the United States and China will keep being waged on our soil — not with tanks or missiles, but with shovels, mineral flows, and human suffering.

It is time for Nigeria to wake up.

Anngu Orngu writes from Koti-Yogh, Ute, Vandeikya Local Government Area of Benue State.
oranngu@gmail.com

No mind am. Your curses are that effective, yet you've not laid it on the terrorists killing people.
The fact of the matter is that terrorists are killing NIGERIANS and our government is indifferent. The only advantage Trumps threat can do is galvanize the govt to act and stop playing politics. This will benefit all Nigerians

Franking:
Why not lay the curse on those committing the genocide too?

Curses don't work, right? Just a waste of time and breathe.

Best comment on this thread

Kingosytex:
Are christians being slaughtered?

Verdict: Yes, the christians in Southern Kaduna and the Middle Belt are being slaughtered in mass numbers and their ancestral lands taken from them by the marauding herdsmen and other militias. The christians in some parts of the East are also being slaughtered by their own kinsmen masquerading as freedom fighters.

Are people of other faiths being slaughtered as well?

Verdict: Yes, the bandits and Boko Haram are slaughtering people in parts of Borno and Zamfara, mosques are being razed and scores killed.


Are the killings religious or political?

Verdict: Both. While those in the Southern Kaduna and the Middle Belt are religiously motivated, same can't be said about those in the East as it's main purpose is political. There is an ethnic cleansing in the MB, the Fulanis through some powers that be are trying to takeover people's ancestral lands and they are succeeding. The ESN on the other hand are using the arms that they're supposedly used to liberate their people to terrorise, kidnap, and kill the same people they claim to be fighting for.

Is the government doing enough to stop these killers?

Verdict: No, the government isn't doing enough. It's politicized. Tinubu once called GEJ all sorts of unprintable names for the latter's unable to curb the menace.

Will the US invading Nigeria solve the problem?

Verdict: No, it will not solve the problem. Syria, Afghanistan, Libya etc are case studies.

I call bull.

The giveaway for this fable is the married women requesting young boys. BULLL!
In nigeria where even the most ugly female, whether married or single is actively chased by thirsty males. Spoiler alert: married women ensure they get the same princess treatment and cash payment exactly like single girls - there is no difference. Many of them were the same hookup girls who just decided to manipulate one simp and secure status. They simply continue the hookup they've done all their lives.
Stop peddling the non existent fantasy of "a wealthy married woman paying a young boy to sleep with her as she can't get a man because she is married". Capital bull crap.
We've been sold this fantasy for generations, and every young boy keeps hoping it will happen to them and end up being disappointed.
In fact, this fantasy has made married women so attractive to males, especially the young guys you're talking about. A young guy will go to lengths to woo and spend on a married that he won't on a normal single girl.
Make we leave fantasy biko.
Miss me with that familiar lame reported reply of "it happens o, just say you haven't seen it" "come to Abuja" bla bka bla.
You didn't see nothing, you're just too afraid to admit your beloved fantasy is not real.

What is with this exchange of dead bodies? People that have died, have died. What is the merit of keeping them, for exchange later?

What advantage is marriage to a man? What does he stand to gain? This is exactly what the writeup is talking about, trying to use something that is of no advantage to a man to blackmail or shame him

UniversalDove:
You know so well but you still can't afford to get married. jokes on you sir

Nobody was killed at Lekki Toll gate. Stop romanticising a lie.
In this era of social media, even things that happen in bedrooms make it to social media, let alone the massacre of lots of people. No one body, no one family member, no one social media account of a victim.

New Era College is in Benin City... It is a government owned girls secondary school

petechs:
Where is New Era School ?

Where is New Era School ?

Where is New Era School ?

Where is New Era School ?

Voltron - defender of the universe
SuperTed
Tom and Jerry

Everyone just commenting ignorantly: the easiest way to get away with murder in Nigeria is to put out a salacious story - and boom! Everyone starts mocking and the killers walk free

It is how you are labouring to insult. It gives you away as being insecure. If your life had even half of what you're arguing for, you wouldn't be this bitter. Anyone who receives love, gives love.
These insults, show you're mainly receiving insults

LordReed:
I'm happy you admit it so I can rightfully dismiss your opinion as the shallow claptrap it is.

You're right, I have never experienced it. Same goes for majority of men in nigeria. If you have, I won't say you're lying, but neither should you take your experience to generalise and thump your nose down on others. I'm not bragging, but I don't think you're a better man than me nor the other men who haven't experienced what you have. It just means you got lucky or deluding yourself that you're being loved, when in actual fact, you're just being played like a puppet

LordReed:
You sound like the one who has never experienced love. To think that simple acts of sharing and connection are unbelievable or too contrived shows how disconnected you seem to be from reality.

These are all fabricated stories. And they were fabricated by men... Nigerian men to be precise who have never experienced true love. They are only handled strictly based on what they can provide. These stories are the sad imaginations of men who long for something more than that, hence their minds make up these scenarios that would have looked romantic... But the sad reality is that, nothing can change things as they are

Trump is the Israeli spokesman. A position held by American presidents.
World politics is very funny. To the mass majority, it is a simple religious affiliation, and do they take sides accordingly.
If you take religion away from this world, a lot of things politicians and economic merchants do to gain advantage would be more difficult or even impossible

This low self esteem amongst Africans is sickening: first of all it is a thing of shame that a country's citizens are serving in another Country's military and pleading allegiance to their flags.
What is the national pride in that, that is warranting the hashtag of "proudly Nigerian"?.
If a war breaks out between United States and Nigeria and he is sent to combat, won't he kill Nigerians? His so called people?
We rather should be mourning the loss of our citizens who out of what to eat have pledged allegiance to foreign nations.

Goats bleating the usual "is it your money? ", "how someone chooses to spend their money", "mind your business" etc etc just goes to show how hopeless this country is.
In societies that work, if you're in public service, you know you're accountable and every personal expenditure must correspond to what you're legally earning.
But here, everything goes, and Stockholm syndrome and tribal loyalties will not allow people think straight.

impart knowledge not impact knowledge

callmeDDD:
Ai should have been better. Look at that second paragraph, they couldn't even arrange the spacing and letters well. Look at how they broke "student" to another line without hyphen it. When appointments are based on nepotism rather than qualifications.



I have been waiting for someone like you . See your own mistake too, Mr. Grammar Too Know.
It’s “hyphenating it,” not “hyphen it.” ✅
it's "hyphenating it" not "hyphen it" ❌
Since we are all looking for mistakes. It can be acceptable for me and you, but for an institution that impact knowledge to others, it is wrong my dear Mr. Grammar. Anyway, thanks for the correction.

If you find out, this woman rambling cheated on the husband and was caught and is now trying to raise rabble to make herself the victim. That is what they all do.

Debating isn't the ultimate. The ultimate is execution and action. What is being debated has actual impact on the ground. One of such impacts is what you just witnessed - gun violence.
Another impact is in the numerous wars, their deaths and the taking of sides.
Debates aren't a harmless fun activity. Debates say "I believe in so and so, and I'm willing to take a bullet for it.
The killings

AJSfan:
Wow. He decided to throw everything away because he was too lazy to debate ideas...

Maga kill Maga
The obsession with guns in America is sickening. Imagine a regular civilian having access to such high calibre weapon and having the training to be able to shoot with such precision.