₦airaland Forum

LegendHero:
Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/sp-revises-nigeria-outlook-stable-fiscal-reforms-2023-08-04/

Throwback:
Impose the sanctions fully and Niger will be crippled.

The illegitimate military dictatorship in Niger must be brought to its knees.

The President from the minority Arab tribe must be allowed to finish his 1st term and then "sacked" from office by denial of a 2nd term in a democratic election.

That is the constitution of Niger Republic.

Nigeria must stand its ground that no illegitimate or military rule will be further entertained in any West African state.

The majority Hausa that are rejoicing and their cousins in Nigeria who are also supporting, would not have done so if it was a minority Arab military leader that toppled the democratic regime of any of the past Hausa Presidents of Niger.

For the 1st time, the minority Niger Arab who are better known for street begging with their children in Nigerian cities, have managed to build a political coalition that allowed them get to national power, then suddenly the Hausa/Fulani/Djerma gang up to quickly push them out of power with the illegitimate military coup that we all know would later handover power back to a civilian government that is certainly going to be Hausa.

Is it that they cannot stomach being out of power for just 5yrs that a presidential term allows?

Or the Niger people only started suffering now that an Arab is in power for barely 2yrs, but did not suffer for the previous 20yrs of Hausa and Fulani rule?

Curious345:
https://dailytrust.com/pressure-mounts-on-ecowas-against-use-of-force-in-niger/

Grit2943:
https://punchng.com/cleric-advocating-use-of-charms-against-isese-worshippers-not-a-muslim-islamic-scholar-prof-ali-agan/#google_vignette

naptu2:
Dr. 'Bosun Tijani @bosuntijani



https://twitter.com/bosuntijani/status/1153658293170188288

See previous thread here: Bosun Tijani: Young Founder Of Nigeria’s Biggest Tech Hub Makes Ministerial List

seuncyrus:
To be honest this was the most interesting ministerial nomination. The senators were grilling him left right and center.
But Dr.Bosun is very sound. He proved that he is a Nigerian to the core. An #ENDSARS Nigeria youth . He's even #obedient incase you don't know.
He answered them in a very sensible manner and well detailed sef. Although it got to a point the questions were getting too much (The guy self don over misyarn) . Thank God for the likes of Sen. Ishak Abbo , who fully defended Dr. bosun, including the senate leader and the senator representing Ogun state.

In all this , there's one very big lesson to be learnt. ALWAYS MIND WHAT YOU POST ONLINE . We should all be careful with our utterances and even the kind of monicker we choose too. Imagine someone who was wrongly accused of rape and they later found his nairaland monicker as rapistonbail - Just imagine .

Remember the story of oyinbogoju (can't really remember the monicker) who's now serving live in prisonment plus 45 years in USA .

Hadeylex:
https://punchng.com/bloated-structure-tinubu-new-govs-to-get-48-ministers-560-commissioners/

Islie:
https://punchng.com/local-refining-will-reduce-petrol-price-by-n70-ltr-marketers/

nairalandkachy1:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0249aSxAGPCC2ySMuGCt5cJzibN4VjouUu3NaHfmK7V1d2SAhGA1hj3sAxCq8T1KsRl&id=100000346959377&mibextid=2JQ9oc

adenigga:
https://www.thecable.ng/osun-pdp-senators-adeleke-is-in-support-of-oyetolas-ministerial-nomination/amp

FreeStuffsNG:
O pari. The coupists lule pii! They are now under the bus. ISIL is cancelling Mali and today killed a lot of Mali soldiers heading to Niger while Russia just told them diplomatically that they are not supporting the coupists. They have lost support of France, Nigeria, US and the nations that give them indirect access to the sea. Nigeria has switched off electricity, Ecowas has blocked their banking channels and no plane can fly over them from the South. Niger coupists are on OYO. Without firing one bullet, they just got humiliated.

Like I stated earlier, Nigeria can not fight a war with Niger, we are brothers but can we chase out the coupists? Yes we can. Russia will rather have Nigeria as an ally than Niger which is mostly dry land and the poorest of the poor nations on earth by HDI.

Biodun556:
International politics is all about INTEREST, it goes beyond display of strength, emotions and morals.

Majority of African countries have strong ties with Russia. Once African Union and ECOWAS oppose the coups and decide to take serious steps, Russia has no option than to back off BECAUSE Russia has a lot more to gain from cooperation with African Union and ECOWAS than those military juntas in the four countries

Biodun556:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/613688-niger-coup-russia-opposes-military-action-wont-deploy-troops-ambassador.html

WriterNig:
https://pagesix.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/08/NYPICHPDPICT000019103010.jpg
https://pagesix.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/08/NYPICHPDPICT000019103021.jpg
https://pagesix.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/08/NYPICHPDPICT000019103012.jpg

Nazgul:
I was listening to one of IBB's old interviews with channels TV on YouTube...and he said something that struck me.

He said soldiers usually take advantage of a collapsing economy to stage a coup. And most times the masses wouldn't protest cos they're feeling the heat of the economy, and would welcome them (the soldiers) with open arms with the hope that things would change for their good.

I also read an interview of a former chief of army staff Gen Dambazu here on Nairaland who said some powerful northern retired generals told him to overthrow Jonathan when Yar'adua died, but he choose not to follow their advice cos he felt that Nigeria would face serious sanctions from the West if he does it.

Tinubu should understand this. He literally witnessed all the coups in Nigeria from January 1966 till Diya's I'll fated coup of December 1997.

Nigeria isn't Lagos. If he tries to monopolize power, he might loose that seat. He shouldn't give the military any reason to come back.

I know so many people might say they would prefer the military. But we should know that the military we have now is totally different from the crop that ruled Nigeria back then. Our army is highly politicalized. Meaning there wouldn't be any difference between them and our current crop of corrupt politicans.

Odewaleadesoye:
DAILY POST[/font]

sukkot:
you know what just occurred to me ? And I am going to make a thread . What just occurred to me is that we are looking at the wrong place. You see, the Cold War between the USA and Russia is heating up and it is this war that would lead to a new world order with Russia becoming the new global superpower and America being abandoned and falling into a third world country. And so this USA vs Russia conflict is the Third World War. Now I did prophecy that the Third World War USA and Russia will intensify and start in July 2023. However I was looking for it to start in the wrong place but it erupted like a bat out of hell in the most unlikely place on July 26th 2023. So Russia knows that to conquer the USA it must get Africa and all its wealth on its side. It is the wealth of Africa that is propping up the west. If Africa is removed from the equation the west falls. And that is the benchmark of this Third World War is dislodging Africa from the west. Africa is the battleground. Throughout July we had the Africa-Russia summit laying down the new alliance for the economic aspect of the world war three to dislodge Africa from the west but the real battle, combat started July 26th 2023. Niger president is a known stooge and under his presidency the USA and France has built huge military bases in Niger to monitor its African hegemony empire and so it is here that the war between Russia and the USA has to start to dislodge Africa from the west so that the west can fall. That first and most vital phase of ww3 started on 26th July as african troops loyal to Putin kicked out the American and French
puppet niger leader and next is to expel all their military bases in Niger and so the battlefield for world war three is in Africa and it has started on July 26th in Niger

sukkot:
world war three has started in africa as the battleground. read my thread on it

https://www.nairaland.com/7789998/battlefield-world-war-three-africa

sukkot:
But I believe tinubu is a smart man and even he knows that he is swimming against the current so what is his motivation ? We know he wants in on the BRICS action and the Russia action because he sent Shettima to the Russia Africa summit. We can see the people of Niger already holding protests against tinubus support of imperial powers in their country when the people have chosen Putin. 41 african countries have signed a military pact with russia. Which begs the question ? Is tinubu being blackmailed by the west ? All the CIA files of his supposed handling of drug money etc etc . Is this what they have against him ? Do they have secrets on him ? And now he must dance to their tune ? Even against his own will

sukkot:
tinubu fighting for the wrong side. read my thread on it

https://www.nairaland.com/7790419/tinubu-wrong-side-history-fighting

AsomughaChuks05:
It is not true. The northern Hausa/Fulani elite led by Buhari were the ones who actually installed Bazoum into office using rich Nigerian northern businessmen. In return he has been awarding lucrative infrastructure contracts to our businessmen from Nigeria. I believe that it is even Buhari who pressured Tinubu to take this decision.

ivolt:
A strong message need to be sent to the Barack boys that the days of seizing power with guns is over.

The buffoon in charge of Niger Junta claimed he wants to fight colonialism and corruption.

He didn't remember colonialism when he was sponsored to the same western countries.
He didn't remember corruption when enjoying government largesse for close to a decade.
He only became "people's champion" when he learnt the president is about to sack him.

If you are angry with this news, kindly move to Niger to join the resistance.

Just in: Niger Coup Leaders Appoints new Governors for the 8 regions

They are;
Agadez - Brigade General Ibro Boulama

Dosso - Brigadier General Iro Oumarou

Diffa - Brigadier General Ibrahim Bagadoma

Niamey - Brigadier General Abdou Assouman Harouna

Tahoua - Major Colonel… pic.twitter.com/YMo7ANJpVE

— Zagazola (@ZagazOlaMakama) August 2, 2023

Throwback:
Many Nigerians should know that Niger needs to be saved from Military dictatorship that has seized power from the minority tribe President who is not Hausa, Djerma or Fulani.

Imagine if a minority had won the Presidential election for the 1st time in Nigeria, then a military coup from the Majority tribes of Hausa or Yoruba then seize power to the joy of the majority tribes who support such return of power.

The whole world must save Niger from military dictatorship and any attempt to illegally thwart the regime of a minority tribe.

Hausa and Djerma should allow the minority Tuareg/Arab to breathe in Niger Republic.

President Bazoum must be allowed to complete his term in office.

fergie001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5E84-ylxC4&



SOURCE

fergie001:
Okupe is a former Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign


Doyin Okupe

Iamgrey5:
Actually, this is simply the military of Niger protesting against Tinubu.

They didn't expect the response Tinubu gave the coup sofar.

Macron, Biden and Tinubu were all insulted on the banner.

spearman:
New York Times: The Biafran Minorities
It had been Biafra's non‐Ibo minority that suffered most.

Several things must not go unnoticed by a world horrified at the Nigerian tragedy and baffled by its complexities. At the showdown, Colonel Effiong, one of the few non‐Ibos in Biafra's top echelon, was left to cope with the collapse and preside over the liquidation of the secessionist effort. Nor should the world overlook that part of Colonel Effiong's surrender broadcast that said: “Our people are disillusioned and those elements of the old regime that made negotiations and reconciliation impossible have removed themselves voluntarily from our midst.”

The fact is that some Biafran leaders had long desired to negotiate for some form of Nigerian reunification under Organization of African Unity auspices rather than persevere with a hopeless secessionist struggle at appalling human cost. But these men never prevailed over the Ibo hawks who always had their way with General Ojukwu and now, judging from Colonel Effiong's remark, have presumably fled abroad with him.

Another fact which General Ojukwu inadvertently dramatized in leaving the final responsibility on Col nel Effiong is that at least until the last stages of the thirty‐month war it had been Biafra's non‐Ibo minority that suffered most. The attitude of these five million—forty per cent of Biafra's original population —toward secession was always questionable.

Many of them never wanted an independent Biafra, having resented Ibo domination in Nigeria's former Eastern Region for many years. Some of the minorities suffered savage reprisals at Ibo hands for refusing to leave their homes and accompany the retreating Biafran troops. They made up the vast majority in Biafra's refugee camps as the secessionist enclave was reduced to the Ibo heartland. It may seem unkind to recall these things at the moment of Biafra's collapse after a tremendous struggle against overwhelming odds. But the record of Biafra's agony must be kept straight even at a time when the world's attention is rightly concentrated on alleviating the suffering and restoring peace.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/17/archives/the-biafran-minorities.html

spearman:
Biafra was an unqualified evil in minority lands.

I am quite interested in your Biafran War story. Up till now, the Igbos have completely dominated that narrative…

Yes, they’ve been blessed with powerful writers like Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Adichie, Chinelo Okparanta, etc., and an army of Biafran War scholars, you know… I think, like you, most Nigerians would be interested in knowing what happened to our minorities in Biafra. I am just happy that after 50 years, I have been able to do it my way. I say my way because I am not the first minority to write about the Biafran War.

How do you think the Igbos would react to the Biafran atrocities against our minorities in your book?

Most of them think they alone suffered in the war… but, Professor Okey Ndibe, a foremost Igbo intellectual, novelist and essayist, really asked great questions at the Rain Taxi interview a day after the book came out.
Okey was really brilliant. That’s an example of someone who is listening, someone who can empathize. I sincerely believe it would be to the benefit of our Igbo brothers and sisters to listen. Knowledge is a good thing. The Igbos themselves are a people who believe in diversity. We cannot say it enough: the Igbo suffered a lot in the war—but they, too, can learn. Biafra was an unqualified evil in minority lands. They just plundered the place, raping men and women. They looked down on us. We were nothing to them. Many of them still look down on us today… otherwise, how do you explain this so-called map of the new Biafra that still includes minority lands? Who told them the Isokos want to be in Biafra? Have they asked your people?


I must tell you right away, the Annangs, Efiks, Ibibios, Orons, Ogonis, etc., who’ve read the book are quite happy to see their towns and languages and their war dilemmas and atrocities in the book. Why should we remain fringe characters or nameless “saboteurs” in these narratives? Look, [b]Biafra was no better than Nigeria in raping and torturing and killing [/b]our peoples…We’ve been erased from the war narrative for so long. As long as you keep writing about the war as a fight between the Yorubas and Hausas and Igbos (the three major ethnic groups), the Igbos remain the victims. But as soon as widen this lens to include the minorities, at least in Biafra, then the story becomes complicated. You begin to see that the Igbos might have had their knee on our neck even while being crushed by the horrible Nigeria army.

• Ajeluorou is the publisher of online art/culture platform, AnoteArtHub (www.anotearthub.com).

https://guardian.ng/art/new-york-my-village-biafra-from-another-minoritys-lens/?fbclid=IwAR2r4PM9OTAp0p_yRFQoYHWHv5-1I2T0eBMVei2F9_0XovL39FoNUamvh8E

Svoboda:
Thank you. I see no reason why Mali, northern burkina Faso and niger should be split into separate countries. During colonial era, they were regarded as french sudan.
Whats the difference between Sierra leone and guinea on one hand, and the gambia and senegal on the other hand. What about guinea conakry and guinea bissau. Cameroon and gabon or congo dr and congo brazaville, rwanda and burundi, or uganda and kenya and south sudan, or malawi and zambia and zimbabwe. In South Africa, you have South Africa enveloping swaziland and lesotho.

You can go on and on. The colonial beasts conducted the balkanization to increase their areas of control over rich natural and mineral resources and to allow more european players after the germans were defeated after ww1 since they monopolized substantial parts of africa.

Yankee101:
Tinubu doesn’t understand when buhari says he has cousins across the border in Niger. Fighting Niger is like fighting Kano. It will likely lead to the end of Tinubu, not just as a president because the northern interests will gun for him. That’s when he’ll know they don’t consider him a true Muslim, they’ll declare jihad on him

planetx:
The Banzoum guy is a minority Shuwa Arab and probably the major reason he was overthrown,
and the probably the reason why most Nigeriens are in support of the coup or just totally ambivalent. All that talk about economic and security issues by the coupists is a bunch of hogwash to mask the purely ethnic reasons for the coup.