U.S. strikes ISIS in Nigeria after Trump warnings on Christian killings - The

[Toyin Falola]

U.S. strikes ISIS in Nigeria after Trump warnings on Christian killings - The Washington Post

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[Victor Okafor]

Why the choice of North western targets in Nigeria? Is the North West, rather than the North east, the main source of the scourge of Boko Haram/Islamic terrorism all these years in Nigeria?

Can someone enlighten us about these questions?

Sincerely,

Victor O. Okafor, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Africology and African American Studies

Eastern Michigan University

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[Patrick Effiboley]

In a principle basis, can state/country enter a territory of another state in the name of fighting terrorism without the agreement of the latter?

Dr Emery Patrick EFFIBOLEY

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Chef, Département d'Histoire et d'Archéologie, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Bénin

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Wits University, RSA,(2014-2016) 

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[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

One view holds that the Lakurawa terror group is based in Sokoto.

There is a view that no damage was done to anyone or anything since the strike was on an empty field.

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[Emeagwali, Gloria (History)]

There is a hierarchy of terrorist

groups in terms of those who

work with the U.S. and France,

and those who don’t.

Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
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[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

The Nigerian govt described itself as working with the Americans 

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[Cornelius Hamelberg]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxfC8vpU7TU

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

This will most probably cost him his presidency. For a surety, continuing along this trajectory, he is not going to win the 2027 Presidential elections , no matter how much he could be propped up by Uncle Trump...

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

For sometime now this item attributed Vladimir Putin  has been floating around in cyberspace and making its rounds in social media : 

“ 95 percent of the world's terrorist attacks are orchestrated by the CIA."

I wonder what Andrew Bustamante thinks about this…

U.S. and France would ideally love to have Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as their partner / “ useful idiot” in establishing a military base which can serve as a springboard from which they can put down any coup d'état that would be inimical to US/ French/Western Interest in neighbouring Benin, and with such a strategic military base established, to hatch and execute future plans such as on the pretext of “fighting terrorism”, to destabilise  and achieve regime change in Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali ( Alliance of Sahel States) from which they would ideally like to steal, exploit, extract  - in the holy name of Jesus - all the available gold and harvest all the other critical strategic raw materials 

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On Friday, 26 December 2025 at 21:07:30 UTC+1 Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:

[Biko Agozino]

Imperialism by invitation is a rare sign of neocolonialism under phantom bourgeois rulers. Maybe the US will invite Africa to come and strike their domestic terrorists too. There is probably more killing of Christians in the US than in Nigeria and there is definitely more kidnapping in the US than in the whole of Africa.

Kidnappings per Country 2025 Data pertaining to the number of people kidnapped around the world, sorted by the country in which the kidnappin...

There is no example of the defeat of terrorism through militarism. All the armed conflicts in the world tend to be settled through dialogue around a conference table - Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Ghaza, Lebanon, South Africa, Sudan, Congo, Sierra Leon, Liberia, Columbia, Northern Ireland, Ukraine, you name it. On the contrary, everywhere the US intervenes militarily, tends to be ruined.

The solution to silencing the guns, according to AU, is to recognize the militsants as legitimate political parties. Let them run for office nonviolently and if they win a local government area or a state, let them govern without corruption to show that they can govern better than the corrupt politicians; let there be gender parity is all offices; and let there be ranches where the cattle will be kept and food and water brought to them insterad of fighting feudal wars over land at a timer that the economy is evolving into a capitalist one thaty depends on knowledge and not land ownership.

Let the African states that committed genocide against theri own citizens apologize to the victimized and offer reparative justice and let Africans erase the colonial boundaries for a united Africa. Never again should any republic of ants try to swallow the African elephant without belly aches. Donald Trump pardoned those who attackerd law makers, he has no business bombing African youth - al Shabab - even if some African crooks invited him to do so in order to protect their looting of the economies.

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[Victor Okafor]

The alleged strike was followed by statements from both governments that the "action" was executed by mutual agreement. By mutual agreement, two or more countries can relax their sovereign rights for the attainment of military, intelligence, economic or sociopolitical objectives? The choice of a northwestern, as opposed to the historically-known northeastern main theater of terrorism, raises questions that go beyond Nigeria's lingering domestic terrorism challenges. In addition, one factor stares us in the face: Trump's contradictory rhetoric in recent weeks compounds the situation.

Sincerely,

Victor O. Okafor, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Africology and African American Studies

Eastern Michigan University

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[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Re - “There is no example of the defeat of terrorism through militarism. All the armed conflicts in the world tend to be settled through dialogue around a conference table…recognize the militants as legitimate political parties. Let them run for office nonviolently…” ( Wishful thinking flying in the face of “Me Gun Must be Heard !”  and “ Stand Firm  -or you're gonna feed worm,  but in tune with Capleton and Yami Bolo - Put Down Your Weapon but ostensibly in conflict with “There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully”

After checking out - in alphabetical order 

Daily Alert  

Global Terrorism Index 

Religion of Peace 

I daresay what a brilliant idea : ”Let them run for office nonviolently” etc. 

Has the author of such wishful thinking  ever thought of selling this idea to Israel and the Pals? Iran and the Great Satan? The warring parties in Sudan? Those aspiring to be awarded the  2026 Nobel Peace Prize ?

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

Why?

As far as I can see Southern Nigerians are over the moon on this strike and want more.

Its in the Muslim North that people are conflicted between bringing to an end the terrorism that tortures them particularly and the context and method in which this is done.

Without APC propaganda or/and manipulations, it's unlikely Tinubu would continue beyond a first time given abrasive economic policies and bad optics.

But decisive efforts to wipe out terrorism would do much for him in the South and would do so much towards getting him a second term.

This cooperation with the Americans is one of the best things he has ever done particularly if it works.

Southerners have been spreading the view that he is either captive to or is in league with Fulani extremists and Imperialists,the foot soldiers and civil society advocates of this terror.

Proving them wrong will be one of his most significant political accomplishments.

There will be interesting developments going forward.

Thanks 

Toyin 

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[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

It's not through that there is no example of defeat of terrorism through military force.

How did Sri Lanka defeat the Tamil Tigers?

How come there has been no further Islamist terrorist attack in the US after 9/11?

What's the source of the claim that more Christians are killed in the US than Nigeria?

Does the US have any subsisting domestic terrorism?

The Nigerian situation is a situation of life and death for entire communities. There is fear and wariness everywhere.

The issue should not be ideologized.

As for the terrosits in the North tormenting their fellow Northerners and entering into the South, largely extremist and criminal Fulani as attested by fellow Fulani who defend them or acknowledge and critique them, they have no vision except theft, extortion and land control.

People are being massacred by these terrorits.

This is not the time for ideologies calling Al Shabab "African youth".

Most Southern Nigerians want the US to do their utmost to help in this crisis since the Nigerian state has been behaving as heavily compromised.

The cry for help is louder from the citizens than the politicians.

Let's try to understand the voices of the Nigerian street and the realities on the ground rather than pontificate from ideological heights.

Thanks 

Toyin 

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[John Onyeukwu]

Dialogue matters, but it is not a substitute for security. Every conflict cited combined force, containment, and negotiation, none ended through dialogue alone, and none began by legitimising armed groups while they were still killing civilians.

Politics requires a minimum monopoly of force. You cannot hold elections with groups whose primary language is coercion. Negotiation becomes meaningful after violence is constrained, not while it escalates.

The real debate is not militarism versus dialogue, but how force is governed, limited, and transitioned into politics. Pretending violence dissolves by recognition alone is not history, it is hope without strategy.

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[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Oluwatoyin, 

As the King James Version puts it,

“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”

( Tehillim 1) 

Re - US airstrikes on Nigerian targets 2025

What you are saying ,that  “This cooperation with the Americans is one of the best things he has ever done, particularly if it works” would have sounded infinitely more agreeable if it could have been accurately reported as  - at the invitation of Tinubu, after due consultation with Muslim and Christian leaders, “This cooperation of the Americans is one of the best things he has ever done particularly if it works.”

Let's be brutally honest. There was your Foreign Minister Yusuf Maitama Tuggar fresh from talking sweet talk in Burkina Faso, to get the plane and the detained Nigerian soldiers released, and in this clip , very proud of himself about talking with the big boys, “ I spoke with Marco Rubio - extensively " ( “for about 30 minutes “) It should be interesting to listen to a recording of that telephone conversation, to put everybody at ease as to exactly what was said, what was agreed, etc. 

“But decisive efforts to wipe out terrorism would do much for him in the South and would do so much towards getting him a second term” ( Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju, political analyst, Ifa philosopher and soothsayer ) 

Do you believe that Trump & Tinubu will “wipe out” terrorism in Nigeria (at considerable  civilian and infrastructural collateral damage of course) well before the next Nigerian Presidential Elections scheduled for February 2027, or will the wiping out, guns ablaze, American bombs falling over Nigeria like rain,  Nigerian flesh and blood breaking down, super javelin missiles hitting and obliterating or sometimes missing their targets and causing further collateral damage  -loss of Nigerian life, limb & property would significantly contribute to getting dear Tinubu re-elected? I don’t think so . If anything, that very first surprise attack, without any prior warning, that Christmas Day bombing of targets in Sokoto the heartland of Islam in Nigeria must have succeeded in alienating the majority of right-thinking Muslims in Sokoto and elsewhere  in the country. 

But what do I know? I have just read right through , maybe for the third time, St Peter of Damascus : A treasury of Divine Knowledge and Twenty-four Discourses with an emphasis on the section on section X: Humility wherein occurs this understanding:

  

“Again, he who knows that he is a mutable creature will never maintain a high opinion of himself; he will recognize that anything he may have belongs to his Creator. You do not praise a pot on the grounds that it has made itself useful; you praise its maker. And when it is broken, you blame whoever broke it, not its maker.”

You have conveniently partitioned Nigeria into North and South , and in the process where does the Middle Belt belong? Furthermore,  don't we have to differentiate between the South West and the South East ? Didn’t Peter Obi garner 95 % of the votes in his beloved ethnic enclave, Anambra? Yes, indeed he also did as reported, whisper  in  the ear of his Big Pentecostal Daddy Oyedepo “ It is a religious war “ and you think that as part of that war should Nigeria’s Bola Ahmed Tinubu & wannabe Emperor Donald John Trump succeed in “wiping out terrorism” there will peace in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as a result of which  all the Igbos of the South East and everywhere else  and the Muslims of the North and South will vote for Bola Ahmed Tinubu?

First of all, can you say that the terrorism in Nigeria is “Islamic” ? The cattle rustlers, murderers, ransom kidnappers , wanton looters , 419 criminals  etc are all Muslims? 

Please be careful about how you answer . It does appear that Trump is hell-bent in believing that he a pedophile Epstein-beleaguered champion of Christianity is waging a war of extermination of “Islamic terrorism” which he accuses of being guilty of “Christian genocide” in Nigeria…

BTW,  I don’t think that a hale and hearty Trump will still be in office by 7th February 2027,  secondly 

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

US airstrikes on Nigerian targets 2025 ( Google

US airstrikes on Nigerian targets 2025  ( Microsoft Edge) 

“Nigerian official refuses to rule out AMERICAN troops on the ground after working with Trump to bomb ISIS”

In the escalation of such attacks in 2026, will Uncle Sam be taking the fight to ISIS targets outside Nigeria, and if so what would be the implications of what could start in Nigeria and morph into as an extended regional war ostensibly “to wipe out “ terrorism in the Sahel? 

On Friday, 26 December 2025 at 22:11:43 UTC+1 Oluwatoyin Adepoju wrote:

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

According to Dr Umar Johnson , US Wants to REMOVE TRAORE, GOITA and TCHIANI Through Nigeria

On Friday, 26 December 2025 at 21:07:30 UTC+1 Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

Cornelius

a quick response

finding info

again i suggest reading what a broad spectrum of nigerians are saying would help one better understand the situation

facebook and i expect twitter are indispensable on this

nigerian news media are also priceless. sahara reporters is astute on this

locating terrorists

even i toyin adepoju know roughly how to find out where the terrorists are if i am bold enough 

they are not really hiding

there are videos of them emerging from their bases to attend efforts to pacify them through dialogue with various communities

a governor of one of the northern states has been reported as stating he knows where they can be found

the governor of buharis own katsina state once dialogued with them-with pictures taken of the event-but later declared that they were rogues with no ideology and even though they were fulani like himself they were thieves and murderers and no more 

that marks two governors who publicly stated they know where they are

sheik gumi, who has been advocating for them also has held photographed meetings with them

the above refers to the arm of brigandage organised largely by violent fulani and targeted at extortion, kidnapping and massacre-who were once called bandits 

so the doomsday image of ''considerable  civilian and infrastructural collateral damage [with ]American bombs falling over Nigeria like rain,  Nigerian flesh and blood breaking down, super javelin missiles hitting and obliterating or sometimes missing their targets and causing further collateral damage  -loss of Nigerian life, limb & property''is not realistic

As for the arm of Fulani terrorism known as the Fulani militia, whose central zone of operation has been the Middle Belt but were enabled by Buhari to fan out across Nigeria, they subsist primarily through political support.

Eliminating them requires simply a policy of zero tolerance and dealing harshly with anyone, such as Mitetti Allah who supports them.

Their locations I expect are also not difficult to find out across the country since they are not socially integrated, to the best of my knowledge.

the middle belt

in a short post like the one i did i did not need to mention the middle belt because they have suffered most from terrorism by violent fulani. their own hope is likely to be that help will be extended to them to help deal with their own problem particularly since the killing of christians narrative is a way of framing their own problem  but their problem is even more politicised than that created by the assortment of criminal groups different from those operating outside the guidance and protection of miyetti allah

the muslim north

the muslim north is conflicted/divided on how to deal with the terrorism problem from the various ethnically northern criminal groups bcs of identity issues-the framing of the ''christian genocide'' narrative in the light of the fact that christians are second class citizens in the muslim north, the rhetoric of northern muslim leadership who are generally less than decisive in relation to ending terror in the region or are even enablers of this terror through their utterances-from boko haram to the more recent ''banditry'' to the fulani militia

the south

southern orientations on this subject are unified, as far as i can see. the existential threat and the national crisis is clearly understood.

islam and terrorism in nigeria

terrorism in the muslim north or emerging from it is explicitly islamic with boko haram and iswap, whose goal is the establishment of a kind of islamic state.

it is inexplicitly islamic with other criminal groups whose primary identity  might be that of soldiers of fortune but who are also muslims. their islamic religion is significant bcs it could lead to or has already led to a convergence between the islamic terrorists and their own efforts.

this religious identity also creates confusion in the muslim north, with people like sheikh gumi once referring to boko haram as ''our brothers'', along with similar expressions of identification with terrorists from the region from the 2011 boko haram escalation to the present.

the sokoto strike

i suspect that most northern muslims will be puzzled by the rationale for the location of the strike although one view states the lakurawa terror group is located in the region. the level of suffering from terrorism in the north generally, by muslims and non-muslims, is so huge that cautious expectations might be the most common reaction to the us/nigeria military alliance. 

who is a terrorist?

terrorism in nigeria's north and middle belt  is represented by sustained campaigns of massacre in order to force subjugation, internal colonization and control of resources such as  dispossession of the land of communities by repeated massacres; by systemic kidnappings and financial inflows through ransom from those kidnappings; by repeated attacks on places of worship.

this more organized form of terrrirism in reinforced by the radicalization and arming of fulani herdsmen, once peaceful but the activities of a good no of whom have now become a synonym for murder, extortion, destruction of farmlands' a situation creating a bad name for those fulani herdsmen who dont fit this profile.

the fulani dynamic

at the core of the terrorism problems emerging from the north is the weaponization of the  trans-national and islamic identity of the fulani, employed by extremist fulani as a cover for terrorism.

the fulani jihad created a kind of islamic identity in the muslim north that has created difficulties for the full integration of the region into the idea of a secular nation.

this tension is reinforced by the political dominance of the primary beneficiaries of the jihad,  the fulani leadership, who were so placed because the religio-ethnic character of the jihad.

a good no of the most powerful voices of the fulani leadership use terrorism in the north as a means of advancing politico/religious/ethic agendas. other fulani voices do not challenge them.

these range from Muhammadu Buhari once declaring that the war against Boko Haram is war against the North, to Miyetti Allah Fulani Socio Cultural Organization severally justifying massacres by Fulani militia as the Buhari govt gave political cover to them and violent Fulani herdsmen, to the Fulani professor who, in the face  of Fulani militia massacres in the Middle Belt declared that Benue belongs to the Fulani by right of conquest and more.

the trump factor

trump's intervention makes the manly holes in the nigerian govts approach to terrorism more glaring as scrutiny by nigerians  intensifies and the govt could be pushed into addressing the issue decisively. 

in that context, the US terrible record in Gaza and in some other parts of the world and trump's personal contradictions becomes secondary for many.

terrorism and nigerian politics

tinubu's two major challenges are economics and security, with security being the more deadly on account of its implications for the integrity of the nation.

his legacy is already in serious trouble. 

    terrorism in the north

if he makes good progress on the northern terrorism crisis he will escape being seen in the south as a pawn of or enabler of the designs of northern muslim extremists. a good no of northern muslims will also appreciate freedom from terror.

        terrorism in the SE

the SE also has a terrorism problem implicated with politics in a different way from that of the north. decisively addressing that problem without alienating the SE and while demonstrating sensitivity to the sense of alienation from nigerian identity expressed by many from the region will be a historic achievement.

         economics

if he is able to positively  change the economic fortunes of nigerians, he would have reshaped the current image of him as an economic suffering creator.

political projection

these two achievements, if well projected by his political team, will give him a good chance of reelection outside manipulating the electorate by formenting inter-ethnic conflict- a key strategy of APC Lagos- and outside opaque electoral procedures, a major problem with his earlier election as President.

thanks

toyin 

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[Biko Agozino]

By the Ballot or by the Bullet was a question posed to brother Malcolm X by agents provocateur. Do you know how Malcolm answered? He did not blink an eye before recommending the ballot as the most powerful tool with which to defend the right to equal freedom and justice. Nonviolence is not wishful thinking. After years of fighting, Sparta defeated Athens but we know more about Athens today because of their intellectual properties whereas the strongest men of Sparta remain relatively unknown.

Militarism is a wasteful parasitic institution that Africans should shy away from. especially because we do not manufacture the weapons of mass destruction that some foreigners wish to impose on us as foreign aid. After WWII, the victorious Allied Forces imposed pacifist constitutions on Germany, Italy, and Japan. The result is that those three defeated countries are among the most powerful economies today. China borrowed a leaf from them and invested heavily in the economy while relatively decreasing the share of the resources by the military on average. The rest is history. The victorious allied forces of Russia, US, and UK did not get the memo and continued with the arms race and war mongering at the cost of depressing their economies. Africa can learn from their errors.

Militarism is yet to deliver the final solution to any conflict situation. Militarism tends to make such situations worse. ZThat is probably why Gramsci theorized that a more effective leadership comes through intellectual and moral leadership or hegemony rather than through violent force alone. Whenever the dominant group tries to rely mainly on force or the imaginary monopoly of violence, it is an indication of hegemonic crisis. Similarly, Rosa Luxemburg warned against German imperialism in Africa and predicted that such greed would pith European workers against one another in a blood bath. Du Bois made similar warnings after WWI. Marx and Engels called for the formation of a Party of Social Democracy and not for guerrilla armies or suicide bombers.

For similar reasons, Fanon concluded that what we need urgently is revolutionary literature for the education nd mobilization of the Fellas to join the party and ensure with their votes that the comprador classes do not take over the repressive tools of the colonizers and use them to dominate the people militarily. Unfortunately, scholars who specialize in writing books instead of shooting missiles continue to believe that Fanon was calling for violence against Africans by African phantom bourgeoisie. Fanon was a psychiatrist who saw violence as a sign of mental illness

Military dictators in Africa used to bel;ieve that power flows through the barrels of a gun but Ruth First proved that the pen is mightier than the sword given the fact that no military regime lasts forever even whil;e holding on to guns. Apartheid also beleived that having the strongest military in Africa with nuclear weapons made them invincible but the anti-apartheid movement proved that the people united will never be defeated.

Democracy is not wishful thinking. It is the system of government preferred by the masses. The electoral process would not be enough to prevent violence. However, combined with heavy investments in education, infrastructure, and industrialization, there is likely to be significant increase in happiness and civility, making militarism obsolete. Yes, the Middle East crisis would be more effectively solved through a single state solution for all residents to share the territory on the basis of one person one vote and the right of refugees to return. The decades of relying on militarism have proven that War is good for absolutely nothing.

Biko

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[John Edward Philips (Yahaya Danjuma)]

On Dec 27, 2025, at 15:50, Oluwatoyin Adepoju <ovadep...@gmail.com> wrote:

How come there has been no further Islamist terrorist attack in the US after 9/11?

This isn’t quite true. Just because you haven't heard about something doesn't mean it didn’t happen. 

 

"Analysis of the jihadist attacks yields three main findings. First, the frequency of recorded jihadist attacks and plots against targets in the United States has been low since the territorial defeat of the Islamic State in 2019. . . . 

"Second, the lethality of jihadist terrorism in the United States has fallen since the territorial defeat of the Islamic State. . . . 

"Third, international terrorist organizations have inspired, not directed, jihadist terrorism in the United States,"

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

thanks.

the article reinforces my position though

a  thrust of the article is excerpted below

''Jihadist Terrorism in the United States Remains Rare

''As the Bourbon Street attack suggests, the jihadist movement in the United States is resilient. However, the data so far do not indicate that it is resurgent comparable with its past peaks. The number of jihadist attacks and disrupted plots against the United States decreased after the territorial defeat of the Islamic State in 2019 and has stayed much lower than at the peak of its territorial control.

The decline in jihadist attacks in the United States is a complex phenomenon resulting from a variety of factors, some of which are out of policymakers’ control. 

Military pressure on the Islamic State has likely deprived would-be jihadist terrorists in the United States of an important source of support for their attacks.

The reduction in facilitated attacks may be credited, at least in part, to U.S. counterterrorist pressure. Although virtual facilitators do not require control over territory the way terrorist trainers of the past have, facilitation still requires skills like ideological persuasion or bomb-making training—skills that diminish within terrorist organizations when operatives are killed or captured.''

How does this align with my views?

Military force is critical in defeating and as a deterrent against violent ideologies, particularly those that want to overthrow the state.

Secondly, I hold that even in Northern Nigeria, with a Muslim majority population, any group that pursues its goals of creating a particular kind of Islamic society through terrorism rather than through the democratic process must never be legitimized, never be integrated into politics for any reason so as to avoid a degeneration into poisoned ideologies aligned with inhumane ways of reading the Quran and other foundations of Islamic thought.

There is a critical need to decouple Islam from the colonising and imperial culture of violent jihad, one of the greatest problems of the modern world.

Boko Haram, ISWAP, ISIS, who are seeking to impose their version of Islam on others through violence are of course different from Hamas who are seeking justice in connection with the loss of Palestinian homeland.

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[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

''Democracy is not wishful thinking. It is the system of government preferred by the masses. The electoral process would not be enough to prevent violence. However, combined with heavy investments in education, infrastructure, and industrialization, there is likely to be significant increase in happiness and civility, making militarism obsolete. Yes, the Middle East crisis would be more effectively solved through a single state solution for all residents to share the territory on the basis of one person one vote and the right of refugees to return. The decades of relying on militarism have proven that War is good for absolutely nothing.'' -Biko Agozino 

(emphasis mine)

Valuable when employed judiciously.

While you engage in  ''heavy investments in education, infrastructure, and industrialization [ leading to] significant increase in happiness and civility'' how best should you respond to terrorist campaigns of murder and massacre?

Preach to them?

Dialogue with them as Nigeria has been doing as they escalate their campaigns and take over increasing ranges of territory?

Nigeria is already ''a single state [in which] all residents share the territory on the basis of one person one vote'', yet some are insisting that is not enough for them as they want to dominate the social space through murder, massacre and terror.

The Nigerian situation is very different from the struggle between the Palestinians and Israel. 

i wonder why Biko is in effect sermonizing out of context, preaching a doctrine that is impractical as a single solution to the issues being discussed.

toyin

[John Edward Philips (Yahaya Danjuma)]

I’m not sure I can agree with this interpretation of Hamas. There are many groups seeking justice for the Palestinians. Some are secular Arab nationalist or have other political philosophies. Hamas is trying to do it by imposing their interpretation of Islam on others. They are Jihadi Islamic terrorists. Their particular version of Jihadism descends from the Muslim Brothers through their Secret Apparatus, and is different from other Jihadi terrorist groups (ISIS was thrown out of al-Qa’ida, and Boko Haram was thrown out of ISIS), but it is still jihadi terrorism that is trying to impose its version of Islam on others. 

On Dec 28, 2025, at 09:30, Oluwatoyin Adepoju <ovadep...@gmail.com> wrote:

Boko Haram, ISWAP, ISIS, who are seeking to impose their version of Islam on others through violence are of course different from Hamas who are seeking justice in connection with the loss of Palestinian homeland.

John Edward Philips, Professor Emeritus

Department of International Society Hirosaki University, Japan

[Victor Okafor]

By the way, has anyone seen a picture or pictures of the targets of the "strike?" Usually, the USA is quick to display pictures such targets. 

Sincerely,

Victor O. Okafor, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Africology and African American Studies

Eastern Michigan University

Coordinator,  Alpha Esquires Black History and Cultural Identity Series

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Tel: 734.487.3463 

Food for Thought: 

“I myself do not judge a man [or a woman] by  the color of his [or her] skin. The yardstick that I use to judge a man [or a woman] is his [ or her] deeds, his [her] behavior,  and his [or her] intentions. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth. And, every time you let someone stand on your head and you don’t do anything about it, you are not acting with intelligence and should not be on this earth—you won’t be on this earth very long either." -- Malcolm X.

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[ogunlakaiye]

Oluwatoyin was excited at the bombardment, by the US Navy warship stationed in the Gulf of Guinea, of what was described as 'ISIS hideouts' said to be located within the Bauni forest axis of Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State, in the early morning of December 26, 2025. Oluwatoyin extrapolated his joy over the bombardment to all the people of Southern Nigeria thus, "As far as I can see, Southern Nigerians are over the moon on this strike and want more. This cooperation with the Americans is one of the best things he (Tinubu) has ever done, particularly, if it works." Even when Oluwatoyin is not sure if the air bombardment of the said ISIS hideouts in Sokoto will end Islamist's uprising in the North he is, however, wishing for more air strikes regardless of if the measure taken is right and effective against the cause(s) of the uprising. After the US had carried out the Air strikes in Sokoto, President Donald Trump wrote on his Social Truth Platform thus, "Happy Christmas to you all, including the dead terrorists, of which there are going to be  several more, if their slaughter of Christians continues."  The Arch-Bishop of Sokoto, Mathew Kukah, had previously denied that the conflict in the North was between Muslims and Christians and the death tolls caused by the terrorists have proportionately been more on the side of the majority Muslims in Sokoto than the minority Christians there. In addition to that the Federal Government of Nigeria self has denied that there is ongoing genocide against Christians in Nigeria. Obviously, the Nigerian government and President Trump's US government are not in agreement on the cause(s) of terrorism in Nigeria, especially in the North.

Gracefully and gratefully, Professor Victor Okafor posed two questions demanding answers on the targets for the US precision air strikes in Sokoto. The questions are: (1) Why the choice of North-western targets in Nigeria? (2) Is the North West rather than the North east, the main source of the scourge of Boko Haram/Islamic terrorism all these years in Nigeria?

Answering the questions properly will expose His Excellency as His Fraudulency Donald Trump. As at the end of year 2024, Sokoto state had 94,729 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) driven by terrorists from their farms and homes in Sokoto State to live in tents, refugee camps. The States of Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe have together 4.4 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of which 2.4 million are from Borno as at the end of 2024. Certainly the figures must have increased in 2025. The absolute majority of IDPs dwelling permanently in refugee camps in Adamawa, Borno, Yobe and Sokoto are Muslims, but after the order of His Fraudulency, President Donald Trump, to bomb ISIS hideouts in Sokoto, Northwest, the refugees remain stocked in camps and still cannot return home. If the precision strikes had been directed at the North Central States of Benue and Plateau where majority of the IDPs living in refugee camps are Christians and followed by the refugees returning to their homes, Trump's air strikes order in defence of his purported fellow Nigerian Christians would have been considered reasonable. Air strikes while the IDPs in Nigeria remain in refugee camps are just like giving loin cloths to people shivering under heavy harmattan breeze.

Reflecting on the past 26 years of Constitutional rule in Nigeria, one will discover that the cause of banditry, kidnap for ransom, insurrection and armed robberies is lack of patriotism to the nation on the part of civil/military leaders. Despite the fact that they are handsomely remunerated above the general purchasing power of Nigerian masses, funds meant for education, infrastructure, defence and security have been stolen with impunity by the joint civil-military leaders of the country. Child Rights and Universal Basic Education Acts, 2003, in conjunction with the letters of Section 18 of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria, actually make education free and compulsory up to junior secondary school. Neither the Universal Basic Acts, 2003, nor Section 18 of the 1999 Constitution has been complied with by the civilian administrators of Nigeria. In the North the Universal Basic Education Act was not even adopted and signed into law, as required by the Constitution, except by 8 out of 19 States. The Governors and Commissioners of Education in all the Northern States became millionaires while children denied and deprived education graduated into banditry and kidnapping for ransom. Responding to the feudal aristocrats claim that Allah gives money to whoever He pleases, the Almajiri warriors queried about what the feudal aristocrats had done for Allah to make them rich but which they, the Almajiris had not done to make Allah give them money. It would appear as if Allah gave Almajiris gun to get back their own share of national wealth from the greedy feudal aristocrats and their allies. 

Section 16 (2d) of the 1999 Constitution stipulates, "The State shall direct its policy towards ensuring that suitable and adequate shelter, suitable and adequate food, reasonable national living minimum wage, old age care and pensions, unemployment and sick benefits, and welfare of the disabled, are provided for."  Twenty-six years after this section of the Constitution was written, no attempt has been made to implement it. Stealing of funds with impunity by public officials whether in military uniforms or civilian attires have been the order of the days and years. Bandits, terrorists and insurgents  would not have constituted any problem to the Nigerian Armed Forces if funds allocated to purchase arms, recruit police and soldiers are expended for the purpose for which funds were allocated. Instead, Service Chiefs converted allocated funds to their personal wealth, and whenever bandits, terrorists and insurgents came, they were confronted with ghost policemen and ghost soldiers. President Trump can bomb as much as he wants in Nigeria, but as long as there are no adequate number of ground forces to counter and repel illegal armed fighters, security of citizens, regardless of religious faith, will never be certain. 

S. Kadiri 

[Biko Agozino]

Oluwatoyin,

I was answering a question raised by Rabbi Cornel, on whether the proposal to resolve terrorism through non-violence (as is often the case) is feasible in Gaza. I say that it is given that the Palestinian Authority was regarded as a terrorist organization until the Oslo accord. Ditto for the ANC, PAC, and the CPSA and the IRA or the Marxist guerrillas of Columbia. Democracy remains the worst system of government except for all the alternatives, said Churchill. Democracy will never solve all our problems but more democracy is always the best solution to crises in a democracy.

The solution to genocide is not more genocide. It is the forgiveness of the unforgivable, according to Derrida who found this more common in the African tradition than in the religions of the book, though Tutu retorted that there is no such thing as the unforgivable in the philosophy of Ubuntu. If people of African descent are not seeking for revenge against Europeans and Arabs for 1000 years of enslavement, if the Igbo are not seeking retaliation for the genocide against them in Biafra, and if South Africans are not seeking genocide against whites for the crimes of apartheid, since they only demand reparative justice; surely Africans can seek healing and forgiveness for African youth and  emphasize the funding of education and social services while shunning the weapons of mass destruction being pushed by imperialism to aid genocide in order to facilitate the extractivism of natural resources.

Those of you who are hailing the racist bombing of Nigeria by a white supremacist administration should ask yourselves why Trump has never contemplated bombing a majority white country and why he is not inviting thousands of Nigerian Christians to move to the US with asylum the way he is doing for white South Africans? If the US wants to help Nigerian Christians, let them start by paying reparations for slavery, let them support the reunification of Africans under one federal government, and let them seize all the bank accounts of corrupt politicians and their properties in the US and return them to the masses of Africa. No to imperialist bombing!

Biko

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[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Stockholm

Planet Earth

Sweden. 

28th December, 2025 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBUFh4R4NJM

Oluwatoyin,

You and your many assumptions ! I wish that I could say, after reading your very valuable & informative piece, that I was finally enlightened, like the Buddha that you’re supposed to be. Wherever you may have unwittingly erred in what you wrote, Cornelius Ignoramus would like to leave you to the tender mercies of your good friend Baba Kadiri who is himself holed up in sleepy Ösmo,

far from the theatres of action in Nigeria 

Dover Beach ends with

“Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.”’

My own not so solid background in Nigerian History is almost exclusively based on Michael Crowder's The Story of Nigeria ( 1978 edition) and as far as background history goes, I find the contents therein, quite sufficient.

Last night I talked to one of the relatives of Herbert Macaulay ( for approximately 59 minutes of recorded time ) and among other things, he told me that Nigeria is already naturally divided into three, by the tributaries of the River Niger, and that Sir Anthony Eden the former British Prime Minister ( 1955-57) said that after the 1959 General Elections in Nigeria and prior to Nigerian Independence on 1st October, 1960, that Chief Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo was intelligent enough to be Prime Minister of the UK , and that Zik wasn't that bad either,  and that the elections were rigged in favour of the North that wasn’t as enthusiastic about catching up Westernization etc etc. Please take note, if you already haven’t, that that was well before Harold Macmillan and his maiden "Wind of Change " speech, supporting Nigerian Independence

I eventually checked out Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Israel…

Knowledge and understanding is king and you seem to have an overabundance of both  with regard to the current in situation in Nigeria, as does, I suppose, the Nigerian Minister of Information, the UK’s Naval attaché over there , and I would, if I could, talk to him too, better still, of course, I’d much prefer to talk to the Almighty, the OMNISCIENT about what the hell is going on in Ukraine, The Gulf of Mexico, Venezuela, the Persian Gulf, the South China Sea, Gaza & The West Bank, Argentina, Somaliland, the delays in final unleashment of the Epstein Files to get a comprehensive grasp of the situation in those locations and their environs and with a good view as what could be done about these state of affairs with a little bit of timely Divine Intervention to save Commander-in-Chief Trump from being swept away by the fallout, in response to those who pray to the Almighty to intercede with some of the powerful kinds of Divine Interventions of which only the Almighty is capable.

“I’ll talk to God for you 

There’s nothing I can’t do” ( Don Cherry : Multikulti Soothsayer)

Your advice reminds me of the very first word in the Quranic revelation; that word is a Divine Command uttered by the Archangel Gabriel, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala’s emissary to Prophet Muhammad - salallahu alaihi wa salaam, and that word is IQRA !  - Read ! - which makes utter nonsense of the translation that’s rendered Boko Haram  - when the command of every Muslim is to read and indeed the word AQL ( intellect, reason etc) is mentioned 77 times in the Holy Quran  - moreover there is this Sahih hadith “ Seek knowledge wherever you can find it ! “ - “Seek knowledge even if you have to travel to China” and here we are talking about beneficial knowledge such as science and mathematics and medicine, at which earlier Muslim Civilizations excelled and led the way. ( I assume that you are of course familiar with Fela’s ”Teacher don’t teach me nonsense.” ) 

May I humbly refer you to what I said  about some of these matters more than ten years ago : 

https://groups.google.com/g/usaafricadialogue/c/jAw708om_SI/m/bRiSlO4FXgwJ

Your advice is based on the assumption that in order  for me to to grasp or even have an inkling of the situation, assuming that I have all the time in the world to do that 

 “ reading what a broad spectrum of nigerians are saying would help one better understand the situation…facebook and i expect twitter are indispensable on this nigerian news media are also priceless. sahara reporters is astute on this” - 

It is the kind of advice that you should pass on to Trump and his people at the Department of War, the Pentagon, and the US Embassy in Nigeria , to supposedly help them understand their aims much better than you think that they currently do,even as the suffering of the Nigerian people increases, increased by uncertainties.

Isuppsoeit’sthe samekind of advice you would like to give to Baba Kadiri, to be on top of what’s happening in Sweden, Israel , Europe,  Iran, and the United States : “ Turn any corner, you must hear what the people are saying”

Deception and war

On the 22nd of December I  wrote 

“Hopefully, Trump won’t bomb Nigeria for Christmas, 

Hopefully, Trump won’t bomb before  Merry Christmas

Hopefully, Trump wont bomb before Jesus returns 

Hopefully, Trump won’t bomb Nigerians this coming Happy New Year 

Hopefully, this year there will be universal peace in some quiet corner of his mind”

But on Christmas Day I suppose that the Nigerian security services and the associate terrorists that you  & the Nigerian media say are all over the place, were busy jollificating ( like Jolly Papa) & celebrating and doing their thing as they will also be doing on New Year’s Eve,  and as they were doing in Ghana  on that propitious eve 31/12/ 1981 on which Junior Jesus ( JJ Rawlings)  did his second coming, and the Muhammadu Buhari-Tunde Idiagbon combo also chose to strike two years after Jerry , on 31/ 12/ 1983  - of course the Nigerians who were saturated with local news didn’t see it coming, but I did - I did smell a rat, because I attended a party at the officers mess when Sani Abacha was in town ( in Port Harcourt ) about two weeks earlier ( invited by a good friend) and my suspicions were further raised ten days later when external communications had all been cut, and the only place from which I could phone to Sweden, was Scanastra whose Port Harcourt Swedish manager was a useful friend  - but that's another story. Back then  the rate of exchange was 1 Naira =$1 / £1 Sterling, today the rate of exchange of the Naira  is  0.00051 Pound sterling and that’s the measure , a reliable indice, a comparative measure of deterioration and the comparative increase in the poor man’s shufferation,  all ethnicities and religious affiliations inclusive , no exception,

 Bob Marley & the Wailers -- So Much Things To Say

Thanks for your advice which I hope is sufficient for you and quite accessible since you’re holed up somewhere in the South, far, far away from the Islamic heartland of Nigeria, and presumably not privy to satellite pictures that round the clock can locate a target the size of a golf ball in Damascus

My own assumption is that the strikes on alleged Sokoto targets were merely symbolic ,to demonstrate to the sceptics and disbelievers that such a strike can be done and such strikes will be done, in accordance with the Lord’s Prayer, “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven “ 

All the information that can be gleaned from the Nigerian  social media jungle, Sahara Reports, Premium Times etc and the analysis thereof of the prevailing Naija people's mood -as they react to the high cost of living and the coming impact of the bombings and the escalation of other terrorist  activities,  must be very useful for the journalists who earn their daily bred  reporting  and commenting on what’s happening 24 hours a day to the long shuffering people of Nigeria; as to the outcome/s of the bombing and even some of the alleged state-sponsored terrorism,   I’d be more interested in what could be learned from e.g. US military intelligence - it’s scary that they know or have access to every nook and cranny in a sovereign state like Nigeria

My personal worry which has perhaps not been voiced in the Nigerian social media, is the possibility of reprisal attacks on Christians, when those most disastrously affected by the unrestrained kuffar-American bombardment take stock of the damage done, the wanton loss of life, livelihoods and property, the destruction of their holy places of worship and come to the sober conclusion that the it was Christians who most probably went crying to Donald Trump, petitioning him  to save them from the ongoing Christian  Holocaust in Nigeria and exhorting him ( Champion Crusader) to bomb Muslim targets mercilessly  - Pastor Adeboye for example only had this to say  before the bombing started : Pastor Enoch Adeboye's advice to the Nigerian Government about Trump's threat

I notice that Erik Esbjörnsson’s words “ I samband med detta ifrågasattes Trumps verklighetsbild av president Bola Tinubu som också påpekade att regeringen försöker skydda alla nigerianer, oavsett religiös tillhörighet.” which I originally read in Swedish, more truly  translates as “ In connection with this, Trump's view of reality was questioned by President Bola Tinubu who also pointed out that the government is trying to protect all Nigerians, regardless of religious affiliation.”  and not as auto translated in what I forwarded -as “ In connection with this,Trump's reality was questioned by President Bola Tinubu …” -So I had to double check whether or not the original that I read  had possibly stated ”  In connection with this, Trump's SANITY was being questioned by President Bola Tinubu…” 

Looking further afield into the fast approaching, unstoppable future, your worry should be, who will have the power to tell the US Military that they have helped enough and should please leave before the mess escalates into a regional war between Nigeria +USA +France against landlocked Niger + Burkina Faso +Mali +their allies….  

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

“forgiveness of the unforgivable”?

How is that possible? 

Try selling such a preposterous idea

to the usually vindictive Trump 

 an Old Testament warrior of this ilk :

 an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, 

and a burn for a burn

Try preaching to him that he should forgive Joe Biden  

who never did him any arm, that he should face reality 

bite the bullet and forgive himself 

for losing the 2020 Presidential Elections

And as for all his perceived enemies,

instead of wanting to obliterate them

as a wannabe great Christian President 

he should turn the other cheek  

he should do good to those who hate him

he should abide by The sermon on the Mount 

Ezi Okwu

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

Thanks John.

How can Hamas try to gain justice for the Palestinians by seeking to impose a version of Islam on others?

The people justice is being sought from is Israel.

Hamas cannot force Islamic doctrine on Israel.

That is different from Boko Haram, for example.

Boko Haram are not operating in a situation where they are dispossessed of their land, as the Palestininas have been for generations. Boko Haram is not fighting for a people under the almost absolute control of an occupying power who has power of life and death over them and regularly exercises it, as Israel has over the Palestinians.

 Boko Haram, and others like them, have simply chosen to deny others the right to choose how they want to live in a situation where there is no oppressor to seek justice from and decided to impose their version of Islam on others through terrrorism.

Their actions are a matter of choice. That of Hamas more a matter of necessity than of choice.

Hamas employs terror tactics because that is the only weapon they have  against a vastly more powerful opponent in a struggle for justice for their people.

Not because they want to impose a version of Islam on the Israelis against whom the terror tactics are directed. 

Boko Haram, on the other hand, use terror tactics on the Nigerian people because they want to establish an Islamic state in Nigeria, a stance that applies to a significant  number of jihadi groups.

Is any of those jihadi groups in the same situation as Hamas in relation to an  occupying power?

The situation in Gaza is a war situation. The two sides are Israel and the Palestinian people.

Israel is not interested in a just peace. Arafat's terrorist PLO has morphed into a peaceful Fatah in charge of the West bank yet the same West Bank is increasingly annexed by Israel and its Arab citizens terrorised by the Israeli state and Israeli settlers.

The only answer Israel has for Palestinians who refuse to take up arms against an overwhelming powerful enemy is further subjugation and land annexation.

The primary mission of Hamas is not the imposition of a particular kind of government on anyone, an idea that is meaningless in relation to Israel. That is also not their mission  in relation to the Palestinians. Israel would let them get on with their Islamic govt as long as they dont disturb the Israeli occupation but their resistance to the Israeli occupation is the beginning and the end of their existence as Palestinians. It is the seeking of a self governing homeland for their dispossessed people.

Terrorism through asymmetric warfare is the weapon they have since the opponent is immensely powerful, the opponent's  power aided by its Western allies who add to its arsenal to bomb into non-existence a people with only a miniscule fraction of the power of the Israeli armed forces.

Israel has more options but chooses subjugation and genocide on a scale and ferocity unseen in human history.

thanks

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[Biko Agozino]

Ignoramus,

Trump forgave 1,600 fans of his who were jailed for attacking lawmakers and law enforcement officers, he pardoned a narco president from South America who was serving long terms in US prison, and if it was up to him, the records and files of pedophile billionaires that he chummed with would never be released tyo the public, including his supporters. Some people may say that your Old Testament vindictive anti-hero likes to forgive the unforgivable while punishing innocent children born to undocumented immigrants and poor workers whose healthcare funding isb being slashed to fund tax cuts for his rich family and friends. No be so?

Biko

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[Dr. Oohay]

Apparently, all the terrorist factions or sects in question here AIN’T different from one another

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[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Trump also pardoned the Thanksgiving Turkey which was martyred in the White House. 

( Reminiscent of this piece of Dick Gregory  )

 REPARATIONS is anathema to Trump & the devils and will probably

continue to be so after listening to some treacherous, bending-over-backwards Desmond Tutu -style apologia ( lifting out of context this sliver of meaning “surely Africans can seek healing and forgiveness for African youth” which the likes ofTrump would love to translate as implying in the name of Jesus, “surely Africans can seek healing and forgiveness for white Supremacists and their ancestral slave owners and oppressors ?”

BTW I’d like to see the movie “ Julius Malema vs Donald Trump at The African Immigration & Diaspora Court of Justice”

[ogunlakaiye]

One man's terrorist is another man's liberator!!  Those fighting against Nazi-like apartheid minority rulers in South Africa were for many years branded terrorists by the US governments controlled either by the Republicans or Democrats. All united Nations resolution condemning the apartheid regime of South Africa before 1994 were vetoed by the US Government regardless of if it were a Republican or a Democrat controlled. 

Although Nelson Mandela subsequently became President of South Africa in 1994 and voluntarily retired in 1998, it was not until Thursday, May 8, 2008 that the US House of Representatives adopted a Bill aimed at taking Nelson Mandela, and the African National Congress (ANC) off a US terror black list. The Democratic House Foreign Affairs Chairman, Howard Berman said, "This long overdue Bill is the direct result of a stunning and frankly embarrassing story for the United States . . . Congress has never resolved the inconsistency in our immigration code that treats many of those who actively opposed apartheid in South Africa as terrorists and criminals." 

Donald Trump is an inheritor of a country that came into existence through genocide and a country that has perpetrated the underdevelopment of Africa, a country that stunted the capacity of Africa to achieve greatness, a country that has presided over the appalling poverty, desperation and alienation of the majority of African people and as such, he is not qualified to teach us lessons about our national security. Lions must first become vegetarians before they can preach peaceful co-existence to zebras and gazelles in the Savannah.

S. Kadiri 

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

Let me laugh in Portuguese as some would say.

I used to detest Trump even before his role in the Gaza genocide.

BUT....

With an imperialist Islamist and Fulanization agenda through blood and human lives running riot in Nigeria in which Trump has intervened to help salvage us from a govt that looks complicit in the terror, I have had to cautiously embrace him.

The terrorists have reached Kwara. In Buhari's time the Fulani militia and violent Fulani herdsmen were almost everywhere.

What will I do if they show up in Lagos as they are doing to Abuja?

How will I cope if they blow up the Lagos-Ibadan train while I am on it or seize my bus from Ibadan to Osogbo?

God forbid!

This is the reality for many in the North.

Yet from the same North unequivocal voices condemning this horror are not easy to find.

Happily the governor of a Northern Muslim state has called for the US  bombing to be extended to his state to wipe out the idiots.

One needs to be alive to reflect on justice in Gaza etc 

If the person who enabled genocide in Gaza wants to help me escape subjugation and genocide  in my own country will I refuse but surrender to my fate?

I will not. I will cautiously accept that help.

That is the Nigerian situation.

This is the view of many and likely most people in Southern Nigeria.

Thanks 

Toyin 

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[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Also putting it straight :

Julius Malema vs Donald Trump

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Stockholm

Sweden

People's Planet 

30th December, 2025

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju : 

First the good news : The rift between Pope Leo XIV and Trump is approaching - 

Hallelujah ! 

At least Trump the politician must be astute enough to understand that he must curb the disdain and the usual uncouth manner in which he derides and likes to insult, downgrade, vilify, bully, belittle, ridicule and demonise anyone who criticises him. He must realise that he cannot verbally attack this planet’s beloved Pope Leo XIX with his usual vulgarity or savagery for the simple reason that the common decency which he sometimes seems to lack, dictates that he cannot afford to antagonise the great majority including the great Roman Catholic section of the American electorate and remain popular in the country that he wants to make great again. 

Just in case he doesn’t know, Pope Leo XIV is infinitely more popular than Donald Trump the wannabe Emperor 

Niger mobilises for war 

Iran says, Bring it on! 

Trump has emboldened White Racist Pastors 

“Top 300 Jewish Hollywood actors you need to know “

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju, as usual, many thanks for your capable, valuable, sometimes vulnerable, contentious insights, given our tolerance for diversity of opinion,  some of them , if not outlandish or preposterous, always worth engaging with…

When are you going to stop hating the Fulani people? When? 

I would go a step further with your practical conclusion ; you say, ” I will cautiously accept that help.” If indeed you  genuinely want to escape what you paint as the crucible/ veritable quagmire, including the perilous Lagos - Ibadan highway on which Anthony Joshua but not two of his travelling companions narrowly escaped death, you could petition Trump directly and on humanitarian grounds such as the fear of death by terrorism, fear of Boko Haram, fear of the Fulani, apply for asylum in the United States. In some eyes that would be the equivalent of selling your precious soul to the devil.  In my view the only thing that would probably disqualify you is the documented sympathy and understanding that you have been recently expressing for HAMAS who as you know are anathema to Trump .

Trump could therefore view you as a potential terrorist. Trump doesn’t want HAMAS sympathisers and potential terrorists in his country, he says that his country needs more immigrants from Norway, Sweden and Denmark :  

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=849363087899431&set=a.121397354029345

https://www.google.com/search?q=Donald+Trump+says+we+need+more+immigrants+from+Norway%2C+Sweden%2C+and+Denmark&

Re - Baba Kadiri’s piece titled “ President Donald Trump And His Nigerian Ephialtes Eurydemus, Judas Iscariot And Vidkun Quisling Supporters” - it’s most likely that it’s the more familiar Judas Iscariot usually understood as the Gospels’ villain of the piece that caught the Christian literati's attention about the gravity of Nigeria’s current dire situation, with Baba Kadiri's insinuations about bribery and betrayal - Judas and those 30 pieces of silver (corruption writ large) certainly treasonous betrayal of the Pan-African ideals of sovereignty, national glory, pride in self-sufficiency and not having to be on the verge of conniving with a foreign power, the veritable crime  committed by those who go cringing and crying to Trump who has already designated the entire Pan-African landscape with the unforgivably nauseous term “shithole countries”,  possibly the reason why they go crying to him to redeem them from the shit and the stench from the alleged ongoing genocide of Nigeria’s Christians. 

Take note :Through the ages it has been and still is a popular anti-Semitic trope to portray Jews who still reject the idea of Jesus as the Messiah  as the personification of Judas Iscariot no matter their reasons for not accepting Jesus as their Messiah 

This depiction is often emotionally charged: 

In Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Good Friday; I suppose there are still the usual gangs of street urchins going around dancing with effigies of Judas, beating the shit out of those effigies , singing in Krio, 

“Judas die don tiday 

We go bury am tomorrow”

Translation : We’re going to beat Judas to death today, and bury him tomorrow.  

 We must note that the Israelis under Netanyahu ( not to be conflated  with the more ancient Israelites) also went crying and still go crying to their best friend, the taghut, wannabe Emperor Donald J Trump, go crying to him for salvation from the perceived enemy, go crying about the Palestinians, crying about terrorism, beseeching Trump for more protection, more weapons, more military aid, crying about the alleged nuclear threat being posed by the Mullahs in Iran, planning by overt and covert means to reject any two-state solution ( perish the thought or conception) praying that Trump will assist 100%  in containing Syria, in maintaining the Golan Heights under Israeli sovereignty/control and ultimately of making a united, not a divided Jerusalem the eternal capital of the world’s only Jewish State 

Israelis calling on Trump,  diverse Nigerian Christians also looking upon him as their earthly saviour ( not from the hellfire, just from decimation…

You may mark with some distress or dissatisfaction that in Christopher Marlowe’s Dr Faustus there is the occasion when  Faustus calls on God but the devil turns up instead 

Incidentally in Robert Graves’ King  Jesus ( which I first read approximately 50 years ago), if I remember correctly, Judas is portrayed in a more sympathetic light , as the disciple who understood the significance of the role that he had to play , understood the import of Jesus saying  to him at the Last Supper, “What you are going to do, do quickly”

Graves’ Oxford Lectures on  Poetry were briefly revisited around the time that Wole Soyinka was applying for that position ( Professor of Poetry at Oxford) - I have  yet to read Graves’ The Nazarene Gospel Restored  which perhaps provides  more conjecture and speculations about historical reality of Jesus ‘ role in the history of mankind  - suffice it to say that convinced by Idries Shah , Robert Graves embraced Sufism and eventually passed away in Majorca… 

Modern Bible Scholarship wants to confirm the positive interpretation of the role and they have even unearthed “The Gospel of Judas “ which I’m sure the astronaut or cosmonaut who is committed to “Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of knowledge” would like to investigate  

Nothing positive about this: There are those who are capable of selling their souls to the devil for chicken shit money or even a little bit of honey 

[Salimonu Kadiri]

On Sunday, December 28, 2025, Professor Victor Okafor asked if anyone has seen a picture or pictures of bombed targets in Sokoto? Conventionally, he seemed to think that US used to publish pictures of their targeted air strikes wherever and whenever they have had cause to detonate bombs. For Nigerians and the world, the US is yet to publish satellite pictures of the precision air strikes on the two major ISIS hideouts said to be located within the Bauni forest axis of Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State. But according to the online Nigerian Vanguard of 26 December 2025, the Federal Government in Nigeria has disclosed that debris from expended munitions from the airstrikes in Tangaza fell in JABO, Tambuwal Local Government Area of Sokoto State, and OFFA, Kwara State near a hotel premises. The government assured Nigerians that the debris that fell in Jabo and Offa did not cost human casualties.

Although JABO is situated in Tambuwal Local Government Area of Sokoto State, it is by road, 146.22 kilometres far away from TANGAZA where the US precision strikes against two major ISIS hideouts within the Bauni forest axis were supposed to have been bombarded. How could debris from precision bomb-strikes fall in JABO, 146 kilometres away from pre-determined target in TANGAZA? The Senator and Governor Emeritus of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal visited Jabo on Monday, 29 Dec. 2025. The Online Nigerian Vanguard wrote among other things that, "Aminu Waziri Tambuwal described the incident as unfortunate and deeply regrettable...

He offered prayers for the VICTIMS and the entire Community, asking God to grant the DECEASED ETERNAL REST and to protect the area from similar occurrences in the future."  https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/12/tambuwal-visits-jabo-call-for-unity-after-tragic-airstrike-mishap/ From the statements attributed to Tambuwal and his prayer, it seemed that there were human casualties in JABO but neither the US nor the Nigerian Government has admitted it, publicly, up till now.

The second debris from expended munitions that fell in Offa, Kwara State, is even more mysterious because Offa is 800 kilometres far away from the main target for air precision strikes within the Bauni forest axis of Tanzaga Local Government Area of Sokoto State. Neither the Nigerian Government nor the US Trump's government has explained to the world how expended munitions, 800 kilometres away in Sokoto, could fall at Offa, Kwara State. 

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/12/debris-hit-kwara-hotel-wounded-staff-after-us-strikes-in-sokoto/ 

Obviously, President Donald Trump has other reason than to prevent the so-called genocide by Islamists against Christians in Nigeria by bombing Sokoto.

If the person who enabled genocide in Gaza wants to help me escape subjugation and genocide in my own country will I refuse but surrender to my fate? I will not. I will cautiously accept that help. This is the Nigerian situation - Oluwatoyin.

Can Oluwatoyin explain why Donald Trump would accept genocide in Gaza but not in Nigeria, if there is any? Is Oluwatoyin in agreement with Trump that there is ongoing genocide against Christians by Islamists in Nigeria? Are the causes of terrorism and insurgencies in Nigeria not cross- ethnic and religion? Where and when did the Nigerian government accept that Islamists have been committing genocide against Christians in Nigeria? Trump alleged genocide against White South Africans and as such offered them automatic asylum in the USA. Why can he not offer automatic asylum to Nigerian Christians he claims to be under the threat of Islamic genocide?

S. Kadiri  

   

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[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

Thanks for enlightening me-

" Are the causes of terrorism and insurgencies in Nigeria not cross- ethnic and religion?"

Imagine my operating under the assumption that

1. The group recurrently carrying out mssacres and taking over the lands of the displaced in the Christian Middle Belt are limited to the Fulani militia, coordinated by Miyetti Allah Fulani Sociocultural Organization who have recurrently justified those massacres as the perpetrators of those genocidal actions were protected by the Fulani Nigerian President Buhari as other Fulani largely maintained silence of explained away the massacres.

I am now better informed that Yoruba OPC suppported  by Afenifere and Igbo IPOB and ESN suppprted by Ohanaeze are also among those terrorizing the Christian Middle Belt.

2. Sheikh Gumi; the former governor of Katsina state; El Rufai, ex govermor of Kaduna state, have described the terrorists turturing the Muslim North as Fulani like themselves but they must be mistaken in not adding the Tiv, Idoma, Kalabari, Edo and others imvolved in the brigandage.

3. The terrorists bombing churches amd kidnapping worshippers are both Muslim and Christian.

Federal character criminality.

Thanks

Toyin

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[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

Edited

Thanks for enlightening me-

" Are the causes of terrorism and insurgencies in Nigeria not cross- ethnic and religion?"

1. Imagine my operating under the assumption that the group recurrently carrying out mssacres and taking over the lands of the displaced in the Christian Middle Belt are limited to the Fulani militia, coordinated by Miyetti Allah Fulani Sociocultural Organization who have recurrently justified those massacres as the perpetrators of those genocidal actions were protected by the Fulani Nigerian President Buhari as other Fulani largely maintained silence of explained away the massacres.

I am now better informed that Yoruba OPC suppported  by Afenifere and Igbo IPOB and ESN suppprted by Ohanaeze are also among those terrorizing the Christian Middle Belt.

2. Sheikh Gumi; the former governor of Katsina state; El Rufai, ex govermor of Kaduna state, have described the terrorists turturing the Muslim North as Fulani like themselves but they must be mistaken in not adding the Tiv, Idoma, Kalabari, Edo and others imvolved in the brigandage.

3. The terrorists bombing churches amd kidnapping worshippers are both Muslim and Christian.

Federal character criminality.

Thanks

Toyin

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Oluwatoyin,

To believe in the unseen, is an important requirement for a believer, but don’t you think that you are stretching your credibility too far ?

You want us to believe that our peaceful Kalabari people, all the way from the southernmost tip of Nigeria are now paddling  their canoes all the way up North to get " involved in the brigandage"?

 Here is some “ seeing is believing” which probably explains why these lost uncle toms and aunt thomasina would like to confirm Donald Trump as America's first African President  

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

This is not fair Cornelius.

Im trying to explain how my eyes have been opened by Kadiri's insightful words that throw unique light on Nigerian history - 

" Are the causes of terrorism and insurgencies in Nigeria not cross- ethnic and religion?

and you are trying to discredit my efforts at sharing the revelation I've received 

That's not fair.

Toyin 

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