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

Coordinator,  Alpha Esquires Black History and Cultural Identity Series

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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

Maître de conférences, Histoire de l'Art

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
Professor of History/African Studies, CCSU
Chief Editor- "Africa Update"
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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

Coordinator,  Alpha Esquires Black History and Cultural Identity Series

Email: vok...@emich.edu

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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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[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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