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[Gimba Kakanda @gimbakakanda]

A Black man scoring the first goal of the 2026 World Cup to silence the African continent’s most hostile nation towards Black foreigners is absolutely poetic. Thank you, Mexico! 🇲🇽

[FIRST_OFFICER 🏇 @3bood021]

Mexico’s national anthem 🥲

[Mimi @minadanjay]

Lagos, today.

[Afghan Zoroastrian @AfgZoroastrian]

Japan and Germany were devastated during WW2.

Their children didn’t become terrorists.

Stop making excuses for your terrorists.

[OPEOLUWA 😎😎 @OpeBee]

Beyond the fact that its over 1000km border stretch with Libya is “HEAVILY” militarized, we are talking about 20,000 deployment along its border, Algeria has zero tolerance for terrorism.

They weren’t always like that. They learnt the very hard way.

From 1992- 2002 , there was a civil war against uprising “jihadist fighters” who wanted to topple to Government. This period was known as the “black decade”.

The citizens pampered these local terrorists because they felt they were helping topple a “corrupt” government, until these terrorists started killing civilians and journalists with reckless impunity.

Soon after, they ( terrorist group) lost public sympathy, and that changed the tides of the war and the outlook on terrorism forever in Algeria.

Today, citizens in Algeria will prefer a corrupt government to the alternative of an Islamist rebel.

Lesson for Nigeria:- I need the North to loathe terrorism the same way Algerians do. I need terrorists to loose public sympathy.

It starts from the communal conviction of ending terrorism.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Ethiopia was never colonized.

For much of its history, it was one of the poorest countries on the continent.

Meanwhile, Vietnam was colonized by the French, devastated by decades of war, and is now on its way to serious economic prosperity.

If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor, Ethiopia should be rich and Vietnam should be broke. Neither is true.

Can we please retire this excuse?

[Woye @woye1]

ORIIRE LOCAL GOVERNMENT, OYO STATE: FAAC DISBURSEMENT

1: Orire LGA has been receiving an average of N485 million monthly from FAAC.

2: Question: no primary school renovation, no security etc.

3: May I suggest to @FIUNigeria to use Orire LGA as a model for local government allocation Utilization

4: Transparency shouldn’t be optional. These funds should be utilized as it should be

5: What are you doing with your security votes?

-(a): You don’t have vigilante groups, no security vehicles, no health care centre, despite the revenue you receive from the FG not Tinubu.

6: Wet the ground for the people, Chairman.

7: If insecurity persist despite these allocations, then accountability questions are inevitable

8; The era of “we don’t know what happened to the money” is OVER.

@icpcnigeria

[Left Lt. @Google_12point7]

ISWAP acknowledging in its latest report that all is not well will tell you of the pressure they’re facing from the Nigerian military. It will also give you a hint on why banditry is running wild outside the usual theatres of operations. Unfortunately, it is in these moments of chaos the most evil happen. This is when the armed forces need the most social support it can get.

[Dr. Toks 🦇 @fimiletoks]

PMB gave Lagos 2 Forward Operating Military Bases - Epe and Lekki. Epe after the Igbonla students were kidnapped in 2017 and held for 65 days and Lekki to protect the deep sea port and free trade zone.

Before PMB the last security formation upgrade in the south west was in the year 2000 when OBJ upgraded the Lagos Garrison Command to 81 Div, a full mechanised division.

PBAT has established Army depots in Osogbo and Abakaliki and a Police Academy in Ijebu. He has set up forest guards, and he is working on state police. State Police changes our security architecture dramatically. No region in the country should be vulnerable security wise and Security architecture should be decentralized.

[PATRIOTIC SOJA ($TSIR-MUNCHAN) @Pressman2040]

You speak from a place of ignorance. Let me speak from a place of experience.

I have fought alongside the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) in the North‑East. I have seen them navigate terrains that military GPS could not map. I have watched them lead ambushes, identify hideouts, and save soldiers' lives not because they have better weapons, but because they know the ground.

The Forest Guard initiative is not a replacement for the military. It is a force multiplier.

You ask: "Will 1,000 individuals be effective against terrorists the military has fought for over a decade?"

Yes. Because the military is already effective. The Forest Guards are not substitutes – they are scouts, guides, and local defenders. They know which path leads to a village and which leads to an ambush. They know which farmer is a collaborator and which herder is a spy. That is not training. That is local knowledge and no amount of military drills can replicate it.

You call the Forest Guards "less prepared." But the CJTF started as volunteers with no training and no weapons. Today, they are a critical component of Operation HADIN KAI in the North East. They have paid the supreme price. They have rescued civilians. They have mapped every creek in the Tumbuns, Mandara Mountain and Timbuktu Triangle.

The military remains the best bet. But the military cannot be everywhere at once. It cannot live in every village. It cannot monitor every forest path.

That is where community security forces come in – not to replace soldiers, but to complement them.

If you think the Forest Guards "won't stand a chance," you do not understand asymmetric warfare. The enemy hides among the population. The only way to find them is with the help of the population.

That is not a campaign job. That is a survival strategy.

Let's stop mocking solutions we do not understand.

[Dr. Toks 🦇 @fimiletoks]

There are over 200 Okadas in several clusters on Castle Rock Road. The number keeps growing as if someone comes to drop them in batches of 40 weekly. Bikes are banned but the state can't enforce basic rules.

Nobody knows where these guys are from? How do over 200 unknown guys with bikes suddenly appear in a community? Who procured the bikes for them? A bike now costs over N1million. What is the source of funding for the bikes?

The police at the Maroko division are only concerned about stopping people driving flashy cars. The state is on autopilot.

[Premier League @premierleague]

🏆 @Arsenal's Premier League trophy parade is under way!

[FIRST_OFFICER 🏇 @3bood021]

@Google_12point7 Let’s see 😂😂

[Tolu Ogunlesi @toluogunlesi]

Defence Minister - Drone

Culture Minister - Masquerade

ICT Minister - Claude AI

Aviation Minister - Another Drone

Justice Minister - Opon Ifa

Information Minister - Rode Microphone

Power Minister - Solar Panel

Etc etc

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Nigeria is expanding naval shipbuilding in Lagos to reduce reliance on foreign vessels and strengthen maritime security. The navy is locally producing and maintaining patrol boats used against piracy, oil theft, and smuggling.

Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris reports.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea has declined sharply in recent years, with Nigeria’s last major incident recorded in 2020. However, smuggling and criminal networks still threaten the region’s key oil industry and economic lifeline.

Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris reports.

[FIRST_OFFICER 🏇 @3bood021]

@toluogunlesi Oh I’ve always noticed and I find then very intuitive and creative.

[FIRST_OFFICER 🏇 @3bood021]

Isn’t that the wing loong II?

[Chris Dayton @ChrisADayton]

Photos posted by the Nigerian Air Force show a US MQ-9 drone sitting under a shelter at the Bauchi Air Base.

https://t.co/WMbGAiqjqB