I just exited from meeting Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in #SokotoPrison. He remains indomitable & expressed his profound gratitudes to all who have stood by him. Like Nelson Mandela endured ‘Robben Island’ & triumphed, #MNK is enduring Sokoto with resilience & strength.
BREAKING 🔴
U.S. special operations troops and Puntland Counter-Terrorism Forces carried out a pre-dawn assault on ISIS-Somalia hideouts in the Baalade Valley. More than 100 American operators arrived by MH-60 helicopters with MQ-9 Reapers overhead, striking cave positions held by about 10 to 15 ISIS fighters in the Bakuuje and Mareero areas of the Cal Miskaad range. PCTF pushed in with roughly 200 troops after several days of U.S. airstrikes that had already killed multiple militants.
The raid triggered two to four hours of close-quarters clashes inside fortified caves, including engagements with foreign fighters from Syria, Turkey, and Ethiopia. By sunrise, U.S. and PCTF forces had withdrawn with no reported American casualties.
Early results indicate a senior ISIS-Somalia commander and several aides were killed, along with a total of 5 to 10 terrorists. Forces also destroyed weapons caches and equipment used for gold-mining operations that funded the group.
Puntland’s leadership says its Operation Hilaac now controls almost all of the Cal Miskaad mountains and aims to eliminate ISIS-Somalia by December 2025.
Images: Somalia ISIS leader Abdulkadir Mumin and his terrorists
“Attacking the bandits will be a mistake. Negotiate with them instead. Include them in the budget. Give the bandits whatever they want”
— Sheikh Gumi tells Nigerians.
To be seen as a patriot
The Igbo man has to be a national mumu
He must not speak glowing of Igbo exploits
—whether it’s the engineering feats of Biafra, the industrial clusters in Aba and Nnewi, or the academic and entrepreneurial dominance in the diaspora. The moment he does, he is “tribalistic.”
He must not speak his mind on any issue that might put other popular tribes or their figures in bad light nobody matter how factual
He must not question national unity. Only the privileged tribes can question national unity .
A Yoruba person can champion Oduduwa Republic, Lagos exceptionalism, and Awolowo worship and still be called a sophisticated nationalist.
A northern cleric can openly defend banditry or push for Sharia nationwide and still be invited to national peace
The Igbo man must conduct himself like a private car on Lagos roads
While the danfos and commercial vehicles the other patriotic tribes run against traffic he must stay on his lane
Or be singled out for special condemnation and bulala
It's possible to be a Pantami or Gumi and be a patriot
But to be Igbo man has to be nearly as impeccable as Anyoku to qualify o
Otherwise he must bash his tribe regularly and praise other tribes everyday
The standards for the Igbo is different .
An Igbo man who speaks fluent Hausa is praised as the model of detribalised patriotism. No Hausa or Yoruba person is ever expected—or even encouraged—to learn a single sentence in Igbo to prove the same
In many national offices speaking igbo is treated like vernacular
While speaking Hausa or Yoruba is deemed ' national language'
So the Igbo who speak hausa are seen as patriots
But no Hausa ever tries to speak Igbo
If Igbo military officers huddle up speaking Igbo, they are probably conspiring
Hausa or Yoruba officers doing the same are just “bonding.”
In the interest of national unity
The Igbo are not even allowed to discuss these things
So the double standard in Nigerian nationalism lives on
And make mistake this is not playing the victim card
Where "patriotism" is often defined in a way that implicitly requires Igbo people to self-flagellate, downplay their achievements, and accept structural disadvantages
While similar or worse behavior from members of the other big tribes is either celebrated or ignored
The sentiments that fueled the IPOB are incubated
A Yoruba person who constantly talks about Awolowo’s legacies, Oduduwa republic, or Lagos exceptionalism is seen as a sophisticated nationalist.
For the Igbo , the more you throw your own people under the bus, the more "detribalized" you’re considered.
The painful part is that many Igbo people genuinely love Nigeria and have sacrificed disproportionately for it (in blood during the civil war, in commerce, in education, in the diaspora)
Yet the country keeps sending the message:
"We’ll accept you only if you agree to be junior partners who know their place.
This has to change
Ugo Egbujo
THE YORUBA GOVERNMENT THAT SENTENCED NNAMDI KANU IN ORDER TO HUMILIATE THE IGBO NATION
All the people that played a role in the political conviction of Nnamdi Kanu, in an obvious determination to humiliate the Igbo people are all Yoruba, here listed under:
1. President Tinubu (Yoruba)
2. Attorney General (Yoruba)
3. Chief Justice (Yoruba)
4. Inspector General (Yoruba)
5. Chief Of Defence Staff (Yoruba)
6. The Judge who sentenced him (Yoruba)
7. The lawyer who persecuted him (Yoruba)
8. The DSS Director who held him in solitary confinement before his sentence (Yoruba)
9. The man who demanded that he be sentenced to death (Yoruba)
10. The witnesses (Yoruba)
11. The pastor that labelled Igbo cursed days before his conviction (Yoruba)
12. The media houses that applauded his sentence (Yoruba)
The government, layers and judges of Hausa/Fulani who held him earlier did not convict him, it was a line up of Yoruba that did it.
Is it a coincidence?
By Ugo Egbujo.
You see this, right here, this is the part where people must stop allowing themselves to be seduced by illusion. The Nigerian government, under the APC, has become a sort of Trojan holocaust, a masterpiece of deception draped in the colors of democracy. They have not merely mismanaged insecurity; no, that would be too kind. They have weaponized it; terrorism, banditry, gangsterism, carefully cultivated like contraband roses in a secret garden of power.
What you’re witnessing is a system where the state plays both arsonist and firefighter. They bankroll the chaos, distribute the fear, profit from the violence, and orchestrate the very terror they publicly pretend to condemn. And when they tire of the charade, when the masks finally grow too heavy, they will step forward and confess what we already know.
Until then, what stands before Nigeria is a decaying carcass of governance: rotting from within, perfumed only by propaganda, held up by the fragile bones of a nation that still, somehow, believes in its own resurrection.
You see this, right here, this is the part where people must stop allowing themselves to be seduced by illusion. The Nigerian government, under the APC, has become a sort of Trojan holocaust, a masterpiece of deception draped in the colors of democracy. They have not merely mismanaged insecurity; no, that would be too kind. They have weaponized it; terrorism, banditry, gangsterism, carefully cultivated like contraband roses in a secret garden of power.
What you’re witnessing is a system where the state plays both arsonist and firefighter. They bankroll the chaos, distribute the fear, profit from the violence, and orchestrate the very terror they publicly pretend to condemn. And when they tire of the charade, when the masks finally grow too heavy, they will step forward and confess what we already know.
Until then, what stands before Nigeria is a decaying carcass of governance: rotting from within, perfumed only by propaganda, held up by the fragile bones of a nation that still, somehow, believes in its own resurrection.
WATCH: @HQNigerianArmy, @PoliceNG Invade Enugu Church, March 50 Members Away Over Alleged IPOB Membership
Visit: https://t.co/12qJDXpbXn for full story.
Bayo Onanuga said Tinubu’s government got in contact with the terrorists and the abducted people were released.
Bayo is telling us no confrontation, no ransom! Just contact and release.
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was sentenced on non codified law, millions of layers defending him wouldn't have changed anything because he was charged and tried for an offence not know (not existing) to Nigerian law.
“The rise in terrørism today is the same strategy the opposition then — Buhari, Tinubu, Atiku, and others — used to remove former President Goodluck Jonathan from office in 2014. Their plan is that someone sympathetic to them will eventually come into power, or that Tinubu might resign and Vice President Shettima will take over.”
— Dr. Charles Akpoki