THE CRY OF OUR CHILDREN: WHO WILL SPEAK FOR THEM?
These aren't just statistics.
These are children. These are sisters. These are families.
Shot while running for their lives.
Wounded by terrorists.
Left without food, safety, or medical care.
My heart breaks as I look at the suffering of innocent Christians across Nigeria. Every day, families go to bed praying that they will live to see another sunrise. Every night, mothers hold their children tightly, wondering if armed men will come before morning.
One child was shot in the leg while fleeing an attack. Imagine that scene for a moment. The sound of gunfire echoes through the village. Homes are burning. People are screaming. A frightened child runs as fast as possible, hoping to reach safety, hoping to find his mother, hoping to survive. Then suddenly a bullet tears through his leg. He falls to the ground crying in pain.
What kind of world allows a child to suffer like this?
What crime did he commit?
What wrong did these children do except being born into communities that now live under constant fear?
Today, many of these children lie in hospital beds. Others remain in camps for displaced people. Some have lost their fathers. Some have lost their mothers. Many have lost everything they ever called home.
The Bible says, "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God" (Mark 10:14).
Yet the children of our land are suffering wounds no child should ever bear.
Behind every wounded child is a mother crying herself to sleep.
Behind every burned home is a family wondering how they will survive tomorrow.
Behind every grave is a story that will never be fully told.
The Lord commands us in Psalm 82:3, "Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy."
So I ask the world today:
How many more children must be shot before we care?
How many more mothers must bury their sons and daughters before we listen?
How many more churches must be emptied by violence before action is taken?
Nigeria is bleeding.
Our children are crying.
Our widows are mourning.
Our communities are living in fear.
Yet many suffer in silence while the world looks away.
But we will not stop praying.
We will not stop speaking.
We will not stop standing for the innocent.
For the Lord says, "Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted" (Matthew 5:4).
May God comfort every grieving family.
May God heal every wounded child.
May God strengthen every persecuted Christian.
May God bring justice where there is violence and peace where there is fear.
And may the day come when no child in Nigeria will have to run from bullets, no mother will have to search for her missing child, and no family will have to bury their loved ones because of hatred.
Oh Lord, hear the cries of Your people.
Oh Lord, protect Your children.
Oh Lord, heal our land.
Amen.
WEEKEND MUSINGS
THE DANGEROUS HYPOCRISY OF NEGOTIATING WITH TERROR:
Major General Rabe Abubakar’s Death in Captivity, the Katsina Question, and the Tragedy of a Nation at War with Itself
While Hundreds of Innocent Igbo Youths Remain Detained Under Wrongful Categorization
There was a time in the history of this nation when patriotism was not a subject of ridicule; when military service represented the highest expression of national loyalty; and when the uniform of a soldier commanded reverence rather than sympathy.
Those were years before hypocrisy became institutionalized, before ethnic distrust became weaponized, before insecurity became commercialized, and before public officials were routinely accused of compromising with forces determined to dismantle the very nation they swore solemnly to defend.
Joining the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was then regarded as a sacred calling. It symbolized discipline, sacrifice, courage, honour, and an unwavering commitment to the defence of the territorial integrity and indivisibility of our nation.
It is therefore safe to assume that these noble ideals inspired the late Major General Rabe Abubakar and countless members of his generation to embrace military service.
In several of my previous interventions, I have expressed grave concern regarding the increasing tendency of certain state authorities to engage armed bandits through negotiations, accommodations, understandings, and arrangements which many Nigerians have consistently viewed as dangerous, counterproductive, and fundamentally incompatible with any serious counterterrorism strategy.
Indeed, the Honourable Minister of Defence publicly maintained that neither government officials nor state governments should negotiate with terrorists or bandits. Yet despite such declarations, reports, and public perceptions of continued engagements persist.
Against this backdrop, I was particularly astonished by reports suggesting that the Katsina State Government attributed the death of Major General Rabe Abubakar while in captivity to what was described as “natural causes.”
Natural causes?
A retired Major General was abducted alongside his wife, deprived of his liberty, subjected to uncertainty, fear, humiliation, psychological trauma, and the unimaginable conditions that typically accompany captivity at the hands of ruthless jihadist terrorists.
Under such circumstances, any attempt to casually attribute his death to “natural causes” inevitably provokes profound and legitimate questions.
Questions that deserve answers.
Questions that should not be dismissed. Questions that call for transparent, independent, and credible investigation.
For whenever government appears more eager to explain away a tragedy than to rigorously interrogate its circumstances, public confidence inevitably suffers.
Across large swathes of Northern Nigeria, particularly in parts of Katsina, Zamfara, Niger, and even sections of Borno State, numerous reports over the years have painted a deeply disturbing picture of communities living under the effective influence and coercive control of armed non-state actors.
In some locations, residents reportedly pay levies, taxes, protection fees, or other forms of tribute merely to survive.
This is happening in real time.
This is not governance.
This is not sovereignty.
This is not state authority.
It is the gradual normalization of insecurity.
It is the dangerous consequence of allowing criminals to evolve into alternative centres of power.
History teaches that whenever the State begins to share authority with armed criminal enterprises, the inevitable outcome is the erosion of legitimate governance.
And once criminality acquires political utility, national security becomes dangerously compromised.
Yet the irony becomes even more troubling when one juxtaposes this reality with the treatment frequently meted out to innocent citizens elsewhere.
In the South-East, numerous young men have been arrested, abducted, detained, and subjected to prolonged incarceration under broad and often controversial security classifications.
Some were artisans.Some were drivers.Some were gardeners.
Some were personal assistants.
Some were ordinary citizens whose only crime was finding themselves within the wrong proximity to suspicion.
Thus emerges one of the greatest contradictions of contemporary Nigeria.
While innocent citizens are subjected to prolonged detention on the basis of suspicion, association, or mere perception, actual terrorist networks continue to expand operational footprints, establish territorial influence, impose levies upon vulnerable communities, abduct citizens with alarming frequency, and challenge state authority in broad daylight.
How long shall this contradiction endure?
How long shall Nigerians continue to witness a system where perceived dissent attracts swift and overwhelming state action, while armed terrorists negotiate from positions of strength?
How long shall the nation tolerate a security architecture that appears uncompromising toward the powerless yet hesitant toward those wielding the instruments of terror?
These are uncomfortable questions.
But they are necessary questions.
For terrorism does not thrive merely because terrorists exist.
It thrives because of silence.
It thrives because of compromise.
It thrives because of appeasement.
It thrives because some individuals profit from instability while ordinary citizens pay the ultimate price.
The death of Major General Rabe Abubakar must not be reduced to a fleeting news cycle or a passing headline. Rather, it should serve as a national moment of introspection.
A moment to honestly evaluate whether Nigeria is genuinely confronting terrorism or merely managing it.
A moment to determine whether certain actors within the system have become too comfortable coexisting with forces that ought to be decisively dismantled.
Most importantly, it should be a moment that compels government at every level to reaffirm that no terrorist group, no matter how powerful, can ever be allowed to become a parallel authority.
Finally, let me reiterate a position I have consistently maintained, particularly to our brothers and sisters in the South-East and indeed across Nigeria:
Security remains everybody’s business. Communities must remain vigilant. Forests and ungoverned spaces must never be permitted to become safe havens for jihadist bandits masquerading as herdsmen or operating under whatever nomenclature they choose to adopt.
No society can afford to outsource its entire security responsibility to military and police institutions, especially where those institutions are overstretched and, at times, undermined by internal sabotage, inadequate resources, and systemic challenges.
Every community must therefore develop lawful and effective vigilance mechanisms. Every suspicious activity must attract scrutiny.
Every credible threat must attract immediate attention.
For history teaches a painful lesson:
When decent people become indifferent to their own security, those who despise peace inevitably fill the vacuum.
And by the time the consequences arrive, they rarely discriminate between tribe, religion, region, language, ethnicity, or political affiliation.
The terrorists certainly do not.
Nigeria must therefore decide whether it intends to defeat terrorism or merely coexist with it.
History will judge that decision.
And posterity will remember those who made it.
#MajorGeneralRabeAbubakar
#TheKatsinaQuestion
#NigeriaAtCrossroads
#FightTerrorismNotTruth
#NationalSecurityFirst
#StopTheHypocrisy
#JusticeAndAccountability
#EndTerrorismNow
#SecurityIsEverybodysBusiness
#NoSafeHavenForTerror
#DemandAnswers
#NigeriaMustWork
#RuleOfLawAndJustice
#OneNigeriaOneJustice
#BarEjioforWrites
Signed
Sir Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Esq., KSC
Dunu-Ezeugosinachi
20th June, 2026
46 children are still in terrorists den.
46 children are still in terrorists den.
46 children are still in terrorists den.
The Nigerian Government is doing nothing.
46 children are still in terrorists den.
46 children are still in terrorists den.
46 children are still in terrorists den.
The Nigerian Government is doing nothing.
It's been 35 days since they were taken, please retweet this for the world to see.
This little boy is suffering from Kidney failure. He needs to be sent to Zenith Hospital Abuja for a transplant.
You go visit Okwuluora page on Facebook and give whatever you can. Repost for a wider audience. Your prayer can go a long way too.
34 days. Still no answers.
Thirty-four days in captivity. Children, teachers, and families are still waiting for freedom, while loved ones wait for news.
Every day in captivity is one day too many. Where are they?
#BringThemHomeNow#WhereAreThey#EndKidnappings
More than 125,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria since 2009. Often left off the page is the other number: 60,000 Muslims, killed in the same years by the same forces, for the same reason — they are considered impure by the caliphate.
I run a free school in Abuja for hundreds of displaced Muslim children, and I have called for monuments to the Muslim men and women murdered for refusing the jihad. I am on the Christian side of this fight, and I am telling you it is not a war between Christians and Muslims. It is one power structure waging war on everyone who stands in its way.
The method shows it. As documented at a terrorist checkpoint in the Middle Belt, passengers were sorted — first by faith, then by sex. Christian men were executed on the spot. Muslim men were told to join or die with them. Many chose death. The women, Christian and Muslim, were taken as slaves. That is not sectarian chaos. It is a procedure, run village by village at national scale, and it names both the enemy and the victims.
"Christian versus Muslim" is not just wrong. It misnames the enemy, drives off the allies we need, and hands the caliphate the recruiting line it wants most.
The enemy is the ruling elite of the Sokoto Caliphate — a power structure, not a faith. When Usman dan Fodio founded it in 1804, his Fulani jihad conquered the Hausa, fellow Muslims, whose rulers he judged impure; he seized their land and bent their clerics to his authority. The project paused under British rule and resumed at independence. Its heirs — the Sultanate, the Miyetti Allah networks, the political machine in Abuja — hold two centuries of consolidated power over everyone else: Christians, Igbo, Middle Belt farmers, and Hausa Muslims alike.
The Hausa are among the most brutalized people in the north, ruled by an elite they never chose. They are not the caliphate. They are its subjects, and they should be our allies.
Muslims die in this war because of the doctrine the caliphate still teaches. Dan Fodio held that anyone who helps an unbeliever is himself an unbeliever, and that a Muslim who mixes Islam with unbelief — the apostate, the one who cooperates with Christians, embrace Western education, or refuses the jihad — is a lawful target. Dan Fodio’s teachings are core curriculum in almajiri schools across the north, where millions of boys are taken from their families and raised on it with no other voice in their ears.
It is why the Sultan's condemnations of violence are not what they sound like. In Dan Fodio’s clear and revered worldview, the Christian and non-jihad Muslim are not "innocent." When he says it is “a sin to kill the innocent,” he is not telling his followers to stop killing peaceful civilians. He is telling the jihadis not to fight each other — because by this doctrine they are the only “innocent” ones. For everyone else, it’s open season.
Dan Fodio’s overarching mission -- why he founded the caliphate, the core of his teachings -- is to prepare the ground for the coming of the Mahdi. Everyone who is not “innocent” by his standards must be cleared from the land -- killed, sold into slavery, displaced, “converted,” or fully dominated. This has been the pattern there for 222 years and it has not stopped.
The enemy is not Islam, and not the Muslims who reject this wholesale. It is the ruling elite of the Sokoto Caliphate — the Sultan, his clerics, his Miyetti Allah militias, the Boko Haram and ISWAP networks built on the same doctrine, the security commanders documented arming those militias with federal weapons, and the nine-million-dollar Washington lobby that buries it under "farmer-herder conflict" and "climate change." Naming it is not Islamophobia. Refusing to name it is cowardice, and it costs lives.
The wrong name has a price. It tells 60,000 dead Muslims their lives did not count. It casts the Hausa majority — the people with the most reason to want the caliphate gone — as the enemy. It hands every wavering young man in the north the caliphate's favorite claim, that the West is at war with Islam. And it files a national security emergency under “religious freedom” — a lane of reports and démarches — when the threat carries a 222-year command structure, Chinese money in its conflict zones, and a terror pipeline that has reached American soil.
To my brothers and sisters across Nigeria — every tribe, every faith: do not let them tell you this is your neighbor's fault. The Christian shot in Benue and the Muslim shot beside him for refusing to join the killers died at the same hand. The ruling elite of the Sokoto Caliphate has spent two centuries setting you against each other, because divided you are governable and united you are unstoppable. Name the enemy correctly. Refuse the lie that this is faith against faith. Stand with the displaced until they are home, and stand with one another until the killing ends.
It is time to rise.
#EarthShaker
@sultan_ofsokoto -- Will you publicly repudiate the teachings of Dan Fodio today?
You cannot deny this: A boy raised from childhood in an isolated madrassa/almajiri environment with heavy, emphasis on Usman dan Fodio’s core teachings — takfir of “syncretic” or unjust nominal Muslims, the religious duty to fight them, purifying the land through jihad, and restoring/expanding a righteous caliphate as preparation for the Mahdi — will very likely develop a worldview that inclines him toward the types of actions seen in Fulani militancy, Boko Haram-style extremism, or related violence.
Your continued reverence for this man, and propagation of his teaching and legacy, is THE PRIMARY DRIVER for the violence in the North.
Millions of almajiri boys are being raised like this today in your kingdom. They are being programmed to kill.
So I ask again -- if you are a man of peace, as you claim -- will you address the problem at the root and REPUDIATE THE TEACHINGS OF DAN FODIO?
#sultanofsilence
#EarthShaker
Somewhere in Abuja, a government official in NSA Nuhu Ribadu's office wrote a check for $9 million to a Washington firm called DCI Group. Four and a half million up front. To fix Nigeria's image in America.
I have seen what they got for it, because the law makes them file the work. Buckle up.
A clip-art tree. A Canva flyer. AI cartoons that look like they were ordered off a gas-station menu. Email blasts with the engagement of a dial tone. I started #DCIRefund yesterday after they dropped a meme so cheap I assumed it was a parody account run by a bored teenager. Nope. That is the deliverable. Nine million dollars, and the creative budget apparently went to one guy and a free trial of Canva.
But the crown jewel is their star witness. DCI is very upset that I "smeared an independent journalist." Independent. Hold my coffee.
Their independent journalist went on a guided stooge tour and came back with copy so glowing you would think Nigeria was a spa retreat. Garden of Eden stuff. Meanwhile 1,402 people were massacred. And the funniest part — the part their own federal filing coughs up in black and white — is that "independent" comes with a price tag. More than $54,000 of Nigeria's money, one line labeled, and I am not making this up, "Retainer."
That is the whole campaign in one word. They paid for independence and forgot to delete the receipt.
So Nigeria's government pays a guy to write the brochure, pays a firm to email it around, and the dangerous one in this story is the missionary who never took a dime. Got it. Makes total sense. Airtight.
They were just getting warmed up. They also put Roger Stone on the payroll as a "consultant" — because nothing says "we are the credible ones" like Roger Stone. And they spent good money mailing out dinner invitations with Nigeria's First Lady, like a Beltway version of a timeshare pitch. Come for the brie and chablis, stay for the perception management.
When all that failed, they reached into the bottom of the barrel and pulled out a debunked, decades-old political hit against a pastor I am proud to call my friend. That is not opposition research. That is a firm out of ideas billing by the hour.
And here is the kicker. After $9 million, the posts get no clicks, the memes get ratioed, and the whole thing reads like it was reverse-engineered to embarrass the client. They are betting President Trump cannot tell the difference between his own supporters and a paid foreign front. The President reads people for a living. He has seen smoother operators than this at a flea market.
Here is a thought, since math is clearly not their strong suit. For that same $9 million, I could teach and feed 45,000 displaced children for a year. My friend Alex Barbir — another one they keep smearing — could build more than 6,000 houses for them. Real roofs over real heads.
Even with your sociopathic, evil little hearts, surely you can run the numbers on that one. Feeding children and building houses gets you better press, better international relations, and a better showing at the polls than flushing the money down the swamp toilet in Washington for amateur hit-pieces and boring AI graphics. Worth a try? Or is the grift the whole point.
The contract is up for renewal this month. So here is my professional advice to whoever signed it, free of charge — which is already a better deal than DCI gave you: get your money back. You can buy a lot with $9 million. Clearly not talent. Definitely not the truth. And apparently not even a decent meme.
#DCIRefund
#EarthShaker
It’s hard to comprehend how evil this is.
The sultan knows full well that in the revered teachings of his forefather Dan Fodio, fully aligned with what Muhammemad himself taught, no infidel (Christian) or a apostate (non-Jihad Muslim) is considered “innocent.” In fact, it is their religious obligation to completely subjugate or kill them.
So when he tells them it’s a sin to kill “innocent” people, he’s not telling them to stop killing people you and I consider innocent. Like, peaceful people who just want to be left alone. No, it’s open season on them.
What he’s actually telling the jihadis is not to fight amongst themselves. They shouldn’t kill each other. They are the only “innocent” ones.
Yet his statement is craftily worded to sound to the world like he’s a man of peace. Imagine.
What’s worse is that President Tinubu knows this, and still celebrates him for saying it. Innocent, schminnocent, just have your people vote for me and keep that blood mineral money and heroin pipeline flowing.
Sick.
Mr. @sultan_ofsokoto, please, correct me if I’m wrong. Come out with a statement calling on everyone under your spiritual authority to stop killing anybody for any reason. To back it up, how about you turn over the names and locations of all the ones you know who are guilty or complicit? You said not long ago, not one person gets killed in your kingdom without the local rulers knowing. How about you speak and take action against the vast looting of blood minerals in your Kingdom?
That might help clear the air.
#sultanofsilence
#EarthShaker
One dominant truth about human nature is that no person can successfully conceal, for eternity, the inherent traits of deceit, fraud, misrepresentation, blackmail, and other reprehensible conduct. Time remains the ultimate revealer of character. No matter how carefully such vices are disguised, romanticized, or cloaked in false virtue, they will inevitably be exposed. The tragedy, however, is that when the mask finally falls, often by the very actions of the perpetrator, the revelation sends shockwaves far and wide.
I had long foretold that a day of reckoning would come; a day when deception and falsehood would stand naked before the court of truth, and when the souls sacrificed on the altar of lies would cry out for justice, even from their graves.
May the Good Lord deliver our people, heal our land, and grant us the wisdom to discern truth from illusion. It has now become abundantly evident that all that glitters is not gold.
@EjioforBar
June 18, 2026
IPOB Directorate of states
Public Communications
Debunking The Lies And Deceit Of The Nigerian Military:
14th June 2026.
The attention of the Indigenous People of Biafra under the leadership of the Directorate of States has been drawn to the recent claims by the Nigerian military alleging that they “Burst ESN armuory” in Enugu State.
We state categorically that this claim is false and misleading.
Facts On Ground:
1. There is no ESN armoury in Enugu or close to the location they described.
2. Those paraded by the Nigerian military are not members of IPOB or ESN.
3. The arms and ammunition shown does not belong to the ESN.
4. Recycled propaganda: This is not the first time such fabricated claims have been made to justify unlawful and deceitful military operations in Biafraland and to discredit legitimate security concerns of the people.
We state unequivocally that no armoury belonging to the ESN was ever discovered in Enugu by the Nigerian army because the operational modalities of the ESN are a puzzle to the Nigerian military.
The Eastern Security Network was established by IPOB to protect our people in Biafraland from armed Fulani terrorists herdsmen attacks and kidnappings because the Nigerian government and its security agencies deliberately abdicated their responsibility to provide safety and security to those who unfortunately found themselves in that contraption called Nigeria.
Misrepresenting ESN activities through staged operations will continue to expose the failures of the Nigerian government and its security forces in trying to smear and drag the name of IPOB/ESN to the mud.
We urge the media, civil society groups, and human rights organizations but most importantly the Biafran people to disregard the lies, deceit and false claim of the Nigerian military. The people of Enugu in particular and Biafrans in general should remain calm and go about their legitimate businesses without fear.
The attempt by the Nigerian government to criminalize the good work of the ESN and criminalize the RIGHT to self-defense of the Biafran people who are under siege will not erase the legitimate security concern of our people neither will it dampen our resolve to confront any security threat against our land and our people head on.
Signed
Dr C. Okadigbo
DOS Press Secretary.
@radiobiafralive@HQNigerianArmy@PoliceNG@HouseNGR@NGRSenate@HouseForeignGOP@mfa_russia@_AfricanUnion@AnambraNewMedia
Those who claim to be in charge of IPOB legal matters for years broadcasting they in-charge of legals running around collecting money from politicians and Biafra sympathizers , claiming they have spent 10 million dollars on the legal cases of those in prisons have suddenly turned to blame DOS for the Biafrans abducted due to their own activities and their links with Ekperima.
Biafrans who were abducted since the launch of ESN and those abducted during the Ekperima criminality have not been seen , and the leadership of IPOB has been working around the clock about them talking care of their families to the best we can with the little resources at our disposal.
Some people don't even know the reason and efforts made before they were finally brought out to court . Many petitions were constantly sent through IPOB legal representatives and other human rights collaborations to bring these individuals to court; some already have court orders for their release, but the DSS continues to detain them in collaboration with the military.
If I may ask , why were they abducted? Is it because of DOS, is it because of Biafra self-determination, or because of something else? Your answer is as good as mine.
Blackmail and lies won’t save anyone in this struggle, if after spending a decade in this struggle and we allowed blackmailers , conmen , betrayals to continue with their deception then we are not worth living .
@real_IpobDOS@radiobiafralive