For those who didn’t know late Col. AA Ude and the reason why his mysterious death is so painful to us (Igbo Muslims)
Sheikh Col. AA Ude was a Hafizul Qur’an (He memorized the whole Qur’an).
He was a mastery of Arabic Language, he commands the Language perhaps better than the Arabs.
He was a seasoned intelligence military officer and one of the best in Nigeria today.
He was due for his promotion to the rank of Brigadier General next year (a rank no Igbo Muslim ever has attained in the Military).
He had numerous awards commending his rare intelligence and intellect in Military intelligence security (a rare breed).
Above all, he was a very calm, quiet, and composed individual and hardly raises his voice when he communicates! 😭
He was a Teacher of the Qur’an and a great mentor to most of us and Wallahi, it would take a generation to raise his kind again in our midst!
May Allah grant you pardon our dear sheikh and illuminate your grave! May you not be questioned for too long before you are admitted into Jannah!
We lost our hero!
My friend said
There are 1% of Nigerians who control/manipulate our affairs.
While there are 4% that are the tools they use.
Meanwhile, there are 90% that willingly or unwillingly submit themselves to be controlled.
And the remaining 5% are the irrelevant noise makers.
"Wow. What was @BwalaDaniel trying to accomplish with @mehdirhasan? What was the goal?
No Nigerian politician or @NigeriaGov official can provide a convincing response regarding the country’s economic and political situation, as they are all complicit in and compromised by it."
For anyone who would like to hear Mark Carney’s outstanding Davos speech in full here it is. This is what true global leadership looks like.
Canada should be immensely proud today, because they are leading the fight back when others dare not.
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A Christian lady is angry after she started reading the Bible by herself 😂
"I feel fvcking stupid for sitting in church all these years, listening to them tell the story of Jesus being crucified and never opened the Bible to read the 4 accounts of how it happened"
Thank God for Islam!
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#WATCH Jeffrey Sachs Blasts US Power Grab Over Venezuela, Maduro Capture at Historic UN Meeting
🇺🇸 US military interventions in foreign countries since WWII (incomplete list):
🇮🇷 Iran: 1946
🇨🇳 China: 1946 - 1949
🇬🇷 Greece: 1947 - 1949
🇮🇹 Italy: 1948
🇵🇭 Philippines: 1948 - 1954
🇰🇵 Korea: 1950 - 1953
🇮🇷 Iran: 1953
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1954
🇬🇹 Guatemala: 1954
🇱🇧 Lebanon: 1958
🇵🇦 Panama: 1958
🇭🇹 Haiti: 1959
🇨🇩 Congo: 1960
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1960 - 1964
🇨🇺 Cuba: 1961
🇨🇺 Cuba: 1962
🇱🇦 Laos: 1962
🇪🇨 Ecuador: 1963
🇵🇦 Panama: 1964
🇧🇷 Brazil: 1964
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1965 - 1975
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 1965
🇨🇩 Congo: 1965
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic: 1965
🇱🇦 Laos: 1965 - 1973
🇬🇭 Ghana: 1966
🇬🇹 Guatemala: 1966 - 1967
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 1969 - 1975
🇴🇲 Oman: 1970
🇱🇦 Laos: 1971 - 1973
🇨🇱 Chile: 1973
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 1975
🇦🇴 Angola: 1976 - 1992
🇮🇷 Iran: 1980
🇱🇾 Libya: 1981
🇸🇻 El Salvador: 1981 - 1992
🇳🇮 Nicaragua: 1981 - 1990
🇱🇧 Lebanon: 1982 - 1984
🇬🇩 Grenada: 1983
🇭🇳 Honduras: 1983 - 1989
🇮🇷 Iran: 1984
🇱🇾 Libya: 1986
🇧🇴 Bolivia: 1986
🇮🇷 Iran: 1987 - 1988
🇱🇾 Libya: 1989
🇵🇭 Philippines: 1989
🇵🇦 Panama: 1989 - 1990
🇱🇷 Liberia: 1990
🇮🇶 Iraq: 1990 - 1991
🇮🇶 Iraq: 1991 - 2003
🇭🇹 Haiti: 1991
🇸🇴 Somalia: 1992 - 1994
Yugoslavia: 1992 - 1994
🇧🇦 Bosnia: 1993 - 1995
🇭🇹 Haiti: 1994 - 1996
🇭🇷 Croatia: 1995
🇨🇩 Zaire (Congo): 1996 - 1997
🇱🇷 Liberia: 1997
🇸🇩 Sudan: 1998
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 1998
🇮🇶 Iraq: 1998
Yugoslavia: 1999
🇲🇰 Macedonia: 2001
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 2001
🇮🇶 Iraq: 2003
🇮🇶 Iraq: 2003-present
🇭🇹 Haiti: 2004
🇸🇾 Syria: 2011-present
🇺🇦 Ukraine: 2014-present
🇻🇪 Venezuela: 2026
The UN Security Council witnessed a rare, explosive intervention as economist Jeffrey Sachs delivered a sweeping warning on Venezuela. Speaking during an emergency session, Sachs framed the crisis as a test of international law itself, not leadership politics. He traced decades of U.S. regime-change actions, questioned the legality of force and sanctions, and warned of catastrophic consequences if UN rules collapse in a nuclear age.
Since 1947, United States foreign policy has repeatedly employed force, covert action, and political manipulation to bring about regime change in other countries. This is a matter of carefully documented historical record. In her book Covert Regime Change (2018), political scientist Lindsey O’Rourke documents 70 attempted US regime-change operations between 1947 and 1989 alone.
These practices did not end with the Cold War. Since 1989, major United States regime-change operations undertaken without authorization by the Security Council have included, among the most consequential: Iraq (2003), Libya (2011), Syria (from 2011), Honduras (2009), Ukraine (2014), and Venezuela (from 2002 onward).
The methods employed are well established and well documented. They include open warfare; covert intelligence operations; instigation of unrest; support for armed groups; manipulation of mass and social media; bribery of military and civilian officials; targeted assassinations; false-flag operations; and economic warfare aimed at collapsing civilian life.
These measures are illegal under the UN Charter, and they typically result is ongoing violence, lethal conflict, political instability, and deep suffering of the civilian population.
The case of Venezuela
The recent United States record with respect to Venezuela is clear.
In April 2002, the United States knew of and approved an attempted coup against the Venezuelan government.
In the 2010s, the United States funded civil society groups actively engaged in anti-government protests, notably in 2014. When the government cracked down on the protests, the US followed with a series of sanctions. In 2015, President Barrack Obama declared Venezuela to be “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”
In 2017, at a dinner with Latin American leaders on the margins of the UN General Assembly, President Trump openly discussed the option of the US invading Venezuela to overthrow the government.
During 2017 to 2020, the US imposed sweeping sanctions on the state oil company. Oil production fell by 75 percent from 2016 to 2020, and real GDP per capita (PPP) declined by 62 percent.
The UN General Assembly has repeatedly voted overwhelmingly against such unilateral coercive measures. Under international law, only the Security Council has the authority to impose such sanctions.
On 23 January 2019, the United States unilaterally recognized Juan Guaidó as “interim president” of Venezuela and on 28 January 2019 froze approximately $7 billion of Venezuelan sovereign assets held abroad and gave Guaidó authority over certain assets.
These actions form part of a continuous United States regime-change effort spanning more than two decades.
Recent United States global escalation
In the past year, the United States has carried out bombing operations in seven countries, none of which were authorized by the Security Council and none of which were undertaken in lawful self-defense under the Charter. The targeted countries include Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, and now Venezuela.
In the past month, President Trump has issued direct threats against at least six UN member states, including Colombia, Denmark, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria and of course Venezuela. These threats are summarized in Annex I to this statement.
What is at stake today
Members of the Council are not called upon to judge Nicolás Maduro.
They are not called upon to assess whether the recent United States attack and ongoing naval quarantine of Venezuela result in freedom or in subjugation.
Members of the Council are called upon to defend international law, and specifically the United Nations Charter.
The realist school of international relations, articulated most brilliantly by John Mearsheimer, accurately describes the condition of international anarchy as “the tragedy of great power politics.” Realism is therefore a description of geopolitics, not a solution for peace. Its own conclusion is that international anarchy leads to tragedy.
In the aftermath of World War I, the League of Nations was created to end the tragedy through the application of international law. Yet the world’s leading nations failed to defend international law in the 1930s, leading to renewed global war.
The United Nations emerged from that catastrophe as humanity’s second great effort to place international law above anarchy. In the words of the Charter, the UN was created “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind.”
Given that we are in the nuclear age, failure cannot be repeated. Humanity would perish. There would be no third chance.
Measures required of the Security Council
To fulfill its responsibilities under the Charter, the Security Council should immediately affirm the following actions:
The United States shall immediately cease and desist from all explicit and implicit threats or use of force against Venezuela.
The United States shall terminate its naval quarantine and all related coercive military measures undertaken in the absence of authorization by the Security Council.
The United States shall immediately withdraw its military forces from within and along the perimeter of Venezuela, including intelligence, naval, air, and other forward-deployed assets positioned for coercive purposes.
Venezuela shall adhere to the UN Charter and to the human rights protected in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Secretary-General shall immediately appoint a Special Envoy, mandated to engage relevant Venezuelan and international stakeholders and to report back to the Security Council within fourteen days with recommendations consistent with the Charter of the United Nations, and the Security Council shall remain urgently seized of this matter.
All Member States shall refrain from unilateral threats, coercive measures, or armed actions undertaken outside the authority of the Security Council, in strict conformity with the Charter.
In Closing
Mr. President, Distinguished Members,
Peace and the survival of humanity depend on whether the United Nations Charter remains a living instrument of international law or is allowed to wither into irrelevance.
That is the choice before this Council today.
Thank you.
HOW TO PRAY SALATUL JANAZA.
1- After the First Takbeer: Recite Surat Al-Fatiha.
1. Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem
2. Alhamdu lillaahi Rabbil 'aalameen
3. Ar-Rahmaanir-Raheem
4. Maaliki Yawmid-Deen
5. Iyyaaka na'budu wa lyyaaka nasta'een
6. Ihdinas-Siraatal-Mustaqeem
7. Siraatal-lazeena an'amta 'alaihim ghayril- maghdoobi 'alaihim wa lad-daaalleen
2- After the Second Takbeer: Salat Al-Ibrahimiyya to the end.
Allaahumma salli 'alaa Muhammadin wa 'alaa 'aali Muhammadin, kamaa sallayta 'alaa 'Ibraaheema wa 'alaa 'aali 'Ibraaheema, 'innaka Hameedun Majeed. Allaahumma baarik 'alaa Muhammadin wa 'alaa 'aali Muhammadin, kamaa baarakta 'alaa 'Ibraaheema wa 'alaa 'aali 'Ibraaheema, 'innaka Hameedun Majeed.
3- After the Third Takbeer: Pray for the dead but according to how it was narrated from our beloved Prophet Muhammad (Blessings and Peace be upon him). Yaa Allah! forgive our living and our dead, those who are with us and those who are absent, our young and our old, our menfolk and our womenfolk. Any of your local language/ tribe
Yaa Allah, whomever you give life from among us give him life in Islam, and whomever you take way from us take him away in Faith. Yaa Allah, do not forbid us their reward and do not send us astray after them.
4- Lastly after the 4th Takbeer: And you should pray for all Muslims.
5- And Finally end the prayer with one Salaam to the right (Just once).
May Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) forgive our shortcomings, and our dead ones.
May Allah grant us Jannatul Firdaus. Amen🙏 Everyone / . Friendss
Did you know in Nigeria’s history, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (Nyesom Wike) is said to be the most disliked person.
• His fellow Christians don’t like him.
• Muslims don’t like him.
• Members of his own party (PDP) don’t like him.
• Members of opposition parties (APC, NNPP, CPC, APGA, ADC, SDP) don’t like him.
• People from the South don’t like him.
• People from the North don’t like him.
• Security agencies (Army, Navy, Air Force, Police, Civil Defense, Customs, DSS, EFCC, Immigration) don’t like him or support him.
• Businessmen don’t like him.
• Fellow politicians don’t like him.
• The common people and his community don’t like him.