Umar Ibrahim

Smiling is a virtue that touches the heart..!!.

[Umar Ibrahim @Danfaculty]

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[Abubakar Yunusa @Pharmacio001]

Here's a striking perspective:

When handed over power to in 2015, the exchange rate was about ₦198 to $1. The national minimum wage was ₦18,000, while a litre of petrol cost ₦87.

With an ₦18,000 salary at the time, one could reportedly buy:

- A bag of Thailand rice (₦7,500)
- A carton of Silver pasta (₦1,900)
- A carton of Golden Penny macaroni (₦1,900)
- 50 litres of petrol (₦4,850)
- A 6kg gas cylinder refill (₦1,200)

The total came to about ₦17,350.

The writer further claims that in 2015, Nigeria's total public debt was about ₦11 trillion, while Jonathan's final national budget was ₦4.5 trillion, which was widely viewed at the time as a very large budget.

According to the writer, ten years later, in 2026, despite the minimum wage rising to ₦70,000, it can no longer buy a bag of Thailand rice. Filling a car with 50 litres of petrol now leaves only about ₦2,000 in change from ₦70,000.

The writer also compares government budgets, stating that Jonathan's last budget was ₦4.5 trillion, Buhari's last budget was ₦17 trillion, and that the 2026 federal budget under President Bola Tinubu exceeds ₦56 trillion. The writer adds that the amount Jonathan budgeted for the entire country in 2015 is now roughly equivalent to what budgets in a single year.

The writer argues that subsidies on education, agriculture, healthcare, petrol, and cooking gas have been removed while public debt has continued to grow, and criticizes Nigerians who continue to celebrate despite these economic challenges.

The piece concludes with a strongly worded opinion that no other society would accept such economic hardship without greater public resistance, singling out Northern Nigeria for criticism.

— Salisu Yakubu RN RNT

[Umar Ibrahim @Danfaculty]

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@KAminu49132 Congratulations

[Umar Ibrahim @Danfaculty]

@sahouraxo Jewish terrorism

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[Umar Ibrahim @Danfaculty]

@Abdul_Ahmad_ Let's not the comments from some gullible homo sapiens discourage you from bringing up current happenings. We travellers need more of it. Bring more of it pls. Thanks and God bless

[Oap Electric & Gadgets Ltd 💡 @Oa_peters]

Alright. I’ll break it down calmly, factually, and step-by-step, exactly what happened on the night of January 15, 1966, who did what, who ordered what, and where things went wrong — without ethnic abuse or propaganda.

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1. Who planned the coup?

The coup was planned mainly by young majors, frustrated by:

The 1964 federal election crisis

The Western Region violence (“Operation Wetie”)

Corruption and collapse of civilian authority

Core planners:

Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu – operational commander (North)

Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna – Lagos operations coordinator

Major Chris Anuforo

Major Don Okafor

Major Adewale Ademoyega (Yoruba)

👉 This matters: there was no single ethnic command structure. The plot was ideological and military, not a formal ethnic conspiracy — but it was naively blind to ethnic consequences.

2. How the coup was structured (key point people ignore)

Nigeria was divided into operational zones, each with different officers and targets.

(A) Northern Operation – SUCCESSFUL

Commander: Major Nzeogwu
Location: Kaduna

Targets:

Sir Ahmadu Bello

Brig. Samuel Ademulegun

Brig. Zakariya Maimalari

Outcome:

All killed

Nzeogwu fully controlled Kaduna

Northern operation was the only one that succeeded militarily

⚠️ This is why the deaths appear “one-sided” — not because of a master ethnic plan, but because only this zone worked as planned.

(B) Lagos Operation – FAILED

Commander: Major Ifeajuna

Targets:

Tafawa Balewa

Chief Okotie-Eboh

Senior military leadership

Outcome:

Balewa killed

Okotie-Eboh killed

Ifeajuna lost control

Several officers refused orders

Arrests were bungled

This failure was critical.

(C) Western Region – PARTIAL FAILURE

Targets:

Chief S.L. Akintola

Outcome:

Akintola killed

But Ibadan not fully secured

Coup momentum collapsed

(D) Eastern Region – DID NOT HAPPEN

Targets (planned):

Premier Michael Okpara (to be arrested)

Military installations

Outcome:

No action

Officers there did not move

Chain of command broke down

⚠️ This is not the same as “they were spared.”
It means orders were not executed.

3. Did Nzeogwu order ethnic killings?

No evidence of that.

What we know from:

Nzeogwu’s broadcast

Ademoyega’s memoir (Why We Struck)

Military records

Shows:

Nzeogwu believed (wrongly) that removing top leadership would reset the country

He saw Northern leaders as centralised power holders, since the PM and Sardauna controlled the largest bloc

⚠️ This was politically stupid, but not a documented ethnic extermination plan.

4. Why were women and non-combatants killed?

This is one of the darkest parts.

Some deaths (wives, drivers, guards) happened because:

Soldiers stormed homes at night

Confusion and resistance

Poor discipline

These killings were not part of official coup orders

They destroyed any moral legitimacy the coup claimed

Even coup insiders later admitted this was criminal and indefensible.

5. Was Aguiyi-Ironsi part of the coup?

No.

Facts:

He was not briefed

He was nearly killed (depending on accounts)

He suppressed the coup

He arrested Nzeogwu

He took over because:

The civilian government collapsed

The military hierarchy was shattered

He was the most senior surviving officer

👉 However…

6. Where Ironsi went wrong (this is crucial)

Ironsi made three catastrophic political errors:

(1) Failure to prosecute the coup plotters

They were detained, not tried

This created the impression of ethnic protection

(2) Appointing an advisory council dominated by Easterners

Poor optics

Deepened suspicion

(3) Decree 34

Abolished federalism

Centralised power

Confirmed Northern fears of domination

⚠️ This decree, more than the coup itself, triggered the July 1966 backlash.

7. Why January 15 is remembered as “tribal”

Because politics is about perception, not just intent.

Even if:

The coup wasn’t designed as an Igbo ethnic purge

Not all participants were Igbo

[Adedamola Adetayo @BalogunKakanfo1]

Just look at the list.

1. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
2. Sir Ahmadu Bello
3. Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola
4. Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh
5. Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun
6. Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari
7. Colonel Ralph Shodeinde
8..Colonel Kur Mohammed
9. Lt. Colonel Abogo Largema
10. Lt. Colonel James Pam
11. Lt. Colonel Arthur Unegbe
12. Ahmed Ben Musa
13. Mrs..Hafsatu Bello, Ahmadu Bello's wife.
14. Mrs Latifat Ademulegun, Brig. Ademulegun's wife.
Zarumi Sardauna
15. Mallam Ahmed Pategi, Ahmadu Bello's driver.
16. Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke
17. PC Yohana Garkawa
18. Lance-corporal Musa Nimzo
19. PC Akpan Anduka
20. PC Hagai Lai
21. Mr. Philip Lewande.

Those men and probably some others were murdered in cold blood right in their houses in a well-coordinared action of mutinous soldiers in the course of a single night.

May their souls continue to rest

Just ONE night, as they slept peacefully in their houses, some in bed with their wives and children.

The Moslems amongst them were in the month of Ramadan but the idiots couldnt be bothered.

And ALL the killings, EVERY ONE of them were executed by soldiers who were ALL IBO officers of the Nigerian Army.

And the excuse was that they were about to fight TRIBALISM AND CORRUPTION.

Imagine.

You were going to fight TRIBALISM then you selected NON-IBOS, the very cream of the Political and Military Leadership of their Ethnic groups for brutal assassination by ALL-IBO OFFCIERS while sparing your own people who were the chief tribalists.

You were going to fight CORRUPTION then you picked on a man like Tafawa Balewa who lived a very modest life, living on the brinks of poverty whereas you passed in front of the houses of Ozumba Mbadiwe, Nwafor Orizu etc, men who were notoriously corrupt, and you didn't branch to visit them.

You thought some of your superior Military Offciers were aiding the Politicians in corruption then you picked on a man like Gen. Ademulegun and Gen Maimalari, career Offciers minding their businesses but conveniently forgot that your GOC, HEAD OF ARMY, Gen. Aguiyi-Ironsi was the closest to the politicians and he hobnobbed with them.

And after the whole thing you installed Aguiyi-Ironsi as Head of State while the murderers were conveniently placed under protective custody and receiving their salaries and allowances.

And Aguiyi-Ironsi appointed an Five-man council of Advisers who were ALL IBOS.

And the same Aguiyi-Ironsi dissolved the regions, suspended regional constitution and put in place the iniquitous Decree 34 to harmonize the whole country and bring it under the control of Ibos.

And you just relaxed, so naive and expected no repercussions.

It is the kind of thinking that you still have till today, pouring your population into the lands of other people and scheming to displace them and overtake their social,political and economic lives from within.

And you don't expect the people to react.

When they react you call them tribalists.

When they stop you from dominating them on their ancestral lands you cry marginalisation.

When they point out these things to you you call them bigots.

Everybody is wrong except you.

The Ghanaians are wrong for repelling your plans to float a Kingdom under their noses. The South-African Zulus were wrong when they revolted against you for destroying the lives of their youths with drugs and prostitution. You expected the Kenyans, Benenise, Liberians, Zimbabweans and everybody else to look on as you ravage their society.

You want the Yoruba people to stay quiet as you silently alter our DEMOGRAPHICS and BLOODLINES through migration of your unruly population and marriage with your women. You want us to look away as you alter our social order and systemically run our people into poverty..../

[Farmer Akin Alabi® @akinwale_cfi]

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[Grow Smarter @GrowSmarter_x]

It took me 30years to learn the correct way to fold clothes 👚👕👗

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Ilan Pappé’s The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine cuts through Western propaganda. A must-read for anyone who truly cares about justice

[JOKAMRREDPILLZ @JOKAQARMY1]

This is who actually runs the world 🤔.

[Umar Ibrahim @Danfaculty]

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⚡️🇮🇱JUST IN: Israel’s Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich:

The Gaza Strip is becoming a real estate bonanza and the plan is on President Trump's desk

We paid a lot of money for the war, so we need to decide how to divide the percentages of the land in Gaza. The demolition phase is always the first phase of urban renewal. We did that, now we need to start building.

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

BREAKING: The Saudi Arabian Government has granted permission for the burial of prominent Nigerian businessman, Aminu Alhassan Dantata, to take place in the sacred city of Madina on Monday.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

No, Mr President, this is not the Time for Holidaying.

Dear Nigerians, I am struggling with my senses to understand what is happening to governance in this country.

What I have seen and witnessed in the last two years has left me in shock about poor governance delivery and apparent channelling of energy into politics and satisfaction of the elites, while the masses in our midst are languishing in want.

In the past two years, Nigeria has lost more people to all sorts of criminality than a country that is officially at war. Without any twilight, Nigeria ranks among the most insecure places in the world. Nigerians are hungrier, and most people do not know where their next meal will come from.

With such a gory picture of one’s country, you can imagine my bewilderment when I saw a news release from the Presidency announcing that President Bola Tinubu is departing Nigeria today for a visit to Saint Lucia in the Caribbean.

The Presidency release merely confirmed an earlier news report since last week where the Prime Minister of the Caribbean Philip J. Pierre announced at a pre-cabinet press briefing on Monday, last week that
President Bola Tinubu is expected to depart Nigeria on Saturday, June 28, 2025, for Saint Lucia for official engagements and private leisure time.

According to the Prime Minister’s announcement “two of these days, June 30 and July 1, will be dedicated to an official visit, with the remainder of the trip set aside as a personal vacation.

I told the person who drew my attention to the Caribbean story that it cannot be true and that the President is just coming back from a holiday in Lagos. I didn’t want to believe that anybody in the position of authority, more so the President, on whose table the buck stops in this country, with all the myriad problems in virtually all areas of governance, would contemplate a leisure trip at this time.

This is a President going for leisure when he couldn’t visit Minna, Niger state where over two hundred lives were lost and over 700 persons still missing in a flood natural disaster. I wonder which type of incident will happen before a President is attracted to show physical sympathy to the distressed citizens.

The other state in crisis where over two hundred lives were murdered, the President yielded to public pressure and visited Makurdi the state capital for what turned out to be a political jamboree than condolence as public holiday was declared and children made to line up to receive the President who couldn’t even reach the village, the scene of the brutal attack.

In terms of land size, Makurdi is 937.4 Km², which is over 59% bigger than St Lucia, which is 617 km², and Minna is 6789 square kilometres, which is ten times bigger than St Lucia. St Lucia, with a population of 180,000, is less than half of Makurdi’s 489 839 and Minna, with 532, 000 is almost three times the population of St Lucia.

I don't think the situation in this country today calls for leisure for anybody in a position of authority, more so the President, on whose desk the buck stops. This regime has repeatedly shown its insensitivity and lack of passion for the populace, going by the way it prioritises the rich and shows indifference to the poor.

This very obvious indifference of the federal government to the suffering of the Nigerian poor should urgently be reversed. One had expected the President to be asking God for extra hours in a day for the challenges, but what we see is a concentration of efforts in the 2027 election and on satisfying the wealthy while the mass poor continues to multiply in number.

Finally, I like to let our leaders know one thing that the God given resources of this country belong to all, not to a few. The time has come to put a stop to this drift before it consumes all and focus on pulling people out of poverty.

A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[Umar Ibrahim @Danfaculty]

@OurFavOnlineDoc @MDD_NAJEEB The annoying thing is that Islam is here to stay and there's nothing someone's sound constructive or destructive arguments can do about it. Save yourself the energy and embrace tolerance before Islam reaches your homes. It is about time when this 7th century thing engulf you all.