@diipodipe@akintollgate If you hear the stories of victims of kidnapping, the humiliation, maltreatment and all kinds of inhumane treatment you will Change your stance on this topic. These people are heartless and I support going after their family members. Madness should be met with madness
@HighChiefOkoro We could really use good news in this country. The lesson here is the govt needs to take a hard stance against this crime of kidnapping. No negotiating, speedy prosecution and extra judicially going after their family members and their properties. This country will win
RIP to Lt. FA Isaac, who was killed in the early days of this rescue operation💔
In a heartbreaking twist of events, he was laid to rest today that the victims were finally released
This is one of the names I hope will be immortalized by the AFN, Oyo state, & the Nigerian government.
@KaiUzama This kind of thing you should not be saying it in public. This is what is causing problems btw the black immigrants community and the African Americans. Una no dey hear word.
In the 1960s, we were told that overpopulation was an imminent risk, that we would soon run out of food globally.
Today, the problem is underpopulation, in many parts of the World.
Then shortly after, we were told we would run out of fossil fuels. This reached a crescendo in the 1980s.
Today, America is awash in shale petroleum, and there are other shale deposits in places like Argentina, that have barely been touched.
We will run out of fossils fuels one day, but not in the near future. As Sheikh Zaki Yamani said, "the Stone Age did not end for lack of stones".
We were told, from the 1980s by the West, that "once we adopt liberal market economics and democracy - voila! like magic we would become as prosperous as the West".
There's nothing about magical about "democracy", and "democracy" does not lead to "economic prosperity".
If you doubt me, take a trip round Africa - and in any case, the same West that preached the virtues of "free markets" - is now wholesale adopting "industrial policy".
There were other fictions like, "the US Navy protects the global commons" - from who, exactly? A few months into 2026, we discovered that this isn't really true.
If the US Navy cannot really do much when a medium power like Iran decides to flex its muscles, what exactly can it do when big dogs like China decide to make life difficult for them?
We are learning it is less of "the US Navy protecting the global commons" - and more of other powers deciding to play ball.
There were other convenient fictions - about US politicians, business people and civil servants being "uniquely principled";
This is nonsense, all of it.
The defining characteristic of the US Congress, is a lack of spine. US tech billionaires are still lining up to genuflect before Trump - in a way that shames even the worst sycophants, who sing the praises of corrupt Nigerian politicians;
And how many US diplomats have resigned in the face of Trump's blatantly racist foreign policies? Very few, you can count them on your fingers - the US Embassy at Abuja now sounds like a MAGA outpost. I don't blame them, they have families and pensions to protect.
There were other fantasies like "a free press is the fourth estate of governance". As far as Nigeria/Africa is concerned, a "free press", like the "tooth fairy" - is childish fantasy.
Somebody has to pay the journalists - and in Nigeria/Africa it boils down to either corrupt Nigerian politicians/politically connected people - or some foreign agency like the CIA/Pentagon.
Hopefully, we should emerge from this learning experience with more wisdom - but I am not banking on it, given what I know about Nigerians.
Nigeria 1983–1985 — Nigeria forced out millions of foreign workers and migrants, many of them Ghanaians and other West Africans, in two major waves. The 1983 expulsion became known as “Ghana Must Go,” as people packed their belongings and left Nigeria under pressure. Two years later, in 1985, another wave pushed hundreds of thousands more migrants out of the country.
@instablog9ja Lol. This new format dey muse me. No try this one for real life o. Their mopol go load you slap if you near them ask stupid question. The ultra wealthy in Nigeria hate poor people o.