November 10, 2025 • 49 mins
In this episode of Nigeria's Shadow-Kidnapping and Murders in 2025, Psycho4081 takes a deep dive into the recent kidnappings and murders that has the people gripped in fear. This episode presents horriffic statistics, individual stories, terrifying incidents, and examines the impact it has on communities.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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and other controversial materials that may be distressing to some listeners.
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You're listening cute the Hot Topics Podcast Psycho forty every One,
Lovely Lady, Lamb Chop and Dibulous Bonus. But let's get
into it. Welcome every one to another podcast, Hot Topics podcast.
(00:53):
I'm your host for Theday Psycho forty eighty one and
Lamb Chop could make it Blovenius. Feather is busy. She
has a new assignment actually, and we're sure all the
best in her new endeavor. She'll join us here and there,
but she's going to be pretty busy. So today, as
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you heard our trigger warning, we're going to talk about
Nigeria and some of the things that have been happening
over the last I guess year or so, but more
so recently. You know, there's a lot of fear going on,
and you know, people have been talking genocide and all
(01:37):
types of things. So we're gonna talk about that. And
again if some of the things we're gonna talk about
my trigger some people, so please feel free to catch
us on the next episode. And you know, I truly understand,
but I'm gonna start with some other news though, before
we get into that. Some things that's going on the
sports world. We had a young man, twenty four year
(02:00):
old young man that played for the Dallas Cowboys took
his life yesterday. He was on the active roster apparently,
and the details are coming out slowly, but you know,
apparently there was a you know, a little chase with
(02:20):
the police, and you know, he they when he found him.
He suffered from a what they call a self inflicted
gunshot own. So prayer to his family and friends and
his teammates. Other news, and I hate to say bad news,
but if anybody knows anything about NFL football, we have
Antonio Brown, who was a Hall of Fame player. He's
(02:46):
not in the Hall of Fame, but he's a Hall
of Fame caliber player, probably one of the best. But
he just couldn't get his mind right. So sometime last year,
I believe it was that he got involved with a
an incident in a bar or a club down in Florida,
I believe it was, and there was some shots fired,
(03:06):
and initially they you know, exonerated them on the scene basically.
Then actually when they found the footage saw a little
bit more details, they made him a suspect in a murder. So,
being who he is, he went to Dubai and so
(03:29):
recently they extradited him back to the US. So you know,
he was arrested and fro back to the US. So
we'll see what's going on with that, I guess as
the information comes out. Congratulations to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
(03:51):
They weren't the twenty twenty five World Series beating the
Toronto Blue Jays, so congratulates to them. And let's see,
that's baseball. Hockey season just started. Football, we had mid season,
they had the trade deadlines, a lot of things going
on with that. So domestically that we had a election yesterday,
(04:17):
no Tuesday, and I believe it was California, New Jersey,
New York, New York City had a mayor election, the
state of Virginia governor, lieutenant governor, and some other you know,
other ones. But the Democrats swept and congratulations to all
(04:41):
those candidates. The exit pos stated that the overwhelming response
was due to the displeasure with the Trump administration and
the government shut down. So, in case you guys didn't
know wherever you are, the US is in the I
(05:03):
guess the longest government shut down in history, and it's
because in the Senate you need to have fifty one
votes to pass the bill the legislation. However, there's a
thing called a filibuster where it gives you unlimited debate,
(05:27):
and to close the debate you need sixty votes. They
don't have the sixty votes because the Democrats won't give
them the sixty votes, and the bunchet hasn't been passed,
so they're fighting over The Democrats want some of the
ACA or Obamacare what they call it, extended, so your
(05:50):
healthcare rates don't go up, your premiums don't go up,
and some of the other little things that happen to
do with Social Security, Medicaid, medicare all that type stuff,
and the other side is not budgeting. So you know,
I'm proud that the Democrats are standing their ground for
once for the you know, average working American or people
(06:16):
that need more help. So you know, I know it's
hard for everybody out there who's doing the getting furloughed
or even fired, those who have to work because they
are central employees without pay, and those who are sitting
home who can't you know, do anything because they don't
have money. So holiday seasons coming up here in the US,
(06:38):
and I you know, my heart goes out to you,
but well, I know there's state governments that's trying to
support you as best they can, and hopefully it'll be
over with and without too much delay. Oh delay. Flights
have been restricted. I think it's minimized limited, like ten
percent down in certain cities or whatever. I've heard the
(07:00):
lines have been four hours long. I guess they don't
have enough people and you know, enough workers. So if
you're going to take a flight, please go super early,
super duper early. I imagine that the airlines are not
(07:21):
flying to different places some of the places they normally fly,
or they have less flights on there. And also what
that means prices go up? Mmm, just something to add
to the whole inflation that we're going through in this country.
So just keep be mindful about that. Anything else in
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recent news, GAZA still have they I don't even know
what to call it because it's never been a ceasefire.
They call it a ceasefire, but you know, Israel is
still bombing them. I don't know what's going on over there,
but I think it's time. I think a lot of
countries are getting fed up and starting to take action.
(08:08):
So we'll keep an eye on what's going on over there.
But we definitely need to get into a episode to
talk about Gaza in Israel. We'll see how that goes
later on down the line. So anyway, we're gonna get
into this episode. It's called Nigeria's Shadow Kidnapping and Murders
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in twenty twenty five. Yeah sounds horrible, doesn't it. Well
it is, so we're gonna dig a little deep into this.
I'm gonna say, shocking surge and kidnappings and murders. And
I guess people in Nigeria may say it's not of surge.
(08:52):
They've been doing it for a long time. It's just,
you know, now it's starting to affect other people. You know,
how things could be localized, but then it's spread, you know,
and it starts getting a lot of attention. Well apparently,
apparently in May of twenty twenty five. Just in May,
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there was over six hundred and thirty five people killed
and another one hundred and eighty two people abducted across
Nigeria and for those who don't know, abducted, kidnapping, and
that marked the highest monthly death toll so far this
year in Nigeria. They have the human the National Human
(09:36):
Rights Commission has been tracking it and they've tracked more
than nine No, I'm sorry, they've tracked more than three
thousand kidnappings. Three thousand kidnappings, yes, you heard me right,
in nearly thirty six hundred killings between January of twenty
twenty four in April of twenty twenty five, So this
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is before that month they had that surge. But what
is that a year in a few months, in a
matter of what fifteen months, three thousand kidnappings, thirty six
hundred killings. And if you didn't know, Nigeria is also
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sort of like the US where they have states. So
I don't remember how many states they have, but they
have I believe it's thirty six. Don't quote me on that.
What was it, thirty six states? That's my guess. Yep,
(10:43):
they do. Oh, I'm so smart. So anyway, they have
the thirty six states and states such as Kaduna which
is in the north, Beendu and I'm a mess a
this podcast is talk about Nigeria. I already know I'm
gonna mess up these names, but I'm gonna I'm gonna
try my best. Ben New Catsina and Borno will hit
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the hardest. So those four states were hit the hardest
when it comes to the kidnappings and the murders. And
I know Kaduna's in the North. I'm not sure about
the other ones, but if I had a guess, I'm
gonna say they are also in the North, and let
me see if I can verify that. But as you know,
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I think the North is actually predominantly Muslim, and obviously
so you may have more activity with certain terrorist groups
like or streamist groups like Boko Haram and some of
the I guess fighting with the different ethnic groups over
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you know, land or whatever. But let me see if
I can pull up a map of Nigeria, I'll tell
you where these states are Nigeria. And we said Kaduna
which is in the north, Catsina which is right up
in them. That's probably one of the most northern states. Uh,
(12:14):
it borders Nazer and Borno, another northern state that borders
nager in Cameroon, and it was the fourth one. And
my mys was looking the north. I said, Borno, Casina, Kaduna,
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and oh, I guess that was it? Borno, Kaduna, Casina
and Bendu Bendu. I don't know where Binu is. I
don't even think I ever heard that one. But let's see,
that doesn't look like it's in the north. That is,
(12:58):
I don't know where it is. Actually, if anybody can
tell me where the state is because I don't see
it on the map. B E n U e been
new let me know. Oh I know where to Okay?
Is it borders a Cameroon as well, But that's a
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little bit in the east. I would say that's southeast.
You guys tell me where that is. But anyway, it's
it's south of the capital of Abuja. But anyway, behind
these numbers, uh, there were daily attacks, terrorists ambush communities
and in those places we just mentioned, we had pirates
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abducting travelers on the roads in a place called Bailsa, Bayelsa,
and I believe that is in the south. That's near
near Port Harcourt, so that I guess that's a little different.
But but every day ordinary people just vanished right off
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the streets and roots. So and I'm sure there's gonna
be things or or incidents that happen is not reported
or hasn't been reported yet. So that's that's a tragedy
in itself. But to get a little bit more into that,
I'm I'm gonna go down here and get some more
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information on that, because that's that's that's uh, that's horrific.
That is definitely horrific. And let's see what my trustee
news sources talk about this real quick. I read it
from human human angle, the human angle, So I guess
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if the human angle, you can check that out at
human or hume h U m A n g l
E media dot com. So basically, they say these figures
underscore the increasing vulnerability of Nigerians to insecurity and conflict.
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It also represents an increase in the number of fatalities
compared to previous months of the year into twenty twenty five.
So the tracker they recorded five hundred and ninety deaths
in one hundred and ninety two killings. That means fatality
fatalities increased by approximately seven point six percent in May,
while the number of abductions slightly decline, which is still high.
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It is really really high. Now this information comes from again,
I'm gonna say Human Human Angle h U M A
n g l E tracker. It's a data driven thing
where it tracks incidents of this nature, documents, violent attacks,
(15:58):
communal clashes, oad accidents, UH, building collapses, fires, strategic developed,
all the canappings, femicide mm hmm. So they report on
all that type of stuff. But they even they even
presented a little timeline. Uh, Jesus May first and Nigeria's South,
(16:20):
suspected pirates abducted four people. That's what we were talking
about in that Bayelsa state. The security forces in Kebe
State in the north west confirmed a loan abduction of
a farm manager m hmm okay. That was May first.
Then in Benu State, which is north central Nigeria we
(16:42):
talked about earlier, four people were killed in an attack
by suspected terrorists in the community near the government area. UH.
Similarly to police operatives manning a checkpoint and in new
in Nugu in Nugu, I guess in the country southeast
were killed following a terrorist attack. So I guess the
(17:03):
police are not safe either, which is really could strike
fear that they could attack the police and kill police.
Then what does it mean for them? They said? Loka
and I'll messed this up. Coura Wahl, Coora, the CoA,
l A, k U, r A w A and Kevy
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mounted a devastating attack that killed no fewer than thirteen hunters. Hmmm,
so uugh I said. Meanwhile, in River State, the police
command confirmed the rescue of two Ghanian women abducted in
the state. That's all. That's all that's on on May first.
That's ridiculous. Now I told you about the whole petroleum thing,
(17:50):
or maybe that was the other podcast. But a tanker
fully loaded with petroleum fell off and exploded in Jigglea States,
spilling the petrol on the road. Tragedy averted by swift
response of security agencies. Local scooped up the spillage. All right,
So they had another state Baki Bachi State assailants raided
the house of a former local government chairman and assassinated them. Wow.
(18:15):
And three communities in Sokoto State were attacked by terrorists,
claiming eleven lives. That is, the next day. May third,
two soldiers of the twenty seventh Task Force Battalion were
killed in an attack in Yobi State, while in Taraba
the military neutralized the terrorists and recovered arms, so they're
(18:38):
really fighting over there. May fourth, a local security outfit
and terrorists clashed in the same state, Balchi State, leading
to the killing of twenty five people, both the vigilante
and the terrorists. So I guess that the local security
outfit was made of people that they you know, volunteers,
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so they call them vigilantes, but hey, you need self defense.
And then in Bindu, I should have had Bolonia's here
to pronounce these words, but two people were killed and
four abducted in an attack by terrorists applying the Ikpo
Adco road of the state. I'm just gonna skip some
(19:22):
of the names of these places because I can't do
it so again. Place in Sokoto police confirmed the arrest
of a notorious gun runner and recovered arms, including bullets
and a pistol, So it's got people out there feeling
that stuff. And then the southwest, three people also lost
their lives to accidents in Lagos. In Oglund State, police
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did thwart a kidnapping incident in Anambra State. This is
all May fourth, these guys are busy, busy. So in
Merit in Gashi's communities in the Plateau State woke up
to the killing of six residents by terrorists. And in Kano,
(20:09):
I know that area, armed robbers stabbed a man returning
from a mosque after attending prayer, which is ridiculous. They
really have some things going on here. May six, in
(20:29):
aqua Ebomb, suspected cultists murdered a farmer in his apartment
located at the etim Ekpo local government area. And similarly,
government ambushed the vehicle, killing the driver, hijacking the eighteen
seater bus in Emo State. Now to the average person
(20:54):
listening to this, you would think the entire country is lawless.
That's what you would think. I recautioned you. You know,
even if I'm giving you these statistics and it sounds horrific,
check with family and friends and see what's going on.
You know, it seemed like they it's the stuff is
(21:17):
getting really out of hand. They and I don't know
if this is the one I was talking about before.
Where in Ogand a lady was found dead and mutilated
along the OGTV road in the state capitol, No. I
saw a video where a lady looked like she was
being kidnapped. She was just in her panties and she
(21:39):
was and I couldn't understand her, but it looks it
seemed like she was pleading for her life. And then
the video goes off and another video, you know, continues
and it showed a woman's body that was dismembered and
they had it on the tarp on the back of
a pickup truck. It was the most horrific thing I've seen,
(22:02):
probably in my life. And then her her private area,
you know, the between the legs part had been cut out,
so that whole area had been cut out. So I
can't imagine what would possess somebody, even if you just
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want if you wanted to kidnap somebody, or I really
can't imagine what goes on a person's mind where they
can want to kill a woman, but but mutilate the body.
That is so you know, for spiritual people that are
so ungodly, you know. And I don't even know what
to say about that one, but I know it was.
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It was a horrific thing, and it was on video
then you had. On May seventh, there was a battle
between troops of the Nigerian military and then elements of
insurgents in the Borno. They left both parties with a
record of casualties. Terrorists killed seven people across two local
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governments in Bendu State. And you keep hearing me say
terrorists because obviously that they're having an issue with that.
Terrorists killed a police inspector in Port Harcourt in an ambush.
Let's see what else you got here, Oh, this is huge.
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In Koji State or Kogi State, thirty seven kidnapped victims
were rescued following a terrorist attack on their moving vehicle,
with seven others still missing. So they're at war. They're
literally literally at war. May ninth, terrorists in Delta State
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demanded a fifty million dollar no, I'm sorry, fifty million
naira ransom after kidnapping Zubuki Bright and Kwara, a petrol
dealer and his manager were whisked away by terrorists who
pressed for a two hundred million ny or ransom to
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free the hostages. So obviously with any criminal organization that
that thing is money. I don't see being poverty stricken
that would take somebody to do these heinous crimes, you know,
total disregard or disrespect of life. They also had another
(24:37):
coordinated attacks at different communities and ben new b E
n EU that left twenty three dead. And then on
that same day, Nigerian troops in Casina State or Catsina
State eliminated some criminal elements terrorizing parts of the state,
recovering caches of weapons, destroying terror camps. So those weapons
(24:59):
must be coming from I don't I don't want to,
I don't want to guess, but it has to be
coming from out of the state. You know. They obviously
got that gun runner, but they're being funded by somebody
and it being you know, there's no weapons that I
know of that is produced in Nigeria or Niger or
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any of those countries around there, so they're being funded
by somebody. Then you had terrorists in the Delta State
abducted a lady farmer in an incident that prompted a
swift response from vigilantes in the area. So that's good
to know. That's good to know that people are coming
in and you know, defending themselves and others, and that's
what it's going to take. They had Zamfara being bias.
(25:43):
Heard of that terrorists in Zamfara disguised in police uniforms
killed a teacher, throw an attack on a government secondary school,
and they kidnapped three women. So yeah, these are these
are horrific things. And I could go on and on
and On May eleventh, AK forty seven rifle was recovered
(26:04):
from a suspected gun runner nadded by troops operating in
Plateau State. So I guess the the council chairperson imposed
a curfew and told them to arrest, imposed a curve
to arrest. I guess whoever vollis the curfew because of
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the renewed killing this has been going on, and get
these guns just as bad as US. May twelfth, renewed
terrorist attacks in Borneo left military positions dislocated with many
killed in a light Legos accident. No, I said that
(26:50):
same thumb. And that's one thing. Military position positions dislocated
with many killed. Oh, they're going to have the military
as well terrafs and been to attack communities, killing no
fewer than seven people. Uh and during a busy market day.
And you imagine you've been to different places, but they
had the big markets on both sides, and you see
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just tons and tons of people walking by, handling their business,
trying to you know, make their sales or buy stuff.
But had a gunman abducted five people. And this was
in dogon rua community in Plateau State. And then I
guess they looted their their food stuffs. God, it's in
(27:35):
Onto state. Government invaded the house of a local politician
and kidnapped them. I'm not going to Nigeria. I'm not.
I've just decided that's that's that's gonna be it for me.
May thirteenth, youth, youth, the youth are getting involved. That's good.
And because seeing the thwart the terrorist attack, forcing the
terrorists to retreat. I don't know what the youth had
(27:57):
to fight off the terrorists or what the terrorists had,
but they were successful. Then on May fourteenth, terrorists killed
eight people at a camp community in Plateau State. May fifteenth,
gunmen killed two people in Anambra, Anambra State. Wow. M
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so yeah, I'm not gonna go into all of it
because it's a lot. We're talking about May and I
haven't even gotten to halfway through the state. I mean,
through the month. They arrested wanted kidnapper traveling for the
Hodge pilgrimage. Politician was killed by abductor. That's May seventeenth.
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They got somebody at the airport. Terrorists massacred fifteen farmers
in Keeby State, leaving three others with sustained injuries. Leave
the farmers alone. Jeez, and somebody. I'm not sure, but
somebody told me it was the No. The Felans are
if icon recall their herdsmen. They're not farmers, they're herdsmen.
(29:05):
But we'll get into that. Somebody could call in and
let us know and you drop us an email they
had on the nineteenth. No, let's go back to the eighteenth.
A terrorist in Zamfara was murdered in a military offensive. Okay,
I guess that's a good thing. May nineteenth, ooh, a
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man set his family ablaze, killing one of his daughters,
and terrorists attacked someone in so Koto State and abducted
several residents. Then in Casina that was attacked by bandits.
Wrestling mini cattle, Oh, cattle wrestlers. You know back in
the old wild wild West, that that was a death sentseence.
(29:53):
You get hung for the wrestling. Wrestling cattle. So they
did rescue three hostages in Kogi State. But you know,
the numbers are not adding up, They're not equal. There's
way more people getting murdered and kidnapped than there are
people who are getting rescued. So May twentieth, in Edo,
(30:16):
that wasn't an act of terrorism. But you know, a
man beat his wife to death and I don't know
what the cause of that was, but I'm not going
to put that on him because we see that here
every day in the USA. Let's see anymore, hope not.
Terrorists in Zamfara abducted a medical doctor. That's on May
(30:37):
twenty first, and seven ISWAP members were reportedly killed by
troops in a counter intelligent counter terrorism operation Borno State.
So they are doing something, but it just seems like
it's not enough. Then in Kogi State the same day,
May twenty first, a retired army major was kidnapped and
(31:01):
two swordis were killed. Two others were killed by terrorists
who laid seged on another place. But I mean, this
is like so far, has been every day in May.
Just in May, they did foil a kidnapping on the
twenty second and rescued three people another one in this
(31:21):
has been new. A communal clash left four injured, and
it says state pronounced in an eviction order on all
herders around the community. So I think that's what she
was referring to, was the herdsman. And I guess they're
fighting over land to grades. That's just my guess. May
(31:43):
the troops raided a terrorists hideout and neutralized one terrorists
that was in Plateau State, and then they in Borneo
combined troops from the Army and Air Force opposed BOCO
Haram elements and killed six teen insurgents. Wow. On that
(32:06):
same day, two communities in Plateau State were attacked by terrorists,
killing three people, including a retired police officer a female student. No,
that was just a retired police officer. I don't think
that next episode, the next incident wasn't the act of terrorism.
(32:31):
The twenty fifth police disclosed the killing of a notorious
kidnapped suspect. You know, like I said, the numbers are
not adding up, they're not evening out, so and I
can't tell you if there have been you know, like
you see here in the news that Christians or Muslims
are doing it or being victims. But in Ando State
(32:53):
there are three members of the Deeper Life Church were
abducted during Bible studies right on the church premises. You
so they don't even respect the sanctity of religion. And
on the same day another person this was in this
(33:13):
is a Zamfara state. One person was abducted and scores
killed during a terrorist attack. Yeah, they may need little help.
I might have changed my perspective on that. May twenty seventh,
terrorists gunned down two herders in a Buja community and
(33:34):
injured a local vigilante member. Seven people were killed Plateau
State by armed criminals. Ooh, this is horrific. Two in
Zamfara's state, eleven people were killed during an attack on
one of the villages and one hundred and seventeen people
were abducted. How do you abduct one hundred and seventeen people?
(33:59):
How May eight terrorists attacked a uh Nassar Nasarawa, Nasara
State traditional ruler and kidnapped him because you know they
have the chieftains. On the same day, now this is
(34:21):
the twenty ninth, those armed herders killed three residents of
agon A god Aga n A community in Benu State.
The next day, the thirtieth, I'm glad we getting out
of May. Terrifsts killed two persons in attack launched on
a local government State government area in Katsina State. Same day,
(34:43):
Nigerian troops killed sixty terrorists in Borno State. So these
are these are big numbers. These are very big numbers.
So I guess we can get out of May. Nope.
May thirty first in no Ied, improvised explosive device exploded
(35:04):
and killed nine people at a bus stop and a
village in Guza Maala Local Government Area, Borno State. Then
there God, it's just one person died in the clash
between residents of a community and a local Environment task Force.
And again Benu State, a passenger was abducted aboard a
(35:28):
commercial vehicle commuting on the oh Wukpa or Rocam Road
in Agadebo Local Government Area. I tried, I'm trying to
pronounce these words. I'm trying, you know. And then finally,
police officers in Abuja, which is a capital, foiled a
(35:50):
child trafficking attempt in the nation's capital. Okay, okay, kudos
to the police officers who did that. But as that
was just the month of May, the month of May.
That's horrific. You know, I don't know what to say. Anyways,
(36:22):
were gonna talk briefly about some other things and then
getting to it. I don't want to keep talking about
all these different things because it's getting me depressed. Literally,
it's getting me depressed. That was just May of twenty
twenty five, and I'm not talking about any of the
stuff that's happened from June on down to November. Okay.
(36:45):
So they had a award winning journalist. Her name was
do Nu Kagbara, and she was talking about her ordeal
of being abducted from her home in port her Court,
which is down in that eastern part. She was taken
by armed men. She spent two weeks captive in a
(37:09):
hut that's on stilts and a man grove swamp. Let
me say that again, two weeks captive in a hut
on stilts in a man grove swamp, and her captors
actually demanded two million dollars ransom. Usually you'll see nyra,
(37:29):
but just as two million dollars ransom. So and she
goes in and she describes the you know, the brutal
and the human side of these incidents. Says the human side.
I guess she realized that many of the kidnappers themselves
were young men that was lord or forced into divide
the lives, maybe due to you know, poverty or just
(37:50):
being corrupted by you know, some of these other organizations.
So you know, there's always another side, just like in
the movies, as another side of these things, but not
justifying anybody kidnap and murdering and all that the other
type stuff, so that to me, there's no excuse, but
there there is a different side. So obviously that doesn't
(38:11):
end with adults. So they had one case where six
sisters were kidnapped near a Buja and then they demanded
a ten a ten thousand dollars ransom, and I guess
(38:32):
the family couldn't meet the ten thousand dollars, which is
a lot, especially in Nigeria. You know, I'm hoping this
is what doesn't matter, but it's ten thousand dollars. It's
a lot of money. And they couldn't make the ransom.
One of the daughters, who was a university student, was
murdered and her body was left by the roadside. Yeah,
(38:53):
that's this is this is Nigeria. Now, this is this
is a modern a modern country with any of money.
It's a wealthy nation. Okay, just put that into perspective.
This is not, you know, a third world country. This
is not a war torn country. But apparently they they're
having that I guess with these terrorists. But yeah, that's
(39:19):
that's horrible. So you would think, you know, you send
your your your kids off to school and you would
hope they're safe to you know, study and graduate, become
something big and make good money for themselves, and and
something like that happens. The the the horror, the feeling
is I can't even fathom the the the feeling that
(39:42):
must give a family, you know. And then I know
people there who go to school and they travel different places,
and they go to these universities that's not near their
village or their town. So they stay in these hostels,
so you know, they could be dangerous too. You know,
hostiles are not the safest place. You know, sometimes they
(40:04):
get roommates and stuff like that. But you know, they
had one one woman or young girl, her name was
a ad Daobi Easy she was poisoned in her hostile.
(40:25):
Oh goodness, it is you know, I feel for the families,
you know, especially when they're going off to you know,
better themselves, and you put all this time, effort and
money into that. So we're gonna talk about real quick.
We don't talk about why this is happening now. The
experts say that their security crisis is propelled by criminals
(40:51):
and terrorist organizations who profit from you know, ransom and fear. Obviously,
if they're kidnapping and kidnappings a high and kidnappings up
are profiting profiting from that, and there's no other reason
to kidnap somebody unless it's a revenge thing. But they're
demanding money sometimes. Uh, militants are even used by politicians
(41:17):
as pawns for election disruptions. And this is according to
the experts. Just imagine if the politicians are using these
people to disrupt elections and you know, swing votes and
all of the other type stuff, how can the politicians
be held accountable to prevent crime or to take down
(41:40):
these thugs that's doing all the kidnapping and the murdering. So,
you know, to add on to that, there's a rampant
unemployment and poverty obviously, not like I said, I've known
people there for years and I heard their stories of
(42:01):
poverty and you know some of the things they go through.
But again, Nigeria is a rich nation, so it's really
no reason why that should happen. And i'm and i'm
you know, there's always a solution, there's always a solution.
But if you have weak law enforcement, what does that do?
(42:23):
That creates a perfect environment for these criminal organizations to flourish,
people to fear, you know, and you know who's going
to fear if you know the police aren't going to
do their job, or you have the place that's working
for crooked politicians or place working for the criminal organizations,
that would get more most people not to even report
(42:45):
these these incidents. Imagine living in that condition. So even
aside from that, there's a there's a huge impact on
on fans least on society in general. You know, if
you have kidnappings, murders, no trusting the police, no trusting
(43:07):
your politicians, the top head of state is not doing enough,
as they say, families are being devastated. You know, you
can unravel the whole community. If there's no trust. You're
not trusting your government, You're not trusting the people you're
supposed to trust. You're not trusting your your your neighbors
or whatever. So you know, who's gonna report, who's gonna report.
(43:32):
And I would probably guess that these numbers that I
quoted to is probably still less than what actually actually occurs,
you know. And I don't want to say that it's
all the military, is all the police, you know, because
obviously we've seen some successes. You know, we've seen them
do some well we haven't seen it. We've read about
(43:52):
them doing some rescue operations. You could read about it
on you know, Google online or whatever, see the video
or the news, and there have been some survivors, so
you know it it's not everybody, and it's not you know,
the the the government itself. So just with any government,
and we noticed in the USA, all it takes is
(44:14):
a few people in key positions to corrupt the whole system.
So you know, just want you guys to you know,
keep a check on what's going on in Nigeria and
consider what's going on if you decide on traveling, you know,
that's that's the big thing. Look out for your family
(44:35):
and friends. It's there. Try to put pressure if you can,
on the government, not our government, their government to actually
do more than they're doing. Yeah, that's that's pretty much.
It's it's kind of depressing. It's a depressing thing. But anyway,
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(45:20):
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a that's a horrible word to use today, but you
know that's the first thing that popped in my mind
since we're talking about it. So today's word of the
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just remember the statistics that we read earlier. Those are people.
Those are actual people, not just numbers. Each number is
a life that was cut short. You know, a family
that was waiting for news of their loved ones. You
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know the status they're kidnapping. You know, a father, a daughter,
a mother, a son, a husband or wife. You know gone.
So keep that in mind. And you know not I
know just by reading that from May of this year,
Nigeria's fight is far from over. And the only way
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you're gonna do it if you have a united front
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You know, you guys are TikTok users, you guys are
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you heard our trigger warning, we're going to talk about
Nigeria and some of the things that have been happening
over the last I guess year or so, but more
so recently. You know, there's a lot of fear going on,
and you know, people have been talking genocide and all
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types of things. So we're gonna talk about that. And
again if some of the things we're gonna talk about
my trigger some people, so please feel free to catch
us on the next episode. And you know, I truly understand,
but I'm gonna start with some other news though, before
we get into that. Some things that's going on the
sports world. We had a young man, twenty four year
(02:00):
old young man that played for the Dallas Cowboys took
his life yesterday. He was on the active roster apparently,
and the details are coming out slowly, but you know,
apparently there was a you know, a little chase with
(02:20):
the police, and you know, he they when he found him.
He suffered from a what they call a self inflicted
gunshot own. So prayer to his family and friends and
his teammates. Other news, and I hate to say bad news,
but if anybody knows anything about NFL football, we have
Antonio Brown, who was a Hall of Fame player. He's
(02:46):
not in the Hall of Fame, but he's a Hall
of Fame caliber player, probably one of the best. But
he just couldn't get his mind right. So sometime last year,
I believe it was that he got involved with a
an incident in a bar or a club down in Florida,
I believe it was, and there was some shots fired,
(03:06):
and initially they you know, exonerated them on the scene basically.
Then actually when they found the footage saw a little
bit more details, they made him a suspect in a murder. So,
being who he is, he went to Dubai and so
(03:29):
recently they extradited him back to the US. So you know,
he was arrested and fro back to the US. So
we'll see what's going on with that, I guess as
the information comes out. Congratulations to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
(03:51):
They weren't the twenty twenty five World Series beating the
Toronto Blue Jays, so congratulates to them. And let's see,
that's baseball. Hockey season just started. Football, we had mid season,
they had the trade deadlines, a lot of things going
on with that. So domestically that we had a election yesterday,
(04:17):
no Tuesday, and I believe it was California, New Jersey,
New York, New York City had a mayor election, the
state of Virginia governor, lieutenant governor, and some other you know,
other ones. But the Democrats swept and congratulations to all
(04:41):
those candidates. The exit pos stated that the overwhelming response
was due to the displeasure with the Trump administration and
the government shut down. So, in case you guys didn't
know wherever you are, the US is in the I
(05:03):
guess the longest government shut down in history, and it's
because in the Senate you need to have fifty one
votes to pass the bill the legislation. However, there's a
thing called a filibuster where it gives you unlimited debate,
(05:27):
and to close the debate you need sixty votes. They
don't have the sixty votes because the Democrats won't give
them the sixty votes, and the bunchet hasn't been passed,
so they're fighting over The Democrats want some of the
ACA or Obamacare what they call it, extended, so your
(05:50):
healthcare rates don't go up, your premiums don't go up,
and some of the other little things that happen to
do with Social Security, Medicaid, medicare all that type stuff,
and the other side is not budgeting. So you know,
I'm proud that the Democrats are standing their ground for
once for the you know, average working American or people
(06:16):
that need more help. So you know, I know it's
hard for everybody out there who's doing the getting furloughed
or even fired, those who have to work because they
are central employees without pay, and those who are sitting
home who can't you know, do anything because they don't
have money. So holiday seasons coming up here in the US,
(06:38):
and I you know, my heart goes out to you,
but well, I know there's state governments that's trying to
support you as best they can, and hopefully it'll be
over with and without too much delay. Oh delay. Flights
have been restricted. I think it's minimized limited, like ten
percent down in certain cities or whatever. I've heard the
(07:00):
lines have been four hours long. I guess they don't
have enough people and you know, enough workers. So if
you're going to take a flight, please go super early,
super duper early. I imagine that the airlines are not
(07:21):
flying to different places some of the places they normally fly,
or they have less flights on there. And also what
that means prices go up? Mmm, just something to add
to the whole inflation that we're going through in this country.
So just keep be mindful about that. Anything else in
(07:47):
recent news, GAZA still have they I don't even know
what to call it because it's never been a ceasefire.
They call it a ceasefire, but you know, Israel is
still bombing them. I don't know what's going on over there,
but I think it's time. I think a lot of
countries are getting fed up and starting to take action.
(08:08):
So we'll keep an eye on what's going on over there.
But we definitely need to get into a episode to
talk about Gaza in Israel. We'll see how that goes
later on down the line. So anyway, we're gonna get
into this episode. It's called Nigeria's Shadow Kidnapping and Murders
(08:32):
in twenty twenty five. Yeah sounds horrible, doesn't it. Well
it is, so we're gonna dig a little deep into this.
I'm gonna say, shocking surge and kidnappings and murders. And
I guess people in Nigeria may say it's not of surge.
(08:52):
They've been doing it for a long time. It's just,
you know, now it's starting to affect other people. You know,
how things could be localized, but then it's spread, you know,
and it starts getting a lot of attention. Well apparently,
apparently in May of twenty twenty five. Just in May,
(09:14):
there was over six hundred and thirty five people killed
and another one hundred and eighty two people abducted across
Nigeria and for those who don't know, abducted, kidnapping, and
that marked the highest monthly death toll so far this
year in Nigeria. They have the human the National Human
(09:36):
Rights Commission has been tracking it and they've tracked more
than nine No, I'm sorry, they've tracked more than three
thousand kidnappings. Three thousand kidnappings, yes, you heard me right,
in nearly thirty six hundred killings between January of twenty
twenty four in April of twenty twenty five, So this
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is before that month they had that surge. But what
is that a year in a few months, in a
matter of what fifteen months, three thousand kidnappings, thirty six
hundred killings. And if you didn't know, Nigeria is also
(10:19):
sort of like the US where they have states. So
I don't remember how many states they have, but they
have I believe it's thirty six. Don't quote me on that.
What was it, thirty six states? That's my guess. Yep,
(10:43):
they do. Oh, I'm so smart. So anyway, they have
the thirty six states and states such as Kaduna which
is in the north, Beendu and I'm a mess a
this podcast is talk about Nigeria. I already know I'm
gonna mess up these names, but I'm gonna I'm gonna
try my best. Ben New Catsina and Borno will hit
(11:08):
the hardest. So those four states were hit the hardest
when it comes to the kidnappings and the murders. And
I know Kaduna's in the North. I'm not sure about
the other ones, but if I had a guess, I'm
gonna say they are also in the North, and let
me see if I can verify that. But as you know,
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I think the North is actually predominantly Muslim, and obviously
so you may have more activity with certain terrorist groups
like or streamist groups like Boko Haram and some of
the I guess fighting with the different ethnic groups over
(11:52):
you know, land or whatever. But let me see if
I can pull up a map of Nigeria, I'll tell
you where these states are Nigeria. And we said Kaduna
which is in the north, Catsina which is right up
in them. That's probably one of the most northern states. Uh,
(12:14):
it borders Nazer and Borno, another northern state that borders
nager in Cameroon, and it was the fourth one. And
my mys was looking the north. I said, Borno, Casina, Kaduna,
(12:35):
and oh, I guess that was it? Borno, Kaduna, Casina
and Bendu Bendu. I don't know where Binu is. I
don't even think I ever heard that one. But let's see,
that doesn't look like it's in the north. That is,
(12:58):
I don't know where it is. Actually, if anybody can
tell me where the state is because I don't see
it on the map. B E n U e been
new let me know. Oh I know where to Okay?
Is it borders a Cameroon as well, But that's a
(13:18):
little bit in the east. I would say that's southeast.
You guys tell me where that is. But anyway, it's
it's south of the capital of Abuja. But anyway, behind
these numbers, uh, there were daily attacks, terrorists ambush communities
and in those places we just mentioned, we had pirates
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abducting travelers on the roads in a place called Bailsa, Bayelsa,
and I believe that is in the south. That's near
near Port Harcourt, so that I guess that's a little different.
But but every day ordinary people just vanished right off
(14:04):
the streets and roots. So and I'm sure there's gonna
be things or or incidents that happen is not reported
or hasn't been reported yet. So that's that's a tragedy
in itself. But to get a little bit more into that,
I'm I'm gonna go down here and get some more
(14:24):
information on that, because that's that's that's uh, that's horrific.
That is definitely horrific. And let's see what my trustee
news sources talk about this real quick. I read it
from human human angle, the human angle, So I guess
(14:50):
if the human angle, you can check that out at
human or hume h U m A n g l
E media dot com. So basically, they say these figures
underscore the increasing vulnerability of Nigerians to insecurity and conflict.
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It also represents an increase in the number of fatalities
compared to previous months of the year into twenty twenty five.
So the tracker they recorded five hundred and ninety deaths
in one hundred and ninety two killings. That means fatality
fatalities increased by approximately seven point six percent in May,
while the number of abductions slightly decline, which is still high.
(15:36):
It is really really high. Now this information comes from again,
I'm gonna say Human Human Angle h U M A
n g l E tracker. It's a data driven thing
where it tracks incidents of this nature, documents, violent attacks,
(15:58):
communal clashes, oad accidents, UH, building collapses, fires, strategic developed,
all the canappings, femicide mm hmm. So they report on
all that type of stuff. But they even they even
presented a little timeline. Uh, Jesus May first and Nigeria's South,
(16:20):
suspected pirates abducted four people. That's what we were talking
about in that Bayelsa state. The security forces in Kebe
State in the north west confirmed a loan abduction of
a farm manager m hmm okay. That was May first.
Then in Benu State, which is north central Nigeria we
(16:42):
talked about earlier, four people were killed in an attack
by suspected terrorists in the community near the government area. UH.
Similarly to police operatives manning a checkpoint and in new
in Nugu in Nugu, I guess in the country southeast
were killed following a terrorist attack. So I guess the
(17:03):
police are not safe either, which is really could strike
fear that they could attack the police and kill police.
Then what does it mean for them? They said? Loka
and I'll messed this up. Coura Wahl, Coora, the CoA,
l A, k U, r A w A and Kevy
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mounted a devastating attack that killed no fewer than thirteen hunters. Hmmm,
so uugh I said. Meanwhile, in River State, the police
command confirmed the rescue of two Ghanian women abducted in
the state. That's all. That's all that's on on May first.
That's ridiculous. Now I told you about the whole petroleum thing,
(17:50):
or maybe that was the other podcast. But a tanker
fully loaded with petroleum fell off and exploded in Jigglea States,
spilling the petrol on the road. Tragedy averted by swift
response of security agencies. Local scooped up the spillage. All right,
So they had another state Baki Bachi State assailants raided
the house of a former local government chairman and assassinated them. Wow.
(18:15):
And three communities in Sokoto State were attacked by terrorists,
claiming eleven lives. That is, the next day. May third,
two soldiers of the twenty seventh Task Force Battalion were
killed in an attack in Yobi State, while in Taraba
the military neutralized the terrorists and recovered arms, so they're
(18:38):
really fighting over there. May fourth, a local security outfit
and terrorists clashed in the same state, Balchi State, leading
to the killing of twenty five people, both the vigilante
and the terrorists. So I guess that the local security
outfit was made of people that they you know, volunteers,
(19:00):
so they call them vigilantes, but hey, you need self defense.
And then in Bindu, I should have had Bolonia's here
to pronounce these words, but two people were killed and
four abducted in an attack by terrorists applying the Ikpo
Adco road of the state. I'm just gonna skip some
(19:22):
of the names of these places because I can't do
it so again. Place in Sokoto police confirmed the arrest
of a notorious gun runner and recovered arms, including bullets
and a pistol, So it's got people out there feeling
that stuff. And then the southwest, three people also lost
their lives to accidents in Lagos. In Oglund State, police
(19:46):
did thwart a kidnapping incident in Anambra State. This is
all May fourth, these guys are busy, busy. So in
Merit in Gashi's communities in the Plateau State woke up
to the killing of six residents by terrorists. And in Kano,
(20:09):
I know that area, armed robbers stabbed a man returning
from a mosque after attending prayer, which is ridiculous. They
really have some things going on here. May six, in
(20:29):
aqua Ebomb, suspected cultists murdered a farmer in his apartment
located at the etim Ekpo local government area. And similarly,
government ambushed the vehicle, killing the driver, hijacking the eighteen
seater bus in Emo State. Now to the average person
(20:54):
listening to this, you would think the entire country is lawless.
That's what you would think. I recautioned you. You know,
even if I'm giving you these statistics and it sounds horrific,
check with family and friends and see what's going on.
You know, it seemed like they it's the stuff is
(21:17):
getting really out of hand. They and I don't know
if this is the one I was talking about before.
Where in Ogand a lady was found dead and mutilated
along the OGTV road in the state capitol, No. I
saw a video where a lady looked like she was
being kidnapped. She was just in her panties and she
(21:39):
was and I couldn't understand her, but it looks it
seemed like she was pleading for her life. And then
the video goes off and another video, you know, continues
and it showed a woman's body that was dismembered and
they had it on the tarp on the back of
a pickup truck. It was the most horrific thing I've seen,
(22:02):
probably in my life. And then her her private area,
you know, the between the legs part had been cut out,
so that whole area had been cut out. So I
can't imagine what would possess somebody, even if you just
(22:23):
want if you wanted to kidnap somebody, or I really
can't imagine what goes on a person's mind where they
can want to kill a woman, but but mutilate the body.
That is so you know, for spiritual people that are
so ungodly, you know. And I don't even know what
to say about that one, but I know it was.
(22:44):
It was a horrific thing, and it was on video
then you had. On May seventh, there was a battle
between troops of the Nigerian military and then elements of
insurgents in the Borno. They left both parties with a
record of casualties. Terrorists killed seven people across two local
(23:06):
governments in Bendu State. And you keep hearing me say
terrorists because obviously that they're having an issue with that.
Terrorists killed a police inspector in Port Harcourt in an ambush.
Let's see what else you got here, Oh, this is huge.
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In Koji State or Kogi State, thirty seven kidnapped victims
were rescued following a terrorist attack on their moving vehicle,
with seven others still missing. So they're at war. They're
literally literally at war. May ninth, terrorists in Delta State
(23:52):
demanded a fifty million dollar no, I'm sorry, fifty million
naira ransom after kidnapping Zubuki Bright and Kwara, a petrol
dealer and his manager were whisked away by terrorists who
pressed for a two hundred million ny or ransom to
(24:16):
free the hostages. So obviously with any criminal organization that
that thing is money. I don't see being poverty stricken
that would take somebody to do these heinous crimes, you know,
total disregard or disrespect of life. They also had another
(24:37):
coordinated attacks at different communities and ben new b E
n EU that left twenty three dead. And then on
that same day, Nigerian troops in Casina State or Catsina
State eliminated some criminal elements terrorizing parts of the state,
recovering caches of weapons, destroying terror camps. So those weapons
(24:59):
must be coming from I don't I don't want to,
I don't want to guess, but it has to be
coming from out of the state. You know. They obviously
got that gun runner, but they're being funded by somebody
and it being you know, there's no weapons that I
know of that is produced in Nigeria or Niger or
(25:20):
any of those countries around there, so they're being funded
by somebody. Then you had terrorists in the Delta State
abducted a lady farmer in an incident that prompted a
swift response from vigilantes in the area. So that's good
to know. That's good to know that people are coming
in and you know, defending themselves and others, and that's
what it's going to take. They had Zamfara being bias.
(25:43):
Heard of that terrorists in Zamfara disguised in police uniforms
killed a teacher, throw an attack on a government secondary school,
and they kidnapped three women. So yeah, these are these
are horrific things. And I could go on and on
and On May eleventh, AK forty seven rifle was recovered
(26:04):
from a suspected gun runner nadded by troops operating in
Plateau State. So I guess the the council chairperson imposed
a curfew and told them to arrest, imposed a curve
to arrest. I guess whoever vollis the curfew because of
(26:27):
the renewed killing this has been going on, and get
these guns just as bad as US. May twelfth, renewed
terrorist attacks in Borneo left military positions dislocated with many
killed in a light Legos accident. No, I said that
(26:50):
same thumb. And that's one thing. Military position positions dislocated
with many killed. Oh, they're going to have the military
as well terrafs and been to attack communities, killing no
fewer than seven people. Uh and during a busy market day.
And you imagine you've been to different places, but they
had the big markets on both sides, and you see
(27:14):
just tons and tons of people walking by, handling their business,
trying to you know, make their sales or buy stuff.
But had a gunman abducted five people. And this was
in dogon rua community in Plateau State. And then I
guess they looted their their food stuffs. God, it's in
(27:35):
Onto state. Government invaded the house of a local politician
and kidnapped them. I'm not going to Nigeria. I'm not.
I've just decided that's that's that's gonna be it for me.
May thirteenth, youth, youth, the youth are getting involved. That's good.
And because seeing the thwart the terrorist attack, forcing the
terrorists to retreat. I don't know what the youth had
(27:57):
to fight off the terrorists or what the terrorists had,
but they were successful. Then on May fourteenth, terrorists killed
eight people at a camp community in Plateau State. May fifteenth,
gunmen killed two people in Anambra, Anambra State. Wow. M
(28:23):
so yeah, I'm not gonna go into all of it
because it's a lot. We're talking about May and I
haven't even gotten to halfway through the state. I mean,
through the month. They arrested wanted kidnapper traveling for the
Hodge pilgrimage. Politician was killed by abductor. That's May seventeenth.
(28:43):
They got somebody at the airport. Terrorists massacred fifteen farmers
in Keeby State, leaving three others with sustained injuries. Leave
the farmers alone. Jeez, and somebody. I'm not sure, but
somebody told me it was the No. The Felans are
if icon recall their herdsmen. They're not farmers, they're herdsmen.
(29:05):
But we'll get into that. Somebody could call in and
let us know and you drop us an email they
had on the nineteenth. No, let's go back to the eighteenth.
A terrorist in Zamfara was murdered in a military offensive. Okay,
I guess that's a good thing. May nineteenth, ooh, a
(29:30):
man set his family ablaze, killing one of his daughters,
and terrorists attacked someone in so Koto State and abducted
several residents. Then in Casina that was attacked by bandits.
Wrestling mini cattle, Oh, cattle wrestlers. You know back in
the old wild wild West, that that was a death sentseence.
(29:53):
You get hung for the wrestling. Wrestling cattle. So they
did rescue three hostages in Kogi State. But you know,
the numbers are not adding up, They're not equal. There's
way more people getting murdered and kidnapped than there are
people who are getting rescued. So May twentieth, in Edo,
(30:16):
that wasn't an act of terrorism. But you know, a
man beat his wife to death and I don't know
what the cause of that was, but I'm not going
to put that on him because we see that here
every day in the USA. Let's see anymore, hope not.
Terrorists in Zamfara abducted a medical doctor. That's on May
(30:37):
twenty first, and seven ISWAP members were reportedly killed by
troops in a counter intelligent counter terrorism operation Borno State.
So they are doing something, but it just seems like
it's not enough. Then in Kogi State the same day,
May twenty first, a retired army major was kidnapped and
(31:01):
two swordis were killed. Two others were killed by terrorists
who laid seged on another place. But I mean, this
is like so far, has been every day in May.
Just in May, they did foil a kidnapping on the
twenty second and rescued three people another one in this
(31:21):
has been new. A communal clash left four injured, and
it says state pronounced in an eviction order on all
herders around the community. So I think that's what she
was referring to, was the herdsman. And I guess they're
fighting over land to grades. That's just my guess. May
(31:43):
the troops raided a terrorists hideout and neutralized one terrorists
that was in Plateau State, and then they in Borneo
combined troops from the Army and Air Force opposed BOCO
Haram elements and killed six teen insurgents. Wow. On that
(32:06):
same day, two communities in Plateau State were attacked by terrorists,
killing three people, including a retired police officer a female student. No,
that was just a retired police officer. I don't think
that next episode, the next incident wasn't the act of terrorism.
(32:31):
The twenty fifth police disclosed the killing of a notorious
kidnapped suspect. You know, like I said, the numbers are
not adding up, they're not evening out, so and I
can't tell you if there have been you know, like
you see here in the news that Christians or Muslims
are doing it or being victims. But in Ando State
(32:53):
there are three members of the Deeper Life Church were
abducted during Bible studies right on the church premises. You
so they don't even respect the sanctity of religion. And
on the same day another person this was in this
(33:13):
is a Zamfara state. One person was abducted and scores
killed during a terrorist attack. Yeah, they may need little help.
I might have changed my perspective on that. May twenty seventh,
terrorists gunned down two herders in a Buja community and
(33:34):
injured a local vigilante member. Seven people were killed Plateau
State by armed criminals. Ooh, this is horrific. Two in
Zamfara's state, eleven people were killed during an attack on
one of the villages and one hundred and seventeen people
were abducted. How do you abduct one hundred and seventeen people?
(33:59):
How May eight terrorists attacked a uh Nassar Nasarawa, Nasara
State traditional ruler and kidnapped him because you know they
have the chieftains. On the same day, now this is
(34:21):
the twenty ninth, those armed herders killed three residents of
agon A god Aga n A community in Benu State.
The next day, the thirtieth, I'm glad we getting out
of May. Terrifsts killed two persons in attack launched on
a local government State government area in Katsina State. Same day,
(34:43):
Nigerian troops killed sixty terrorists in Borno State. So these
are these are big numbers. These are very big numbers.
So I guess we can get out of May. Nope.
May thirty first in no Ied, improvised explosive device exploded
(35:04):
and killed nine people at a bus stop and a
village in Guza Maala Local Government Area, Borno State. Then
there God, it's just one person died in the clash
between residents of a community and a local Environment task Force.
And again Benu State, a passenger was abducted aboard a
(35:28):
commercial vehicle commuting on the oh Wukpa or Rocam Road
in Agadebo Local Government Area. I tried, I'm trying to
pronounce these words. I'm trying, you know. And then finally,
police officers in Abuja, which is a capital, foiled a
(35:50):
child trafficking attempt in the nation's capital. Okay, okay, kudos
to the police officers who did that. But as that
was just the month of May, the month of May.
That's horrific. You know, I don't know what to say. Anyways,
(36:22):
were gonna talk briefly about some other things and then
getting to it. I don't want to keep talking about
all these different things because it's getting me depressed. Literally,
it's getting me depressed. That was just May of twenty
twenty five, and I'm not talking about any of the
stuff that's happened from June on down to November. Okay.
(36:45):
So they had a award winning journalist. Her name was
do Nu Kagbara, and she was talking about her ordeal
of being abducted from her home in port her Court,
which is down in that eastern part. She was taken
by armed men. She spent two weeks captive in a
(37:09):
hut that's on stilts and a man grove swamp. Let
me say that again, two weeks captive in a hut
on stilts in a man grove swamp, and her captors
actually demanded two million dollars ransom. Usually you'll see nyra,
(37:29):
but just as two million dollars ransom. So and she
goes in and she describes the you know, the brutal
and the human side of these incidents. Says the human side.
I guess she realized that many of the kidnappers themselves
were young men that was lord or forced into divide
the lives, maybe due to you know, poverty or just
(37:50):
being corrupted by you know, some of these other organizations.
So you know, there's always another side, just like in
the movies, as another side of these things, but not
justifying anybody kidnap and murdering and all that the other
type stuff, so that to me, there's no excuse, but
there there is a different side. So obviously that doesn't
(38:11):
end with adults. So they had one case where six
sisters were kidnapped near a Buja and then they demanded
a ten a ten thousand dollars ransom, and I guess
(38:32):
the family couldn't meet the ten thousand dollars, which is
a lot, especially in Nigeria. You know, I'm hoping this
is what doesn't matter, but it's ten thousand dollars. It's
a lot of money. And they couldn't make the ransom.
One of the daughters, who was a university student, was
murdered and her body was left by the roadside. Yeah,
(38:53):
that's this is this is Nigeria. Now, this is this
is a modern a modern country with any of money.
It's a wealthy nation. Okay, just put that into perspective.
This is not, you know, a third world country. This
is not a war torn country. But apparently they they're
having that I guess with these terrorists. But yeah, that's
(39:19):
that's horrible. So you would think, you know, you send
your your your kids off to school and you would
hope they're safe to you know, study and graduate, become
something big and make good money for themselves, and and
something like that happens. The the the horror, the feeling
is I can't even fathom the the the feeling that
(39:42):
must give a family, you know. And then I know
people there who go to school and they travel different places,
and they go to these universities that's not near their
village or their town. So they stay in these hostels,
so you know, they could be dangerous too. You know,
hostiles are not the safest place. You know, sometimes they
(40:04):
get roommates and stuff like that. But you know, they
had one one woman or young girl, her name was
a ad Daobi Easy she was poisoned in her hostile.
(40:25):
Oh goodness, it is you know, I feel for the families,
you know, especially when they're going off to you know,
better themselves, and you put all this time, effort and
money into that. So we're gonna talk about real quick.
We don't talk about why this is happening now. The
experts say that their security crisis is propelled by criminals
(40:51):
and terrorist organizations who profit from you know, ransom and fear. Obviously,
if they're kidnapping and kidnappings a high and kidnappings up
are profiting profiting from that, and there's no other reason
to kidnap somebody unless it's a revenge thing. But they're
demanding money sometimes. Uh, militants are even used by politicians
(41:17):
as pawns for election disruptions. And this is according to
the experts. Just imagine if the politicians are using these
people to disrupt elections and you know, swing votes and
all of the other type stuff, how can the politicians
be held accountable to prevent crime or to take down
(41:40):
these thugs that's doing all the kidnapping and the murdering. So,
you know, to add on to that, there's a rampant
unemployment and poverty obviously, not like I said, I've known
people there for years and I heard their stories of
(42:01):
poverty and you know some of the things they go through.
But again, Nigeria is a rich nation, so it's really
no reason why that should happen. And i'm and i'm
you know, there's always a solution, there's always a solution.
But if you have weak law enforcement, what does that do?
(42:23):
That creates a perfect environment for these criminal organizations to flourish,
people to fear, you know, and you know who's going
to fear if you know the police aren't going to
do their job, or you have the place that's working
for crooked politicians or place working for the criminal organizations,
that would get more most people not to even report
(42:45):
these these incidents. Imagine living in that condition. So even
aside from that, there's a there's a huge impact on
on fans least on society in general. You know, if
you have kidnappings, murders, no trusting the police, no trusting
(43:07):
your politicians, the top head of state is not doing enough,
as they say, families are being devastated. You know, you
can unravel the whole community. If there's no trust. You're
not trusting your government, You're not trusting the people you're
supposed to trust. You're not trusting your your your neighbors
or whatever. So you know, who's gonna report, who's gonna report.
(43:32):
And I would probably guess that these numbers that I
quoted to is probably still less than what actually actually occurs,
you know. And I don't want to say that it's
all the military, is all the police, you know, because
obviously we've seen some successes. You know, we've seen them
do some well we haven't seen it. We've read about
(43:52):
them doing some rescue operations. You could read about it
on you know, Google online or whatever, see the video
or the news, and there have been some survivors, so
you know it it's not everybody, and it's not you know,
the the the government itself. So just with any government,
and we noticed in the USA, all it takes is
(44:14):
a few people in key positions to corrupt the whole system.
So you know, just want you guys to you know,
keep a check on what's going on in Nigeria and
consider what's going on if you decide on traveling, you know,
that's that's the big thing. Look out for your family
(44:35):
and friends. It's there. Try to put pressure if you can,
on the government, not our government, their government to actually
do more than they're doing. Yeah, that's that's pretty much.
It's it's kind of depressing. It's a depressing thing. But anyway,
(44:57):
I want to hear from you guys. I know I
have a lot of Nigerian subscribers thanks to Diamond who's
in Legos and she you know, recruits subscribers for our podcast.
I want to know what you guys think. Tell me,
because I'm not there, Tell me what's going on? And
(45:20):
who do you feel is responsible? And who is not
being held accountable? You know, who's who's that fault? And
and why are why are these things happening? Is it?
You know, the unemployment? Is the is it the just
the corruption? Let us know. You can email us at
(45:41):
Hot Topics podcast as h O T T O p
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(46:04):
So hit us up on that email and let us
know and we'll arrange so we can. You know, because
it's more impactful when it's heard from people who are
there living and experiencing what we're talking about. You know,
I'm just reading things and looking at videos and talking
to people you know on WhatsApp, you know, about what's
going on in their area. This is the information I'm getting.
(46:26):
So but I want to thank you guys for subscribing.
I almost have as many Nigerian subscribers that I have
American subscribers, So I want to thank you guys for subscribing.
And again, we have a monthly prize or contests for
(46:48):
the person who gets the words of the day for
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(47:32):
you know count, So just let us know what it
is and we'll announce it on the podcast. For this
is November December, and it will be opportunity to you
know when something for you know, the holidays coming up,
Christmas is coming up. So you know that's our way
of thanking you guys for tuning in and following us.
So keep up the good work. So today's today's words
(47:55):
of the day is kidnap. Yes, kidnap. I know that's
a that's a horrible word to use today, but you
know that's the first thing that popped in my mind
since we're talking about it. So today's word of the
day is kidnapping. Put that in your pocket because the
next few podcasts, you know, add those up and I'm
(48:18):
gonna give some prizes out. And you guys, as we close,
just remember the statistics that we read earlier. Those are people.
Those are actual people, not just numbers. Each number is
a life that was cut short. You know, a family
that was waiting for news of their loved ones. You
(48:42):
know the status they're kidnapping. You know, a father, a daughter,
a mother, a son, a husband or wife. You know gone.
So keep that in mind. And you know not I
know just by reading that from May of this year,
Nigeria's fight is far from over. And the only way
(49:04):
you're gonna do it if you have a united front
and you know, let your voices be heard that you know,
it has to be heard from every single village, every city.
You know, you guys are TikTok users, you guys are
Facebook users, you guys are Instagram users. Get out there
and let your voices be heard, and you know, you
(49:26):
guys can push for a real change. So I'm with you.
But thank you for listening to this episode. Nigeria's Shadows
stay vigilant and again share stories and demand action.
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