*How President Donald Trump ignored Primate Ayodele’s Warnings Against Attacking Iran (VIDEO)* 

The world has been thrown into confusion following retaliatory attacks from Iran after the USA and Israel launched attacks against the country.

The U.S. and Israel announced a major military operation against Iran early Saturday, after President Trump threatened the Iranian regime for weeks to make a new deal to rein in its nuclear program, and before that, threatened it over its violent crackdown on protesters in January.

In a video posted on Truth Social, Mr. Trump said the U.S. was “undertaking a massive and ongoing operation to prevent this very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening America and our core national security interests.” The U.S. military dubbed the assault “Operation Epic Fury.”

Iran has responded to a wave of US strikes by launching missile attacks on multiple countries hosting some of the tens of thousands of American troops deployed across the Middle East.

Iranian forces say they have struck a US naval base in Bahrain, as Iran launched strikes across the region in retaliation for a “massive” and ongoing attack against it by the US and Israel.

Huge plumes of black smoke were seen rising from an area near the headquarters of the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Manama, Bahrain. The extent of any damage is unclear and the US has not commented.

Elsewhere across the region, the UAE, Qatar, Jordan and Kuwait – all home to US military bases – said they have intercepted missiles fired towards them.

In Doha, Qatar’s defence ministry said it had intercepted several missiles apparently targeting the al-Udeid air base, the largest US base in the region.

Although this is still on, and several nations could still be affected with a lot of lives waiting to be lost. Sadly, this could have been avoided if the US listened to the voice of God through his servant, Primate Elijah Ayodele of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church when he warned that an attack on Iran would be escalated.

The prophet sounded the warning in a video, calling on President Donald Trump to think it twice before carrying out attacks on the country.

“In Iran, the steps that America want to take in the country, I don’t see them getting it right. If they strike in Iran, it will cause a lot of problems. Let them sit down and think it twice.”

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Meanwhile, he had revealed in his 2026 prophecies released on December 20, 2025 that there will be an attack in Iran.

“I foresee external military aggression against Iran”…..the current situation is a huge military aggression against the country.

At the moment, several countries are running helter-skelter due to the war, and the end doesn’t seem to be near as it continues to get larger.

2027 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: PROF. MUHAMMAD OMOLAJA SUBMITTED EXPRESSION OF INTEREST TO SOUTHWEST ADP LEADERSHIP

Thursday, February 27, 2026 was a special day in the life of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) in the southwest of Nigeria. This was the day one of the outstanding academician cum politician and Presidential Aspirant of the Party during the 2023 general election from the Obe Royal family of Ayetoro City, the headquarters of Yewa North Local Government in Ogun State part of the region – Prof. Muhammad Ayinla Omolaja (MAO) – formally submitted his Expression of Interest to contest for the Nigerian President during the forthcoming presidential election slated to take place on January 16, 2027, by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The occasion was well attended by the six State Chairmen of the Party from the region together with other notable southwest leaders.

The National Liberation Patriots (NLP) team of which Prof. Muhammad Omolaja is the National Chairman was lead to the occasion by their National Political Adviser (South) covering the 17 States of the Southern Part of Nigeria – Alhaji (Chief, Dr.) Moshood Alao Adegboyega – from Oyo State accompanied by other leaders of the political family.

The six ADP State Chairmen that attended the crucial meeting were Hon. Toye Ola of Osun State who doubles as the Southwest Chairman, Barrister (Dr.) Nasir Adewale Bolaji of Lagos State, Hon. (Chief, Amb., Dr.) Olufunke Modupeola Olanrewaju of Ogun State, His Excellency Ojo Ayodeji Tope of Ekiti State who is also the ADP governorship candidate for the forthcoming 2026 Ekiti State gubernatorial election, Hon. (Apostle) Oludare Ojo of Oyo State, and Hon. (Apostle) Oluwafemi Oladejo of Ondo State.

Also at the meeting were the ADP Governorship candidate for the forthcoming 2026 Osun State gubernatorial election – Her Excellency (Hon.) Yemisi Adeagbo-Opawoye, His Excellency (Dr.) Kazeem Olanrewaju Shokunbi – the Ogun State ADP Governorship Aspirant and his Deputy Governorship Aspirant – Her Excellency (Dr.) Oluronke Morenikeji Oseni.

The presidential hopeful, Prof. Muhammad Omolaja, used the opportunity to convince the Party leaders that if given the mandate to represent them as the Party’s flag bearer during the 2027 general election, he will make them proud and make Nigeria greater! He then handed over three copies of his Expression of Interest letter with its concomitant profile of him for the race. The three copies were duly signed and received while two copies were returned to him for further action upward to the National Chairman of the Party, Engineer Yusuf Yabagi, at the National Secretariat in Abuja – the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria.

Banditry in Nigeria: When Governance Failure Becomes Armed Authority

By George Omagbemi Sylvester | Published by SaharaWeeklyNG

“Why military force alone cannot defeat a crisis rooted in poverty, political incentives and institutional retreat.”

In large stretches of Nigeria’s Northwest, the state no longer holds a monopoly on violence or authority. Armed groups raid villages, collect levies, regulate mining routes, negotiate ransoms and enforce their own rules. This is commonly described as a “security crisis.” It is more accurate (and more troubling) to describe it as governance failure that has matured into armed parallel administration.

Banditry is not merely a breakdown of law and order. It is what happens when the social contract collapses.

Between 2018 and 2023, thousands of Nigerians were killed or abducted in Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna, and Sokoto states. Mass school kidnappings in Kankara, Jangebe and Kuriga drew global attention. Entire farming communities have been displaced, deepening food insecurity in a region already burdened by poverty. According to national data, the Northwest consistently records some of the highest poverty and out-of-school rates in the country; structural conditions that create fertile ground for recruitment into armed networks.

But statistics alone do not explain why banditry became systemic.

The roots lie in prolonged institutional retreat. Rural policing is thin. Judicial access is limited. Land governance mechanisms to resolve farmer–herder disputes remain weak or politicized. Youth unemployment remains chronically high. In many districts, citizens interact more frequently with traditional rulers or armed actors than with formal state institutions. Over time, coercive groups evolve from opportunistic criminals into structured authorities.

The 2011 collapse of Libya after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi further intensified this trajectory. Arms proliferation across the Sahel dramatically increased the lethality and organizational capacity of non-state actors. Nigeria’s porous northern borders allowed weapons trafficking networks to expand faster than enforcement capacity. What were once communal clashes involving rudimentary weapons transformed into heavily armed insurgent-style operations.

Nigeria has seen this pattern before.

The rise of Boko Haram in the Northeast offers a cautionary precedent. In its formative years, the group was often underestimated, politically entangled, or viewed through a narrow security lens. Allegations referenced in a United Nations Panel of Experts report connected early elements of the group to political actors, including former Borno governor Ali Modu Sheriff, who has denied wrongdoing. Regardless of individual culpability, the broader institutional lesson is clear: political systems that tolerate, manipulate, or underestimate armed movements risk enabling forces that ultimately escape all control.

Today’s bandit formations in the Northwest differ ideologically from Boko Haram, but they share structural similarities: they emerged where governance deficits were deepest.

The political economy of insecurity complicates resolution. Kidnapping-for-ransom has become a multi-million-naira industry. Informal taxation systems imposed by armed groups generate steady revenue. Illicit gold mining operations flourish under armed protection. Meanwhile, security votes allocated to state executives remain largely unaudited, and emergency procurement frameworks often operate with limited transparency. When instability expands discretionary authority or financial opacity, reform incentives weaken.

This incentive distortion is central. Sustainable peace requires that the political and financial costs of insecurity outweigh any perceived benefits derived from it.

Military force remains necessary. Territorial recovery and civilian protection demand it. However, purely kinetic responses cannot dismantle recruitment ecosystems rooted in poverty, illiteracy, land disputes, and institutional distrust. Each successful operation that clears a forest camp without restoring governance presence creates only temporary stability.

The deeper crisis is absence of state legitimacy in rural zones. Where courts are inaccessible, armed arbiters emerge. Where taxation yields no visible services, alternative collectors impose their own levies. Where young men perceive no economic pathway, armed entrepreneurship becomes rational.

Reversing this trajectory requires structural intervention:

Institutionalized farmer–herder mediation mechanisms with enforceable land titling frameworks.

Rural education investment targeting out-of-school populations vulnerable to recruitment.

Transparent auditing of security expenditures to realign incentive structures.

Border security cooperation with Sahelian neighbors focused on arms tracing.

Targeted agricultural modernization and rural employment programs.

Crucially, governance must return visibly and credibly; not as episodic military convoys, but as functioning courts, schools, healthcare systems and accountable budgeting processes.

Nigeria’s banditry crisis is not accidental. It is the predictable outcome of prolonged neglect intersecting with regional destabilization and distorted political incentives. The language of “war against bandits” obscures the more urgent imperative: reconstruction of state authority through legitimacy, transparency and service delivery.

Until governance reaches the villages, forests will continue to produce armed alternatives.

And no volume of airpower can permanently defeat a vacuum.