{"id":198742,"date":"2026-04-10T18:35:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/vdm-laments-death-of-three-brigadier-generals"},"modified":"2026-04-10T18:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:35:49","slug":"vdm-laments-death-of-three-brigadier-generals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/vdm-laments-death-of-three-brigadier-generals","title":{"rendered":"VDM Laments Death of Three Brigadier-Generals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Popular Nigerian social media critic, Martins Vincent Otse, widely known as Verydarkman, VDM has lamented the unfortunate death of three Brigadier-Generals of the Nigerian Army killed by terrorists from 2021 till date.<\/p>\n<p> Brigadier-General Dzarma Zirkushu was killed in November 2021 during an ambush by, Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP in Borno State.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Brigadier-General Musa Uba was in November 2025, ambushed and killed by terrorist in Borno State.<\/p>\n<p>In another sad incident, Boko Haram fighters on Thursday killed Brigadier-General O. Braimah, Commander of the 29 Task Force Brigade, alongside several soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, VDM in a video post on his Facebook called on President Bola Tinubu to resign, alleging that the security crisis deteriorated in his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>In the video he captioned \u201cPresident Bola Tinubu does not have the solution, he should resign\u201d,<\/p>\n<p>VDM insinuated that there could be a political undertone regarding the lingering security crisis.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cFrom 2021 till now, we have lost three Brigadier-General trying to protect our lives. All they know how to do is to drop press statements after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been facing these security problems for a very long time now. Every year, Boko Haram gets more strength. Nigerians are in a big mess.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now in Kwara State, there a lot of homes have been abandoned. Niger State as of yesterday, I saw people crossing rivers, abandoning their homes. The same issues in Nasarawa and Borno State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t even know when and where they will attack next. Don\u2019t let anybody fool you, the Nigerian Army doesn\u2019t have more people than those men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, everything boils down to politics and the question is why? President Bola Tinubu attacked Goodluck Jonathan over the insecurity and it has gotten worse since he came.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t even need any campaign for 2027, you have done four years already and there is no solution\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Popular Nigerian social media critic, Martins Vincent Otse, widely known as Verydarkman, VDM has lamented the unfortunate death of three Brigadier-Generals of the Nigerian Army killed by terrorists from 2021 till date. Brigadier-General Dzarma Zirkushu was killed in November 2021 during an ambush by, Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP in Borno [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":198741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-198742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>VDM Laments Death of Three Brigadier-Generals - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/vdm-laments-death-of-three-brigadier-generals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VDM Laments Death of Three Brigadier-Generals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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