During an interview on Trust TV, political analyst Dr. Usman Yusuf criticized the Nigerian government’s response to rising military casualties, contrasting it with how the United States honors its fallen service members.
Yusuf said there is a stark difference in how leadership communicates with the public when soldiers die in service, and he questioned the absence of national acknowledgment from Nigeria’s top officials.
According to him, “The numbers are there; they’re not giving us the full numbers. As opposed to what is happening in the United States, if a soldier dies, the other day, the president, vice president, and the secretary of war were at the airport to receive the casket of three fallen soldiers, and these are other ranks, not officers. But here, officers and men have been killed, and we hear from nobody. The president never talks, and the military leadership, what they do is to keep arguing with Sahara Reporters.”
He noted that such high‑profile displays of respect for fallen troops are part of American tradition, where leadership visibly honors service members regardless of rank. Yusuf then contrasted that with the situation in Nigeria, saying the nation’s military losses have not been acknowledged in the same way by government leaders.