Widowed Wife of late Nigerian military officer, known on TikTok as Everything Woman, has issued a scathing public rebuke of what she describes as the country’s growing indifference toward the deaths of soldiers, following the reported killing of her late husband, Brigadier Uba in Maiduguri, Borno State.
In a deeply emotional video posted on Thursday, the woman said she had spent hours online searching for national outrage, tributes, or even a sign of collective grief — but found none. According to her, the silence surrounding the death of such a senior officer reflects a disturbing cultural shift in how Nigeria values the lives of its military personnel.
“I’ve been online since morning, waiting to see something that will give me hope,” she lamented. “Tell me why, till now, everywhere is just quiet like a chicken died? When I was younger, if a soldier fell, communities and even states closed.”
She compared today’s reactions to the past, when fallen officers were honoured with solemnity and communal respect. “Because 10,000 men would bury that soldier, escort him to his grave. Now, we lose a Brigadier General, and the whole nation is silent as if nothing happened.”
Her criticism did not spare military families, government officials, or the general public. She accused all parties of allowing a culture of indifference to take root, warning that such silence is dangerous.
“Even military wives are quiet. If you stay quiet, it will affect you. Our government is quiet. As a country, how have we let it get to this point where they kill a Brigadier General and nothing happens?”
Visibly shaken, she recounted seeing images online that left her questioning the nation’s priorities. “When I saw that man sitting there like a thief, I asked myself, what is the point? What is the point if our men can’t get protection, justice, or vengeance?”
Her message then turned personal as she detailed the emotional and physical toll borne by military families — long years of separation, missed milestones, and constant fear. She said her only hope had been that her husband would survive his service and return home after 35 years.
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“Mr President, as a military wife, my consolation was that after carrying my children alone, attending every antenatal appointment and birth without him, one day he would serve 35 years and come back. Every birthday missed, every anniversary celebrated alone, every night slept alone, every responsibility done alone, was because I believed one day I would have him back.”
Now, she fears even that hope is slipping away.
“So tell me, why does it now seem that he might serve forever, and that shatters my hope? Because he might miss every birthday for nothing. He might just die like a bird.”
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