A 14-minute YouTube video is heightening tensions between Nigeria‘s government and a violent Islamist sect President Goodluck Jonathan has promised to destroy. Analysts say the video has revealed the president’s miscalculation of the extremist threat. The YouTube video opens with graphics of spinning flowers and crossed AK-47s. Bubble letters identify it as a message to [...]
A 14-minute YouTube video is heightening tensions between Nigeria‘s government and a violent Islamist sect President Goodluck Jonathan has promised to destroy. Analysts say the video has revealed the president’s miscalculation of the extremist threat. The YouTube video opens with graphics of spinning flowers and crossed AK-47s. Bubble letters identify it as a message to [...]
This is the first in a series of reports from West Africa by the editor of the FT, who has travelled through Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone, from the oil-contaminated Niger delta to teeming Lagos and a new rice farm project on Ghana’s Volta river. Further instalments from these three countries will follow over the [...]
KANO, Nigeria: Gunmen shot dead two men near a community centre showing soccer matches in northern Nigeria, days after the Islamist group Boko Haram reportedly called for such places to be closed, residents said Friday. The killing late Thursday in Potiskum came three days after leaflets, said to be from Boko Haram, were circulated there [...]
Former Military Administrator of Bauchi State, General . Chris Garuba and a top member of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Dr. Usman Bugaje, have accused the Federal Government of not doing enough to address the security challenges posed by Boko Haram and other militant groups. The two, who spoke at different fora in Abuja [...]
Associated Press (File image) Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Kano – Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram intends to bring down the government and “devour” President Goodluck Jonathan within three months, its purported leader said in his second al-Qaeda-style video posted on the Internet on Thursday. The 14-minute video of Abubakar Shekau seen on YouTube belittled Jonathan [...]
A former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Senator Olurunnimbe Mamora has said that the uniting force of sports could be used to manage the Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria. Mamora said in Lagos that over the years, sports had united Nigerians and could be used to curb the menace of Boko Haram. [...]
Abuja — Minister of State for Defence, Mrs. Olusola Obada, yesterday confirmed speculations that weapons stolen from Libyan armoury have found their way to Nigeria. In the dying days of the regime of Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi, the armoury was looted and some sophisticated weapons were reportedly stolen. There had been unconfirmed reports that [...]
With the death toll of the latest jihadist attack in Nigeria now at 41, Christians in that country can draw little consolation from the government’s assurances that the attack could have been far worse. Boko Haram — Nigeria’s most violent jihadist organization — has already murdered over 1,000 people since the beginning of 2011, and [...]
A suicide bomber set off his explosives close to where worshippers were gathered for Easter Sunday services. At least 38 people were killed in the explosion on a busy road in Kaduna, the capital of Kaduna state. Two churches were damaged in the explosion, the nearby All Nations Christian Assembly Church and the ECWA Good [...]
Abuja — PRIMATE of All Nigeria (Anglican Communion), the Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, Sunday challenged critics of President Goodluck Jonathan over the renovation of Otuoke Anglican Church by Ghitto Construction Company to remove the log in their eyes first before looking for the specks in another person’s, warning them to stop making provocative remarks. The [...]
By Mitaire Ikpen ABUJA — Following fears that the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, may strike during the Easter celebration, the Police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) took over security of all the churches in the city on Easter Sunday, yesterday. Prior to the Easter holidays, security agencies were on red alert over intelligence reports [...]
Shortly after a car bomb exploded on Easter Sunday in Kaduna, Nigeria, Hafsat Mohamed Baba rushed to the scene to assist with the wounded. Once there, the opposition politician accompanied an injured 11-year-old girl to a nearby hospital, where Baba saw the bodies of several who had already died. “There are so many casualties. When [...]
8 April 2012 Last updated at 21:18 ET Attacks in the area over Easter had been threatened by the Islamist group Boko Haram At least 38 people have died in a car bombing in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, officials said. Many others were injured in the attack, which took place when officials stopped [...]
• A version of this post appeared on the blog “Africa Works.” The views expressed are the author’s own. Skip to next paragraph J. Peter Pham released a timely paper this week on Boko Haram, tracing the history of the insurgent Nigerian movement in useful detail. Pham, who directs an Africa studies program at the Atlantic Council, concludes that [...]
| Print | E-mail Sunday, 08 April 2012 07:59 <![CDATA[ ]]> Share Link: A car-bomb attack has struck a commercial area in the town of Kaduna in northern Nigeria, causing an unconfirmed number of casualties and reports of widespread property damage. The Easter Sunday explosion occurred on a main road in Kaduna where motorcycle taxi drivers and passers-by caught [...]
An explosion in the central Nigeria city of Kaduna has killed at least 38 people on Easter Sunday, according to reports. The Associated Press said a car bomb exploded near a church where worshippers were attending an Easter service. Witnesses said it appeared the car had tried to enter the All Nations Christian Assembly Church compound, but [...]
KANO, Nigeria — In an attack that didn’t happen — well, not officially — a police inspector and four of his officers were ambushed by Islamist militants last month in this northern Nigerian city. Two of them died, two crawled away and hid in a ditch, and the inspector, shot in the leg, called on [...]
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Suspected members of a radical Islamist sect opened fire on a crowded market in northeast Nigeria Wednesday, killing at least seven people in an area protected by federal troops, witnesses and the police said. The shooting happened in Maiduguri – the spiritual home of the sect known as Boko Haram. The area [...]
April 1 (Bloomberg)– Nine gunmen were killed in a shootout on Mar. 31 as Nigerian security forces raided a bomb-making factory in the north-central state of Kogi, the state’s police commissioner said, while declining to confirm the site belonged to a militant Islamic sect responsible for bombings in the country. “We cannot say categorically that [...]
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UK Prime Minister to Lobby President GoodLuck for Gay People in Nigeria
The Britain Prime Minister, Mr David Cameroon whilst reacting to questions from a Nigerian, Name, Bisi, living in Britain, who asked for his reaction to a bill approved by Nigerian lawmakers last month banning same-sex marriage – setting jail terms of up to 14 years for offenders – and making it illegal to form gay [...]
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Condoms, narcotic drugs flood Boko Haram camps
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