Trouble brewing in Nigeria?

[Ab-Titchaz]

Nigeria gunmen in Mubi 'target Igbos'

At least 10 people have been killed by masked gunmen who targeted a town hall in Mubi in north-eastern Nigeria.

Residents in Mubi told the BBC those killed were from the Igbo community from the south of the country.

They had been meeting to organise how to transport the body of an Igbo man shot dead by gunmen on motorbikes on Thursday evening.

Mubi is in Adamawa state which borders Borno state, where radical Islamist militants began an insurgency in 2010.

Last month, the president declared a state of emergency in Yobe and Borno states in the north-east, Plateau state in central Nigeria and Niger state in the west following a surge in ethnic and sectarian violence.

The police blame much of the violence on the Islamist Boko Haram group, which wants to impose strict Sharia law across Nigeria.

 

[Askari Kanzu]

It seems like the insensate Boko Haram is bent on carrying out its harrowing threat of killing all southerners who do no relocate to south after the three day ultimatum they issued passed yesterday. Fuel subsidy riots plus Boko Haram threats are a bad recipe. Nigeria is slowly crumbling!

 

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Follow hashtag #OccupyNigeria to find out more about Nigeria Rising against endemic corruption. Today, Nigerians in London protested in solidarity with Nigerians in Nigeria. Africa Rising against endemic Corruption already happening in Nigeria.

 

[Askari Kanzu]

Over 50 injured as angry youths attack Muslims in Sapele
On January 6, 2012. By Emma Amaize and Godwin Oghre

SAPELE- ENRAGED youths, numbering over 2,000, armed with battleaxes, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons went on rampage, Friday, sacking and inflicting injuries on over 50 Muslims at the Hausa quarters, Sapele in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State.

A northern security guard was shot dead in a separate incident by a gang of armed robbers that attacked a school in Sapele on Thursday.

Vanguard gathered that the youths were incensed by the uninhibited attacks on churches and killing of Christians in the northern part of the country by the Islamic Boko Haram sect.

Two of the persons suspected to have carried out the onslaught were, however, arrested by the police in Sapele.

There was pandemonium following the attack on Muslims, who were ordered to vacate the town in their own interest since Boko Haram members had also issued ultimatum to Christians to leave the north.

Secretary of a Muslim Media group in Sapele, Sadiq Oniyesaneyene Musa who spoke to Vanguard on the attacks by Sapele youths said, "We are disturbed by this attack on Muslims in Sapele and the order that all Muslims in Sapele should return to the north. I am a Muslim and an Itsekiri from Delta state, where do they want me to go to, this is my homeland".

Musa said the youths besieged Muslims in the town very close to the mosque that was bombed, last year, and injured a lot of faithful.

"We called the director of the State Security Service, SSS, Asaba and the Area Commander and they responded. The Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger-Delta also deployed soldiers to take care of the situation", he said.

Vanguard

 

[Alwaz]

Over 50 injured as angry youths attack Muslims in Sapele
On January 6, 2012. By Emma Amaize and Godwin Oghre

SAPELE- ENRAGED youths, numbering over 2,000, armed with battleaxes, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons went on rampage, Friday, sacking and inflicting injuries on over 50 Muslims at the Hausa quarters, Sapele in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State.

A northern security guard was shot dead in a separate incident by a gang of armed robbers that attacked a school in Sapele on Thursday.

Vanguard gathered that the youths were incensed by the uninhibited attacks on churches and killing of Christians in the northern part of the country by the Islamic Boko Haram sect.

Two of the persons suspected to have carried out the onslaught were, however, arrested by the police in Sapele.

There was pandemonium following the attack on Muslims, who were ordered to vacate the town in their own interest since Boko Haram members had also issued ultimatum to Christians to leave the north.

Secretary of a Muslim Media group in Sapele, Sadiq Oniyesaneyene Musa who spoke to Vanguard on the attacks by Sapele youths said, “We are disturbed by this attack on Muslims in Sapele and the order that all Muslims in Sapele should return to the north. I am a Muslim and an Itsekiri from Delta state, where do they want me to go to, this is my homeland”.

Musa said the youths besieged Muslims in the town very close to the mosque that was bombed, last year, and injured a lot of faithful.

“We called the director of the State Security Service, SSS, Asaba and the Area Commander and they responded. The Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger-Delta also deployed soldiers to take care of the situation”, he said.

Vanguard

Kwa mtindo huu ukoloni Afrika hautaisha.Watu tayari wameacha ajenda ya mafuta na wanarudi kulipizana kisasi cha mauwaji yanayofanywa na special agents.

 

[Pezzonovante]

Boko Haram classified name from CIA, source wiki leaks

B = Bunch
O = Of
K = Killing
O = Organisation

H = Hired
A = Assasins
R = Representing
A = American
M = Mafias







"Who really is behind the 'CABAL' running Nigeria and SPONSORING BOKO HARAM?" ,

'America, particulary the CIA has its hand on Nigerian issues, economical and political, since many years and who thinks it has changed just because Obama is now President of the United States is naive.

This report is the work of the staff of the , Baobab Press Washington-based consortium of professional journalists involved in investigative re, porting about issues of concern to the developing world. For further information, please contact: Baobab Press, Post Office Box 43345, Washington, DC 20010, U.S.A.

At the time of the infamous 1976 coup that put Olusegun Obasanjo in power, there was little in the way of concrete evidence linking him to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. But over the years that followed, Obasanjo became a highly visible part of a complex network developed by the United States government to wage political and economic warfare against Nigeria.

A series of formerly-secret cables between Lagos and Washington, along with other documents from government and private sources, reveal ties between Obasanjo and at least two groups working closely with the CIA -- and also make it appear likely that the recent plot to overthrow the Nigerian military government originated in Washington.

Destabilisation Campaign - When Muritala Mohammed was killed on 13 February 1976, suspicions were widespread that the CIA had a hand in assassination. This much is reflected in a secret report prepared by the U.S. Information Agency, the propaganda office that oversees VOA broadcasts and U.S. Information Service (USIS) installations around the world. The USIS 1976 Country Plan for Nigeria, declassified only five years ago, acknowledged that the political climate in Nigeria following Mohammed's assassination had been one of "uncertainty, distrust and suspicion." It further advised, "Charges of U.S. (CIA) backing for the attempted coup were prevalent [and] the Chancery and all USIS posts were physically attacked."

The USIS document leaves no doubt about American intentions toward Africa's most populous nation. Indeed, the same confidential report called Nigeria "the primary external source of crude oil for the United States," and repeatedly stressed the need for increased American influence.

Many of the State Department's Nigeria cables for the months prior to the assassination of Brig. Muritala Mohammed are still classified. Others, which have been released to investigators in recent years, are inconclusive. But the record nonetheless illustrates the paranoia that existed in the United States at the time about access to oil and about Nigeria's growing capability to influence the rest of the continent.

A 26 September 1975 communique complains, for instance, that Nigeria had supplied several thousands of dollars to leaders of the then-banned African National Congress in Lusaka. Another, written in January of 1976 and classified as "confidential," cited rhetoric heard with increasing frequency from Nigerian leaders about the "uncompromising supremacy of Nigeria's national interest," as well as opposition to what Mohammed himself had reportedly described as "blackmail and vicious propaganda" from the west.

Perhaps worst of all was the unpardonable sin committed by Mohammed when he declined an official visit by U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger which was proposed for May of 1976.

U.S.intelligence-gathering operations likewise escalated at an alarming pace during Mohammed's rule. In a 20 January 1976 cable from Lagos to Washington, for example, U.S. Ambassador Donald Easum warned:

"If Nigeria wants to use oil as a political weapon to promote its foreign policy, this would not necessarily involve further nationalisation. But could mean FMG is considering ways it might assert greater control over which consuming countries get Nigerian oil, depending on positions those countries take on foreign policies issues of interest to Nigeria. We understand several other possibly important papers/addresses delivered at senior officers meeting, reportedly including Un/Ife scholar's advocacy of Nigeria's using oil weapon. We and consul Ibadan will attempt obtain relevant papers and will report further if warranted."

And yet another secret dispatch, written less than two weeks before Mohammed was killed, hints that U.S. officials were prepared to sabotage Nigeria's booming economy. Nigeria, wrote Ambassador Easum on 2 February 1976, "desires to play leadership role, [and will] require modern army if its power (within African context) is to be credible. Further, it likely that given foreseeable internal political realities, Nigeria will maintain relatively large army for some time to come."

The same telegram listed a series of modern weapons likely to be acquired by the Nigerian government, and asserted the belief that a "civilian government might exercise a more restraint." But it ended on an even more bitter note:

"One development would act as a constraint on Nigerian arms purchases: a sharp drop in the price of petroleum. Defence budget would presumably have to be cut proportionately with fall in revenue if government were to meet minimum developmental and social demands on its resources. Easum."

Pondering a Military Invasion - To appreciate fully Obasanjo's curious connections to western insiders, one must first look at the circumstances under which Mohammed was murdered, at the political context of the times, and at other key players in the events of the 1970s.

The OPEC oil embargo of 1973 and 1974 presented the wealthy nations of the northern hemisphere with the most serious crisis they have faced in recent history. Unlike any other event of the 20th century, the action impressed upon western leaders their vulnerability to collective action by resource-rich states in the southern hemisphere. In fact, the oil boycott accomplished something that two "world wars" and a half-century-long East-West confrontation never even touched: it altered the distribution of wealth between north and south.

Moreover, the embargo came at a time when the U.S. was still stinging from the humiliation of its military defeat in Vietnam, and when American political institutions were under siege from within. Anti-war protests convulsed the country from coast to coast. A civil rights movement, massive in scope, challenged the old class structure, while riots in urban centers diverted the attention and resources of government. In the midst of this upheaval, Congress launched an unprecedented investigation into CIA misdeeds around the world. And even as all these events combined to shake the political establishment, a scandal of historical proportions began to unfold which would eventually force then-President Richard M. Nixon from office.

It is also worth noting that the OPEC action would have been even more devastating to the U.S. and its western allies if it had been complete. But as Nigeria's head of state, Yakubu Gowan opted to permit shipments to the U.S. throughout the boycott.

It is not entirely surprising, then, that just one month after the nationalist Muritala Mohammed took office, an elaborate "feasibility study" was presented to Congress which explored the options for a military invasion of the oil-rich Nigerian coast. The detailed military document -- called "Oil Fields as Military Objectives" and dated August 21, 1975 -- was prepared to provide background to legislators in the event that the U.S. "vital interest" was threatened by a repeat of the OPEC sanctions.

Among other things, the Congressional report noted that Nigeria would offer little more than "token resistance" to a U.S. invasion -- primarily because it was considered unlikely that the Nigerians would learn of the pending attack in time to sabotage the oil fields. Moreover, said the Congressional report, transit routes from Nigeria to the eastern U.S. are relatively direct -- without "bottlenecks, such as the Suez Canal and Strait of Hormuz, [to] interfere with traffic flow." Nigerian oil wells, the study's writers concluded, could "pump enough petroleum to maintain the U.S. economy at a reduced pace if we conserved a million barrels a day," and offered the additional advantage of having "essential refinery capacities" already in place.

Of particular military significance was the fact that the potential for Soviet involvement on the Nigeria front was considered low. "Outsiders would find it difficult or impossible to oppose U.S. actions [to seize Nigerian petroleum installations]," the document insisted. "No intervening obstacles impede passage , to the United States or its principal allies."

But there were important drawbacks, as well. "Parachute assaults, for example, would be impractical," the document warned. "Nigeria's fields are in mangrove swamps and rain forest similar to those that frustrated U.S. forces in Southeast Asia." Worse yet, it continued, Nigeria's oil-rich coastline was densely populated, making guerrilla warfare a certainty and mandating "special tactics, tools, and techniques" on the part of the invader.

The Assassination Inquiry - Even as the U.S. government was preparing for the possibility of full-fledged petroleum sanctions that could impinge on the nation's "vital interests" and planning its long-range population reduction scheme, yet another development destined to shake the Washington hierarchy was taking shape.

Congress, in response to growing distrust of government among the American public, began holding hearings into abuses by the CIA. Of particular interest was the matter of political assassinations and plots to overthrow foreign heads of state. And there was abundant evidence of CIA involvement in such actions in Africa.

The Agency's role in the 1961 murder of Patrice Lumumba, for instance, was first revealed publicly by the former chief of the CIA's Angola division, John Stockwell, in a landmark book titled In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story. In that 1978 expose, Stockwell asserts that the Congolese leader had been eliminated to preserve "a half-billion- dollar investment in Zairian mineral resources," which the west felt would end up in the wrong hands if Lumumba controlled the vast central African nation.

In his book, Stockwell also recalls a conversation with a fellow U.S. operative who told of "driving about town after curfew with Patrice Lumumba's body in the trunk of his car, trying to decide what to do with it." According to Stockwell (and confirmed in testimony given before Congress), Richard Helms, CIA director from 1966 to 1973, had ordered the destruction of numerous records re- lating to the assassination of Lumumba.

Stockwell also reveals in the same book that, "the CIA station in Ghana played a major role in the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah in 1966."

Formerly secret State Department records have also revealed that the United States worked closely with British colonial rulers in the early 1950s as part of a plot aimed at "breaking the back" of the Mau Mau movement and, in particular, at getting independence leader Jomo Kenyatta "out of circulation without due process of law," in the words of a top secret October 1952 cable from Nairobi to Washington. More recently, published reports have suggested that an American diplomat, working as a CIA contact, engineered the capture by South African police of Nelson Mandela in August of 1962.

One outcome of the hearings -- held in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate __ was that, by January 1975, strong pressures were brought to bear upon the White House to issue an Executive Order barring foreign assassinations. And that very month, then-President Gerald Ford, Nixon's successor in office, openly acknowledged that disclosure of the CIA's involvement in assassination conspiracies "would blacken the reputation of every President after Harry Truman." But oddly, the year passed without any such presidential directive.

Obasanjo's Curious Alliances - To track the careers of the high-ranking U.S. policy makers of the 1970s into the present time is to follow a sequence of bizarre coincidences -- or perhaps something far more sinister. It is here that Obasanjo's ties to the "inner circle" in Washington and New York become apparent.

At the time of Mohammed's assassination, the United States Ambassador to Nigeria was Donald Easum, who enjoyed a cordial relationship with Henry Kissinger, then U.S. Secretary of State.

After leaving his overseas post up through the early 1990s, Easum headed an outfit called the African-American Institute, which is headquartered across the street from United Nations in New York. The African-American Institute is an establishment created in 1954 with CIA money to promote an "exchange" of ideas between the United States and the people of Africa. It is essentially the "liberal" face of CIA-inspired meddling in Africa's internal political institutions.

Although Easum was the chief of AAI, Obasanjo could easily be called its most visible African. Obasanjo is an AAI trustee, and heads its prominent African Leadership Forum. He was specially honored at the AAI Sixth Annual Awards Dinner in November, 1989. Among those serving on the advisory board of Obasanjo's Forum is the Vietnam war era Defence Secretary and one-time World Bank president, Robert McNamara.

In June of 1990, McNamara was charged with planning a four-day World Bank conference in Lagos, at which population control was the only agenda. The birth reduction programme, as the Kissinger-era National Security Council paper shows, was aimed at crushing Nigeria not only militarily but also economically. Larger populations produce more wealth, and more wealth in the hands of Nigerians would mean less dependence on western "development" institutions and heightened regional influence. So obvious was the ploy that the Bank itself dared not make such a pronouncement. Instead, it sent for Obasanjo.

During its planning and implementation, the Lagos conference was a well-kept secret, and World Bank press officers referred inquiries to Obasanjo's office in New York. After the meeting, however, Obasanjo publicly called upon Nigerian leaders to implement mandatory birth curbs barring families from having more than three children.

And while Obasanjo was in Lagos demanding that compulsory birth control be foisted on unsuspecting Nigerians, Easum's African American Institute was busy building a shadowy political network to make it a reality. Under a tightly-worded contract between AAI and the Agency for International Development, the Institute agreed to be instrumental in producing "a policy climate conducive to the successful execution of a national family planning effort [in Nigeria] and to strengthen federal, state, and local government capability in strategic planning in order to efficiently mobilise and execute an effective and self-sustaining national family planning programme."

Another outfit with extensive ties to Washington's "secret establishment" is the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a right-wing geopolitical "think-tank" whose most conspicuous team member is Henry Kissinger.

Obasanjo's footprints can be found all over CSIS. On 15 December 1987, the former Nigerian leader delivered the CSIS David M. Abshire lecture -- an annual event of no small importance which takes its name from the Center's ambitious founder and head. Abshire was the first director of the Board for International Broadcasting and is a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.

The Intelligence Advisory Board, established by presidential decree in October of 1985, is a select group of individuals chosen by the president and authorised to "continually review the performance of all agencies of the Federal government that are engaged in the collection, evaluation, or production of intelligence or the execution of intelligence policy." It makes recommendations directly to the president and, when approved by the president, "to the Director of Central Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, and other government agencies engaged in intelligence and related activities."

Indeed, Abshire's CSIS publishes and sells materials written by Obasanjo, including a small paperback book titled, "Forging a Compact in U.S.-Africa Relations," which is based on Obasanjo's 1987 lecture.

And roughly four years ago, Obasanjo was the featured speaker at a Washington conference on "Sudan and Nigeria: Reli- gion, Nationalism and Intolerance," which was sponsored by the government-controlled (and deceptively-named) U.S. Institute for Peace. There he presented a rambling talk that called for a "mental decarbonisation of the generality of the people in both countries [Sudan and Nigeria]" -- something his militaristic audience may well have interpreted as a veiled reference to wholesale brainwashing.

A Matter of Timing - The sequence of events that occurred in February of 1976 seems even more bizarre if one looks at what happened at the very top level of government -- the White House.

In the fall of 1975, Ford selected a new Director of Central Intelligence, who was sworn in to office on January 30, 1976 -- exactly two weeks before the coup that brought Obasanjo to power -- over the objections of many of the same legislators who had labored to uncover abuses by the secret agency. The new CIA chief had a reputation as being the nation's most enthusiastic supporter of foreign population control measures in the 1960s and early 1970s, both as a member of the House of Representatives and as Nixon's envoy to the UN, and he later engineered the oil-motivated massacre of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. His name: George Bush.

It was not until 18 February 1976 -- five days after Mohammed was killed and more than two weeks after Bush took charge of the CIA -- that President Ford signed the long-awaited Executive Order 11905 on the subject of "United States Foreign Intelligence Activi- ties." The directive stated: "No employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political assassination." By then, of course, Obasanjo had been safely installed as Brig. Mohammed's replacement.

A Matter of Timing - The sequence of events that occurred in February of 1976 seems even more bizarre if one looks at what happened at the very top level of government -- the White House. In the fall of 1975, Ford selected a new Director of Central Intelligence, who was sworn in to office on January 30, 1976 -- exactly two weeks before the coup that brought Obasanjo to power -- over the objections of many of the same legislators who had labored to uncover abuses by the secret agency. The new CIA chief had a reputation as being the nation's most enthusiastic supporter of foreign population control measures in the 1960s and early 1970s, both as a member of the House of Representatives and as Nixon's envoy to the UN, and he later engineered the oil-motivated massacre of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. His name: George Bush. It was not until 18 February 1976 -- five days after Mohammed was killed and more than two weeks after Bush took charge of the CIA -- that President Ford signed the long-awaited Executive Order 11905 on the subject of "United States Foreign Intelligence Activi- ties." The directive stated: "No employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political assassination." By then, of course, Obasanjo had been safely installed as Brig. Mohammed's replacement.'

(Culled from CIA AND THEIR WORKS IN NIGERIA! READ AND DO NOT BE FOOLED By Nigeria Revolt in OCCUPY ABUJA/NIGERIA)

"The CIA report indicating Nigeria may break-up in 2015 should not come as a surprise , They've been trying to destabilize us for their selfish interests long before now"


source Baobab Press Washington.

 

[Pezzonovante]

RECENT INVESTIGATION by Nigerian SSS after they arrested BOKO HARAM SHOWS BOKO HARAM RECIEVES $100,000 from an American Bank and the bank denied it and claimed BOKO used Yahoo to dupe them,

 

[Askari Kanzu]

7 January 2012
Nigerians flee Boko Haram sectarian attacks

Hundreds of people have been fleeing areas of north-eastern Nigeria, after a 24-hour wave of violence apparently targeting Christian communities.

At least 29 people have died in four attacks in Adamawa state, prompting the state governor to impose a curfew.

The Islamist Boko Haram group has said it carried out several attacks. One Boko Haram faction has warned all southerners - who are mostly Christian and animist - to leave the mainly Muslim north of Nigeria.

Last week President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Yobe and Borno states, as well as Plateau state in central Nigeria and Niger state in the west, following a surge in ethnic and sectarian violence.

Adamawa, which borders Borno state where Boko Haram emerged, was not included.

More than 500 people have been killed by the group over the past year. President Jonathan, who is a Christian, has vowed to crack down on the group but Christian groups have accused him of not doing enough to protect them.

Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, president of the Christian Association of Nigeria, said his members would protect themselves against the attacks.

"We have decided to work out means to defend ourselves against these senseless killings," he said, quoted by the Associated Press news agency. The pattern of the killings suggested "systematic ethnic and religious cleansing", he added.

The pastor declined to be specific about how Christians would defend themselves, raising fears of retaliation and an escalation of the violence.

BBC

 

[Askari Kanzu]

Too little too late?
Jonathan cuts salaries of govt officials by 25 per cent
On January 7, 2012

In a move to avert the impending Labour protests across the country on Monday, President Goodluck Jonathan, Saturday night, in a national broadcast. announced new policy measures to ameliorate the hardship on Nigerians occasioned by the removal of fuel subsidy.

President Jonathan said that some of the measures include; the cutting of salaries of all political office holders by 25 percent; the directive that all ministries, departments and agencies(MDAs) to reduce their overheads; and reduction of all overseas travels by government officials to the bearest minimum in 2012.

The President also promised to sanitise the oil industries, just as he promised to launch by tomorow a robust mass transit programme, in partnership with states, LGs, transport owners and banking institutions with zero percent interest rate.

"To save Nigeria, we must all be prepared to make sacrifices. On the part of Government, we are taking several measures aimed at cutting the size and cost of governance, including on-going and continuous effort to reduce the size of our recurrent expenditure and increase capital spending. In this regard, I have directed that overseas travels by all political office holders, including the President, should be reduced to the barest minimum. The size of delegations on foreign trips will also be drastically reduced; only trips that are absolutely necessary will be approved.

" For the year 2012, the basic salaries of all political office holders in the Executive arm of government will be reduced by 25%. Government is also currently reviewing the number of committees, commissions and parastatals with overlapping responsibilities. The Report on this will be submitted shortly and the recommendations will be promptly implemented. In the meantime, all Ministries, Departments and Agencies must reduce their overhead expenses."

Vanguard

Read here the whole transcript of the speech

 

[Pezzonovante]

Jamaa wamefanya mambo tena huko nigeria

 

[Rufiji]

This is plainly pathetic. Instead of wasting their precious time in searching for a scapegoat, Nigerians should step up to the plate and look for the solution to their problems

 

[The Boss]

some truth

 

[Mwali]

RECENT INVESTIGATION by Nigerian SSS after they arrested BOKO HARAM SHOWS BOKO HARAM RECIEVES $100,000 from an American Bank and the bank denied it and claimed BOKO used Yahoo to dupe them,

Jamani hata mimi siwezi kuibiwa tena tu shillingi kwa njia hizo, ndio a professional banker akaibiwe laki ya dolali? waache uongo bwana!

 

[The Boss]

huu ni ukweli
kuna groups ndani ya USA kazi yake ndo hiyo
sio serikali ya Obama....but some groups zipo

 

[Saint Ivuga]

boko-west(ki ibo)
haram-haram

 

[Askari Kanzu]

Wacheza karata watatu wauawa na Boko Haram!

Boko Haram kills three in Borno
January 8, 2012

By Daily Post Staff

Suspected Islamists have shot dead three poker players near a church in the latest attacks targeting Christians in northeast Nigeria, residents said Sunday. The killings took place late Saturday in Biu town of the northeast Nigerian state of Borno. The area is one of several placed under emergency rule by a presidential decree last week.

Two gunmen on a motorcylce shot into a crowd of Christians playing cards at an abandoned hotel near a church on the outskirts of the town, killing three and wounding seven others

"The gunmen, believed to be members of Boko Haram, riding a motorcycle, opened fire on a group of Christian residents playing poker outside the abandoned Honeymoon Hotel near EYN church and killed three people," Ba'na Ubaidu, a resident, told AFP. Biu is about 200 kilometres (125 miles) south of Maiduguri, the homeground of Boko Haram and capital of Borno state.

Godwin Shamaki, a Christian resident, gave a similar account.

"They just fired into the group of about 15 people playing cards, and killed three people," Shamaki said, adding that seven people were wounded.

"The attackers fled into the bush and disappeared. They are by all indications members of Boko Haram," Shamaki said.

More than 80 people, mainly Christians, have died in a spate of attacks blamed on Boko Haram since Christmas Day in Nigeria

Daily Post

 

[Ndahani]

Hakuna mji utakaoweza kusimama kwenye misingi ya uongo na fitna. Nigerians wametapeli weeee sasa sumu ile inawarudi wenyewe. Uongo, unafiki na fitna haziwezi msaidia mtu awaye yote. Watanzania wenzangu tukatae wale wote wanaotaka kutuletea balaa hizi za nigeria nchini kwetu

 

[Rungu]

Hakuna mji utakaoweza kusimama kwenye misingi ya uongo na fitna. Nigerians wametapeli weeee sasa sumu ile inawarudi wenyewe. Uongo, unafiki na fitna haziwezi msaidia mtu awaye yote. Watanzania wenzangu tukatae wale wote wanaotaka kutuletea balaa hizi za nigeria nchini kwetu

Hapo umenena!

 

[Alwaz]

Kwanini Boko Haram wafanye hivyo sasa?.Kumebadilika nini,mbona wakristo wapo zamani.Hii chuki yao na mauwaji mbona kama kwamba ni mbinu ya kuzima malalamiko ya wanaijeria.
Kumbe balaa lote hili ni jaribio la kuzima ushawishi wa Nigeria kama taifa kubwa Afrika kwa mataifa mengine ya kiafrika,ili huu ushawishi ubaki kwa America pekee.Wakati huo huo ni tamaa ya mafuta ya Nigeria ambayo yanatajwa kuwa ni rahisi zaidi kufika Marekani kuliko mafuta ya nchi nyengine.Lini walimwengu watazinduka na zimwi linaloichafua dunia?.

 

[Askari Kanzu]

Kwanini Boko Haram wafanye hivyo sasa?.Kumebadilika nini,mbona wakristo wapo zamani.Hii chuki yao na mauwaji mbona kama kwamba ni mbinu ya kuzima malalamiko ya wanaijeria.
Kumbe balaa lote hili ni jaribio la kuzima ushawishi wa Nigeria kama taifa kubwa Afrika kwa mataifa mengine ya kiafrika,ili huu ushawishi ubaki kwa America pekee.Wakati huo huo ni tamaa ya mafuta ya Nigeria ambayo yanatajwa kuwa ni rahisi zaidi kufika Marekani kuliko mafuta ya nchi nyengine.Lini walimwengu watazinduka na zimwi linaloichafua dunia?.

Ami sasa mbona unachanganya mambo mpaka nashindwa kukuelewa?