Trouble brewing in Nigeria?

huu ni ukweli
kuna groups ndani ya USA kazi yake ndo hiyo
sio serikali ya Obama....but some groups zipo
Hilo group au groups, baba yao ni CIA...ambao kwa sasa huwa wanatumia sub contractors e.g black waters, CANVAS ambazo hutafuta locals na kuwapa mafunzo na kuanzisha mbinde sehemu husika.

Ukitaja CIA, umetaja serikali ya US.
 
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
It is not plainly pathetic.
They have their part of the blame as a gvt for not using the resources for the benefit of all but US war on terror has one motive...US empire expansion. Since that war on terror started many years ago, it is only getting worse. Who benefits from this?
US-NATO nations.
 
Boko Haram wamejipenyeza serikalini - Goodluck Jonathan asema!

Jonathan: Boko Haram in Govt, Threat Worse Than Civil War


08 Jan 2012
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President Goodluck Jonathan
By Ahamefula Ogbu

President Goodluck Jonathan Sunday declared the threat and menace of the Boko Haram sect as worse that the Biafran War to the corporate existence of the country and added that the membership pervade the executive, legislative and judiciary as well as all arms of the security agencies.

Jonathan, who said the membership of the sect was so pervasive that they are found even in households without the knowledge of parents, but assured that all efforts were on to tackle it and called on all Nigerians to collaborate and cooperate with security agencies to tackle the menace effectively.

Jonathan, who spoke at the Inter-denominational service at the National Christian Centre, Abuja to mark the 2012 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration, said in climes where similar threats had been handled were done through the contributions of all citizens.

"During the civil war, we knew and we could even predict where the enemy was coming from, you can even know the route they are coming from, you can even know what calibre of weapon they will use and so on.

"But the challenge we have today is more complicated. I remember when I heard a meeting with elders from the North East and some parts of the North West where the Boko Haram phenomenon is more prevalent; somebody said that the situation is bad that even if one's son is a member, one will not even know. That means that if the person will plant a bomb behind your house, you won't know.

"Some of them are in the executive arm of government; some of them are in the parliamentary/legislative arm of government while some of them are even in the judiciary. Some are also in the armed forces, the police and other security agencies. Some continue to dip their hands and eat with you and you won't even know the person who will point a gun at you or plant a bomb behind your house.

"That is how complex the situation is. Our security services are trying because as the president, I know what they are doing. Nigerians may not appreciate their efforts especially when you know that we are under-policed. We have a police force that is about 300,000 in number,” Jonathan said.

This Day Live
 
Nigerian police shoot protester dead in Lagos, wound 3
LAGOS | Mon Jan 9, 2012 8:20am EST


LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian police shot dead a man at a demonstration against fuel subsidy cuts in the main commercial city of Lagos on Monday, and wounded three others, witnesses and hospital staff said.

Angry residents in Lagos's Ogba suburb said police had fired on a crowd to disperse it.

"They shot four people," resident Ahmed Iyabo, who witnessed the shooting told a Reuters reporter at the scene.

Hospital staff, who declined to be named, said that the man killed had been transferred to the mortuary. Three wounded protesters lay waiting for treatment for gunshot wounds to the leg, the Reuters reporter, who visited the hospital, said.

(Reporting by Chijioke Ohuocha; Writing by Tim Cocks; Editing by Louise Ireland)

-Reuters
 
A general strike in Nigeria over the elimination of a fuel subsidy has brought the country to a standstill.

Shops, offices, schools and petrol stations around the country closed on the first day of an indefinite strike.

In Lagos and other cities, thousands marched against the removal of the subsidy, which has doubled fuel costs.

Police fired on protesters in Kano in the north, reportedly killing two and wounding many. Another demonstrator died in a clash with police in Lagos.

President Goodluck Jonathan has said the subsidy was economically unsustainable.

Zaidi hapa BBC News - Nigeria fuel strike brings country to a halt
 
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Protesters have taken to the streets in Lagos and many other parts of Nigeria to demand that the government restore its fuel subsidy, which ended abruptly on 1 January


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Several days of anger have culminated in a day of strikes and demonstrations called by the country's main trade unions.



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Demonstrators were also out in force in the northern city of Kaduna. The unions say the strike will continue until the government restores the subsidies.



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Police were deployed across Lagos in large numbers. One demonstrator died in a clash with police in the city, while in the city of Kano, two died when police opened fire.
 
The spiral of violence continues. Attack and counter attack!

Mosque and Islamic school attacked in Benin City


A mosque and Islamic school have been attacked and set alight in the southern Nigerian city of Benin, police say.

Police told the BBC that one person was killed, 10 arrested and that part of the mosque was still burning. It follows a separate attack on a different mosque in the city on Monday.

In recent weeks, southerners, who are mostly Christians or animists, have been the targets of deadly attacks by the Islamist Boko Haram group, which operates in the mainly Muslim north.

A leader of the Hausa community in Benin told the BBC's Hausa Service that 7,000 northerners were seeking refuge in police and army barracks in the city.

The Nigerian Red Cross confirmed to the BBC that they were registering northerners at police stations and army barracks. Two cars at the centre housing the mosque and Islamic school were also torched, police said. The attack is the latest in a spiral of sectarian violence that has seen many southerners living in the north flee their homes.

Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka blamed the violence on leaders who put their own religion above national unity.

"When you get a situation where a bunch of people can go into a place of worship and open fire through the windows you've reached a certain dismal watershed in the life of that nation," he said in a BBC interview.

"There's no question at all, whatsoever. Those who have created this faceless army have lost control of that army."

-BBC
 
Boko Haram kill six including five police officers
On January 10, 2012

KANO (AFP) – Gunmen killed six people, including five police officers, on Tuesday in a pub in f Potiskum, Yobe state where Islamist militants have carried out a wave of bloody attacks, residents said.

Police chief Lawan Tanko confirmed the attack without giving casualty numbers, while a resident said five policemen had died in the beer garden shooting carried out by suspected Boko Haram militants.

“Five policemen and one bartender were killed in the attack,” said Miko Hamidu, a resident of Potiskum, the town in Yobe state.

“The policemen had gone to drink,” he said, adding that the gunmen were suspected Boko Haram members.

Another resident gave a similar account, adding that the attackers had sped off on a motorcycle.

Dozens of Islamists stormed Potiskum on Friday and launched gun-and-bomb attacks on the police headquarters, leading to all-night battles with security forces. The town is part of the regions placed under emergency rule by President Goodluck Jonathan on New Year’s Eve and also has a dusk-to-dawn curfew.

Vanguard
 
Is it the war betweem muslims vs christians

or a war between government vs people who reject (bad governance)

which is which?
 
Is it the war betweem muslims vs christians

or a war between government vs people who reject (bad governance)

which is which?
My overall impression is that what is happening now in Nigeria is basically a war between the people vs the system although this war manifests itself in different forms. On the religious front, Boko Haram has a clear political agenda while on the economic front the #occupynigeria movement is driving home the point about peoples' dissatisfaction with the country's endemic economic mismanegement and cankerous corruption, which have over the decades characterised the Nigerian nation.

As usual, in this kind of mishmash, there are always those opportunistic forces who want to capture the situation to further their own heinous intentions. Here I tend to agree with Prof. Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate, who has just warned that Nigeria is reeling towards a civil war, blaming part of the political establishment of formenting religious intolerance.

The biggest miscalculation by Goodluck Jonathan is to scrap the fuel subsidy now just when the nation is grappling with the scourge of Boko Haram (just to satisfy the IMF). This is his bad timing and might cost him dearly politically.

Hapa ndio naona umuhimu wa kwetu sisi kujifunza majanga yanayoweza kuletwa na mifarakano ya kidini pamoja na mfumo wa rushwa iliyokithiri ikichanganyika na ukandamizaji wa jamii.

Nawasilisha!
 
Askari kanzu, I do agree with you;

It seems to me that Boko Haram might be the creation within the corridors of political elites who wants to deviates public outcry against their own mis-management of peoples affairs..they want to deceive the entire nigerian society for their own political gain or failure..

I am not convinced that Boko Haram will simply target christian community now; christianity and christians were within the community ever since; muslims and christians particularly in Africa do live in harmony for decades; where does this sharp hatred comes from?
 
Askari kanzu, I do agree with you;

It seems to me that Boko Haram might be the creation within the corridors of political elites who wants to deviates public outcry against their own mis-management of peoples affairs..they want to deceive the entire nigerian society for their own political gain or failure..

I am not convinced that Boko Haram will simply target christian community now; christianity and christians were within the community ever since; muslims and christians particularly in Africa do live in harmony for decades; where does this sharp hatred comes from?
In fact the spokesman for Boko Haram (Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati Wal-Jihad), Abul Qaqa, has categorically denied claims that his group is targeting Christians and their places of worship. Up to 2009 this group was virtually unknown outside Maiduguri in Jos area of northern Nigeria. It was the police and military authorities' heavy handedness and the killing of several of its members, including its leader Mohammed Yusuf, that catapulted Boko Haram to retaliatory attacks of such harrowing magnitude never seen before in Nigeria.

Or as Elisabeth Dickinson (Foreign Correspondent for The National) writes "if Boko Haram was the push, Nigeria was close to the edge".

1. Boko Haram was an avoidable mistake waiting to happen (The National)

2. We didn't bomb Madalla Church - Boko Haram(Nairaland)
 
13 January 2012
Protests suspended
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Nigeria's trade unions say they are suspending protests for two days to allow more talks with the government.

The announcement comes on the fifth day of a general strike over the removal of a fuel subsidy, which has caused fuel prices and transport fares to double.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets, while several people have died in clashes with police.

The unions said Thursday's talks with the president were "fruitful" and would continue on Saturday.

The main union organisations jointly announced there would be no mass rallies or protests over the weekend and flights would resume, enabling delegates to travel to the capital, Abuja for talks.

The oil workers' unions had said they would cut oil production in Africa's biggest exporter, starting from Sunday.

"We want to make sure that [on] Saturday and Sunday people - we - relax," Nigeria Labour Congress head Abdulwahed Omar told a rally in the capital, Abuja.

"But Monday morning, it is going to be the mother of all crowds," he said, reports the AFP news agency

BBC
 
why would CIA be intrested in creating outlawed militia on other jurisdistions they do not occupy?
 
Nigeria strikes set to resume Monday
By Felix Onuah and Camillus Eboh, Reuters

ABUJA - Nigerian labour unions said they would resume nationwide strikes on Monday, crippling the second largest economy in Africa, after failing to reach a compromise with the government over scrapped fuel subsidies.

However, the main oil union said it was maintaining the output of Africa's No. 1 crude producer, not joining walkouts for the time being, and the government said more talks would be held on Sunday despite the unsuccessful round the day before.

"There will be further negotiations today. The government is still open for dialogue. Further consultations will carry on today and by the evening something definite will have to come out," presidential spokesman Reuben Abati told Reuters.

Full story
 
Boko Haram is the source of all we call civil war in Nigeria, all we need is international cooperations to stop and discard the situation without involving social and political or even economic interests.
 
Boko Haram is the source of all we call civil war in Nigeria, all we need is international cooperations to stop and discard the situation without involving social and political or even economic interests.
Are you saying Boko Haram caused the Biafran war?
 
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