Nigerian Times

A Catalog of Pastors Deaths by Boko Haram Militants As anxiety is mounting over the activities of Boko Haram group, some Muslims are defusing the fear as misplaced. They see the group as only a new breed of young Muslim activists who have aggressively embraced a stricter version of Islam, rejecting anything Western and Christian. Boko Haram began life as a peaceful group focused on the study of the Koran, according to Abdulmumin Sa’ad, a Muslim scholar and professor of Sociology at the University of Maiduguri. “The idea was that there is a lot of sin in the larger society and their parents had amassed a lot of ill-gotten wealth,” says Sa’ad, who taught some of the militants. “There is widespread immorality, and so the best thing to do is to remove themselves and camp elsewhere, where they can concentrate on their religion, mediate, reach out and begin to form a fellowship.” Sa’ad claims that group turned violent when authorities harassed it. In retaliation, the group had killed about 1...

Nigerian soldiers Many families are fleeing Bonny Island before tomorrow July 16, the deadline of the ultimatum militants gave foreigners and non-indigènes to leave before their attacks on the kingdom. The Nigerian soldiers are fully armed to confront them as I saw many soldiers guarding the Nigerian LNG Bonny Plant Complex and residential areas. I saw a tough looking soldier in combat mood with a machine gun behind a fortification of sandbags. They were frisking people on foot and searching vehicles. I was at the Guaranty Trust Bank on Bonny Island to deposit some dollars in a domiciliary account, but the bank could not receive such deposits, because it was not fully operational in fear of the looming hostilities and most banks have been shut on Bonny Island. I heard the bad news that some people fleeing Bonny Island drowned when their boat capsized in the Bonny river. I was sad, but I could not stop those I knew were fleeing in fear. I can only pray for their safety. I believe the ...

An AP journalist embedded with troops in Afghanistan recently filmed U.S. Marines firing at positions where Taliban militants were believed to be in the Hemland Province. (May 6) © 2008 The Associated Press

One Naval officer was killed and another was wounded, Monday morning, when unidentified gunmen on a speedboat attacked the Naval Escort boat of a Nigeria LNG Ferry in the dangerous waterways of the volatile Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Last year, militants suspected to be led by the notorious Ateke Tom attacked and killed two Nigerian Police escorts on a Nigeria LNG ferry carrying passengers across the Bonny Channel. The waterways of the Niger Delta region have become dangerous since militants on speedboats terrorized and kidnapped hundreds of foreign oil workers, some local staff, and members of their families for huge ransoms. They have also attacked oil installations and reduced the oil export of Nigeria, the largest oil producer in Africa, and the fifth largest oil supplier to the United States of America. The Niger Delta militants and kidnappers have accomplices in the Nigerian Armed Forces and the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). They have been engaged in illegal o...

" We told them that this is not due to government neglect but to some imbalances in the system and the inability of some oil companies to meet the Memoranda of Understanding they signed with the people." ~ Gov. Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa, in Nigeria , on how he secured the release of the local hostages of the militants in Southern-Ijaw Local Government Area. This is how the PDP governors have incited Niger Delta militants against the multinational oil companies. They misappropriate the revenue allocations for their states and lie to the militants that the multinational companies have failed in their obligations to the host communities. The irony of corruption in Nigeria is the complicity of Nigerian churches and mosques. The fact is Nigerian pagans are more honest and transparent than the so called Christians and Muslims. Nigerians fear the Juju than they fear the Almighty God. I have since passed a vote of No Confidence in Nigerian Christians and Muslims, because I have ...

Daring unidentified gunmen kidnapped the 3-year-old son of Eze Francis Amadi, a prominent Igbo town chief in the Niger Delta on Thursday, July 12, 2007. The kidnappers are on rampage in the Niger Delta and becoming more desperate by the day as even the innocent children of expatriates and rich oil contractors are no longer safe in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. But most people in the western world and mainstream western media don't know that the ruling political party in Nigeria is responsible for the lawlessness and terrorism in the oil rich south of the 8th largest oil producer in the world. Read the full report .

The BBC has reported the shocking news of a 'UK toddler' Kidnapped in Nigeria .The report said the three-year- old baby girl of a British expatriate worker was seized from a car on her way to school in the oil city of Port Harcourt early Thursday morning.