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President Goodluck Jonathan looks bored and tired of the perpetual problems of Nigeria. Approach Boko Haram as a Crisis of Compromise using the Power of Culture ~ John Egbeazien Oshodi,Ph.D Don’t negotiate, negotiate which way to go —Mr. President? With one side of the mouth of the Presidency we hear from the President’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika that the Federal Government must not engage in negotiation with the Boko Haram sect and that the use of pure militaristic approach is the ultimate way out. On the other side of the presidential cavity is President Goodluck Jonathan telling the world that the Nigerian government would dialogue with the unyielding Islamist organization, Boko Haram, if they are open with their demands and their identifications. With this clear lines of governmental mix-up, hundreds of lives are being lost constantly, continuously and painfully. The current intelligence operations and noise making from some in authority, and the mostly reac...

Red Cross give first aid to an injured person in northern Nigeria . PARIS, Feb. 2 2012/African Press Organization (APO) / - After the terrible terrorist attacks that hit the city of Kano, France is mobilized to help victims through the delivery of 600 kilograms of medical aid that will to treat people injured in the violence. The terrorist attacks of 20 January in the city of Kano have two hundred dead and several hundred wounded who were evacuated to local health facilities, public and private. Since then, attacks, on a smaller scale, continue to plague the city daily. According to information from the Minister of Health, Government of Kano State, more than two hundred wounded are currently hospitalized in public hospitals of the state. Medical aid, issued today in Kano, will benefit the public hospitals and will follow up with two hundred injured including gunshot wounds, open fractures and burns. We recall the commitment of France in the fight against terrorism and our solidarity wi...

Inside a typical prison in Nigeria. Nigerian Prisons, the Courts and Imprisoned Terrorists ~ By John Egbeazien Oshodi The Nigerian courts and the prisons have in the last few months become intensively involved in terrorists being imported from our streets into the penal system. Nigeria, unlike the Euro-American or Western world does not have the enormous technological, security and psychological experience to put a full handle on the ‘war of terror’. Yet, hundreds of reported arrested members of Boko Haram sect are continuously being tossed into our already overcrowded prisons. Certainly, everyone including the prison personnel, convicts and the persons awaiting trial as well as their respective families are likely to be increasingly preoccupied with safety concerns Considering that both the domestic and foreign terrorists come into the prisons with endured religious, political and social influences, these detained and convicted terrorists currently under lock up, could make our pris...

Nigerian legislators often forget that they are no longer school pupils in a secondary school . I have just been following the so called emergency session of the House of Representatives on Sunday January 8, 2012, to address the unpopular removal of the fuel subsidy on petrol and the state of emergency over terrorist attacks in the middle belt and northern states. But I see that majority of them are not really bothered as they are busy antagonizing themselves without any definite resolution. Many of them are misbehaving like pupils in a classroom and laughing when the country is threatening to implode? They said Nigeria is broke, but they are not even bothered about reviewing their own salaries and allowances and the lopsided revenue allocation formula. Since Nigeria is broke, the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) should fix the total monthly salary of a senator at N1.06m and that of a House of Representatives member at N794, 000. And anyone who is not ready...

I have just been following the so called emergency session of the House of Representatives to address the unpopular removal of the fuel subsidy on petrol and the state of emergency over terrorist attacks in the middle belt and northern states. But I see that majority of them are not really bothered as they are busy antagonizing themselves without any definite resolution. Many of them are misbehaving like pupils in a classroom and laughing when the country is threatening to implode? They said Nigeria is broke, but they are not even bothered about reviewing their jumbo salaries and the lopsided revenue allocation formula. Since Nigeria is broke, the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) should fix the total annual emoluments comprising the basic salary of N12, 026, 400 for a senator and N10,985, 212.50 for a representative. The following allowances should be suspended until further notice,with the exception of the allowances for annual leave. Accommodation allowan...

A car burns at the scene of a bomb explosion at St. Theresa Catholic Church at Madalla, Suleja, just outside Nigeria's capital Abuja, December 25, 2011. Photo Credit: REUTERS-Afolabi Sotunde . 25 Dec 2011 18:13 Africa/Lagos AJC Condemns Deadly Terrorist Attacks on Churches in Nigeria NEW YORK, Dec. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC expressed outrage and revulsion at the deadly terrorist attacks that targeted Christian worshipers in Nigeria on Christmas Day and killed at least 25 people. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO ) Several churches, including St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla and Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church in Jos, were attacked. A Muslim group, Boko Haram, has claimed responsibility. The same group, which, according to a New York Times account, seeks "to install strict Shariah or Muslim law across Nigeria," was also identified as the perpetrator of another wave of anti-Christian attacks during Christmas last year that k...

Eucharia Remmy Beautiful Eucharia Remmy, a young member of the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) serving in Yobe was among the over 150 people murdered by the Boko Haram terrorist sect last Friday in Damaturu, Yobe State. The Enugu-State born Eucharia was a 2010 graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) and a happy member of Christ Embassy Church in Damaturu, for which she was sharing Rhapsodies of Reality booklet along the New Jerusalem Rd when she was hit and killed by one of the marauders of Boko Haram. Eucharia was the sister of Mary Remmy, a promising Nollywood actress who played a prominent role in the popular hit movie Black Berry Babes, starring Oge Okoye, Tonto Dikeh, Annie Macaulay and others. Here is her Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/people/Remmy-Eucharia/1587120828 It is another sad loss of a NYSC member serving in the volatile northern regions of Nigeria where it is no longer safe for non-Muslims and non-Hausa Fulanis who have become the targets of Isl...

You +1'd this publicly. Undo Nigeria-elections-violence-April18-2011.by_.diallo-AFP- We Are Being Held To Ransom By Corrupt Politicians And Terrorists Innocent Nigerians are being held to ransom by the greedy and wicked corrupt political contractors in power and terrorists who were their former political thugs and hoodlums who are now out of their control. The worst mistake the electorate made was voting for these criminals in power who do not care about the safety, security or welfare of the voters and taxpayers, because they can always fly out of Nigeria with their families and abandon the rest of the population in the chaos they caused. Releases displayed in Africa/Lagos time 7 Nov 2011 10:00 ...

An Igbo member of the dreaded Boko Haram Islamic terrorist group was arrested Tuesday by the State Security Services (SSS) in Nigeria. The Guardian of Nigeria reported that the 31-year-old Igbo man was suspected to be part of the terrorists who carried out the April 8, 2011 bombing of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Suleja, Niger State. The SSS, which declined to disclose the name of the suspect until it completes ongoing investigation, said the man, whose mother is a Nigerien, is an indigene of Imo State and got converted to Islam in 2003. Click here to read the details on The Guardian of Wednesday, 07 September 201 Sharia in Nigeria Militancy in Nigeria Niger Delta Conflicts Nigerian Sharia conflict Poverty in Nigeria Tweet

25 Jul 2011 16:18 Africa/Lagos Nigeria security forces in random killing following bomb blast LONDON, July 25, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The Nigerian authorities must immediately put a stop to unlawful killings by security forces, Amnesty International said today after at least 23 people were killed by police following a bomb blast on Saturday in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri. The bomb, allegedly set off by the Islamist group Boko Haram, went off in the Budum market in central Maiduguri and injured three soldiers. According to reports received by Amnesty International, the Nigerian Joint Military Task Force (JTF) responded by shooting and killing a number of people, apparently at random, before burning down the market. “President Goodluck Jonathan must get a grip on the Nigerian armed forces and immediately prevent them from carrying out further human rights violations and unlawful killings,” said Tawanda Hondora, Amnesty International's Deputy Director for Af...

Breaking News Wanted People, Boko Haram Declares On 05 June, the radical terrorist sect Boko Haram has declared the following people wanted in a statement reportedly dropped at various media houses by unknown persons yesterday. Jima?atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda? Awati Wal Jihad translates roughly to ‘’People Commited to the Prophet’s Teachings for Propagation and Jihad is said to have considered the following people as police informants and enemies to their mission. In a statement written in Hausa and Arabic reads in part: ‘’All praises go to the Almighty Allah, peace and blessings be upon Prophet Mohammed, the last of the Prophets.’’ The police informants and enemies said to be: Taju Yusuf, Pastor Emmanuel, Hon. Kazeem Konitan, Mallam Abubakar Usman, Imam Moshood, Bishop Moses, Pastor Sunday I. Peters and Bashiru Ahmed as well as corrupt politicians and police officers across the country. It was re-called back last year ...

Nobody expected the breaking news of the death of the most dreaded Islamic terrorist Osama bin Laden announced by U.S. President Barack Obama after American Navy Seals shot and killed him in a compound in Abbotabad, a town of about 60 miles from the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Sunday. Osama bin Laden But the end of Osama bin Laden does not mean the end of the Al Qaeda or the end of Islamic terrorism. Therefore, we must not think the worst is over. The Al Qaeda is a monster with many heads and another head soon grows to replace the one that has been cut off.

I wanted to post the list of The World's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives , but I changed my mind, because it is not news. The information on the most wanted fugitives in the world is all over the Internet. Osama bin Laden is top on the list and on the most wanted list of the FBI and CIA. But it is a list made up by America and I wonder if President Geroge W. Bush is better than these fugiitives, because I am sure that he is also on the most wanted list of Islamic fundamentalists for the American catastrophe in Iraq. Here is how I am going to wrap up my own point of view with this YouTube - CIA Leak Case of the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists Bank.

23 Jan 2008 15:54 Africa/Lagos Counter Terrorism Bill 2008 Published London, 23 January/GNN/ -- HOME OFFICE News Release (Opno003/2008) issued by The Government News Network on 23 January 2008 ATTENTION: HOME AFFAIRS AND SECURITY CORRESPONDENTS COUNTER TERRORISM BILL 2008 PUBLISHED You are invited to attend an off-camera, on-the-record, briefing ahead of the publication of the Counter Terrorism Bill 2008 on Thursday 24 January 2008. Briefing on the bill will be provided by the Home Secretary and the Minister of State for Security, Counter-terrorism, Crime and Policing, Tony McNulty. The embargoed briefing will take place between 11.45am and 1pm, when the Bill will be published. Date: Thursday 24 January Time: Arrive 11.30am for 11.45am Venue:Press Briefing Room Home Office 2 Marsham Street London SW1P 4DF The Home Secretary will be available for one-to-one, pre-recorded broadcast interviews in the Home Office following the briefing. The content of the briefing and pre-recorded ...

16 Jan 2008 05:16 Africa/Lagos Court Awards US Victims More Than $6 Billion for 1989 Libyan Terrorist Bombing of French Airliner That Killed 170 People Over African Desert WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A federal judge has ordered the Government of Libya and six of its officials to pay a total of approximately $6 billion in damages arising from the mid-air suitcase bombing of a French-operated UTA Flight 772, DC-10 wide-body jet. The 1989 attack killed 170 people from Europe, Africa and the United States and was one of the deadliest terrorist events in commercial aviation history before September 11, 2001. It came only nine months after a similar suitcase bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people. The case stems from the September 19, 1989 bombing of UTA Flight 772, which was flying from N'djamena, Chad to Paris, France when a suitcase bomb exploded in the cargo hold at an altitude of 35,000 feet. The aircraft crashed into...

It's a very sad day. I was deeply shocked and saddened by the beautiful and fearless Ms.Bhutto's death. She was the only hope for a truly democratic Pakistan and for Muslim women. This is yet another cowardly act by terrorists. However, when she returned to Pakistan in Oct, I sort of guessed she was going to be killed. It was a very dangerous step. She somehow took that risk. She's a VERY brave woman. RIP Benazir! Keshi, Viva Forever .

Benazir Bhutto 27 Dec 2007 21:38 Bhutto Assassination Must Not Further the Crackdown on Civil Liberties, Says Amnesty International 19:28 Reaction of Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt., Chairman, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State Department and Foreign Operations) to the Assassination of Benazir Bhutto 19:12 Statement on the Death of Benazir Bhutto From Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich 18:44 Benazir Bhutto Assassinated, Attempts Made on Sharif as Pakistan Drifts Into Civil War; EIN News Offers Extended News Coverage 17:04 Statement From the American Islamic Congress Regarding the Assassination of Benazir Bhutto 16:11 Statement from the Foreign Secretary on the death of Benazir Bhutto

Michigan Men Sue American Airlines Group detained in August says they were racially profiled DETROIT, Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Six Michigan men who in August were escorted off an American Airlines flight and then detained filed a race discrimination lawsuit Wednesday against the airline, saying the incident was a clear case of racial profiling, false imprisonment and a violation of civil rights. Filed in U.S. District Court by Allen Brothers PLLC of Detroit, the lawsuit seeks hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensatory damages for hours of detainment, interrogation, public humiliation and embarrassment. The incident occurred when the group was returning home from providing consulting work for U.S. troops. "The airline treated these individuals like criminals, simply because of stereotyping and ignorance. The irony is, these men were returning home from training our troops before deployment to Iraq," said Lawrence Garcia, the attorney representing the men. "This kind o...