Posts Tagged With: Boko Haram
Are these really Almajiri?
“It has been all over the news that President Goodluck Jonathan today commissioned the first of a series of schools aimed at giving the northern Nigerian kids popularly known as “Almajiris” a chance of proper education. The federal government plans to build 400 “Almajiri” schools across the 19 northern state of the Nigerian federation. 100 [...]
The Monster Next Time By Sonala Olumhense
Culled from saharareporters.com With its January 2 ultimatum dividing Nigerians between “Southerners” and “Northerners,” Boko Haram did incalculable damage to the idea of ‘One Nigeria.’ For some reason, however, you would not get this impression from reading much of Nigeria’s mainstream media. Speaking through “Abul Qaqa” on that day, the cowardly militant group announced its [...]
ABOUT Shekau – Boko Haram leader
KANO (AFP) – Abubakar Muhammad Shekau was once thought to have been killed, but has re-emerged to lead Islamist group Boko Haram from the shadows as it carries out a bloody onslaught in northern Nigeria. Very little is known about Shekau, but this week he appeared on YouTube, threatening more attacks and saying Boko Haram [...]
Is our President weak? GEJ to Boko Haram: make we yarn!
All great democracies shun opportunities to seat across a table from their terrorists. Terrorism as a crime is not on the same plain with armed robbery for example. Terrorism is an uprising against the sovereignty of a people and for a people as key to the world’s economy and highly strategic to Africa’s growth and [...]
El-Rufai’s thoughts after April elections: JONATHAN’S TOUGH CHOICES
I just came across this ‘prophetic’ take by the very enigmatic Nasir El-Rufai from an article he wrote shortly after Goodluck Jonathan won the elections. ENJOY! Nigeria, a nation of over 150 million people generated a little over 2,000 megawatts of electricity last week. Ethnic, religious and political crises have claimed thousands of lives and [...]
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