January 2012
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Rift in Boko Haram, ‘Ansaru’ Splinter Group... →
There are indications that an ideological feud within the rank and file of the Boko Haram sect may have led to a breakaway faction. The new outfit calls itself ‘Ansaru.’
In a statement circulated in Kano, Ansaru gave its full name is “Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis Sudan,” meaning Vanguards for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa. Its motto is “Jihad Fi Sabilillah,” meaning it is fighting...
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Nigerian High Court Judge Dismisses N40 billion... →
Justice Suleiman Belgore of the Abuja High Court today dismissed the corruption charges brought against former speaker of the House of Representatives and his deputy. The judge ruled that Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had not brought a solid case against the duo and ruled that they have no case to answer.
The controversial ruling has set free the former Speaker of the House of...
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Occupy Nigeria Activists In New York Shut Down... →
Nigerian activists from the Nigeria Liberty Democratic Forum (NDLF) last night protested at the Town Hall meeting called by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Professor Viola Adaku Onwuliri, shutting down the event until the New York Police Department was called in an hour later. The meeting, which was scheduled to start at 6: 00 p.m., did not start until 7:45p.m, as the minister came...
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Nigeria Orders Troops To Lagos As Union Heads... →
Jan. 17 (GIN) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan took action against oil subsidy strikers, minutes after agreeing with union officials to roll back a legislative action that spurred the strike and lifted the price of gas to nearly double its usual price.
Soldiers were ordered into the country’s major cities and to remain while “tension” persists - something unseen since the nation...
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Labour Compromised, Say Nigerian Activists, But We... →
Nigerian civil society groups and other stakeholders on have strongly dissociated themselves from the country’s major labour unions for calling off their nationwide strike.
At a press briefing at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, the activists, led by Mr. Dino Melaye, a one-time federal lawmaker, accused the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC)...
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Labour Movement, CSOs Commend Protesters, Urge... →
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have commended workers and the Nigerian people for their overwhelming support and commitment to the fight against the sudden astronomical increase in the price of petrol.
In a statement this evening, Chris Uyot, Head of Information of NLC, declared that today’s general strike and mass protests...
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Occupy Nigeria: Nigerians In Atlanta To Occupy... →
Nigerians in Atlanta will, on Wednesday, January 11, protest at the Nigeria Consulate, 8060 Roswell Road, Atlanta, GA 30350.
A statement by the organizers said the protest is in solidarity with Nigerians at home “against the removal of the oil subsidy, killing of innocent Nigerians, corruption and waste by people in government” in the country.
The action will take place between...
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Sorry Nigerians, But The Fuel Price Increase Has... →
The Nigerian government today made it abundantly clear it will not restate the subsidy on petroleum products, according to The Punch newspaper.
Following this afternoon’s emergency meeting of the Federal Executive Council, in Abuja, the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, told newsmen the government was not oblivious of the pains inflicted by Nigerians as a result of the new policy.
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Occupy Nigeria Activists Set Up "Tahrir Square" In... →
Pro-gasoline subsidy rallies across Nigeria continue to gain momentum with protesters in Kano staging an overnight rally in at the Silver Jubilee round about renaming it “Subsidy Square”.
Attempting to re-enact the mass demonstrations that took place in Egypt’s Tahrir Square during the 2011 Arab Spring movement, protesters in Kano are also referring to the Silver Jubilee...
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My Neighbor, The Terrorist By Okey Ndibe →
Last week, President Goodluck Jonathan finally made his most direct response thus far to Boko Haram’s plague of violence. The president’s declaration of a state of emergency in designated local government areas in four states – Borno, Yobe, Plateau, and Niger – has earned a spectrum of reactions running from guarded praise to derision.
Mr. Jonathan should be given his due. The man has done, for...
Before The New Boko Haram Emerges By Cajetan Iheka →
The time is 1:20am here in the winter-cold state of Michigan here in the United States, and I have just finished talking to my friend in Nigeria about Jonathan’s New Year gift. Like other Nigerian Diasporans, I placed this call to get the people’s structure of feeling concerning the subsidy issue and my interlocutor’s response was not surprising.
Temidire, (that’s my friend’s name), is a youth...
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Boko Haram Is Not the Problem By Jean Herskovits →
GOVERNMENTS and newspapers around the world attributed the horrific Christmas Day bombings of churches in Nigeria to “Boko Haram” — a shadowy group that is routinely described as an extremist Islamist organization based in the northeast corner of Nigeria. Indeed, since the May inauguration of President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the Niger Delta in the country’s south, Boko Haram has been...
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Police Arrests Anti-Fuel Hike Activists In Abuja →
The police anti-terror team in Abuja has begun a crackdown on young activists involved in organizing a series anti-fuel hike protests today in Abuja.
Police have arrested Martins Obono, and Eze Nwargwu. The two are leaders of the Youth Alliance Against Petroleum Subsidy Removal. The police has reportedly detained them at the Anti-Robbery squad unit in Garki, Abuja where they are locked up with...
Medicine After Death: Jonathan Sets Up Committee... →
A former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Alfa Belgore will head a committee announced today by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to meet with organized labour and all other stakeholders with a view to resolving issues that may arise from the removal of the subsidy on petrol.
Mr. Jonathan also announced another committee, to be known as the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme Board. ...
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Pro-subsidy Protester Gunned Down By Police In... →
The growing nationwide protest against President Goodluck Jonathan’s hiking of petroleum prices claimed its first casualty today as police shot a protester dead in Ilorin, Kwara State.
The lifeless body of the protester lay on the street after he was shot in the chest by a policeman.
The killing comes on the heels of the release of a former member of the House of Representatives, Dino...
December 2011
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Boko Haram: Are You Planning To Destroy Nigeria?... →
I am absolutely sad and disheartened to observe what is going on at the moment as regards the turbulence and destructive activities of the so-called Boko Haram in our country. Since our independence in 1960, we faced so many disorderliness and confusion within our nation. I dare say that before independence, ours was a land flowing with milk and honey.
Then we largely depended on agriculture;...
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Boko Haram: Southern Kaduna Festival Cancelled;... →
Out of fear of possible Boko Haram bombing, the 2012 Afan Festival, also known as Kagoro Day in Southern Kaduna, has been cancelled. The event, the largest and most popular ethnic festival in Northern Nigeria, is normally held on the 1st of January.
The cancellation is in recognition of the bombings the Boko Haram sect vowed to unleash on Christian communities on 31st December 2011 and 1st...
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Four Killed In New Explosion Near Mosque In... →
At least four people have been killed and several others wounded due to a bomb explosion in Maiduguri on Friday.
A Maiduguri resident and eyewitness said the blast occurred near a local Mosque while people were finishing Friday prayers.
“There was a loud blast near the mosque just after the Friday prayers as people were trooping out of the mosque. Everybody scampered to safety, leading to...
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Family Of Four Killed In Machete Attack In Plateau... →
A family of four people was killed in a machete attack in Nigeria’s ethnically and religiously mixed Plateau state on Wednesday, the state government’s spokesman said.
Plateau is a tinderbox of ethnic and religious rivalries over land and power between local people and migrants from other areas. These often take the form of sectarian strife between the state’s Christian and...
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Another Explosion Reported In Sapele, Delta State →
Citizen reporters affiliated with Saharareporters have reported another bomb explosion in the Hausa quarters in Sapele, Delta state.
The explosion happened at an Arabic school along Urhobo Road. The explosion was similar to the one that ripped through a Mosque in the township on December 10.
There are unconfirmed reports of 3 injuries.
Saharareporters will continue to provide details as...
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