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Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Top Stories
Sunday, August 12th, 2012
Christians in the North have asked President Goodluck Jonathan to resign over his comment on Boko Haram. Jonathan was quoted to have said he could not crush the Islamic sect because “they are our siblings and you cannot set the army to wipe out your family”. In a statement by its spokesman, Mr. Sunday Oibe, […]
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American Politics, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
—The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oristejiafor, has written a letter to the visiting American Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, expressing CAN’s reservation on the manner the issues of Boko Haram and related violence by Islamist groups against Nigerian Christians are being treated by the United States. The Letter […]
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American Politics, Boko Haram, General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
ABUJA (AFP) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Nigeria on Thursday to meet President Goodluck Jonathan and was expected to offer assistance in helping the country stop a worsening Islamist insurgency. Her visit to Nigeria comes with Jonathan under growing pressure to stop the violence in the northern and central regions of […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics, Niger Delta, Top Stories
Monday, August 6th, 2012
CONDEMNATION, on Monday, trailed the request by the Boko Haram sect that President Goodluck Jonathan should become a Muslim or resign from office. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the sect had in an internet broadcast, on Saturday, asked for Jonathan’s conversion or resignation as the condition for it to stop violence. However, […]
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Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Monday, August 6th, 2012
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday said he would neither resign nor convert to Islam as demanded by the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, as a condition to ceasefire. Jonathan, who spoke through his spokesperson, Reuben Abati, on a day that fivesoldiers died in an attack on a security patrol team in Damaturu, Yobe State, by […]
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American Politics, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Thursday, August 2nd, 2012
THE United States (US) embassy in Abuja has lifted the restrictions on US citizens not to visit establishments identified as potential targets. A security message entitled: “The US Mission in Nigeria issues this emergency message to update US citizens on the current threat situation in Nigeria”, signed by Carol A. Cox, Consular Section chief, said […]
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Boko Haram, General Politics, Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency, Top Stories
Thursday, August 2nd, 2012
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA— Elder statesman and prominent Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, yesterday, declared that some highly placed individuals from the Northern part of the country were behind the increasing spate of violence in Nigeria to actualize their vow of “making the nation ungovernable for President Jonathan.” Speaking as a guest lecturer at […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Monday, July 30th, 2012
Bishop of the Owo Diocese of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Rt. Rev. James Oladunjoye, fears Nigeria may disintegrate under President Goodluck Jonathan if he fails to bring sponsors of the dreadful Boko Haram sect to book. Oladunjoye stated this in his Bishop charge which he read on Friday during the Third Session of […]
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American Politics, Boko Haram, General Politics, Top Stories
Monday, July 30th, 2012
• Sect Warns Nigerian High Commission • Hillary Clinton To Meet President PRESIDENT Jonathan is coming under intense international pressure to firm up his administration’s handling of the Boko Haram violence, which is now beginning to threaten his chances of staying in power beyond 2015. This comes as indications emerged that the religious sect had […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
July 26, 2012 by Fidelis Soriwei, Abuja The Director of the State Security Service in charge of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Mr. Little Okojie, has alleged that some communities are shielding members of Boko Haram from security operatives. Okojie said the security threat posed by the sect had become seemingly intractable because of the […]
