http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nigeria/ en-us Fri, 17 May 2013 23:21:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020847/posts MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian warplanes struck militant camps in the northeast on Friday in a major push against an Islamist insurgency, drawing a sharp warning from the United States to respect human rights and not harm civilians. Reurters via Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020847/posts#comment Fri, 17 May 2013 23:21:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020404/posts Mobile phone service was cut off Thursday in areas of northeast Nigeria as jet fighters streaked through the sky and more soldiers were deployed to fight Islamic extremists waging a brutal insurgency. Witnesses saw low-flying Nigerian jet fighters over Yola, the capital of Adamawa state, which President Goodluck Jonathan placed under emergency rule on Tuesday along with Borno and Yobe states. However, soldiers have met "no resistance" yet from extremists who have taken over villages and small towns in this region approaching the Sahara Desert, a military spokesman said. ... Mobile phones have become the only real communication device in... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020404/posts#comment Thu, 16 May 2013 22:25:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018076/posts Nigerian police have rescued 17 pregnant teens from what’s being called a baby factory in the southeastern part of the country. Imo State Police revealed they are also arrested a 23-year-old man believe to have impregnated the girls. Police also rescued 11 babies and small children from the Ahamefula Motherless Babies Home, in the community of Umuaka. BBC reports police spokeswoman Joy Elomoko saying “The girls claimed they were fed once a day and were not allowed to leave the home.” Elomoko also told AFP their babies were going to be sold to “willing buyers.” According to BBC, Nigeria’s National... Global News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018076/posts#comment Sat, 11 May 2013 01:43:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017015/posts MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A fresh load of battered corpses arrived, 29 of them in a routine delivery by the Nigerian military to the hospital morgue here. Past Coverage of Boko Haram in Nigeria Unexpectedly, three bodies started moving. “They were not properly shot,” recalled a security official here. “I had to call the J.T.F.” — the military’s joint task force — “and they gunned them down.” It was a rare oversight. Large numbers of bodies, sometimes more than 60 in a day, are being brought by the Nigerian military to the state hospital, according to government, health and security officials,... NYTimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017015/posts#comment Wed, 8 May 2013 12:56:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3012945/posts Islamist militant group Boko Haram was paid more than $3m (£2m) before releasing a French family of seven, a Nigerian government report says. The confidential report, seen by Reuters news agency, does not say who paid the money. Both France and Cameroon deny paying a ransom while Nigeria has not commented on the issue. The French family, including four children, were captured in Cameroon in February and freed last week. The were handed over to the Cameroon authorities last Thursday. The Nigerian report also says that Cameroon freed some Boko Haram detainees as part of the deal, according to Reuters.... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3012945/posts#comment Sat, 27 Apr 2013 01:09:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3012895/posts NEW YORK, April 26, 2013 (National Right to Life News) - International Planned Parenthood (IPPF) sent a letter late yesterday to Nigerian Ambassador Joy Ogwu pressuring her to change her delegate’s pro-life stance. Ambassador Ogwu is the voice for the African Group at the 46th session of the Commission on Population and Development, which is being held this week. The letter was copied to Nigerian non-governmental organizations urging their endorsement of the letter. The letter appears to be a veiled threat that IPPF will use its considerable influence to cause the ambassador to lose her position as the First Chair... Life Site http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3012895/posts#comment Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:02:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3010912/posts The ongoing jihad in Nigeria by the Muslim group Boko Haram (Western Education is Sinful) is escalating as Islamic supremacism spreads across the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Muslim soldiers used locals as human shields while soldiers set residential quarters on fire. The streets of Baga were strewn with the corpses of dead humans and animals and about 2,000 private houses and several markets were burnt down in fighting, reported local officials when they returned to the town on Sunday. The jihadists found refuge in a ....... mosque. Obama sanctions this group as he has refused to designate Boko Haram... Atlas Shrugs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3010912/posts#comment Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:21:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3007863/posts ABUJA, April 14 — Nigeria’s main militant group, the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), on Sunday threatened to perpetrate attacks on Islamic institutions in the west African country from next month. The group, in an electronic message to journalists, said its attacks will be code-named “Operation Barbarossa”, aimed at saving Christianity in Nigeria from annihilation by the Boko Haram sect, which has been attacking churches and media and security outfits since 2009. MEND said when hostilities against Islamic institutions begin on May 31, it will target mosques, pilgrimage camps, large congregations in Islamic events and assassination of... Xinhua via NZWeek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3007863/posts#comment Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:12:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3000179/posts The Republicans, much to their own peril, continuously thrash and denigrate President Obama because they are just too dumb to appreciate that God is clearly on the man’s side. The more they try to humiliate the President, the more they rubbish themselves and their future. Like the new Pope President Obama has recorded many a first in his life as a child of Destiny. He became the first American President to receive a Nobel Peace award within his very first year in office. He became the first President to sign into Law the first affordable Health Care Reform Law that... Nigeria Sahara Reporters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3000179/posts#comment Sun, 24 Mar 2013 08:10:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2999185/posts SNIPPET: "Harun, described as “a prototype al Qaeda operative,” was “arrested by Italian authorities on board a refugee ship and was indicted by the United States in February 2012. Italy extradited him to the United States on Oct. 4, 2012,” the Hill reported. Harun could face life in prison if convicted." THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2999185/posts#comment Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:56:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2998294/posts At least 20 people have been killed in a series of explosions at a bus station in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. Several buses were destroyed in the attack in the Sabon Gari district - which is home to many Christians from southern Nigeria. No group has said it was behind the blasts but Islamist militants from the Boko Haram group have attacked Kano in the past. It is the largest city in the mainly Muslim north of Nigeria. One eyewitness told the BBC that he had seen 20 bodies after Monday's blasts. Several witnesses told Reuters that one... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2998294/posts#comment Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:08:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2995600/posts DAKAR, Senegal — Radical Islamists in northern Nigeria have killed seven foreign construction workers who were kidnapped in February, a significant escalation of extremist violence in Nigeria’s continuing jihadist insurgency. The killings were announced Saturday by an obscure splinter group, Ansaru, and confirmed by European foreign ministries on Sunday. The seven — an Italian, a Greek, an Englishman and four from the Middle East, including Lebanon — were seized on Feb. 16 from the compound of Setraco, a Lebanese construction company operating in Nigeria’s Bauchi State, in a well-planned nighttime assault. A grainy photo released by the group showed a... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2995600/posts#comment Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:02:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2995455/posts (CNN) -- Britain, Italy and Greece on Sunday confirmed that hostages from their countries were among seven construction workers reported killed in Nigeria over the weekend. "This was an act of cold-blooded murder, which I condemn in the strongest terms," British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a statement announcing that a British construction worker was among the dead. Nigerian militant group Ansar al-Muslimeen claimed responsibility for the February kidnappings of the seven construction workers from an office in northeastern Nigeria. The group, widely known as Ansaru, released images of some of the bodies Saturday. cnn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2995455/posts#comment Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:54:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2993126/posts I realize this is a dangerous article:  recommending three cardinals who might be the best selections to replace Pope Benedict XVI. It's called throwing the dice in some circles. Really, how can anyone know who the cardinals will elect? And even then, do any of us know enough about all of them to make a good judgment on who the Holy Spirit might choose for that heavy cross -- err, role? But still, I’d like to have a go at it just to know I tried, and if one of these are indeed picked, it would be rather exciting. These... Life Site News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2993126/posts#comment Sun, 3 Mar 2013 23:43:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2990623/posts DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran denied on Friday Nigerian allegations that it had trained militants arrested in Nigeria on charges of planning attacks on U.S. and Israeli targets there. Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said such allegations were "made up as the result of the ill will of the enemies of the two countries' good relations", Iranian state television reported. "Iran and Nigeria have friendly and close relations and despite the vast efforts of the two countries' enemies in recent years relations and cooperations have always improved," he said. Nigeria's secret service said on Thursday it had arrested Abdullahi Mustapha Berende... Reuters via NBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2990623/posts#comment Sun, 24 Feb 2013 02:55:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2988069/posts The condition of Nigerian troops in Mali is quickly sliding from bad to worse as inadequate supply of provision is forcing the contingent to solicit food from locals, PREMIUM TIMES can exclusively report. According to a reliable defence source who asked not to be named, the Nigerian contingent solicits food and handouts under the guise of "courtesy calls" to community leaders in Mali. After one of such courtesy calls on Monday, the troops received a handout of a cow and 50 bags of rice from the Prefect of Tuban in Banamba region. "Our officers and men have resorted to begging... All Africa http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2988069/posts#comment Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:45:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2987762/posts Police in northern Nigeria have arrested three journalists in connection with the killing of nine polio vaccine workers at a clinic last week. The journalists from radio station Wazobia FM are accused of inciting the killings by hosting an on-air discussion about rumors and conspiracy theories related to the vaccines. ... The female workers were killed by gunmen on motorbikes Friday, while giving out polio vaccines at two community health centers in Kano city. ... Some Nigerians in the country's largely Muslim north believe the polio vaccines are used to sterilize young girls or can cause HIV. VOA News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2987762/posts#comment Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:33:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2984708/posts LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Landing in Nigeria's largest city, one of the first thing visitors see as they peer out of their airplane's windows is the moss-covered metal carcasses of what used to fly in Africa's most populous nation. Workers at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos call it "the graveyard," an overgrown field filled with about a dozen cargo and passenger airplanes long since abandoned and left to rot by insolvent airlines. At least 65 abandoned airplanes, ranging from small commuter jets to one massive Boeing 747, sit at airfields across the country and serve as a haunting reminder... San Francisco Chronical http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2984708/posts#comment Sat, 2 Feb 2013 22:32:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2982077/posts This is a brutal example of how far the struggle between muslims and catholics in Nigeria has reached. Muslims are determined to impose their 'religion' all over Africa as well as in other continents and countries of the world. Islam has but one goal: rule the world at any cost." "And where are the International Human Rights Organizations? Christians are burnt alive in Nigeria: a horrific Holocaust right in front of International indifference. As denounced by Father Juan Carlos Martos, on behalf of the Missionari Clarettiani, via del Sacro Cuore di Maria, Rome, Italy." "By publishing this graphic document on... Hebrew National Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2982077/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:44:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2981281/posts Two Nigerian soldiers were killed and five others seriously injured in a 19 January attack on a military detachment heading for deployment in Mali, as part of Nigeria's contribution to UN-sanctioned African intervention force to reclaim northern Mali from Islamists, military officials told IRIN. The soldiers from a military unit based in the southern Nigerian city of Ibadan, were on their way to the town of Kachia in northern Kaduna state to prepare for deployment to Mali, when they were attacked near the city of Okene in central Kogi state, Nigerian army spokesman Major General Bola Koleoso told IRIN. "We... All Africa http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2981281/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:19:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2979741/posts Nigeria has revealed the presence in the country of terrorists trained in Mali, the northern part of which is in the hands of armed Islamist groups who seized it last year. The influx of the terrorists may have heightened the activities of the Nigerian Islamic sect Boko Haram, which has been more active lately. The sect has killed over 3,000 people in gun and bomb attacks in northern Nigeria since 2009. Nigeria has started the deployment of over a battalion of troops to Mali to participate in the African-led International Support Mission for Mali (AFISMA), which is battling alongside Malian... Actualités Afrique http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2979741/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jan 2013 04:26:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2978183/posts Islamist rebels chased Mali's army from a garrison town deep in its own territory on Monday, striking back at the weakest link in a nascent coalition after French fighter jets hit militant bases deep in the Sahara. The surprise move by what witnesses called a well-armed rebel force highlights the risk that the French campaign in Mali could widen as al Qaeda militants spread across the heart of the world's largest desert. The advancing fighters took control of the small barracks town of Diabaly after attacking and defeating the Malian army there, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said. The... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2978183/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jan 2013 04:23:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/895791/posts Ex-NBA star educates police on Islam HOUSTON (AP)— Houston police learned a lesson about Islam from former Houston Rockets center Hakeem Olajuwon as part of a program to educate officers about the city's diverse communities. Olajuwon spoke to officers Wednesday at the Hakeem Islamic Dawah Center, a mosque and Islamic education center built with money provided by the NBA star. Organizers of the Houston Police Department's program said they wanted someone who could put a face on Islam to dispel cultural stereotypes. "This type of program is so important in today's world, where Islam has been so misunderstood by so... foxsports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/895791/posts#comment Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:17:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2973224/posts Gen. Carter Ham is head of the U.S. African command. An Army brigade from Fort Riley, Kan., will begin helping train African militaries beat back a growing terrorist threat posed by al-Qaida. An Army brigade from Fort Riley, Kan., some 4,000, soldiers, will begin helping to train African militaries. The idea is to help African troops beat back a growing terrorist threat posed by al-Qaida. The American troops will head over in small teams over the course of the next year. The Dagger Brigade returned to Kansas last year from a deployment to Iraq, where it trained and advised that... Georgia Public Broadcasting http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2973224/posts#comment Sat, 29 Dec 2012 20:07:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2920783/posts A militant Islamist leader whose forces have just conquered two-thirds of the West African state of Mali vows to launch holy war against the West. Omar Ould Hamaha, the military commander of Ansar Dine, or "Defenders of the Faith", which has scored a stunning victory in Mali against the failed state's armed forces, now controls a region larger than France which includes three paved runways that could be used to fly in weapons or drugs. He said: "Even if they (western forces) don't come here, when we have finished conquering France, we will come to the USA, we will come... channel4.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2920783/posts#comment Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:03:05 GMT