A 74-year old Igbo market woman, Mrs
Bridget Agbahime, was on Thursday
beheaded at Kofar Wambai Market, Kano, by
an irate mob, who accused her of
blaspheming Prophet Mohammed.
The incident occurred at about 4.30pm when
traders were about to close for the day’s
business.
While condemning such an act, the Northern
Christian Association of Nigeria described it
as barbaric and wondered why such
gruesome and barbaric incident always
featured in Kano, a foremost commercial city
in the country.

However, Kano, is not the only city or state
in the country where people have been killed
in the name of religion.
Here are ten gruesome religious killings
witnessed in the country since January 2000:


2000 Kaduna riots (21 February-23
May 2000)
The riot followed a proposal to adopt the
Sharia law in the state. The proposal led to a
violent clash between
Christians and Muslims in Kaduna State. It is
unclear how many people were killed. It is
estimated that between 1,000 to 5,000 people
died.

2001 Jos riots (7–17 September
2001)
These riots involved Christians and Muslims
who clashed violently in Jos, over the
appointment of a Muslim politician, Alhaji
Muktar Mohammed, as local coordinator of
the federal poverty alleviation program. The
clashes started on September 7 and lasted
nearly two weeks, ending on 17 September.
More than 1,000 people were killed during
the riots.

Miss World riots in
Kaduna (November 22, 2002)
The Miss World riots were a series
of religiously-motivated riots in Kaduna in
November 2002, claiming the lives of more
than 200 people.
The controversial Miss World beauty
pageant, which was meant to be held in
Kaduna, was relocated to London after
bloody clashes
between Muslims and Christians, caused by
what some Muslims deemed to be a
“blasphemous” article in a Christian
newspaper about the event.
The Miss World riots were part of the Sharia
Conflict, that started in 1999 when several
predominantly Islamic states in Northern
Nigeria decided to introduce Sharia law.

Yelwa massacre, Yelwa, Shedam
and Kano ( February 2, 2004)
The so-called Yelwa massacre was actually
a series of related incidents of mass violence
between Muslims and Christians which took
place in Yelwa, Kano State between February
and May 2004, killing over 700 people.
The first incident in the series occurred on
February 4, 2004 when armed Muslims
attacked the Christians of Yelwa, killing more
than 78 of them including at least 48 who
were worshiping inside a church
compound. According to some sources, the
signal for the attack was a call for Jihad from
the local mosque.
On May 2, 2004 local Christians responded to
the February incident by attacking Muslims in
Yelwa, resulting in roughly 630 deaths.
According to some sources, Muslim girls
were forced to eat pork and other foods
forbidden to Muslims and some were even
raped.

Muhammad cartoons controversy in
Maiduguri (February 18,2006)
The killings began after the Danish
newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12
editorial cartoons on September 30, 2005,
most of which depicted Muhammad. The
newspaper announced that this was an
attempt to contribute to the debate
about criticism of Islam and self-censorship.
Muslim groups in Denmark complained, and
the issue eventually led to protests around
the world, including violent demonstrations
and riots in some Muslim countries.
The international crisis reached the Nigerian
city of Maiduguri, in which over 50 people
were killed and many buildings destroyed or
damaged by rioting Muslims.

2008 Jos riots (November 28-29)
The 2008 Jos riots involved
Christians and Muslims over the result of
a local election on November 29 and 29, 2008
in Jos. Two days of rioting left hundreds
injured and at least 761 dead. The Nigerian
army was deployed and by November 30
order was restored.

2009 Boko Haram uprising
The 2009 Boko Haram uprising was a conflict
between Boko Haram, a
militant Islamist group and Nigerian security
forces. Violence across several states in
northeastern Nigeria left over 1,000 dead,
with around 700 killed in the city of Maiduguri
alone, according to one military official.
A government inquiry later found that, while
long-standing tensions existed between Boko
Haram and the Nigerian Security forces, the
immediate cause of the violence stemmed
from an incident in which a group of the
sect’s members were stopped by police in
the city of Maiduguri as they were on the way
to the cemetery to bury a comrade.
The officers, part of a special operation
aimed at stamping out violence and rampant
crime in Borno State, demanded that the
young men comply with a law requiring
motorcycle passengers to wear helmets.
They refused and, in the confrontation that
followed, several people were shot and
wounded by police.
According to initial media reports the violence
began on July 26 when Boko Haram launched
an attack on a police station in Bauchi state,
with clashes between militants and
the Nigeria Police Force spreading to Kano,
Yobe and Borno soon after.

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2010 Jos riot
The Jos riots were clashes
between Muslim and Christian ethnic groups
near the city of Jos. Since 2001, the area has
been plagued by violence motivated by
multiple factors.The clashes have been
characterised as “religious violence” by
many news sources, although others cite
ethnic and economic differences as the root
of the violence.
The first spate of violence of 2010 started on
17 January in Jos and spread to surrounding
communities. Houses, churches, mosques
and vehicles were set ablaze, during at least
four days of fighting. At least 326 people, and
possibly more than a thousand, were killed.
Hundreds of people died in fresh clashes in
March 2010. According to The New York
Times, the slaughtered villagers were mostly
Christians, slain by machete attacks from
groups of Hausa-Fulani Muslim
herdsmen.Hundreds more fled the area in
case the perpetrators returned.


December 2011 Nigeria attacks
A series of attacks occurred on Christmas
Day church services in northern Nigeria on
25 December 2011. There were bomb blasts
and shootings at churches
in Madalla, Jos, Gadaka, and Damaturu. A
total of 41 people were reported dead.
The Muslim sect, Boko Haram claimed
responsibility.

Yobe Federal Government College
attack (February 25, 2014)
On February 25, 2014, fifty-nine boys were
killed at the Federal Government College of
Buni Yadi in Yobe State. The twenty-four
buildings of the school were also burned
down as a result of the attack. No group has
claimed responsibility for the attack, but
according to media and local officials,
the Islamist militants, Boko Haram, are
suspected to be the attack.

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I think when the bible said "the devil fell from heaven" he landed particularly in the northern Nigeria and dwelt among them. imagine the level of destruction of lives and property and you wonder why they the are poorest. it takes years to build but a minute to destroy. Even among we Igbos we disagree, we argue and even insults different sub groups among us, yet we allow it fade away without any violence. The Ngwans, the Mbaises, Abakilikis, Nsukans have been stereotyped and called unprintable names sometimes we laughed over it. Imagine killing your brothers because of what Danish newspaper wrote/put up in their paper. MUSLIMS in Denmark only protested while Satans in Zoogeria went on killing spree .These Satans from north are majority of the people who held/or holding leadership positions in the country, they are the ones who are manning our police, army, navy and you wonder why the reason behind the extra judicial killing by our security agencies

The pictures are not posted according to the write-up which makes the write-up uninteresting to read.

We all know them from a distance.

you are right