Aloy+Emeka:

Why does it always happen on Sundays?

ifedy:

This is getting out of hand.
Religion and ethnicity is a major problem in naija

Sky Blue:

Law enforcement is what you seem to be ignoring. How many people were arrested, prosecuted, and punished for the last incident? How many people have ever been arrested for all the violence?

slap1:

Surely, the BBC can do better. This piece of news is sketchy at best.

EzeUche:

Damn it why is it always on the Lord's Day? 

Time for me to go to the Vatican and ask them to help sponsor a Crusade against these unbelievers. The time for Holy War is at hand!!!

We need to drive these Muslim barbarians back to the Sahara!

EzeUche:

Damn it why is it always on the Lord's Day?  

Time for me to go to the Vatican and ask them to help sponsor a Crusade against these unbelievers. The time for Holy War is at hand!!!

We need to drive these Muslim barbarians back to the Sahara!

frosbel:

What we need is more prayer and more security.

These devils are sponsored by Saudi-Arabia and other state sponsors of terrorism.

JOS is the final frontier and that's why the battle is so intense.

frosbel:

What we need is more prayer and more security.

These devils are sponsored by Saudi-Arabia and other state sponsors of terrorism.

JOS is the final frontier and that's why the battle is so intense.

edoyad:

Whoever started it whether hausa or christian is immaterial , the big picture shows that Nigeria is no longer practical and dissolution of federation is of utmost importance.
NIGERIA AS WE KNOW IT MUST END ! !

amarilo:

You can do well by getting the fk outa here. Nigeria must remain the same. If the country is not good enuf for cameroon is not far. Let them kill anybody at site it changes nothing. One Nigeria.

frosbel:

Give me a few genuine reasons why Nigeria must remain one ?

amarilo:

Let me know your tribe then i will explain.

amarilo:

Let me know your tribe then i will explain.

[size=14pt]Clashes kill more than 100 in central Nigeria[/size]

Villagers in Dogo Nahawa, just south of Jos, said Fulani pastoralists from the surrounding hills attacked at about 3 a.m. (9 p.m. EST), shooting into the air before slashing those who came out of their homes with machetes.

A Reuters witness who visited the village counted around 100 bodies piled in the open air. Pam Dantong, medical director of Plateau State Hospital in Jos, showed reporters 18 corpses that had been brought from the village, some of them charred.

Officials said other bodies had been taken to a second hospital in the state capital.

It was not immediately clear what triggered the violence.

"They came around 3 o'clock in the morning and they started shooting into the air," said Dogo Nahawa resident Peter Jang.

"The shooting was just meant to bring people from their houses and then when people came out they started cutting them with machetes," he said, women crying behind him.

Four days of sectarian clashes in January between mobs armed with guns, knives and machetes killed hundreds of people in Jos, the capital of Plateau state, which lies at the crossroads of Nigeria's Muslim north and predominantly Christian south.

The latest unrest in the volatile region comes at a difficult time for Nigeria, with Acting President Goodluck Jonathan trying to assert his authority while the country's ailing leader Umaru Yar'Adua remains too sick to govern.

"This is an act of inhumanity," said Da Buba Gyang, the traditional ruler of the Christian Berom ethnic group in Jos.

Jonathan deployed hundreds of troops and police to quell January's unrest, in which community leaders put the death toll at more than 400. Official police figures estimated the death toll from the clashes in and around Jos two months ago at 326.

The instability underscores the fragility of Africa's most populous nation as it approaches the campaign period for 2011 elections with uncertainty over who is in charge.

Yar'Adua returned from three months in a Saudi hospital, where he was being treated for a heart condition, a week and a half ago but has still not been seen in public. Presidency sources say he remains in a mobile intensive care unit.

Fears of a debilitating power struggle between Yar'Adua's inner circle, keen to maintain its grip on power, and Jonathan sprang up in the OPEC member state of 140 million people when the 58-year-old leader was brought back late at night.

Jonathan has moved quickly to reassert his authority, appointing three new advisory committees last week and chairing his first cabinet meeting since Yar'Adua's return.

Apart from the violence in Plateau state, there is also potential for fresh instability in the Niger Delta, the heartland of the country's mainstay oil and gas industry, after a militant splinter group last week claimed two attacks on oil facilities

Beaf:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6260X420100307