ANTITRIBALISM: Though, it's good to protect the image of the country but boko haram are simply a terror group. Lets call a spade a spade or what else can we call them after terrorising the country and killing thousands of people without any tangible reason.

Johndoe100:

You are very correct but they don't travel, why punish the people boko haram want to kill? The government thinks they can contain them, we should let them try,

S@NNiE:
AMID pressure on President Barack Obama to formally designate Boko Haram a foreign terrorist organisation (FTO), Nigeria has kicked against the move.

The Federal Government raised its objection to the plan ahead of yesterday’s meeting of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi, with top White House and State Department officials in Washington DC.

Nigeria’s Ambassador to the U.S., Prof. Ade Adefuye, who confirmed Azazi’s meeting with the American officials, said the government was opposed to such a designation because it might subject Nigerian travellers to the kind of intensive search and scrutiny around the world, especially in western capitals and cities after the Farouk Abdulmutallab incident in December 2009.

Ambassador Adefuye in his defence of government’s action, said he feared the likelihood of Nigerians being opened to all kinds of harassments at international airports once such a designation comes from the U.S., including intensive and intrusive body searches.

The envoy said the government would on its own contain the Boko Haram menace as it did in quelling the militancy in the Niger Delta.

As at press time yesterday, Azazi, accompanied by Adefuye, was at a meeting with White House officials and was billed later in the day to attend another parley at the State Department, which has come under pressure both from the American Congress and the Justice Department to declare Boko Haram a global terror group.

As matters now stand, the State Department is in agreement with the Nigerian Embassy in Washington DC and has refused to designate Boko Haram a “foreign terrorist organisation.”

Informed U.S. government sources hinted that the meetings would review the pressure from the American Congress calling for the formal designation of Boko Haram as a terror gang among other counter-terrorism issues.

Top officials of President Barack Obama’s National Security Council at the White House were believed to have met with Azazi yesterday morning, while his meeting at the State Department would be hosted by the country’s Ambassador-at-Large and Co-ordinator for Counter-Terrorism, Daniel Benjamin.

In the past few days, the U.S. media and western news wire had been reporting on plans by some American federal lawmakers to ensure that Boko Haram is designated as a terrorist organization.

The lawmakers argued that the U.S. and global interests had been attacked by the group, citing the suicide bombing of the United Nations (UN) building in Abuja as evidence of the armed group’s intent to harm American interests.

But while the Congressional leaders have been writing the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, demanding such a designation and also threatening to enforce it by way of legislation, some American scholars earlier this week openly opposed the plan.

The letter written by the scholars, numbering 20, included signatories of Dr. Jean Herskovitz, from the State University of New York, former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, and a Nigerian-born don, Dr. Rita Edozien, from the Michigan State University.

The scholars said if the U.S. goes ahead to designate Boko Haram FTO, it would “internationalise the group’s standing and enhance its status among radical organisations elsewhere.”

Besides, the American intellectuals noted that “should Boko Haram be designated an FTO through this regime, it would be illegal for non-governmental organisations to interact with members of the terror gang – even if the purpose of such contact was to persuade them to renounce violence.”

But some prominent American Congressmen have insisted that the Obama administration must designate the insurgent gang a “foreign terrorist organisation.”

An agency report on Monday quoted Senator Scott Brown, a Republican from Massachusetts, as adding his voice in a letter to Clinton, urging her to designate the group as a terrorist body under U.S. law.

The argument from the lawmakers have been backed up with the reported facts that Boko Haram is linked to al-Qaeda, and also because the group had been linked to 700 killings in Nigeria over the last 18 months.

Last weekend, U.S. Representatives Peter King and Patrick Meehan, chairmen of the House Homeland Security Committee and its Counter-Terrorism Sub-committee in that order, both Republicans wrote to Clinton “suggesting that the administration was moving too slowly on the issue.”

http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=86979:nigeria-opposes-us-bid-to-tag-boko-haram-terror-group-&catid=1:national&Itemid=559#.T7xyykb4qgg.twitter

maclatunji:

Ignorance on display. Was Boko Haram not on rampage during Yar'adua's tenure?

@topic, if the Nigerian government is up to the task of securing the nation, I don't see any reason why the NSA or any other government official would be begging the U.S. not to designate any group bombing and killing Nigerians as a terrorist organisation.

Whatever name they are called does not stop them from being what they are.

sashaa:
does this mean that you value your image more than the innocent lives that are continously being lost as a result of this 'terror group' ?
Smh

BlueMurder:

Your hate for Buhari has seared the left side of your brain! Unreasonable hate induces HBP. Watch it.

Chanchit:
I fink that ur hand wei u dey use press robbish on your keyboard should be amputated, u've always been negative in all ur comments, @least i have read ur comments on 3 diff' stories, and they are all nonsense, bt i won't blame u anyway, na d spirit of okija dey control ur thinking....

Spirit of Okija:

If aint mr. Smartypants IamWeezle Tunji...

Please remind me again when the first Boko Bomb went off in Nigeria and their bombing campaign increased both in sophistication, capacity and target..

Spirit of Okija:

If aint mr. Smartypants IamWeezle Tunji...

Please remind me again when the first Boko Bomb went off in Nigeria and their bombing campaign increased both in sophistication, capacity and target..






I'm sorry honey.. Its called self-preservation.. Why should I have a U.S customs agent shove his hand up my arse because Buhari (the sore loser) paid some illiterate cattlefucking normads to cause mayhem in the North to distabilize the government of a Niger Delta president?! I couldnt careless what sort of bomb goes off next as long as it is in the south and dosent affect me in anyway (including being labeled a citizen of a terrorist nation)..

Thank you very much..




Unfortunately, hating Buhari is a waste of my very scare 'hate'.. The Nigga is a loser, is old and will die in the not too distant future either through stroke, Boko IED or natural causes...




So you are one of my secret admirers!! Awww!! Just so you know, I am not gay, dont have cows for you to fhuck and I am Boko Haram proof!!

I am only negative towards Boko Haram sponsors/financiers (Northern Elites), Boko Haram Patrons (Buhari & Atiku), Boko Haram bombers and Cattle-fhuckers


Secondly, why are you hating on me for dissing Buhari?! I see you and your goons dissing Jonathan freely, but when once I call Buhari a Cattle-fhucking Normad person, you take offence.. WHY?!!

You need Jesus!!

maclatunji:

You mean "If it aint" not "If aint". You cannot even speak Ghetto-English right, you need help.

Knock your ignorance out with this http://www.irinnews.org/Report/93909/NIGERIA-Timeline-of-Boko-Haram-activity and this again http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram

It is okay to be ignorant, just don't present it for public consumption.

Chanchit:
who will admire someone dt drinks blood frm okija shrine...?
Secret admirer my foot, u beta go and phuck ur okija shigidi..
Dts y i always pass by, whenever i see ur dumb comments.. I no even knw how service reach dt ur shrine sef...

Beaf!:
^
aRE YOU JOBLESS
@The guy posting this 'jobless' thing please.

Spirit of Okija:

Thanks for the correction.. And the links..

But did you notice that it wasnt until 2011 after Buhari and Atiku had failed in their election bids did the bombs start dropping and the dynamics of their attacks change!!

Check am na!!

Oke a'mam i'he is bad.. 'Over-sabi is bad'..

When did Boko Haram first start using bombs in their attacks?!!

Answer 29th May 2011...

You have been schooled!!

S@NNiE:
AMID pressure on President Barack Obama to formally designate Boko Haram a foreign terrorist organisation (FTO), Nigeria has kicked against the move.

The Federal Government raised its objection to the plan ahead of yesterday’s meeting of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi, with top White House and State Department officials in Washington DC.

Nigeria’s Ambassador to the U.S., Prof. Ade Adefuye, who confirmed Azazi’s meeting with the American officials, said the government was opposed to such a designation because it might subject Nigerian travellers to the kind of intensive search and scrutiny around the world, especially in western capitals and cities after the Farouk Abdulmutallab incident in December 2009.

Ambassador Adefuye in his defence of government’s action, said he feared the likelihood of Nigerians being opened to all kinds of harassments at international airports once such a designation comes from the U.S., including intensive and intrusive body searches.

The envoy said the government would on its own contain the Boko Haram menace as it did in quelling the militancy in the Niger Delta.

As at press time yesterday, Azazi, accompanied by Adefuye, was at a meeting with White House officials and was billed later in the day to attend another parley at the State Department, which has come under pressure both from the American Congress and the Justice Department to declare Boko Haram a global terror group.

As matters now stand, the State Department is in agreement with the Nigerian Embassy in Washington DC and has refused to designate Boko Haram a “foreign terrorist organisation.”

Informed U.S. government sources hinted that the meetings would review the pressure from the American Congress calling for the formal designation of Boko Haram as a terror gang among other counter-terrorism issues.

Top officials of President Barack Obama’s National Security Council at the White House were believed to have met with Azazi yesterday morning, while his meeting at the State Department would be hosted by the country’s Ambassador-at-Large and Co-ordinator for Counter-Terrorism, Daniel Benjamin.

In the past few days, the U.S. media and western news wire had been reporting on plans by some American federal lawmakers to ensure that Boko Haram is designated as a terrorist organization.

The lawmakers argued that the U.S. and global interests had been attacked by the group, citing the suicide bombing of the United Nations (UN) building in Abuja as evidence of the armed group’s intent to harm American interests.

But while the Congressional leaders have been writing the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, demanding such a designation and also threatening to enforce it by way of legislation, some American scholars earlier this week openly opposed the plan.

The letter written by the scholars, numbering 20, included signatories of Dr. Jean Herskovitz, from the State University of New York, former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, and a Nigerian-born don, Dr. Rita Edozien, from the Michigan State University.

The scholars said if the U.S. goes ahead to designate Boko Haram FTO, it would “internationalise the group’s standing and enhance its status among radical organisations elsewhere.”

Besides, the American intellectuals noted that “should Boko Haram be designated an FTO through this regime, it would be illegal for non-governmental organisations to interact with members of the terror gang – even if the purpose of such contact was to persuade them to renounce violence.”

But some prominent American Congressmen have insisted that the Obama administration must designate the insurgent gang a “foreign terrorist organisation.”

An agency report on Monday quoted Senator Scott Brown, a Republican from Massachusetts, as adding his voice in a letter to Clinton, urging her to designate the group as a terrorist body under U.S. law.

The argument from the lawmakers have been backed up with the reported facts that Boko Haram is linked to al-Qaeda, and also because the group had been linked to 700 killings in Nigeria over the last 18 months.

Last weekend, U.S. Representatives Peter King and Patrick Meehan, chairmen of the House Homeland Security Committee and its Counter-Terrorism Sub-committee in that order, both Republicans wrote to Clinton “suggesting that the administration was moving too slowly on the issue.”

there is no need crying over a spilt milk,us should go ahead and name boko haram as a terrorist gang,cos Gej has not done anytin to curb boko haramhttp://www.guardiannewsngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=86979:nigeria-opposes-us-bid-to-tag-boko-haram-terror-group-&catid=1:national&Itemid=559#.T7xyykb4qgg.twitter

Spirit of Okija:

Blood from Okija!! I laff like Boko Haram Poster boy Abumutallab!!

My guy!! Free me biko!! Mr wise guy, I gree for you!!

Kayusfity: For the 1st time I'm happy with the Nigerian government. Boko bois are a local menace we will over by june. The US should declare biafrans as an international terror group and tribe. Thank you

A senior State Department official told Reuters last week the department was obliged to undertake extensive analysis before adding organizations to the list and said the department was "not stalling or dragging our feet" on Boko Haram.

[size=13pt]A U.S. national security official said on Monday that although most official reporting indicated that Boko Haram was "focused inwardly" in terms of their current attack targets, there was growing evidence that "they don't like Kenya" and that their violent activities were growing.[/size]

maclatunji:

Ignorance on display. Was Boko Haram not on rampage during Yar'adua's tenure?

@topic, if the Nigerian government is up to the task of securing the nation, I don't see any reason why the NSA or any other government official would be begging the U.S. not to designate any group bombing and killing Nigerians as a terrorist organisation.

Whatever name they are called does not stop them from being what they are.

patriot2:
The same way Nigeria should not label alqaida and talibans and hezbolla terrorists. We should even allow our citizens fund them. This is what would happen if we were to follow US logics. These b.astards they feel too superior!