Muza:

Is the fighting political,religious or ethnic?

Black_Revo:

We really need to solve all these ethnicity problem by putting tribes that can tolerate each other in the same state and making laws that governmens how we relate to other tribe. The government shoud set up a special division in the police and military that will be deployed immediately within 24hrs when ever there is an issue like these to stop the total breakdown of law and order before a solution is found.

It doesn't matter if it is political or not or anything but these things scares me alot they are not just right?

Sky Blue:

I disagree, the problem does not lie with putting people who can "tolerate" each other together, but having an effective police system that can enforce law and order and having an enforcement agency that is able to bring culprits of a crime to justice even years after the crime is perpetrated. As things stand and as far as i am aware, there is no notable detective or forensic agency or section in the country and if they exist they are doing a very lousy job. How many people have been killed throughout the north as a result of "riots" and how many people have been convicted as a result of such? When you hear stories of police officers standing by while hooligans carry out their despicable activities then what do you expect? What is the message being sent out? When crimes put under the umbrella of "religous riots" are treated as childs play then what on earth do you expect? That it will stop automatically? A people are being given a message that there is nothing wrong with what they are doing and you expect them to stop? I can't wait for the day when a leader with balls will be able to throw a few imams and even pastors in jail for inciting their followership to violence and i am not afraid to be blunt and i may be wrong, but this problem is more pronounced in the north and with imams. Wasn't IBB quoted as saying it was "god's will" in response to one of the earlier riots in the 70s as i am led to believe? So what is the message?

QuotaSyste:

Until Igbo president emerges, expect no president of your nigeria to do such thing. Obasanjo, a Yoruba president was there and it happened under his nose, what did he do? nothing and no arrest till this date because the victims were Igbos. This is why is support General Laurant Nkunda 100%.

Sky Blue:

Unless i am missing something the victims continue to be the people which goes beyond igbos as you always like to make the issue about. What about people who are killed or attacked by their families or communities when they decide they don't want to be muslims anymore? Are those all igbos? Churches burnt down are they only igbo churches? So igbos are the only non muslims or non northerners living in the north? When will you begin to allow your debates flourish beyond such a view that i won't blame others for seeing as myopic?

QuotaSyste:

You can go and tell your stories to a Cameronian or an Ivorian that doesn't know exactly what is happening in your northern nigeria. But not to me and other Igbo people. We the Igbos know that the killings are targeted towards Igbo people, but a non Igbo like you who is not feeling the pinch can think what ever you like and make up what ever other stories you feel like to justify what is happneing there, that is your own cup of tea. Fact is 99% of the vicitims are Igbo, so go to hell with your questions of what about other people and churches and non Igbos living in northern nigeria.

Unless i am missing something the victims continue to be the people which goes beyond igbos as you always like to make the issue about. What about people who are killed or attacked by their families or communities when they decide they don't want to be Muslims anymore? Are those all igbos? Churches burnt down are they only igbo churches? So igbos are the only non Muslims or non northerners living in the north? When will you begin to allow your debates flourish beyond such a view that i won't blame others for seeing as myopic?

Seun:

If all the people participating in these riots were locked up, the riots will stop. It's just crime 101

Crime 101: If a crime is rewarded and not punished, it will not stop happening. Nothing more.

Curfew set in Nigerian city of Jos after clashes

JOS, Nigeria, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Authorities imposed a night-time curfew on the central Nigerian city of Jos on Friday and soldiers deployed on the streets after at least four people died in ethnic-religious clashes over a local election.

"Government is imposing a curfew in Jos ,  and the environs from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. (1700-0500 GMT)," Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau state, of which Jos is the capital, said in a broadcast.

Residents said soldiers had deployed on the streets of the city, where clashes have broken out in the past between the Muslim and Christian communities, and that several churches and mosques had been burned. (Reporting by Shuaibu Mohammed; Writing by Nick Tattersall; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

JOS, Nigeria, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Authorities imposed a night-time curfew on the central Nigerian city of Jos on Friday and soldiers deployed on the streets after ethnic-religious clashes over a local election killed at least four people.

Youths with machetes hacked to death a policeman and burned tyres in one part of the city. Residents said several mosques and churches had also been set ablaze. Scores of people ran to take cover in a police station, a Reuters witness said.

"All law-abiding citizens are assured that government is on top of the situation and should go about their normal lives," Jonah Jang, governor of Plateau state of which Jos is the capital, said in a broadcast.

"Government is imposing a curfew in Jos , and the environs from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. (1700-0500 GMT). Government wishes to advise against any further attempt to test its will to maintain peace on the Plateau," he said.

A police spokesman said one officer had been killed in the unrest. A senior doctor at Jos University Teaching Hospital said he could confirm three people had died in his hospital.

ELECTION RUMOUR

The violence was triggered by a disputed vote for a new local government chairman in Jos North, the commercial centre of Plateau state and a key political constituency.

Residents said demonstrators from the Hausa ethnic group began protesting in the early hours of Friday after a rumour spread that their ANPP party candidate had lost the race to the ruling PDP party.

"The group said they were not fighting people but fighting government because of their action," said one witness, who asked not to be named.

Plumes of thick black smoke rose up over the Akpata neighbourhood. Some residents said several homes and shops had been set ablaze.

Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation with 140 million people, is roughly equally divided between Muslims and Christians, who generally live peacefully side by side.

But hostility has simmered in the past in Plateau state.

Hundreds were killed in ethnic-religious street fighting in Jos in 2001. Three years later, hundreds more died in clashes in the town of Yelwa, leading then-President Olusegun Obasanjo to declare a state of emergency and impose a curfew.

The tensions in Plateau state have their roots in decades of resentment by indigenous minority groups, who are mostly Christian or animist, towards migrants and settlers from Nigeria's Hausa-speaking Muslim north.

The official results of Thursday's vote have not yet been announced but ANPP observers at polling stations had forecast a clear win for their candidate. (For full Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: http://africa.reuters.com/)

GoldCircle:

These rascals are at it again! Gosh! I miss Obasanjo! Will Yar'adua have the moral rectitude to stop them? soon, this madness will begin to spread all over the country! God help us!

QuotaSyste:

Until Igbo president emerges, expect no president of your nigeria to do such thing. Obasanjo, a Yoruba president was there and it happened under his nose, what did he do? nothing and no arrest till this date because the victims were Igbos. This is why i support General Laurant Nkunda 100% for fighting to defend his people who are being killed on daily bases.

GoldCircle:

These rascals are at it again! Gosh! I miss Obasanjo! Will Yar'adua have the moral rectitude to stop them? soon, this madness will begin to spread all over the country! God help us!

kanayo74:

i always ask myself one question and that is must we be violent when it come to religious matters?
Christan's and Muslim alike don't practise their religion,
Islam is supposed to be the religion of peace, but all we see and hear from them is Violence
Christianity is supposed to be a religion of love but hatred is all that goose through their mind.

may we be saved from all this and learn that our ideas will always differ as long as we have different finger prints

life is full of fun why not enjoy it and let religion die a natural death

GoldCircle:

These rascals are at it again! Gosh! I miss Obasanjo! Will Yar'adua have the moral rectitude to stop them? soon, this madness will begin to spread all over the country! God help us!

nuzo:

Have you heard or seen christians go on riot in nigeria before?

And what do you miss OBJ for?

Youths with machetes hacked to death a policeman and burned tyres in one part of the city. Residents said several mosques and churches had also been set ablaze. Scores of people ran to take cover in a police station, a Reuters witness said.

JosBoy4Lif:

Last I heard Igbo's are not the only ones suffering in Nigeria. Was it not over 600 Hausa that were killed in the town of Yelwa!
I'm sick of your bickering about how east is being oppressed. NIGERIA is being oppressed by all our forking leaders. From Abakaliki to Maidugiri. ALL OUR LEADERS.