The North was not always riddled with violence and uncertainties it was once filled with people from different ethnic and religious background co-existing together living in peace and tranquillity. Its so saddening to see the state of things today. Yes I know that most people who don't live in the North picture it as a war zone, it's been visualised in their minds like a war movie where streets are lined with landmines and you can even step on one and get blown to shreds as soon as you step out of your house. What an utter misconception that is! Even though I'm from the east I'm more of a northerner, the North is my home I was born here, I grew up here and even though it's not as it used to be it's still nothing close to what most people think. We still practice our beliefs in peace, I still go to the corner shop owned by the mallam down the street and I even still enjoy my suya in the evenings at the bustop. The North has its issues no doubt but it's nothing close to what most people who don't live here make it out to be. This is a beautiful place, this is the only place you can still take a bike for as less as N30, I bet if you give a bike man N30 in Lagos he's going to invoke Shango to send thunderstorms to your family home.
The North isn't totally covered with vast hectares of empty lands like most people imagine. Not all Alhajis have cows and funny Northern accents like you see in Nollywoood movies. Northerners are friendly and easy going people. So forget what you think, things are not always what they seem. And yes again I'm from the east but I'm more of a Northerner.

God bless u. I pray dis suffering GEJ unleashed on Us all will unite us all forever

Wise one

Elslim:
God bless u. I pray dis suffering GEJ unleashed on Us all will unite us all forever

When the Northerner said they will make this Country ungovernable for GEJ where were you?

You and the poster of this topic should read the bellow list of killings in the North...


LIST OF ISLAMIC TERROR IN NIGERIA -
STARTING WITH MOST RECENT
SUPPORTED AND FINANCED BY PA
MUTALLAB THE FINANCIER. DR.
MUTALLAB WITH HIS WAHABISM AND
SHARIA WORLD VIEW THAT LEAD HIS SON TO THIS UNGODLY ACT. NORTHERN
NIGERIA MUSLINM LEADERS ARE
SUPPORTERS OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM IN
NIGERIAN AND IN THE WORLD. · December 30 2009, Bauchi, (Northern
Nigeria) Radical Islamic sect Kala-Kato a
branch of Maitasine attacked Christians
and burned Churches; 70 people were
killed. · July 26 2009 Maidugiri, Yobe, Bauchi,
Kano, (Northern Nigeria) Radical Islamic
fundamentalist sect, Boko Haram
[translated “Western civilization is
evil”] goes on rampage burning
churches, and looting homes belonging to Christians and murdering them. Three
Christian pastors including George Orji
(Igbo) were killed by beheading.
Officially 800 people were reported
killed. · 2007, Adamawa (Northern Nigeria)
Moslem jihadists invade Christian
community of Yugor killing hundreds of
Christians, looting and burning churches
and Christian’s homes and property. · 2006 Maidugiri, (Northern Nigeria)
Islamic fundamentalists protesting
cartoon of Prophet Mohammed by
Danish cartoonist killed hundreds of
Christians, burned down scores of
Churches, and looted shops and homes belonging to Christians. · 2006 All over Northern Nigeria. Similar
riots by Islamic jihadists were held in
numerous towns in Northern Nigeria –
Katsina, Bauchi, Minna, Potiskum, Kano,
Kotangora. Thousands of Christians
were killed, scores of churches were looted and burned and personal homes
and businesses of Christians were
looted and burned. One week before
that Nigerian MP’s burned Danish and
Norwegian flags in the parliament
premises. · June 28 2006, Abuja (Northern Nigeria)
The Federal government of Nigeria
accused Kano State of Northern Nigeria
of collaborating with foreign powers to
train 100 Muslim militants in
“intelligence gathering” and the "practice of jihad". In a news release,
Information Minister Frank Nweke said
the "Hisbah", a group employed by the
mainly Muslim state of Kano to enforce
sharia law, was "a parallel security
outfit that poses a potential threat to national security". · April 2003, Kano (Northern Nigeria)
Islamic jihadists go on a rampage A
pastor, Sunday Madumere (Igbo) and six
of his family members were killed · April, 2003, Jos (Northern Nigeria)
Armed Muslim insurgents attacked
Wereng village near Vom a suburb of
Jos killing people, burning homes and
looting people’s property. · April, 2003, Langtang (Northern
Nigeria) A group of armed Muslims
attacked a village in Langtang killing
people and burning down homes. · 2003 Gusau (Northern Nigeria)
Governor Ahmed Sani, who came to the
United States and used the VOA to
advertise the introduction of
fundamentalist Islamic Sharia Law in
Nigeria promising that it will never be applied to Christians gave an order that
more than 20 of the Christian churches
in the State be demolished. They were
demolished promptly. No reasons were
given. · March, 2003 Jos (Northern Nigeria)
Thousands of jihad warriors attacked
the town of Kardako in Wase Local
Government Area (LGA) shouting
“Allahu Akbar” killing Christians and
burning down homes. · February, 2003 Ibadan (Western
Nigeria) Muslims jihadists from the
National Council of Muslim Youth
Organizations attacked Christian schools
in Ibadan in an effort to force the
schools to require women to wear Islamic head coverings. Hundreds of
students and teachers were injured in
the attack. · December 26, 2002, Bauchi, (Northern
Nigeria) Islamic jihadists attacked
Christians concluding a Christmas
celebration in Bauchi killing Christians,
looting and burning churches and
Christian’s homes. · December 2002, Jos, (Northern
Nigeria). Muslim Jihadists attack
Christians. During the attack Rev. Bitrus
Manjang, his son, daughter-in- law and
their six-month old child were shot to
death outside their home. The jihadists went on killing people looting and
burning churches and Christian’s homes. · November, 2002 Kano, Kaduna
(Northern Nigeria) Muslim jihadists
went on a rampage after an article in
the This Day newspaper suggested that
the prophet Muhammad would probably
have married a contestant from the Miss World pageant scheduled to be held in
Abuja. Muslim mobs ransacked the
newspaper’s office, issued a fatwa on
the author of the article, Miss Isioma,
killed Christians and burned down
numerous churches. · October 2002, Jos, (Northern Nigeria)
Hundreds of Christians were killed
when a mob of several Muslims jihadists
attacked the town of Fajul in Plateau
State. Mercenaries from Chad and Niger
were believed to be among the group, which burned down homes, churches,
and raped several women. · September 11, 2002, Jos, (Northern
Nigeria) A bomb exploded at the Church
of Christ in the Laranto suburb of Jos. No
one was injured, but there was some
structural damage to the church
building. · August 2002 Kano, (Northern Nigeria)
The government of Kano State ordered
half of the churches in Kano State closed
because of Muslim complaints about
“too many churches.” · June 2002, Jos, (Northern Nigeria)
Several Christian communities in
Plateau state including Yelwa,
Shendam, Wase, Barakin Ladi, Vom and
Miango were invaded by Islamic
jihadists who killed people and burned down homes and churches. · June, 2002, Minna, (Northern Nigeria)
At least 75 Christians were arrested in
Niger state for opposing the state’s
Islamic sharia law. · April 8-22, 2002, Kano (Northern
Nigeria) At least seven churches in Kano
State were destroyed by authorities.
There is a growing trend in states that
have enacted Sharia law to destroy
Christian churches on the pretense that the churches have violated building
codes. Christians believe it is a step
toward wiping out the Christian faith in
northern Nigeria. · April 2002, Sokoto (Northern Nigeria)
Two Christians in Zamfara State were
tried on the charge of apostasy,
converting from Islam to Christianity.
According to Islamic law, the penalty
for apostasy is death. However the two Christians, Lawali Yakubu and Ali
Jafaru, claim they were never Muslims
to start with. The two belong to an
ethnic group that has practiced
Christianity for many years. · February, 2002 Ilorin (Northern
Nigeria) Muslims in Ilorin turned violent
while celebrating Eid-el-Kabir and
began attacking and killing Christians
and burning their houses and
businesses. · February 2002, Kano (Northern
Nigeria) The Kano state government
revealed that it had closed down 122
Christian schools for failing to meet
state requirements. The requirement in
question is the compulsory study of Islam. Christian schools have refused to
allow Muslim clerics into their schools,
thus risking closure. · February, 2002, Gombe, (Northern
Nigeria) A Christian lady, Esther Bulus
was kidnapped from her school by four
Muslims who slit her throat and left her
to die. Esther had refused to marry a
Muslim politician in Gombe on grounds of religious differences. She was
murdered because of this. · December 30, 2001, Jos, (Northern
Nigeria) Armed Muslim jihadists
attacked the Christian community in
southern Jos, killing people, looting and
destroying property worth several
million dollars. · December 2001, Yola (Northern
Nigeria) Muslim army soldiers from the
23rd Armored 7th Brigade in Yola,
burned a Christian church building,
which was constructed in the army
barracks. They justified the act by saying it was an illegal structure.
However, the army officially allows
both Islam and Christianity to be
practiced in the barracks. · December 10, 2001, Kano, (Northern
Nigeria) Truck driver Uche Nwama was
killed by Islamic jihadists for allowing
the exhaust from his truck to drift into
an open-air Islamic meeting. Islamic
jihadists claimed the exhaust had desecrated the Quran. · November 6 2001; Ibadan (Western
Nigeria) Islamic jihadists hold a massive
rally in Ibadan in support of Osama Bin
Laden and his attack and slaughter of
thousands of Americans during the
9/11/2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York. They
condemn the United States for attacking
the Taliban in Afghanistan and vow to
fight alongside Bin Laden and his fellow
terrorists. · November 2001 (Northern and
Western Nigeria) Islamic jihadists hold
massive rallies in Osogbo, Sokoto, Kano,
Zaria, Kaduna, and other towns in
Western and Northern Nigeria in
support of Osama Bin Laden and his attack and slaughter of thousands of
Americans during 9/11/2001 terrorist
attack on the World Trade Center in
New York. They condemn the United
States for attacking the Taliban in
Afghanistan. They also vow to fight alongside Bin Laden and his fellow
terrorists in a jihad against America. · November 28, 2001Enugu (Eastern
Nigeria) Christian Biafrans organize a
peaceful rally in Enugu in solidarity with
and support of the government and
people of the United States over the
terrorist attack in New York on 9/11/2001 and in support of the United
States action against the terrorists. The
Nigerian paramilitary police brutalized
the participants, disbanded the rally and
arrested the leaders. · October 14-18, 2001 Kano (Northern
Nigeria) Massive anti-American protests
in Kano by Islamic jihadists. Thousands
of Christians are slaughtered and scores
of churches are burned. Property of
Christians worth billions of dollars are looted and destroyed. · October 2001, Kaduna (Northern
Nigeria) Islamic jihadists attack
Christians in churches, on the street and
in their homes. Thousands of Christians
are slaughtered, scores of churches are
burned and looted, and thousands of Christian homes are looted, and burned. · September 2001, Kano (Northern
Nigeria) Islamic jihadists attack
Christians burning down churches
slaughtering thousands of people,
looting churches and private homes.
Kano State government demolishes the few remaining churches. · September 2001, Jos (Northern
Nigeria) In a well planned and highly
coordinated program Islamic jihadists
attack Christians in the city of Jos,
burning down churches, and private
homes of Christians, looting the churches and private property of
Christians. Hundreds of churches were
burned and thousands of Christians
were slaughtered some burned while
worshipping in their churches. · August 2001, Bauchi, (Northern
Nigeria). The Bauchi state government
is alleged to be using Muslim
mercenaries to attack Christians in the
Tafawa Balewa and Bogora districts. On
several occasions vehicles loaded with Islamic jihadists were intercepted by
vigilant Christians. Several hundred
Christians were killed and houses, shops
and churches looted, burned and
destroyed. · June 2001, Gawaram (Northern
Nigeria) Islamic jihadists attack
Christians, burn down dozens of
churches and kill Christians. · February 24-25, 2001, (Gombe) A visit
to Gombe state by an Israeli
ambassador sparked a riot by Islamic
jihadists. During the riot the jihadists
kill Christians, loot and burn down
churches, loot and burn down Christian homes and render thousands of people
homeless. The Calvary Baptist Church
and the Bishara Baptist church are
among those looted and burned. · September 2000 Gombe (Northern
Nigeria) In Bambam, Gombe state
Islamic jihadists attack and kill
Christians, burn down and loot churches
and private homes and businesses of
Christians. · May 2000, Kaduna (Northern Nigeria)
For several days Islamic jihadists attack
and slaughter hundreds of people in
Kaduna.. They loot thousands of
Christian people’s homes, churches,
businesses and then burn them down. Thousands of Christians are mindlessly
slaughtered and more than 200 churches
are burned · February 2000, Kaduna (Northern
Nigeria) Islamic jihadists attack and
slaughter Christians opposing the
implementation of Sharia law in
Kaduna, northern Nigeria. Christian
homes, businesses and churches are looted, and burned. Thousands of
Christians are mercilessly slaughtered
and property worth billions of dollars
are looted and destroyed by the
jihadists. · 2000 Damboa, Maidugiri, (Northern
Nigeria) Islamic jihadists attack and
slaughter Christians, loot and burn
Christian homes, businesses and
churches · We will stop at the year 2000. This is
not even comprehensive. There is
documentation of numerous other
attacks by Islamic jihadists including:
Kano, 1994; Ibadan, 1993; Lagos, 1993;
Funtua, 1993; Zango Kataf 1992; Kano 1991; Katsina, 1991; Bauchi, 1991;
Kafanchan, 1986; Kaduna, 1986; Gombe,
1985; Yola, 1984; Maidugiri, 1982; Kano,
1980. If you are interested you can go
as far back as May/June; July/August;
and September/October 1966 when Moslem jihadists slaughtered 100,000
Christian Igbo and other Easterners in
Northern Nigeria. We suspect that Dora
and her parents may have been
escapees from Northern Nigeria during
the jihad of 1966 in Northern Nigeria

chops33:
The North was not always riddled with violence and uncertainties it was once filled with people from different ethnic and religious background co-existing together living in peace and tranquillity. Its so saddening to see the state of things today. Yes I know that most people who don't live in the North picture it as a war zone, it's been visualised in their minds like a war movie where streets are lined with landmines and you can even step on one and get blown to shreds as soon as you step out of your house. What an utter misconception that is! Even though I'm from the east I'm more of a northerner, the North is my home I was born here, I grew up here and even though it's not as it used to be it's still nothing close to what most people think. We still practice our beliefs in peace, I still go to the corner shop owned by the mallam down the street and I even still enjoy my suya in the evenings at the bustop. The North has its issues no doubt but it's nothing close to what most people who don't live here make it out to be. This is a beautiful place, this is the only place you can still take a bike for as less as N30, I bet if you give a bike man N30 in Lagos he's going to invoke Shango to send thunderstorms to your family home.
The North isn't totally covered with vast hectares of empty lands like most people imagine. Not all Alhajis have cows and funny Northern accents like you see in Nollywoood movies. Northerners are friendly and easy going people. So forget what you think, things are not always what they seem. And yes again I'm from the east but I'm more of a Northerner.

Dear poster, stop decieving ppl that has never been to the North. I'm not denying the fact that there are many peaceful Northerners.

I was born and brought up in the North, and i still live here.

The common name an average Northerner calls a Christian is Pagan (arne)

also see the list of crisis in North i sent bellow.

I wont also deny there are some voilent ppl in the south too...

We all need to live in peace irrespective of our religious believes and ethnic deffrences.

Things are actually very cheap in the North than any place in in South.

The north is one huge time bomb set to explode by feb 14, you better get out of there. Nobody in the east will feel pity for you when you are brought back in pieces. A word is enough for the wise.