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egift:
- The way Terrorism is ravaging the land today was how Drug trafficking was.
- And to deal will it, the government then placed a Death Sentence for anyone that was pushing Drugs.
- Caught the people that were in-charge of it, and judge them according to the law.

And FYI, it is not like those guys had quit the Business, they were very much in it to the day they died. Ask anyone that knows, after that incident, it stopped others went into hiding.

I put it to you that anyone that supports the damage those folks did to Nigerians will not find it difficult to support and invest in Boko Haram.

Na me go read all this thing?! Hmmm!

Buhari went to u.k for a medical visit. In as much nothing is wrong with that, his media team formulated a lot of lies to cover it up as if its a crime for one to have a medical check up. They also went further to Buy a space at Chatham House for buhari to "give a speech"! What we want is not some orchestrated presentation but something thrown open for the populace to participate in! Jonathan is not nigeria's best president but he has at least given the media a platform to operate and that's why nigerian issues can be analysed to the crux of the matter! This is something the cattle herder and possible waec holder buhari cannot offer!

egift:
Who told you they were not tried? Tomorrow when Buhari will make Boko Haram's Shecow to face firing squad, people like you will still complain.

Terrorism carries a death sentence!

santity100:
MUMU, we all know most Nigerians are very desperate for money and surely most must have been involved in drug trafficking.

Someone caught with drugs in his luggage is innocent ?

Just forget it ... Just change your ways and orientation and start talking like someone that wants the country to move forward.

We all voted and campaigned for GEJ in 2011 because we believed and trusted him, what do we have after 6 years ?

It is time to try another person .. Even in Lagos State, we are trying Jimi Agbaje..

#patrioticNigerians

Lower animal!

santity100:
You people are the problems of this country. be objective for once in your life ..

A drug dealer peddling drugs that has killed thousands, destroyed so many lives !!!!

Are you for real ??

Drug Dealers should be KILLED or sentenced to LIFE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can go and live in indonesia where nigerians are being killed for drug pushing! Killing without due process is wrong!

#whereisbuhariscertificate! !!

santity100:
for your information the people that were imprisoned during his military regime were Corrupt politicians and government officials
for your information those that were killed were drug dealers

Go and learn .. unless your family were involve in either of the offences above

Killing is killing! Riffraff!

najoke:
[b]I thought PDP said Buhari is sick .............why the desperation

Sincerely the PDP camp is filled with clueless set of people, see how they have made Buhari more popular in last 8 days especially Fayose and FFK, displaying one pic or the other, claiming he is sick to the extent they employed the 419 fraudster MrAayeedee who we know is an evil genius with his photoshop skills indirectly campaigning for GMB with all the pics he has been releasing to the public
And what is the result of the GMB health noise .......... people are now interested in GMB, they want to know more about him,they cant wait to see him public etc. Even FFK said it himself, APC is filled with smart people.....APC knows that silence is golden so what did they do......allow PDP make all the noise about GMB London trip.

Now Buhari is going to appear in public......and everybody is eager to see him.......Even GEJ is waiting

On behalf of APC.......Thank you Fayose,MrAayeedee ,FFK and all the PDPiigs supporters on NAIRALAND for making Buhari more popular than ever.

Hope you all eat your words and cover your heads in shame.[/b]

While apc is filled with petty thugs!

Gbawe:
You guys make me laugh with your myopia and self-destructive outlook. It is Nigerians, along with you and yours, who are finished if GEJ is elected to lead Nigeria for another four years. When the President who has earned by far the most income of all Nigerian President, courtesy of crude selling for around $100-$110 per barrel for the period of his tenure, could only deliver darkness, monumental corruption, insecurity, biggest scams in Nigeria's history, record level of oil theft, institutional bankruptcy, inadequate healthcare, infrastructural dearth et al then it is not Buhari who is "finished" if GEJ continues.

It is you and average Nigerians who are finished if GEJ and his gang continue in power because they will now have to satisfy their huge appetite for stealing and corruption from less than half the income Nigeria was receiving courtesy of crude now selling for $50.00 per barrel. Now they have to steal from income generated through oil selling at $50.00 per barrel when they were already very merciless robbing you when oil sold for $110.00 per barrel. Continue to make your hatred of Buhari a personalised one while you take your eyes of what GEJ will do to your future and that of generations unborn. Buhari is only trying to lead and do the right thing. He is a privileged and blessed man already who has recorded every success and happiness a good and productive life bring. The same cannot be said for millions of Nigerians and it is them you should think about if you are wise and indeed sensible.

Every populist movement will always claim to want to fight corruption! How many actually deliver? !

How can we vote for he whom we do not see!

aresa:
The fact that your parents rape you day and night doesn't mean other people's parents do same. We are not interested in your sad family values...

Low life!

aresa:
You don't have to share with me your family jail problems and predicaments. keep it in the family,.,

Your parents must rape you daily!

Buhari is absolutely the wrong person to rule nigeria! From illiteracy to terrorist like statements to an unapologetic tyranical past his cv is not appropriate for nigeria of 2015. The apc might be standing on a right mantra but their choice of a presidential candidate shows a certain level of deception in their plans!

aresa:
must you call me what you call your family member?

Your parents must be in jail! Sick re.tard!

aresa:
Coming from a babbling village Bingo. Abeg go seat all the way in the back....

Unproductive low life!

aresa:
..how exactly do you strike anything with idiocy and stupidity? how?

you people overestimate your relevance and importance...

Apc supporters and irrational outbursts of sick and dumb rage! Dondi!

aresa:
Bunch of jobless, hopeless and irrelevant nuisance feeling funky...wetin we no go here from every rif raf and roadside clown...

They must have struck a nerve!

A man of buhari's poor calibre should not govern or even attempt to govern as diverse and intellectually sound like nigeria. The requirement for applying for the post of a driver is waec; something buhari is finding difficult to produce!

Paid agent! Who will take you serious?

Murdered by muslims. Allowed by the "muslim leaders" who sit back and do little to nothing to stop their followers from engaging in this menace!

Mylove55:
bribing pastors to change their members mind against their will,and many more sin of gej.

The alomo you took this morning must be contaminated with igbo!

searching4love:


BY MAY 29TH OUR COUNTRY WILL BE FREED FROM CORRUPTION AND IMPUNITY. WE SHALL BE DELIVERED FROM THE SHACKLES OF PDP CORRUPT ELITES.

EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE WORKING HARD TO BLACKMAIL GENERAL BUHARI WITH BOKO HARAM, #WE HAVE DECIDED TO VOTE GMB/PYO

SAI BUHARI

Wetin this one dey talk?! Dey dream!

Is this how apc plans to govern nigeria?! With lies and secrecy? In as much jonathan has been quite lousy, one thing I believe every nigerian has gained from his administration is freedom of expression which the apc is likely to dismiss if they come into power!

p3ndy79:
Were you old enough during Abacha's rule? Did you pray for him or organised night vigil on his behalf?

Continue your dry fasting and 21days prayers while they rub you blind and steal your commonwealth while telling you to die in prayer.

Guessed the families who lost their children to immigration employment scam are having daily intercession for GEJ, sure the parents of the chibok girls are in fasting mood for GEJ now, sure the innocent who lost their lives almost on daily basis across the country due to badroad never prayed, sure the people who died due to nehligence and everyday strike in the health sector were paying for their sins.

Shove that your stupid verse down your a.nus bro. Man made problems are solved by man not by angels or spirits.

Your re.tarded parents are your problem!

They are all islamist and evil. I think the notion here is that boko haram is too ragtag to try to associate itself with a higher evil; al-qaeda. This is something shecow has been trying to do in order to get al-qaeda's sympathy and support but even al-qaeda is not willing to associate itself with such re.tards!
Check my previous post:
https://www.nairaland.com/2160639/boko-haram-too-extreme-al-qaeda

Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria’s Unholy War by Mike Smith, review: 'perceptive and fair-minded'


Aftermath: a bomb blast outside Abuja, Nigeria, Dec 2011
Picture: AFP/Getty Images





By David Blair
10:00AM GMT 19 Feb 2015
David Blair traces the development of Boko Haram over the last decade from a marginal Nigerian sect into a blood-soaked insurgency

One day in 2011, a young Nigerian auto-mechanic stared down the lens of a video camera. As he began to read out a message, the voice of a child could be heard in the background along with the distinctive clank of someone clearing away the dishes.

It seemed as if Mohammed Abul Barra, 27, had chosen to record his performance in a living room while his wife did the housework. In this mundane setting, Barra shyly announced that he was going to “shed my blood” in the name of Allah. He calmly voiced the hope that his son would “do what I am about to do now, which is called suicide attack”.

Barra then rammed a car packed with explosives into the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, killing himself and 23 other people.

This incident brought a Nigerian Islamist movement popularly known as Boko Haram to world attention for the first time. Later, the gunmen would briefly dominate the headlines when they raided a school in the town of Chibok in April 2014 and captured more than 200 girls, who have never been seen since.

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In Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria’s Unholy War, Mike Smith sets out to explain this murderous movement to a general audience. His eminently readable book charts Boko Haram’s transformation from a marginal sect to a blood-soaked insurgency that now controls thousands of square miles of northern Nigeria.

Smith’s achievement is to demonstrate how Boko Haram arose from the particular conditions of northern Nigeria, where brutal security forces, a corrupt and predatory state, and a long tradition of Islamist radicalism all combine to create a perfect breeding ground for terrorism.

Boko Haram was founded in 2002 by Mohammed Yusuf, a travelling preacher. In his mosque, he bluntly declared the Earth to be flat, condemned Western education and announced that salvation would only come through his eccentric and puritan definition of Islam. Yusuf’s movement came to be known as Boko Haram – or “Western education is banned” in the local Hausa tongue – but he himself adopted the more grandiose title of: “People committed to the Prophet’s Teachings for Propagation and Jihad”.

None of this was particularly unusual: fundamentalist sects and preachers were common in northern Nigeria, where 11 states formally adopted Sharia in 1999. But in 2009, Yusuf led an armed uprising – and the security forces responded with their customary combination of ham-fistedness and brutality.

Hundreds of Boko Haram’s supporters were killed; Yusuf himself was captured and then murdered by the authorities. One of the most fascinating passages in Smith’s book is his account of Yusuf’s interrogation, during which the preacher and his questioner engage in a bizarre Socratic dialogue.

“Any type of knowledge that contradicts Islam, Allah does not allow you to acquire it,” declares Yusuf. His interrogator objects: “When they went to your house, they saw computers, other equipment, hospital facilities. Are these things not products of knowledge?” Yusuf replies: “These are technological products. Western education is different.”

This contradictory miasma – rejecting everything Western, save for its technology; denouncing the brutality of the state, while inflicting terrible violence – had an appeal in the particular setting of northern Nigeria that persisted after Yusuf’s death.

His killing brought only a temporary respite and Boko Haram re-emerged in 2010 under the leadership of Abubakar Shekau. This maniacal figure organised the capture of the Chibok schoolgirls last year; afterwards he released a video message stating that all would be sold into slavery.

Smith spent three year in Nigeria as West Africa bureau chief for the Agence France-Presse news agency. This book is based on his own reporting, lending it genuine authority. Occasionally, Smith lapses into the kind of jargon beloved of news agency journalism, but in general he writes with perception, clarity and fair-mindedness.

Instead of lumping in Boko Haram with al-Qaeda, the movement is best understood as a product of Nigeria’s own failings and the wanton theft of the country’s wealth by a venal elite. As Smith writes: “The problem is nothing less than the current state of Nigeria and the way it is being robbed daily – certainly of its riches, but more importantly, of its dignity.”



Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria’s Unholy War by Mike Smith

320pp, IB Tauris, Telegraph offer price: £16.99 (PLUS £1.95 p&p) (RRP £18.99, ebook £18.04). Call 0844 871 1515 or see books.telegraph.co.uk


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/11408209/Boko-Haram-Inside-Nigerias-Unholy-War-by-Mike-Smith.html

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