₦airaland Forum

3 killed in Nigerian riots

AFP


Published:Feb 09, 2008

"KANO - Three people including a police officer were killed after Muslim students rioted over a caricature of Prophet Mohammed by their Christian colleagues, police and teachers said yesterday.

Students of Government Secondary School Sumaila, some 76 kilometres south of the northern city of Kano , went on the rampage late on Thursday, after a Christian student suspended for two weeks returned to the school.

He had been suspended for having drawn a caricature of the Prophet and posted it on a wall inside the school.

"Two people and a police inspector have been killed in the violence while the divisional police station and everything inside including ammunition have been burnt by the rioters", Kano police chief Aminu Yesufu told reporters outside the burnt police station.

He said about 20 others were badly wounded, including the divisional police officer, who suffered a deep machete cut to the head.

Police had arrested 25 people and opened an investigation, he added.

"The students began chanting Allahu Akbar (God is the greatest) when the Christian student returned and pursued him to lynch him", Sadiq Haruna, a teacher at the school, told an AFP reporter who visited the town yesterday.

"The Christian escaped in taking refuge in the local police station but hundreds of angry Muslim students attacked and set on fire the premises after the police refused to hand him over," Haruna said.

The whereabouts of the Christian student were still not known.

This is the second time in a week in the mainly Muslim northern Nigeria that an allegation of blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed has sparked violent protests and an attack on the police.

On Thursday last week police shot dead one rioter during rioting irate Muslim youth in the city of Yana (Bauchi state) over alleged blasphemy by a Christian woman.

According to Bauchi police chief, Adnan Tolman Gaya, Yana police shot into the crowd to disperse a mob that calling for the lynching of the women who besieged and burnt the police station. The woman escaped unhurt.

After the death of the youth, the other rioters went on rampage and looted houses of policemen in town and burnt shops belonging to Christians.

The police station was also burned down during the unrest. Officers arrested 44 people.

The tension between the Christian and Muslim communities is particularly high in the north of Nigeria and periodically flares up into violence"


CAN SOME ONE TELL ME THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE KILLING IN THE NIGERDELTA AND THE NORTHERN PART OF NIGERIA,

WHICH IS JUSTIFIABLE,


THOSE FIGHTING THE GOVT OF THE DAY OR THOSE KILLING INOCENT CITIZEN?

ITS SOMETHING THAT PAINS STUDENT TO PASS THROUGH THIS HARD WAY OF REGISTERING JAMB ON-LINE AND STILL FAILS THE EXAM,

MANY ARE STUDENT THAT INTEND REGISTERING THEIR FORM ON-LINE AND COULD NOT GET THROUGH NOW,

PLEASE APPEAL TO JAMB TO SHIELD THE LOAD ON THESE PROSPECTIVE UNDERGRADUATE

@davidif

Please note one thing that American built their own Country,

so you come home and build ur our Naija,

Stop bragging about America

I FRIEND TOLD ME THAT,

AMERICA AS WORLD INFLUENCE,

THE TYPE OF LEADER THEY CHOOSE MATTERS TO OTHER PART OF THE WORLD,

BUSH HAS A BAD INFLUENCE ON THE MIDDLE EAST,

SO THERE WILL BE INTEREST IN THE POLITICS OF AMERICA DUE TO ITS (AMERICAN) POWER TO MAKE AND DISTROY HUMAN EXISTENCES

I know we will get there!

Resource Control

It so much amaze me to see the World at Debate on the American Caucus Elections,

Not just debate but keen to see who wins the primaries and eventual president of America, I wonder what the situation looks like here in Nija,

My brothers and Sisters what do you think?

I HON. PETE OMOJAIFOH AIKHENOMIAN, REPRESENTING THE NIGER-DELTA VOICELESS,

SAY I HAMMER AND NAIL THE MOTION,

COMMOT!!!!

If u r Batch A 2008, Go to your school to check your name and make correction now before it is too late,

before 10th of feb. 2008,


The collection of letters start on the 19th of March 2008,

am one too, Ile adu Kwatecho, Kwara poly

@bibiking1

Am not here to bring about discord neither fight amidst d member's forum, please try and read well and understand the fact of the matter, we are not enjoying the OIL, AND THE PAINS IS TOO MUCH, IF THE OIL IS NOT HERE IN THE DELTAS, it would have been better, cause if having resources and you are not gaining from it, better not to have it.

@all

Nigeria should be grateful and appreciate a fact that we are NIGER-DELTANS ARE ACCOMMODATIVE, We only fight the FG not our Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa brothers and sisters,

See what happen in Kenya,

Appreciate the fact that we still keep this Country going,

and note one thing am not from the creeks and my community is not producing oil but am from the state and feel concern

Dear All,
I HAVE A POEM I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU PEOPLE, ON NIGER-DELTA WRITTEN BY ME

[/size]NIGER-DELTA
[size=8pt][font=Lucida Sans Unicode][font=Lucida Sans Unicode]Niger delta[/font][/font]
The land flowing with milk and honey
You are blessed with arable land and animals
The land blessed with natural resources
Your upland good for farming and lowland houses
the fishes and crabs
You are a land blessed with virtues and values

But your milk has been drained and your honey diluted
Your land dredged and your animals killed by oil spills
What suppose to be a thing of joy now turned to be pain
Your virtues and values now seen as a sacrilege

[font=Lucida Sans Unicode][font=Lucida Sans Unicode]Niger delta[/font][/font]
You are a land blessed with talents and hope
A blessed land with strong men and women
A land of beauty
The pacesetter
The big beating heart of the entity called Nigeria


But your talents has been sent to their early grave
And your hope dashed
Your men of great talents and stuffs who want to maintain and preserves
your values were killed
Your Daughters forced to be bread-winners
And your Sons forced to take up arms and ammunitions
Your beauty changed by gas flaring
You are made the second fiddle
And made a useless part of the body called Nigeria

[font=Lucida Sans Unicode][font=Lucida Sans Unicode]Niger delta[/font][/font]
Go out there to take your rightful place, because you are destined to be great.
Great Niger delta

Composed by: Aikhenomian Pete Omojaifoh . O.
a.k.a NIGER-DELTA

May, 2007

WHAT ARE WE SAYING, ?

NIGERIA IS NOT FEAR ENOUGH TO THE DELTAS,

OH A PITY TO BE PART OF NIGERIA.

GREAT NIGERDELTA, GREAT

Dear All,

This issue should not be taken sentimentally, let put ourselves into the shoes of these people living in the creeks and see how it feels to produce such a wealth and still surffer to make ends meet,

We in the Niger-delta appreciate the fact that others too produce commodity in the entity called Nigeria, But note that the dredging of land and spilling of Oil is an environmental Hazard which greatly affects plants and animals (human inclusive)

When the North were growing cowpea, the Farmers were directly paid and the Cocoa were paid for by the buyers, why the oil an exception?

Go to Bonny Island, it is the LNG quarters that looks like heaven the surrounding Ijaw community is a hell on Earth.

Lets join our Voices to call for Resource Control

Remove God from your daily lives and see what becomes of u,

Being Patriotic is not by telling Lies or predicting what is not 10% sure,

The Set of Legs paraded by Nigeria in the On going ANC Ghana2008 is noting but one of the best, but all the misfortune experience by this team is not their own making neither by the Coach,

But by the Evil and Sin committed by we Nigerians, For Super Eagles to succeed in the next Nations Cup and Qualify for World Cup, we must repent of our sins and be our brothers keepers,

Arsenal will everly top, I love arsenal, thats my constituency since 1995, i love the Club, Up arsenal

UP ARSENAL! GOONERS FOREVER,

I LOVE ARSENAL I NO GO LIE,
NA ARSENAL I GO EVER SUPPORT,
I NEVA REGREAT TO BE A GOONER
NA ARSENAL I GO EVA SUPPORT,

ROSICKY NKO? HE IS A GOONER,
HLEB NKO? HE IS A GOONER,
ADEBAYOR NKO? HE IS A GOONER,
EDUARDO NKO? HE IS A GOONER,


I LOVE ARSENAL I NO GO LIE,
NA ARSENAL I GO EVER SUPPORT,
I NEVA REGREAT TO BE A GOONER
NA ARSENAL I GO EVA SUPPORT,

PETER NKO? I LOVE ARSENAL,
KWARA ARSENAL NKO? WE LOVE ARSENAL
EDO ARSENAL NKO? WE LOVE ARSENAL
WARRI ARSENAL NKO? WE LOVE ARSENAL
NIGERIA ARSENAL NKO? WE LOVE ARSENAL
NA ARSENAL WE GO EVA SOPPORT,


I LOVE ARSENAL I NO GO LIE,
NA ARSENAL I GO EVER SUPPORT,
I NEVA REGREAT TO BE A GOONER
NA ARSENAL I GO EVA SUPPORT,
NA ARSENAL I GO EVA SUPPORT,

UP ARSNAL, GOONERS FOR EVA

UP GOONERS, PRIDE OF FOOTBALL

I enjoy going out and coming in any time i want, no one questioning,
Spend my money no budgeting ladies needs, am alone,
No hot argument with any body, why do u do this?

all this has it on dis importance

NO companion
NO one to share your feelings with

Would have! Not the president!,

Did you remember ITT and less I forget, The drowning of Containers carrying Bibles for the lost, he was responsible for that, I believe, if Abiola was President, then many Church would have been changed to M and Canaan land, Redeem Camp, Love world and many praying Camp would have been a dream not fulfilled.

Welcome! more heads to role

Can I please crave the indulgence of my dear brothers and sisters in this forum on this issue
[size=5pt]OIL! WHO OWNS IT, NIGERIA OR NIGER-DELTA?, [/size]

I believe a right thinking Nigerian who lives in Nigeria and sees all that unfolds during the so-called military and self styled Democracy practice in Nigeria will agree with me that If I as the man that questions you on the real owner of the oil, found the land that houses the most populous black people in the world is owned and should be given to the people of the oil rich region.

why?
Because the so called leaders of the country called Nigeria use the revenue gotten from the exploration of the oil for personal effects,

Because the government of Nigeria fails to feed the Goose that lays the Egg.

Because the Government of Nigeria sees Niger delta as a minority in contest amidst the three big tribe

I know you might asked how about 13% derivation fund!

Can you please compare the terrain of Oil rich Niger-Delta to any part of Nigeria? No far differs, The cost of Laying Foundation in Brass Bayelsa State, will be used to Survey and finish the same house in Lagos.

Can you please come down to Creek and sees how battered the roof of houses built there are because of Gas Flaring

And also sees the killing of Crabs and fishes by Oil spills by The Oil companies,

All this neglect by Governments and Oil companies operating in the Niger delta so much demand more than 50% talk less of 13%. For the loss and neglect of the region demands more, I mean more to repair the pains and destruction caused by oil activities, Environmental effects,

No one in the region wants to wake and hear that there is kidnap here and there, and if no lasting solution is not instituted, the trend of kidnap will be upward and i pray we will be out of this.

I think and believe many people shares the same with me, that [size=8pt][/size]THE PEOPLE OF NIGER DELTA SHOULD BE GIVEN TOTAL CONTROL OF THIS GOD GIVEN RESOURCES (OIL),

Thanks and God bless.

I don't have options from the two posed, why because to me he is not an hero neither or a villain, he was a watch dog of Obasanjo lead goverment used by OBJ to fight against his political Opponents, My own hero is Adams Oshiomhole

I now believe Gbenga, Moji really loves money to the extends of sleeping with her father in law,

see how she just calculate money, asked for money authoritatively, women like money in place of their guy

dear all,

I don't care if there discrimination or not all I know is that, my God dey, and i am for something special, am an HND holder in Electrical Power and Machine, and am into Computer Hardware and Printer Repair, also into conduit wiring and marketing business,

NO probs my bros and sister, your Certificate is not the yardstick or measure of what your success will be, be yourself and don't be lazy,

I personally trade my way to school all by me self, with the prayers of my parent.