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About time minorities in Nigeria are flexxing their muscles. For far too long, politics has been dictated by the three major ethnic groups Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa.

The U.S. and the European Union only look out for their own interest, just like any other nation should. No nation in the world should believe in altruism.

ROSSIKE:
Ochi Agha said:

Agreed. But JUST as we have word cognates within this language family, so also do we have them when comparing the major language families of Africa one with the other.

True, if you include all the South-Volta Congo languages which include as follows: Bantu, East-Benue Congo, West-Benue Congo, and Kwa.

This is common knowledge. Anyone who denies this is a fool who doesn't understand history. People think Igboland is landlocked, by as people can see, these are the traditional borders. And I will believe the British who for all purposes, took very good notes on the subjects they colonized. They wanted to understand the people they rules, so they cannot become a threat to their rule.

Yoruba, Igbo, Gwari, Edo and Nupe are all related languages under the West-Benue Congo language family. This is an established fact. People can deny it all they want, but our peoples have a common origin.

And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hand; for they cried out to God in the battle, and He was entreated for them, because they trusted in Him.

1 Chronicles 5:20

Blessed be the LORD, my rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle; My lovingkindness and my fortress, My stronghold and my deliverer; My shield and He in whom I take refuge; Who subdues my people under me.

Psalm 144:1-2

Actually these languages as well other Nigerian languages do have a common ancestor except for the Hausa and the Fulani language. Their language tree is very different. This is nothing new. Our languages owes it is roots to the Proto-Kwa people.

(CP-Africa) - South Africa has been invited by China to join the group of four of the fastest growing emerging economies in the world, Brazil, Russia, India and China,  the BRICs, Reuters reports. The country which is Africa’s top economy was invited officially today by China’s foreign minister according to a statement released by South Africa’s minister of international relations and cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane. South Africa applied to join BRIC at the G20 meeting of the world’s leading economies in Seoul in November.

According to 2009 World Bank estimates, South Africa is the world’s 31st largest economy. With South Africa’s addition, the BRICs will now be spelled the “BRICS.”

The term “BRIC” was originally coined in 2001 by Jim O’Neill, Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

http://www.cp-africa.com/2010/12/24/breaking-south-africa-invited-join-bric-bric-henceforth-called-brics/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+CelebratingProgressAfrica+(CP-Africa)&utm_content=Twitter

“Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” (Luke 10:19)

xreal:
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I think it is due to the time differential.

Explosions rock Jos


• 20 killed, security beefed up
By RACHAEL AGUNTA and WOLE BALOGUN
Saturday, December 25, 2010


As Christians all over the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, residents of Jos, Plateau State, are in mourning, as no fewer than nine separate explosions rocked Gada Biu, Kabong and Angwa Rukuba area of the state yesterday, killing about 20 people.

Saturday Sun gathered that the bombs went off at about 7. 30 pm in quick succession and lasted till about 8.40pm, killing the victims and injuring score of others. The first explosion, from our findings, went off in front of a Catholic Church in the area, while subsequent explosions occurred a few kilometer to the police headquarters.
Sources revealed that bodies of the dead as well as those injured were taken to the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH).

The state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abdulrahman Akano, confirmed the incident but declined to give the number of casualties. However, a top police officer in the city revealed that he could only confirm seven dead victims at the time of this report.

Commander of the special task force in Jos, Brigadier General Hassan Umaru, also confirmed the explosion last night but declined to give details, as, according to him, he was rushing down to the explosions scenes.
Military sources told Saturday Sun that an unidentified group had sent out warning that it would take measures to ensure that Christmas was not celebrated in Plateau State.

Following the bomb explosion, security has been beefed up in the affected areas and the entire state capital. By last night, soldiers were deployed to the areas. Also, the areas have been cordoned off, with soldiers standing guard at major roads.
Fear has gripped the ancient tin city, with most of the residents holed up in their homes. Darkness has enveloped parts of the city, as a result of power outage.
Jos has suffered many explosions this year with so many lives lost.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/dec/25/national-25-12-2010-001.htm

Newsflash!!! Bomb explosions in Jos
Written by Elombah.com    
Friday, 24 December 2010 19:53

There are reports of two separate bomb explosions in Jos this evening. Some army personnel in charge of internal security were also shot at and wounded. There is no confirmation yet as to what actually happened and who were behind it. about 10 copses have been reported from the blast and Jos University Teaching Hospital is reportedly still receiving casualties.

A message to elombah.com from a Jos resident simply said: 'Hi Dan. bomb blasts are now taking there turns in Jos city. About 2hours ago somewhere in Gada Biyu and Angwan Rukuba, parts of Jos city, about 10 copses have been reported from the blast and Jos University Teaching Hospital is reportedly still receiving casualties. This happen after text messages went round a week ago of plans to destabilize the state at christmas. What in your opinion could be the implication of such for the forthcoming elections in Jos and Nigeria as a whole?'

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, has said high rate of insecurity in the country was threatening the overall success of the 2011 general elections. Noting that insecurity was the major problem of past elections in the country, the INEC boss said elections could not be successful in the country if the atmosphere was not peaceful for them to hold.


Jega, who raised the alarm on Thursday, in Abuja, during his visit to the headquarters of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), charged security agencies in the country to cooperate in assisting him to protect his men and materials as well as ensuring a peaceful atmosphere for the exercises. He added that they should be blamed if the 2011 general elections failed.

http://elombah.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4767:newsflash-bomb-explosions-in-jos&catid=3:newsflash&Itemid=57

Ikwikwikwi:
they have murdered sleep, they shall sleep no more, why on God earth must it be in a church and a Catholic Church for that matter? These idiots must be thought a lesson of their lives, some uncircumcised fools should get ready to marry seven virgins. Nonsense.

This is something I agree with you on. Not only did they attack a Christian church during Christmas Eve, they had the nerve to attack a Catholic Church. And I am a proud Catholic man. This is totally unforgivable. Lets leave tribal sentiment out of this, but I will add a religious sentiment, because this is a holy day for Christians all over the world. The days of turning the other cheek are over. Might makes right in Nigeria.

buzugee:
i cant belive that in this modern day and age i am arguing with a bunch of nigerians who unlike me dont see the absurdity in a 1000 foreign invaders controlling a population of 40 million plus for nearly a century ? like seriously am i the crazy one or are you guys just a bunch of sissified pacifists ?

I guess you haven't heard of the British policy of "Divide & Rule." It is easy to defeat a people, when they are divided. This is what the Spanish employed as they defeated the mighty Aztecs and Inca with only a few soldiers. Keep in mind that these two great empires found in the Americas had millions of subjects and soldiers.

Merry Christmas to you as well. Hate that it happened on such an auspicious start with these recent bomb blast in Jos.

Christmas Eve Bomb blasts in Jos, Northern Nigeria

Two bomb blasts were just reported moments ago (Christmas eve) in Jos, Nigeria. Information reaching us revealed that the Car bomb went off at a public place around Angwan Rukuba and another bomb was set off around Kabong Primary School area all in Jos North Local Government Area, Nigeria many were reported dead and injured.

Also reported, few minutes ago, was fire set on Baptist Church Halamdari Gala Maiduguri and tension reported also at COCIN Church Sinimari Maiduguri.

Please pray for Nigeria as Jihadist Muslims continue to threaten peaceful co-existence in the country.  The situation is further complicated by an oncoming political transition and the using of intimidation and fear as a canvas for chaos.

Jesus knows all about our struggles and God sees all labours of His shepherds , especially in hostile territories amidst fierce wolves. Read previous blog post. “While shepherds watched their flocks by night, ”

His glory will shine even though the darkest nights. All is well. His love is still amazing and heals the hurts and wounds ,  even the emotional scars. I pray all affected will go to Jesus for His promised rest and comfort even as the rest of the world prays and acts as the spirit leads to support. Amen

Mark Lipdo jointly reports from Jos, Nigeria.

http://blogs.christianpost.com/christianlife/2010/12/christmas-eve-bomb-blasts-in-jos-northern-nigeria-24/


It has been confirmed!

Can you people please argue this on another thread? Like in the culture section. I am enjoying this discussion and I cannot wait to participate, but this is not the thread for it.

Attacking people on the holiest of holy days for Christians! Uncalled for! This is disgusting! I am furious now!

Chrisbenogor:
What do you mean by next course of action?

You already know what I mean by next course of action. Why should Christians continue to turn the other cheek? I am getting tired of this.

We definitely need confirmation before the next course of action.

I have some friends in Jos as we speak. They went home for Christmas and they are letting me know through twitter.

buzugee:
maybe i need to relocate to ghana

It is good to be a Nigerian man in Ghana. The women love us! And they know how to please a man. Plus, I find many of them with better bodies than many Nigerian girls.

buzugee, you are my friend in all by PhysicsQED is speaking the truth. You are contradicting yourself. Just end the discussion

SEFAGO:
Well in NIgeria it is hard to keep an ajebutter face. When the african sun has smacked you senseless

I have seen some tender looking faces in Ghana though. When I came to Nigeria, the faces turned a little harsher.

There were car bombs! Is Nigeria the new Iraq? This is something that we have learned from the Arabs that I wish stayed in the Middle East.

The bombs occurred at a Catholic Church of all places!

Now I have heard it is 5 bombs! 33 feared dead! This is crazy!

Bomb blast in jos Nigeria at Gada Biu area a christian domin.area killing many people casualties from unconfirm sources said about 8 people - Culled from twitter. I do not know how true it is, but this is very serious.

And this is on Christmas! What kind of crap is this?

Before I give my comment. I would like to see a source. However, I am not surprised that something would happen like this though in Jos. The hotbed of conflict, will be the Middle Belt.

A smaller welcome mat

CANADA has long been known as one of the world’s most welcoming countries for immigrants, and thus a good bet for refugees, who are granted most of the same rights and freedoms as citizens. At first, this open-door policy was a product of necessity. The world’s second-biggest country, Canada needed people to fill its wide open spaces and build an economy. But multiculturalism has been a part of the national identity since 1971, when a Liberal government embraced it as official policy. Today 20% of the population is foreign-born. The biggest sources of new arrivals are China, the Philippines and India.

Yet the Conservative minority government of Stephen Harper that took power in 2006 has begun to restrict immigration. It has toughened the citizenship test and doubled the lump sum required to gain quick access as an investor. And it has presented bills to fine and jail people-traffickers and detain their clients, and to penalise unauthorised immigration advisers who charge fees (to be called the Cracking Down on Crooked Consultants Act).

Mr Harper is also changing the profile of immigrants who are accepted, giving priority to the skilled over the needy. His government has cut the refugee intake by 36% and imposed visa requirements on visitors from Mexico and the Czech Republic, some of whom it accuses of exploiting loopholes in the asylum system. The only category of immigrants to have grown significantly since 2005 is temporary workers, who are rarely a drag on the state.

All this adds up to slight tinkering, rather than the kind of retreat from multiculturalism seen in parts of Europe, or America’s harder line against illegal immigration. The number of new permanent residents accepted every year has held steady since 1990, at 0.7-0.8% of the population. But the changes reflect Canadians’ newly ambivalent attitudes. And they go with an increasingly vocal debate about immigration.

A report on national security published last month by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a non-partisan think-tank, listed “uncontrolled immigration” as one of three foreseeable threats to Canada. The federal housing agency pointed to immigration as one reason why renters are having trouble finding accommodation in big cities. A new group called the Centre for Immigration Policy Reform, whose backers include a critic of immigration and multiculturalism, has been set up.

There are exceptions. The Conference Board of Canada, a think-tank, recently credited immigrants with driving innovation in the country. The Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the world’s Shia Ismaili Muslims, has praised Canada’s pluralism as an “asset of enormous global value”. But the trend is clear. “If you read the newspapers, the tone is quite negative and sometimes quite racist,” says Hamdi Mohamed, director of an immigrant-settlement organisation in Ottawa.

Public opinion in Canada has been affected by the European backlash and by fears of terrorist attacks (of which Canada has been free in recent years). Recession, though mild, has pushed up unemployment, increasing fears of competition from immigrants. Mr Harper has political reasons to raise the issue. One pollster, Frank Graves of EKOS, says that Conservative voters are twice as likely to believe Canada has too many immigrants as are opposition supporters. And public hostility to immigrants grew after a ship carrying almost 500 Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka arrived off the country’s west coast in August.

It is hard to be sure whether this debate heralds a lasting shift in Canada’s openness to immigration. The government’s proposed detention of refugees trafficked by smugglers has been criticised for violating Canadian law and international agreements. Given immigrants’ numbers, bashing them is politically dangerous: they and their children are already a majority in Toronto, the country’s most populous city. Aklilu Wendaferew, who works with the homeless and Ethiopian immigrants in Toronto, says the familiarity that comes from living and working with immigrants daily counteracts fears of foreigners, and that employers are not reluctant to hire them.

That seems borne out by an opinion poll commissioned by the government. Only one respondent in four said there were too many immigrants, whereas half said the current level was about right. Canada may be narrowing the door for immigrants, but it is not about to slam it shut.

http://www.economist.com/node/17733061?story_id=17733061

Seems like desperation if you ask me.