YorubaHero12:


Lol it dosen’t work that way. The USA is a very diverse country and it’s strength lies in its diversity and the ability to give everyone a chance irrespective of the country of origin.

I don’t know what news people in Nigeria listen to but I know if you reside here you won’t have the kind of mindset you hold about him.

He’s trying his best for his country and excelling to some extent, but he always erode his gains by being a constant bully and ridiculing the office of the presidency by his utterances.

He abused German chancellor, UK prime minister, Canadian president, France president, Africa countries in general, trade deal fights with US allies, he dosen’t believe in the science of climate change, he dosen’t like dissenting opinion hence he tagged any news against him as fake news by trying to suppress media freedom, I’m even tired of mentioning all this.

YorubaHero12:

What are the anti American nonsense they said?

Can you list two ?

feedthenation:
President Trump's language is nationalist, racist, divisive and very unpresidential. He is slowly damaging the republican party and giving voice to the racists.

To my fellow Nigerians who supports Trump's language, how will they feel or react is President Buhari said publicly that if one ethnic group is not happy in the North, they can leave the Northern states of Nigeria?

JeromeBlack:
How can a Nigerian in his or her right senses support trump?

Reading comments here supporting trump is depressing. Slaves defending slave masters.

Eteka1:
The truth is that there is no evidence to indicate that the masked gunmen that attacked Fasoranti's daughter on that fateful day were Fulani by tribe. I want you to understand this.

MOJWA released a video that referenced their ideological affinity for such figures as Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar, but placed greater emphasis on historical figures of West African origin, claiming to be the "ideological descendants" of Cheikhou Amadou, Usman Dan Fodio and El Hadj Umar Tall. "Today we are inaugurating jihad in West Africa" claimed one of the militants, who spoke in English and Hausa.[7] Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups in Algeria, Mali, Niger and Mauritania had been present for at least a decade prior to the group's founding and escalated further following the 2011 Libyan civil war and the influx of weapons in the desert area.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Hadj_Umar_Tall

Movement For Oneness And Jihad In West Africa (MOJWA)

Alternative Names:

MOJWA, Mouvement pour l’unicité et le jihad en Afrique de l’Ouest, MUJAO, Jamat Tawhid wal Jihad fi Garbi Afriqqiya and Jamaat Tawhid Wal Jihad Fi Garbi Ifriqiya, Al-Tawhid Wal Jihad in West Africa.

Location:

Algeria, Mali, Niger, Mauritania

Leadership:

The group’s leader was believed to be Hamada Ould Mohamed Kheirou. Other prominent members included Algerian Ahmed Al-Talmasi, Malian Sultan Ould Badi. Omar Ould Hamaha was MOJWA’s military commander before being killed by French security forces in March 2014.

Membership:

Membership consisted of fighters who broke off from AQIM in 2011. The group was made up of mostly Tuaregs, Mauritanian and Malian Arabs, as well as sympathizers from Nigeria and other Sahelian countries.

Funding Sources:

MOJWA was believed to be largely funded through its criminal activities. The group has been very active in kidnapping and ransom of foreigners, as well as heavily involved in smuggling.

Origins

MOJWA was a splinter group of Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) that believed in spreading jihad to regions that AQIM had previously left untouched. Specifically, they wanted to reach into West Africa and spread jihad in order to form a strict Sharia state.

The group emerged for the first time in 2011, after it claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of three European aid workers in Algeria.

In 2013, the French-led intervention in Mali led to the majority of MOJWA’s operations focusing on French and African forces in the region. On May 23, 2013, the MOJWA and al’Muwaqi’un Bil-Dima launched twin suicide attacks against a Nigerien army base and a French uranium mine in Niger, killing 25 people.

Since then, the group has merged with Al Moulathamoun to form a new organization known as Al-Mourabitoun, and is said to continue its close ties to Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.

Major Attacks:

October 2011: Kidnapped aid workers from a refugee camp in Algeria

May 23, 2013: Launched an attack against the Nigerian Army base and a French Uranium mine. (25 killed)

February 7, 2014: Attacked ethnic Tuaregs near the town of Tamkoutat in northern Mali. (31 killed)

February 11, 2014: Kidnapped team of Red Cross Workers.

Ideological Roots:

The group follows the ideological roots of Al Qaida and other Islamist Jihadist traditions.

Objectives:

MOJWA wants to establish an Islamic state that follows Sharia law across west Africa.

Tactics:

Very little is known about the group except that it seemed to be heavily funded by drug trafficking and kidnapping for ransom.

Terrorist activities included kidnappings, small arms attacks, IED attacks, and suicide bombings.

https://mackenzieinstitute.com/2016/01/movement-for-oneness-and-jihad-in-west-africa-mojwa/

Northern Nigeria’s Boko Haram

This report addresses the regional ramifications of the rise of Boko Haram and evaluates the jihadist terrorist organization as something more than a domestic Nigerian movement. The report discusses Boko Haram’s regional connections and the possibility of it expanding throughout West Africa.


The architecture for Boko Haram to become an al Qaeda wing in West Africa or part of a regional terrorist movement may already be in place. The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) shares the same goal as Boko Haram and is also dominated by Hausa speaking members. Armed with weapons from Libya’s caches and possessing operational ties to an Algerian-based al Qaeda faction, MOJWA may be the link between Boko Haram in Nigeria and a broader Boko Haram regional movement.

The expansion of these terrorists in West Africa, and the possibility of Boko Haram franchising, could present a future threat to Western business interests in the area and undermine the region’s fledgling democracies.

https://www.brookings.edu/book/northern-nigerias-boko-haram/

Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO)

Aliases:

MOJWA; Mouvement Pour le Tawhid et du Jihad en Afrique de L’oust; Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa; Movement of Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA)[1]

History:

The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) has origins dating back to October 2011, when Hamad al-Khairy and Ahmed el-Tilemsi founded it as an offshoot of al-Qa’ida in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQLIM).[2] Both men had previously been affiliated with AQLIM, with Tilemsi aiding in the January 2011 kidnapping of two French nationals in Niger and Khairy assisting in the December 2008 abduction of Canadian Ambassador Robert Fowler in Niger.[3]

Since its founding, MUJAO has taken responsibility for the October 2011 kidnapping of European aid workers in Nigeria.[4] In June 2014, the United States responded to these actions, issuing two $5 million bounties for the captures of Khairy and Tilemsi,[5] though neither the United States nor any other country formally recognize MUJAO as a terrorist organization.[6] In 2012, MUJAO, along with AQLIM and Ansar al-Dine, took control of the Malian cities of Timbuktu, Gao, and Kidal, although French and Malian soldiers reclaimed these territories by November 2013.[7] In August 2013, MUJAO merged with the Masked Men Brigade to form Al-Murabitoun,[8] which was designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey on June 19, 2014.[9]

Home Base:

Mali[10]

Founding Year:

2011[11]

Ideology:

Religious-Islamist-Salafist.[12]

Specific Goals:

Engage in and encourage jihad across West Africa.[13]

Political Activity:

None

Financing:

Kidnapping: Oumar Ould Hamaha, the MUJAO leader running security, has stated that a bulk of the organization’s financing stems from Western countries, ostensibly following kidnappings of their people.[14]

Funded by other violent group: MUJAO has received financial and material support from AQLIM.[15]

Leadership and Structure over Time:

According to the Malian army, MUJAO functions under a networked structure with sleeper cells.[16]

Founding leaders are Hamad al-Khairy and Ahmed el-Tilemsi, and Tilemsi also serves as a military leader of MUJAO, implying a chain of command within the leadership.[17]

2011-2013: Hamad al-Khairy cofounder and leader of the organization.[18]

2011-2013: Ahmed Ould Amer, aka Ahmed el-Tilemsi, cofounder and military leader.[19]

2012-2013: Oumar Ould Hamaha headed security operations for MUJAO.[20]

Strength:

January 2013: 300-400[21]

Allies and Suspected Allies:

Masked Men Brigade (allies):
MUJAO and Mokhtar Belmokhtar’s Masked Men Brigade carried out joint attacks in Mali in May 2013 and eventually merged into one group, called Al-Murabitoun, in August 2013.[22]
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

(AQIM) (allies):

The cofounders of MUJAO, Hamad al-Khairy and Ahmed el-Tilemsi, were both AQIM members before they split with the group, suggesting that the two groups may at least retain ties or remain allies.[23] The two groups fought as allies against the French intervention in Mali in 2013.[24]

Ansar Dine (allies):

Ansar Dine fought alongside MUJAO and AQIM against French forces intervening in Mali in 2013.[25]

Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) (suspected allies):

MUJAO fought alongside MNLA forces in 2013 during the crisis in Northern Mali, but the extent of their cooperation and its continuation is uncertain. MUJAO eventually broke relations with this group as they disagreed over the strict interpretation and implementation of Sharia law in captured territory.[26]

Boko Haram (allies)

Boko Haram militants collaborated with MUJAO, MNLA, and AQIM on attacks in Mali in 2012 and 2013.[27]


Rivals and Enemies:

Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) (rivals):
After briefly allying with this group in 2013, MUJAO broke relations with this group and began insisting upon strict interpretations of Sharia law in its territory, which is against the ideology of MNLA.[28]

Algeria (enemy):

Launched several terrorist attacks in Algeria in 2011, including the kidnapping of seven Algerian diplomats, and fought against the government forces of Algeria.[29]

Mali (enemy):

Fought against the government of Mali over territory in northern Mali in 2012 and 2013.[30]

France (enemy):

Fought against French forces in the 2013 French intervention in Mali.[31]

Counterterrorism Efforts:

International, Law Enforcement: In June 2014, the United states posted two $5 million bounties on Hamad al-Khairy and Ahmed el-Tilemsi, two founding leaders of MUJAO, following their implications in numerous kidnappings of foreigners and attacks on Western targets.[32]

International, Military:

France intervened in Mali in 2013, to assist the Malian government in regaining control of its northern territories from insurgents, including MUJAO.[33]

Domestic, Military:

The Malian military fought a long campaign against MUJAO and its allies in 2012 and 2013 to retake northern Mali, which included several battles for territory and towns such as Timbuktu, Gao and Kidal, and was eventually aided by French intervention.[34]

United States Government Designations:
None.

Other Governments’ Designations:

None.

https://www.start.umd.edu/baad/narratives/movement-oneness-and-jihad-west-africa-mujao

ornicus:


This is where all this rubbish talk about homogeneity leads.eugenics, racial purity, mass murder.

freeze001:


Five? But there is clear majority that can and does dictate the pace of leadership and development while others democratically fall in line. We are talking of Nigeria with over 300 ethnic groups...no contest please.

Midas01:
You're wrong. The whites were Irish, Spanish, Italian, Swedes, Norwegians, Germans etc heck even Asians. They multicultural and very diverse just as Nigeria of today but they all had a common goal and that was to make their country work.

Horus:
List of the 56 ethnic groups in China

Han (汉族)
Zhuang (壮族)
Manchu (满族)
Hui (回族)
Miao (苗族)
Uighur (维吾尔族)
Yi[?] (彝族)
Tujia (土家族)
Mongol (蒙古族)
Tibetan (藏族)
Buyi (布依族)
Dong (侗族)
Yao (瑶族)
Korean (朝鲜族)
Bai (白族)
Hani (哈尼族)
Li (黎族)
Kazakh (哈萨克族)
Dai (傣族)
She[?] (畲族)
Lisu[?] (傈僳族)
Gelao[?] (仡佬族)
Lahu[?] (拉祜族)
Dongxiang[?] (东乡族)
Wa (佤族) (Va)
Shui[?] (水族)
Naxi (纳西族) (includes the Mosuo (摩梭))
Qiang[?] (羌族)
Du[?] (土族)
Xibe (锡伯族)
Mulam[?] (仫佬族)
Kirghiz (柯尔克孜族)
Daur[?] (达斡尔族)
Jingpo[?] (景颇族)
Salar[?] (撒拉族)
Blang[?] (布朗族 Bulang)
Maonan[?] (毛南族)
Tajik (塔吉克族)
Pumi[?] (普米族)
Achang[?] (阿昌族)
Nu (怒族)
Evenki (鄂温克族)
Gin (京族 Jing1)
Jino[?] (基诺族)
De'ang[?] (德昂族)
Uzbek (乌孜别克族)
Russian (俄罗斯族)
Yugur[?] (裕固族)
Bonan[?] (保安族)
Menba[?] (门巴族)
Oroqin[?] (鄂伦春族)
Drung (独龙族)
Tatar (塔塔尔族)
Hezhen (赫哲族)
Lhoba (珞巴族)
Gaoshan (高山族)

ornicus:


The ignorance

There have always been different classes of whites in America. At different times they were despised and looked down on. Italians, Irish, Spanish, Germans, all with their different cultures. add that to religious differences Quakers, Mormons, catholics, protestants.

There was a lot of initial resistance to JFK because rather than the traditional WASP, he was Irish and catholic.

You want the homogeneity you crave, look for countries with apartheid.

urahara:



Heck , look at the Latin American countries, though they have one ethnic group, their economic conditions are uneviable.

Arkmanbuddy:
Let me ask you: how many tribes make up the US, can yi count all of them? US is the biggest economy and is a country of several different people from different ethnic backgrounds. How many tribes make up the Koreas yet they're so divided?

The truth is, to develop a nation requires the joint effort of a people who believe its possible, regardless of tribe and tongue. That we're not developed is not due to the fact that we're made up of many tribes but because we haven't gotten leaders with the right combination of intellectual wherewithal and ownership of this great Nation. When this happens, every other thing will fall into place.

That's just the fact!

Cherrybae:
FELLOW NIGERIANS,WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN IF THE NORTHERNERS SHOULD TREAT THE IGBOS THE SAME WAY THEY ARE TREATING THE NORTHERNERS?
THE AGONY OF A PROUD NORTHERNER AND A HAUSA-FULANI!!!

I am one who has shown you love while you pay me back with so much hate,pains and disgust

I am one who has accommodated you for years in my land and you have refused to accommodate me in yours

I am that HAUSA-FULANI who has allowed you to establish yourself and your businesses in my land for years without stigmatising you

I am one whom you have refused to give a space to build a house nor a shop and treated like an outcast in your lands

I am that person who has been blamed for every crime committed even when most are not even committed by me

I am your step-sister/brother who has been quiet over the years that our father has been spending billions of naira in the name of amnesty just for peace to reign.

I am the one who kept quiet when our father spent more than $20 billion a year on subsidies for farm businesses. About 39 percent of the nation's 2.1 million farms receive subsidies, with the lion's share of the handouts going to the largest producers of corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, and rice.

I am the one that is still quiet when our father plans to give N200bn intervention funds to boost the production of palm oil, cocoa, sesame seed, shea and cashew,through the Central Bank of Nigeria.

Now that our father tries to extend same gesture towards me and you complain and call me names?

You've been accusing me of killing your people,destroying your farm lands and kidnapping in your lands even when from the arrest so far,it has shown on the contrary and our father decided to provide solution to end the clashes between us by firstly coming up with the issue of ranches which you vehemently kicked against, he then came up with cattle colony yet, you said no,he talked about providing radio station to educate me and my family on the need for peaceful co-existence yet,you kicked against it.

I fear the Northerners might come up with their own rejections of the igbos in there land soon.

God bless Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Wisdomkosi:
Buhari Writes British Parliamentary Group, Denies Persecution Of Christians

Posted by Wisdom Nwedene

The Nigerian Government has denied claims by a group styling itself as Northern Christian Elders Forum, "who falsely alleged that the Muhammadu Buhari administration is practicing bigotry and alienating Christians."


In a statement made available to Igbere TV on Thursday by President Buhari’s Spokesman, Garba Shehu said the Nigerian government strongly dismissed as inconceivable and outrightly false, allusions to the effect that the Boko Haram terrorism served a government agenda against Christians.

The response by the Nigerian Government is contained in a letter to the British Parliamentary Group, signed by Nigeria's High Commissioner to UK, George Adetola Oguntade.

Two letters were addressed to Rt Revd Philip Mounstephen, a former secretary of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) and now Head, "Independent Review of Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Support of Persecuted Christians, "and Baroness Berridge, the Chair of "All Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief. "

In the correspondences, the Nigerian government strongly dismissed as inconceivable and outrightly false, allusions to the effect that the Boko Haram terrorism served a government agenda against Christians.

"It would be useful for me to engage with this process to ensure that you are thoroughly briefed on the situation in Nigeria, "High Commissioner Oguntade wrote in the correspondences.

Responding to the interim report on Foreign and Commonwealth Office Support for Persecuted Christians, Oguntade, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court, told Rev. Mounstephen:

"The safety and security of all Nigerians, whatever their faith, is a fundamental priority of the Buhari Government. The government knows that Nigeria can only achieve its potential if there is religious tolerance and cooperation."

The High Commissioner explained that President Buhari's deputy is a Pastor, adding that the President "has befriended Church leaders and church groups both within and outside Nigeria."

He added that the President’s cabinet is balanced between Muslims and Christians, noting that he himself was a former Chancellor of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion).

According to Justice Oguntade, Vice President Osinbajo has maintained regular contacts with Christian and Muslim leaders as part of efforts to build and sustain interfaith dialogue.

Stressing that the country's security challenges had no ethnic and religious colourations, the High Commissioner said the farmers/herders clashes predated the Buhari administration, noting that such clashes bordered on the desire for pasture by the herders and the desire to protect crops from encroachment and destruction by the farmers.

Oguntade explained that these clashes had a long history and the Buhari administration is taking a major step to address the root cause of these crises and violent clashes pitting Muslim and Christian farmers alike against the herders.

According to the High Commissioner, "the issue of grazing routes is historically central to these conflicts and the Buhari administration is taking a holistic approach to the matter with a view to ending it once and for all, so that Nigerians can live in peace with one another."

He, therefore, assured the international community that the Buhari Administration would ensure that "the competition over scarce land is resolved peacefully for the benefits of all parties."

The Nigerian government also rejected attempts by the reporting group to link Boko Haram terrorism with official policy, stating clearly that these violent acts by the terrorist group predated the Buhari administration, like many others that were inherited on coming to office in 2015.

The Nigerian High Commissioner to the UK said criminal groups such as the Boko Haram terrorists who kill Muslims and Christians do not represent Muslims.


"Boko Haram is a murderous death cult whose savagery has destroyed thousands of lives.

"The Government is totally dedicated to eradicating their stain from our land.

"Since the Buhari administration has been in power, Boko Haram has been significantly degraded – with the support and assistance of the UK Government. We shall not rest until this mission is completed and the people of North East Nigeria – both Christians and Muslims – can live in peace again, "he said.

The two letters were each accompanied by a copy of an opinion article signed by the President and published on November 30, 2018, by London-based "Church Times," entitled: DON’T POLITICISE RELIGION IN NIGERIA.

In the article, President Buhari, among other things, said Muslims and Christians can flourish together.

"These two great religions (Islam and Christianity) can not only peacefully coexist but flourish together. But we must first turn to one another in compassion. For as Amos teaches us: “Do two walk together unless they have agreed to meet?”.

"We must resist the temptation to retreat into our communities because if we do, our palette of possibilities will remain primary. It is only when we mix them together that we can imagine new and greater possibilities.

"As our constitution spells out, politicizing religion should have no place in Nigeria. However, it is all the more reprehensible when in doing so; it feeds fears and plays to man’s baser instincts.

"For it makes us turn away from one another; it makes us retreat into our communities and walk different paths; and it blinds us to each other’s God-given dignity, " the President said in the article published in Church Times.

Source : http://igberetvnews.com/802218/buhari-writes-british-parliamentary-group-denies-persecution-of-christians/

helinues:
Na Una same people dey lament about killers herdsmen.. FG are trying their best to find solutions to it yet the governors are frustrating their efforts..

Meanwhile, nobody cares to make any suggestions on how to go about it.

INEC has various computer servers,but definitely not the one for 2019 presidential elections.It does not exist!

GoodGovernance:


For the benefit of others like you:

INEC has various computer servers,but definitely not the one for 2019 presidential elections.It does not exist!

Moreover the electoral act(until amended) has stipulated how election should be collated,i.e.manually!

Server or no server can never be a decider in this very hopeless Atiku's case.

I keep on wondering whether those shouting server,server,did not watch the manual and very long presidential election results collation on television.


So the court should ignore that ,for an illegal server?

Truly PDP supporters on this issue,are either morons, or have been hypnotized not to think straight.

mrvitalis:

With EU looking towards china and brics looking to fight dollar this is the end of american reign

5G is already in the bag for china thats game over

Jonathan:

Una too like to dey fool Una sef.
U think Iran don't have strong allys?
Who do you think China and Russia will support?

mrvitalis:

U lack basic understanding of macro economics

Just relax 10 years from now we shall know

AntiWailer:
Coward.

You pulled out of a peaceful deal unprovoked and still blame them.

The most powerful yet the most insecure dumb person in the world.

You want to pretend to be a peace lover in a War ur action started.

To the Team "Us will eraze Iran" stop being ignorant and go and read about how things work.

Was the Drone taken out in USA airspace ?

ladman:


The card reader has a chip that stores information for a particular polling unit, it has no need of a server.

Secondly, no server is admissible in the Nigerian court because it is not part of what is permissible according to the electoral act.

If INEC was not permitted to use the server during the election, how can she put it forward as evidence in court?

WinningSun:
Funny report from bloomberg.
Hauwei is the only 5G vendor that has end-to-end solutions across board at minimum cost with less equipment swap.

Not just the solutions hauwei is the only company that had publicly tested and deployed 5G with public access...
.

Other companies have only tested it in the lab.

asfrank:

what you said earlier shows is really ignorant between the two of us. For someone who said it's impossible for Card readers to function without a sever, shows he is still living in the stone age.

kingzizzy:




The above clearly shows that the writer doesn't know Nigerian history. He does even know that Adaka Boro died early into the war. He I'd making excuse for Boro that Ijaws in the old Eastern Region as reason for session but sees nothing wrong that thousands of Igbos were being murdered in Nigeria as the excuse for Ojukwu to secede. He is now dismissing the Aburi agreement that Soldiers had no right to make laws for civilians forgetting that Nigeria has been ruled by military decree for many years until 1999. He only remembers that the military shouldn't make laws or decrees when it comes to Aburi

The write up was complete nonsense from start to finish.

asfrank:

U don't need a sever to do that in my opinion. Each card reader can programmed for a specific polling unit. I don't know what they used but each one carries information about voters for specific units, making the verification easy. There are places in Nigeria where even cell phone services are not good but still accreditation took place there.

The Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate in the February 23 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, have filed a fresh application for access to information contained in the smart card readers and “central server”, which it said the Independent National Electoral Commission used for the conduct of the disputed election .

netpro:


Atiku is asking for Server Presidential Results were transmitted to.

INEC said they don't have such server where results were transmitted to.

The question is not if INEC has any server or computers. Afterall the INEC website is on a Server.

Also the request has already been ruled upon at the Court of Appeal earlier.

Here is the link on what INEC said
https://www.nairaland.com/5242978/atiku-pdp-asking-us-server

The petitioners, through their lead counsel, Dr. Livy Ozoukwu, subsequently filed an application on May 8, 2019, seeking an order of the tribunal permitting them to access and inspect the INEC’s server into which results and other data were allegedly transmitted during the February 23 poll.

netpro:


It is more than that. Like most big organisations, INEC can have servers and computers for office use.

Atiku needs to prove that a particular computer or server was set up and used for for the Presidential election.

INEC has a database of registered voters and other vital data. There should have a Server computer for those.

But point blank, INEC doesn't have any presidential election server with the kind of results he is parading.

netpro:


Not exactly. Proving a Server existence is one thing (almost impossible - those that claim to have heard of server did not). Do you know it can be as simple as Dedicated server hosting account? Also Atiku needs to prove that authenticity of the results he has over the ones announced by INEC.

Then there is the biggest hurdle, the current law does not support electronic results. That was one of the provisions the amended law had. But Mr President declined.