₦airaland Forum

Some have erroneously drawn comparisons between the Niger Delta militants and the Boko Haram militants.

Truth be told,any form of comparison between the two should start and end with the term "militants" which is used to describe the two,for they are both vigorously active,combative and aggressive in support of their stated "causes".

However,whilst the Niger Delta Militants took up arms owing to years massive pauperisation and destruction of thier livelihood,destruction of their eco-system and "infrastructure" arising from years of oil exploration and exploitation from their region without any attendant development  of the region,Boko haram is a group of Islamic terrorists who believe that western or non-islamic education is a sin and therefore they decided to take up arms to destroy anything that is not islamic or sharia-based,they also seek to forcefully impose sharia in all the states in the northern part of Nigeria.

From the above,one can safely say that the Niger Delta militants were justified and were fighting for a good cause and in the course of their agitation,when succesive governments at the centre refused to listen to them,they targeted oil installation;the same installations from which billions of dollars had accrued to the FG which used the funds to develop mostly other parts of the country,while the producing communities were left undeveloped,this led to a sharp drop in volume of BPD Nigeria was able to pump and by implication lower revenue for the FG,thisn was the reason the Niger delta militants were engaged at the round table and offered amnesty.

Someone please tell me where their cause resembles the cause of the boko haram militants,who should aptly be called terrorists and why the haramites should be granted amnesty??

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/newsonthehour/2011/june/14/newsbreak-14-06-2011-001.html



Boko Haram (figuratively, "Western or non-Islamic education is a sin" is a controversial Nigerian militant Islamist group that seeks the imposition of Shariah law in the northern states of Nigeria.[2]

It become known internationally following sectarian violence in Nigeria in 2009


[edit] EtymologyThe term "Boko Haram" comes from the Hausa word boko meaning "Animist, western or otherwise non-Islamic education" and the Arabic word haram figuratively meaning "sin" (literally, "forbidden".[3][4][5][6]

[edit] IdeologyBoko Haram opposes not only Western education, but Western culture and modern science as well.[7] In a 2009 BBC interview, Yusuf stated that the belief that the world is a sphere is contrary to Islam and should be rejected, along with Darwinism and the theory that rain comes from water evaporated by the sun.[3]

[edit] HistoryThe group was founded in 2002 in Maiduguri by Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf. In 2004 it moved to Kanamma, Yobe State, where it set up a base called "Afghanistan", used to attack nearby police outposts, killing police officers.[8] Yusuf is hostile to democracy and the secular education system, vowing that "this war that is yet to start would continue for long" if the political and educational system was not changed.[9]

In Bauchi the group was reported as refusing to mix with local people. The group includes members who come from neighbouring Chad and speak only in Arabic.[10][11]

[edit] Clash with the stateIn July 2009 the Nigerian police started investigating the group, following reports that the group was arming itself. Several leaders were arrested in Bauchi, sparking deadly clashes with Nigerian security forces which led to the deaths of an estimated 700 people.

[edit] AttacksPrior to the clashes, many Muslim leaders and at least one military official had warned the authorities about Boko Haram. Those warnings were reportedly ignored.[14]



BauchiBauchi (Nigeria)In the state of Yobe, fighters reportedly "used fuel-laden motorcycles" and "bows with poison arrows" to attack a police station.[16] On 30 July, allegations were made that Yusuf himself was killed by Nigerian security forces after being taken into custody.[17]

In January 2010, the group struck again in the Nigerian state of Borno, killing four people in Dala Alemderi ward in Maiduguri metropolis.[18]

On September 7, 2010, Boko Haram freed over 700 inmates from a prison in Bauchi State.[19]

In December 2010, Boko Haram were blamed for a market bombing, following which 92 of its members were arrested by police.[20]

On Friday January 28, 2011, a gubernatorial candidate was assassinated, along with his brother and four police officers. [21]

Here’s a look at some of Boko Haram’s activities during election season: On March 29, police “thwarted a plot to bomb an [ANPP] election rally” in Maiduguri, Borno State (map). The threat was blamed on Boko Haram. On April 1 (the day before the original date of Nigeria’s legislative elections), suspected Boko Haram members attacked a police station in Bauchi (map). On April 9, a polling center in Maiduguri was bombed. On April 15, the Maiduguri office of the Independent National Electoral Commission was bombed, and several people were shot in a separate incident on the same day. Authorities suspected Boko Haram. On April 20, Boko Haram killed a Muslim cleric and ambushed several police officers in Maiduguri. On April 22, Boko Haram freed 14 prisoners during a jailbreak in Yola, Adamawa State (map)[22]

On Tuesday February 8, 2011, Boko Haram gave conditions for peace. The radicals demanded that the Borno State Governor, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, should step down from office with immediate effect and also allow members to reclaim their mosque in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State. [23] On 9th May 2011 Boko Haram rejected an offer for amnesty made by the governor-elect of Borno state, Kashim Shettima[24]

Boko Haram was blamed for a series of bombings in northern Nigeria on May 29, 2011 that left 15 dead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram

Anti-opposition? nah
How could I be,when I live in and have offices in opposition-controlled states,thereby making me part of the opposition?again even though I'm from Delta state where my party man is governor,I'm in opposition to his ways and government and had really hoped Ogboru would stoop to conquer by reaching out  to the real grassroots power blocs in the state,who are either PDP or pseudo-PDP so we could join forces with him and kick Uduaghan out

I'm just giving you facts;straight with no chaser

Well Bankole has secured his bail

The first and only Nigerian "pastor" to speak from both sides of his mouth,make fake prophecies and also lie that God asked him to run with Buhari for presidency:Tunde Bakare

The first Nigerian "pastor" to lie that God asked him to run for president:Chris Okotie

The first Nigerian to woefully lose his challenge of the result of a presidential after two successive elections(_{and who is about to lose the third one}) is:Muhammadu Buhari

@enyojo and fxtopedia

You guys should be there thirding and fourting,it's actually an indirect way of admitting that my submissions are very true

In any case,whether y'all accept or decide to ostritch by denying the very obvious and well known,it doesn't really make any difference nor change the facts

ekt_bear:
The saddest I have been in a long time

Sorry,buh how do they say pele in your language?



Not to worry,next year is another season

^^^


Hold up,lies?

Now girl,even you don't believe what you just posted and you know I aint lying

I wonder how much Omatseye got paid to embark on that ignoble route for which he is taking all the flak
Of course Omatseye is the dancer,but we all know the crook whose drumbeats Omatseye danced to

htajz:
who is marginalising who?.

O boy are you sure you're not Paulinus Akpekicos he's the one that's oft wont to use that phrase

Who dey follow you drag na

We know Jimoh Ibrahim is wayyyyy bigger than Richard Branson,that's if na their mouth we dey sheck

The first Nigerian to be able to freely,serially and successfully loot the treasury of his state both as governor and ex-governor:Bola Tinubu

The first Nigerian to lose three consecutive presidential elections in a row:Muhammadu Buhari

The first Nigerian ex-dictator and retired army general to weep shamelessly in public just because electoral defeat was staring him in the face:Muhammadu Buhari

I've always said it that if the Mavs were gonna win the championship,then the other players whose first names were not Dirk,would have to step to the plate and not depend on Dirk Nowitzki alone to make 40 pointers and were him down and out before the home stretch of the championship

As if they were listening to me,in game 5,Jason Terry and Jason Kidd stepped up their games to help Dirk and the team to a very crucial win that took them to the brinks of their first ever championship win.Again in game 6 yesterday,while Dirk had an average game((21 points on 9-of-27 shooting from the floor),Jason Terry was massive(27 points on 11-of-16 FG) and I'm so haaaaapy for,especially for Mr MVP,Dirk Nowitzki,his passion and dedication was awe-inspiring

Dirk Nowitzki,Jason Terry and the unyielding Mavs are pulling the rug from under D'Wade,Bosh and LeBron's feet
What a comeback from being 1-2 down in the series to lead 3-2,just one game away from winning the championship

Kudos must go to Jason Terry and the Mavs team for stepping up their game and not waiting for Nowitzki alone to shoot 40+ points

Ha ha,even if the series is gonna be rounded off in Miami,my heart is with the Mavs to knick the championship,if not for any other thing,for the sake of Dirk Nowitzki,at the beginning of the finals;whilst the heats had 3 super stars to boast of,the Mavs could only look up to Dirk,work wan kill the guy before,then he broke his finger and was so laid back in one of his post-match interviews,then he struggled to play with flu,,,,,,please Miami just lose one more game

kcng:
gen. buhari will be president of the federal republic of nigeria.

Ey yahhhhh
If wishes were horses

,,,or is ur federal republic of nigeria another name for boko haram?

Arrest who why put him in the spotlight??let him keep wallowing in oblivion abeg

Obviously that's the only way he'll be back in the news seeing how irrelevant,useless and neglected he has become in such a short while

@ OP

Sorry I didn't bother to read your link,but what has Fashola done again?? has he given Bola Tinubu the keys to the treasury of LASG again or has he gone to lick Tinubu's arse again?

monkeyleg:
@Rasputinn,

I am not suggesting such, but where is the transparency and fairness to all, or is the speaker only going to be a speaker for the PDP party and no one else. . This public show is really not good for our democracy. Nigeria is really being held @ gun-point

C'mon loosen up,nobody is holding anybody at gun point,it's normal politics;they were elected on the platform of puhe party.The first law of politics is that the party/congress is supreme,so to have openly violated a direct instruction from their party(an instruction which by the way was in perfect order),they surely must serve some form of punishment/sanction

Depilot:
Tinubu continues to flex his muscle @ EFCC because he knows who killed Bola Ige and a couple of other top government officials.
Therefore, Tinubu will not be touched simply because he has too much info to reveal if he's arrested. So, for now he's covered. But for how long? Nobody knows.
I think it is a matter of time for him to be brought down.

Really??I wonder how he could possibly know what all other Nigerians don't know except of course he was involvedJust wondering
Could you please ask him to tell us who killed Funsho Wiiliams

X-factoria:
Do you realize at all that the Tribune is a business entity? Do you realize also that the ACN is also Tinubu's business??

Gullible folks like you have bought the dummies sold to you that anything anti-ACN is anti-Yoruba. Nonsense!!!

Let them carry on with their naivety or dubeity s the case may be

It beats my imagination that anyone could idolise that crook called Tinubu whose life and record has been trailed by controversies that border on criminality

monkeyleg:
Is an apology really necessary. Our democracy is now threading on dangerous grounds, when PDP feel they can hold everyone hostage. This is bad

Hmm hmmm,why do you ask,don't you know the guys avery tight corner already?

It's one thing to play to the gallery and pull cowboy stunts in disobedience of the instruction of their party
They know they can only be as influential and effective only as much as their party/presidency allows them to be.What would you suggest to them,decampmentI know that was a no-brainer

Again,have you forgotten that this same Tambuwal is involved neck deep in Dimejigate??the party/presidency can actually make him lose that speaker's post,make him guest of the EFCC by making sure he contends with the anti graft agencies for hiod role in the sleaze in the last assembly.The man knows he has enough banana peels in his path(mostly put by himself),I assure you in just a few months,if the party means to send out a warning and pass a message,Tambuwal will lose that position and I trust our lawmakers,so many of them will then begin to form all manner of groups calling for his ouster and sponsoring their own candidates to replace Tambuwal

Da Doctor:
@ILEKE IDI, IS THE LAWYER THE ONE WHO DECIDES THE CASE??

SPARE ME THESE TRASHES,

WE ARE JUST TOO BLIND,

LETS JUST KEEP THE EVIDENCES AGAINST HIM AND SEE IF IT WILL STAND IN TIME TO COME.



I WONDER WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN ACN LOSSES ANY OF THE STATES(LAG ESPECIALLY)

I BET YOU MORE EXPOSURES WILL BE SEEN,

To everything,there's a season
And a time for every purpose under heaven,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,that time will surely come(whoever thought Ibori's time would come??)

Pukkah:
Some questions for you:

1. What is democracy without opposition?

2. What are the benefits of not being opposition in a Federal system of government? or,

3. What are the disadvantages of being in opposition? What do you lose by being in opposition?

4. Are there no advantages of being in opposition?

Of course opposition is one of the spices of politics.
Oppostion to Tinubu wiill come from within his ranks;some of the governors elected on the platform of the ACN who may not be as willing  as Fashola to be Tinubu's slaves and will not agree to allow him brazenly steal from their state's treasuries under any guise.I'm referring to people like Ajimobi and Amosun

Again,Mimiko has sent out warning to Tinubu to forget any dreams of attempting to capture Ondo state,I forsee some of the ACN governors getting fed up with Tinubu's overbearing influence and greed and they could then decamp to either the LP or a rejuvenated PDP(this is highly likely as most people are now seeing Tinubu for the greedy crook he is)

KnowAll:
No doubt about that, Tinubu is a billionaire in dollars, if Otedola can be a billionaire from his father’s one stint as Lagos State Governor (Not Saying his Father made him a Billionaire) how much more Tinubu and Fashola with their 12years stint and still counting, they own all the prime lands in that city, you see “ Eko Atlantic City” if other Nigerians from the EAST and North don’t invest a Penny in this project, Tinubu and his boys would build it no shaking. I think that kind of ivestment is good for Nigeria. What of IBB that has an estate in Egypt Sham-ul-sheik or whatever that place is called, I would have preferred he invested in Nigeria and not some foreign country.

The guy is already a billionaire in Dollars it just a matter of time he would surpass Dangote. No wonder Dimeji won still $1 billion dollars.

The Billionaire race has started and every Nigeria Politician want to belong to this exclusive club.

Unbelievably shameful

EzeUche!:
Good news for the Delta Igbo? Chyz, I need your commentary, because I am ashamed to say, but I do not know about Delta state politics.

Good news in what senseThe people you call Delta Igbo(who by the way don't agree with you on that) have occupied that seat at least for the past 4 years.Martin Okonta is an Ika man (Delta Ibo) and was speaker from 2007 to 2009/2010 when he was impeached and Sam Obi(another Ika man) became speaker.This same Sam Obi was later to become acting governor for a few months,so what's the good news??not like this' the first time it's happening