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Buhari still cleverly dodges the the fundamental solution by refusing to talk about ranches. He has instead sent a proposal to governors to create grazing reserves and cattle routes in their respective states for herdsmen. Sending soldiers to "deal decisively" with killer herdsmen is gimmick. Arrest Sale Bayari and other Fulani leaders who admitted that fulani herdsmen carried out the attacks in some places as "revenge" and Nigerians will start taking you serious on this matter, Mr president.

Ejemehn:
Agatu villagers said they were Fulani herdsmen, Nnibo villagers said they were Fulani herdsmen, These people saw them.

Sultan is in Sokoto, on his exalted throne, he did not see anything, yet trying to deny and exonerate his brothers.

What else do you expect from a spiritual head of a terrorist group? Has he ever spoken against their activities? When Jonathan was there, the Sultan was always visiting Aso Rock to hoodwink the presidency to evil that fulani herdsmen were doing to villagers in the hinterlands. Now that he has his "son" in place as the president, he needs not go there again for the "job" to be done, that's why he stays in his palace in Sokoto to issue denials. They want war but Nigerians are disappointing them with cowardice!

mightyhazell:
rawtruth indeed!












Av always known that dese co ordinated and sustained attacks on communities is part of a grand plot. Just look how brazen these herdsmen become by the day.the day I knew these guys aint ordinary herdsmen was when they kidnapped a whole falae and succeeded in collecting ransom days after without any security outfit bustin up on them!

Thanks again for this enlightening write up. Mr rawtruth! Am sharing this right away!

Share a thousand times!

Whoever doubts is fee to do his/her own investigation. Currently, hordes of fulani herdsmen, many of them foreigners, have taken over deserted homes and farmlands of the murdered and displaced persons in Taraba state. Only three days ago, they launched simultaneous attacks on Tiv villages in Bali and Donga LGAs of Taraba state killing 13 persons and inflicting injuries on many others. Nigerians tribes are paying for their narrow appreciation of problems; if it affects one tribe, the others either watch passively or make mockery of the affected. Fulanis have even engineered conflicts between one ethnic group and another, especially in the Middle Belt. Now, they are ready to take on individually the isolated and confused ethnic groups of the country. It's laughable for anyone to reason that "they can't do it in my area!". You never can tell with people who are ever ready to kill or die for whatever they hold dear ...especially when they are not countered proportionately.

Tiv, the only people who withstood the fulani might for centuries and prevented their expansion southward were effectively neutralised during the 2001/2002 crises through a clever plot by the fulanis who used foreign mercenaries, some smaller ethnic groups and the military to commit one of the most unreported genocide and wanton destruction of properties against a people in recent history. Many Nigerians were either referring to Tiv as stubborn and cheering the killers on or watching passively on the sidelines. Only a tiny minority saw through the plot and spoke against it.

Fulanis and their mercenaries had started the operation against Tiv from Kundum in Plateau state in early March 2001 and swept down into Nasarawa state where Alago people joined them (Alagos are among the victims of the fulani herdsmen attack today). While Tivs of Nasarawa were massively being killed and dispossessed of their personal belongings, the Nigerian Police watched helplessly; neither did the few soldiers deployed to the state help. Fulanis, buoyed by their success in Nasarawa state, opened another war front against Tiv of Taraba by murdering the wife of a prominent Tiv politician there on her farm, followed immediately with the killing of seven members of an NKST Church during a preparatory service for holy communion. Tiv reacted against Fulanis and Jukuns militias were contracted by Fulanis to assist them wipe out Tiv of the entire Taraba state (Jukuns are also now victims of the current Fulani attacks). For weeks, the killings and burning of Tiv and their homes, schools, private hospitals and Churches continued unchallenged. When Tiv youths eventually assembled and started countering the killers with superior firepower, a group of armed people in military camouflage, wearing slippers and canvas and driving in white Hilux vehicles came on to the scene and claimed they were soldiers deployed to end the crisis. Tiv villagers welcome them with the hope that their presence would end the attacks. However, it soon became clear that the said soldiers were part of the problem as their arrival in any village was actually a prelude to attack from Fulani/Jukun militias. When they eventually visited a Tiv town called Abako and a massive attack occurred a few minutes after their departure, words went round that the men in white Hilux vehicle were not true soldiers but mercenaries in disguise. Tiv youths then surrounded and captured them as they made their way again into Benue from their Base in Taraba. Their killing resulted to the mayhem visited on Zaki Biam and environs by the Military under then President Obasanjo. The rest is now history. But that history worked in favour of Fulanis as Tiv and Jukuns remained at loggerheads with each other while fulani herdsmen occupied the homes of the murdered and displaced Tiv villages in both central and southern Taraba. On the other hand, Tiv youths became targets of military personnel deployed to crises areas in Taraba, Nasarawa and Benue states. Continued harassment of the youths in the villages by the military completely weakened and exposed the entire areas to Fulani militias who started penetrating deep into areas they could never have dreamed to enter. There are cases filed at the Federal High Court in Makurdi against soldiers who shot and killed three unarmed youths among the people who were protesting against the Fulani invasion, and for an incident in which soldiers asked some Tiv youths to accompany them to recover the bodies of two Tiv men killed by fulanis near a fishing pond but abandoned them to their fate when armed Fulanis emerged suddenly and opened fire on them. Five of the youths were killed in the presence of the soldiers led by one Sgt Mohammed Auta who did not fire a single shot to defend them. The cases are still in court. The interesting thing is that the commanding officers from the 72 barracks in Makurdi where those soldiers were usually deployed was a Fulani man! These are some of the truths most Nigerians never knew, and still don't know.

Having successfully neutralised the centre, the south and west of the country should expect more from the Fulanis.

Meanwhile, their top officials in govt are busy trying to turn clear acts of terrorism by fulani herdsmen into "communal crises" through "town hall meetings". We haven't seen anything yet!

No! Federal govt is "working silently" to turn terrorism into "communal clashes". Meanwhile the killing of farmers and occupation of their farmlands by fulani herdsmen is going on unchallenged in the hinterlands.

"Nemesis is that recoil of nature never to be guided against which ever surprises the most wary transgressor"-James Hadley Chase (The Wary Transgressor)

"Nigeria is not the only country where nomadic pastoralists herdsmen come and go. In Kenya, they have the Maasai herdsmen who have been herding cattle around the Nile Valley area from the days of Joseph in ancient Egypt. Other nations have their own form of pastoralists too. But never in the history of the 20th and 21st Century has the world encountered a scenario such as that which stares Nigeria in the face, whereby Fulani pastoral Herdsmen simultaneously and nationally and almost systematically are wiping out indigenous Nigerians for the benefit of their cattle.
I challenge my readers to take the time to do a Google search and collate the number of reported casualties from unprovoked Fulani attacks on innocent, unarmed Nigerians in 2016 alone. The results will shock you! I will not throw out a number in order not to give my political foes fodder to use against me in a case of incitement, but please carry out even a cursory research on the matter.
And what has been the response of the Nigerian Government? I was shocked to read the reaction of Nigeria's minister of Internal Affairs, retired Lt. General Abdulrahman Dambazau, who blamed Social Media users for exacerbating these attacks!
I mean really? So what are we to do when we become aware that Fulani herdsmen are accused of killing, raping and maiming Nigerians? Are we to keep quiet in the national interest? Excuse me, but I thought the national interest was the interests of human beings rather than the interest of cattle!
And then President Muhammadu Buhari from faraway China, rightly goes ahead to issue a lethal warning to pipeline vandals: desist from your actions or else be dealt with as I dealt with Boko Haram!
Yet this same tough talking President does not have similar words for Fulani herdsmen? Mr. President, how many Nigerians have to die before you give Fulani herdsmen the 'Boko Haram' treatment?
President Muhammadu Buhari must be willing to suspend the fact that he is himself a Fulani by ethnicity and remember what he has been preaching to us since he first forced his way into our national consciousness after his coup against President Shagari in 1983.
I can never forget when the then military head of state, Major General Muhammad Buhari said "This generation of Nigerians and indeed the future generation have no country other than Nigeria, we shall stay and salvage it together."
Indeed, the President must remember that he wanted us to stay and salvage Nigeria together and not stay and be savaged in Nigeria by Fulani herdsmen!
And the absolute worst part of this story is the attempt by some Legislators to add salt to injury and injustice by floating a so called National Grazing Commission Bill to compulsorily acquire large swathes of Nigerian land and give them to the Commission for the benefit of Fulani herdsmen!
In fact, it makes better sense to establish a Victim Support Commission for the many thousands of victims of Fulani herdsmen than it does to set up a National Grazing Commission!
Honestly, I do not understand the idea behind this Bill. The legislators sponsoring this Bill are asking Nigeria to change her land tenure system to fit nomads who may or may not be Nigerian citizens. Has the world gone mad
Nigeria should not change to fit Fulani herdsmen, instead it is Fulani herdsmen that should change to fit Nigeria!
The Grazing Commission Bill is an insult to all the victims of the herdsmen. Peace can only be achieved if those who want to herd cattle set up ranches as is done everywhere else in the world!
The cattle herding business is a private enterprise. It should not be the business of the government to use public land and public funds to promote the group interest of Fulani herdsmen.
Let me assure any federal legislator that is foolhardy enough to support this Bill that Senators and Representatives from states where Fulani herdsmen have killed innocent Nigerians should forget their reelection if they support the Grazing Commission Bill!
In fact, they should be ashamed of themselves that they sat in a National Assembly where the Lagos-Calabar rail was not provided for and watched as the # GrazingCommissionBill got to second reading!
Instead of passing laws to protect victims of genocide they want to pass laws to protect those who commit genocide! Talk about Stockholm syndrome!
I am tempted to ask if this the Federal Republic of Nigeria or the Federal Republic of Fulani Herdsmen with Nigerians as second class citizens? Hardworking, tax paying Nigerian citizens do not have land to build houses yet the backers of this repugnant Bill want to give free land to Fulani herdsmen?
But should I or anybody reading this really blame the sponsors of this Bill? Shouldn't the blame rightly be on all of us collectively when we keep silent while our brothers die because of political ambition and fear of persecution!
What did Jesus say again in Matthew 10:28 "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."
My name is Reno Omokri, if anybody likes let them come and arrest me for saying the truth. I would rather live the rest of my life in a dungeon than fold my hands and do nothing while my fellow Nigerians are being killed so that cattle may live!"

-Reno Omokri is the host of Transformation With Reno Omokri, founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center in California and author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God and Why Jesus Wept.

They are the wives and children of boko haram fighters.

Last2comment:
Where's David mark and 2face.






The fulani killing won't stop easily in Nigeria because previous government's have allowed it become a hydra headed monster. Hope our fulani waka waka can end this before 2019

Was it the "previous govt" that engineered the genes of the fulanis to make them murderers and occupiers of peoples' land? What govt was in power in the precolonial era when Othman Danfodio's gang of murderers overthrew Hausa chiefs and installed fulani Caliphs in their places? Which govt looked the other way when Fulanis murdered Afonja's son in Ilorin in the 19th century and installed a fulani man as the emir? The people have simply refused to become human. But they will cry last!

What about "fulani herdsmen" terrorists who have been rated the fourth most violent terror group in the world by the internationalTerror Watch? Let him continue to cover it, the rot will soon spill. They (fulanis) have just murdered 9 farmers in Agatu area of Benue state.

SmartChoices:
Nonsense

What is "nonsense" here? Explain or you risk being described as "inhuman".

He better use that experience to compel the murderous fulanis to adopt the ranch system and save the lives of our farmers.

Kikero112:
And in response.... from the article:Farmer-Herder Clashes Amplify Challenge for Beleaguered Nigerian Security by Michael W. Baca(Published July 16, 2015).

The cause of this current bout of clashes remains an issue of debate among Nigeria watchers. Some have depicted the violence as a continuation of ethno-religious struggles that predate the colonial era. However, the relative absence of such widespread bloodshed throughout much of Nigeria’s post-independence history suggests more contemporary factors are to blame. Specifically, it appears the upsurge in farmer-herder violence stems from the confluence of four developments: the ongoing expansion of land under cultivation, environmental degradation across Africa’s Sahel region, the decline of traditional authority figures, and the recent rise of large-scale cattle rustling.

Historically, pastoralists and agriculturalists in Nigeria enjoyed a fairly symbiotic relationship. Herders’ livestock provided farmers with daily goods, as well as manure to fertilize their fields. In turn, pastoralists obtained grain and other farm products from agriculturalist communities. However, this system increasingly shows signs of breaking down as the growth of farming activities has drastically diminished Nigeria’s supply of grazing land. The herds and flocks of pastoralists now frequently encroach upon cultivated fields, much to the outrage of local agriculturalists. Ensuing confrontations can quickly degenerate into armed clashes that poison communal relations and lead to further instances of violence.

This volatile situation has been aggravated by an influx of herders escaping deteriorating environmental conditions in the Sahel, a semiarid belt of territory stretching from Senegal to the Red Sea. Soil erosion from destructive agricultural practices and overgrazing, along with shifting weather patterns attributed to climate change, has transformed vast tracts of grassland into desert, driving many pastoralists southwards. Those entering Nigeria’s savanna regions place additional pressure on land resources already being fought over by competing communities. Worse, these new arrivals generally lack any familiarity with local grazing routes or the surrounding populations, raising the likelihood of violent misunderstandings occurring.

In the past, traditional leaders could have played a key role in mediating land disputes involving farmers and herders. Unfortunately, most of these figures have seen their influence decline over the past two decades, as a consequence of changes in Nigeria’s political economy. Chief among these has been the devolution of political authority from the central government, which has spawned a new leadership class at the local level. This freshly empowered elite draws its support almost exclusively from sedentary (i.e., farming) communities and therefore has little incentive to serve as a fair arbitrator. Bereft of opportunities to peacefully resolve disagreements over access to resources, many pastoralists seem to consider violence as their only viable option.

The rise of cattle rustling, meanwhile, has followed the price of meat steadily increasing in West Africa’s booming urban centers, with crime syndicates increasingly targeting herds. The results have been devastating for pastoralists: according to Nigerian media reports, thieves stole approximately 60,000 head of cattle in 2013 alone. In response to this threat, many herders have armed themselves with semi-automatic weapons, a move that has frequently led to heavy casualties when they come into conflict with farmers. What’s more, victimized pastoralists often blame nearby agriculturalist populations for their loss of livestock, even in cases where the actual perpetrators were Fulani kinsmen. This frequently leads to bloody retaliatory attacks that can leave entire villages devastated.

The overall effect of rising farmer-herder violence has been nothing short of disastrous for Nigeria. Death tolls from clashes regularly number in the dozens; a spate of pastoralist attacks during the final days of former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan’s administration left approximately 100 individuals dead. One particularly violent period from December 2013 to mid-April 2014 witnessed over 1,000 deaths, according to Human Rights Watch. On top of the mounting number of fatalities, the bloodshed has contributed to Nigeria’s crisis of internally displaced persons. A single day of violence in Benue State this past January allegedly left thousands of people homeless.

In response to the mounting insecurity, many populations have formed self-defense forces. Although set up to protect vulnerable communities, these groups generally present another security challenge to Nigeria. The evolution of Ombatse, an ethnic militia founded by members of Nasarawa State’s Eggon people, illustrates this point. Initially formed to counter perceived herder encroachments, Ombatse transformed into a chauvinistic organization engaged in acts of political violence and criminality. At one point, it came into direct conflict with Abuja, reportedly killing over 70 Nigerian security personnel in a May 2013 ambush.

The fact that the majority of farmer-herder clashes pit Muslim Fulani pastoralists against Christian peasants has exacerbated ethnoreligious hostilities at both a national and local level. Prominent Christian clerics have claimed that the Fulani act as proxies for northern Nigeria’s elites and/or Boko Haram, while some Muslim organizations have bitterly denounced the alleged mistreatment Fulani herders suffer at the hands of empowered Christian communities and state agents.

Beyond undermining security and inflaming social tensions, agriculturalist-pastoralist clashes have also had a harmful impact on Nigeria’s agrarian economy. The violence disrupts farming activities, reducing crop yields and retarding desperately needed efforts to modernize Nigeria’s inefficient agricultural sector. Furthermore, it compels many herders to shift their migration patterns, to the detriment of a livestock industry identified by some informed observers as one of the keys to greater economic diversity and growth in Nigeria.

As daunting as the challenge may appear, Nigeria has options to address farmer-herder violence. The Buhari administration should follow through on previous pledges by the Nigerian government to actively support the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and Sahel Initiative, an African Union-backed project that seeks to arrest desertification in the Sahel through the aggressive planting of trees. In addition, Buhari and state-level officials must expand the number of functioning government-sanctioned grazing zones in Nigeria. Both of these developments would greatly reduce friction over land resources. Finally, Abuja should take steps to dismantle the armed cattle rustling rings wreaking havoc in Nigeria’s north.


(I am not asking you to love the Fulanis,or to accept their way of life.I am just asking for solutions that would not involve Rwanda style disasters. If you don't get it....sorry).

I have read volumes of articles on this matter and i can tell you that the number of theoretical solutions to the problem are quite voluminous ...but none has made any better sense than the Ranch System. We can go round and round in multiple circles but the plain and simple solution remains the adoption of the ranch system by cattle owners. Fulanis need to respond to changing realities positively if they truly wish to be seen as not deliberately causing harm to indigenous communities out of an inherent proclivity to murder and domination.

What is so difficult about accepting money from govt to construct ranches for a more lucrative and secure cattle breeding business? Why the insistence that they must be accommodated all over the country when they have more than enough empty lands in the places where they have been migrating southwards? Cattle breeding is a private business and so must not be hoisted on communities that have been battling to feed their expanding populations from their overcrowded lands?

The talk about "Green Wall", etc, is a diversion; gren walls are meant to check desertification and not for the feeding of cattle. Simply build ranches wherever they can buy land, or govt can help them to buy land; put and confine cattle in the ranches and feed them with grown grass-as is done in country with even higher number of cattle herds. This is the way, and the only way too. Any other alternative that makes coercive demands on people's lands is a waste of time and a demonstration of how unwilling we are to stop this needless and avoidable bloodshed.

Kikero112:
Simple...and FYI....it does not have to do with your uncle Bubu

The problem is that in a country where most people are subsitence farmers, and where the local government does not know the meaning of the word ''Land Management'', and where cattle herders think that roaming around with your cattle is still the beat policy.....forgetting that population is increasing, and as a result the availability of free land for grazing is decreasing....yes such disasters are bound to happen.

You must note that the Fulanis attacked because they were attacked. Three of their men died. Yet....your hate for FUlanis makes you see them as some sort of ''forest spirits'' that do unreasonable things. It hardly crosses your mind that they too are being attakced.

But I am not here to defend the Fulani....and even if their men died...it is better to report it to the police rather than take the laws into their own hands.(And that leads me to the poor state of the Police in our rural areas. Where was the Police? ).

The problem is not the Fulanis.

The problem is

1.Poor land management practices.

2.Poor education....which means that we have two groups of illiterates who think that shilfting cultivation and cattle herding are viable means of agriculture in an era of growing population and climate change.

3.Poor policing. The reason why people take the laws into their own hands is because the Law is not busy doing its job.

In my opinion, Bubu's agric, law and interior ministers,as well as the state and LGA chairmen should be up and doing. They should sort out the problems here. So that....at the end of the day we can all live in peace.

Instead of calling for the expulsion of the Fulani in language that is reminiscent of the anti-Semitic drivel of the Nazis.....or the cockroach laden language of Rwandan Hutu extremists.

Time we ended subsistence farming....and cattle herding in this country. Times have changed. It isn't the 12th century anymore.

Bla bla bla. Who do you think you are dribbling?

Fulanis are out on an expansionist mission and they are not relenting. That's why they refused to touch the 100billion naira made available by the previous govt for cattle owners to access and establish ranches to domesticate all cattle within five years. Instead, they have been insisting that each state provides grazing reserves for their herdsmen and cattle. The states refused and many individuals told them to take the whole money and convert their vast and largely empty plains into modern ranches equipped with every needed facility; they still couldn't listen. They are out to conquer Nigeria as a whole using their herdsmen in the villages, while we continue to make noise in the townships. They are almost succeeding as the President continues to pretend that he is not aware of the atrocities being committed by his kinsmen who have been rated by the International Terror Watch group as the fourth most violent terror group in the world.

Tell that "undulating" story to the birds.

I saw this on change.org and decided to share it on this popular platform-so that members and visitors to the website can add their voices to the need for the Nigerian govt to compel Fulanis and other owners of cattle to adopt the ranch system and save us from more bloodshed.

Simply open the link below and you will be guided on how to sign. It is a peaceful way of saying "NO!" to violence:

https://www.change.org/p/the-federal-govt-of-nigeria-tell-the-fulanis-and-others-to-ranch-their-cattle

I saw this on change.org and decided to share it on this popular platform-so that members and visitors to the website can add their voices to the need for the Nigerian govt to compel Fulanis and other owners of cattle to adopt the ranch system and save us from more bloodshed.

Simply open the link below and you will be guided on how to sign. It is a peaceful way of saying "NO!" to violence:

https://www.change.org/p/the-federal-govt-of-nigeria-tell-the-fulanis-and-others-to-ranch-their-cattle

Please, sign this petition to compel fulanis and other owners of cattle to ranch their animals:

https://www.change.org/p/the-federal-govt-of-nigeria-tell-the-fulanis-and-others-to-ranch-their-cattle

Nine hundred (900), not ninety thousand (90,000).

TB Joshua Visits Tanzania..Welcomed At The Airport By Elected President:

By Doyin Yusuf

The Founder and leader of The Synagogue, Church of All Nations,Pastor T.B. Joshua touched down in Tanzania November 3rd.

Pastor T.B joshua was welcomed at the airport by the President Elect, Johnn Magufili.


After few hours of reaching the country on Tuesday,he has met the three most important political figures in Tanzaian.

John Magufuli, the President-Elect, Jakaya Kikwete, the outgoing President and Edward Lowassa, the former Prime Minister and opposition leader.


However, a government source has revealed that the Nigerian Pastor’s uncanny influence in the East African nation did not just begin during the recently held elections.

“Our new President, John Magufuli, visited T.B. Joshua in Nigeria long before he even nursed a presidential ambition,” explained Eng. Ngimbwa, chairperson of the Tanzanian Contractors Registration Board.

As Tanzania’s industrious Minister of Works, Magufuli visited The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) in Lagos, Nigeria with his family in 2011, evidenced by a picture which surfaced on social media showing the Tanzanian politician holding hands with Joshua in the cleric’s office.

He has since remained a staunch supporter of the Nigerian and partner to Joshua’s popular television station Emmanuel TV.

Magufuli’s emergence as the presidential candidate for Tanzania’s ruling party CCM was a surprise to both local and international observers, given the more prominent and popular figures he ran against.

“It was T.B. Joshua that actually encouraged him to contest for presidency,” Ngimbwa insisted. “When he won the nomination against all odds, we knew it was God at work.”

Intriguingly, Lowassa is also an outspoken supporter of Joshua, having visited Nigeria to meet the ‘prophet’ on several occasions.

A photo of the former Prime Minister attending one of Joshua’s services in 2012 was widely circulated in Tanzania.

Several commentators have inferred that Joshua may play some reconciliatory role on his first visit to the East African nation, given the palpable tension that still exists in the aftermath of the closely fought elections.

Lowassa’s opposition CHADEMA party have insisted the election was won on fraudulent grounds, refusing to accept the electoral announcement of Magufuli’s victory.

“If there’s anyone who can bring peace to the warring politicians at this time, its Pastor Joshua,” one Tanzanian blogger wrote while sharing the story of the cleric’s arrival, which saw the President-Elect waiting to meet him at the airport.

A tweet from Magufuli’s official Twitter account acknowledged that Joshua will be in Tanzania for the presidential inauguration on Thursday 5th November 2015 although it is unclear if he will play any role in the ceremony.

His visit has sparked huge interest on African social media, especially since it is the first time the cleric has been seen in public since a crusade he held in Mexico in May 2015 which had over 150,000 in attendance.

“T.B. Joshua’s visit to Tanzania can only be a blessing to our nation,” wrote Geoffrey Kapuliya, a Tanzanian pastor, on Facebook.

A video on YouTube shows outgoing Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete escorting Joshua around the Tanzanian State House and introducing him to the country’s ministers.

Tanzanian politicians are not the first in Africa to have sought the spiritual guidance of the unconventional pastor.

The late Ghanaian President John Atta-Mills described himself as ‘a member’ of The SCOAN and publicly testified that Joshua ‘prophesied’ his ascension to power.

Similarly, Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangarai visited Joshua’s church in Nigeria on several occasions as did former Malawian President Joyce Banda and late Zambian President Frederick Chiluba.

Joshua allegedly played a role in the successful transition of power in Nigeria’s recent election. He claimed to have told outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan that his ‘regime had come to an end’, advising him to peacefully concede power.

His television station Emmanuel TV is one of the most popular in Africa, amassing 250,000 subscribers on YouTube.

http://expressng.com/2015/11/tb-joshua-visits-tanzania-welcomed-at-the-airport-by-elected-president/

This should shame the labour leader:

"The Islamic State (IS) terrorists group has claimed responsibility for the multiple bomb explosions that rocked the nations capital, Abuja on Friday night.

The claim was released by the group in an Arabic message which was tweeted by Radio France International correspondent in Tunisia / Libya, David Thompson.

Thompson also tweeted pictures of the three suicide bombers the terrorist group claimed carried out the bomb attacks in the city.

“The Islamic State # EI claims the attacks of the day in Abuja # Nigeria”, Thompson tweeted

He added that: “The # EI province West Africa (eg Boko Haram) broadcasts pictures of 3 of 3 authors suicide bombers attacks in Abuja.”

Boko Haram is the West African affiliate of the Islamic State group, after its leader, Abubakar Shekau pledged allegiance last year to the Baghdadi led group.

ISIS

Two of the suicide bombers are relatively young with one of them looking blind in the left left eye.

The Abuja explosions went off in the outskirts of the Nigerian capital leaving at least 18 people dead.

Spokesman Manzo Ezekiel said that the bomb in Kuje went off near a police station while the one in Nyanya detonated in a crowded area not far from the site of two blasts in April and May last year that killed at least 90 people.

Before then, there had not been an attack on the capital in two years.

http://abusidiqu.com/isis-claims-responsibility-for-abuja-bomb-blasts-releases-photos-of-suicide-bombers-responsible/

When did the the Nigerian labour congress become security consultants to Nigerians? Let the DSS and other security services do their job.

LadyFiona:
This is political bokoharam. When a major scandal broke out there will always be bomb blast in Abuja but this time it is twin abi quadruple blasts to deflect it.

Is their any major scandal or affairs rocking Nigerian airwaves recently?
What was cooking yesterday?

Don't try to get people confused, have boko haram communicated to you that the have stopped bombings?

HungerBAD:
There is something fishy about this whole kidnap thing.

I do agree he was kidnapped, but the intelligence and how this whole operation was carried out, to me seems more sophisticated than what a fulani cattle handler can pull.

The phoning.

The every 4 hours tactical maneuvers.

The way the ransom was paid.

How he was dropped off at Owo.

Everything shows an organized setting here, that goes beyond people, who ordinarily are nomads.

Fulanis are more organised and have more backing from their elites than boko haram. Ask Tiv, Berom, Eggon, Jukuns, Takad, Agatu, and other victim-tribes and you would be better informed.

But Dangote informed Nigerians during an interaction session with the business community and reporters that roads built with cement last a minimum of 40 years and are cheaper compared to asphalted roads. How come this "10-20 years" durability and the "higher cost?". Someone isn't telling the truth.

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Naijaonlinegists:
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/186728-28-nigerian-soldiers-of-72-battalion-killed-by-boko-haram-others.html

Those killed in Benue were murdered by Fulanis and their mercenaries. It is unfortunate that the army has never deemed it fit to launch reprisals against fulanis but would rush to wipe out helpless villages on the slightest suspicion that they are responsible for the killing of any soldier. In Agatu area of Benue state, five soldiers were killed by fulanis in December 2013 and the secretary of the Fulani cattle union in Benue state made a statement "condoling" families of those soldiers who were "caught in the cross fire", yet the man was never questioned to explain who "crossed the fire" that killed the soldiers. The security situation in the north central will remain tense until Fulani terrorists in the area are flushed out.

Akoja360:
Lolz As I see benue I no suprise again.




#proudly idoma

The OP is a pathetic character with an issue against Tiv. Sadly for him he haven't much grey matter upstairs to deflate his anger with an intelligent attempt at insults. That shouldn't make you "proud".

This is post rates above all lies; it's "blasphemous". Whatever grudges the poster holds against Tiv people aren't worth this unintelligent lie. What stopped him from showing the pictures of the couple and other dignitaries at the wedding since wedding ceremonies are not secret cult meetings where taking of pictures might be forbidden? He just assembled some packets of condoms, snapped them and wrote a cock and bull story to calm his anger-for-whatever-reason against Tiv people. The ratio of AIDS prevalence in Benue is even higher in non Tiv speaking areas. ...an open fact. Not clever.

Let Mr President compel Fulani herdsmen also to #RanchTheirCows and stop the bloodshed in the name of "grazing right"

It's not yet uhuru; with the way his Fulani herdsmen are going about killing farmers and occupying their farmlands in the Middle Belt, even if there will be no "Somalia" there may be "Darfur". The Fulani herdsmen threat holds the possibility of a crack in the unity of this country more than BH.

sirrinky:
Makes sense @least these stupid police men will stop wearing camouflage uniform anyhow like they're worth something

E be like say you get wahala with the police. ... But the police are to keep their own to be used when on joint operation with the military. If you knew how many policemen are in the war front with the military for the war against BH, you won't call them "stupid". Hater!

Boko haram is merely mocking President Buhari who has vowed to deal mercilessly with the sect. That shouldn't be too hard for one to figure out.

And, those asking how some people who heard "sai Buhari" survived to tell the story are perhaps not aware that the suicide bomber created a drama by dancing funny dance steps while he continually shouted "sai Buhari". The "drama" attracted a crowd around him before he detonated the bomb. There must be survivors who watched and heard him but left his proximity before the crowd became thick enough for the bomber to execute devilish plan.

I love this. ONE LOVE.