Wake answer the question: who are you truly speaking for? Just like Jeremiah Hussaini, you are are a sellout.

The first step to overcoming boko haram is to give its right definition. +ritsejafor has boldly defined boko haram to the world and even to ignorant nigerians. We must accept these truths and stop deceiving ourselves.

so where were the STF when all of that was happening?

Why would wish the death of another man? What if it boomerangs and hits you instead.have you ever prayed for your president and wish him boldness to tackle nigeria,s problems? Do it now and stop destroying yourself.

Call Momoh on 08186685649, 08078806400. The guy is good with herbs.

Yakasai is part of the problem. He is OK when northern leaders keep quite and allow the north to be destroyed, but when people like David Mark speaks the truth boldly he comes out shamelessly to attack him.

I feel yakasai has other motives. He sees David Mark as a potential threat to the evil agenda of their group. To me he is attack the person of David Mark and not the issues that he raised.

Azazi to me, did not display the charisma of a general. He was just a bloody civilian handling the office of the NSA like a security novice.

Haba Tambawal! You know that the whole of that report has been rubbished. It was an exercise in futility.

Tanx Fashola,9Zeros,cabman and Kinnad( dts life 4 u), but let's thank God d wait is over. Gud 2 meet u all.

As journalists shouted questions at the man after his arrest, he said that he had come from a neighboring state and was trying to give the bag to someone else inside the ongoing ministerial conference. The conference, aired live on state television Monday, continued uninterrupted.
Police later identified the man arrested as John Akapapu and said they had taken him into custody as they continued an investigation into the incident. A statement from federal police command said officers recovered 37 rifle rounds and three grenades after Akapapu's arrest, but did not offer any details about why the man carried the weapons onto the ministry's grounds.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/man-with-munitions-arrested-at-nigeria-ministry-1.3730225

Pls I nid a copy of d book, blissfullsilat@yahoo.com. Tanx so much.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/47303-north-seeks-three-more-geopolitical-zones.html


The North is suspicious that some influential Southern politicians are lobbying for the inclusion of the zoning formula in the constitution as part of a game plan for the 2015 polls. 
The North’s counter-plot is the planned demand for three more geopolitical zones. 
A highly-placed source from the North, who is also in the Constitution Review Committee, said: “We have gone far in the proposed amendments to the 1999 Constitution. 
“One burning issue which the Northern Senators have been meeting on, is the zoning formula, which some forces are seeking to be included in the Constitution. 
“The Northern Senators have resolved to push for the review of the present six-zonal structure, if zoning will be a clause in the Constitution. 
“The North wants three more additional zones to bring its share of the structure to six. So, altogether, we will have nine geopolitical zones after the amendment, with six in the North and three in the South. 
“That is the only condition that will make the North to accept the inclusion of zoning formula in the Constitution.” 
Responding to a question, the source added: “The North is bigger than other parts of the country in size or landmass and population. If power has to rotate among geopolitical zones, we believe the North will be cheated. 
“Also, do not forget that the present six zones were created by the military to satisfy their whims and caprices and please a segment of the military establishment.” 
Besides zoning, some members of the National Assembly are lobbying for the elevation of some old provinces to states.

Ok, so why does the villa need 1billion naira for food?

Azazi you can be more specific. Who and who in PDP are behind it? Is it Atiku, Chiroma, IBB?

A bomb was discovered in Kachia, a town in southern kaduna. Security agent were able to detonate it from a distance without any casuaty.

Confirmed . It happened in a catholic church near the gov house. Waiting for more details.

matured muslim leader!

Nigerian Government should put an end to all these confusion please.

http://nationalmirroronline.net/news/16515.html

This is even as a new deadly sect known as “Akhwat Akwop” claiming to be working for Northern Christians has been uncovered in Kaduna to counter Boko Haram attacks on innocent citizens and bombings of churches.
Meanwhile, the Akhwat Akwop sect, it was learnt has recruited young boys and girls between the ages of 18 and 30 years into its fold. According to the group, like Boko Haram which is operating in the name of Islam, they are out to stand firm and defend Christian ideals including its way of life. National Mirror gathered that the movement comprised of persons from the Middle Belt and the Northern Christians who are also of the Hausa/Fulani ethnic group, are members of the deadly sect.

The group said that they have already mobilised some unrepentant militants from the Niger Delta as well as members of the Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) to join the movement. The group, in an unsigned 20-page booklet which contained its activities, a copy of which was obtained by National Mirror in Kaduna with an inscription “Remain Blessed Akhwat Akwop” at the end of each page stated: “Akhwat Akwop says enough is enough. We also know that not all Hausa Fulanis are guilty. We shall try and avoid innocent casualties in our operations. We prefer peace but are ever ready for war.

“Boko Haram is hereby warned that if it carries out any further attacks on Christians anywhere in the North, our Commandos will unleash deliberate attacks on selected targets in cities with majority Muslim populations in the North. Your people will see and experience what you have been doing to others first hand.” Continuing, the group said: “Boko Haram must not involve itself in the internal politics of Kaduna State and the Middle Belt, they are no go area for Boko Haram. Our Commandos have advice you to stay in your Sharia compliant areas. It is the Hausa Fulani Muslim men who wear jeans and T-shirts, sneak into our areas to drink alcohol.”

The group even displayed pictures of its recent act of massacre in Jos, Plateau State when the state, especially Kafanchan and Gonigora were enveloped in deadly violence. Several attempts to confirm the existence of the deadly group from the Kaduna State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Aminu Lawal (DSP) were turned down. An officer however confirmed that security agencies are aware of the group’s mode of operation. He said that security forces in the state are working round the clock to fish out the leaders and members of the deadly group. “We got intelligence report concerning this deadly group, we have their pictures and their planned activities but we are still on it, soon we will make it public. We advice people to be vigilant and report any strange face with strange movement to security operatives for action” the source said.

Any body that understand nigerian politics and kaduna's peculiarity will agree that a new state for the souther kaduna people is long overdue. It will bring about lasting peace and end the marginalisation of the minority tribes by the dominant hausas.

Question is: Why churches? I thought it was political?

Minna – TWENTY- four hours after the blast that claimed four lives and injured others at All Christian Fellowship Mission Church, Suleja, another blast exploded, yesterday, at Ecwa Church in Madalla town, near Suleja.

The blast exploded at 8:30 p.m. on Monday, on the day the Acting Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Ibeto, led a government delegation and security agents to Suleja to assess the incident.

The bomb exploded near the fence of the Ecwa Church, Madalla, shortly after an unknown man was sighted by a woman near the fence.

Shortly after, residents of the area attempted to interrogate the man, but he ran away, after which the bomb exploded. It was gathered that the explosive was planted in the fence of the church.

No life was, however, lost while there were also no casualties except for the serious panic which the blast caused in the area. Shop owners closed immediately after the blast.

The state Police Command Spokesman, ASP Richard Oguche, confirmed the story, adding that the explosive must have been buried close to the church.

Oguche said no life was lost in the incident.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/07/bomb-blast-rocks-ecwa-church-in-niger/

Excerpts from interview with CAN president Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor :

First, I want to begin by saying, I like Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. In my own opinion, he’s one of the people you can look at in this country and say, this is a man that has what it takes to articulate what he believes; whether it’s right or wrong, good or bad. So, for that, I admire him. We are not against Muslims.

Muslims are our brothers and Sisters. Nigeria is a nation that has both Muslims and Christians. It doesn’t matter what we say, Muslims will always be here. It doesn’t matter what Muslims think, Christians will always be here.

The problem is this; what the original CBN Act or whatever it was it says, was non-interest banking. The original thing was just non-interest banking. Islamic banking is just one kind among many other kinds of non-interest banking. So, why would CBN, an organization, an institution that represents the Federal Government, that is an institution that represents all Nigeria zero in on only one kind of non-interest banking. This is the problem with Sanusi and his idea.

In education, there’s only one set of guideline for those who want to establish schools. The Ministry of Education or any other institution charged with the responsibility in Nigeria will not come out with Islamic guideline, Christian guideline, or native doctor guideline. It’s only one basic, level playing field guideline for education. You want to start a school, you take the guideline to go and start. We have Islamic universities in Nigeria. We have Christian universities. Do they have different guidelines? They all have the same guidelines. This is what we are saying.

Now, the guidelines for non-interest banking has been changed two or three times. Why is Sanusi changing it? It’s because he is discovering his mistakes. But he doesn’t want to own up to it. What he’s doing is that he twists it a little bit here, twists it a little bit there. Now, the latest guideline came out on the June 21. If you study it, it says, Islamic banking, number one. Then number two-other non-interest banking. That to us is discriminating—discriminating against non-Muslims.Why would you put Islamic banking on one side, all other non-interest banking on one side?

What makes Islamic banking special or more special? What makes it different from other non-interest banking? So, these are the issues. Also, if you keep looking closer, you discover that even the Islamic banking itself is not quite very clear. Now before I come to that, they have a conference going on now in Abuja (the conference opened on Monday). Why have an Islamic banking conference? Why not have a non-interest banking conference? This is what we are saying.

CBN has no business promoting a special, specific, religious kind of banking. CBN should be promoting non-interest banking. And everyone who is interested in non-interest banking should be invited to a non-interest banking seminar or conference. So, are you seeing the problem we are looking at here?

Now, a lot of money has been spent promoting Islamic banking. Why? It’s wrong. It’s unfair to spend all that money-government’s money on a sectional kind of banking. It is those who want to start Islamic bank that have the responsibility to spend that kind of money and do whatever they want to do to promote their bank. Why should you, as CBN governor of Nigeria, be promoting that sectional banking? Is he telling us now that when Christians start their own, he’d go through all these? I have been told by a reliable source that he has employed a lot of people specifically to run and promote Islamic banking. How do you do that with state money? You have no right to that.

Now, let us look at Islamic banking itself,he’s told us there will be no discrimination. Okay? He has also told us that Islamic banking is governed by Sharia principles, which means if I am a piggery farmer, and I go to Islamic bank and say I need a loan, would they give me? The answer is no. So, how can you now say that they are not discriminating? They’re discriminating. It’s obvious.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/07/we-don%E2%80%99t-want-islamic-banking/

He said the sect members will not also lay down their arms even as he claimed responsibility of the attacks launched in parts of the North and Abuja.
“Some unpatriotic scholars gave them misleading justification on the need to attack us and the Federal Government under Umaru Yar’adua gave the open directive to attack Muslims which led to the destruction of their mosque and desecration of the Holy Qur’an as well as ill treatment of innocent women and children.

“We want people to know that the Federal Government fought us and therefore, by the grace of Allah, we would continue fighting until we succeed or die in the process,” he said.

Abu Zaid said the sect members would continue to trail former governors of Borno and Gombe states as well as the Bauchi State governor until they apologise for approving attacks on the Boko Haram sect.

“We would not relent in our efforts of searching for them until they come out publicly and apologize. They must also distance themselves from this illegal democracy and give unalloyed support towards entrenching Sharia system,” he said.

http://www.dailytrust1.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98:boko-haram-gives-conditions-for-dialogue&catid=2:lead-stories&Itemid=8

@md4real,

I have the following questions for you?

1. where did the riots start, and who started it?

2. can you reconcile burning PDP stalwarts homes and burning churches?

3. kafanchan market mostly occupied by igbo traders was burnt to ashes, who did it?

4. in the history of religious violence in kaduna state, give me an instance where the Christians started the fight.

5. considering the fact that 99% of cpc's supporters are hausa Fulani, will you justify the post election violence by cpc's supporters?

This whole write-up is sheer propaganda and full of lies. It aims to paint the southern kaduna people as trouble makers, but it will be difficult for any reasonable nigerian to believe it.
The entire crisis was started by CPC members, Southern kaduna people are majorly PDP. They are not known for violence.On the other hand the hausa community has been violent from history. some of their extremists are already bombing Abuja. so how can anyone believe this biased write-up, more so that it is coming from Daily Trust- their own media.

I expect the same daily trust to give us a vivid picture of the carnage that took place in Bauchi, Gombe, Zaria and Kano. Let them describe how innocent youth corpers were killed during the post election violence. Let them explain how terrible weapons find their way into northern Nigeria which is now a major reason for the prevalent going off of bombs around northern Nigeria. Let them also detail the report of carnage against pastors and christians in Borno by the boko haram sect.

It happens, but it is foolishness.\

Where is Mr. President? This is 2 weeks since your inauguration, what have you achieved. Hope this is not a weak start Mr president.
I personally think you had no business traveling just after your inauguration. You should be on ground to be able to hit the ground running.
The solution to our problems is not Obama, the earlier you realize that the better for Nigeria.

let them leave the guy alone and pursue bigger thieves jare!

YES HE IS GOD.

1 Timothy 3:16

King James Version (KJV)

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Dangote was supposed to have taken down the price to about N1000 by now. Or does he take Jonathan to be a toothless bulldog?

THE VIOLENT CRISIS IN KAFANCHAN AND ITS ENVIRONS FOLLOWING THE APRIL 16TH. 2011 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION:

Sleep eluded residents of Kafanchan Township and neighbouring towns and villages like Kagoro, Madakiya, Zonkwa and a host of others, on Monday night 18th April 2011. This was as a result of mounting tension following the gradual release of the results of the Presidential elections held on Saturday 16th. April 2011 by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The un-easy calm and tension that characterized life generally on Monday morning up to afternoon time, soon gave way to a total break-down of law and order when sympathizers of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), mainly Muslims, who form a small fraction of the population in Kafanchan township, launched a guerrilla war-like attacks on innocent citizens who live in their immediate vicinity. These attacks were massive, and were launched simultaneously at several fronts in the town. The Area Commander of the Police Force testified to this and further said that because of the sporadic and widely spread nature of the attacks, it made it difficult for the police to move in and contain the crisis. These attacks which started about 10.00pm after an un-usual call to prayer (Kiran sallah), continued until day break on Tuesday without any counter attacks from Christians and the aborigines of this environment. The Muslim militants who were heavily armed with sophisticated guns carried out mayhem on the town all night. Christians were on the run for their lives in the face of such fire. Some of the retired army officers in our midst who could from the sound of the gun-shots, identify the kind of guns being used by the militants, told us much later that it would have been suicidal for anyone to have gone against these militants with sticks and stones, which seems to be all the weapons the Christians had in their hands. Christians therefore, were forced to abandon their homes and their properties.

By day break on Tuesday 19th. April, the Central market in Kafanchan had been razed to the ground and many homes especially Christian homes in the heart of Kafanchan township were also burnt. Kafanchan has been reduced by this crisis to a shadow of its past. Some of those who have gone back to inspect the destruction done to their homes and properties have said that their homes were first looted and then set ablaze. They came to such conclusion because they could not see the trace of some of their properties in the form of accumulated rubbles or burnt items.

In the early hours of Monday there were indications that a crisis situation was looming as it was observed by the Igbo traders their Hausa colleagues who used to open their shops before others came much later than them that day. Even when they came they were rather seen carrying out some of their goods away. The Muslims preparedness for war in Kafanchan and its environs is further proven by the fact that what happened in Kafanchan, repeated itself almost in similar fashion in places like Zonkwa and Matsirga (Madakiya). The only difference is that in places outside Kafanchan, they were quickly rounded up and overpowered. And this denied them the power to unleash terror in these places in the way they did in Kafanchan. In all these places, sophisticated weapons were distributed early in the day; this was followed by a call to prayer at an odd hour like (8pm at Madakiya/Matsirga and 10pm in Kafanchan) that same Monday night. Not long after the call to prayer there were sporadic gunshots coming from their location.

In Zonkwa, weapons were again distributed among the Hausas and Fulanis which were to be used against the aborigines. A proof to this is that some Fulanis turn over the consignment of weapons allocated to them for the war to their host communities - Bajjus as a sign of their un-preparedness to join the Hausas in the battle against their host community. These weapons were later handed over to the security agents in Zonkwa.

This crisis has resulted in the loss of many lives from both sides. The Police have reported that the mass burial carried out was for about 300-350 people. From a tour of the town by the Bishop, the JDPC Co-ordinator of the diocese and one other Priest, it was discovered that well over 300 houses had been destroyed. We also had well over 14,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), who lived in camps, not to talk of those squatting or taking refuge in the homes of friends and relations. The central market valued at about N1.5billion is gone. Economic life and activity has been brought to a halt. Today there is no food, no clean water, and no place for buying and selling in Kafanchan. Ordinary household items like sugar, Maggi, pure water etc, cannot be sourced locally. The crisis has brought untold hardships to many in Kafanchan and its environs.



MATTERS ARISING:

1. UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF FIREARMS BY THE HAUSA/ FULANIS: From the picture painted above, one thing emerges clearly: That large consignment of weapons were illegally acquired by the Hausa/Fulani community in our midst and distributed widely among themselves with a view to using them against their host community – (a majority Christian population). This they did with impunity even when no single act of provocation was done by the host community. What started in Kaduna and other Northern States as a political crisis, where aggrieved CPC members burnt down properties of their political opponents, assumed a different dimension in Kafanchan. Here, Muslim militants hatched and carried out pre-meditated attacks on innocent Christians, killing, maiming and destroying anything belonging to Christians. They successfully executed their script before re-enforcements of security services came in after 2pm the next day. The questions to be asked are: How did these perpetrators come about their arms? How were these arms imported into Kafanchan, beating all security check points? Lastly but more fundamentally, what measures are being taken by Government to identify the hideouts of these arms and have them retrieved? We have given tips to the security agents as to where these hideouts are located. Does government have the moral and political will to cordon, check and retrieve these weapons from the hands of these militants? It is our submission here that any peace without the collection of these arms is only temporary peace.

2. THE MASTERMINDS OF THIS CRISIS: It is also worth noting here that this crisis was induced by the last Presidential election, and given the fact that some political figures in the North had vowed to make Nigeria un-governable by throwing her into chaos and confusion, should they lose out in their bid to rule this Country. Since their threats have to pass, and Kafanchan has become one of the casualties of their threats, Government must now have the courage to address these threats with a view to bringing redress to those who now suffer.

3. UNPREPAREDNESS OF THE SECURITY SERVICES FOR POST ELECTION VIOLENCE: The Muslim militants terrorized the township of Kafanchan all night up to afternoon of the next day because the Police and other security outfits in Kafanchan were overwhelmed by the magnitude of the crisis. The Police received many desperate calls of Christians trapped in their houses but could not dare enter the fighting zone because they were ill equipped to do so. The Police watched helplessly as people were killed and houses and the Market set ablaze. All calls for help were not responded to. There were some lapses on the side of the Police in their failure to secure the town and avert the mayhem that visited us. They were unable to read the signs and prospects of some attacks and then moved in fast to saturate these two streets with enough of their men so as stop that crisis from moving out and spreading all over the town.

4. THE COMPLICITY OF THE FIRST BATCH OF SOLDIERS FROM RUKUBA BARRACKS: The fighting became more intense between the hours of 11 and 1pm on Tuesday 19th. April. At this time we witnessed four persons shot at the frontage of the Cathedral church. The shooting was carried out by the first batch of Soldiers from Rukuba Barracks who were on the main road around the College of Nursing and the Cathedral Church. There was also consistent shooting from the premises of the College of Nursing suspected to have been carried out by an Egyptian Doctor posted to the general hospital Kafanchan. These shootings, which brought a lot of casualties, forced the Christian Youth who were already advancing towards the town to retreat. And as soon as they retreated, the worst burnings of houses and public places started occurring. This particular episode coupled with the indiscriminate shootings carried out by three Hausa Soldiers at Fadan Kagoma which left three people dead, and a retired General shot on the leg, and made the villagers to run into the forest to take shelter, clearly point(s) to some complicity of the Muslim-soldiers in aggravating the crisis at some point.

5. COUNTING OUR LOSSES: Our losses are first in the area of deaths. About 350 people were buried in mass graves. This excludes the burials carried our privately by families of their loved ones that were killed. If those who started this madness had known that this is how things will end up in Kafanchan and its environs, they would not have contemplated starting it at all. The way people were hacked to death during this crisis for simply being Christians or Muslims shows the total lack of respect for the sacredness of human life. There are many who survived death but suffered serious injuries that may render them physically handicapped for life. In addition to these, is the psychological pains and trauma that may remain in the lives of many for a long time to come. The crisis has done great damage to the efforts made in the last ten years (this is, since after the Miss World Beauty Pageant induced riots of 2002) to build ethnic and religious harmony among the diverse people of this environment. These pains will surely heighten the religious divide among us unless deliberate measures are undertaken to repair these damages soon. The cost of rebuilding the over 300 houses destroyed is placed at about N2billion naira, and the value of Properties lost both in the market and in people homes and business centres is placed at about N1.5billion naira.

6. RELIEF SERVICES: As at the time of this report, the state government brought in relief materials but were diverted to the emir’s palace and so many victims could not access them because of feelings of insecurity.



CONCLUSION: Tensions are gradually subsiding. People are able to move around a bit. Peace seems to be coming back. However for us to have lasting peace, efforts must be made to find out how arms came to be widely spread within the Hausa communities in Kafanchan, Madakiya, Zonkwa and a host of other places in the southern part of Kaduna. Christians constitute the majority in this area. But unfortunately in places like Kafanchan, they had to flee before the minority because of the fire power in their hands. The presence of large amount of sophisticated weapons in the hands of the Muslim minority gave them courage to initiate attacks on their host communities with impunity. How did they come about owning these weapons? How were they able to beat all security check points to bring these weapons up to Kafanchan? Finally, if lasting and sustainable peace is to be achieved in Kafanchan, Government must take drastic measures such as putting her intelligence machinery to work to discover the hideouts of these weapons in mosques and in people’s houses and to retrieve them to their custody. If this is not done, then many people who have no arms now will work hard to begin to acquire them. And should this turn out to be the case, then all we can say as observers is that: Kafanchan is living on a time bomb.

From the office of Justice, Development and Peace Commission (JDPC)

Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan.