Tag: Goodluck Jonathan

Bombs kill dozens in Nigerian Christian district and Jos

May 20, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Goodluck Jonathan, Hisbah, Jos, Kano, Nigeria, Sabon Gari, Sharia

At least five people were killed May 18 by a bomb blast in the Christian district of Kano, in Northern Nigeria. That attack was followed by an even more deadly one on May 20, when two bomb explosions rocked the city of Jos, in Nigeria’s heartland. Two bomb blasts were reported, one . . . Read More

Chibok victim: Kidnappers threatened to shoot

May 9, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, EYN, Goodluck Jonathan, Kaduna, Kano, Kidnapping, Lagos, Samuel Dali

In this image captured from a 57-minute video released May 5, a man purported to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau says he will sell the girls kidnapped April 14 from school in Chibok village, in Borno state, Nigeria.You Tube One of the Nigerian girls to escape her Boko . . . Read More

Nigeria’s kidnapped teens feared to be abroad

April 30, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chad, Chibok girls, Goodluck Jonathan

Sources say that some of the 230 school girls abducted from Nigeria’s North-Eastern town of Chibok more than two weeks ago have been transferred to neighboring Cameroon and Chad. Some villagers near the Nigeria-Cameroon border indicate that they have seen girls on board buses heading to Cameroon. Other reports given . . . Read More

Nigeria churches urge global prayer for 187 missing girls

April 28, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Goodluck Jonathan, Samuel Dali

Nigeria’s largest church network, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called for prayer and fasting for the safe release of 230 teenage school girls abducted last week. ”The CAN leadership, especially our President, has called that all Christians pray and fast [on Friday, 25th April] because of the security . . . Read More

Nigeria’s churches will not stay silent during violence, leader says

March 12, 2014 Nigeria Berom, Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, Pentecostals

Nigeria’s largest church network is calling on the country’s president for more protection from Boko Haram attacks. The president, meanwhile, is calling for more prayer. “We will not keep silence amidst persecution Christians are facing,” Rev. Ayo Oritsejafor, president of the Christian Association of Nigeria, told World Watch Monitor on . . . Read More

Nigeria ‘at war’ with Boko Haram

March 6, 2014 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Cameroon, Chad, Goodluck Jonathan, Kaduna, Niger, Sultan of Sokoto, Yobe, Zaria

Goodluck Jonathan pictured at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland in January.Jolanda Flubacher, WEC / Flickr / Creative Commons The Nigerian President’s spokesman has said that the conflict with Boko Haram is a “war situation”. Speaking to Lagos-based Channels TV on Feb. 28, Doyin Okupe . . . Read More

Boko Haram kills dozens of boys in school raid

February 25, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan, Yobe

Islamic militants stormed a Nigerian secondary school campus early this morning (Feb. 25), locked a boys’ dormitory and set it on fire, killing those who tried to flee and burning the rest alive. News accounts report that suspected Boko Haram militants killed at least 43 young men during the pre-dawn . . . Read More

No protection for Christian village during deadly attack

February 24, 2014 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Goodluck Jonathan, Gwoza

President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Nigeria’s worst affected northern states in May 2013, deploying the army to the region, but without significant impact.Commonwealth Secretariat / Flickr / Creative Commons In the days before a vicious wave of attacks on Feb. 15 that killed hundreds in . . . Read More

Bashir trip to Nigeria sparks protest

July 17, 2013 African Union, Genocide, Goodluck Jonathan, Human rights, International Criminal Court, Nigeria, Omar al-Bashir, Sudan

Human rights groups are blasting Nigeria for hosting Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir at an African Union health summit, and have demanded his arrest on genocide charges from the International Criminal Court. However, a spokesman for Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan says “Nigeria is not in a position to determine who attends . . . Read More

Is conflict in Nigeria really about persecution of Christians by radical Muslims?

June 24, 2013 Nigeria Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan

St Rita’s Catholic Church in Kaduna, north-central Nigeria, after a suicide bomb attack in October 2012.World Watch Monitor Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan was reported last week to have said that statistics show that more Muslims than Christians have been killed by Boko Haram. Speaking at his Presidential villa in . . . Read More

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