Killing of Christians (By Muslims) In Nigeria Has Increased By 62%

Hey, it's only Christians being killed....no one really cares about that right?  Actually, most people in the media and in government figure it's well deserved.

The story comes from Creeping Sharia via The Religion of Peace.

Killing of Christians (By Muslims) In Nigeria Has Increased By 62%

The killing of Christians in northern Nigeria has increased by 62% in just one year.

The 2016 World Watch List shows a staggering 62% increase in violent killings of Christians in northern Nigeria as churches in Nigeria unite to highlight this problem for the first time. A report to be released in Abuja by Open Doors and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), ‘Crushed but not defeated, the impact of persistent violence on the church in northern Nigeria’, makes a detailed study of the violence that has occurred.

A partner director for West Africa says: “This report shows that extent and impact of the persistent violence on the church in northern Nigeria is much more serious than previously expected. Once Boko Haram is defeated, the problem will not be solved. Christians living under Sharia law are facing discrimination and marginalization and have limited to no access to federal rights. We hope that this report will prompt the Nigerian government and international community to take the real suffering of persecuted Christians seriously and act on their behalf. Next to that, I hope that Nigerian Christians will become more involved with their brothers and sisters; that they will stand in the gap for them.”

The report looks at persecution from three main sources: Boko Haram, Muslim Fulani herdsmen and the Muslim religious and political elite that dominates government in northern Nigeria.

In 2015, there were 4,028 killings and 198 church attacks that Open Doors was able to record. The figures recorded for the previous year were 2,484 killings and 108 church attacks.

An estimated 30 million Christians in northern Nigeria form the largest minority in a mainly Muslim environment. They are at risk of violent persecution, as the report states: “For decades, Christians in the region have suffered marginalization and discrimination as well as targeted violence.”

Islamists abduct more than 100 girls from Nigeria school: Security official

Boko Haram is simply on a rampage - they have killed upwards of 600 people in the past week and now, they have kidnapped over 100 schoolgirls.  I don't know who is worse off..the ones already dead or these girls in the hands of these satanic worshippers.

The story comes from Times of India.

Islamists abduct more than 100 girls from Nigeria school: Security official


MAIDUGURI (Nigeria): Boko Haram Islamists have kidnapped more than 100 girls from a secondary school in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, a senior security source told AFP.

Asked to confirm media reports that 200 girls had been taken from a school in the Chibok local government area during an Islamist attack, the source, who requested anonymity, said "the number is not up to 200, but it is over 100."

"Many girls were abducted by the rampaging gunmen who stormed the school in a convoy of vehicles," said Emmanuel Sam, an education official in the town of Chibok, where the attack took place on Monday.

Boko Haram is a radical Islamist militant group whose name means "western education is forbidden".

It has repeatedly attacked schools in the northeast during an insurgency that has killed thousands since 2009.

The gunmen came "in trucks and on motorcycles and headed to the school", where they overpowered soldiers deployed to guard it, said a witness who requested anonymity.

He said soldiers had been deployed to provide extra security ahead of yearly exams, but the gunmen "subdued the soldiers and took the girls away".

He was not able to provide an estimate of the number of girls abducted. In an attack earlier this year in Borno state, witnesses said Boko Haram gunmen surrounded a girls' school, forced the students to leave and ordered them to immediately return to their villages.

Sam spoke in Borno's capital Maiduguri where he said he fled after the attack at the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok.

Boko Haram Muslim Terrorists Slaughter 60 Christians in Nigeria Today

Like I said last week, Sunday, the Sabbath is the Killing Day for Nigeria's Boko Haram.  All in the name of Mohammed.

The story comes from Times of India.

At least 60 killed by suspected Islamists in Nigeria: Official


KANO, Nigeria: Suspected Boko Haram Islamists on Sunday killed at least 60 people in Nigeria's troubled northeastern Borno state close to the border with Cameroon, a local official said.

"The attackers, who are no doubt Boko Haram insurgents, attacked Amchaka and nearby villages this morning, hurling IEDs (improvised explosive devices) into homes and setting them on fire," Baba Shehu Gulumba, Bama local government administrator, told AFP.

"They then went on a shooting spree, opening fire on confused residents as they tried to flee, killing 60 people and injuring several others," Gulumba said from Maiduguri, the state capital.

Muslim Scourge In Nigeria Turns the Earth Red With the Blood of 47 Today

In two separate attacks today in Nigeria, Boko Haram and the Muslim Fulani herdsmen decimated human beings to the extent of ending the lives of 47.

Sunday, bloody Sunday.  If you have some time, go back and search all of the attacks over the past two years in Nigeria by the Muslims and notice just how many attacks occur on the Sabbath.  It's amazing.

The stories come from Times of India.

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Boko Haram attack kills 17 in Nigeria


KANO (Nigeria): Boko Haram militants attacked a village in restive northern Nigeria, killing 17 people and setting houses and cars alight, the local government said on Sunday.

Among the dead were Muslim worshippers shot as they prayed in the village mosque, said Abdullahi Bego, spokesman for the governor of the troubled state of Yobe.

"The gunmen are Boko Haram people, it was the same pattern of attacks they are known for," he told AFP.

"They also burnt several houses and many vehicles before fleeing," he said.

Yobe and neighbouring Borno states are in the grip of an almost five-year-old Boko Haram insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives.

The violent Islamist group, whose name means "Western education is sinful" in the Hausa language, has attacked isolated villages, schools and churches as well as military bases in a brutal campaign.

Confronted with the violent insurrection, Nigerian troops launched a major crackdown in May 2013 against Boko Haram, which wants to create a separate hardline Islamic state in northern Nigeria.

The conflict has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee in fear either to other Nigerian states or neighbouring countries.


Suspected Fulani herdsmen kill 30 in Nigeria, police say


KANO (Nigeria): Gunmen believed to be Fulani herdsmen stormed a meeting in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state and killed 30 people, police said on Sunday.

"Thirty people were killed and several others injured," Zamfara state police spokesman Lawal Abdullahi told AFP.

"The incident happened in Galadima yesterday during a meeting of community leaders and representatives of vigilante groups" who were discussing ways to thwart armed robbers and cattle rustlers, he said.

He said security forces had deployed to the area. Survivors said more than 60 people might have died in the attack.

"We counted 61 bodies from the scene of the attack last night, while many people were wounded," a survivor who gave his name only as Babaginda from neighbouring Kaduna state told AFP.

He said he was lucky to escape with his life and implored the security forces to stem incessant attacks by Fulani rustlers on villages in the area.

The conflict between Fulani herdsmen and local farmers over land rights, particularly in central Nigeria, has persisted for more than a decade despite a series of peace efforts across several states.

Last month, some 100 people were killed in Kaduna state when assailants armed with guns and machetes attacked local farming villages.

Fulani leaders have for years complained about the loss of grazing land crucial to their livelihood, and resentment between the herdsmen and their agrarian neighbours has risen over the past decade.

Under Nigerian law, indigenous people have enhanced rights in their home areas, including preferential access to public education and jobs.

The Fulani claim they have been systematically disenfranchised. The disputes vary from state to state and often have a religious element, especially in areas where farmers are predominantly Christian.

Boko Haram Guns Down 20 Muslims In Nigerian Mosque Because They're Too Moderate

Islam on Islam.  Pass the popcorn, someone.

The story comes from Times of India.

Gunmen attack mosque in northeast Nigeria, kill 20


YOBE (Nigeria): Survivors say suspected Islamic militants opened fire in a mosque in northeastern Nigeria and gunned down at least 20 worshippers.

Civil servant Musa Ibrahim said the gunmen struck before dawn on Saturday as residents of Buni Gari village were gathering for the first prayer of the day. The village is about 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of the Yobe state capital of Damaturu in an area that has been attacked numerous times.

Mosques have been a frequent target of militants who threaten Muslim clerics who preach against their extremist doctrine.

More than 1,200 civilians have been killed this year amid more frequent and deadlier attacks by the Boko Haram terrorist network that wants to create an Islamic state in Nigeria, a country of 170 million divided equally between Christians and Muslims.

Muslim Fulani Herdsmen In Nigeria Massacre Over 100 Christian Villagers In Friday Attacks

Another 100 Christians in Nigeria have been slaughtered in a series of attacks by Muslims - I'll update the story when we see a response from the Obama administration.  By the way, the update should probably come around....oh wait....these were Christians killed by Muslims?  Oh well...ummm...there won't be an update as the Obama administration has to deal with more important issues such as peddling more Obamacare sales, golf outings and Constitution desecrations.  Go ahead.  Move along.

The story comes from DAWN.

Herdsmen kill 100 in attacks on Nigerian villages


KADUNA: Gunmen killed more than 100 people in an attack on three villages in central Nigeria, an area where longstanding disputes over land, religion and ethnicity often erupt into violence, two local government officials said on Sunday.

Police confirmed the raids by Fulani herdsman late on Friday on the villages of Ugwar Sankwai, Ungwan Gata and Chenshyi, in Kaduna state, but declined to give a death toll.

Hundreds have been killed in the past year in clashes pitting the cattle-herding and largely Muslim Fulani people against mostly Christian settled communities like the Berom in Nigeria's volatile “Middle Belt”, where its mostly Christian south and Muslim north meet.

The unrest is not linked to the insurgency in the northeast by Boko Haram, an Al Qaeda-linked group which wants to impose sharia law in northern Nigeria.

However, analysts say there is a risk the insurgents will try to stoke central Nigeria's conflict. Though most of the Islamist sect's attacks are contained further north but it did claim a 2011 Christmas Day bomb attack at a church in Jos.

“Fulani gunmen came across from neighbouring Plateau state and just opened fire on the villagers at around 11 p.m.,” said Daniel Anyip, vice chairman of the Kaura local government authority. “

We are still picking bodies out of the bush but so far there are more than 100 killed.” Andrew Kazah, another local councilor, said at least 96 had been killed, but that the toll was likely to go up.

Human Rights Watch in December said sectarian clashes in the nation's religiously mixed central region had killed 3,000 people since 2010, adding that Nigerian authorities had largely ignored the violence, an accusation they denied.

Though it sometimes takes on a sectarian character, the violence is fundamentally about decades-old land disputes between semi-nomadic, cattle-keeping communities such as the Fulani and settled farming peoples such as the Berom, both often armed with automatic weapons.

Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation with almost 170 million people, split roughly equally between Christians and Muslims and around 250 different ethnic groups who mostly live peacefully side-by-side.

But the central region has been a tinderbox for decades.

Its violence, far from economic centres or oil fields in Africa's second-biggest economy and top oil producer, rarely captures the attention of its elites.

Nigerian Troops Fight Off Boko Haram Ambush, 20 Jihadis Killed

Boko Haram's vision of a massacre of Nigerian army troops turned into a nightmare for them today when their ambush failed and in return, 20 Boko Haram jihadis were sent looking for allah, permanently.

The story comes from Times of India.

Nigeria says 20 Insurgents killed as schools shut after massacres


ABUJA: Nigeria's military today said that it had killed 20 Islamist insurgents in the restive northeast, as schools were shut in the region to prevent further attacks targeting students.

Defence spokesman Chris Olukolade said troops repelled an ambush by Boko Haram militants on Wednesday in Mafa, Borno state, epicentre of the uprising which has killed 500 people this year alone.

"Twenty insurgents died in the encounter," he said in a statement.

There was no independent confirmation of the death toll. Communication with the region has been difficult after the military switched off mobile phone networks to prevent militants from planning attacks.

Boko Haram gunmen were blamed for killing 29 people in the village on Sunday, a day after a twin blast in the state capital Maiduguri killed 35 and an attack on another village nearby claimed 39 lives.
Witnesses and an area senator claimed the soldiers deployed in the town fled when the insurgents attacked, a claim fiercely denied by the military.

Olukolade today denounced such "inflammatory pronouncements by some highly placed persons in government" (and) "commentators in and outside the country who have consistently given false and misleading remarks to describe the disposition of troops".
There have been repeated reports of Nigerian troops fleeing when confronted by Boko Haram but Olukolade insisted "the Nigerian military cannot by any standard be overwhelmed by the insurgents".

Separately, local media reported that Nigeria's information ministry will be allocating 300 million naira (USD 1.8 million, 1.3 million euros) to combat misinformation published in the foreign media, particularly concerning the Boko Haram conflict.
Meanwhile, in the wake of a spate of gruesome massacres of students in the northeast, the education ministry said it had shut five government colleges (secondary schools) in "high security risk areas".

Students of the schools in the states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe would be absorbed in other government colleges, the ministry statement said.

Last week, 43 students were shot and hacked to death when suspected Boko Haram gunmen stormed Federal Government College in Buni Yadi, Yobe state.

An undisclosed number of female students was abducted during the overnight attack while the whole school was burnt down.

Boko Haram, Using Classic Al Qaeda Technique, Sets Two Bombs Off In Nigeria Killing 51 Innocent People

Yep.  It was the classic lure and kill technique from an Islamic group trained by al Qaeda....Boko Haram set a bomb off in a busy Nigerian marketplace that did minimal damage but then, when all of the people and emergency workers arrived, they set off the second bomb which killed most of the 51 victims.

The story comes from Times of India.

Red Cross: 51 killed in car bombs in north Nigeria

MAIDUGURI (Nigeria): Twin car bomb blasts at a bustling marketplace killed at least 51 people in Maiduguri, the northeast Nigerian city that is the birthplace of Nigeria's Islamic extremist terrorist group, a Red Cross official said on Sunday.

Many more people are believed buried in rubble from the Saturday night explosions that collapsed some buildings and set others aflame with smoke billowing for hours, said the official who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.

The victims include children who were dancing at a wedding celebration and people watching a soccer match on an outdoor TV screen, survivors told Associated Press on Sunday.

Fifty corpses were retrieved, said Hassan Ali, the leader of an anti-terror vigilanted group.

The first blast came from a passenger car and did not cause many casualties, said Ali. Most of those killed had run to the scene to help when a second explosion blasted from a pickup truck carrying firewood, he said.

Survivors said they captured a man who jumped out of the first car, grabbed a tricycle taxi and tried to make off. He was badly beaten and taken to nearby Umaru Shehu General Hospital, where a security guard said all the wounded brought in had died.

Most spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

It was not known how many wounded are being treated in at least three hospitals in the city.

The attack is a major setback to a new army and air force offensive against the Islamic uprising under new commanders since President Goodluck Jonathan fired his entire military command.

Since then, criticism and anger have grown as attacks by extremists have increased and become ever deadlier: More than 300 people were killed in February alone.

The defense ministry has blamed recent attacks on militants escaping from daily aerial bombardments and ground assaults aimed at flushing them out of forest hideouts and mountain caves along the border with Cameroon. The military closed hundreds of kilometers (miles) of border with Cameroon last week, saying it wanted to stop extremists escaping across the border and using the neighboring country to launch attacks.

Anger against the military will be fueled by reports that a fighter jet targeting extremist hideouts bombed a northeastern village in Yobe state on Friday, killing at least 20 civilians.

The military knew there were alleged terrorists in Maiduguri because they reported on Friday that they had arrested several suspects, including ``some picked up in Maiduguri and environs.''

Maiduguri is the headquarters of the military offensive and the air force fighting to suppress the 4-year-old Islamic uprising with the backing of draconian powers under a 9-month-old state of emergency.

Boko Haram Attacks Another Nigerian School, Slaughters Students

Apparently Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram has thrown their hat in the ring for the most despicable human beings on the planet award ...challenging incumbent, the Taliban.

Another Nigerian school.  Another mound of dead kids.  Another "victory" for Mohammed.

The story comes from Times of India.

Nigerian Islamists attack school, kill students


KANO (Nigeria): Suspected Boko Haram Islamists on Tuesday opened fire on secondary school students as they slept in a dormitory in Nigeria's troubled northeastern Yobe state, the military said.

Casualty figures from the attack in the town of Buni Yadi, roughly 60km (40 miles) from the state capital Damaturu, were not immediately available but scores of students have been killed in similar attacks in the state last year.

The military spokesman in Yobe, Lazarus Eli, said the raid occurred at 2am (0100 GMT) at the town's Federal Government College, a school for students aged 11 to 18.

The gunmen "opened fire on student hostels", Eli said. "Details are still sketchy due to lack of telephone access and it is still not clear how many students were affected in the attack", he added.

The name Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden" and the Islamist rebels have carried out waves of attacks at schools across the north during their four-and-a-half year insurgency.

At least 40 students were killed in September at an agriculture training college in the Yobe town of Gujba after Boko Haram gunmen stormed a series of dorms in the middle of the night and sprayed gunfire on sleeping students.

Yobe is one of three northeastern states which was placed under emergency rule in May last year when the military launched a massive operation to crush the Boko Haram uprising.

More than 1,000 people have been killed in the region since the emergency measures were imposed, despite the enhanced military presence.

Boko Haram, declared a terrorist organisation by Nigeria and the United States, has said it is fighting to create an Islamic state in Nigeria's "Muslim" north.

Islamic Boko Haram Slaughters 138 Christians In Nigeria, Victims' Throats Slit Like Cattle

From Christian Today.

Nigeria: death toll rises in Boko Haram attacks


The number of fatalities resulting from attacks in Nigeria on 26 January has risen to at least 138.

Islamist terror group Boko Haram, officially labelled a 'Foreign Terrorist Organisation' by the US government in November last year, is suspected to have coordinated the violence.

'Boko Haram' translates as 'Western education is sacrilege'. The group has ties to Al-Qaeda and is responsible for over 2,000 deaths in Nigeria since 2009. Its leadership has declared it aims to cleanse the country of Christians, eradicate Nigerian democracy and replace it with an Islamic state guided by Sharia law.

On Sunday, armed militants attacked a church in Adamawa State in the north-east of the country. They locked the doors before the end of the service and shot at the congregation, slitting the throats of those who tried to escape. They also detonated bombs before going on a four hour rampage, burning houses and taking hostages from the village.

Initial reports recorded 22 casualties. However, that number has now risen to 53, with dozens more wounded.

On the same day, the Islamist group carried out another vicious attack in Kawuri Village, in neighbouring Borno State. Militants shot men, women and children as a busy weekend market was packing up, and set fire to over 300 homes. Many victims are now reportedly unrecognisable due to terrible burns.

A 46-year-old grandmother, Rabi Mallam, hid her son and granddaughter under a blanket soaked in water as members of the extremist sect set fire to their hut, but they were still badly burned.

"I cried for the children because they were calling me to take them out, but I could not," she remembers.

A total of 85 people perished in the attack, and at least 40 remain hospitalised. However, 16 people are still missing, so the death toll is expected to increase.

President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Muslim-majority Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states in May 2013, and has authorised an increased military presence to tackle the ongoing violence.

However, government troops have so far been unsuccessful in quashing the extremist group's terror activities. Boko Haram has recently shifted its attacks from urban areas to rural communities, often targeting churches, highways and schools.

Within the last week alone, 37 communities in Damboa, Konduga and Gwoza areas have been subjected to terrorist attacks, and over 200 people have died in the past month at the hands of militants.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide has urged the Nigerian government to do more to combat extremism across the nation, particularly in rural communities which often suffer "devastating violence".

In addition, Chief Executive Mervyn Thomas has appealed to bordering nations to coordinate with Nigerian authorities in stopping militants from fleeing the country and avoiding capture, which is unfortunately commonplace.

"If this tendency is not addressed effectively, it will ultimately undermine peace and security in the entire region," he warns.

72 Murdered Christians in Nigeria, Muslim Murderers Home Free

Boko Haram has killed 72 Nigerian Christians this week.  No one in America knows about it because your American mainstream media doesn't give a shit about dead Christians but if ONE Muslim had been massacred ANYWHERE in the world by a Christian, every network would spend three nights on it.

Nigeria is a killing field.

The story comes from The Clarion Project.

Boko Haram Massacres 74 in Last 2 Days of Advancing Attacks


In a series of attacks, 50 Islamist militants surrounded a village in northeast Nigeria with explosives, killing 52 people on Monday. The day before, a church was attacked in a nearby village, killing 22 and wounding 16.

Boko Haram, an Islamist terrorist group, was blamed for the attacks. The group, whose name literally means "Western education is forbidden," was able to execute the attacks despite the efforts of the Nigerian military to eradicate the group. Last May, the Nigerian government declared a state of emergency in three states in northern Nigeria where the terror group is the most active.

Terrorists launched their assault at the close of a busy market day in the Kawuri village of Borno. The village was surrounded by explosives. Gunmen then stormed the village with additional explosives and heavy guns. Residents not killed in the attack on the market were attacked in their homes, which were burned to the ground.

A survivor who fled the village said, “No house was left standing,” confirming reports that 300 houses had been razed in the attack.

The previous day, the group attacked a busy church in the neighboring Adamawa state. Witnesses told the Reuters news agency that the attackers set off bombs and fired into the congregation. Twenty-two people were killed in that attack. Those that survived the initial attack were shot. Homes were burned and residents were taken hostage during a four-hour siege, according to local reports.

In the month of January alone, attacks by Boko Haram, claimed the lives of close to 200 people in the area around Maiduguri, the capital of Borno. In a single day, 70 people were killed when a car bomb was set off in Maiduguri mid-month.

Hundreds of residents from close to 30 farming villagess around Maiduguri have fled their homes, taking refuge in campsites just outside the city.

This month alone, the UN reports that more than 5,000 Nigerians have crossed the borders into neighboring Cameroon and Niger to escape the violence. Since the state of emergency was declared, more than 1,200 people have been killed by Islamists, according to the UN.

Nigeria's Boko Haram Has Killed 15 Christians This Month...And Tomorrow Is Sunday....Again

From Christian Today Australia via The Religion of Peace.

Islamic extremists in Nigeria attack Christians at Sunday worship


Islamic extremists have attacked villages in three states in Nigeria every Sunday this month, killing at least 15 Christians.

Christian leaders in the Agatu Local Government Area of central Nigeria’s Benue state said ethnic Fulani herdsmen were responsible for raids on two villages that left seven Christians dead on Sunday morning (Jan. 19), though a Fulani spokesman said the assailants must have come from elsewhere as there are no Fulani herdsmen known in the area.

The previous Sunday (Jan. 12) in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state, Christian leaders said terrorists from the Islamic extremist Boko Haram group attacked Sabon Gari village in the Gwoza Local Government Area, killing eight Christians. In Kaduna state the Sunday before that (Jan. 5), churchmen in the Manchok area mobilized in time to repel attacks by Fulani herdsmen, Christian leaders told Morning Star News.

In the Benue state attacks, Fulani herdsmen raided Oweto and Utuluewu villages at about 10 a.m., destroying homes and maiming and killing Christian residents, two Christian leaders said.

“They killed seven of our community members in Oweto and Utuluewu villages in Agatu, while many others were injured in the attack,” John Ngbede told Morning Star News. “There was sporadic shooting in these two Christian communities in the early hours of Sunday, at about 10 a.m., when they were in their churches. This incident has forced Christian surviving residents of the two communities to flee their villages.”

Ngbede said the names of the slain Christians were not immediately available.

“However, I am sure of the casualty figure of those killed by the Fulani herdsmen,” he said. “Seven of them were killed in the attack.”

Sule Audu, another Christian community leader in the area, told Morning Star News by phone that a relative, 60-year-old Isah Onum, was among the seven killed.

“I do not understand the rationale behind these incessant killing of our people and the destruction of their homes,” Audu said.

Daniel Ezeala, police spokesman for the Benue State Command, confirmed that seven Christians were killed in Sunday’s attacks in Agatu. Five soldiers were also killed in the course of intervening.

The state secretary of the Myetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, Garus Gololo, reportedly said the assailants must have come from outside the area as he was not aware of any herdsmen in the Idoma-speaking areas of Agatu.

“I’m so sad over the killings in the area,” he said. “I’m also told that the soldiers fell in the middle of the crossfire between the Agatu and Fulanis. The killers should be arrested and prosecuted.”

In the attacks that killed eight Christians in Borno state, Boko Haram Islamists stormed Sabon Gari village in the Gwoza Local Government Area the night of Jan. 12, according to area Christian leader Peter Biye Gumte. The onslaught came after Boko Haram members destroyed a Church of the Brethren in Nigeria building in Bzuba village on Jan. 8.

Boko Haram insurgents last month attacked four predominantly Christian villages in the Gwoza, Damboa and askira-Uba Local Government Areas, leading to death of at least 26 Christians and destroying about 40 homes. The attacks in Bdagu, Izge, Hartsa and Yazza villages took place from Dec. 8 to Dec. 11.

In Plateau state, Fulani herdsmen in the Langtang North Local Government Area on Jan. 16 killed three Christians and wounded four others in Nwore and Yokdara villages, an area resident said. Kahfa Timbong, Tanden Nandang and Yakubu Changtim were slain, he said.

“The attackers were Fulani herdsmen, Muslims,” Nanpon Miri told Morning Star News. “They attacked the two villages during the morning hours, at about 10 a.m.”

Repelling the Fulani

In Kaduna state, the attempt by churchmen to defend themselves against armed Fulani herdsmen on Jan. 5 escalated into clashes in a cluster of villages, killing at least five of the assailants and leaving one Christian wounded.

Christian leaders in Manchok in the Kaura Local Government Area said they were thankful to God that Catholic parishioners leaving worship at about 11 a.m. caught sight of two vehicles full of invading ethnic Fulani gunmen – unknown to area Fulanis – in time for churchmen to mobilize to repel them. They said the Fulani herdsmen sought to kill Christians during Sunday worship.

"The gunmen shot indiscriminately at Christians who prevented them from gaining entrance into churches,” the Rev. Yakubu Gandu Nkut of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in Zankan village, near Manchok, told Morning Star News. “All churches in Manchok, Zankan, Sabon Gari, Fadan Attakar, Gizagwai, Zangang, and in surrounding villages were forced to end their worship services abruptly because of the early morning invasion by these Fulani gunmen.”

The Fulani began shooting at crowds of Christians that had gathered to confront them by a church in the Sabon Gari area of Manchok, he said.

“A member of my church was shot by the gunmen and was injured,” said Nkut, also chairman of the local chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria.

Eyewitnesses told Morning Star News that some of the armed attackers were killed in the fracas as they attempt to gain access to churches in Manchok. Kumai Badu, chairman of the Kaura Local Government Council, said five people died in the thwarted attack on area churches but declined further comment.

“It is true that some gunmen were here to attack churches, and this led to a clash between some Christians and Fulani herdsmen, which led to the killing of five persons this morning,” Badu said on Jan. 5. “There was a quick intervention from the military stationed here, and everywhere is calm.”

A Fulani herdsman in Bungen village, near Manchok, 23-year-old Hashimu Pati, told Morning Star News that some Muslim Fulani gunmen unknown to area herdsmen came to Manchok and caused problems between them and Christians with whom they had been living peacefully.

“Yes, some Fulani armed gunmen were seen in Manchok town – they have brought problems between us and our Christian neighbours,” Pati said. “I appeal to the government to help us by assisting to rebuild some of our houses destroyed in the aftermath of the aborted attack on churches.”

Christian leaders said the incursion resulted in chaos and confusion in Manchok and all surrounding villages, and houses and vehicles were destroyed in clashes between assailants and Christians.

Services at Baptist, Catholic, Church of Christ in Nations, Pentecostal and ECWA churches were cut short, Nkut said.

Bwayan Silas, a Catholic leader in Bungen village, near Manchok, said the raid stopped his worship.

“We were in the church here, the St. Peter’s Catholic Church, when we heard sounds of gun shots,” Silas said. “We all ran out of the church and found that some Fulani gunmen had invaded the town of Manchok and other communities around. Scared about what was happening as we saw gunmen rushing into our village, we all took to our heels in different directions.”

A resident of Manchok said the gunmen left a note in the town threatening further attacks on Christian communities in the area since the Jan. 5 attack was thwarted.

“The Fulani gunmen yesterday [Jan. 8], dropped a letter in the town warning Christians to be prepared for a total war in the coming weeks,” Solomon Musa told Morning Star News.

Nigerian Women Pay the Price For Islam's Influence In Their Country

 Young Nigerian women rescued from human traffickers by Nigerian police stand outside the police station. (Photo: © Reuters)

Islam came to the African nation of Nigeria.  We have all heard of the massacres and murders and now we are hearing what has happened to the very lives of Nigeria's women and girls.

It's all because Allahu is Ackbar....yes?

The story comes from The Clarion Project.

Violence Against Nigerian Women Grows to 'Alarming Rate'


A bill has been drafted to address gaps in existing legislation on violence against women in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna State. The bill was drafted by a coalition of women, civil and non-governmental organizations under the auspices of Legislative Advocacy Coalition on Violence Against Women.

In a keynote address to the forum, which drafted the legislation and was supported by a large number of Nigerian women and girls, Hajiya Aisha Mohammed, a representative of the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development in Kaduna, said, "We all know that violence against women rate has taken an alarming dimension."

Reports of gender-based violence can be read daily in Nigerian newspapers, including horrific reports of violation of girls between the ages of two and seven.

Statistics gathered in the 2012 Gender in Nigeria Report show that one out of every five Nigerian women and girls between the ages of 15 years to 24 years has been a victim of violence.

"Much of the violence perpetrated against women and young girls are by people they know, and love and trust – their boyfriends, their husbands, their brothers, other relatives, neighbors, school mates, and even their colleagues," said National Centre for Women Development Director-General Onyeka Onwenu in an earlier forum.

Onwenu noted that, "More disturbing is the fact that violence is endemic even in public institutions, including the police, educational bodies where an entrenched 'culture of impunity' protects the perpetrators of rape and other violence against women.”

Although there are laws in Kaduna against violence, they fail to address crimes as far as women are concerned. For example, the punishment for rape can be as little as a fine involving a small sum of money. However, “the damage done on the woman lasts a lifetime. That is why we need a law that will protect the future generation." Mohammed said.

Boko Haram Attacks Christian Villages, At Least 16 Butchered

This article from Times of India is a disgrace - it completely avoids the fact that 16 CHRISTIAN villagers were killed in this attack and it REFUSES to point the finger at Islamic terror group, Boko Haram, for doing the dirty deed.

I guess the media is now in fear, as well of the Islamists.

16 killed in Nigeria village attack


ABUJA: Nigeria's police authority in central north state of Plateau on Tuesday confirmed 16 people dead in an attack on Shonong community, consisting of four villages in the restive state.

Nine bodies were recovered from the scene of Monday's attack while seven others were burnt beyond recognition, Xinhua quoted state's commissioner of police Chris Olakpe as saying.

About 20 houses were razed down, he said, adding that the number of people injured in the attack was still being collated.

He said the attack would have been more devastating if not for the prompt intervention of the combined efforts of the police and men of the Special Task Force (STF) who repelled it.

He said no arrest had been made but assured that the police had spread its dragnet on Kaduna axis to ensure that the criminals were arrested.

In Plateau's capital Jos, the settlers are almost entirely Muslims and the indigenous people are predominantly Christians. Struggle over land ownership, economic resources and political control tends to be expressed not just in ethnic but also religious terms.

Thousands have been killed and hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced internally, just as billions of dollars of property have been destroyed due to the crisis.

Since the end of 2010, security has further deteriorated in the state because of terror attacks and suicide bombings against churches and security targets by Boko Haram, a group mostly responsible for waves of attacks in the northern part of Nigeria.

It's Sunday. Which Means It Is the Day Boko Haram Kills In Nigeria. 8 Dead This Time Around.

Sundays are usually guaranteed for two things - a wave of bombings across Iraq and Boko Haram goes on an Islamic killing spree in Nigeria.  Today, Boko Haram didn't break the routine...still waiting on Iraq.

The story comes from Times of India.

Nigeria Islamists kill eight in bachelor party attack


MAIDUGURI: Suspected fighters from Islamist group Boko Haram opened fire on a bachelor party in northeast Nigeria, killing eight people and wounding several others, witnesses said on Sunday.

Boko Haram is fighting to impose strict Sharia or Islamic law in mostly Muslim northern Nigeria and has become a serious threat in the oil-producing Niger Delta.

Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan ordered an all out offensive against the northeastern rebels in Africa's leading energy exporter. Though they retreated into a hilly area around the Cameroon border, the rebels have since stepped up attacks on both soldiers and civilians.

"Three Boko Haram members came on motorcycles at about 11 yesterday night," Abdul Usman told Reuters in the main northeastern city of Maiduguri, where he fled after escaping the attack on Tashan Alade village. "They were shooting indiscriminately."

Nigerian forces have stepped up the offensive against the rebels in the past few days after Boko Haram fighters armed with grenade launchers and anti-aircraft guns attacked an army barracks in the town of Bama.

Boko Haram Attacks Another Military Base, Unknown Number of Nigerian Soldiers Dead

From The Long War Journal.

Boko Haram attacks another base in Borno


Boko Haram, a Nigerian terrorist group with ties to al Qaeda, has launched another attack on a military barracks in Borno state, Nigeria. The attack occurred today in Bama, about 65 kilometers from Maiduguri, where earlier this month Boko Haram dramatically attacked a military facility, and refuted government claims that the group is on the run.

In the early hours of this morning, Boko Haram militants attacked a base belonging to the 202 Tank Battalion, killing an unknown number of soldiers, as well as their families who lived with them at the barracks.

Witnesses have said that "dozens, or perhaps even hundreds, of insurgents swarmed the barracks in a convoy of 4X4 trucks, armed with assault rifles, explosives and rocket-propelled-grenades," according to Agence France Presse. The use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and petrol-bombs has also been confirmed.

The attack lasted until 7 a.m., at which time the military deployed fighter jets from Maiduguri, forcing Boko Haram to flee.

It is thought that Boko Haram insurgents massed near or on the Cameroonian side of the border, and attacked the base from the east. Nigeria has said that it needs Cameroon's help in order to "silence" Boko Haram, and Cameroon claims to have already stepped up security along the Nigerian border. However, Borno officials have accused Cameroonian authorities of habitually refusing to arrest or chase Boko Haram militants fleeing across the border after attacks in Nigeria.

More violence in the area

This is the latest of many Boko Haram attacks in Bama this year. In May, some 200 heavily armed Boko Haram militants launched coordinated attacks, killing 22 policemen, 14 prison officials, two soldiers, and four civilians, and freed more than 100 prison inmates. Arriving in buses and pickup trucks and dressed in army uniforms, the militants attacked an army barracks and a police station and then raided the town prison; 13 militants were killed in the operation.

On Aug. 5, Boko Haram again attacked a police station, which resulted in the deaths of one policeman and 17 Boko Haram fighters. Authorities recovered AK-47 assault rifles, bombs, and RPG equipment after the attack. Later that month, on Aug. 27, 18 people were killed when Boko Haram militants dressed in Nigerian military gear opened fire on members of the civilian JTF, a vigilante group helping the army fight against Boko Haram.

Earlier this month, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a video, warning of more attacks to come: "By Allah, we will never stop. Don't think we will stop in Maiduguri."

Clearly, Boko Haram has not.

Boko Haram Surprise Attack On Military Base Kills 35 Soldiers, Maybe More

Boko Haram is becoming more and more bold.  Nigeria better start calling for help....NOW.

The story comes to us from over at The Gateway Pundit.

Boko Haram Attacks Military Base – 35 Soldiers Slaughtered


Boko Haram attacked the provincial capital in Yobe State today.
35 were reportedly killed.
The Telegraph reported:

Dozens of bodies in military uniforms have brought to a morgue in northern Nigeria after Islamist fighters staged a surprise attack on a provincial capital, hospital sources said.

Nigerian army sources confirmed that some of the casualties were soldiers but added that Boko Haram gunmen often wore military fatigues as disguise during their missions.

The deaths followed hours of fighting in Damaturu, the capital of Yobe state in Nigeria’s far northeast, late on Thursday and into the early hours of Friday.

Gunmen stormed a military checkpoint and opened fire, launching a seven-hour gunbattle that left an unknown number of people dead and the town under a 24-hour curfew, which has since been reduced to 4pm to 7am.

“We have received lots of bodies in the last three days from the attacks. I counted 35 bodies in military uniform,” a senior official at the Damaturu Specialist Hospital told the French news agency, AFP.

Boko Haram Islamists Slaughter 19 Christians In Nigerian Border Town, 5 Shot Dead, 14 Hacked To Death With Machetes

Islam is evil.  Boko Haram proves it each and every day in Nigeria.

The story comes from Times of India.

Boko Haram Islamists kill 19 in Nigeria's northeast: Residents


KANO: Boko Haram gunmen dressed in military uniform on Sunday killed 19 people near the Nigerian border with Cameroon in the restive northeast where the Islamists have carried out deadly attacks, residents and a survivor said.

The motorcycle-riding gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs blocked the highway near the town of Logumani, 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the border around 5:00 am, shooting and hacking to death 19 motorists and burning three trucks, they said.

"We have recovered 19 dead bodies from the scene of the attack by Boko Haram gunmen," Musa Abur, leader of a civilian vigilante group in the area told AFP.

"Five of the victims, who included two truck drivers and their assistants, were shot dead while the rest were slaughtered," he said.

He said the gunmen had attacked the border town of Gamboru Ngala near Logumani late Friday but were repelled by soldiers and local vigilantes.

A passenger who survived the attack gave a similar account. "We were asked to get out of our vehicles and lie face down by nine men dressed as soldiers who blocked the road around 5am," the man who gave his name as Buba told AFP.

"They shot dead five people and went about slaughtering 14 others before someone called them on the phone that soldiers were heading their way," he said.

"They abandoned the rest of us and sped into the bush on their motorcycles," added Buba who was shot in the leg.

The military authorities in the region could not be immediately reached to comment on the attack.

The phone network has been switched off in much of the northeast since emergency measures were declared mid-May at the start of a military offensive against insurgents.

Residents of towns near the border with Cameroon have been relying on mobile phone service from Cameroon telecom operators since the military crackdown.

Boko Haram Islamists have stepped up deadly attacks on civilians and schools in reprisals against vigilantes cooperating with the military.

Military authorities have encouraged the formation of vigilante groups to help flush out the Islamists.

Boko Haram has said it is fighting to create an Islamic state in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north, and violence by the group is estimated to have cost more than 3,600 lives, including killings by the security forces.

Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and top oil producer, roughly divided between a mainly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south.

Islamic Terror Group, Boko Haram, Killed 27 Christians This Week In Nigeria

Yep.  Just another week in northern Nigeria where Christians are hunted like dogs.

Boko Haram killed 27 this past week and we still don't have any reports on this weekend's tally.

The story comes from Reuters via The Religion of Peace.

Nigerian Islamists kill 27 in northeast attacks: official


(Reuters) - Gunmen from Islamist group Boko Haram killed 27 villagers in two attacks in Nigeria's restive northeast this week, a government official said, as violence continued to flare in the face of an army crackdown on the militants.

Boko Haram wants to create an Islamic state in northern Nigeria and has become the biggest security threat in Africa's second largest economy and top oil exporter.

Six people were killed in an attack on Wednesday night in Gamboru, a remote town close to the Cameroon border in Borno state, local government chairman Alhaji Modu Gana Sheriff told reporters.

Sheriff said gunmen returned on Thursday night and killed 21 more civilians. A Borno military source said he thought the attacks were coordinated and confirmed the death toll.

Authorities have disconnected phone lines in Borno to try to disrupt Boko Haram's operations, which means it often takes days for news of attacks to reach state capital Maiduguri.

Violence has intensified over the past two months, as the Islamists fight back against a military operation that President Goodluck Jonathan ordered in May to try to crush their four-year-old rebellion.

There was an initial lull in the violence when the military operation started in May and Islamists fled their bases in cities, forests and mountains across the northeast.

But then the militants started revenge attacks, first on schools, seen as focuses of the Western culture they despise, then on the security forces and the civilians they believed were helping the army.

Several hundred people have died in attacks over the past few weeks. Some observers say the army offensive has only succeeded in pushing attacks away from well-guarded large towns and cities into vulnerable rural areas.

Thousands have been killed since Boko Haram launched its uprising against the state in 2009, turning itself from a clerical movement opposed to Western culture into an armed militia with growing links to al Qaeda's West African wing.

Nigerian Army Puts the Hammer Down On Boko Haram, 150 Boko Terrorists Killed, 16 Soldiers Dead In Action

Whoa!  This is, to date, by far the most aggressive the Nigerian army has been in regards to trying to gut the Islamic terror group, Boko Haram, but when we see 150 dead Boko Haram jihadis stacked up like cordwood, we have to applaud the effort.

The operation cost the Nigerian army 16 of its own troops but that's not a bad ratio when taking out 150 of the minions.

The story comes from Times of India.

Nigerian army says it killed 150 insurgents, loses 16 troops


ABUJA: Nigeria's military said on Wednesday it had killed 150 insurgents, including a commander named Abba Goroma, in an operation against Islamist group Boko Haram in which 16 of its own forces were also killed.


Violence in northeast Nigeria has intensified over the past two months, as the Islamists fight back against a military operation that president Goodluck Jonathan ordered in May to try to crush their four-year rebellion.

Army spokesman Brigadier General Ibrahim Attahiru said a series of raids carried out on Islamist camps in northeastern Borno state had pushed Boko Haram into hiding in a forest.

He said they had received intelligence reports on September 12 that they were planning to launch an attack from there, adding that they were "well fortified with anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns mounted on vehicles".

"Based on this report, our own troops launched a deliberate attack. Over 150 insurgents were killed and the formation lost an officer and 15 soldiers," he said.

Attahiru was quoted in local newspapers on Wednesday as denying a story on Nigeria's Premium Times website that Boko Haram had killed 40 soldiers in an ambush in the same area.

The Nigerian army often says large numbers of insurgents have been killed in a battle in which a much smaller number of its own troops died. It is impossible to independently verify the numbers, although witnesses often give higher figures for troop casualties than the official ones.

No witnesses were immediately contactable in the area.

Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sinful", wants to revive an era of medieval Islamic kingdoms in religiously mixed Nigeria by creating a breakaway state that would follow strict sharia law.

It is seen as the gravest security threat to Africa's top oil producer. Although their activities are located hundreds of miles away from its southern oil fields, they have bombed the capital Abuja at least three times, including a deadly attack on the United Nations' Nigeria headquarters in 2011.

Thousands of people have been killed since the shadowy sect launched its uprising against the state in 2009, transforming from a clerical movement opposed to Western culture to an armed insurrection with growing links to al Qaeda's West African wing.

The army said on September 12 that it had killed 10 insurgents, and a week earlier said it killed 50 of them.

Surging violence in the northeast is unwelcome news for Jonathan, who is under intense political pressure due to a split in his party and from a recently formed opposition coalition.

He had been criticised for not quelling Boko Haram's insurgency, which worsened under his leadership, and the state of emergency he declared in May was seen as last ditch attempt.

The military said last month Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau may have died in late July of wounds inflicted during a gun battle. If true, it has failed to end the violence.