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Power vacuum threatens stability in Nigeria

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In this edition: Nigeria faces fresh violence between Christians and Muslims as the president is away receiving medical treatment in Saudi Arabia; Togo prepares for its presidential election with its first-ever female candidate among the contenders; and in Rwanda, one organisation looks to yoga to help heal the wounds of war.

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power vacuum in Nigeria

by Anonyme - 13/02/2010 - 15:34

this story has again followed the ridiculous pattern of idiotic and intellectually porous western stereotyping of Nigeria as a country equally divided between the so-called Muslim North and Christian South. This is idiotic because Nigeria is much more complex that this simplistic coloration by the largely lazy media practitioners and their allies in the western academic environment...Nigeria is made up of over 250 ethnic groups with diverse religious orientations found in all parts of the country. There are Christians and animists as well as Muslims in the North just as you can find these same categories of persons in all parts of Nigeria...the western media should please stop this idiotic bandwagon stereotyping of Nigeria....

Emmanuel Onwubiko,
Journalist and Writer.

Religious Violence

by Anonyme - 05/02/2010 - 23:44

The Saudi arabian embassy in nigeria is behind the religious violence in nigeria.They want to convert that country to an islamic state.Nigeria is an OPEC member.

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