Nigeria's President Faces Criticism After Islamist Attack Kills 180

January 23, 2012 from Euronews

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has visited the scene of last week's carnage in which insurgents killed over 180 people. A coordinated series of bomb blasts and shooting sprees, mostly targeting police stations, shattered the country's second biggest city of Kano. The attacks have been claimed by the Islamist sect Boko Haram which is loosely modelled on Afghanistan's Taliban. Explosions also struck two churches in Bauchi on Sunday, completely destroying one, but no casualties were reported.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in t... Explore this topic

Boko Haram

Congregation and People of Tradition for Proselytism and Jihad, better known by its Hausa name Boko Haram, is a jihadist militant organisation based in the northeast of Nigeria and north Cameroon. It is an Islamist movement which strongly opposes man-made laws and Westernizati... Explore this topic

Nigerian Sharia conflict

The Nigerian Sharia conflict is an armed conflict of militant groups, different representatives of religious groupings and the government of Nigeria. According to a Nigerian study on demographics and Religion, Muslims make up 50.5% of the population. They mainly live in the No... Explore this topic

Goodluck Jonathan

Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, GCFR, BNER, GCON is the 14th Head of State and current President of Nigeria. Prior to his role as President, he served as Governor of Bayelsa State and Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People... Explore this topic

Kano

Kano is a city in Nigeria and the capital of Kano State in Northern Nigeria. Its metropolitan population is the second largest in Nigeria after Lagos. The Kano Urban area covers 137 km² and comprises six Local Government Area - Kano Municipal, Fagge, Dala, Gwale, Tarauni and N... Explore this topic

Bauchi

Bauchi is a city in northeast Nigeria, the capital of Bauchi State, of the Bauchi Local Government Area within that State, and of the traditional Bauchi Emirate. The city has a population of 316,173. The Local Government Area covers an area of 3,687 km² and had a population of... Explore this topic

Improvised explosive device

An improvised explosive device is a homemade bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional military explosives, such as an artillery round, attached to a detonating mechanism. Roadside bombs are a common... Explore this topic

Police station

A police station or station house is a building which serves to accommodate police officers and other members of staff. These buildings often contain offices and accommodation for personnel and vehicles, along with locker rooms, temporary holding cells and interview/interrogat... Explore this topic

Terrorist attack

A Terrorist Attack can refer to any attack lead by a small group against a populace, agency, business, government etc. that is done for ideological purposes. Explore this topic

Bomb

A bomb is any of a range of explosive weapons that only rely on the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy. Detonations inflict damage principally through ground- and atmosphere-transmitted mechanical stress, t... Explore this topic

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