Nigeria: Kenya Attack - Nigeria's Shopping Malls Beef Up Security (click here)
By Chika Mefor, Paul Chiama, Millie Ibe, George Okojie and Igho Oyoyo
24 September 2013
Following the terrorist attack on Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, security has been beefed up at shopping malls in Lagos, Abuja and Kano.
LEADERSHIP gathered that most of the shopping mall operators and customers are afraid that some terrorist group might try such an attack on the many malls that dot the big cities of Nigeria.
Al Shabab terrorist group based in Somalia has claimed responsibility for the Kenya attack, which has claimed 68 lives with hundreds injured. The group is fighting for an Islamic state in Somalia, and Kenya has led a multinational force to stop it....
Of course the girls need to be rescued as quickly as possible. But, the answer to these violent problems in Nigeria have to be addressed as well.
Pamela Constable, Washington Post
Posted: Wednesday, May 7, 2014, 1:08 AM
Nigeria pressured to rescue girls taken by Islamists (click here)
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..."It will begin immediately," Kerry said. "You're going to see a very, very rapid response."
In a video released Monday in which he claimed responsibility for the abductions for the first time, the leader of the Islamist group Boko Haram, Abubaker Shekau, referred to the girls as "slaves" and threatened to sell them in a marriage market.
That high-profile, almost swaggering threat intensified a growing outcry as international and domestic rights groups warned that the girls could face severe abuse.
In New York, a spokesman for the U.N. high commissioner for human rights said at a news conference Tuesday, "We warn the perpetrators that there is an absolute prohibition against slavery and sexual slavery in international law." He said that meant that those responsible could be "arrested, charged, prosecuted, and jailed at any time in the future."...
The petroleum industry has been pumping oil out of Nigeria for decades and leaving the people in poverty or worse. Years ago the people developed an expertise in environmental issues they faced and the petroleum industry was forced to make a settlement to the damages to the country.
The settlement monies never really made it to the people to benefit them. I was pleased to see the government is moving to change the way things are done with their petroleum natural resources. But, there needs to be oversight to be sure the new system is working well.
Written by Collins Olayinka and Suleiman Salau (Houston) and Adeyemi Adepetun
(Las Vegas), USA
...At the on-going EMC World 2014 in Las Vegas, (click here) United States of America, with the theme: “Redefine Information and Communications Technology (ICT),” the experts contended that technology was moving fast, stressing that any country that failed to move at the same pace or above could be left behind.
In a keynote address yesterday, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, EMC, Joe Tucci, said the ICT industry was changing very fast and creating opportunities for other sectors of the economy.
Yakubu noted that though the law guiding oil and gas operations has immensely benefitted the Nigerian economy, the passage of the PIB would further raise the nation’s fortunes. He added that the new aggressive steps taken by the government is to lay a solid foundation for gas to serve as the bedrock of a sustained economic prosperity for the country.
“The essence of the PIB is to improve government’s take on various fiscal provisions, but before then, within the current fiscal regime, we have had significant jump in gas supply investment,” Yakubu explained. In the gas master-plan, there is the domestic gas supply obligation, which the International Oil Companies (IOCs) and indigenous players entered to deliver gas....
I believe the people of Nigeria have suffered at the hands of past governments. In that is the reality religious extremism filled in the gap. The result are groups acting as parasites to the established economy which does not serve the entire population of Nigeria. For the amount of oil that has been pumped out of the ground in Nigeria, it's society should be further along than it is today.
IT would be a welcome dynamic to Nigeria's future. It would create opportunities for education and employment. Nigeria needs to protect it's lands and recover much of the oil tainted land back to function. It has a lot of work to do, but, in that work is also employment, hope and purpose.
Recapturing the girls will begin the process of recognition of the struggle of the people to fulfill their dreams of happy and healthy lives with liberation from oppression. This will separate the extremists from the population as malevolent. To date, so much of the adversity Nigerians face have been ignored. I hope this is a turning point for Nigerians, their government and a stronger awareness of the Nigeria's tendency to fall back into old patterns without solving the problems of the people.
By Chika Mefor, Paul Chiama, Millie Ibe, George Okojie and Igho Oyoyo
24 September 2013
Following the terrorist attack on Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, security has been beefed up at shopping malls in Lagos, Abuja and Kano.
LEADERSHIP gathered that most of the shopping mall operators and customers are afraid that some terrorist group might try such an attack on the many malls that dot the big cities of Nigeria.
Al Shabab terrorist group based in Somalia has claimed responsibility for the Kenya attack, which has claimed 68 lives with hundreds injured. The group is fighting for an Islamic state in Somalia, and Kenya has led a multinational force to stop it....
Of course the girls need to be rescued as quickly as possible. But, the answer to these violent problems in Nigeria have to be addressed as well.
Pamela Constable, Washington Post
Posted: Wednesday, May 7, 2014, 1:08 AM
Nigeria pressured to rescue girls taken by Islamists (click here)
Pamela Constable, Washington Post
Posted: Wednesday, May 7, 2014, 1:08 AMRead more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20140507_Nigeria_pressured_to_rescue_girls_taken_by_Islamists.html#sBZfOID6tCpAyUEz.99
In a video released Monday in which he claimed responsibility for the abductions for the first time, the leader of the Islamist group Boko Haram, Abubaker Shekau, referred to the girls as "slaves" and threatened to sell them in a marriage market.
That high-profile, almost swaggering threat intensified a growing outcry as international and domestic rights groups warned that the girls could face severe abuse.
In New York, a spokesman for the U.N. high commissioner for human rights said at a news conference Tuesday, "We warn the perpetrators that there is an absolute prohibition against slavery and sexual slavery in international law." He said that meant that those responsible could be "arrested, charged, prosecuted, and jailed at any time in the future."...
The petroleum industry has been pumping oil out of Nigeria for decades and leaving the people in poverty or worse. Years ago the people developed an expertise in environmental issues they faced and the petroleum industry was forced to make a settlement to the damages to the country.
The settlement monies never really made it to the people to benefit them. I was pleased to see the government is moving to change the way things are done with their petroleum natural resources. But, there needs to be oversight to be sure the new system is working well.
Written by Collins Olayinka and Suleiman Salau (Houston) and Adeyemi Adepetun
(Las Vegas), USA
...At the on-going EMC World 2014 in Las Vegas, (click here) United States of America, with the theme: “Redefine Information and Communications Technology (ICT),” the experts contended that technology was moving fast, stressing that any country that failed to move at the same pace or above could be left behind.
In a keynote address yesterday, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, EMC, Joe Tucci, said the ICT industry was changing very fast and creating opportunities for other sectors of the economy.
Yakubu noted that though the law guiding oil and gas operations has immensely benefitted the Nigerian economy, the passage of the PIB would further raise the nation’s fortunes. He added that the new aggressive steps taken by the government is to lay a solid foundation for gas to serve as the bedrock of a sustained economic prosperity for the country.
“The essence of the PIB is to improve government’s take on various fiscal provisions, but before then, within the current fiscal regime, we have had significant jump in gas supply investment,” Yakubu explained. In the gas master-plan, there is the domestic gas supply obligation, which the International Oil Companies (IOCs) and indigenous players entered to deliver gas....
I believe the people of Nigeria have suffered at the hands of past governments. In that is the reality religious extremism filled in the gap. The result are groups acting as parasites to the established economy which does not serve the entire population of Nigeria. For the amount of oil that has been pumped out of the ground in Nigeria, it's society should be further along than it is today.
IT would be a welcome dynamic to Nigeria's future. It would create opportunities for education and employment. Nigeria needs to protect it's lands and recover much of the oil tainted land back to function. It has a lot of work to do, but, in that work is also employment, hope and purpose.
Recapturing the girls will begin the process of recognition of the struggle of the people to fulfill their dreams of happy and healthy lives with liberation from oppression. This will separate the extremists from the population as malevolent. To date, so much of the adversity Nigerians face have been ignored. I hope this is a turning point for Nigerians, their government and a stronger awareness of the Nigeria's tendency to fall back into old patterns without solving the problems of the people.
"It will begin immediately," Kerry said. "You're going to see a very, very rapid response."
In a video released Monday in which he claimed responsibility for the
abductions for the first time, the leader of the Islamist group Boko
Haram, Abubaker Shekau, referred to the girls as "slaves" and threatened
to sell them in a marriage market.
That high-profile, almost swaggering threat intensified a growing outcry as international and domestic rights groups warned that the girls could face severe abuse.
In New York, a spokesman for the U.N. high commissioner for human rights said at a news conference Tuesday, "We warn the perpetrators that there is an absolute prohibition against slavery and sexual slavery in international law." He said that meant that those responsible could be "arrested, charged, prosecuted, and jailed at any time in the future."
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20140507_Nigeria_pressured_to_rescue_girls_taken_by_Islamists.html#sBZfOID6tCpAyUEz.99
That high-profile, almost swaggering threat intensified a growing outcry as international and domestic rights groups warned that the girls could face severe abuse.
In New York, a spokesman for the U.N. high commissioner for human rights said at a news conference Tuesday, "We warn the perpetrators that there is an absolute prohibition against slavery and sexual slavery in international law." He said that meant that those responsible could be "arrested, charged, prosecuted, and jailed at any time in the future."
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20140507_Nigeria_pressured_to_rescue_girls_taken_by_Islamists.html#sBZfOID6tCpAyUEz.99
