Tag: Ethno-Religious Crisis

‘Religious extremism fueling violence in Nigeria – Former U.S. ‘ambassador’

Aminu Imam

Escalating bloodshed in Nigeria is fueled in part by religious extremism – and the United States must recognise this in order to achieve peace, says a former U.S. religious freedom ambassador. According to former Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, Sam Brownback, who was speaking on the violence in Nigeria, “This thing is going to blow upon us, as we would say: ‘bigger than Dallas’, if we don’t get in there and really start taking this seriously at this point”, on Wednesday. Recall that due to the scope of violence against…

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Nigerian elites only fighting for their pockets, says Sanusi

Ishaku Yohanna

Muhammad Sanusi, a former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria and ex-Emir of Kano, has said that the ethno-religious crisis in the country was caused by elites jostling to plunder the nation’s resources and not the people, who are affected by the crisis. Sanusi made this known while speaking at The Platform, an annual conference organised by the Covenant Christian Centre in Lagos, on Thursday. He said politicians were only fighting for their pockets and in the process instigate deadly crisis that affected the masses. He said, “Ethno-religious crisis is…

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