Dalori residents said that as many as 100 people were killed in the attack. About 100 people were killed in a suicide attack in Jos and dozens more died in a series of attacks on villages in May.
Jonathan's defeat was attributed to his failure to defeat Boko Haram and his inability to crack down on endemic corruption. He also reiterated the group's core belief that Western education is a sin.The U.S. sent a team from the State Department, the F.B.I. The group's name translates to "Western education is sinful." About 8,000 troops from Chad, Niger, Cameroon, and Benin were dispatched to Nigeria to battle the terrorists.A report released by Amnesty International in June 2015 said the military is responsible for the deaths of more than 8,000 men and boys through extrajudicial executions, torture, starvation, and other forms of ill treatment at detention facilities. Two of the girls blew themselves up with bombs, while the third girl chose not detonate hers and gave herself up to authorities after seeing members of her immediate family in the camp. More than 10,000 people have died in religious clashes since military rule ended in 1999.In 2003, after religious and political leaders in the Kano region banned polio immunization—contending that it sterilized girls and spread HIV—an outbreak of polio spread through Nigeria, entering neighboring countries the following year. The government declared a state of emergency in northern Nigeria and dispatched troops to the region, where the group is based. Its neighbors are Benin, Niger, Cameroon, and Chad. The chief observer for the European Union said the results “cannot be considered to have been credible.” An election tribunal ruled in Feb. 2008 that although the election was indeed flawed, the evidence of rigging was not substantial enough to overturn the election results.The rebel group in Nigeria's oil-producing region, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, declared a cease-fire in September. The languages of these three groups can, therefore, be used in government. President Yar'Adua died in May, and Jonathan, who is from the mainly Christian south, assumed the presidency.Sectarian violence broke out in the city of Jos, which is located in Plateau state between the country's Muslim north and Christian south, in Jan. 2010.
Nigeria is one of the world's largest oil producers and supplies the U.S. with one-fifth of its oil.In Aug. 2006 Nigeria handed over the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, in compliance with a 2002 World Court ruling.April 2007 national elections—the country’s first transition from one democratically elected president to another—were marred by widespread allegations of fraud, ballot stuffing, violence, and chaos. International observers deemed the elections fair–the cleanest in decades. Nigeria - Nigeria - History: Evidence of human occupation in Nigeria dates back thousands of years. The police, followed by the army, retaliated and unleashed a five-day assault against the sect. The Hausa people make up around 25% of the population of Nigeria. During World War I, native troops of the West African frontier force joined with French forces to defeat the German garrison in Cameroon.On Oct. 1, 1960, Nigeria gained independence, becoming a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and joining the United Nations. About 500 soldiers escaped to neighboring Cameroon in late August after coming under attack by Boko Haram. It formally became the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria in 1914. The decision angered members of his party from the north, and they formed the the New PDP. This area is divided by the Niger River into two unequal sections – the eastern region and the midwestern region. In July, the government closed secondary schools in Yobe after 22 students were killed in attack attributed to the militants. Today it is often used in ethnically mixed urban areas as a common form of communication among people who have not had formal In our investing people report, we recommended 6 broad goals and 18 priority actions that would effectively end hunger, improve health and education, reduce inequality and spur economic growth in critical sectors and the Nigerian economy as a whole. The Hausa have been Muslims for almost a thousand years, having been converted to Islam by Arab traders and merchants from the 10th century. In fact, the group, which had previously launched attacks locally, emerged as a transnational force possibly linked to al-Qaeda in 2011. A series of corrupt governments has profited handsomely by the oil sales while about 75% of the country lives in extreme poverty.Boko Haram, the fundamentalist Islamist sect that many thought had been obliterated in 2009, made a resurgence in 2011. Muritala Rufai Mohammed the new chief of state. It basically uses English words mixed into Yoruba or Igbo grammar structures. Nigeria successfully contained the virus, and by the end of October, the World Health Organization declared the country free of Ebola.Nigeria's election commission postponed for six weeks presidential elections scheduled for Feb. 14 after the military said it could not protect voters in the northeast from Boko Haram. Nigerian people are citizens and people with ancestry from Nigeria. Among its victims were children watching a soccer match and dozens of male students at a public college in Yobe State, many of whom were burned or shot to death. In the southern states, the majority of Nigerians are Christian, while some groups continue to practise indigenous beliefs.