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In the early hours of Sunday, March 7th 2010, a band of Muslim-Fulani herdsmen, believed to have come from the neighbouring Bauchi State, crept upon the villages of Dogon Nahawa, Ratsat and Zot Foron, located about 15 kilometres south of the State capital Jos; as they slept, and in a three-hour uninterrupted orgy of violence, massacred more than 500 Christian men, women and children of the Berom tribe. Many of the victims were butchered with machetes. Many were burnt beyond recognition, while many others died of gunshot wounds and asphyxiation when the houses in which they were sleeping were set on fire by this marauding band.
It appears that we have not heard the last about the ethnic conflict in Jos and its environs. Last Sunday morning the world woke up to the consternation of an attack in some villages which were engulfed by the conflict when it recently broke out again last February. The scene that captured the attention of the world most is Dogo Nahauwa. Since the first broadcast of the deadly attack in that village by Aljazeerah, the international media has not ceased from sending its reporters to the village to update us on every development there.
The hue and cry over Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s right to contest for the office of the Presidency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is misconceived, inflammatory and disturbing. There have been inappropriate, misleading and mischievous references to the People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) preference for a zoning system in this unfortunate debate.
Mr. Dias: This email is just to give you a "heads up" to make sure that you check your facts before posting incorrect information on the news blog, Sahara Reporters (copy attached). In the future, should such factually incorrect information be posted by you, a libel action would be forthcoming.
New York, March 11, 2010—An angry crowd of mourners attending a mass funeral in Dogo Nahawa, central Nigeria, assaulted state radio reporter Murtala Sani on Monday. Sani, a reporter for the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, was assigned to cover the funeral of more than 40 people killed during a bloody March 7 attack on four villages in central Nigeria.
In Nigeria today, one of the new vocabularies used by all and sundry is the language ‘Jos Crisis.’ I have wondered why it is usually called ‘crisis’ each time it breaks out. The truth is that there is a WAR in Jos since September 7, 2001 that has defied solutions till today March 7, 2010. Early in the morning today, the worst dehumanization in the world history took place here in the city of Jos again in a small community called Dogo-Nahawa, near Rayfield. Rayfield is more of a privileged community of the elites and the well-to-dos but Dogo-Nahawa is a very low income community.
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