NigeriaDaily

Saratoga, California Monday, March 18, 2013 2 pages

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Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria

A huge terrorist group named Boko Haram is
threatening the lives of everyone in Nigeria,
they have been bombing innocent people,
their churches, their villages. They have been
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kidnapping and assassinating people.
When
they kidnap people they have been known to
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record how they behead them
, when this
started they didn't know the actual beheading
but then as word of this started to get spread
around Boko Haram would record every detail
of how they made these innocent people
suffer.

After effects of Boko Harams attack on Nigeria.

To everyone these people were innocent and

did not deserve any of this but to Boko Haram
these people were unholy because they were
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Christian.
Everyone that they kill has some
sort of relationship to christians. Supposedly
the people who make Boko Haram are
influenced by the Koranic phrase Anyone
who is not governed by what Allah has
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revealed is among the transgressors.
Seven years later in 2009 Boko Haram started
to attack police stations and other government
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building in Maiduguri.
These shootouts killed
hundreds of Boko Harams men and made
thousands of residents of Maiduguri to flee the
city. Boko Haram lost that day, their fighters
got captured and their leader Mr. Yusuf was
killed. It was then released to the public that
Boko Haram was done, but then a new leader
rose, Abubakar Shekau, and he regrouped new
fighters. In 2013 the US started to see it as a
terrorist group, thus restoring its power it
started to kill yet again.

Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram's leader

It was said a while ago that every move that
Boko Haram made was very alike or even
similar to ISIS. News recently said that both
leaders to Boko Haram and ISIS have now
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formed an alliance.
These two terrorist
groups have made a new force that many
countries will not be able to handle. Nigeria
couldn't handle Boko Haram by itself even as
Africa's richest country then how will it be
able to stand up to both of these terrorist?

Pollution and Sickness in Nigeria

Africa has been in many insanitation
problems for the past years, but this
shouldn't be expected from its richest
country Nigeria which ranks among the 20
most economic countries in the world.
Nigeria has been in as many problems due to
HIV/AIDS and children dying from diarrhea
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due to its toxic water.
Nigeria has a lot of
power compared to the rest of Africa and
with this power and money I think that they
should start to create technology that will
help them solve this crisis.

people in Africa. So I think Nigeria was given

all this money because it had more people to
keep safe.

2."Boko Haram Posts Video Purporting to

Show Beheadings of Two Men - CNN.com."
CNN
. Cable News Network, n.d. Web. 12
Mar. 2015.

Trash built in Makurdi in the River Benue.

The River Benue looking south from Jimeta.

The Benue River, the second biggest river in
Nigeria is being contaminated more and more
from heavy metals, and from being dumped
garbage very often, and many are still forced
to drink and bathe from this water, making the
casualties more and more year after year. Just
a tiny fraction of the 600,000 people in Nigeria
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have access to clean water.
I think the only
reason Nigeria does struggle in keeping its
people healthy is because they have such a
large population, Nigeria does have the a lot of
money, but it also sustains the most amount of

1."Who Are Nigeria's Boko Haram

Islamists?" BBC News. N.p., n.d. Web. 09
Mar. 2015.

Yet, it has been known to try and solve this

problem with the money it was given but
that was never really the problem, in 2001
Nigeria spent $26.4 million to try and build a
water treatment facility with a daily capacity
of 45,000 cubic meters, sadly $6.2 million
and seven years later the project failed, no
one could give a clear answer of what made
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the project stop.
In 2008 they started the
same project again, except this time they
paid $42 million to double the daily capacity
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to 100,000 cubic meters.
As good as this
sounds the construction has been two years
behind schedule. I think that Nigeria is
capable of doing a lot of good for its country
but it is missing a bit of responsibility to be
able to help itself.

3. "'68 Killed, Kids among Them': Boko

Haram Attacks, Burns Nigeria Village."
RT News
. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Mar. 2015.
4."Nigeria: Waiting for Water on the Banks
of the Benue."
Pulitzer Center
. N.p., 02 Jan.
2012. Web. 18 Mar. 2015.
5. "Children Dying Daily Because of Unsafe
Water Supplies and Poor Sanitation and
Hygiene, UNICEF Says."
UNICEF
. N.p., n.d.
Web. 18 Mar. 2015.
6. "Nigeria - Fighting Water Pollution."
Nigeria - Fighting Water Pollution
. N.p.,
n.d. Web. 18 Mar. 2015.