While Nigeria was dealing with humongous religious problem that has now resulted in the attack on a US airplane in Detroit, Michigan, the military administration of Ibrahim Babangida was adding fuel to the fire by courting the OIC, in an attempt to add Nigeria to the list of Islamic nations. While that episode caused a large outcry, the former dictator laid the foundation for religious intolerance and official complicity in Islamic fundamentalism. Story
In March 1986, while Babangida was still trying to fool Nigeria about his commitment to the Islamic groups, christians and moslems engaged each other in a superiority fight, in what was said to have been sparked by a mere Easter procession in Ilorin. Subsequent religious squabbles were recorded in the late and early 1990s, beginning with the March 1987 confrontation in Kafanchan between moslems and christians, leading to loss of lives and destruction of property.
The Citizens for Nigeria provides the background to the worrisome arrest of the first Nigerian to export terrorism abroad. How did we get here? Story Go to the www.citizensfornigeria.com
