Nigeria: Not Just Jos

21 January 2010
editorial

IT is defeatist to look at riots as if they were indigenous to Jos, the Plateau State capital, which has had an unfair share of them. Riots, unrests, and variants of them, have become common Nigerian ways of expressing their anger at a federation that does not work.

They are also ready instruments in the hands of politicians, who use them to surreptitiously push their self-serving agenda. Riots in Jos have hurt the city, the people and Nigeria.

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