Photo: UN Photo/Eskmeet with President Goodluck Jonathan on August 9, after speculation that she would give the country a miss on her 10-day African tour.inder Debebe US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected in Nigeria in continuation of her seven nation Africa tour which earlier took her to Senegal, Uganda, Malawi, South Sudan, South Africa.
Though details of her Nigeria trip were not made available at press time yesterday, Foreign Ministry official said the US top diplomat is expected to hold discussions on strengthening ties between Nigeria and the US.
Clinton is due to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan today in a visit that comes with Nigeria facing increasing insurgency by the Boko Haram militant group which appears intractable for the government, resulting in hundreds of deaths.
The US government has not declared the Boko Haram a terrorist group, but Clinton's visit is expected to elicit a broad-based direction of her home government on the issue, diplomatic sources said.
The Human Rights Watch also said yesterday that Clinton should urge Nigeria to address violence by Boko Haram as well as abuses by the country's security forces.
"Nigeria is facing a surge of violence and lawlessness that has blighted the lives of thousands of Nigerians," Daniel Bekele, Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.
"Nigeria's leaders need to confront this violence, whether committed by Boko Haram or the country's security forces."
The US-based group said attacks by Boko Haram have left more than 1,400 people dead in northern and central Nigeria since 2010. Human Rights Watch also pointed out that security forces have been accused of major abuses which have exacerbated the crisis in Africa's most populous nation and largest oil producer.
"Security agents have rounded up hundreds of people and routinely detained them incommunicado without charge or trial," its statement said.
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Nigeria is but a creation of the white imperialists, who never wanted the Black people to progress in the first place.Here in Nigeria they groomed the Hausa/Fulani muslims and used them as their proxy in order to perpetuate their hegemony over us. Anybody who cares for the welfare of the so called Nigerians,should encourage Nigeria to hold a referendum on whether they can continue to cohabit with the Hausa/Fulani cattle rearing barbarians. Gideon Orkah and his brave comrades proffered a permanent solution for this country but they were sabotaged by an Hausa/Igbo mongrel,Ikechukwu and Co. Nigeria must not be allowed to fall again into the calloused hands of the Hausa/Fulanis,who made us the Bantu Republic we are today.Even in Bob Mugabe's Bantu Republic of Zimbabwe the sanctity of humman life is respected.That is a plus for Bob Mugabe.Nigeria is on par with Somalia on the Continent of Africa.Nigeria is indeed a failed State that can't guarantee the safety and welfare of her citizens. Why must Nigerians need an external force to fix their internal problem?That is because for over 50 years Nigeria was never a country and will never ever be.Let us go our separate ways in peace like the soviets and the Yugoslaves.The trouble making Hausa/Fulani muslims of the North will be guaranteed 5% of our entire oil revenue if they let us go our separate ways.
THAT IS A HEAVY PIECE OF LITERATURE BY DOUGEML" WOW!!! WHAT DOES ORU ISLAMIC BROTHERS HAVE TO SAY; HE IS RIGHT IN SAYING THAT THE WHITES GROOMED THESE SET OF NATIONS TO RULE OVER THE OTHER BLACK S MAKING THEM FEEL MORE SUPERIRO DOMINANT AND MORE LIKE THEMSELVES (WHITES). THIS IS A PROBLEM WE SEE THRUOUT AFRICA, THIS IS WHY WE SEE THE MIXED RACES OF NORTH AFRICA CONFUSED AS TO THIER HERITAGE ; TO BE FAIR THE WHITES ARE EVEN MORE CONFUSED , THEY PREFER TO COME FROM MONKEY THAN HUMANITY. SSOME PEOPLE ASK ME WHY I LIKE THE CHINESE ? THEY ARE NOT CONFUSSED THEY TELL YOU RIGHTLY SO THAT THIER HERIATGE IS IN AFRICA . THIER FOREFATHERS WERE BLACK AFRICANS WHO SETTLED AND DEVELOPED THE CHINESE CULTURE TO HWEREW THEY ARE AS INDIVIDUALS AND A PEOPLE" THEY MAKE NOT AN ERRO INDECIDING THAT THEY WERE BRON OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM THEY REJECT THAT THEORY COMPLETELY" WHILE THE INDIANS ARE ALSO LIKE THOSE IN AFRICA WHO WERE GROOMED TO MISTREAT THIER BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN INDIA THE ORIGINAL AUTRALOID AFRICAN IS DISCRIMINATED AGAINST THEY HAVE BEEN FOR CENTURIES EVEN THOUGH THYE BUITL THE MOST ROBUST AND PROMINENT CIVILIZATIONS IN THE SUB CONTINENT. TODAY WE SEE THE SAME SUPERIRO ATTITUDE TOWARDS BLACK PEOPLE. WHAT WE SEE OTHERWIZE IS THAT THE BROTHERS YOU SAY ARE CATTLE BREEDERS , IT IS NOT NECESARRY TO GO THERE YOUR POINT IS WELL TAKEN IF WE CANT LIVE TOGETHRE LET US LIVE APART AND BE BEST OF REINDS . SOEMTIMES MY BROTHER THAT IS A BETTER SOLUTION THERE IS NO GREAT STAKE INS AYING THAT YOU ARE THE LARGEST NATIONJ IF THERE IS NO PEACE!! THERE MIGHT BE A NEED TO SEPERATE TO FIND EVERLIVING LOVE. THIS IS A TIME IN HSITORY WHERE AFRICA MUST MAKE DECISIONS THAT REFLECT THE CONTINENT AND THE PEOPLES WISHES. WE MIGHT FIND THAT WE MUST REDEFINE BORDERS IN ORDER TO MAKE A PRODUCTIVE AFRICAN CONTINENT. THE END OF IMPERIALISM MEANS NO SAME BORDERS NO REMNANCE OF COLONIAL RULE.??? AFGRICA NEEDS TO ANSWER THES E QUESTIONS ?? WE NEED PEACE ON THE CONTINENT. WE NEED TO GET BACK TO BEASICS HWERE WE WERE A A PEACEFUL CONTINENT BEFORE THE INTRUDERS CAME TO MISRULE MISDIRECT MISEDUCATE MISINTERPRET BEFORE ALL THIS M.I.S.E.R.Y. "WHAT IS RIGHT FOR AFRICA? LET US LOOK GOOOD AT WHERE WE STAND WITH ONE ANOTHER!!! IF WE ARE GOING TO CONTIUE TO HAVE OPEN CONFLICT WITHOUT RESOLUTION THEN ITS NOT WORHT THE MISERY. THIS IS NTO WORTH THE LIVES THE WEST WANTS US TO LOSE BY SUPPORING THIER MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT ITS LL ABOUT. THEY WANT TO SELL WEAPONS AIT PLANES DEATH MACHINES THEY ARE NOT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OR NATION BUILDING EXERCISE. WHAT IS EE SI ALOT OF AFR5ICAN BROAD CATSRES PLAYING LIP SERVICE TO THE WEST STILL BOWING SHUFFLING AND GIVING THE IMPRSION THEY ARE GREAT FREINDS. DOES ANY AFRICAN SEE WHAT IS TAKING PLACE IN THE USA?? AFRICAMN AMERICANS ARE UNDER SEIGE BY WHITE SUPREMACIST AND WHITE GESTAPO POLICE FORCES WH HAVE THE RIGHT OF WILFUL ABABANDOM IMPUNITY TO MURDER INNOCENT BLACK LIVES WHEN AND WHERE THEY FEEL LIKE IT!!! NOTHING HAS CHANGED NOT ONE THING IN 500 YEARS WHOSE PRICE ARE W PAYING WHEN WE ARE GOING TO DECIDE THAT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH DEATH MISERY MUST TAKE A BACK SEAT WE DONT HAVE TO CONDONE VIOLENCE NOR DOWE HAVE TO SUPPORT IT THIS WE KNOW TO BE THE DEVILS TOOLS. THERE SEEMS TO BE NO RIGHT OR WRONMG JUST CONFUSION. THEY ARE A VERY CLEVER PEOPLE THEY WILL MAKE US RISE UP AGINST EACH OTHER DIVIDING OUR NATIONS UNDERMINING ALL OUR SOVEREIGNTIES. THIER MAJOUR AIM IS TO SELCTIVELY UNDERMINE FRE MOVEMENT IN AFRICA SO THEY CAN MONITOR CONTROL OVERSEE WITH THIER TECHNOLOGY PLAYING GOD . THIS IS WHAT THYE WANT FROM AFRICA . EVERYTHING IS SPOKEN ABOTU SECURITY WHAT DOES SECURITY MEAN HTER ARE MURDERS MASSACRES IN THE USA BLACKMPEOPLE ARE THE BUTT OF THIER MORDERS YET THEY WANT TO DIRECT TRAFFIC IN AFRICA. WE MUST NOT SETTLE FOT AMERICAN INTRUSION ; EITHER WE ARE GOING TO SEPERATE AND LIVE LOVONG? OR WE LIVE IN PEACE PERMANENTLY THERE ARE NO OTHER WAYS !!! SO TODAY THE SHOE SI ON BOTH FEET BOTH THESE SIDES MUST TALK IT IS IMPERTIVE IF NO ONE DECIDES TO SPEAK THIS SI RUNNING THE RISK THAT WE ARE TRULY EMULATING OUR FORMER MISRULERS IN THIER NQUEST TO DVOUR OUR SOULS WITH HATE WAR MONGERING DISLIKE PETTY JEALOUSIES. I WILL SAY ONE MORE TIME TO ALL AFRICA WE WERE THR FIRST WE WERE THE BUILDERS OF GERATER CIVILIZATIONS WHAT WE KNOW IS THSAT THIS IS AGAIN OUR TIME TO REFLECT ON THE CONVENAT WITH "OUR LORD". MANY STILL DO NOT KNOW OR TRULY OVERSTAND THE TRUTH WHAT I WILL SAY THAT "OUR LORD" IS KNOWER AND SEER OF ALL TIME YESTERDAY TODAY TOMORROW SO THINK OF THAT !!LOOK AT HWERE YOU ARE WHAT YOU HAVE AND ASK WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO HAVE ALL THE EARTHS RICHES? DID "OUR LORD" RESPOND TO OUR CRIES BY DELIVERING US THE PROMISED LAND A TRUE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY IS THIS COVENANT WHICH WE MADE WITH "OURLORD" THAT WAS HIS COVENANT WITH ADAAM AND ORU FORE FATHERS YOU TRULY NEED TO ASK YOURSELVES THESE QUESTIONS THAT IS IF YOU ARE WHOM YOU KNOW YOU ARE? PEACE AN NUFF LOVE TO EVERY NIGERIAN MAY RIGHTEOUSNESS PEEK AND FUIND ITS WAY THROUGH EACN AND EVERY NIGERIAN RECOGNISING THAT " HE IS ALONE STUTONOMOUS INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGN INDIVSIIBLE AND THER ARE NONE GREATER NONE WIZER THER ARE NO INHERRITERS TO "HIS MAJESTIC THRONE" THERE ARE NO PRINCES TO RELIVE HIS GLORY' AS "HE IS THE ALL POWERFUL THE MAJESTY THE GLORY THE SAVIOUR" THERE ARE NO WIZER SECONDS ,NONE ,JUST "HE WHOM THE TRUTH WAS TOLD TO US FROM THE VERY BEGINNING OF OUR QUESTIONING HIS GLORY!!... READ NUMBERS GENISIS READ THJE BOOKS OF MOSES ,WHERE THE LORD DID NOT MAKE ANY REFERNCE OF HIM HAVING ANY HEIR TO HIS THRONE. SUGGETSING THAT " HE OUR WIZE LORD" WILL AGE AND GET OLDER IS DISRESPECT BALSPHEME" HE IS THE SAME YESTERDAY TODAY AND TOMORROW OUR MAJESTY REMAINS THE SAME" "TIME IS OUR MASTER" AND SO IS HE' " HE IS TIME" DO NOT REFLECT ON THE LIES WE HAVE BEEN INDOCTRINATED WITHBY THE LIARS; WE MUST SEEK TRUTH FOR OURSELVES' TRUTH IS INALIENABLE AND WE MUST RECOGNIZE IT ,TREAT IT WITH RESPECT, HONOUR IT' AND RELY ON IT, IT CAN NOT BE CHANGED,WHY? IT IS NOT A LIE"