SUBMITTED BY:
ANTEVOSSO DANIEL
MATRIC NO: U14/MCM/2007
BOOK
HARAM INSURGENCY A SET BACK TO NIGERIA
Boko haram is a strong pseudo-Islamist
terrorist group, which has it base in kanamma, north eastern Nigeria. The group name “Boko
Haram” is a Hausa statements which upon translated into English mean western
education is “sinful” this group is opposed to more especially western
education, ideologies and system such as democracy and others. The Boko Haram
seat has been in existence since 2001, did not become popular in Nigeria until 2009 when it participated actively
in the sectarian violence, which occurred then in Northern
Nigeria. Mohammed Yusuf, who remain the group leader until men of
the Nigerian armed forces killed him in 2009, founded the Boko Haram sect. the new
leader and still hold that position till date. Even though the group started as
a disposition of the group is questionable because the group is not only out
for non Muslims, it is fighting the government as well. This is an evident in
the group for bombing UN complex in Aby and other government owned structures.
The Boko Haram crisis which has been ravaging Nigeria to date.
Book
Haram attack timeline
Below is a timeline of the groups
nefarious activities till date:
September
7, 2010 - Bauchi
prison break
December
2010 - Abuja
attacks
April
2011 - The Yola Jail Break in which Boko Haram
alleged
freed 14 prisoners suspected to be member of
the group
May
29 2011 - Multiples bombings in different
locations in
northern Nigeria
June
16 2011 - Bombings of the Nigeria Police Headquarters,
Abuja
June
16 2011 - Bombing of a bear garden in Maiduguri, in which
25 people died and 12 were every injured.
August
12 2011 - Murder of Prominent Muslim cleric Liman
Bana is
a Boko Haram
August
26 2011 - Another Bombing in Abuja
December
25 2011 - Damaturu
attacks
January
5-6 2012 - Multiple Bombing in Northern
Nigeria
January
20 2012 - Kano
Bombings
February
8 2012 - Suicide Bombing at the army headquarter
in
Kaduna
February
16 2012 - Prison break in Central
Nigeria 130 prisoners
Released
June
3 2012 - 15 Churches goes killed in Bauchi
June
17 2012 - Suicide bombing attacks on 3 churched in
Kaduna
2014 - Chibok girls and captives of territory
in the north
eastern Nigeria
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