Summer has ended in Bangladesh‚ but terrorism continues to heat up the country. On October 24‚ a Shia shrine in Dhaka was bombed on the day of Ashura‚ leaving one dead and over a hundred injured. A few weeks earlier‚ Kunio Hoshi‚ an elderly Japanese citizen‚ was gunned down in Rangpur district. His murder came a few days after Cesare Tavella’s‚ an Italian aid worker sprayed with bullets in Dhaka’s diplomatic neighborhood. Police sources reported that five homemade bombs were used to target the
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youth of the nation are the most impacted‚ with a youth unemployment rate over 50%”. There is no denying the fact that rising youth unemployment in Nigeria has been a significant contributor to the dramatic rise in social unrest and crime like Boko Haram and communal crises in many parts of the country. It is generally believed that if young people are provided with employment opportunities‚ they can become productive assets and take their part in mainstream society offering the best of their skills
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WEST AFRICA: AL-QAEDA NEW GROUND FOR RECRUITING BY WEST AFRICA: AL-QAEDA NEW GROUND FOR RECRUITING I. Introduction Al-Qaeda and its allies are exploring the West African Region for their future operations. Their focus is on a region where institutions are weakened as result of tenuous economic structures‚ inadequate infrastructures‚ unprotected borders‚ civil war‚ and insufficient or poor governance; making them susceptible to corruption and lawlessness‚ and a fertile ground for
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Political Terrorism in Nigeria: Cursory and Critical Appraisal Shote Paul Oluwaseun‚ LLB‚ BL.* Introduction One of the core reasons for political apathy in Nigeria today is the continuous uprising and bedeviling terror associated to our political system. Many have tagged politics to be a dirty game; they sensibly opined that active participation in the political activities in Nigeria is tantamount to embarking on a journey of no return because of mendacious and purposeless minds who are mere opportunists
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1. A drive-by shooting occurred in Durham‚ North Carolina‚ at 10:14 p.m.‚ Friday‚ February 12th. During this drive-by an innocent elderly woman was injured and the Durham County Sheriff’s Office is looking for any suspects associated with the crime. Local officials claim that the elderly woman was sent to the hospital‚ Friday night with life-threatening injuries. A 72-year-old woman‚ whose name was not released‚ was reported to be wounded while was inside her home at 3017 Forrester St.‚ according
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HISTORY OF WEST AFRICA Overview The history of West Africa is the long history of human movements‚ incursions‚ displacements‚ intermixtures of peoples‚ and of the impact of these on the beliefs‚ attitudes‚ social and political organization to the peoples West Africa. The history of West Africa can be divided into three major periods: first‚ its prehistory‚ second‚ colonial period‚ in which Great Britain and France controlled nearly the whole of the region and the post-independence era‚ in
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2012. 3. Central Intelligence Agency (2011). "Somalia". The World Factbook. Langley‚ Virginia: Central Intelligence Agency. 5 Oct 2011. 4. Special Report: In Africa‚ a militant group ’s growing appeal". Reuters. 30 May 2012. 5. ^ "Al-Qaeda‚ Boko Haram‚ and Al-Shabaab ‘merge’". Hurriyet Daily News. 26 June 2012. 6. "African Terrorist Groups Starting to Cooperate‚ United States Says". Bloomberg. 25 June 2012. 7. "Al-Shabaab joining al Qaeda‚ monitor group says". CNN. February 9‚ 2012. 8. Africa
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Mass media in Nigeria Prior to the revolution of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT)‚ the television‚ radio and print media had been the main source of mass communication. The development of mass media in Nigeria dates back to 1970 with the print media being the first having a coverage of about 45% with more penetration in the urban areas. The radio soon followed having a more widely reached audience though the availability of the radio at earlier stages was low and in 1990 then
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policies over the protection of the country from within. This event led to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and many other overhauls in regards to terrorism. However the threat continues to grow. With group like the Islamic State and Boko Haram conducting massive attacks overseas‚ Americans are concerned that this threat will make its way across the ocean. However‚ in several ways it has already arrived in the United States. There are many reasons why the federal government put terrorism
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change is through hashtags. Hashtags start out little and all the sudden it led to a social change. Jill Ponl says‚ "Popular hashtags you many know that inspired a desire of change are #BringBackOurGirls spurred a public outcry in the response to Boko Haram kidnapping in Nigeria; #BlackLivesMatter was another response to police brutality in the U.S."All these hashtags started out on the internet‚ and turned out into a group of people protesting. The web media help make the small issues that are important
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