If you think the title of this story is “religious intolerance” in Nigeria then you have been swayed by recent stories from the international media. You –and they—are wrong. Much of the international press covering the unrest and violence in Nigeria recently has been inaccurate, irresponsible and even dangerous. Nigeria is “on the brink”, many claim because of conflict between Muslims and Christians.

While defending its recent attack on Christian places of worship, a self acclaimed leader of the dreaded jama’atu ahlus sunnah lid da’awati wal jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram said the attacks were a revenge for killing of Muslims in some parts of Nigeria. Sadly, the same militant group has in the past claimed responsibility for killing some Muslim clerics as well as bombing mosques in some parts of Northern Nigeria

AS stated in my previous statement after the mass killing at St.Theresa on Christmas day and now the bloodiest attack in Kano with almost 200 deaths recorded so far by the Boko Haram group, we all must at this point move beyond mere condemnation to taking collective decisive steps as a people and collaborate with security agencies to bring this national shame and threat to our existence to a halt.

WHILE the killings of Southerners, Yorubas and Northern Christians continue unabated in the North, there is a recognizable systematic effort to locate the perpetrators among the victims or at least to obfuscate the source of culpability for the on-going mayhem.

BILLIONS of naira can be generated by the agency as regulatory allowance annually. This is done in many developed countries. The Legislation will fine-tune all necessary details, especially concerning the mode of collecting the regulatory allowance and the range of products the allowance would cover.