Abuja is the (newish) capital, Yeez.
Kaduna is a culturally important town that became an administrative centre under British rule and is still home to much of the educated northern elite.
you are right David .. I just missed a word there .. I should have written it as
"OLD Capital of Nigeria" but that country with diverse religious demography
According to a 2009 Pew survey 50.4% of Nigeria's population were Muslims. A later Pew study in 2011 estimated that Christians now form the majority of the nation, comprising 50.8% of the population, while Muslims comprised 47.9%. Adherents of other religions make up 1.4% of the population.
and with different sects of Islam will have tough time in the next 10 years so.. I am not sure
How true is this news but it says
Nigerian pastor whose daughter was murdered by Boko Haram for refusing to convert to Islam His daughters were apparently takes away in that last mass abduction by those Islamic heroes of Nigeria... the news says
Nigerian pastor whose daughter was murdered by Boko Haram for refusing to convert to Islam has said he is "grateful that she didn't change her religion". Pastor Enoch Mark and his wife Marta were in Chibok, Borno State, the night that 276 girls – including their eldest daughters, Monica and Sarah, were taken from their school in the town last April. Some 50 managed to escape, but 219 were kidnapped, and are believed to remain in captivity.
Describing the night of the abduction in an interview on BBC's Panorama last week, he said: "I just hear a heavy bomb blast that even shook the church. I hear the shout of the girls because I am just about 500 metres away from the school compound."
"I heard how they shouted but I could not help." The pastor and his wife were forced to run into the bush with their five younger children to escape the militants, but their older daughters were taken away. Marta told the BBC: "When we found out Boko Harm had kidnapped our girls, I was distraught. I've never recovered. I am still in terrible pain."
Several weeks after the abduction, Boko Haram released footage of 136 of the schoolgirls, purporting to show them having converted to Islam. The girls were shown dressed in the full Muslim hijab and reciting the Quran. Pastor Mark said that was informed that his eldest daughter, Monica, was killed by her captors when she refused to convert to Islam.
"I was told that my daughter refused to change her religion. I was told that they dug a hole and buried her from the neck and stoned her to death," he said.
"To die for the sake of Christ, that's the happiest thing for me. I'm grateful that she didn't change her religion. She trust in God."
Marta added that she believes their daughter "died with dignity". "Monica is now in heaven because she refused to convert," she said.
Two women who have fled captivity by Boko Haram told the BBC that they witnessed some of the Chibok schoolgirls carrying out orders to kill. One young woman said the girls had been "brainwashed" by the militants and she saw them murder a number of Christians.
"They were Christian men. They [Boko Haram militants] forced the Christians to lie down. Then the girls cut their throats," the woman recalled. "They [the Chibok girls] told us: 'You women should learn from your husbands because they are giving their blood for the cause. We must also go to war for Allah.'"...
well Faith is a Powerful Neural Medicine ..It makes people kill.. It makes people save, it makes people forgive and it makes people forget...
more news on those abducted school girls..
http://allafrica.com/stories/201504150753.html Rev. Enoch Mark, whose biological daughter - Monica Enoch and adopted daughter, Sarah Samuel, where among those abducted, told journalists in Abuja, Tuesday, that he and his wife have taken to sedatives since the incidence to remain lives.
Speaking at the venue of the march by 219 Chibok Girls Ambassadors in Abuja, added that his wife has been hospitalised in the aftermath of the abduction of their daughters.
"We feel so bad and we feel so sad. Even my wife cannot walk in a normal way again. We are just uncomfortable.
"My wife is now under treatment. All of us are walking daily with drugs in our hands. We take drugs like food. We take drugs more than the water we drink. Since our daughters were abducted, we have been restless. My wife was attacked with high blood pressure, likewise our other little kids and myself.
That picture of Enoch Mark and his wife is from
BBC 14 April 2015 well That is what is going on in that Rich Nari Land with lots of faith heads..