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Southern Kaduna genocide, the Glossary

The immediate origins of killings in Southern Kaduna especially in the 2010s and early 2020s can be traced to the events that brought in Goodluck Jonathan into power in 2010 as the President of Nigeria, and escalated after the presidential election in 2011, which he won.^[1]

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Abuja

Abuja is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria.

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Adara people

Adara people (also Eda; exonyms: Kadara; Á̱nietswaywan), are an ethnic group in the Middle Belt who speak the Adara language, a north Plateau language of Nigeria.

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Afan festival

The Afan National Festival is an annual event celebrated every 1 January by the Oegworok (Kagoro) people of southern Kaduna State, Middle Belt (central) Nigeria.

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African Union

The African Union (AU) is a continental union of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa.

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Ahmed Makarfi

Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi (born 8 August 1956) is a Nigerian politician who is a former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party.

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AK-47

The AK-47, officially known as the Avtomat Kalashnikova (also known as the Kalashnikov or just AK), is an assault rifle that is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge.

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Akurmi people

The Akurmi people (Hausa), are an ethnic group in Kaduna and Kano States which speaks the T'kurmi language, an East Kainji language of Nigeria.

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All Progressives Congress

The All Progressives Congress (APC) is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Nigeria, along with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

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Atyap Chiefdom

Atyap Chiefdom is a Nigerian traditional state of the Atyap people, located on the upper Kaduna River basin of the central Nigeria plateau in the Middle Belt.

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The Atyap Community Development Association (ACDA), is a sociocultural organisation established to promote the interests of the Atyap people of Southern Kaduna, Nigeria.

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Ayet Atyap annual cultural festival

Ayet Atyap Annual Cultural Festival (Tyap: Song A̠yet or Swong A̠yet) is an age-long chain of festive activities and ceremonies observed by the Atyap people of Southern Kaduna, Middle Belt Nigeria.

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Bakulu people

Bakulu people (also Ikolu, Ikulu, Bekulu) are a people found in Zangon Kataf, Kachia and Kauru Local Government Areas of southern Kaduna State of Middle Belt, Nigeria.

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Barnabas Bala

Barnabas Yusuf Bala (20 December 1956 – 11 July 2021) was a Nigerian architect and politician who served as deputy governor of Kaduna State from 2015 to 2019.

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Bayelsa State

Bayelsa is a state in the South South region of Nigeria, located in the core of the Niger Delta.

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Birnin Gwari

Birnin Gwari is a Local Government Area in Kaduna State, Nigeria.

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Bola Tinubu

Chief Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu (born 29 March 1952) is a Nigerian politician who is the 16th and current president of Nigeria.

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Cameroon

Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa.

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Chad

Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of North and Central Africa.

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Channels TV

Channels Television is a Nigerian independent 24-hour news and media television channel based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Chidi Odinkalu

Chidi Anselm Odinkalu (b. June 12, 1968) is a Nigerian human rights activist, lawyer, professor and writer.

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Chikun

Chikun is a Local Government Area in central Kaduna State, Nigeria.

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Christian Association of Nigeria

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) is an umbrella organisation containing numerous Christian denominations in Nigeria.

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Christian Solidarity Worldwide

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is a human rights organisation which specialises in religious freedom and works on behalf of those persecuted for their Christian beliefs, persecuted for other religious belief or persecuted for lack of belief.

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Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas Day, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus.

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Christopher Gwabin Musa

General Christopher Gwabin Musa (born 25 December 1967) is a Nigerian Army general who is the 18th Chief of Defence Staff of Nigeria.

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Committee to Protect Journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an American independent non-profit, non-governmental organization, based in New York City, with correspondents around the world.

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Congress for Progressive Change

The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) was a political party founded in Nigeria in 2009.

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Curfew

A curfew is an order that imposes certain regulations during specified hours.

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Danbaba Suntai

Danbaba Danfulani Suntai (30 June 1961 – 28 June 2017) was a Nigerian pharmacist and politician who served as the governor of Taraba State from 2007 to 2015.

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Danjuma Laah

Danjuma Tella Laah (born 16 February 1960) is a Nigerian politician and senator who represented Kaduna South Senatorial District of Kaduna state from 2015 to 2023.

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Dominic Yahaya

Dominic Gambo Yahaya (born January 10, 1950) is the current monarch of Atyap Chiefdom, a Nigerian traditional state in southern Kaduna State, Nigeria.

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Federal Capital Territory (Nigeria)

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is a federal territory in central Nigeria.

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Frederick Fasehun

Frederick Isiotan Fasehun (Frederick Ìsìòtán Fáàséhùn; 21 September 1935 – 1 December 2018) was a Nigerian medical doctor, hotel owner and leader of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC).

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Fula people

The Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe people are an ethnic group in Sahara, Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region.

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Fulani extremism in Nigeria

The Fulani refers to an ethnic group, the Fulani (also known as Fula or Fulɓe) are group of people whose neighboring farmers are against them in various ethnicities. Southern Kaduna genocide and Fulani extremism in Nigeria are human rights abuses in Nigeria.

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Genocide

Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people, either in whole or in part. Southern Kaduna genocide and Genocide are ethnic cleansing.

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Godogodo

Godogodo is a district as well as a town in Jema'a Local Government Area in southern Kaduna state in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria.

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Goodluck Jonathan

Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan (born 20 November 1957) is a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015.

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Governor of Kaduna State

The governor of Kaduna State is the head of government of Kaduna State in Nigeria.

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Gwantu

Gbantu (Gwantu) is the Sanga Local Government Area headquarters, in southern Kaduna state in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria.

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Hadiza Balarabe

Hadiza Sabuwa Balarabe (born 26 August 1966) into Alhaji Abubakar Mohammed family is a Nigerian politician and medical doctor who has served as the deputy governor of Kaduna State since 2019.

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Ham people

The Ham people (exonyms: A̱daa) are an ethnic group found in the southern part of Kaduna State in the northwestern region of Nigeria, predominantly in Jaba, Kachia and Kagarko Local Government Areas of southern Kaduna State, Nigeria.

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Hausa language

Hausa (Harshen/Halshen Hausa; Ajami: هَرْشٜىٰن هَوْسَا) is a Chadic language that is spoken by the Hausa people in the northern parts of Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin and Togo, and the southern parts of Niger, and Chad, with significant minorities in Ivory Coast.

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Hausa people

The Hausa (autonyms for singular: Bahaushe (m), Bahaushiya (f); plural: Hausawa and general: Hausa; exonyms: Ausa; Ajami: مُتَنٜىٰنْ هَوْسَا / هَوْسَاوَا) are a native ethnic group in West Africa.

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Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.

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Imprisonment

Imprisonment or incarceration is the restraint of a person's liberty against their will.

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Inauguration

In government and politics, inauguration is the process of swearing a person into office and thus making that person the incumbent.

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Internally displaced person

An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to leave their home but who remains within their country's borders.

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Isa Ali Pantami

Isa Ali Ibrahim popularly known as Isa Ali Pantami, is a Nigerian politician and Islamic cleric, who was minister of Communications and Digital Economy from 2019 to 2023.

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Jema'a

Jema'a (also written Ajemaa and Jama'a) is a Local Government Area in southern Kaduna State, Nigeria with headquarters at Kafanchan.

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Jonathan Asake

Jonathan Asake (born 1965) is a Nigerian politician and former lawmaker.

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Jonathan Gyet Maude

Jonathan Danladi Gyet Maude (born 1938) is the monarch of Ham (Jaba) Chiefdom, a Nigerian traditional state in southern Kaduna State, Nigeria.

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Journalism

Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy.

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Kachia

Kachia (Adara: Akhwee) is a Local Government Area in the southern part of Kaduna State, Nigeria.

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Kaduna

Kaduna is the capital city of Kaduna State, and the former political capital of Northern Nigeria.

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Kaduna River

The Kaduna River is a tributary of the Niger River which flows for through Nigeria.

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Kaduna South senatorial district

Kaduna South senatorial district covers eight local government areas of Kaduna State including Jaba, Jema'a, Kachia, Kagarko, Kaura, Kauru, Sanga, and Zangon Kataf.

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Kaduna State

Kaduna State (Jihar Kaduna, جىِهَر كَدُنا; مدينة كدونا; script, 𞤤𞤫𞤴𞤣𞤭 𞤳𞤢𞤣𞤵𞤲𞤢; Si̱tet Ka̱duna) is a state in the northwest geopolitical zone of Nigeria. The state capital is its namesake, the city of Kaduna, which was the 8th largest city in the country as of 2006.

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Kaduna State University

Kaduna State University is located in Kaduna, Kaduna State, Nigeria.

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Kafanchan

Kafanchan (Fantswam; Nikyob: Manɡyanɡ) is a town located in the southern part of Kaduna State, Nigeria.

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Kafanchan Peace Declaration

The Kafanchan Peace Declaration is a peace accord signed by five local government areas in southern Kaduna State, Nigeria.

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Kagoma, Nigeria

Kagoma is a district of Jema'a Local Government Area, southern Kaduna state in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria.

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Kagoro

Gworok, (also Gworog, Gwoot; Kagoro), is a large town in southern Kaduna State, Middle Belt Nigeria. Southern Kaduna genocide and Kagoro are southern Kaduna.

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Kajuru

Kajuru (Adara: Ajure) is a local government area in southern Kaduna State, Nigeria. Southern Kaduna genocide and Kajuru are southern Kaduna.

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Kanai, Nigeria

Kanai (Hausa: Gora) is a district as well as a village in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of southern Kaduna state in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria.

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Kano (city)

Kano (Ajami: كَنُواْ) is a city in northern Nigeria and the capital of Kano State.

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Kaura, Nigeria

Kaura (Watyap) is a town and a Local Government Area in southern Kaduna State, Nigeria.

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Kauru

Kauru is a Local Government Area in southern Kaduna State, Nigeria.

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Kidnapping

In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful abduction and confinement of a person against their will.

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Kwoi

Kwoi (Hyam: Kwain) is a town in Jaba Local Government Area as well as the Ham (Jaba) Chiefdom headquarters, in southern Kaduna state in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria.

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Lagos

Lagos (also US), or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan city in southwestern Nigeria.

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Land grabbing

Land grabbing is the large-scale acquisition of land through buying or leasing of large pieces of land by domestic and transnational companies, governments, and individuals.

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Local government areas of Nigeria

Nigeria has 774 local government areas (LGAs), each administered by a local government council consisting of a chairman, who is the chief executive, and other elected members, who are referred to as councillors.

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Maiwada Galadima

His Royal Highness Maiwada Raphael Galadima (November 11, 1954 - October 26, 2018) was the monarch of Adara Chiefdom, a Nigerian traditional state in southern Kaduna State, Nigeria.

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Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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Matthew Hassan Kukah

Matthew Hassan Kukah (born 31 August 1952) is the current bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto.

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Middle Belt

The Middle Belt (also spelt Middle-Belt) or Central Nigeria is a term used in human geography to designate a belt region stretching across central Nigeria longitudinally and forming a transition zone between Northern and Southern Nigeria.

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Middle Belt Forum

The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) is a regional socio-political group in Nigeria that seeks to promote the interests of the people of the Middle Belt region, a loosely defined area in the northcentral region of Nigeria.

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Miyetti Allah

Presently Miyetti Allah is being headed by Baba Othman Ngelzarma as it National President Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (sometimes also called MACBAN) is a loose partisan advocacy group centered on promoting the welfare of Fulani pastoralists in Nigeria.

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Muhammadu Buhari

Muhammadu Buhari (born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian statesman who served as the president of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023.

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Mukhtar Yero

Mukhtar Ramalan Yero (born 1 May 1968) is a Nigerian politician who served as the governor of Kaduna State from 2012 to 2015, following the death of Patrick Yakowa in a helicopter crash.

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Muslim–Muslim ticket

The Muslim–Muslim ticket is a term used to describe the Nigerian political arrangement where both the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of a major party are Muslims.

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Namadi Sambo

Mohammed Namadi Sambo (born 2 August 1954) is a Nigerian politician who served as the vice president of Nigeria from 19 May 2010 to 29 May 2015.

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Nasir El-Rufai

Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai (born 16 February 1960) is a Nigerian politician who served as governor of Kaduna State from 2015 to 2023.

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National Assembly (Nigeria)

The National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a bicameral legislature established under section 4 of the Nigerian Constitution.

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National Emergency Management Agency (Nigeria)

The National Emergency Management Agency is an agency in Nigeria.

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National Human Rights Commission (Nigeria)

The National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria (“the NHRC”), affiliated with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, was established by the National Human Rights Commission (Amendment) Act of 1995 to promote and protect all human rights in Nigeria.

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National Security Adviser (Nigeria)

The Nigerian National Security Adviser is a senior official in the cabinet of the President of Nigeria who manages national security on behalf of the President and serves as his chief advisor on all matters that are vital to the very survival of the Nigerian state.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Niger

Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a country in West Africa.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.

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Nigerian Army

The Nigerian Army (NA) is the land force of the Nigerian Armed Forces.

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The Nigerian Television Authority or NTA is a Nigerian government-owned and partly commercial broadcast station.

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Nuhu Bajoga

Nuhu Audu Bajoga (born 4 July 1949) is a Nigerian politician who served as the deputy governor of Kaduna State from 2012 to 2015, and as Nigerian Ambassador to Poland from 2004 to 2007.

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Oodua Peoples Congress

The Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) is a Yoruba nationalist, regionalist, and vigilante organization in Nigeria.

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Owoye Andrew Azazi

Owoye Andrew Azazi (1 February 1952 – 15 December 2012) was a Nigerian army general who served as National Security Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, was Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of Nigeria, and Chief of Army Staff (COAS).

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Patrick Yakowa

Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa (1 December 1948 – 15 December 2012) was a Nigerian politician who served as governor of Kaduna State from 2010 to 2012.

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Peoples Democratic Party (Nigeria)

The People's Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Nigeria, along with its main rival, the All Progressives Congress.

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Politics of Nigeria

The federal government of Nigeria is composed of three distinct branches: the executive, the legislative, and the judicial, whose powers are vested and bestowed upon by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

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Port Harcourt

Port Harcourt (Pidgin: Po-ta-kot or Pi-ta-kwa) is the capital and largest city of Rivers State in Nigeria.

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President of Nigeria

The president of Nigeria, officially the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is the head of state and head of government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

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Proscription

Proscription (proscriptio) is, in current usage, a 'decree of condemnation to death or banishment' (Oxford English Dictionary) and can be used in a political context to refer to state-approved murder or banishment.

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Redeemed Christian Church of God

The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) is a holiness pentecostal megachurch and denomination headquartered in Ogun,Nigeria.

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Rivers State

Rivers State, also known as Rivers, is a state in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria (Old Eastern Region).

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto (Sokotoën(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Sokoto in the ecclesiastical province of Kaduna in Nigeria.

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Sahara Reporters

Sahara Reporters is a news agency based in New York City that focuses on promoting citizen journalism by encouraging everyday people to report stories about corruption, human rights abuses and other political misconduct in Africa, with special focus on Nigeria.

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Sahel

The Sahel region or Sahelian acacia savanna is a biogeographical region in Africa.

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Sanga, Nigeria

Sanga (also Igbunbu) is a Local Government Area in southern Kaduna State, Nigeria.

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Senegal

Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.

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Southern Kaduna

Southern Kaduna (A̱tak Ka̱duna; Jju: Ka̱tak Ka̱duna; Kudancin Kaduna; formerly Southern Zaria) is an area of the Nok Culture region inhabited by various related ethnic groups who do not identify as Hausa, living south of Zaria, Kaduna State.

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Southern Kaduna Crisis

The Southern Kaduna Crisis is part of a series of ethnicity conflicts in Nigeria.

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Southern Kaduna People's Union

Southern Kaduna People's Union (SOKAPU) is a socio-cultural organization, acting as an umbrella body representing the people of Southern Kaduna, Kaduna State, Nigeria. Southern Kaduna genocide and Southern Kaduna People's Union are southern Kaduna.

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Spread of Islam

The spread of Islam spans almost 1,400 years.

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Sunday Marshall Katunɡ

Sunday Marshall Katung (born 1 April 1961) is a Nigerian politician and lawyer who has served as the Senator Representing Kaduna South Senatorial District since 2023.

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Takbir

The takbīr (تَكْبِير) is the name for the Arabic phrase (اَللَّٰهُ أَكْبَرُ).Wensinck, A.J., "Takbīr", in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Edited by: P. Bearman, Th.

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Taraba State

Taraba State is a state in north-eastern Nigeria, named after the Taraba River, which traverses the Southern part of the state.

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The Epoch Times

The Epoch Times is a far-right international multi-language newspaper and media company affiliated with the Falun Gong new religious movement.

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TheCable

TheCable is an independent online newspaper in Nigeria.

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Tyrant

A tyrant, in the modern English usage of the word, is an absolute ruler who is unrestrained by law, or one who has usurped a legitimate ruler's sovereignty.

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Uba Sani

Uba Sani (born 31 December 1970) is a Nigerian engineer and politician who is the current governor of Kaduna State since 2023.

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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (16 August 19515 May 2010) was a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2007 until his death in May 2010. He won the Nigerian presidential election held on 21 April 2007, and was sworn in on 29 May 2007. He had previously served as the governor of Katsina State from 1999 to 2007; and was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.

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Voice of America

Voice of America (VOA or VoA) is an international radio broadcasting state media agency owned by the United States of America.

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Zamani Lekwot

Zamani Lekwot (born 19 July 1944) is a retired Nigerian Army major general who served as the military governor of Rivers State, Nigeria from July 1975 until July 1978 during the military administrations of Generals Murtala Muhammed and Olusegun Obasanjo.

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Zangon Kataf

Zangon Kataf (Nietcen-A̱fakan) is a Local Government Area in southern Kaduna State, Nigeria.

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Zaria

Zaria is a metropolitan city in Nigeria, located at present time within four local government areas in Kaduna State.

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Zonkwa

Zonkwa (Jju: A̱zunkwa) is the Zangon Kataf Local Government Area as well as the Bajju Chiefdom headquarters, in southern Kaduna state in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria.

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1992 Zangon Kataf crises

The genesis of the 1992 Zangon Kataf crises could at least be traced to the onset of the British imperial regime in the Northern Region of Nigeria, in which the Atyap people began reporting the loss of land to the Hausas. Southern Kaduna genocide and 1992 Zangon Kataf crises are southern Kaduna.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Kaduna_genocide

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21st-century mass murder in Nigeria

Ethnic cleansing

Genocide of indigenous peoples in Africa

Human rights abuses in Nigeria

Southern Kaduna

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