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Sympathizers at the site of the mass grave for victims of the Dagon Na Hauwa mayhem in Jos, Nigeria

>*Aliyu Gusau is new Security Adviser *400 victims get mass burial *UN, Vatican mourn, appeal for calm. ABUJA— THE Jos crisis which led to the death of about 400 people on Sunday, has led to the sacking of the National Security Adviser, Sarki Mukhtar, by the Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. replace him is Aliyu Gusau, a one time National Security Adviser to former President, Olusegun Obasanjo. Meantime, about 400 corpses of the victims of Sunday’s massacre were, yesterday, given a mass burial at Dogon Na Hauwa village in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State amid tears and wailings. <<< MORE @ VANGUARD >>>


A three and a half-hour top level security meeting presided over by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan ended in the Presidential Villa, Abuja last night with a major outcome: the immediate removal from office of the National Security Adviser to the President, Maj-Gen. Sarkin Mukhtar. He was immediately replaced with his predecessor, Lt. Gen. Aliyu Gusau in what is seen as the beginning of a major shake-up in the nation’s security services following security lapses in the Jos renewed violence. Gusau served as the national security adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo until 2006 when he left to contest the 2007 presidential election. MORE @ SUN NEWS ONLINE


An unstable Nigeria is a nightmare prospect for Western leaders

Though the latest Muslim-Christian killings have nothing to do with Nigeria’s current constitutional crisis, triggered by a long illness to President Umaru Yar’Adua, they illustrate graphically the dangers when drift and dither replace swift decision making. The Christian-dominated Government of Plateau State has yet to explain how warnings of an impending raid by Muslims on Christian villages went unheeded or why security forces were unable to stop the bloodletting quickly. <<< MORE @ TIMES ONLINE >>>


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