Celebrities Protest Boko Haram's Abduction of 200+ Girls in Nigeria: Bring Back Our Girls

Being a Nigerian living in Nigeria, I never thought the worldwide exposure I always wished for Nigeria would come via a negative issue. About four weeks ago, the Nigerian terrorist group, Boko Haram abducted 200+ teenage girls from their school. Boko Haram, which means 'western education is sinful' in Arabic, has been terrorizing citizens of Nigeria since 2008. They especially operate in the Northern part of the country, where Islam is the predominant religion. So, basically, they don't want any form of western civilization or Christian teachings in the region. So, they bomb churches, and other areas predominated by Christians in the north. Although, in recent times, they have also bombed Mosques. Their latest act of abducting these school girls is to use them as a shield from planned attacks on their hideout by the Nigerian military.


I typed all that to say that their operations have been going on for more than five years now (bombing and killing of innocent citizens), but they became infamous worldwide in the last couple of weeks cos they abducted those school girls. Check out pics of different celebrities protesting the actions of the Terrorist organization below...from Anne Hathaway, to Trey Songz, to Diddy, to Wendy Williams...

Nigerian Artist React To Government's Fuel Subsidy Removal

A couple of Nigerian artist have joined the Nigerian masses to protest  against the Federal Government for the recent removal of fuel subsidy. The President of the country, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan took the action on the first day of the year, and it saw the cost of petrol go from 65 Naira, to 150 Naira.

A lot of artists (musicians and actors) heavily supported the campaign of the current presidet; making jingles and songs about him before he got elected. Some of them have condemmed his actions  and say they regret voting fopr him, but ofcos they can't return the money they were paid for the service. More or less like they sold their birth rights. The few that didn't partake in supporting G.E.J's campaign like Banky W, Seun Kuti (The Late Fela Kuti's son), Whiz Kid, Sound Sultan, Rugged Man, Dede, JJC, M.I and Jesse Jagz, have in one way or the other used their status positively in support of the suffering masses. Some like Banky W and Seun Kuti have even physically joined in the protest as seen in the pic below.


No one knows where all these catastrophy would lead to. Before the issue of the removal of the fuel subsidy, there had already been  months of unrest in the country with a faction of islamic people in the North that are are against western influence in the country had been blowing up spots. On christmas day, they blew up a a church while a service was going on. Let us just pray things cool out before too much destruction is done.