Joy feelings magazine | Page 77

Friday and burnt down churches, said Ahmad Maishanu, who fled Mubi on Wednesday. claims of an end to hostilities as "a lie". In a video released on October 2, Boko Haram showed the stoning to death of a man accused of adultery, a man having his right hand cut off for theft and a young man and woman given 100 lashes each for sex outside marriage. Former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), said Nigeria was capable of dealing with terrorism. He also said the activities of the sect had nothing to do with religion or ethnicity but an act of terrorism. Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has come under fire after a discredited truce with Boko Haram. The group, which wants to create a hardline Islamic state in Nigeria's northeast, is now thought to control at least two dozen towns in the region. The deal was being described as a breakthrough, agreed between Nigeria's g