My Way News - Nigeria president declares state of emergency
My Way News reports: "Admitting Islamic extremists now control some of his nation's villages and towns, Nigeria's president declared a state of emergency Tuesday across the country's troubled northeast, promising to send more troops to fight what he said is now an open rebellion. [...] Since 2010, more than 1,600 people have been killed in attacks by Islamic insurgents, according to an Associated Press count."

Comment: Although this wire-service report doesn't say it, this is really a civil war between the Islamic north and the largely Christian south, with Islamic insurgents guilty of many attacks on Christians and churches in their effort to forcefully impose sharia law on the country. At least the report calls them Islamic extremists, accuracy that is surprising given the politically-correct bent of many news-wire editors. Usually, in such reports, they use vague and generic terms like "fighters" or "rebels" to depict them without conveying to the reader any sense of their motivation or agenda. There is no effort to even pretend that Islam is a religion of peace in Nigeria, the brutality of the insurgents won't allow it.