Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama will welcome Nigeria's new president to the White House Monday in an effort to bolster the fight against Boko Haram and begin a new chapter with Africa's most populous country.

The United States is eager to boost its ties with Nigeria now that the former president, Goodluck Jonathan, who was often a source of frustration for Washington, has left office.

The Obama administration believes that President Muhammadu Buhari can become an ally in cracking down on Boko Haram, whose collaboration with ISIS is helping the spread of radical extremism in West Africa.

Buhari, a devout Muslim in a country where a majority of residents are Muslim, said during his election that he'd fight aggressively against radical Islam and promised to ramp up the fight against Boko Haram, which has horrified the world with its kidnappings of Nigerian school girls.

The Obama administration, which had challenged Jonathan to fight terrorism more aggressively, emphasized the effort to combat Boko Haram in its announcement of Buhuri's visit.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/20/politics/nigerian-president-buhari-obama-visit/index.html?eref=edition



Not a bigot and but I find the assertion interesting, most research on the demographics of Nigeria's religious adherents tend to point to a 50-50 divide....

now e-quarrelling starts

Interesting

Wrong perception.

Op suppose google am to confirm before creating a topic

Issokay

Nigeria unfortunately a technically muslim country by virtue of our membership of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)

olaboy001:
Issokay

who's the fool that spew this balderdash?

barcanista:
Nigeria unfortunately a technically muslim country by virtue of our membership of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)

are you saying that we are oic member till date?

Ayameze2015:
who's the fool that spew this balderdash?

Please, what is fool?

barcanista:
Nigeria unfortunately a technically muslim country by virtue of our membership of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)

Yes, am we have IBB and those avaricious pastors to thank for this.

cnn said so but we know better don't we??

This is not news una neva understand.

Ayameze2015:
are you saying that we are oic member till date?

Yes Sir! Former Presidents Obasanjo, Yar'adua and GEJ fully participated in OIC confrence during their time

omenka:
cnn said so but we know better don't we??

There are more muslims in Nigeria, don't you think?

Muslim ko Mozambique ni
if I hear

Their opinion though not true

I think so....
If you consider majority of Muslim north (with 50% of country's population) plus close to half of the south west, that will give you more Muslims.
Don't confuse it with north ( half of of the country's population)

hahn:


There are more muslims in Nigeria, don't you think?

Does the last population census figures say so?? If it doesn't, then no one can say they are more in number. I believe facts not conjectures.

If I hear.
Yet d north will never allow ethnicity and religion to be added during census.

una need prophet to tell una say dem Coret abi

omenka:
Does the last population censors figures say so?? If it doesn't, then no one can say they are more in number. I believe facts not conjectures.

Do you mean the last census where lots of people weren't even numbered?

Nigeria, unfortunately, doesn't have a reliable statistic organisation. I personally believe CNN are relying on guesswork but considering the fact that there is a large population of citizens in the north(not to mention the high birth rate), with very few christians, as opposed to the south west for instance who have a large number of muslims, it's fair enough to say they might be right.

I'm not muslim by the way

In a nation of 77 million Muslims, the 5th largest Muslim nation in the world, this is not completely inaccurate

Demmocrats:

. Me i dont want to talk yet till the time come.

CNN always goof when it comes to matters concerning Nigeria. I dunno if they do it on purpose.

Are they wrong? No!

The Arewa-Odua are the Islamic core upon which one Nigeria was built. Of course Nigeria is an Islamic country, how is that even debatable.

See what APC has caused.
No wonder the Igbos are agitating for Biafra.
They really don't belong in that zoo called Nija

Am from biafra
The land of the rising sun
Am a Christain

To those christians who voted for this cow all in the name of change, this is part1

hahn:


Do you mean the last census where lots of people weren't even numbered?

Nigeria, unfortunately, doesn't have a reliable statistic organisation. I personally believe CNN are relying on guesswork but considering the fact that there is a large population of citizens in the north(not to mention the high birth rate), with very few christians, as opposed to the south west for instance who have a large number of muslims, it's fair enough to say they might be right.

I'm not muslim by the way

I would rather believe figures from a census. Nothing less.