(Vanguard-Nigeria) Jide Ajani - Fresh facts have emerged on why the Federal Government of Nigeria did not support the motion for Palestinian statehood at the UN. Diplomatic sources suggested that the decision was based on a "long-term, strategic position" by the government. One source said that "since the seeming difficulty by the Federal Government to procure arms in its fight against the insurgency in Nigeria's northeast, Israel has played a very useful role....That Nigeria is even being able to contain the insurgency is to a large extent due to the support it is getting from Israel." At the same time, the Arab states in OPEC refused to reduce production as oil prices fell, leading to even greater reductions in oil revenue for Nigeria. Another diplomatic source disclosed that the indirect funding of the Salafist movement in Nigeria by some Arab countries contributed to the rise of Boko Haram.
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