Nigeria

To Nigeria, and dramatic developments in the community of Darul Islam, which yesterday morning, at about the same time as we were talking about it here on Network Africa, was reportedly raided by hundreds of police officers.

Founded in the early 1990's in Niger State, Darul Islam is a small, isolated village of about two thousand people, who've moved into the community to live according to strict Islamic principles, away from what they see as western decadence.

After the recent bloodshed and violence involving the extremist Islamist group Boko Haram in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, Darul Islam came under official scrutiny, even though, as elder Mallam Adam Abubakar told us on yesterday's programme, his community rejects violence.

Despite this professed rejection of violence, the security forces descended on Darul Islam in great numbers and took many people away for questioning in the town of Makwa.

Fred Dove spoke to Mannir Dan-Ali, editor-in-chief of the Nigerian newspaper, "Daily Trust" to find out more.