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ViolentMooslim:Hehehe. You sure feel good massaging your overbloated ego. Kontinuu. |
So, Imoke is Donald Duke's predecessor? Mad must be madding this Vanguard reporter |
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has described Malam Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, as a pitiable messenger who does not know the limits of his relevance.https://dailytrust.com/you-are-a-pitiable-messenger-akeredolu-hits-garba-shehu-over-grazing-ban
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Mr. Woman wrapper, recommend her if you have found another job. Talking from experience, you will live to regret this. Cram that! |
IPOB boys will not see anything wrong in all this because it is not Oshiomhole. If this happens in APC, they will be dragging their ancestors in their erosion-ravaged muddy villages. Foolish yammiri okoro nincompoops. Obaseki was invited to APC. He ran the party aground before finally porting. He is doing the same in PDP now. By the time he spends four years in the party, no founding member of the party will have a say again. Stupid ungrateful ugly monster. |
Yaminrin can not even spell CHAPTER correctly. Chai.. |
Sunday Nache Achi, a 400-level student of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Bauchi, was murdered inside the university mosque by Muslim students over allegation that he circulated a tract that contained blasphemous contentIn the last one month, so much has been said and written about the unnerving extremist religious views of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami. The minister has not denied them but insists that they were views he espoused as a teenager. But in this exclusive interview with News Editor, Ishaya Ibrahim, Professor Samuel Achi, former director-general of Chemical and Leather Technology (now National Institute for Leather Science and Technology ), Zaria, recalls the events of December 9, 2004, when he received the news that his first son, Sunday Nache Achi, a 400-level student of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Bauchi, was murdered inside the university mosque by Muslim students over allegation that he circulated a tract that contained blasphemous content. Pantami was the Chief Imam of the mosque then and he was not 13 years. Excerpts: How have you been coping with the gruesome events that happened in December 2004 when you learnt that your son was killed in ATBU? How did you take the news? Well, in the first place when it happened, it was my pastor that called me when I was in a hotel room in Abuja. I was a chief executive officer of a federal government establishment at that time under the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology. I was called to go to Abuja to see the minister. Immediately I was told of my son’s death, I had to be bold. I want to say that God gave me the grace to be bold to keep the information to myself when I got the information around 2 o’clock in the morning of December 9, 2004. The discussion I was to have with the minister was supposed to be very crucial to the existence of the agency I was heading. So, God gave me the grace that I was able to control my emotion. We had a very nice discussion. It was after the meeting that I confided in the minister, Professor Turner Isoun. So, I went back. Unfortunately, it was true. It has not been an easy road since then because the trauma was so much – my first son! Definitely, it was a very traumatic experience. Thank God because God has been our mentor. We have actually committed everything to him. To him has been the glory and he has been able to comfort us. Even the church and everybody else. We find solace in so many people coming to comfort us. Even up till today, my colleagues and many other people have been calling me. Even these few days that this thing (Pantami story) has been going on, I’ve received so many calls as well. So, it’s only the grace of God that has kept us going. And of course, I want to emphatically say that as a Christian, I’m happy to know God because if I didn’t know God, or if my family didn’t know God, what we would have done would have been detrimental to the existence of so many other things. But we took it as Christians and we gave God the glory. And as such, definitely, God has comforted us. You can see that not long after, I became a professor and I’ve been living above board by the grace of God. Can you tell us a bit about your son because we learned that he was killed as a result of participating in evangelism outreach? What can you tell us about him? Well, I’m happy to say that God enabled us to bring him up as a very good Christian. He was someone who was taking the word of God seriously. When he went to ATBU, we saw that he continued his good works in the (Christian) ministry. A turnaround was when he came on a holiday and informed us that he had been elected by his colleagues to be the ECWA student ministry leader in the university. I told him it was fine. In fact, it was with apprehension that his mother accepted it. But we prayed for him. We asked God to take care of him. I’m sure a lot of information is in the archives. If you browse his name on the internet, you will see a lot of information. The Christian networks have written so much since that time. That day that you mentioned, December 9, 2004, when you got the news, was it the time it just happened or it had happened a while ago before you got the call? Well, I was told that it happened about one and a half or two hours earlier. After the incident, were you able to get a full picture of what happened? Well, I got the full picture. But as I said, it is not something that I really want to discuss. But one thing I know that you people (media) got wrong is that he was not stoned to death. He was strangled inside the mosque and they threw the corpse outside the university mosque. Did you get any visitor from the university? Did they come to you? Yes. The university came to condole with us. They officially came to condole with us. Was there any kind of investigation to find out what led to that incident? Well, I didn’t pursue that. What about the university? Are you aware if they did that? I cannot say. One of the information that is in the public domain, from Wikileaks, is that the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, was expelled from the university because of a sermon he preached which resulted in violence. So many connections have been drawn between his sermon and what happened to your son. Do you also find the connection? I cannot talk about that. It is not conducive for me to talk about that. But as a father who wouldn’t want that to be done to another person’s child, what do you think are the measures that need to be put in place to forestall such a violent incident? On paper, Nigeria is a secular state. But in practice, I want to categorically say that it depends on where you are that you can actually practice your religion freely. So, that freedom of expression, freedom to practice your religion should actually be given to everybody. It is very sad. It’s been more than 15 years now since this thing happened, and things are really getting worse. The government needs to do a lot more. I can also say here that we should practice our religion the way we are expected to, without any fear of interference from anybody. Let me take you back to the period when it happened, maybe because I was chief executive of a federal government set up … What agency was that? The Federal College of Chemical and Leather Technology. Okay. Go ahead, sir. So, as at that time, the presidency played a very good role, and I commend the then president, His Excellency, Olusegun Obasanjo. He got the message and even though he didn’t talk directly with me, the then Chaplain of Aso Rock Chapel, Professor Yusuf Obaji, had a discussion with me. From it, what they understood was a direct religious intolerance. And he pleaded with me as a Christian to forgive and actually forget everything because the boy died in a very noble Christian way. So, I don’t think there is much to say again. But going back to your earlier question on the tract, I saw the tract after the incident. And in fact, I was shocked to hear that such a tract could be the cause of my son’s death. But there is a climate of intolerance, and when people are not doing what they are supposed to be doing, people who have been assigned the responsibility of leadership either in the church or mosque or other secular organisations or wherever, if you fail to actually give out a message of peace, definitely you have failed. The Chief Imam of the mosque was the person that ahh …. In fact, I have been aware of this information a long time ago. But I kept it to myself because it was not something that was worth thinking about. Was it that the Chief Imam didn’t read the tract? I’m just saying that even if he read the tract, and if he is a peaceful man, if the religion he practices actually preaches peace as it says, then he should have found a way of proffering solution to terrible incidences that would otherwise cause some pandemonium that could lead to loss of lives. That even lead to other incidences later on as a result of what happened, which is not very fine. I really abhor any form of violence. And definitely, I will never stand for anything that will take life from anybody. Even at the time you found out that what was preached in the University mosque was what led to the death of your son, you immediately forgave the perpetrators? I want to say here that I have already forgotten all this. Even when it happened, I went to the press. A publication was made in the Vanguard newspaper. I cannot remember the precise date, but it was about December 20, 2004. If you check that week, you will find my write up. I have a copy, but it is not with me right now. But definitely, I wrote in the newspaper denouncing and also forgiving all those people that committed that dastardly act. So, I still stand as a representative of my family that we have actually forgiven whoever committed such an act. But his judgment is between himself and God, and it will continue to haunt him. So when I saw this (the Pantami story), I was surprised. I said where is this coming from again? So, at that time you knew that the Chief Imam is the current Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami? When? As at the time when you wrote that piece in Vanguard forgiving the perpetrators, you already knew that the Chief Imam of the ATBU mosque was Isa Pantami? No. I did not know. At what point did you find out that he was that same ATBU Chief Imam? It was later on. But not during this latest revelation about him? No, it was not too long after the incident of my son’s death that I knew. Were you aware of the kind of sermon that was delivered at the mosque before your son was murdered? No. I’m not sure. How has the family been carrying on, especially your wife? You know it is well with the soul of the believer who surrenders to Him all he has got because our souls are controlled by Him. Our temperament or whatever you call them, if you commit them unto Him, He will surely take care of you. And that is what He has been doing for us. We faced a lot of … especially myself. I have faced a lot of discrimination, which later on was tied to my relationship to the deceased, my son. But I’m not ready to go into it. You mean because of your son who was already late, you still faced discrimination? Yes. But if I may go back again, at the onset of the event, I want to use this opportunity, which I have never done before. I got to know the action that my governor, Ahmed Makarfi, took by contacting the then governor of Bauchi State. He stood solidly by us. I want to use this opportunity to thank him because if not for him, the corpse of my son would probably have been buried in Bauchi without us knowing. Governor Makarfi played a fatherly role and members of the ECWA Church took it upon themselves to go and retrieve my son’s corpse from Bauchi. Prof, I noticed that you are trying not to mention the minister by name, but I want to ask you about this issue that was published in the media where the minister said he has renounced his past sermons where he supported extreme views. If you saw that, what came to your mind? You see as a Christian, I cannot go back on my word. I said I have already gone to the press to make a pronouncement. And I don’t think I hold anything against anybody. Well, let whatever is there be sorted out by God himself. I don’t have any grudges against anybody because I know as a Christian, I have forgiven and God has shown me the fruitfulness of forgiveness, being able to forgive. Thank you. https://www.thenicheng.com/there-was-nothing-in-the-christian-tract-my-son-shared-that-should-warrant-a-death-sentence-prof-achi/ |
This is not Vanguard editorial. It is an opinion, so it should not be attributed to Vanguard. It does not matter that it was published by Vanguard.. Seun, your moderators need refresher course on journalism. Lalasticlala Seun |
They have not introduced hijab? MURIC MUST HEAR THIS |
Like millions of Nigerians, I received with profound shock the news of the death early this morning of Mr. Yinka Odumakin, spokesman of Afenifere, committed fighter for democracy, dedicated civil society activist, courageous and outspoken defender of whatever ideals and principles he believed in and a patriotic citizen in every sense of the word. Ever since his student days, Odumakin had been fearless and unrelenting in speaking up in promoting the cause of justice and what he perceived as the best interest of the citizens of Nigeria. He participated actively at the forefront in the various students and youth struggles against successive military dictatorships in the 1980s and 1990s. In the process, he was arrested, harassed and even detained several times. Yet, he never allowed himself to succumb to tyranny or be pressured into submissive and pliant silence. In the struggle against the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election and the perpetuation of military dictatorship, Odumakin was never found wanting. He was at the vanguard of the battle even at the risk of his life and liberty. It is impossible to credibly tell the story of the emergence of the democracy we enjoy in this dispensation today without emblazoning Odumakin’s name in gold. He was a doughty fighter for freedom and the rule of law. He was rock solid in his commitment to Afenifere, the Yoruba people and the several other civil society groups in which he played active roles. Odumakin never held public office. But he has been a constant feature and part of our public consciousness over the last two decades of this unbroken democratic dispensation. He epitomized the true definition of the citizen; a patriot who was ever conscious of the fact that his life could not be complete or his humanity meaningful if he did not take an active interest in and join likeminded fellow citizens in seeking always to promote the common good of his community and country. In the course of the last two and a half decades, Odumakin and I had cause to collaborate in various organizations and in pursuit of different political causes at different times and I can testify to his capacity for hard work, his brilliance, his tenacity in his loyalty to his cherished principles. Even if we differed politically, I had no cause to doubt his sincerity in charting his chosen path. He will forever remain a model of what a citizen who places the good of his country above his personal interest could be. For, given his talents and abilities, Odumakin could easily have opted to focus on his personal welfare and that of his family rather than embroil himself in the several struggles he dedicated his life to. It is certainly not fortuitous that his wife, the indefatigable Amazon, Dr Joe Odumakin, was Yinka’s comrade in struggle and active collaborator in fighting for justice, liberty and the dignity of the underprivileged. They were iconic soul mates in the ceaseless battle for a better and greater Nigeria. I join millions of Nigerians in condoling with Dr. Odumakin and her family in this sad hour. May God comfort and strengthen them even as they take solace in the massive outpouring of grief nationwide at Yinka’s painful passage. I also express my heartfelt condolences to Chief Ayo Adebanjo, the Afenifere leader, and all other leaders and members of Afenifere as well as all Yinka’s associates in the civil society movement. His life vividly demonstrates once again, in the immortal words of Chief Obafemi Awolowo that “it is not life that matters but the courage you bring into it” and that it is not how long we live but how well and productively that matters. Odumakin is gone. But he lives on in the memory of millions of his compatriots. May his soul rest in peace. SIGNED ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU
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Tolexander:You are a disgrace and utter disappointment to your parents and your community. Return to your village and pay all school fees from your parents back to them. |
Sijo01:It is not "emorgies". It is emoji. No, you don't need to thank me. |
We4all:Audio: https://qoret.com/download-mp3/bongos-ikwue-cock-crow-at-dawn/ Note:NL is changing c0ck to rooster. If you click the link it might not work. Copy the link and changing rooster to c0ck Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8xCRAnjc60 |
Veteran broadcaster and Nollywood actor, Sadiq Daba is dead. He died around 8:30pm Wednesday evening, after a long battle with leukemia and prostrate cancer. May his soul rest in peace
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Why is AlexReport not in the pictures? Incomplete news... |
November 27, 2020 A legal practitioner, Mr. Olaniyi Adekanla, Esq. is seeking the removal of Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa, from the office of the Lagos Zonal Head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.https://www.casefileng.com/2020/11/27/lawyer-accuses-lagos-efcc-head-of-massive-corruption-seeks-his-removal/
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Benbellamor:They admitted they went to the protest ground with live bullet not to use it on the protesters but to defend themselves If you know how security agents work, you will agree that no soldier will go on such an assignment without being properly armed in case of any unexpected episode. |
What does the Admin mean by "young Nairaland member"? Are you implying they are not ripe enough for marriage? Do you know their ages? Nairaland member is Nairaland member. Learn to respect people.
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mazinaija:Can you tell me the distance of tollgate is to where you can access the river? Can you access the rivers just like that from the tollgate? Those buildings built by the road have blocked access to the river, except you want to tell me you jump their fences to access the rivers. Liars |
Lies kee all of you die. Do you know I far Lekki Toll Gate is to the river? It is no longer they were killed and their bodies thrown to the river. Now, they jumped into the river by themselves. Stoopid liars |
yanabasee:Sorry brotherman. Many Yibbo culture are backward. One of the reasons Biafraudd must not be allowed to see the light of the day. |
I read your story to the end. However, another version has it that Efunsetan actually committed suicide by poisoning herself. This version is the more acceptable one as we even watched it in Efunsetan Aniwura movies. Please do more research and revert. Well done... |
Cityqueengirl:IPOB girl. That happens in a backward Yibbo culture like yours. In global culture of which Omoluabi's is one, the man has the child and the mother. When you have your child for your husband, you are free to change their surname to your fathers. Eediot |
Hazlett1988:F*Polish IPOB boy. It is now 12 hours I challenged you to track down your father in ypur village, you have not done so. What happened, Mr. Ignoramus. A boy of 1988 challenging me. Sango fire thunder and destroy your blokos. Son of a b*tch |
Hazlett1988:Eediott. Mr. Anonymous. Na your papa you want track down for your potopoto village? I dare you. If you can not, you are a first-class goat. Ewu. |
Hazlett1988:Shutup. Yibboboy. Who started tribalism in Nigeria? You back to history. Who thinks he is more wise and smart than every other tribe in the world? Yibbo Which tribe has problems whereever it goes in the world? Yibbo Which tribe carried out the first coup in Nigeria? Yibbo Which tribe cause the civil war? Yibbo Which tribe is still beating the drum of war up till tomorrow? Yibbo Whether it is Lagos, Sokoto, Kano, Rivers, India, Japan, South Africa or Asian countries, which tribe dey cause problems there? No be Yibbo? Ahmadu Bello saw you as far back as early 60s that you the problem in this country and the earlier you are put where you belong the better. No one will join in appealing to you again. Henceforth, what you sow is what you reap. Try and watch this and see the man that saw you early enough Anuofia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_odAy4rVz8 |
Dimmatic:Potopoto people. Your girls can't stop coming. They like Afonja preeek and money FFK chop Bianca clean mouth. Chop Precious send am out. Another one go still put head. Afonja preeek dey sweet... |
Dovegrey:Then stop calling him Ifeanyi. His name is David. Ewu. Goat |
Nigeriabiafra80:Shutup. Nnamdi KANU boy His first name is David,not Ifeanyi |
Nnamdi KANU boy. E shock you? |
Yibbos with entitlement mentality. Have you noticed that whenever they want to address Davido's son, they call him Ifeanyi Adeleke? Why?? That boys is not Ifeanyi Adeleke. He is not a Yibbo. Stop claiming what is not yours. When the boy was born and Davido was introducing him, he called him David Adedeji Adeleke (See below) He only added Ifeanyi later on as an addendum, a middle name sort of. In Yorubaland, as it is practised globally (I wouldn't know of Yibboland anyway) you call and address people by their first name. You only introduce middle name when you are asked for the full name. So stop calling the young boy Ifeanyi. His first name is David. So call him David Adeleke or David Adedeji Adeleke. You can add Junior to differentiate him from his dad. The boy is an omoluabi, a proud Yorubaboy. Stop this entitlement mentality...
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