₦airaland Forum

Pringles101:
How about an Itsekiri, ibibio, Efik, Tiv, Jukun, Nupe, Idoma man's turn?

This country is not only about Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba and Igbo.

Tribalist

VictorUSA:
Exactly.There will be some kind of reset, and if the US emerge as powerful, then it will take another 2000 years to overcome it.

God1000:
Are they schooling in UK for free?

Oches4me:
Most Nigerian especially Biafra has made themselves slaves of the West by defending their atrocity because of visa their will never get.

donproject2:
Whenever calamities befall, remember this your comment today.

God1000:
Vladimir Putin has made Russia a mockery and laughingstock among nations of the world, no one fears him or takes him seriously anymore.

He has become a global pariah

bewla:
Allah never sleep no slumber he creat everything man gin angel and what ever


Only Muhammad s l w that is dead make no mistake

AntiChristian:
How can God die?

Except the Christian God of course!

God created death!

ItsTutsi:
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, November 22, inaugurated the Kolmani Oil Prospecting Lease (OPL) located between Bauchi and Gombe states.

The Kolmani OPL is the first oil drilling field in Northern Nigeria.

This was an event that will never be forgotten in the northern part of our dear country.

This development didn’t come as a surprise to many, who are always updated with numerous projects taking place in the country, especially in the north.

In governance, there is a limit to everything, you can’t satisfy all the yearnings and calls of everybody.

This is why against all odds, I had to embrace myself and see reasons why I should keep aligning myself with the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Despite the shortcomings of President Buhari (which is akin to all living being), I had to open up my mind and compare Nigeria, between where it was before 2015 and where it is now.

Instead of dwelling solely on the living cost and economic hardships in Nigeria (which most countries in the world are battling with), I try to focus on the foundations which are being laid, year-in, year-out by the administration of President Buhari, which by God’s grace will take Nigeria to the promised land in the nearest future.

The massive inflow of investments that has happened to Nigeria from 2015 till now is second to none.

I am tempted to outline what Buhari’s administration has done in the entire country, how he succeeded in showcasing our great potentials to the world, as well as a whole lot of great developments which the administration of President Buhari has brought to our dear nation.

I will prefer not to deviate on the subject matter and instead mention the numerous projects completed or ongoing in the northern part of our country.

I will also take time to clarify on the projects that needs to be clarified.

• Discovery, exploration of crude oil in large quantity in Bauchi, Gombe states.

• Ajaokuta, Abuja, Kaduna, Kano gas pipeline project.

The project is currently ongoing, and the laying of pipe has entered Kano state, precisely Kwanar Dangora in Bebeji local government of the state.

This project will bring massive development to the north, as gas power stations will be constructed in Kano and Kaduna states, which will revive the industries in the states and by extension other states in the north, which will in turn create a thousand of job opportunities.

• Completion of 700MW Zungeru Hydropower Project in Niger state.

• Kogi state was declared an oil-producing state last year.

• 100 percent completion of Baro port in Niger state.


It is not currently functional due to lack of access road. The road is now under construction and it is funded by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) under the tax credit initiated by Buhari’s administration.

• Completion of 40MW of Kashimbilla Hydropower Project in Taraba state, which is to be commissioned very soon.

• Dadinkowa power project with Irrigation facility in Gombe, at the stage of final installation of power equipments.

• Completion of Mother and Child hospital in Gashua, Yobe state

• Completion of Mother and Child hospital in Makurdi, Benue state.

• Construction of Kano-Kaduna double standard gauge rail line.


The project is now at Makarfi, just 100km away to reach its last stop in Kaduna state. This project started just a year ago, precisely September 2021.

The project is now at Makarfi, just 100km away to reach its last stop in Kaduna state. This project started just a year ago, precisely September 2021.

• Airforce Institute of Technology, Kaduna state.

• Airforce Reference Hospital, Bauchi state.

• Establishment of Naval base in Kano state.

• Acquiring of modern fighter jets that has given a devastating blow to terrorists in the North-east and North-west consequently.

• Rigorous farming activities taking place in the North as a result of banning of rice importation into the country.

• Establishment of Dala Inland dry-port in Kano state, completed and commisioned.

• Completion of Kaduna Inland dry-port.

• Numerous Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges being sighted in the north in places like Katsina, Kano, Bauchi, Jigawa, Kebbi, Benue and a host of other states.

This was done to ensure that students have many available choice when enrolling for JAMB exams.

• Creation/upgrading of all the transmission stations in the north to boost power supply.

• Completion of Loko/Owetto bridge in Nasarawa state, a strategic bridge linking North and South.

This is a major alternative whenever Abuja to Lokoja road is blocked as a result of any natural or artificial cause.

• Ongoing construction of Ibi Bridge in Taraba to link the North-east and the North-central states. A major route for those travelling from Abuja to Taraba and Adamawa states.

• Road projects currently under construction and those completed in the North which I can mention include:

– Abuja, Kaduna, Kano road projects.

– Dualization of Kano to Katsina state : The project is currently ongoing, and appreciable work has been done midway to the project.

– Kano to Maiduguri road project: Sections 2 and 3 have been completed and commisioned. Section 4 is completed and awaiting inauguration.

Sections 1 and 5 is yet to be completed. In all we can say the project is about 80 percent completed.

– Kaduna to Jos road project: This project commenced in 2021 and is being handled by the construction giants, Setraco.

– Kaduna eastern bypass being constructed as shortcut for travellers travelling to Kano state and other core northern states from Abuja.

– Dualization of Suleja to Minna road.

– Reconstruction of Lambata to Lapai to Bida, which will open up the Baro port, being constructed and commisioned by this administration.

– Commissioning of Hadejia to Gashua road in Jigawa and Yobe,states.

– Construction of Birnin Kebbi road to Yauri via Kontagora to Makera in Niger state is ongoing.

– Dualization of Kano to Daura in Katsina was awarded recently.

– Dualization of Kano state to Garki in Jigawa state was awarded recently.

– Gombe to Biu, Numan to Jalingo and Yola to Mubi road projects are ongoing too.

– Kwanar Dangora to Saminaka is currently ongoing.

– Abuja via Keffi/Lafia/Makurdi road project is ongoing.

– Dualization of Lokoja to Benin expressway is undergoing a massive facelift.

– Lokoja to Kabba road in Kogi state is completed and commissioned.

– Dualization of Gombe via Jos to Akwanga in Nasarawa state, was approved in 2018. However, the job is yet to commence because the project was billed to be funded by a bilateral foreign loan.

These projects outlined above are real and not a mirage, the status of those projects are factual.

I took pleasure embarking on trips just to make sure that I am not being misled either by those supporting the government of the day or those against President Buhari.

For those who don’t want anything good to be written or said about this current administration, I am sorry I broke your heart. The truth must be told at all cost.

For those who don’t want anything good to be written or said about this current administration, I am sorry I broke your heart. The truth must be told at all cost.

For the doubting Thomases, you can go and verify the aforementioned projects, if that is what it will take to believe in the cause I stood by since I started delving into politics.

For the media houses in the north, here is a factual report on the projects which has took place (both completed and ongoing) in the Northern zone.

May Nigeria succeed against all odds

http:///36a5e2b2221125en_ng?link=1&client=news

ItsTutsi:
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, November 22, inaugurated the Kolmani Oil Prospecting Lease (OPL) located between Bauchi and Gombe states.

The Kolmani OPL is the first oil drillng field in Northern Nigeria.

This was an event that will never be forgotten in the northern part of our dear country.

This development didn’t come as a surprise to many, who are always updated with numerous projects taking place in the country, especially in the north.

In governance, there is a limit to everything, you can’t satisfy all the yearnings and calls of everybody.

This is why against all odds, I had to embrace myself and see reasons why I should keep aligning myself with the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Despite the shortcomings of President Buhari (which is akin to all living being), I had to open up my mind and compare Nigeria, between where it was before 2015 and where it is now.

Instead of dwelling solely on the living cost and economic hardships in Nigeria (which most countries in the world are battling with), I try to focus on the foundations which are being laid, year-in, year-out by the administration of President Buhari, which by God’s grace will take Nigeria to the promised land in the nearest future.

The massive inflow of investments that has happened to Nigeria from 2015 till now is second to none.

I am tempted to outline what Buhari’s administration has done in the entire country, how he succeeded in showcasing our great potentials to the world, as well as a whole lot of great developments which the administration of President Buhari has brought to our dear nation.

I will prefer not to deviate on the subject matter and instead mention the numerous projects completed or ongoing in the northern part of our country.

I will also take time to clarify on the projects that needs to be clarified.

• Discovery, exploration of crude oil in large quantity in Bauchi, Gombe states.

• Ajaokuta, Abuja, Kaduna, Kano gas pipeline project.

The project is currently ongoing, and the laying of pipe has entered Kano state, precisely Kwanar Dangora in Bebeji local government of the state.

This project will bring massive development to the north, as gas power stations will be constructed in Kano and Kaduna states, which will revive the industries in the states and by extension other states in the north, which will in turn create a thousand of job opportunities.

• Completion of 700MW Zungeru Hydropower Project in Niger state.

• Kogi state was declared an oil-producing state last year.

• 100 percent completion of Baro port in Niger state.


It is not currently functional due to lack of access road. The road is now under construction and it is funded by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) under the tax credit initiated by Buhari’s administration.

• Completion of 40MW of Kashimbilla Hydropower Project in Taraba state, which is to be commissioned very soon.

• Dadinkowa power project with Irrigation facility in Gombe, at the stage of final installation of power equipments.

• Completion of Mother and Child hospital in Gashua, Yobe state

• Completion of Mother and Child hospital in Makurdi, Benue state.

• Construction of Kano-Kaduna double standard gauge rail line.


The project is now at Makarfi, just 100km away to reach its last stop in Kaduna state. This project started just a year ago, precisely September 2021.

The project is now at Makarfi, just 100km away to reach its last stop in Kaduna state. This project started just a year ago, precisely September 2021.

• Airforce Institute of Technology, Kaduna state.

• Airforce Reference Hospital, Bauchi state.

• Establishment of Naval base in Kano state.

• Acquiring of modern fighter jets that has given a devastating blow to terrorists in the North-east and North-west consequently.

• Rigorous farming activities taking place in the North as a result of banning of rice importation into the country.

• Establishment of Dala Inland dry-port in Kano state, completed and commisioned.

• Completion of Kaduna Inland dry-port.

• Numerous Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges being sighted in the north in places like Katsina, Kano, Bauchi, Jigawa, Kebbi, Benue and a host of other states.

This was done to ensure that students have many available choice when enrolling for JAMB exams.

• Creation/upgrading of all the transmission stations in the north to boost power supply.

• Completion of Loko/Owetto bridge in Nasarawa state, a strategic bridge linking North and South.

This is a major alternative whenever Abuja to Lokoja road is blocked as a result of any natural or artificial cause.

• Ongoing construction of Ibi Bridge in Taraba to link the North-east and the North-central states. A major route for those travelling from Abuja to Taraba and Adamawa states.

• Road projects currently under construction and those completed in the North which I can mention include:

– Abuja, Kaduna, Kano road projects.

– Dualization of Kano to Katsina state : The project is currently ongoing, and appreciable work has been done midway to the project.

– Kano to Maiduguri road project: Sections 2 and 3 have been completed and commisioned. Section 4 is completed and awaiting inauguration.

Sections 1 and 5 is yet to be completed. In all we can say the project is about 80 percent completed.

– Kaduna to Jos road project: This project commenced in 2021 and is being handled by the construction giants, Setraco.

– Kaduna eastern bypass being constructed as shortcut for travellers travelling to Kano state and other core northern states from Abuja.

– Dualization of Suleja to Minna road.

– Reconstruction of Lambata to Lapai to Bida, which will open up the Baro port, being constructed and commisioned by this administration.

– Commissioning of Hadejia to Gashua road in Jigawa and Yobe,states.

– Construction of Birnin Kebbi road to Yauri via Kontagora to Makera in Niger state is ongoing.

– Dualization of Kano to Daura in Katsina was awarded recently.

– Dualization of Kano state to Garki in Jigawa state was awarded recently.

– Gombe to Biu, Numan to Jalingo and Yola to Mubi road projects are ongoing too.

– Kwanar Dangora to Saminaka is currently ongoing.

– Abuja via Keffi/Lafia/Makurdi road project is ongoing.

– Dualization of Lokoja to Benin expressway is undergoing a massive facelift.

– Lokoja to Kabba road in Kogi state is completed and commissioned.

– Dualization of Gombe via Jos to Akwanga in Nasarawa state, was approved in 2018. However, the job is yet to commence because the project was billed to be funded by a bilateral foreign loan.

These projects outlined above are real and not a mirage, the status of those projects are factual.

I took pleasure embarking on trips just to make sure that I am not being misled either by those supporting the government of the day or those against President Buhari.

For those who don’t want anything good to be written or said about this current administration, I am sorry I broke your heart. The truth must be told at all cost.

For those who don’t want anything good to be written or said about this current administration, I am sorry I broke your heart. The truth must be told at all cost.

For the doubting Thomases, you can go and verify the aforementioned projects, if that is what it will take to believe in the cause I stood by since I started delving into politics.

For the media houses in the north, here is a factual report on the projects which has took place (both completed and ongoing) in the Northern zone.

May Nigeria succeed against all odds

http:///36a5e2b2221125en_ng?link=1&client=news

ItsTutsi:
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, November 22, inaugurated the Kolmani Oil Prospecting Lease (OPL) located between Bauchi and Gombe states.

The Kolmani OPL is the first oil drilling field in Northern Nigeria.

This was an event that will never be forgotten in the northern part of our dear country.

This development didn’t come as a surprise to many, who are always updated with numerous projects taking place in the country, especially in the north.

In governance, there is a limit to everything, you can’t satisfy all the yearnings and calls of everybody.

This is why against all odds, I had to embrace myself and see reasons why I should keep aligning myself with the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Despite the shortcomings of President Buhari (which is akin to all living being), I had to open up my mind and compare Nigeria, between where it was before 2015 and where it is now.

Instead of dwelling solely on the living cost and economic hardships in Nigeria (which most countries in the world are battling with), I try to focus on the foundations which are being laid, year-in, year-out by the administration of President Buhari, which by God’s grace will take Nigeria to the promised land in the nearest future.

The massive inflow of investments that has happened to Nigeria from 2015 till now is second to none.

I am tempted to outline what Buhari’s administration has done in the entire country, how he succeeded in showcasing our great potentials to the world, as well as a whole lot of great developments which the administration of President Buhari has brought to our dear nation.

I will prefer not to deviate on the subject matter and instead mention the numerous projects completed or ongoing in the northern part of our country.

I will also take time to clarify on the projects that needs to be clarified.

• Discovery, exploration of crude oil in large quantity in Bauchi, Gombe states.

• Ajaokuta, Abuja, Kaduna, Kano gas pipeline project.

The project is currently ongoing, and the laying of pipe has entered Kano state, precisely Kwanar Dangora in Bebeji local government of the state.

This project will bring massive development to the north, as gas power stations will be constructed in Kano and Kaduna states, which will revive the industries in the states and by extension other states in the north, which will in turn create a thousand of job opportunities.

• Completion of 700MW Zungeru Hydropower Project in Niger state.

• Kogi state was declared an oil-producing state last year.

• 100 percent completion of Baro port in Niger state.


It is not currently functional due to lack of access road. The road is now under construction and it is funded by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) under the tax credit initiated by Buhari’s administration.

• Completion of 40MW of Kashimbilla Hydropower Project in Taraba state, which is to be commissioned very soon.

• Dadinkowa power project with Irrigation facility in Gombe, at the stage of final installation of power equipments.

• Completion of Mother and Child hospital in Gashua, Yobe state

• Completion of Mother and Child hospital in Makurdi, Benue state.

• Construction of Kano-Kaduna double standard gauge rail line.


The project is now at Makarfi, just 100km away to reach its last stop in Kaduna state. This project started just a year ago, precisely September 2021.

The project is now at Makarfi, just 100km away to reach its last stop in Kaduna state. This project started just a year ago, precisely September 2021.

• Airforce Institute of Technology, Kaduna state.

• Airforce Reference Hospital, Bauchi state.

• Establishment of Naval base in Kano state.

• Acquiring of modern fighter jets that has given a devastating blow to terrorists in the North-east and North-west consequently.

• Rigorous farming activities taking place in the North as a result of banning of rice importation into the country.

• Establishment of Dala Inland dry-port in Kano state, completed and commisioned.

• Completion of Kaduna Inland dry-port.

• Numerous Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges being sighted in the north in places like Katsina, Kano, Bauchi, Jigawa, Kebbi, Benue and a host of other states.

This was done to ensure that students have many available choice when enrolling for JAMB exams.

• Creation/upgrading of all the transmission stations in the north to boost power supply.

• Completion of Loko/Owetto bridge in Nasarawa state, a strategic bridge linking North and South.

This is a major alternative whenever Abuja to Lokoja road is blocked as a result of any natural or artificial cause.

• Ongoing construction of Ibi Bridge in Taraba to link the North-east and the North-central states. A major route for those travelling from Abuja to Taraba and Adamawa states.

• Road projects currently under construction and those completed in the North which I can mention include:

– Abuja, Kaduna, Kano road projects.

– Dualization of Kano to Katsina state : The project is currently ongoing, and appreciable work has been done midway to the project.

– Kano to Maiduguri road project: Sections 2 and 3 have been completed and commisioned. Section 4 is completed and awaiting inauguration.

Sections 1 and 5 is yet to be completed. In all we can say the project is about 80 percent completed.

– Kaduna to Jos road project: This project commenced in 2021 and is being handled by the construction giants, Setraco.

– Kaduna eastern bypass being constructed as shortcut for travellers travelling to Kano state and other core northern states from Abuja.

– Dualization of Suleja to Minna road.

– Reconstruction of Lambata to Lapai to Bida, which will open up the Baro port, being constructed and commisioned by this administration.

– Commissioning of Hadejia to Gashua road in Jigawa and Yobe,states.

– Construction of Birnin Kebbi road to Yauri via Kontagora to Makera in Niger state is ongoing.

– Dualization of Kano to Daura in Katsina was awarded recently.

– Dualization of Kano state to Garki in Jigawa state was awarded recently.

– Gombe to Biu, Numan to Jalingo and Yola to Mubi road projects are ongoing too.

– Kwanar Dangora to Saminaka is currently ongoing.

– Abuja via Keffi/Lafia/Makurdi road project is ongoing.

– Dualization of Lokoja to Benin expressway is undergoing a massive facelift.

– Lokoja to Kabba road in Kogi state is completed and commissioned.

– Dualization of Gombe via Jos to Akwanga in Nasarawa state, was approved in 2018. However, the job is yet to commence because the project was billed to be funded by a bilateral foreign loan.

These projects outlined above are real and not a mirage, the status of those projects are factual.

I took pleasure embarking on trips just to make sure that I am not being misled either by those supporting the government of the day or those against President Buhari.

For those who don’t want anything good to be written or said about this current administration, I am sorry I broke your heart. The truth must be told at all cost.

For those who don’t want anything good to be written or said about this current administration, I am sorry I broke your heart. The truth must be told at all cost.

For the doubting Thomases, you can go and verify the aforementioned projects, if that is what it will take to believe in the cause I stood by since I started delving into politics.

For the media houses in the north, here is a factual report on the projects which has took place (both completed and ongoing) in the Northern zone.

May Nigeria succeed against all odds

http:///36a5e2b2221125en_ng?link=1&client=news

Olowoeko11:
I don’t like that made in Nigeria tag written on it… inferiority complex

kettykin:
Loosers on alliance

Folawealth090:
Uk and us match will be like this

UNDERCOVER: Inside Oyo Islamic Torture House Where Children Are Chained, Caged, Starved And Brutalised

For four months, 17-year-old Aisha Hakeem was caged in a cell at the Ayegbami Islamic Centre in the Oremeji area of Ibadan, Oyo State. She had been enrolled in the Islamic school for rehabilitation after repeatedly disobeying her father.

Born into a broken family, her parents live separately. Aisha wanted to stay with her mother but her father would not allow her. Frustrated, she left her father's house in Ibadan for Lagos in search of her mother. But a relative of her father saw her roaming the Lagos streets and took her back to Ibadan.

Aisha could not sustain the memory of living without a mother; she tried to abscond from home again but her father caught her this time. Her punishment for attempting to run away in search of her mother? A torture home.

"I was in Junior Secondary School 1 when my dad brought me here,” she recalled, describing how the Mualim – an Arabic word for the Islamic instructor – would appear to pass her meals in the small cell she was caged in. “He will pass the plate of food through this open space of the net and after eating, he will come to pick the plates and cup by himself.”

The Home Of Torture And Abuse

In the interior area of Ibadan city, a torture home is operated unhindered in the Ayegbami Islamic centre. Named after the founder of the supposed Islamic school, Saheed Ayegbami, unscrupulous parents seeking rehabilitation for their tough children enrol them for revival. But rather than infuse Islamic knowledge in the children, many of them — tagged petty thieves, addicts and scoundrels — are trapped in cages, chained, starved and largely maltreated “like animals”.

Venturing into the centre earlier this year, I observed that the torture home is embedded in a four-bedroom bungalow with faded paintings, broken windows and a filthy environment. Situated about 5km away from the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, a rusted gate could be sighted beside the building leading to an unkempt kitchen and two small rooms with heavy urine odour. In the living room of the apartment, the teacher tends to his visitors.

At least 20 students are crammed in each of the rooms, according to undercover interviews with pupils and those familiar with activities in the Arabic school.

Residents of this area told me that students “with chains tied around their legs” in the Islamic school always beg passers-by for food. Many of the students, residents said, have become even worse after they enrolled in the torture house.

"There was a boy in this area who was doing fine before he was brought to this Arabic school, but now he has become another thing,” a resident of the area told me. “Most of the pupils there always beg for survival.”

What It Takes To Enrol Your Child In A Torture Home

On July 30, I presented myself as an elderly sister willing to enrol her stubborn younger brother at the said Islamic centre. My mission was to gain access to the torture home and it didn’t take much time before the teacher, popularly known as Alfa Ayegbami, fell for the bait. After listening to the story I had concocted to suit my posture, Ayegbami asked me and my guide to pay three thousand naira (N3,000) for the admission form.

He also told us that the rules and regulations that govern the school were stated in the white paper.

A part of the guideline pages stated how much parents or guardians willing to enrol their children must pay. The admission form is N3,000 and the acceptance fee into the Islamic school is N2,000. The feeding fee for a student below 15 years old is N3,000 weekly while a student whose age is above 15 is expected to pay N5,000 weekly.

One of the rules of the Islamic school is the compulsory presence of either the father or mother of the child before admission. Parents are urged to come and check on their children once a month. Parents are also expected to buy bathing soap and toothpaste for their children and those who want their children to have Arabic knowledge must buy them a copy of the Quran.

It is also enshrined in his rules that parents can't visit or take students that came for rehabilitation three months after admission.

To be sure, we demanded to see how some of the tough students were chained because the child we were about to enrol in could be really hard to handle. Ayegbami then boasted about torturing some students for more than two years. He said chaining and torturing the students are designed to make their rehabilitation process faster.

"This person I am showing you is 43 years old; he used to smoke heavily before his parents brought him here,” he said as he moved us around the torture house. “The funniest thing is that he is deaf and dumb, but since he arrived in this place, his character has changed; before he was enrolled here, he used to get drunk to the extent that he would disturb the peace of the community, but now he is a changed person and has been here for two years.”

The Diabolic Rehabilitation And The Pains Of Chained Students

Feared for possessing diabolical powers, some of his neighbours warned me and my guide not to put our child under the watch of the Islamic cleric. I had sighted some mentally unstable persons in the Islamic centre but Ayegbami claimed those were students undergoing his rehabilitation in his torture home.

On several occasions, he had been seen making diabolical concoctions and magic black soap to heal some of his “mentally retarded” students. Residents said they suspected that some of the concoctions he gives his students make their condition worse or mentally unstable rather than heal them.

What Ayegbami said when I told him my younger brother might not follow me to the Islamic school confirmed that the suggestions of his neighbours about his diabolical powers might be true. He had assured me that he would perform some magic to force my supposed brother to the school.

"Just let me know when you want your brother to get here; I know what to do spiritually to make sure he gets here that day,” he had said.

Many of the students I discreetly engaged in the school confirmed that Ayegbami had given them some black soap to use for a spiritual bath. They said they had also been asked to take some concoctions months after they were enrolled in the school.

"We used to eat concoctions and drink some spiritual herbs whenever we felt unhealthy,” Aisha told me; her claims were corroborated by interviews with other students. “He used to give us black soap to bathe at times; he told us that this will make our healing faster."

During my first visit to the Islamic school, the clanking of chains on the students' shackled legs could be heard. Some were chained; others were caged and only two pupils were allowed to move freely. I observed that boys and girls as young as 10 were seen in different parts of Ayegbami's compound. Many were visibly bearing scars from beatings and numerous tortures. I also saw children shuffled with their ankles manacled and others had their legs chained to prevent them from an unprecedented escape.

One boy, identified as Tajudeen, was seen trudging unsteadily. He had sores on his back that appeared consistent with injuries inflicted by a whip and looked tattered and unhealthy. A few weeks earlier when the cleric went out for a public function, some of the pupils found their way out of the torture home.

"One of those that have escaped is nicknamed Alhaji; he is an adult and because our master feels he might destroy the cage and run someday, he chained him on the leg and left him in the compound,” Aisha narrated to me. Her experience in the torture home is similar to several others whom I interviewed at the local “rehab centre”.

Segun Olatokun, 34, was brought to Ayegbami in 2015. He was said to be an addicted smoker who needed rehabilitation. After trying several places, Segun's parents were advised to take him to the Ayegbami Islamic centre for some spiritual healing. Now, he had spent more than six months under the care of the cleric and also paid more than N200,000 to him but residents and students of the torture home said Segus’s condition has only gone worse.

Segun's father, Olatunde Olatokun, who spoke with me said he regretted taking his son to the Islamic school for rehabilitation. The father added that the family later took Segun away from the school when they noticed there was no positive change.

"There was a time, the cleric said he needed to slaughter goats to make some sacrifice for my son, I bought everything he ordered me to get but nothing changed about him,” he said. "During his stay, Segun was caged. I used to visit him there. It is just that nothing about him changed; he became worse. I just wasted money for the whole period that he was there.”

The Consequence Of Running A Torture Home

Child torture remains widespread in the world. The largest group of tortured children are among refugees, according to a report by Amnesty International, a global human rights think tank. There are high numbers of unaccompanied children, mainly from Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Amongst them, are child soldiers and those affected by armed conflict street violence. A report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) said it is estimated that up to 1 billion children aged 2–17 years have experienced physical, sexual, or emotional violence or neglect in the past year globally.

Emmanuel Abayomi, a consultant psychiatrist at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta explained that the consequence of what those students are facing at the Islamic school is potential harm to their physical and mental health. Abuse is a stressful experience for children; it can actually impair the development of their brains, he said, adding that such children can end up with mental health consequences such as post-traumatic stress disorders, panic and other anxiety disorders, depression and suicidal behaviours, and drugs and alcohol use.

"Some other consequences include antisocial behaviour, bullying, self-harm, suicide, teenage pregnancy, smoking, poorer educational attainment, reduced economic productivity, and even poorer quality of life for the child, not to mention the family, and the nation at large,” he noted.

Yinka Folarin, the Group Chairman of the Committee for Defense of Human Rights in Ogun State, the Ayegbami Islamic Centre cleric should be examined psychologically for caging and abusing children and treating adults like animals.

"I will recommend that such a teacher should be subjected to psychiatric tests because ordinarily, your responsibility is to teach not to maltreat, not to descend on innocent children and also, you should not force the child against his or her wish,” he said. "There are ways of dealing with our children, when a child is not corporative you have to adopt all the methods, it is not for you to feel that the next thing is to take up a cane and start beating the child.”

Folarin, however, said that stakeholders need to raise an alarm to condemn the "heinous act". He noted that children are the future of the nation and should be taught and trained with respect. “That is the only way they can grow positively but when you deprive them of all this, you will be killing their courage and you will not make them become what they want to be in life,” he said, adding that “a threat to a child is a threat to the future; it is a threat to the nation, it is a threat to human rights."

'It Is Against The Doctrine Of Islam'

Sheikh Yayah Salaudeen, the founder of the Muslim Association Forum in Ibadan, said maltreating students in Arabic and Islamic schools is against the doctrines of the religion. He noted that the best way to rehabilitate stubborn students is by preaching the words of God to them and ensuring they understand them. He stressed that Islamic schools should get approval from the government before chaining or caging students.

"Those clerics chaining their students ought to have registered at the appropriate quarters with the aim of training thugs. If the government gives permission they can go ahead and if the government insists that students should not be chained, they should stop maltreating their students,” he said.

The Islamic cleric, however, blamed the government for not establishing rehabilitation centres where such children can be trained for revival.

This story was produced with support from the Tiger Eye Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation.

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