OBI'S BOREHOLE COMMISSIONING: NEITHER DEATH, TRAUMA NOR INJURY: In Sokoto, Bauchi, Niger and many other locations, several people died while struggling to collect Toxic, one off palliative. WHAT A SHAME. Others went home with various degrees of injuries & trauma with no palliative for succour.
Obi's Borehole commissioning was seemless, organised, no fanfare, no ego massaging. Nothing. Just an out of pocked intervention. Northern policians who are not happy about obi's borehole project that saves lives and minimises disease incidences should hide their heads in shame. Their days are counted.
that graced the front page about a jilted girl who cursed her boyfriend on his wedding day.
Here is the reply from the guy. From his narrative, the girl is just his baby mama and ex since 2017. The girl is only pained because the guy didn't marry her.
If you take a look at the girl's profile, she's one of the indecent girl out there but want a good man to herself. I think the guy dodge a bullet...
How is a man that has a Baby mama not an indecent man but went ahead to Marry another gurl?
When he was following and knacking her she was not indecent? This your views is just silly.
Please, there is no indecent gurl with an indecent man out there.
Introduction As you read this piece of testimony about the bandits who attacked the Priests FRS Emmanuel Okolo and Noah Monday, serving the Parish of St Raphael Fadan Kamanton, Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan, Nigeria, the 25 year old Seminarian who did not survive the gruesome attack, Brother Na’aman Ngofe Stephen was buried yesterday 12th September, 2023. The Funeral Mass was held in the beautiful Church beside the charred remains of the Priests residence. As the choir rehearsed for the funeral Mass inside the Church, the grave was being dug in front of the old Church building by the youths.
The mood in the parish was mixed. There was joy for the miracle which is what the survival of FRS Emmanuel and Noah is but, sadness at the painful killing of Brother Na’aman. The initial assumption is that he got trapped and burnt to death in the fire set on the house by the bandits but, the body was discovered to bear gun shot holes at the abdomen which suggests that the bandits already shot him dead in the early stages of the attack as they forced their evil ways into the Fathers house. His hair and most of his body was intact from the hot blazes. I saw his knapsack bag, slippers sandals still in his room, partially burnt laptop and wallet.
I was received by Fr Emma himself sitting under the trees enjoying their shade, cheerfully, brave and unfazed. Not looking at all like the story of what happened. He showed me and other concerned parishioners round the charred remains of the house, recounting the vivid and bloody details of the attacks. The beautiful Parish house and Church edifice were donated by an illustrious son of the village. The value of lost at the attack includes a young life, a car, a motorcycle, four Mass boxes, and every other books, certificates and furniture; 3 laptops and 3 TV sets. Everything, except the boxers inner wears on them actually. Overall the loss stands at about N70m.
How The Miracle Happened Fr Emma did not hide nor run away from the attackers. Fr Noah hid himself somewhere within the house. The seminarian was in the bathroom where he was probably shot and left to die in the pool of his blood. Fr alone fought the 11 bandits to a standstill and caused them major casualties. They all had guns of different makes including about 7 AK-47 rifles with which they shot at him furiously and repeatedly but to no effect. He told me he taught they shot him 7 times but Fr Noah said he heard more than 30 gun shots; non did him harm. He joked to me that if he had a shirt or a singlet inner wear on him he would have suspected that some juju was done on the shirt or singlet. He described the feeling of bullets on his bare skin as ‘ice touching him and falling off; he did not even get to wear a shirt, except his boxers when they barged in. A few among the 11 member gang did not go back as they came, they fell to the ground and did not live to tell the story. The fate they unleashed fell on them first. It was a gruesome day and God proved himself faithful.
At their frustration and bewilderment, one of the Bandits probably a member of his church said “in the name of Jesus we must kill you, and you must die”. At this point Fr Emma had had enough and yelled in rebuke at the bandit: “which Jesus are you talking about, is it the same Jesus I worship abi the Jesus na your mate?” After some more shooting without success, the Leader said in Hausa “ku zo mu tafi, wannan ba mutum ba ne” meaning (come let us go, this one is not a human being”. They left the house hurriedly in fear and trembling carrying their fallen comrades.
The coordination and knowledge of their way around the house could not have been coincidental. Someone who knew Father’s and the house very well led them to the attack. They knew their ways around the house.
The Burning Down Of The Rectory As the bandits left the scene in total confusion and daze, the Fathers called out to each other in the parlor to take stock of survivors. That was when Brother Na’aman did not show up. They checked his room and did not see him. They presumed he had escaped probably. Alas he was dead!
The bandits did not go far but came back in anger and retaliation before escaping to the bushes, to set the house ablaze, hoping they might kill the Priests or at least harm them through the means of fire since the barrel and barrage of guns and bullets had failed. The burning down of the Rectory was therefore an after thought from a vindictive, bruised and defeated set of Bandits who used that to cut their loses.
The Fathers themselves used the same door the Bandits used to run away and escape the raging fire. Fr Noah not convinced, wanted to go back a second time for Brother Na’aman but, Fr Emma stopped him because the fire was already full swing and he would die in it. They literally crawled out of the fire due to the heat coming from the flames.
Most of the encounter and conversation that Fr Emma had with the bandits, 11 of them right in his bedroom all by himself and his God has been corroborated by Fr Noah who was hiding within the house on that fateful day. They spoke eye ball to eye ball like man to man with bandits.
Interestingly this operation lasted between 8:13pm and 9:30pm. A whooping 1hr 12mins. I saw the soldiers checkpoint that was about 500 meters away from the Church where the attack happened. I kid you not, I was there and saw for myself. The entire viallge was awake due to the jolting sounds of gun fire. How nobody came to help in any way, both soldiers and villagers is also part of the mystery and miracle. Some especially those neighboring the church confessed to have seen the bandits filing out and fleeing but, had no matching or superior weapons to attempt any efforts. God alone took the glory! But why would the soldiers on security duty nearby less than a kilometer not respond?
Anyways the Fathers were on ground by the morning to celebrated the daily Mass with the people in thanksgiving to God and for the eternal repose of the soul of Brother Na’aman Ngofe Stephen. May his gentle soul rest in peace with the Lord. Amen.
…As Usual
To peter out their incompetence and irresponsibility, the Deputy Governor of Kaduna State Dr Hadiza Balarabe Usman visited the Priests and Parishioners, the General Officer Commanding the 3rd Division of the Army under whose watch Southern Kaduna and the not so effective security outfit Operation Safe Haven falls also visited. Indeed Nuhu Ribadu the National Security Adviser called Fr Emma. His interest was if Father thought the attack was religiously motivated. Of course there are so called Christians who are collaborators.
Soldiers on ground are really suffering lack and deprivation of basic needs. So they cannot be effective. After 26 years in the army and battle tested in theatres including Liberia, Sierra Leone and Boko Haram and now Bandits, a Sergeant I spoke with told me he earns N72,000. He earns no allowances even on special duty. He has an aged mother, a wife and four kids to look after. He said his family cannot afford rice again or tea and bread. They buy their kids and fatigue with a meagre sum of N25,000. And I asked which Army would have it’s soldiers personally buy their own fatigue anyways? Meanwhile this man is in custody of a weapon that costs more than a million Naira in the open markets and works as a security for human beings.
Meanwhile Government promised to rebuild the house and warned Father to inflate the cost in many folds because that is standard government procedure and practice. How? Why? They threatened that if he does it the church and Jesus way he will be on his own because the money will be cut down.
Conclusion Fr Emma told me that God prepared him for this attack before it happened and that God wrought the miracle of his survival so that He will remind us that He God still exists. Fr said “let no one deceive and cheat you by convincing you to believe with them that God does not exist.” He had just returned from a weeklong travel on Monday, had his sacrament of penance (confession of his sins to another Priest) on Tuesday, he went to Kafanchan town which is the regional HQ, to get a few groceries on Thursday. The informant obviously saw him and tipped the gang of bandits who came that very fateful Thursday evening.
Going forward, we should pray and believe harder in God than we do now. His survival was pure miracle. Like Jesus his Lord and Master, he saw death but did not die, he is alive. He said the Bishop was so worried he called check on him throughout the night. We saw the letter of solidarity and consolation he wrote. We should also prepare both spiritually and physically for any eventualities always.
Finally after all the display of original Odeshi by the Master Jesus himself, pray for the Fathers. He told me that after everything, looking back and the reality of what happened dawning on him, trauma is setting in for him.
Happy survival Fathers. May more Fathers survive and Nigerians survive bad governance, hunger and insecurity.
To God be the Glory forever and forever. Amen. The Lord Jesus reigns forever.
The leading presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi is set for his book launch today.
A campaign, different...
Peter Obi : Many Voices, One Perspective is a collection of writings by different authors, chronicling my journey in governance and public service. I am grateful to the editors of this great compendium for their great efforts. The general public is hereby invited to the official launching of the book tomorrow, as detailed in the flyer. -PO
“I did not say anything that didn't happen" - Singer BrymO 'apologises' to those saddened by his tweet as he addresses accusations of insulting the Igbos.
“I was already petitioned and then I was being asked to apologize. So I was like: ‘ What? After the petition, abeg…”
Well, as much as he want to sound intelligent he should know that there is no monopoly of intelligence.
You concluded based on one person out of a possibly 20million people and you want to be left alone? When the conclusion on one of your tweet was done, you still want your other tweets to be given consideration?
Gbajabiamila had argued in the proposed legislation that the hardship being faced by the unemployed and low-income earners coupled with the very high cost of living in Nigeria over the years made access to quality higher education difficult, stressful and in some cases impossible.
But this should be what we should solve not creating more reason blocks for our poor standard of living.
It's quite sad we don't have innovate assembly that handles bills that tactically address issues of poverty
My remarks when I visited Port Harcourt have been wrongly interpreted by some people. The former Governor of Rivers State, Dr Peter Odili and I, are among other prominent Nigerians that schooled in Christ the King College (CKC) Onitsha, and we remain alumni of the school.
I did not say that former Governor Odili was my classmate, rather I said that he was a great footballer in my school, and we all cherished and had good memories of his football exploits when we got into the school.
The Primary School that I attended, Santa Maria School/Holy Trinity School, were both owned by the same Catholic Church that owned Christ the King College (CKC), Onitsha. In fact, both Primary Schools were feeder schools to CKC,and a large number of pupils who passed through the schools ended up in CKC for secondary education. - PO
As religious leaders, we must continue in prayer and solidarity to end religious extremism and offer the world a badly needed moral compass for a peaceful and just world.
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The continued weaponisation of identities in plural societies will only make progress impossible, national cohesion elusive and development a dream deferred… There is an inconvenient truth that must serve as a lesson for all believers in universal and organised religions. More and more people are leaving the faiths, some are becoming atheists because we have offered them a face of God that is, by our actions of weaponising religion, clearly ugly, inhuman and unjust.
In a presentation elsewhere, I summed up my great country Nigeria in the following words: From its inception as an independent nation, Nigeria has remained a volatile country. Home to over two hundred million people……..Highly resourced, but endemically corrupt, a combination of serious governance missteps, series of military coups, years of maladministration, a culture of violence, has seriously slowed down what should have been one of the greatest nations on earth. It has left its people vulnerable to poverty, disease, violence and death. Here is the enigma: Amidst all of this, in 2014, The World Value Survey ranked Nigerians the happiest people on earth.
Today, a combination of local and global factors of terrorism have further pushed the country to the precipice. After well over ten years of battling Boko Haram, insurgency, banditry, and ethno-religious violence, our weary citizens are absorbed in self-doubt, their natural happiness clouded by deep despair. Daily news of abductions, armed robberies, kidnapping for ransom, murders and assassinations of our innocent citizens persist and citizens have become inured to these. Our sacred spaces have become killing grounds. Hundreds of worshippers have been murdered in mosques and churches across the country. In response, much of the world shrugs its shoulders and moves on. The reasons are understandable. The world is faced with existential threats to our collective survival and nations are busy mending their own fragile boundaries. Most of Africa’s injuries are self-inflicted, largely by a corrupt elite with unrestrained greed, which mistakes personal comfort for governance. Religious extremists have found in Africa, fertile grounds for the growth of their destructive doctrines.
Against this background, I applaud the foresight of the organisers of this conference, the R20 International Summit of Religious Leaders, ahead of the G20 Summit scheduled to hold here in Bali this month. It is commendable that you have had the foresight to attempt to shine a moral touch on the G20 countries and hopefully to make a case for the need for leaders of religion to rally around, so that they can roll back the threats posed by those men and women who continue to use religion as a means of inflicting cruelty and slowing down human progress. I specifically commend the goal of the conference, which according to you is to, among other things: to prevent the weaponisation of identity and combat the spread of hatred. Today, hatred feeds on the weaponisation of identity, marginalises the other, and creates the conditions for their dehumanisation, and inevitably takes us down the dark paths that justify violence and murder in God’s name. My intention here is to briefly speak to the issues, as they concern my personal experience in my great country, Nigeria, which, like your own country, is host to the greatest number of Muslims outside the Middle East.
The Nigerian story of the weaponisation of religion has been characterised by the manipulation of historical narratives between Christians and Muslims, and the setting of ethnic groups against each other over the years. Most Muslims in northern Nigeria have continued to re-echo sentiments of the old caliphate (1804-1903), which views Christianity as a foreign religion that is tied to colonialism. This has fed from a false notion that since Islam preceded Christianity into the space now known as Nigeria by hundreds of years, it had become an indigenous religion. The truth is that, of course, Islam itself originated from the Arab peninsula. Either way, the reality is that an independent Nigeria is supposed to be home to all citizens, irrespective of ethnicity or religion.
Sadly, rather than uphold the principles of equal citizenship as enshrined in the Constitution, the political elite continues to exploit religious sentiments and the further division of our people, while creating windows for religious extremists to exploit. Discrimination in the allocation of opportunities, whereby governors use state resources to favour one religious group against the other, serves to create a false sense among the favoured group that politicians can be relied upon to defend its religion.
Christians, in most of the northern states of Nigeria, feel quite discriminated against in many areas of public life. Despite the provisions of the Constitution, Christian education is not being taught in public schools in most of the states. Certificates for land to build churches are denied and constantly, Christians find their churches often earmarked for destruction on flimsy excuses. Mission schools were taken over from them without adequate negotiation and compensation. At the local level, Christian children who are indigenous to the states have no access to state scholarships and the graduates find themselves discriminated against in employment. The educational system does not promote national cohesion because students are not exposed to the teachings and cultures of faiths other than their own. The result is that generations of young citizens grow up with suspicion and fear of one another.
Outside Northern Nigeria, the situation is different. In the South-West of the country, where this a significant percentage of Muslims, there is hardly any incident of violence in the name of religion. United by very strong cultural threads, the Yoruba intermarry and live together rather peacefully. Their love for education has ensured that they do not carry the excess baggage of confusion, miseducation and ignorance that have denied Muslim children education in Northern Nigeria, on the grounds that Western education is a danger to Islam. Little wonder, Boko Haram has emerged from the rubble of this culture of fear of Western education from the womb of Islam in Northern Nigeria. In the West, the teaching of religion is considered a part of the education syllabus.
Compounding this structural persecution of Christians in Northern Nigeria, we have witnessed a growing culture of overt violence in the name of Islam, spanning over the last decades. For over thirty years now, Nigeria has been home to the worst form of violence on two levels. First, is intra-religious violence; that is, violence targeting those among Muslim groups within Islam, on the grounds of differences in the practice of the religion.
The South-East of Nigeria has no significant Muslim presence. Even at that, the Muslim population in these areas still love Western education and do send their children to school. Across the country, I can speak authoritatively for the Catholic Church and its attitude to education. It makes adequate provision for the teaching of Islam where necessary, because we have a tradition of often hiring and paying Islamic teachers as part of the staff. The culprit in all of this is the political and religious elite in Northern Nigeria, which continues to treat Christianity with suspicion. No matter how much we deny these facts, if we do not confront the realities, even if they are imagined, it will be impossible to close the portals through which ignorant youth continue to perpetrate violence. Rather than create friendships early in life at school, conditions of self-doubt, fear, and anxiety persist among children of diverse faiths. Without the deliberate political will to address these issues by listening to grievances rather than accusations, the weaponisation of religion will continue to destroy the foundation of our common citizenship.
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Compounding this structural persecution of Christians in Northern Nigeria, we have witnessed a growing culture of overt violence in the name of Islam, spanning over the last decades. For over thirty years now, Nigeria has been home to the worst form of violence on two levels. First, is intra-religious violence; that is, violence targeting those among Muslim groups within Islam, on the grounds of differences in the practice of the religion. Within Islam, there has been violence among groups as Shi’ites, Izala, Boko Haram, ISWAP and a few others. The largely Sunni and Tijanniya brotherhoods have been more accommodating, while also being victims of violence. Second is the violence by Muslim extremists that directly target Christians or their infrastructure, such as churches, presbyteries, convents, schools, health facilities and even social infrastructure for public use, such as pastoral centres.

This violence has been a slow burning candle over the years, treated as localised. Now, violence by Islamic extremists has smouldered into an inferno. It is literally impossible to keep track and count of the culture of violence that has consumed the nation. Over the years, a culture of impunity has grown with Muslim extremists simply referred to by government as miscreants or defined as those who do not represent the religion of Islam. With no punishment and consequences for their actions, with governments not taking responsibility for destroyed businesses and places of worship of Christians, these so-called miscreants have become emboldened, they operate beyond the law, and continue to create the impression that they are holy warriors for God. Silence on the part of those who are in authority could be taken as subtle endorsement.
We suffered this fate most recently in my Diocese of Sokoto in the aftermath of the brutal mob-killing of one Ms Deborah Samuel, a young Christian student accused of blasphemy and publicly murdered on campus on 13th of May by her fellow Muslim students, for having complained about the forced introduction of religion into an academic study group for her class. Far from universal condemnation of this horrific act, many Islamist extremists and their Imams applauded the murder, claiming it was justified, and calling for additional violence against any who might ask for legal justice against the perpetrators. This happened in spite of the condemnation of the act first by the governor of the state, the Sultan of Sokoto, and my humble self. This is one instance in which there is a clear conflict between the protections guaranteed by the Constitution and the claims made by criminals who hide under the wings of religion. The taking of any human life, no matter the motivation, unless sanctioned by a competent court of law, is a punishable offence. When the state fails to do this, it merely postpones the evil day.
The rise in religious extremism has further opened up new levels of terrorist activities across our country but largely within Northern Nigeria. It has been difficult to label these criminals, but it is not enough to say that they are misguided Muslims or that they have not left Muslims alone. This raises the urgency of very sober and heart soul searching among the Muslim community, in terms of how their faith and kinsmen and women have had their identities hijacked. While we have had cases of the abductions of very visible Muslim clerics in parts of the North-East and North-West, the abductions of senior Christian church men have been far more pronounced, targeted and vicious.
In the course of all this, in my Diocese of Sokoto, we have had our own challenges in only one of the four states that make up the Diocese. In the southern part of Katsina State, we have had four of our priests kidnapped in one year; one was killed and the others were held for between two weeks and 33 days. Two of my Catechists and over twenty of my lay faithful have been kidnapped within the same area. Across the country, the number of kidnapped priests and religious person is close to a hundred. A total within the entire Christian communities spread across the country, including school children, will be in the thousands. We have witnessed some of the worst form of brutality in four of the states that make up our Diocese (Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara). Thousands of villagers have been brutally murdered in their homes, in the markets and on the highways. These are communities with no Christian presence. At this stage, we are witnessing a country that is on freefall, where life – any life – has become nasty, brutish and short. This is the violence which we face today, one which degrades us all and robs us of our fundamental dignity as human beings, whether as Christians or Muslims.
In conclusion let me make a few particular and then general comments about the way forward as I see it for my country, other parts of Africa and the world. It should be clear from what I have tried to say that our problems are two-fold: First, is the fate of Christians in Nigeria and second, is the widespread violence in the name of Islam that has consumed the country, irrespective of social class, religion or ethnicity. It is a wakeup call. I wish to make the following appeals, locally and internationally.
Beyond conferences, we must develop a coherent programme of lessons and agreed principles that we can learn and accept from one another. This cancer of the weaponisation of religion threatens us all. History shows us that empires and emperors have had their day. In the form we knew them, they are gone for good. The world will always be full of men and women with grand delusions about how they have been divinely sent to create a new world at the cost of human blood.
First, for us in Africa, in general, but Nigeria, in particular, the weak infrastructure of the state has predisposed our public office holders to corruption on a truly monumental scale. Good governance has failed and human survival has become a casualty. Rather, governance is seen as state capture, whereby politicians share patronage on the basis of their cynical exploitation of the fault lines of religion or ethnicity. Nepotism and favouritism based on religion, region, social class or ethnicity have become weapons of choice which, in turn, deepen a feeling of alienation. In Africa, when politicians present themselves as champions of their ethnicities or religions, naturally, their supporters expect that the rewards of winning an election would mean power to their base alone. This exploitation undermines democracy and imperils the future of our people.
Second, governments should embrace a culture of constitutionalism, insisting on the supremacy of their national constitutions, given that we are in democracies and not theocracies. Religious and cultural beliefs should be sources of law but not the law in themselves, no matter the claims. In a democracy and under a constitution, innocent citizens cannot lose their lives due to cultural or religious claims that are contrary to the laws of natural justice, or subjected with impunity to spurious religious claims. So, as we see in Nigeria and elsewhere, no citizen should have the right to take the life of another or cause injury on grounds of any sort of divine claim. Decisive punishments must be meted out to those who kill in the name of faith! Religious leaders of the faith being used must put pressure on their states to follow the rule of law and not be afraid of being targeted by extremists. Silence by religious leaders can send out the wrong signal.
Third, it should be clear to us by now that all citizens are at risk in the hands of these terrorists who, first, use ethnicity or religion to destroy humanity. Whether they are Boko Haram, ISIS, or other ethnically or racially based groups, we must all stand together to insist that injury to one is injury to all. We must all accept that we are all citizens of one human nation, that no religion or ethnic group is superior to the other. Those who govern us must have the courage to stand firm.
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Fourthly, a comprehensive, integrated programme of Education remains the cure for all forms of extremisms. It is not enough for leaders of faith to continue to engage in mere moral rhetoric or meaningless “dialogue” designed to appease politicians while leaving our people as victims by refusing to address the failure of governments. As I have said in Nigeria and elsewhere, the first victims of religiously inspired violence by extremists are always their own people. In today’s world, these victims are so often Muslims. In Northern Nigeria, majority of those who have died in the hands of Boko Haram, ISWAP, bandits or kidnappers have been Muslims. In the ISIS war in Iraq, despite the unacceptable brutality against the Christian minority, especially the Yazidis, the majority of victims, in the end, were Muslims. This should sound the alarm that it is not just about religion but also our common humanity. We must admit that even if mass killings of people of faith may not be an overt state policy, still we cannot ignore situations where there are people in the highest levels of government whose inaction and impunity clearly align with hidden genocidal intentions.
Beyond conferences, we must develop a coherent programme of lessons and agreed principles that we can learn and accept from one another. This cancer of the weaponisation of religion threatens us all. History shows us that empires and emperors have had their day. In the form we knew them, they are gone for good. The world will always be full of men and women with grand delusions about how they have been divinely sent to create a new world at the cost of human blood. However, we must work hard to cure them of their delusions by keeping them out of circulation by legal means. Here, developing nations must do more than merely append their signatures to international laws that protect human rights. Religious bodies, in collaboration with local and international civil society groups, must work together to ensure a fairer world for all.
Weaponising identity through dubious and false religious and ethnic triumphalism, as the world has seen with apartheid, racism, Nazism and only recently, the tragedy in Rwanda, has no future. The continued weaponisation of identities in plural societies will only make progress impossible, national cohesion elusive and development a dream deferred. Leaders of world religions must unite in the face of the forces of secularism and extremism. There is an inconvenient truth that must serve as a lesson for all believers in universal and organised religions. More and more people are leaving the faiths, some are becoming atheists because we have offered them a face of God that is, by our actions of weaponising religion, clearly ugly, inhuman and unjust. Our silence in moments of severe rupture of our society in the name of our religion offers the greatest impetus for extremism. As religious leaders, we must continue in prayer and solidarity to end religious extremism and offer the world a badly needed moral compass for a peaceful and just world.
Matthew Hassan Kukah is Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto and founder of the Kukah Centre, Abuja, Nigeria.
This is the text of a presentation delivered at the G20 RELIGION FORUM (R20), International Summit of Religious Leaders held between 2-3 November at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Bali, Indonesia.
The Katsina State Police Command last night announced the release of 21 children abducted by bandits.
The abducted children, according to Isah, are aged between 15 and 18 years.
Bandits had last Sunday kidnapped the victims who were working on the farm in the community and demanded for the sum of N30 million as ransom.
But Isah, a Superintendent of Police, in the message, said: “Good evening gentlemen of the Press. It is with great joy that I announce the release of all the 21 abducted workers that were kidnapped while working in farmland at Kamfanin Mai Lafiya village, Faskari LGA of Katsina State. They have been reunited with their families. Investigation is ongoing.”
Interesting But completely irrelevant. It's not having women as members but giving them power and responsibility. Women can no longer be satisfied by tokenism.
This Dinidari ( I like the way they put Africa after it to make it sound big) should have done a review of women's inheritance rights, business ownership and CEO/founders across the major regions to get a correct handle on attitudes towards women. Not just expecting women to be satisfied by representation.
That's just so 1980's
How is it now irrelevant and you are point towards a more relevant one?
Why did you not point to the relevant ones when it is showing you relevance to incorporation.
Any APC list is an abuse, the same people that wanted to abolish the First Lady office are giving them such full exhorbirant waste of public funds.
According to a report by DinidariAfrica, this is the report of women in PCC of major presidetial election council list
Women's role in politics is more than ornamental. However, there's an abysmally low number of women in important, decision-making roles like the Presidential Campaign Councils. The statistics accounts for women participating in the 3 major campaigns. #WPEProject #WomenInPolitics
Now that the major part of the preseason has ended, I think I can now make my sound team for the season barring any last minute surprises.
On the best performers of the Pre-season, I will like to see more of Dembele & Raphinha together.
The whole thing is getting to Fati, but i believe starboy is equal to the task that comes with leading the team with a whole bulk now evenly distributed among Raph11, Lew9, Demb7, Ferran, Auba and Depay if no means of leaving arrives.
I will love to see the backline pairing for the team as I'm still observing Chris, Garcia, Kounde and ever Solid Araujo and reliable Pique who should be planning retirement.
Nico should be looking for a low pressure team as he looks Confused in the middle park.
In the middle, I should be seeing our best Midfield option to always include De jong as we can't have our best creator in the team + (From the middle park) in the bench. It is Unchristian to still be joking with Jong when we desperately need him.
Pedri excellence going forward has made him forget the CM work and the creative in him has become low with more goals coming in. With teams that plan on marking him out and we need those creative skills, he should not make us disadvantaged. The same way Lewan serviced him is what he should be producing with the occasional goals coming in.
Gavi has to keep up with his ball recoveries without cards because Kessie is doing it effortless nd may soon become a starter.
Overall, I wish to see Xavi manage the squad more than he did last season so that we can achieve the Tremble.
E don they when we celebrate real trophy for here. �����
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Politics / Obi's Borehole Commissioning: Neither Death, Trauma Nor Injury - Mahdi Shehi by stuff46(m): 5:07pm On Apr 10
