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A clarion call for global intercession for Nigeria
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A clarion call for global intercession for Nigeria
A clarion call for global intercession for Nigeria | Sunday, December 20, 2020
Courtesy of Oscar Amaechina
I have been worried about my country and have been praying for a change, but the situation is worsening every day. It seems the more we cry out against what the terrorists are doing in the Northeast, the greater the attacks and the number of deaths. Also banditry in the Northwest is increasing alarmingly and kidnappers are tormenting the people of Southern Nigeria. I am convinced that it is only through divine intervention that the situation in Nigeria
Although in the seeming absence of leadership, political order and law, life has become somewhat uncertain, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short, the denouement of the Kankara abduction incident, however, leaves so much to be grateful for, writes Louis Achi
According to the quaint English philosopher-historian, Thomas Hobbes, in a “state of nature”, human life would be “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”. In the absence of political order and law, everyone would have unlimited natural freedoms, including the “right to all things” and thus the freedom to plunder, rape and murder; there would be an endless “war of all against all.”
UN chief commends ‘swift action’ by Nigerian authorities as more than 300 boys are reunited with their families A 14 year-old former child soldier draws at a school in Ndenga village, Kaga Bandoro, Central African Republic (Image by UNICEF/Vlad Sokhin)
The UN chief on Friday welcomed the release of more than 300 schoolboys forcibly taken from their school in northwest Nigeria a week ago, although others reportedly remain missing.
After the release of the boys kidnapped by armed men from Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, on 11 December, Secretary-General António Guterres called for the “immediate and unconditional release of those who remain abducted”.
2020-12-20 15:40:29 GMT2020-12-20 23:40:29(Beijing Time) Sina English
Muhammed Bello, a rescued student, is carried by his father as his relatives celebrate after he returned home in Kankara in Nigeria on Saturday.
Bleary, barefoot, apparently numbed by a week of captivity, more than 300 Nigerian schoolboys, freed after being kidnapped in an attack on their school, were welcomed by the governor of Katsina State and Nigeria’s president on Friday.
Reunions with their parents began late in the day.
“Since this incident happened I have not been able to sleep, but now I can sleep,” said Salisu Kankara, a parent of one of the schoolboys who was released.