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Nigerian civil society organization is reporting that no less than 50 Christians were killed in March and 10 in the first two days of April by radical Fulani herdsmen.
Akeredolu, in an interactive meeting with the leadership of the Hausa/Fulani and Ebira Communities in Ondo State. br The Governor, who is the Chairman of the Southwest Governors’ Forum said Kidnappers Should Expect Fire For Fire Across the Southwest. br Crossed swords. Photo; TWITTER/ONDOFIRSTBORN• Akeredolu replies, says President’s emotions threatening national unity
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NOBEL laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has faulted critics of the Christmas speech of the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, saying they are religionists diverting attention from the cleric’s central theme.
The playwright said he had studied the transcript as reported in the media and found nothing in the speech that denigrated Islam.
He, however, noted that he was not among the most religion besotted inhabitants of the globe, saying that alone, he was told, disqualified him from commenting on the subject.
Kukah in the speech summed up the country’s woes ranging from insecurity, poverty to citizens’ frustration under the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
By Ibrahim Hassan
Southern Kaduna People’s Union, SOKAPU, yesterday said not less than N900 million ransom was paid by kidnap victims in Southern Kaduna to their abductors last year.
National President of the group, Jonathan Asake said between January and December, 2020, kidnap victims paid N900 million to their abductors.
At a briefing in Kaduna, Asake decried the worsening insecurity in the southern part of Kaduna State, saying 80 percent of residents of Chikun Local Government area had abandoned their ancestral land for safer areas because of insecurity.
This came as SOKAPU condemned threat to the life of Catholic Archbishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Mathew Kukah by some groups and individuals over his Christmas Day’s homily and demanded the arrest of those threatening Bishop Kukah with eviction.