Pantami and the Call To Step Aside: A Rejoinder, By Mohammad Dahiru Lawal
Whether Pantami leaves or stays, history will remember him more as a scholar and architect of the modern Nigerian economy.
Minister of Communication, Dr Isa Ali Pantami
If PT had taken the pain on this one, as it always does, the measurability of the extent to which Pantami has reverted his mindset and core religious belief wouldn’t be something of a mystery to deduce for the paper, as it claimed in the said editorial. His recent sermons, political disposition and progressive inclination, all within public glare, are clear enough to aid measurement.
STATE OF NATION: Stop the bleeding, end carnage now, CSOs urge Buhari
On
Hundreds of
Civil Society Organisations in Nigeria have petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, stop the escalating security concerns in the country.
They further alarmed that the first quarter of 2021 witnessed an all-time high fatalities mass atrocity incidences across the country.
The petitio signed by the Joint Action Civil Society Coalition/Nigeria Mourns Secretariat and made available to
Vanguard revealed that “Following its sharp increase of 43 per cent in mass atrocities 2020, Nigeria has continued to experience a decline in security across the nation. In the first quarter of 2021 (January to March), we recorded an all-time quarterly high of almost 2000 fatalities from mass atrocities incidents across the country. This week, across the 6 geopolitical zones, there were escalated combustions of violence resulting in even more deaths.
Various
Versión en español de esta declaración disponible aquí. / Vous trouverez la déclaration en français ici.
As international and Latin American organisations working at the intersection of technology and human rights, we firmly reject the violent repression in Colombia in response to the massive social mobilisations which began on 28 April 2021. Militarisation in Colombia’s main cities and the brutal repression on the part of the police and military forces directly threaten human rights and the well-being of civil society in Colombia. The Colombian state has the obligation to adopt the necessary measures to guarantee the rights to freedom of assembly and association and freedom of speech, on the internet and on the streets.
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