If a religious leader is afraid to say what is right, what else can his silence mean but that he has taken flight? Hiding behind a wall of silence is like taking flight at the approach of the wolf. Pope St. Gregory the Great (540–604 AD) 1: Easter Sunday is here again. But first, let…
After 25 days in captivity, parents of the 39 abducted students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, Kaduna, have vowed to negotiate the release of their children with the bandits. Their decision follows, declarations by the Kaduna state government that it will not negotiate with or pay ransom to bandits. The students who were…
The Presidency has reacted to the Easter message by the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Most Rev. Matthew Kukah, saying the he did not speak like man of God. Kukah had in his Easter message, lamented that the federal government spends billions in rehabilitating so called repentant terrorists while their victims are left to wallow in…
Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has declared that any bandits operating in the state will “most likely end up dead”. The governor spoke on Sunday while featuring on Channels Television programme, “Politics Today.” According to him, the solution to this problem of banditry and kidnapping is to intensify military operations from the air or the…
A non governmental organisation, Journalists Coalition for Citizens’ Rights Initiative (JCCRI), has raised the alarm over the influx of fulani herdsmen and other shadowy elements into the famous Pandam Game Reserve in Qua’an Pan Local Government Area of Plateau. The group in a statement on Sunday, expressed fears that unless urgent steps are taken to…
Raising from their meeting on Sunday in Abeakuta, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, have recommended special courts to try bandits, kidnappers and carriers of unlawful weapons in Nigeria. According to the Punch newspaper, Obasanjo and Gumi made this known in a jointly signed communique issued after their closed-door meeting at the Obasanjo…
