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Jos Killing: Ondo Govt Visits Hausa/ Fulani Community In Akoko

The Ondo State Government delegation has met the Hausa Community in Ikaram Akoko in Akoko North West Local Government area of the state in order to douse the tension, following the killings of some Ondo State residents in Jos, Plateau State.

The residents, who were mostly Hausa/Fulani and few Yoruba who drove the five vehicles, were returning home after attending the annual ZIKR (Prayer Session) in Bauchi, to mark the commencement of the New Islamic year.

They were attacked by Irigwe militia along Rukuba road, Jos North local government area of the state on Saturday.

The Deputy Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, who represented the governor on the delegation commiserated with the families of the deceased.
He said, “On this sad development, we are here to commensurate with you on the incidence of 14th August along Rukuba Road, Jos North LG.

“You are one of us… majority of you are born here, so you are not strangers in Ondo State. You stay, you live, you work here, and therefore, you are one of us.”

While condemning the incident, Aiyedatiwa appealed for calm as he assured victims and relatives of the attack that the Police are working round the clock with other security agencies to ensure that all perpetrators of the evil deeds are arrested and prosecuted.

“We call on you all to remain calm… religious and traditional leaders must impress on our people to exercise restraint and not take the laws into their own hands.

“Really, this is a sad development as we feel your pains and your sorrow. This is a complete mistake of identity, when our people passed through a wrong place at the wrong time.

“Our governor has been discussing with Plateau State Governor, and a number of arrests have been made as our State is ready to pursue the matter to logical conclusion. All the culprits will never go unpunished.”

While appealing for peace, the deputy governor appealed against retaliation.

At the event, the Akala of Ikaram, Oba (Commodore) Olamoyi Momodu (Retd), thanked the delegation for identifying with the community at the darkest hour.

Equally, the Seriki of Hausa Community in Akoko Land, Alhaji Muhammed Haladu, expressed their profound gratitude to the deputy governor and his team for visiting them.

BREAKING: Spray Naira Notes And Go to jail – Cbn threatens

The Central Bank of Nigeria has threatened to arrest and prosecute anyone who abuses the Nigerian Naira in Public.

The CBN issued a stern warning on Monday against spraying or stepping on the nation’s currency at public events.

The statement, signed by the Ag. Director, Corporate Communications, CBN, Osita Nwanisobi, read: “The attention of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has again been drawn to the activities of persons, who flagrantly abuse the legal tender by hurling wads of Naira notes in the air and stamping on the currency at social functions.”

“There have also been cases where people mishandle the Naira, deface it, hawk the currency at parties and reject the currency in some instances. It should be stated that, contrary to the practice of these unpatriotic persons, it is neither cultural nor moral, for people to disrespect the currency which citizens trade in.”

“For the avoidance of doubt, Section 21(3) of the Central Bank of Nigeria Act 2007 (As amended) stipulates that “spraying of, dancing or matching on the Naira or any note issued by the Bank during social occasions or otherwise howsoever shall constitute an abuse and defacing of the Naira or such note and shall be punishable under the law by fines or imprisonment or both.”

“Accordingly, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is collaborating with the Nigeria Police, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) to address the unpatriotic practice.”

“We therefore warn Nigerians, particularly those at social functions such as birthdays, weddings and funerals, to desist from disrespecting the Naira or risk being arrested by law enforcement agencies. The Naira is our legal tender and symbol of national pride.”

Buhari Couldn’t Eat Food Due To Killing Of 25 Travellers In Jos – Isa Pantami

The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari could not eat on the day 25 people were killed in the Jos attack.

According to Daily Nigerian, Pantami disclosed this during a special visit to convey the president’s condolences to the people.

Recall that suspected militias killed not less than 25 Muslim travellers at Rukuba, Jos while returning from a religious assembly organised by Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi in Bauchi State.

The minister while conveying the message of the president said the Buhari was saddened by the killings such that he could not eat.

“The president had since directed that the perpetrators of the attack be fished out and prosecuted.”

“He spoke with top military brass on the issue. He had just returned from a journey, and as matter of fact the president could not even eat food,” Pantami added.

(VIDEO)Drama As Reverend Father Was Seen Locking Lips With His Female Students

Drama As Reverend Father Was Seen Locking Lips With His Female Students (Video)

Nigerians on social media have reacted to the video of a St Monica’s College of Education Reverend Father locking lips with some female students.
In the video that has gone viral, three students were seen lined up and taking turns to exchange kisses with the man of God behind a pulpit in the presence of a seemingly large congregation.

The act, which has been termed as a “holy kiss” among persons familiar with it, seeks to officially welcome new converts of the school to the body of Christ Jesus.

Wearing a green and white liturgical robe, the Reverend Father draws each of the students towards himself and plants his lips on theirs.

The students were seen cheering as the supposed consecrated activity goes on.

Watch the video below;

However, the video did not sit well with Nigerians as it was met with mixed reactions on social media. See some of the reactions below;

@jnrpope wrote; ‘What happend to the forehead……. I am a strong catholic and this is not our doctrine.’

@s.y.m.b.e.e.s wrote; ‘This is abuse especially for the last girl because it was obvious she never wanted it, what kind of rubbish is this?’

@the_adedunni wrote; ‘Omo this is so disturbing in every way’

@justverb_ wrote;’Not every pastor is a Christian.’

@gillian_differs wrote; ‘Aseju ni french kiss. Holy kiss ti wa okay’

@teey_g wrote; ‘The last girl is mortified.. why would you force “holy kiss” on a young lady, or any body..’

@yungbobbie_ wrote; ‘Only in GHENE. I tire for that place

How Buhari’s Minister Pantami Prayed, expressed Support For Taliban, Al Qaeda Victory In Afghanistan

The Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, had in th 2000s prayer for victory for Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan.
Pantami, who has been accused of having links to terrorist groups, recently said he had denounced his allegiance to the Boko Haram.

It will be recalled that Taliban fighters had recently taken of Kabul and the presidency in Afghanistan.

The extremist group had also renamed the country ‘Islamic State of Afghanistan’, bringing to an end a twenty year old war which started when a US-led forces invaded the Middle East nation.

Pantami, back in his sermons in the 2000s, expressed support for the global extremist groups.

He said, “This jihad is an obligation for every single believer, especially in Nigeria… Oh God, give victory to the Taliban and to al-Qaeda (Allahumma’ nṣur Ṭālibān wa-tanẓīm al Qā‘ida).”

Also, in a 2019 academic document ‘Debating Boko Haram,’ Pantami had invited muslims, especially “Ahlus Sunna” (Salafis), to be sceptical of politicians and religious leaders calling for peace and understanding but they should retaliate with Jihad.

“This jihad is an obligation for every single believer, especially in Nigeria (hādhā jihād farḍ ‘ayn ‘ala kull Muslim wa-khuṣūṣan fī Nījīriyā),” he added.

Top journal publisher academia.edu published the research in March 2019.

The speech, which is about 20 minutes long, concluded with the prayer, “Oh God, give victory to the Taliban and to al-Qaeda (Allahumma’ nṣur Ṭālibān wa-tanẓīm alQā‘ida).”

“During his speech, Pantami is in tears, and his voice is often broken by sighs. The genuineness of his emotional response to what was, without doubt, a dramatic episode in the history of violent conflict in Plateau state is obvious,” said the report.

In another speech in 2006, Pantami offered his public condolences for the death of the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Zarqawi.

“May God have mercy on Aḥmad alFāḍil al-Khalayleh, raḥmatullāh’ alayhi. May God forgive his mistakes. He is a human being. He has certainly some mistakes in front of God, so may God forgive his mistakes. Who am I talking about? He is Abū Muṣ‘ab al-Zarqāwī.

“He was born in 1966 of the Christian era, that is forty years ago. […] After some time, he was given responsibility for a camp in Herat. It was the Commander of the Faithful (Amīr almu’minīn) Mollah Omar ‒ may God preserve him ‒ who personally gave him the authority to run this camp.”

The document noted Pantami as further saying, “To this date, in the community of the Prophet we have some awesome people, people of awesome faith, who follow the creed of the Sunna and thanks to whom the enemies of God are unable to find rest in this world.

“They have killed the Shaykh, the martyr Abdallah Yusuf Azzam ‒ may God have mercy on him ‒ but did the struggle end? They went on to strike Chechnya, and they killed many of them: did it end? […] Whenever one goes, another one comes, and he is even more awesome than the first,” Pantami added

Source: Naija News

People who should be in jail or in Exile are Always on campaign posters – Banky W

Singer Banky W has said the people who should be in jail or in exile are the ones seen on campaign posters during election season in Nigeria.

The singer who ran for House of Representatives on the platform of the Modern Democratic Party in 2019 said this on Nigeria Info FM’s Daily Digest programme monitored by The PUNCH on Tuesday.

He said his political ambition was driven by frustration with the political status quo and the plight of young Nigerians who don’t even know who their representatives in government are.

On why he ran for office, he said, “The first person I spoke to was my wife. I said we can’t sit around during election season and people who should be in jail or on exile are the ones on the campaign posters around and also the ones who keep getting into these powerful offices in the country.”

He said his wife expressed belief in his ambition but pointed out that politics is dirty and dangerous.

The singer continued, “I said, well, it will always be dirty and dangerous if everybody who is good, credible and with good interest at heart forever sits out of the process. This will leave the scum of the earth that we have here to occupy the seats and then we’ll turn around and complain that Nigeria is bad.”

He also spoke on why he didn’t run for office on a popular platform like the All Progressives Congress, the Peoples Democratic Party, or rely on a godfather

According to him, “The battle in Nigeria is not between APC and PDP, it’s between the political class and everybody else because APC and PDP tend to be the same. Their members are just jumping back and forth, and the parties don’t have ideologies per se, they are just platforms that people use to leapfrog into power.

“So, there was that frustration with the political status quo. Also, wanting to stand up for something, represent a different set of ideas and reach out to the younger generation that does not believe in either of those two platforms, to try and put ourselves together and push back against these things to show what is possible and what can be done.”

On the Independent National Electoral Commission deregistering the Modern Democratic Party, Banky W stated that it was a good thing.

He said, “I felt like there were too many political parties. Having 90 political parties is a little bit ridiculous. The deregistration forces us to either come together or start to infiltrate the major political parties and start to make those changes from within. But if you have over 90 platforms of people pushing, invariably we’ll just empower the two major parties to continue the way that they are.”

BREAKING: How IGP rejected Panel Report on Abba Kyari

The Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba Alkali reportedly rejected a report by a panel setup to investigate the indictment of Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI.

According to Punch, the IGP rejected an earlier report submitted by the four-man Panel led by Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of the Force Criminal Investigations Department, Joseph Egbunike.

It was earlier reported that Kyari got into trouble after a US court issued a warrant for his arrest over his alleged involvement in a $1.1m Internet fraud allegedly perpetrated by an Instagram influencer, Abbas Ramon, popularly known as Hushpuppi and four others; AbdulRahman Juma ; Vincent Kelly Chibuzo (Kelly); Rukayat Motunrayo Fashola; and Bolatito Agbabiaka.

The FBI claimed that Kyari detained Chibuzor at the behest of Hushpuppi for one month to enable the latter and his co-conspirators to fleece their Qatari victim of over $1m.

However, Kyari has appeared before the panel several times since it was setup and has fiercely defended himself against the allegations.

The Panel submitted a report to the IG last week but was rejected for being to ‘lenient’ on the Super Cop.

The panel resubmitted another report on Monday after the IGP expressed discomfort with panel’s earlier findings and recommendations.

Taliban Renames Country Islamic Emirate Of Afghanistan As US Evacuates Citizens, Others

The Taliban who recently seized power in Afghanistan has renamed it the ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’.
The media had been filled with reports that many Afghans in a bid to leave the Middle East country had ran alongside a US military plane as it taxied on the runway while several clung to the side as the jet took off with Senior US military officials.

This online highlights the chaos the country is presently rocked with.

The US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 that ousted the insurgents from power did not succeed in completely removing the Taliban’s who had ran the country in the late 1990s.

According to CNN, hundreds of people poured onto the tarmac at Kabul’s international airport, desperately seeking a route out of Afghanistan on Monday after the Taliban’s sudden seizure of power sparked a chaotic Western withdrawal and brought to a crashing end the United States’ two-decade mission in the country.

Speaking yesterday, US President Joe Biden had stated that his country cannot continue to fight a war that Afghanistan are not ready to fight.

According to the president, measures are been put in place to ensure the safe evacuation of US officials and those residents that have been of great help to the US.

He disclosed that additional troops would be deployed to secure the Kabul international airport.

‘I Stand Firmly behind my decision’, Biden defends U.S. Decision To Pull Out of Afghanistan

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, on Monday, defended his administration’s decision to pull out of Afghanistan.

Mr Biden, a day after Taliban militants seized control of the country, said he stood firmly by his decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, adding that there was never going to be a right time to do that.

He argued in a televised address that he was faced with a choice to either follow through with the drawdown or escalate the conflict into its third decade and ultimately sacrifice more American lives.

“I stand squarely behind my decision,” the 46th American president said. “After 20 years, I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces. That’s why we’re still there.”

“Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country; the Afghan military collapsed, sometimes without trying to fight,” Mr Biden said. “If anything, the developments of the past week reinforce that ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan now was the right decision.”

He said the 20-year mission was not meant to be about “nation building” or “creating a unified, central democracy”, but was designed to prevent a terrorist attack on American soil.

In Kabul, the Taliban seized power on Sunday following President Ashraf Ghani’s departure from the country, bringing an end to the two decades war.

Less than 24 hours after the Taliban takeover, chaos erupted at Kabul’s international airport as thousands of Afghans raced to flee the country.

A harrowing video on the internet showed Afghans storming the military side of the airport and clinging to a U.S. Air Force plane as it attempted to move down the tarmac. In the video, some people appear to fall to their death as the aircraft took off.

The U.S. president appeared to be caught off-guard by the Taliban’s rapid rise saying

things unfolded quicker than anticipated.

“The truth is, this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated,” Mr Biden said, noting that his administration was prepared for all scenarios but that the Afghan government and military were unwilling to defend their own country.

“American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves,” he said.

BREAKING: Ex-Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu Is Dead

A former Deputy Senate President and chieftain of the PDP, Ibrahim Nasiru Mantu, is dead.
Naija News gathered that the former Plateau Central Senator died in the early hours of Tuesday (today) after a brief illness.

It was learned that the former legislator fell ill about nine days ago and was receiving treatment at home until he was rushed to the Diff hospital in Abuja, where he eventually passed on.

Speaking with Daily Trust, a source said the funeral prayer would be held today in Abuja, and that necessary funeral arrangements are being made.

Early life

Alhaji Ibrahim Nasiru Mantu was born on February 16, 1947, in the present Plateau State. Mantu is one of the few Nigerians who take politics seriously and had from the onset decided to make it a full-time vocation.

Apart from his profession, which he read, at the Professional School of Saksmanship, Lagos and the London University U.K, he was variously at the vanguard of the leadership of most of the political parties of his time.

Mantu was Deputy National Chairman, defunct Liberal Convention, Director-General Defunct National Republican Convention, Presidential campaign 1993; National Chairman, defunct Peoples Democratic Alliance, National Publicity Secretay defunct United Nigeria Congress Party.

He was a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Plateau CentralConstitueny) under the Peoples DemocraticParty (PDP) and appointed DeputySenate President, 2000. Alhaji Mantu was also the General Patron of the Nigerian Youth Organisation; Fellow, Nigerian Institute of Journalism and General Patron Bida Hall, University of Lagos.

Late Mantu was also honoured as the Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR).