Sekere, the Yoruba musical instrument, is reputed never to be found wherever tears are being shed. Made of a gourd that is knitted round by beads and which its user twists, shakes or slaps to produce a medley of exciting sounds, Sekere and sorrow are strange bedfellows as this musical instrument can never be found in an assemblage of poets engaged in dirges. Proud of Sekere’s pedigree of being a springboard of joy and conviviality, Yoruba proudly thump their chests that Sekere does not cavort in an assembly of the downcast. Unlike the Sekere however, last week, and as it has been its wont, Nigeria again showed that Sekere’s antithesis excites it. From the political, the social, to the economic, the Sekere became a rare object in sight in Nigeria.
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Vanga grew up on a farm, in what is now Macedonia, and became blind after being dragged into a tornado when she was young, with her believers saying this accident was what gave her second sight.
The Washington Post reported that the five detainees released from US custody are Duran, Moath al-Alwi, Suhail al-Sharabi, Zakaria al-Baidany and Abdulmalik Bajabu.
Biden spoke in a video message posted on Twitter on Friday evening on the 20th anniversary of the attack.
In a statement on Thursday, the Presidency said Pantami’s ordeal in the hands of those calling for his sack was not about his past utterances but about his current job as a minister.
The latter had attempted to defend the indefensible by seeking to justify and rationalise the despicable and totally unacceptable submissions and actions of the embattled Minister of Communications, Sheik Isa Pantami.
He told The PUNCH newspaper in an interview that his son, Sunday, a 400-level student of Architecture at ATBU at the time, was strangled by Muslim students for allegedly circulating a tract that contained blasphemous content.
There is currently an ongoing call for Pantami’s resignation or sacking over his past controversial comments on terrorist groups including the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
This is despite the overwhelming call for the resignation or sacking of the minister over his past controversial comments on terrorist groups including Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja, also demanded that President Muhammadu Buhari should immediately sack the minister, given the sensitivity of the issue at stake.
Pantami said this on Saturday at the An-Nur Mosque while responding to the criticism that had followed his past support for Boko Haram and a recent news that the United States of America had put him on a watchlist for supporters of terrorism
The minister said he was young when he made the radical comments, adding that he is now mature and now knows better.
The minister also said he has no issues with Christians, adding that his personal driver, secretary and technical assistant are all Christians
This was due to warning by critics that peace was anything but assured after two decades of fighting.
The attack was directed at traders returning from a nearby market
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, said this at the updates briefing on military operations across the country on Thursday in Abuja.
A former Intelligence Chief in Mali, San Louis Keita, made the allegation in Abidjan, the Cote d’Ivoire capital, at a news conference
Ayokunle made the call at the Wedding Solemnisation of Rev. William Okoye and Toyin Bello at the All Christians Fellowship Mission, Maitama, Abuja on Sunday.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the appeal on Friday when he featured on a TVC live programme, “This Morning,” monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, while answering questions from newsmen at the updates briefing on military operations across the country on Thursday in Abuja, said there was nothing to fear about the claim.