It was learned that the gunmen kidnapped two priests and two others in the rectory of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Gidan Maikambo, located in Kafur Local Government Area of Katsina State.
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The problem was said to have started when Miss Deborah allegedly expressed certain displeasure over the use of her class WhatsApp group for a purpose different from the one for which it was created. Some of her Muslim course mates who were said to be angered by her comments on the platform allegedly asked her to apologize but that she refused. Seeing this, the mates mobilized other youths from outside the school that attacked, killed and even set Miss Yakubu’s remains ablaze.
Samuel, a 200 Level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, was murdered last week for alleged blasphemy
Miss Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, was killed by a mob over allegations of blasphemy against the Islamic religion and the subsequent arrest of some of the alleged perpetrators led to protest in the Sokoto metropolis, that has necessitated a declaration of a 24-hour curfew by the state government.
In a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mary Noel Berje, the Governor said peaceful coexistence in a plural society like ours, is not only necessary, but the first condition for growth and development.
The chairman of the forum and governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, made the appeal in a statement conveyed by his spokesperson, Dr Makut Macham in Jos.
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.