We hereby call on the present Government of Nigeria to do the needful by “courageously” telling Nigerians that “it is no longer secret that it has since 2016 adopted radical Islamism as state religion in Nigeria or any part thereof including Kaduna State”. This will formally allow citizens of other religions including moderate Muslims to rise in defence of their faith and ethnic identities under the constitutional and lawful rights to life and self defence.
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The spokesman of the police in the state, CSP Nnudam Fredrick, confirmed the incident to newsmen at Oruk Anam, Akwa Ibom State on Monday.
The call was made through a Save Our Souls letter by Edda Intervention and Rescue Initiative, a group pressing for the rights of people of Edda clan, and submitted to the IGP in Abuja.
The spokesperson of the Ebonyi State Police Command, DSP Loveth Odah, hinted this in an interview in Abakaliki, confirming that over seven houses were burnt and other properties destroyed.
The musician, who decried the increase in defilement in the country, took to his Instagram page: @official2baba, to express how sad he felt about the situation.
The Police spokesman, Haruna Mohammed, said in Awka that the suspects were arrested in a bush at Nri in Anaocha Local Government Area of the state.
According to Mass Atrocities Report of 2020, between January and April, 1,416 deaths occurred with 1,141 civilians and 275 security personnel.
The Chief Imam said this plea would include the All Progressives Congress primaries coming up in June.
At least 370 others were wounded, some critically, when heavily armed men from the Murle ethnic group attacked six villages in Uror county in Jonglei state on Saturday, County Commissioner John Gatluak.
While you and I are locked down and locked up massive trailer loads of able bodied disguised militia men are shipped in torrents down south apparently aided and abetted by powers that sent them on an undisclosed mission.
The Kogi State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of nine members of the Kogi State Vigilante Service for allegedly torturing a man to death in Ofabo Egabenebe community in Ofu Local Government area of the state.
The Federal Capital Territory Administration on Tuesday closed down the popular Oloye Olajumoke Modern Market in Dutsen-Alhaji, Bwari Area Council over violence between some traders and officials of the Environmental Department of the council.
A statement on Thursday by Crusoe Osagie, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, said the state government would not condone acts of violence.
The Peoples Democratic Party has admonished President Muhammadu Buhari to stop living in denial, self-praise and making jokes out of the deteriorated security situation in Nigeria under his administration.
The factional Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State, Joseph Osagiede, on Monday accused the National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, of being responsible for the violence in the state.
Reports of renewed attacks at places in Plateau and Taraba states and elsewhere across the country are disturbing just as they remind us of how much work we still have ahead of us to tidy the country’s internal security apparatus.
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the on-going violence in Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State.
The Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday called for “immediate investigation” into the violence that characterised the Kogi and Bayelsa governorship elections so as to fish out the perpetrators and bring them to justice.
Senator Abdullahi Adamu, All Progressives Congress, representing Nasarawa West, has urged Muslims and other Nigerians to embrace peace and shun violence in order to ensure national development.
The Peoples Democratic Party has warned against the use of violence to manipulate the November 16 governorship election in Kogi.