Charley boy was protesting for Buhari to either resume or resign and he was brutalized and visited with a festival of teargas leading to his collapse. And this atrocious treatment was meted to him, not under Buhari the tyrant but under the same man (Osinbajo) who stand to benefit should Buhari quit. 24hours later, the remorseless genocidal Arewa Youths did their own protest and were guarded and guided by police escorts on horseback. The same police that just anointed the 66 year old Oputa son with teargas. When I see Igbo man claiming # OneNigeria and trying to use his head to break the Nigerian coconut I simply want to pause and die crying. Crying at a people with an iniquitous sense of history. Nzeogwu executed a coup with soldiers from the rest of the country but at the end, it was tagged an Igbo coup and millions of my kind (both soldiers & civilians) were mercilessly slaughtered. Today, we have a quit notice and hate songs hanging round our necks in the...
By Farooq Kperogi Religion in the Muslim north revolves around (1.) a sick, prurient obsession with the female body under the cover of religious morality, (2.) exhibitionist displays of the rituals of religiosity, and (3.) identity politics without a care for ethical virtues, truth, honesty, and kindness. You can lie, cheat, murder, rape, steal and generally be a monster of moral perversion and you won‘t attract the condemnation of self-appointed guardians of public religious morality as long as you observe the public rituals of religiosity and mouth off familiar, stereotyped religious idioms. And you can be the very apotheosis of justice, truth, probity, compassion, etc., but if you don’t “perform” religiosity through your sartorial choices and through your public utterances, you’re the devil himself. In other words, religion is more about form than content, more about appearance than substance, more about cold structures than essence, and more about public performance of gr...
Zamfara most friendly and supportive state in the area of early grade literacy in Nigeria, say Education Partners. Zamfara state is now a leading role model toward ensuring the success of reading and numeracy for learners in primary 1-3 among states of the federation. It is a most friendly state in supporting grassroot educational activities toward ensuring developmental challenges of primary schools related to enrolment and quality of education outcomes. This was made known by Dr. Mikail Ibrahim Barau, Literacy Coordinator of Reading and Numeracy Activity, RANA who represents the Project Director at grant finale of RANA reading festival organized for reading and numeracy activity in Gusau, Zamfara state. The programme organized incollaboration with Zamfara state Universal Basic Education Board, ZSUBEB aims at improving sustainable reading delivery among primary school pupils and adults learning in the north which took place at Zamfara Teachers Training Centre, Gusau. Dr Mi...
The Executive Governor of Zamfara state and Chairman Nigeria Governors' Forum Hon Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar (Shattiman Zamfara) extends heartfelt condolences to the families of Late Deputy State Chairman of the APC Alh Lawali Bala Yabakako and Alh Bello Imam, the father of the Director General of Social Media, Zahraddeen Bello Imam, who died on Sunday 8th and Saturday 7th October, 2017, respectively. The Executive Governor also commiserates with their friends and well wishers on the demise of diehard Politicians and business men, very distinguished sons of Gusau who spent their lives serving God Almighty and their community. Gov Yari recalls that as political leader in Zamfara state, the late Deputy Chairman of the APC Alh Lawali Bala was an icon to be recon with in terms of humanitarian services, leadership quality, a philanthropist and political guru. Gov Yari described Alh Bello Imam as a dedicated business man who worked hard to earn a living, carrying everybody along...
A 29-year-old corps member Uzohcukwu Chinevu, undergoing his NYSC in Zamfa ra State, died on September 17, after slumping while playing basketball. Uzohcukwu is former president of the Association of Applied Biology and Biotechnology, Enugu State University Technology. He will be laid to rest in his hometown, Igbo-Etiti, Enugu State on Monday, September 25.
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