By Steven Kefas When Gideon Akaluka, an Igbo trader was gruesomely murdered and dismembered in Kano on the 26th of December, 1994 by some irate muslim youths, some of whom prison authority said scaled the fence of the Goron Dutse prison in the ancient city of Kano to carry out the barbaric act, many like myself where toddlers or were […]
By Steven Kefas In Nigeria the traditional institution predates both the Uthman Danfodio Jihad and the colonial administrations. This is evident in the fact that before the arrival of Uthman Danfodio into Nigeria the indigenous people of the North and South had their various traditional leadership system which was serving them pretty well.These traditional leadership system had leaders who were […]
By David Hundeyin “Wherever a Fulani army had been it left a depopulated desert. Greed was one of the- chief characteristics of the new dynasty, and tax after tax was enforced upon the people, so that at the present day there is no conceivable trade and no profession which has not its own special tax. Every form of handicraft, the […]
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has endorsed ‘Silent Slaughter’ a publication made on the killings going on in Nigeria. The compendium which captures in detail, the killings of genocidal proportion going on in the country was published by the International Foundation for Peace and Social Justice also known as PSJ in collaboration with The International Committee on Nigeria (ICON). Addressing […]
By Steven Kefas There is an ongoing systematic ethnic cleansing going in the Buhari Nigerian Armed Forces. Military plane crashes and death of military officers and men under very controversial circumstances in Nigeria seem to have assumed a very disturbing dimension in the last few months. These occurrences begun shortly after a popular Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi was seen […]
By Steven Kefas Popular Bauchi based Islamic Cleric and the Leader of the Tijaniyya Sect, Sheikh Usman Dahiru Bauchi has visited President Muhammadu Buhari in the Presidential Villa Abuja. The purpose of the visit even though not yet known as at the time of filing this report, the Cleric had on Tuesday promised to meet with the President over the […]
I just heard that a curfew has been imposed on Jos, the Plateau State capital, following the massacre of 22, some say 35, Southwest-Muslim passengers by people suspected to be Irigwe youths at Gada-biyu section of the Zaria Road in Jos metropolis two days ago. The killing of the innocent travellers itself came a week after a reported reprisal attack […]
By Reuben Buhari It was night and the female students of Government Girls Secondary School in the town of Chibok, Borno State had retired for the night on 14th April 2014. Suddenly, Boko Haram terrorists invaded and violently abducted 276 girls from the school. Parents were thrown into unimaginable anguish. Innocent girls, mostly 15 – 18 years found themselves among […]
By Steven Kefas On Sunday, in what exemplified the scriptural saying that “the church of God shall march on and the gate of hell shall not prevail against it”, members of the demolished EYN church Maduganari in Maiduguri congregated at the demolished site to worship God. The congregants who were seen siting on the rubbles held normal Sunday service, singing […]
Western governments and media outlets have accepted the “politically correct narrative” that the killing of thousands of Christians in Nigeria is the result of climate change and a fight for economic resources, the Primate of Nigeria, the Most Revd Henry Ndukuba, said this week. They had chosen to “ignore all the indices that show that minority Christian tribes are systematically being wiped out by […]