PANDEMIC PUTIN’S POWER PLAY: How It Affects Nigeria
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like the evil spirits at the dawn of day.” US President Thomas Jefferson, 743-1826. Seldom does one article expected to be one-off grow into a series like this one on Putin’s war in Ukraine and on the rest of the world. Make no mistake about it; everybody on this planet will feel the adverse repercussions of this war before it is over. The Russians will become the people we love to hate in this century; just as Germans were the enemies of the world after Second World War, WWII … It is not only decisions made today but decisions we fail to make, in response to Putin’s war, which will affect Nigeria for a generation or longer ……………… READ MOREFrom the growing possibility of running an unprecedented budget deficit in 2022 caused by rising oil prices and the accompanying receipts for fuel subsidies, to dangers posed by shortage of wheat used to make bread, spaghetti and noodles, the war between Russia and Ukraine is taking a toll on Nigeria, its national security and that of other African countries. The African Union, led by its chairman Macky Sall, the president of Senegal, on Friday condemned Russia’s attack on Ukraine and called for an “immediate ceasefire”, saying the situation risked escalating into “a planetary conflict”. Sall and chair of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, in a joint statement expressed “extreme concern” by the invasion, urging Russia to “respect international law, the territorial integrity and national sovereignty of Ukraine”…………..… READ MORE
Kidnap Of Catholic Priests In Kaduna State, One Case Too Many
When will the kidnappings and killings of Catholic priests in Kaduna State end? Can Kaduna residents sleep with their two eyes closed? What is behind the rise in kidnappings in Nigeria? Answers to these questions have remained elusive. It is no longer news that kidnapping and, in some cases killing of Catholic Priests in Kaduna State and other innocent citizens have become a recurring situation, which stressed the need for security agencies to step up their games to stem the tide. On Sunday 6th of February, 2022 Rev. Fr. Joseph Danjuma Shekari at about 11:30 pm was abducted from his residence at St. Monica’s Catholic Church, Ikulu Pari, in Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Although he regained his freedom barely 24 hours after his abduction according to the chancellor, Catholic diocese of Kafanchan, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Uchechukwu Okolo it was not without a ransom, as gathered………… READ MOREThe Nigerian Schoolgirls 8 Years Later
In his letter to the church at Philippi, St. Paul exhorted believers there to live lives “worthy of the Gospel of Christ.” How Paul goes on to describe that kind of life lived is a bit unnerving, especially in a letter supposedly about finding a life of joy. Such a life wrote Paul, involves, “striving side by side for the faith of the Gospel, not frightened in anything by your opponents…For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in Him but also suffer for His sake.” Most of us cannot imagine living out those words, but the Nigerian schoolgirls, kidnapped almost eight years ago by Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram, can … In the case of the Chibok girls, 163 either escaped or were eventually released. At least 13 died in captivity. Nearly 100 girls remain unaccounted for ………… READ MORE |
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