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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has described the Government College Keffi as a great model for the unity of Nigeria as envisaged by the nation’s founding fathers.
The minister stated this at the 70th anniversary of the college in Keffi, Nasarawa State, yesterday, noting that if Nigerians would allow themselves to be guided by the Keffi model, the present atmosphere of disunity at all levels – religious, ethnic, regional, etc – will disappear and peace will return to the nation.
Mohammed said even though the Keffi Emirate, where the school is situated, is Muslim, Christians attended the school without discrimination.
“In fact, one of the most important days for us as students was ‘Ash Wednesday’, because on that day we had fish on the menu.
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Some Christian students also fasted along with those of us who are Muslims during the Ramadan, especially because Muslim students got a richer menu as an incentive throughout the fasting period, in addition to eating ‘sari’,” he said.
While imploring Nigerians to emulate and revive the ‘Keffi spirit’, the minister urged the people to de-emphasise ethnicity, religion and social status and co-exist as Nigerians.
He expressed the belief that if Nigerians do that, the nation would have succeeded in reducing to the barest minimum the areas of friction and today’s atmosphere of ethnic and religious suspicion, disunity, etc, will cease to exist.
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