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  • New Navy vessels’ll boost maritime security, economy – First Lady

    New Navy vessels’ll boost maritime security, economy – First Lady

    First Lady Oluremi Tinubu has described the acquisition of two new high-endurance offshore patrol vessels for the Nigerian Navy as a show of the Tinubu administration’s commitment to the safety of Nigeria’s maritime environment. 

    According to a statement issued by her spokesperson, Busola Kukoyi, First Lady Tinubu who spoke at the launch ceremony in Turkey, said the vessels will significantly boost maritime security and drive economic prosperity through the blue economy.

    The two newly launched 76-meter vessels, built by Turkish shipyard Dearsan, are expected to bolster the Navy’s capability to combat piracy, oil theft, illegal fishing and other maritime crimes in Nigeria’s offshore waters.

    With their extended endurance and deployment range, the patrol ships will also aid in enforcing regulatory compliance and surveillance over Nigeria’s economic exclusion zone and the Gulf of Guinea.

    The Offshore Patrol vessels are both 76.90 meters in length, a beam of 11.90m and can accommodate 47 crew members.

    The First Lady commended Dearsan for its “high-quality shipbuilding capability” and expressed optimism that the launch marked the start of greater cooperation between Nigeria and Turkey in areas of defense and economic development.

    She said: “The acquisition of the High Endurance Offshore Patrol Vessels is another feat in the Tinubu administration’s commitment to Nigerian Navy’s Fleet renewed efforts towards a more secured maritime environment for Nigeria’s economic prosperity”.

    “As we appreciate the processes that has brought us here today, I want to commend Dearsan Shipyard for the high-quality ship building capability as well as for attaining this milestone, leading to the launching of the second Offshore Patrol Vessel.

    “Our gathering here today will undoubtedly strengthen relationship between Nigerian Navy and the shipyard as well as between Nigerian and Turkish governments”, she said. 

    Earlier, the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Mattawalle expressed optimism that the newly launched vessels would enhance the nation’s maritime sector.

    “I attest to the dedication and commitment of the Nigerian Navy not only to secure our territorial waters but also to see to na improved blue economy and the impact of these vessels on their activities would be significant”, he said. 

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    The Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Emmanuel Oglala noted that the commitment of President Bola Tinubu to the welfare of Men of the Nigerian Navy and his resolve to provide all that is needed to enhance their job, would ultimately result in reduced crimes in the maritime domain.

    In their remarks the Deputy Minister of Defence, Suay Alpay and the Secretary of Defence, Haluk Gorgun stated that there is room for more cooperation with Nigeria not only on the area of security but also economic development.

    The First Lady, then performed the age long tradition of slipping the ship into water.

  • FEC, First Lady, others: Nigeria needs peace, love for national development, progress

    FEC, First Lady, others: Nigeria needs peace, love for national development, progress

    The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has urged Nigerians to be optimistic in their support for President Bola Tinubu.

    The council advised the citizens to continue to promote unity and peaceful coexistence across the country.

    The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, stated this in FEC’s Eid-el-Fitr message to Nigerians.

    A statement yesterday by the Director of Information in Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF), Segun Imohiosen, said the FEC also urged Muslims to always reflect on the lessons of the just-concluded Ramadan fasting.

    “The Federal Executive Council (FEC) fecilitates Muslims on the successful completion of the 2024 Ramadan fast.

    “The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, on behalf of FEC, urged the Muslim faithful to continue to reflect on the lessons of the fast, which include love, sacrifice, endurance, obedience and compassion.

    “Senator George Akume urged Nigerians to be optimistic in their support for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, and to continue to promote national unity, peaceful co-existence for stability, development and growth of the nation.

    “FEC wishes Nigerians a happy Eid-il-Fitr,” the statement said.

    Also, the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, senators, House of Representatives members, and other leaders yesterday said Nigeria needs peace and love to develop and progress.

    In their messages to celebrate today’s Eid-el-Fitr, the eminent Nigerians urged fellow citizens to always share love and ensure peaceful co-existence for the nation’s development and progress.

    Also, heads of security agencies assured Nigerians of round-the-clock security for them and their property.

    In her message, the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, said: “I felicitate with all the Muslim Ummah in Nigeria. I enjoin you all to retain the lessons learnt during holy month of Ramadan, especially that of piety, sacrifice, and humility.

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    “As we celebrate, let us remember our neighbours and extend the hands of love in celebration of them all,” she said.

    Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin urged Nigerians to remain united and commit themselves to intense prayers for the development of our country.

    In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ismail Mudashir, the Senate Deputy President sought the cooperation of fellow citizens for the Bola Tinubu administration.

    He said: “We should all support and pray for the President, His Excellency, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to succeed in turning the fortunes of our beloved country positively.”

    The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Solomon Olamilekan Adeola (Yayi) advised the Muslim Ummah to continue the spiritual lessons of Ramadan and the injunctions of the Holy Prophet on self-denial, love, peaceful co-existence, fairness and justice.

    The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, urged fellow Muslims to uphold the virtues they cultivated during Ramadan.

    In a statement by his spokesman Enitan Olukotun, the Lagos East senator said: “Throughout Ramadan, we embarked on a profound journey of spiritual growth, discipline, and self-reflection. As we emerge from this sacred period, let us carry forward the invaluable values of sacrifice, selflessness, and obedience to the teachings of Islam into our everyday lives.”

    Former Senate President Ahmad Lawan admonished Nigerians to pray for the success of the Armed and Security Forces to overcome the various forms of insecurity across the country.

    Lawan, who chairs the Senate Committee on Defence, said: “To the Muslim Ummah, let us continue to pray for peace, prosperity, and unity in our beloved country.

    “As we celebrate Eid-el-Fitr and mark the end of Ramadan, let us remember to keep the spirit of Ramadan alive in our hearts and minds. Let us continue to pray for our armed and security forces to succeed over the numerous security challenges confronting our dear nation.”

    Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun urged Commissioners of Police (CPs) and tactical commanders nationwide as well as those in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), along with the Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIGs), to intensify security measures throughout the Sallah period.

    He also directed them to ensure a thorough deployment of officers and resources to critical locations, particularly eid prayer grounds and recreational centres to instill confidence among citizens and fun seekers.

    A statement by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Olumuyiwa Adejobi, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), said: “…The IGP has directed supervisory AIGs and their respective CPs to ensure the thorough deployment of officers and resources to critical locations, particularly eid prayer grounds and recreational centers, in order to instill confidence among citizens and fun seekers alike.

    “Furthermore, the IGP has charged officers and men of the Force to conduct comprehensive assessments of areas prone to threats, implement rigorous stop-and-search procedures, conduct raids on identified black spots, and employ other anti-crime strategies aimed at maintaining peace and ensuring public safety throughout the country.”

  • I didn’t threaten First Lady’s life, says Bauchi Islamic preacher

    I didn’t threaten First Lady’s life, says Bauchi Islamic preacher

    Controversial Islamic preacher and the Chief Imam of Dusten-Tanshi Jumma’ah Mosque in Bauchi, Dr. Idris Abdul’aziz, has denied threatening the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu.

    Abdul’aziz spoke during his first public preaching after his return from self-imposed exile.

    During his preaching during the close of this year’s Ramadan commentary of the Holy Qur’an (tafsir) yesterday in Bauchi, he said: “I have no business with her whatsoever. I don’t even know her correct name.

    “I have never commented on her husband, the President, let alone herself. I don’t have anything to do with the wife of the President.

    “It was a smearing campaign orchestrated from Bauchi to cause disaffection between me and the wife of the President. Two groups are responsible for this.”

    Abdu’aziz described the allegations as a smear campaign aimed at tarnishing his reputation.

    “I challenge those behind this to bring forward the authentic video or audio evidence where I issued a threat to the wife of the President,” he added.

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    A viral video surfaced in February where the Islamic cleric allegedly declared that Senator Tinubu deserved to die for her Christian faith.

    He was also alleged to have described the Muslim/Muslim ticket that brought President Bola Tinubu to power as a scam.

    Reacting to the threat during her visit to Bauchi to inaugurate some projects in the state around March, the First Lady said she was undeterred by the threat.

    Alluding to the incident during the First Lady’s visit, Governor Bala Mohammed had described the threat as unacceptable.

    He apologised to Mrs. Tinubu and assured her of safety in the state.

    He also promised to take appropriate action against the cleric responsible for the threat.

  • Align with govt programmes, vision, First Lady tells youths

    Align with govt programmes, vision, First Lady tells youths

    The First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has urged Nigerian youths to align with programmes and visions of President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

    She said doing so would enable them to maximise the various opportunities that are available under the current government.

    Senator Tinubu said this when she hosted executives and members of the Youth Wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (YOWICAN) in her office yesterday at the State House in Abuja.

    A statement by her Senior Special Assistant on Media, Busola Kukoyi, said the First Lady also urged the association and the Church to intensify the preaching of unity among Nigerians.

    “We should promote our ‘Nigerianness’ rather than ethnicity or culture. Yes, we are not saying we should not recognise these, but we should realise and promote our togetherness. We are first and foremost Nigerians. We need that place of unity.

    “There is a need for you youths to have role models who will teach you what to do and how to do them, just as the Bible talks about in Titus 2 and 1 Timothy that the older ones should teach the younger ones,” she said.

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    Senator Tinubu admonished her guests on how to share the message of investing in lives.

    “Technology is very good but we must let the youth know that they should use it positively,” she said.

    The First Lady shared some of the programmes of her office, through the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI).

    These, she said, include the Unity Fabric competition with a N25 million prize money and the Every Home A Garden competition with a prize money of N20 million.

    Senator Tinubu also prayed for her guests and other youths across the country and elsewhere.

    YOWICAN National Chairman Enwere Belusochukwu lauded the various initiatives of the First Lady, especially those under her Renewed Hope Initiative.

    He sought the First Lady’s inputs into the proposed quarterly Breakfast Prayer Meeting of both Christian and Muslim youths and the proposed National Christian Youth Resource Centre, which will have a skills acquisition centre, among other facilities.

    Senator Tinubu was presented with an Easter card and YOWICAN uniform by the association’s executives.

  • Easter: First Lady urges youths to key into govt’s programmes

    Easter: First Lady urges youths to key into govt’s programmes

    The First Lady, Mrs Oluremi Tinubu, has advised Nigerian youths to expand their horizon and financial status by exploring the different programmes of the government.

    She gave the advice on Monday while welcoming members and executives of the Youth Wing of Christian Association of Nigeria (YOWICAN) to the State House, Abuja, amidst the Easter celebrations.

    Tinubu received the association with the exchange of season’s greetings and prayer that God would continually lift the nation and its youths to greater heights.

    “I congratulate you all for the giant strides you have been able to achieve since you started. All your programmes are quite laudable; however, you all have to align yourselves with the government programmes.

    “I want you to key into what the government is doing.

    “Recently, we had a national fabric competition with a prize money of N25 million for youths between the ages of 15 and 25; those are the things you should look forward to.

    “We also have the ‘Every Home a Garden’ competition with a prize of N20 million for the winner by December. These are ways you can also make money.

    “You have to be innovative, as there are different innovative ways of farming now,” she said.

    She also encouraged the executives to involve female youths in their executive arm.

    “I was wondering why all the executives introduced to me are all men; there are no women in the executive.

    “When women are talking about gender parity, you should be a good example for us.

    “There won’t be a better world without the women. They should be part of decision-making since they are the ones advocating.

    “We have to start talking about who we are as a nation without throwing away our culture,” she said.

    Earlier, YOWICAN National Chairman, Amb. Enwere Belusochukwu, said they came to pay Easter homage and to appreciate her passion for the youths and the nation in general.

    He also solicited the support of Tinubu over the planned building of a national resource centre for skill acquisition training for the youths.

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    Belusochukwu said Tinubu was their grand patroness, recalling that her investiture was held in 2023.

    “Our passion and love for her is unending. We are here to wish her and her family Easter bliss.

    “We will continue to pray for her and Mr President for God to always guide, guard, protect them, and to always direct them aright.

    “I want to tell you authoritatively that all Christian youths in Nigeria are ever ready to align themselves with the vision of President Bola Tinubu.

    “We will continue to pray and key ourselves into the policy of the government, as you can see today with the way the Dollar to Naira rate is going down.

    “It means the policy is good,” he said.

    (NAN)

  • It’s collective responsibility to remain on track, says First Lady

    It’s collective responsibility to remain on track, says First Lady

    First Lady Oluremi Tinubu and wife of the Vice President, Hajiya Nana Shettima,  have  described the task of getting the nation  back on track as a collective responsibility.

    They stated this during a Ramadan Iftar at the State House, Abuja at the weekend.

    First Lady Tinubu and Hajiya Shettima   also expressed optimism that Nigeria would  be greater under the leadership of President Bola Tinubu.

    “Mr. President will do all it takes to make the nation better, that even when we live here, we will go back to a better Nigeria. We all have tasks to do to get this nation back on track,” the First Lady said in a statement by her media aide Busola Kukoyi.

    Senator Tinubu noted that the results of the various programmes by the President were fast becoming evident.

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    Hajia  Shettima, who   urged  women to be one another’s keeper, also advised them   to remember the nation in their prayers, especially in these last days of Ramadan.

    Guest lecturer at the Iftar, Prof. Rafatu  Abdul’Hammed of the University of Abuja, enjoined  women not to forget all they learnt during the Ramadan .

    She said living in love, piety, humility and tolerance would enhance the lives of Nigerians.

    Prayers were offered for the nation, the President and the world.

    Former First Ladies  , female justices, wives of governors, ministers and service chiefs as well as female ministers attended the event.

  • First Lady stresses education to actualise women’s rights

    First Lady stresses education to actualise women’s rights

    The First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has reiterated the need to use qualitative education to give the girl-child or woman her rights.

    Senator Tinubu said this while addressing a quarterly meeting of Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) zonal and state coordinators, who are governors’ wives, yesterday at the State House in Abuja.

    The First Lady noted that with education, girls and women would be able to make informed choices about decisions on their health and others.

    In a statement by her spokesperson Busola Kukoyi, Mrs. Tinubu announced that the meeting that the Tertiary Education Fund (TETFund) would partner the RHI with interventions in infrastructural and human capital development.

    “You are to nominate a tertiary institution in your state. It could be federal or state-owned. The first phase of this intervention would be per zone,” she said.

    The First Lady urged the governors’ wives to avail their states the opportunity that the RHI programmes provides as the citizens would be the direct beneficiaries.

    She also announced that the Federal Ministry of Agriculture would partner the RHI to support 100 farmers in each state.

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    “They are ready to provide support to 100 farmers. You are to provide the 75 young women and 25 young men who are already into farming or are ready to go into farming. This is to encourage the youth to go into agriculture. This will help them as well help the country,” Mrs. Tinubu said.

    The First Lady urged the governors’ wives to encourage the youth in their states to participate in the ongoing Unity Fabric competition, which has a prize money of N25 million.

    The meeting discussed the ongoing Every Home A Garden competition where first-time women farmers are encouraged to have a garden in their homes so that the harvest would be enough to feed them and their neighbours.

    Mrs. Tinubu said the Women in Agriculture Support Programme (WASP), which has taken off in Imo State in the Southeast Zone, would also hold in the other five geo-political zones with Ogun State’s inauguration coming up on April 16.

    The First Lady felicitated all Muslims on the ongoing Ramadan fast, praying for greater peace and growth across the country.

  • Japa: Nigerians relocating overseas to take jobs they rejected at home – First Lady

    Japa: Nigerians relocating overseas to take jobs they rejected at home – First Lady

    Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, has said that Nigerians leave their country of origin for affluent nations like the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada to take jobs they would not do back home.

    She said this in an interview with Arise TV.

    According to the First Lady, Nigerians with their educational background flee the nation in search of menial work, like cab driving, at the expense of the dependents they left behind at home.

    Tinubu stressed the importance of Nigerians supporting each other and assisting those in need rather than spending extravagantly on leisure activities, adding that the government cannot solve all the problems

    A total of 3,679,496 people have departed Nigeria in the previous two years, according to the Migration Information Data Analysis System (MIDAS), with around 2,115,139 people leaving the nation in 2022 and 1,574,357 leaving between January and September 31, 2023.

    The First Lady said: “Look at all those people saying they are going to Japa, they go there. What work are you going to do? You know, work that you refused to do at home where you have loved ones, you now end up to go and do there. With all their education, they’re driving cabs, but they won’t drive cabs here,” Sen Tinubu said.

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    “Nigerians, we can help each other [sic], the rate we are doing parties and all that, why can’t we use the money to help your neighbours, until we can really get on our feet? And those are the things we have to look at. It’s not that the government has to begin to give food to everybody, by asking…’

    “You know I believe in social development and social investment for people who truly need it. And, in the Bible, we even talk about Jesus saying the poor you will always have in the land, and it’s for people whom God has blessed to help the poor.

    “Now you don’t even know who the poor are. If they don’t ride a car, they will say they are poor. If you don’t have your own home, they will say they are poor.”

  • We must all grow our own food, First Lady encourages Nigerians

    We must all grow our own food, First Lady encourages Nigerians

    Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu has encouraged Nigerians to grow their food, stating that focus on agriculture is the way forward for the country.

    In a statement issued by her special assistant on media, Busola Kukoyi, the First Lady said this while speaking at the reception of the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Amina Mohammed in her office at the State House, Abuja.

    She noted that the various interventions of the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) especially in the areas of Agriculture, Empowerment, Education, Health and Social Welfare are to complement the efforts of President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

    She said: “The President has made the right decisions. These decisions will help us build a Nigeria that is more respected. We should be more accountable as a people as regards our resources”.

    She also added that youths in Nigeria should be motivated to, “We have to inspire them to think Nigeria first before any State.

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    “Youth between 15 years to 25 years will design the fabric depicting Nigeria and not just their State or tribe. The prize money is huge.”

    In her remarks during her visit, the Deputy Secretary General of the UN Aisha Mohammed explained that the Organisation is looking forward to the country committing more funds to Youth, Women and Girls.

    She said: “We need your voice for what the UN is doing with women empowerment, girls, poverty alleviation, education and the rest.”

  • The First Lady and a neo-Ayatollah

    The First Lady and a neo-Ayatollah

    Oluremi Tinubu, wife of President Bola Tinubu, and most recently a three-term lawmaker as a Senator in the National Assembly of the Federal Republic, is probably the demurest First Lady Nigeria has ever had, a distinction she shares, in my judgement, with Turai Yar’Adua, late President Umaru Yar’Adua’s widow.

    Not for her the meddlesome obtrusiveness, the showy arrogance, the delusion of consequential presence, the exhibitionism, the feigned compassion, and the tinselled glamour of some former first ladies.  Nor could anyone accuse her of the crassness and the boorishness of one first lady that still rankle a decade later.

    In the eight years that her husband served as Governor of Lagos State, she went about quietly supporting his administration with her own outreach programmes that touched every segment of society.

    As a three-term senator representing Lagos Central, she marshalled her official grants, plus funds from her well-endowed family, to run some of the most effective intervention programmes in the nation.  Her Constituency Office in Lagos was a meeting point for residents seeking grants for education, small business, skills acquisition, housing, and relief from myriad dislocations of life in the megalopolis.

    She was often there in person, listening attentively and sympathetically to, and learning from, her visitors.  When they reached some milestone, won some award or attained some distinction, she celebrated and rejoiced with them.   Her personal touch brightened many lives and contrasted sharply with the practice of some of her colleagues who think that distributing some household items at noisy ceremonies is their highest obligation.

    She has carried on in this manner for some two decades without scandal, a rarity in a country where hardly a day passes without someone in her position of privilege being caught in conduct unbecoming, or being profiled in high scandal.

    All this makes it the more unfathomable that a Muslim cleric from  Bauchi State or a pretender to that title, identified as Idris Tenshi, decreed a fatwah – a death sentence, no less – on her the other day.

    Her crime?

    The unforgivable sin of being a Christian, an arna, Hausa for “unbeliever,” in the world of the cleric and his fellow travellers, the most loathsome animal in all of creation.

    He had not judged her guilty of blasphemy or of impiety or of any conduct deemed to be in flagrant conflict with  Islamic doctrine as the novelist, Salman Rushdie was adjudged to have done when Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa on him and the publishers of The Satanic Verses in 1989.  

    In whatever case, the cleric is no Khomeini.  Even if he is a latter-day Khomeini, 2024 is not 1989.  And Nigeria is assuredly not the Islamic State of Iran.

    But it is an ominous development all the same, and should be viewed with the utmost seriousness. It will not do to dismiss the cleric as an attention-seeking fanatic of little or no consequence.  For it is often from such obscure provenances that the seeds of murderous fanaticism are propagated.

    It is doubly disquieting that there has been no resounding condemnation of the fatwa in the ranks of the Muslim faithful, which would at least have made it made it clear that the cleric spoke for nobody but himself, and that those who might be inclined to heed his morbid edict are on their own, and that there is no tolerance whatsoever for that kind of conduct.

    Silence is not to be mistaken for endorsement, to be sure.  But an unequivocal condemnation of the fatwa and a repudiation of its author would have served society much better than silence. 

    Nigeria, it is necessary to insist, is a nation of many religions, many faiths, and many deities. One symbol is as good as another provided everyone attaches the same meaning to them. The Constitution guarantees freedom of worship, as well as freedom to abstain from religious worship.

    Nigeria has no official state religion, and any effort to decree one into existence or to creepily insinuate it into the polity will never succeed

    From pronouncing a fatwa on Oluremi Tinubu for being a Christian, it is but a short step to pronouncing a fatwa on all Nigerians who are not adherents of Islam. It is an act of incitement pure and simple.

    It is no answer to this charge that Mrs Tinubu has come to no harm thus far, or that the issuer of the edict is a person of little or no consequence in the scheme of things.

    Her reaction in the face of primal threat bespeaks her quiet grace and faith, in contradistinction to the cleric’s hysterical rant.

    “I am not afraid of death,” she said defiantly during a visit with Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed.  “I want to say that I am too old to be afraid. If God has granted me more than 60 years on earth, I shouldn’t be afraid of death.”

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    Governor Mohammed stands almost alone among influential Muslims in his ringing condemnation of the fatwa and its proponent, describing the whole thing as “a national embarrassment” and assuring the First Lady that its proponent would be punished.

    It is worse than a national embarrassment, Your Excellency.  It is an incitement to murder and a solicitation of murder.  And it is not the governor’s province to punish Idris Tenshi. He has no such power.  The power belongs in the office of the chief law officer of Bauchi State, the attorney-general. 

    Tenshi has reportedly apologized, but an apology for an offence of that enormity cannot be an indemnity against prosecution.  The lesson has to be taught that such conduct will not be tolerated.

    Karl Marx wrote somewhere – and I am paraphrasing – that a moribund society produces its own morbid gravediggers. There are already too many of this tribe in Nigeria: bandits, kidnappers, cultists, ritualists, herders, peddlers of fake medications – the whole desperate lot.

    To add to this catalogue those who claim a divine mandate to order the killing of fellow humans who believe differently or worship differently makes Nigeria a far more dangerous place still.