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  • Buhari pays tribute to Holocaust victims

    •President: those fanning embers of discord in Nigeria ‘re illiterates

    PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari yesterday visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in O?wi?cim, Poland, where he paid tribute to Holocaust victims.

    After an hour and 10 minutes guided tour of the Museum devoted to the memory of the victims, who died at both camps during World War II, President Buhari penned a hand-written tribute in the visitor’s book, quoting Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”: “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones”.

    The President, according to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, also laid a wreath at Block 11 of the museum, known as the ”Death block.” Here, according to an epitaph in the Block: ”Male and female prisoners from all parts of the camp complex were held in this building…following brutal interrogations, they were in most cases sentenced to death by shooting.”

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    Before leaving the museum, which includes the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Buhari fielded questions from State House correspondents traveling with him

    He described those fanning embers of discord in Nigeria as “illiterates and ignorant”.

    The President is on Day Four of his visit to Poland, where he had attended the opening of the UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice, delivered his national address at the 12-day meeting of COP24, met with several world leaders and visited the impressive Nigerian pavilion at the climate summit.

    The President had earlier attended a town-hall meeting with Nigerians in Poland, a day after his arrival in the country.

  • CCII pays tribute to Olubadan at 90

    The Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji, has been described as a monarch with good leadership virtues.

    The President General of the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII), Chief Yemi Soladoye, spoke in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, at a forum to mark the 90th birthday anniversary of the monarch.

    The CCII president, who said Ibadan indigenes were happy to celebrate with the monarch, prayed God to grant him good health, long life and prosperity.

    Soladoye said: “He never cursed, threatened or exhibited anger at anybody in the past one year. Oba Adetunji can only be described as his own person, a man of Spartan discipline.

    “The CCII knows that while the kabiyesi is not against reforms, considering the peculiar situation of Ibadan chieftaincy arrangement, he has identified three areas to be addressed.”

    According to him, some areas of authorisation – jurisdiction and code of conduct – must be looked into for any review of the Olubadan Chieftaincy Law to succeed.

    Soladoye said: “CCII will look into this and come up with an all-embracing and sustainable blueprint that will give a no-victor-nor-vanquished position within the next three months.”

    NAN reports that the event, which featured a prayer session, was attended by various Ibadan groups as well as traditional chiefs.

  • Aregbesola pays tribute to Adeboye at 76

    Aregbesola pays tribute to Adeboye at 76

    THE Governor of Osun,  Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has described the Global General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye,  as ‘the voice of peace and comfort in a troubled and edgy world’ and a harbinger of hope to millions of souls across the world. Aregbesola dropped this accolade in a message commemorating the 76th birthday of the foremost man of God yesterday.

    The governor, in a statement yesterday, described Adeboye as a beacon of hope for the numerous hopeless souls, reconciling them with God through his sermons and evangelical engagements all over the world. Aregbesola said few people are chosen by God for this kind of evangelical assignment in a generation, saying such chosen few are rare breed and special creation, who sparingly grace this earthly terrain.

    Aregbesola noted that Adeboye is an epitome and embodiment of knowledge, deep faith and a messenger who spread the word of God across the globe untiringly despite his graceful old age. According to the governor, the arrival of the man of God at the threshold of 76 years is an august occasion, which is very special to his congregation across the globe, Nigeria, Osun State, friends and well-wishers across other faiths.

    “Pastor Adeboye is a well educated man who gave up his brilliant academic career to do the work of God. He is a man of deep faith with apostolic fervour who has taken Christian evangelism to the nooks and crannies of this nation and the uttermost parts of the world. There is virtually no community in Nigeria where his church is not firmly established or any part of the world where there is no parish of the RCCG.

    “He is also a man of prodigious energy. Even at 76, he doesn’t appear to be slowing down, but his light continues to shine brighter and brighter. He is personally a very humble and meek man. He radiates love and deep affectation, always welcoming all and generous to a fault. He played fatherly role to all. His accommodation knows no bound, transcending, religious, ethnic and class lines. I have found his calming words very assuring even at my most challenging times, whenever I am privileged to meet him.

    “He is a voice of peace and comfort in a troubled and edgy world; bringing hope to the hopeless and reconciliation with God to the faithless, through his sermons and evangelical engagements all over the world. He is the essential Omoluabi, a gift from our state, Osun, to the world. He has brought honour and glory to our state, indeed the Yoruba race, in particular his Ijesa homestead.”

  • AMAA pays tribute to Jonathan, Oronto, others

    AMAA pays tribute to Jonathan, Oronto, others

    The organisers of the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) have said that they will give special recognition awards to her jury members at Mandela Bay, Port Elizabeth today.

    In an evening tagged a Night of Gratitude and Tributes the jury members will receive special awards alongside Former President Goodluck Jonathan and Chairman of Heirs Holding, Mr. Tony Elumelu among others. They will be honoured for their support for the Awards and the creative industry generally.

    The jury members to be honoured are June Givanni, Asantewa Olatunji , Dorothee Wenner, Keith Shiri, Steve Ayorinde, Shaibu Husseini, Charles Burnett, Professor Hygnius Ekwuazi and Bernie Goldbatt.

    However, tomorrow, September 26, which is the awards night, filmmakers of African descent will also be honoured in the Wall of Fame category and those to be celebrated are Horace Ovi, Harry Belafonte, Melvine Van Pebbles and Tony Verne while post-humors awards will be for Oronto Douglas and a Ghanaian, Cofie Ammuako-Annan.

    AMAA will also give special recognition awards to MNET Africa Magic Channels for its role in showcasing and investing in Africa’s creative industry through its African content channels in the last 10 years and in the same category will be Kingsley Ogoro and his Klink Studios that has supported the creative industry with equipment for over 30 years.