Views: Visits 4 COAS Ibrahim Attahiru Condoles with family, Army By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja As Nigerians mourn the death of Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Ibrahim Attahiru and other senior officers in Air Force plane crash on Friday, Civil Society Organisation and human rights group, Concerned Nigerians, Saturday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to employ independent air accident experts to unravel the cause of the crash. This was contained in a statement signed by the Convener, CN, Comrade Deji Adeyanju and made available to Vanguard. According to Adeyanju the call became necessary following the way and manner the Air Force plane crashed close to landing at the Kaduna Airport, and the investigation should be done thoroughly by air accident experts and report made public to Nigerians.
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Hundreds of protesters including the parents of the abducted students of the College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka in Kaduna State on Tuesday stormed the National Assembly demanding the immediate unconditional release of the remaining students.
The protesters who also included the members of the Students Union Government (SUG) of the institution, the Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore; Comrade Deji Adeyanju and members of the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) lamented over what they described as the negligence of the Kaduna State and Federal Governments in securing the release of the children.
They chanted songs of solidarity and displayed placards demanding prompt rescue of the students.
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Buhari’s spokesman Garba Shehu Thursday said the government was contented with Pantami’s apologies over his past support for Taliban and Al-Qaeda and described the calls for him to resign as a “manufactured dispute”.
Al-Qaeda carried out multiple attacks on Western countries including the bombing of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001.
“The Minister has, rightly, apologised for what he said in the early 2000s,” Shehu said in a statement.
“The views were absolutely unacceptable then and would be equally unacceptable today, were he to repeat them. But he will not repeat them – for he has publicly and permanently condemned his earlier utterances as wrong.”
The social media space in Nigeria has continued to have the ‘Pantami Must Go’ discussion as one of its key trends in recent times.
This is so as more evidences emerge in justification of the alleged link of Nigeria’s Communications minister, Dr. Isa Pantami to terrorism.
The latest calls were triggered by a publication on Nairaland.com, which recently surfaced online detailing the minutes of a meeting allegedly chaired by Pantami in 2010, and organized to control the spread of Christianity in the North.
The publication was titled “Minutes of a Joint Meeting of the JNI of Four States Consisting of Plateau, Bauchi, Kaduna and Niger State Held in Bauchi Central Mosque on the 13th July 2010, Chaired by Mallam Ali Ibrahim Pantami”, which attempted to regulate and checkmate the activities of Christians in Northern Nigeria.