Fayemi felicitates Kukah on appointment into Pope’s Dicastery
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Reverend Father Mathew Hassan Kukah, the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto
Gov Kayode Fayemi on Wednesday congratulated the Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Most Revd. Matthew Hassan Kukah, on his appointment into the Papal Dicastery on Promotion of Integral Human Development.
The governor hailed the appointment in a letter personally signed by him, dated Jan. 19, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday
He stated that the appointment was an unequivocal expression of Pope Francis’ confidence in Bishop Kukah’s ability to be an “impeccable advisor on a wide range of human development issues”.
By Ibrahim Hassan
Southern Kaduna People’s Union, SOKAPU, yesterday said not less than N900 million ransom was paid by kidnap victims in Southern Kaduna to their abductors last year.
National President of the group, Jonathan Asake said between January and December, 2020, kidnap victims paid N900 million to their abductors.
At a briefing in Kaduna, Asake decried the worsening insecurity in the southern part of Kaduna State, saying 80 percent of residents of Chikun Local Government area had abandoned their ancestral land for safer areas because of insecurity.
This came as SOKAPU condemned threat to the life of Catholic Archbishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Mathew Kukah by some groups and individuals over his Christmas Day’s homily and demanded the arrest of those threatening Bishop Kukah with eviction.
The messenger and the message
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Reverend Father Mathew Hassan Kukah, the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto
It is sometimes said that we should look at the message and not the messenger. But in journalism, we look at the two. For us practitioners, the credibility of the source is very important in determining the veracity of the story.
If your source has proven to be credible over time, then you can go to bed with his information no matter how weighty or incredulous it seems. If not, then you crosscheck and crosscheck…In commenting therefore on Bishop Hassan Mathew Kukah’s Christmas homily which seemed to have ruffled some executive, religious and ethnic feathers, I would like to first comment on the messenger – his credibility or lack of it- before commenting on the message – its relevance or lack of it.
Wounds of Civil War haven’t healed Bishop Kukah
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By Nwafor Sunday
The Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, Thursday, said that the wounds of the civil war have not been healed.
Kukah disclosed this at a zoom meeting organized by Dele Momodu of the Ovation Magazine and Mazi Ezeoke.
Speaking on the theme: The Second never again conference: 51 years after Nigerian-Biafran Civil war, the outspoken Bishop, advised Nigerians to compile a history of the country, noting that knowing the history will calm/qualm the taste for violence.
Kukah who has been on the media for criticizing the current administration and proffering solutions to the problems of the country noted that Nigerians and of course their leaders are not happy with the current situation of the country.