COVID-19 worsened insecurity, rights abuses, others in North Kukah Centre
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By Luminous Jannamike, ABUJA
The Kukah Centre has said that the security challenges in parts of North, caused by the activities of criminals and insurgents were made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the policy research institute, the spike in criminal activities and human rights abuses within local communities in the region since the pandemic began last year, was an indication that there were gaps in the Federal Government’s COVID-19 response strategy.
The Executive Director of The Kukah Centre (TKC) and Head of Secretariat, National Peace Committee, Fr. Atta Barkindo, stated this in Abuja, on Tuesday.
Love jihad sparks protests in Pakistan
Activists demand legislation to stop forced religious conversions and abduction of minority girls
Samson Salamat (right), chairman of Rawadari Tehreek, addresses a protest camp against forced conversions in front of Lahore Press Club on March 8. (Photo: Samson Salamat)
Mehmood Ghaznavi remembers rejecting the case of a Pakistani Christian girl converting to Islam for marriage four years ago.
“She knew nothing about Kalma [the Islamic proclamation of faith], there was no inspiration. I suggested she study the Quran and the life of the Prophet Muhammad before marrying her Muslim boyfriend. She never returned,” said Ghaznavi, who chairs the National Peace Committee, an interfaith group.
Laurie Searle is a familiar face in Wrexham, having been a Street Pastor for nearly four years. He co-ordinates the work of the team which was set up in 2006 alongside the council, police and the Night Safe team to make the town centre a safe place for people to enjoy and to offer assistance to people who might be at risk. However, before moving to Wales with his wife Caroline in 2017 to take up the post of pastor at the Fairhaven Congregation neat Llanfynydd on Hope Mountain, Laurie had played a distinguished and important role in the run up to post-apartheid politics in his native South Africa.
Posted: Sat 6th Mar 2021
New police chaplain appointed to provide a “listening ear” forged his skills in South African politics
A new multi-faith chaplain appointed by North Wales Police to provide a ‘listening ear’ and support to officers and staff has made a long and interesting journey to our part of the world which more than qualifies him to administer pastoral care.
Laurie Searle is a familiar face in Wrexham, having been a Street Pastor for nearly four years.
He co-ordinates the work of the team which was set up in 2006 alongside the council, police and the Night Safe team to make the town centre a safe place for people to enjoy and to offer assistance to people who might be at risk.
KILLING FIELDS: 1,525 Nigerians killed in six weeks of 2021
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…South-East most peaceful zone, North-West deadliest
By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor
AS flames of violence and other forms of lives guzzling insecurity flicker in many parts of the country, Nigeria has literally become a killing field.
In the first six weeks of 2021, lives of no fewer than 1, 525 persons have been wasted across the country Vanguard’s investigation, and data obtained from the Nigeria Security Tracker, NST, a project of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Africa programme, have shown.
The Nigeria Security Tracker tracks violence that is both causal and symptomatic of Nigeria’s political instability and citizen alienation. The data are based on weekly surveys of Nigerian and international media.