By Awayi Kuje
Wakama (Nasarawa State), March 9, 2021 Sen. Godiya Akwashiki (APC-Nasarawa North) says he will continue to provide social amenities to communities in his senatorial district in order to improve the standard of living of his constituents.
Akwashiki, the Senate Committee Chairman on Employment, Labour and Productivity, stated this on Sunday in Wakama-Akun during the inauguration of the newly-elected executive members of Wakama Youth Movement.
He said that provision of infrastructure to different communities in his senatorial district would also tackle youth restiveness and unemployment in the area.
The lawmaker promised to provide electricity to Wakama community and its environs in order to boost the socio- economic activities of the community.
Nigerian Catholic worshiper pray during morning mass April 12, 2005, in Kano, Nigeria. Kano is part of Nigeria s primarily Muslim north, but a devoted Catholic minority participates in frequent Masses in local cathedrals. | Chris Hondros/Getty Images
A Catholic priest s body was discovered last Saturday in Nigeria with apparent machete wounds while his brother remains missing following their abduction last week.Â
The Christian Association of Nigeria spoke out this week after the killing of Fr. John Gbakaan, a priest serving in the Minna Catholic Diocese in Kaduna state who was kidnapped by unidentified perpetrators.Â
âWe received the news of the kidnapp[ing] and killing of our dear Rev. Father John with great shock and pains,â CANâs Vice Chairman, the Rev. John Hayab, said in an interview with the Nigerian news outlet Vanguard published Sunday.Â
Fr. John Gbakaan,
Suspected gunmen have killed a Catholic priest, Father John Gbakaan, who is the Dean of the newly created Lapai Deanery in Niger State and abducted his brother.
Father John, who was also in charge of St. Anthony’s Parish Gulu in Lapai local government area of the state, was killed along the Lambata-Lapai road.
A close colleague of the deceased and priest in charge of St. Theresa Catholic Parish Madala, Father John Jatau confirmed this on Sunday.
Father Jatau told newsmen that Father Gbakaan, alongside his brother and another priest, Thursday travelled to Makurdi in Benue state where he went to see his mother and was attacked on his way back by gunmen along Lambata-Lapai road.