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A flag for Nigeria's state of Katsina
from /r/vexillology Top comment: [The current one](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Flag_of_Katsina_State.png) is unremarkable, so I spent a whopping 10 minutes in paint crafting a 2:3 version of the flag of Nigeria, replacing the green band on the right with a green chevron to form a capital K letter.
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Nigeria's VP says religious leaders have impeded anti-corruption work
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Nigeria's VP says religious leaders have impeded anti-corruption work
Lagos, Nigeria, Oct 22, 2018 / 07:00 pm (CNA).- Nigeria’s vice president accused “religious leaders” of impeding efforts to rid the country of corruption ahead of a February election that has elevated tension between Christian leaders and government officials in the country.
Speaking at an economic summit Monday, Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said that the “the Nigerian elite,” including “religious leaders” have intervened in his efforts to remove corrupt officials from their posts. The vice president also mentioned that business and political leaders have also tried to influence his political decisions.
Osinbajo did not elaborate on his comment about the intervention of religious leaders in the country’s governance, or clarify whether he meant Muslim or Christian leaders. In recent months, however Christian leaders in the country have accused the presidential administration of failing to take a proactive approach to mitigate inter-religious violence.
On Oct. 8, a prominent Nigerian pentecostal leader criticized Osinbajo for not doing more to protect the interests of Christians in the country.
“The day Osinbajo entered government and became Vice [President] to Muhammadu Buhari, he changed,” said Bishop Emmah Gospel Isong, Publicity Secretary of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, as reported by the Nigerian Daily Post.
Osinbajo was previously a pastor at a parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, a pentecostal denomination founded in Nigeria in the 1950s. In addition, Osinbajo and his wife created a non-governmental organization in 2007 “dedicated to the promotion of Christian ethics and orderliness,” according to the Vanguard newspaper. Osinbajo recently took steps to reform the Nigerian police, and fired the head of Nigeria’s spy agency.
Nigeria is preparing for a general election set for February 2019. The country’s Catholic bishops have repeatedly called for free and fair elections, urging citizen to reject illegal voting practices, namely buying and selling votes.
Nigeria’s 2015 election, in which President Muhammadu Buhari was elected, was roundly condemned by politicians and journalists. The election was postponed amid outbreaks of Boko Haram violence in the country’s northern regions, and the election commission struggled to distribute voter identification cards. Reports of voter intimidation in the country were rampant.
The Nigerian bishops have spoken frequently to criticize president Buhari, whom they have admonished for failing to respect the religious freedom of Christians, and for being slow to address attacks on farmers by nomadic Fulani herdsmen.
President Buhari is himself Muslim and a member of the Fulani tribe. Though reports suggest that Christians are not the exclusive victims of the violence, the bishops accused the president in June of harboring a “double standard” against Christians when in came to enforcing the law and punishing the perpetrators of crimes.
In the most recent violent incident, 55 people died Oct. 20 in a dispute between young Christians and Muslims in a marketplace in northern Nigeria. The Vanguard newspaper reported that the violence was temporarily halted by police, but Christian Adara youth later mobilised and attacked Muslim Hausa residents, burning homes.
President Buhari condemned the incident and asked that citizens choose dialogue, patience and tolerance to prevent crises from escalating into violence.
“The Plateau Massacre,” which occurred June 21-24, 2018, was another notable eruption of violence between largely Christian farmers and Fulani herders, most of whom are Muslim, over limited natural resources. The conflict left more than 80 dead, including children and pregnant women.
“It can no longer be regarded as mere coincidence that the suspected perpetrators of these heinous crimes are of the same religion as all those who control the security apparatus of our country, including the President himself,” the country’s Catholic bishops said in a June 29 statement following the massacre.
“Words are no longer enough for the President and his service chiefs to convince the rest of the citizens that these killings are not part of a larger religious project.”
“While we vehemently condemn any shedding of human blood and ask the Police to speedily arrest and prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes, we must point out the double standards applied by the same Police any time the herdsmen are attacked and killed. In this latter case they react very swiftly and the law promptly takes its course. Would that the same swiftness be applied to all cases,” the bishops wrote.
The religious makeup of the country is almost equal between Muslims and Christians, at about 49% of the total population each, according to Pew Research Center.
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Breaking News: General Abdulsalami - 2019 election would test Nigeria’s democracy
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Breaking News: General Abdulsalami - 2019 election would test Nigeria’s democracy
Former Head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, has said the 2019 general elections would be a test case that Nigeria democracy has come of age.
Fielding questions from newsmen at the Minna Central mosque shortly after the Eid-el-Kabir prayers on Tuesday, Abdulsalami stressed on the need for politicians to play by the rules.
He pointed out that politicians must shun do-or-die politics for the nations’s democracy to advance while urging Nigerians to put aside their differences by ensuring a hitch free polls.
The former leader lamented that Nigeria’s political space is been needlessly heated up by politicians adding that enduring political culture can only be built when politicians adhere to the rules of the game.
He then urged Muslims to imbibe the exemplary life style of Prophet Muhammad and the lessons of Eid el Kabir by living in peace with people of other faiths.
Niger state Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed Ketso, called on those who registered in the just concluded Continuous Voters Registration exercise by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) to make effort to obtain their Permanent Voters Card to enable them elect credible leaders of their choice in the 2019 general elections.
The Chief Imam of Minna Central Mosque Mallam Isa Fari charged enjoined all Muslim faithful to internalize and practice the innate and core lessons of the festival which essentially reinforces the spirit of sacrifice, tolerance, sympathy, empathy, devotion to duty, and the promotion of harmonious coexistence.
He also enjoined the wealthy Muslims to assist the needy and vulnerable in the spirit of love and brotherhood that Islam stands for.
Breaking News: Patrick Lumumba - Nigeria’s leadership deficit, missing link to Africa’s greatness
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Breaking News: Patrick Lumumba - Nigeria’s leadership deficit, missing link to Africa’s greatness
Kenyan Anti-Corruption Crusader Prof. Patrick Lumumba has blamed the challenges to Africa’s greatness on the problems of leadership structure in Nigeria.
Lumumba said this on Wednesday in Abuja, electronically, at the Summit of the Alternatives, with the theme, “Citizens Framing the New Nigeria of Our Dream.”
The occasion was organised by a coalition of Civil Society Organisations.
The anti-corruption crusader called on Nigerians to fix the leadership structure of the country, adding that it was a missing link to Africa’s greatness.
According to him, out of every five Africans, one is a Nigerian; by that, the economic potential of Nigeria cannot be a gainsay.
He said that the problem of Nigeria was simply leadership, adding that if fixed, every problem would be addressed.
“Nigeria had great leaders during the times of Sir Ahmadu Bello, Tafawa Balewa, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, among others shortly after Independence.
“The question, therefore, is that when did the rain start beating us? I can tell you that no sooner had the gains of Independence been realised that we began to see abuses, then came the era of coup d’états.
“Then, we began to see armed men in the political arena. I can say without fear of contradiction that, that was when the rain started beating us.
“I remember that wherever Nigeria has provided leadership, the African continent always occupy her pride of place, be it in football, literature or medicine.”
Lumumba said that the political elite who ought to liberate Nigeria from the politics of money and money bags were responsible for the leadership challenges facing the country.
According to him, it is time for Nigerians to throw aside things that hold them down and must recognise that whatever Nigeria does is important to Africa.
“It is time for Nigerian leadership to recognise that Nigeria ought to be the political Mecca to which we pay pilgrimage.
“When the Nigerian leaders wake up to this reality, Africa will be great because Nigeria’s leadership is the missing link to Africa’s greatness,” he said.
Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, one of the conveners of the summit, said the event was organised by a coalition of CSO and 66 political parties to change the status quo of the wrong narratives of governance in Nigeria.
Ezekwesili said the idea was also to begin to address the transformation of Nigeria’s political leadership through deliberations by patriotic Nigerians.
“The gathering will present a formidable platform for people who believe that Nigeria has right to develop a deliberate framework to demand for termination of the decadent political class.
“In medium term, an expected outcome is that, they will provide back end support to drive the ideology of the new Nigeria of our dream.
“It is ostensibly a call to duty and civic action,’’ she said.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the coalition comprises of Centre for Democracy and Development, Enough is Enough, Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth and Advancement-Africa.
Others are Budgit, Red Card Movement and Nigeria First among others.
Nigeria’s ambassador to South Africa resigns, leaves APC for PDP
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Nigeria’s ambassador to South Africa resigns, leaves APC for PDP
Nigeria’s ambassador to South Africa resigns, leaves APC for PDP
Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the Ambassador to South Africa, Ahmed Ibeto, has resigned.
He has also renounced his membership of the ruling All Progressives Congress, and had crossed over to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.
Ibeto was reported to have arrived Nigeria from Pretoria on Sunday and on Monday morning, he handed over his letter of resignation at the Ministry of External Affairs.
Our correspondent could not confirm if the envoy saw President Muhammadu Buhari before returning to Minna on Monday evening.
Ibeto was a deputy governor of Niger State on the platform of PDP.
Checks revealed on Tuesday that Ibeto have left Minna for his home town of Ibeto in Magama Local Government Area of the state.
According to sources, the former deputy governor was received by over 1,000 supporters on his way to Ibeto.
Our correspondent gathered that while in Ibeto, the ex-ambassador would first resign his membership of the APC and assume PDP membership.
A source close to the former deputy governor told our correspondent that he would join governorship race immediately he registered with PDP.
It could be recalled that former Ambassador was a member of the PDP until the primary election of the party in November 2014, during which he lost the governorship ticket to Umar Nasko, a former Chief of Staff to ex-governor Babangida Aliyu.
He resigned his membership of the PDP along with thousands of his supporters after complaining about “the injustice” melted to him by the then ruling party.
Ibeto was the vehicle on which the incumbent APC governor rode to victory, leading his campaign to all the 274 wards in the state.
Also, last year, he was was appointed an ambassador and posted to South Africa by President Muhammed Buhari.
