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Student who created Goodluck Jonathan’s parody account, freed after 82 days in detention Olusola Babatunde, the final year student of Ladoke Akintola University and social media influencer who was arrested for creating a parody Twitter account of former President, Goodluck Jonathan has been released after spending 82 days in detention. Media personality and Convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore announced his release via Twitter. He tweeted; #FreeShola has just been released from @PoliceNG detention in Abuja after more than 2 months for creating a parody account in the name of ex-President @GEJonathan, the former Pres. has also agreed to discontinue the bogus criminal trial. G-thanks to all! #RevolutionNow Student who created Goodluck Jonathan?s parody account, freed after 82 days in detention Recounting his experience while in detention, Olusola said; “There was no social distancing in detention. I guess the people in the cells are exceptional. It is like COVID-19 ...

Those who think nothing of the public good never get to live blissfully on the pages of history. This is the humbling fact that some bewildered minds are yet to come to terms with. So, trying to concoct vanishing magical acts for Omoyele Sowore, Mubarak Bala and kindred activists-cum politicians will only result in nothingness and puzzlement for some sections of the uncultured world and their diehard multitudes. This is a great lesson from history. And there are references that one can point to. The saturating version of young politicians and sound minds fascinating, and at the same time; dizzying  Nigeria’s dogmatic institutions and ruling houses, mark my word, “ruling houses,” not truly democratic governing bodies, is an undying incarnate of a certain fabled chronic activist who will never vanish from the endless landscapes of memory and pages of academic history. It matters not if some authorities decide to expunge formal history from what is written on learning slate...

The Pentecostal Bishops’ Forum of the 19 Northern States, on Tuesday, condemned the killings in Southern Kaduna, describing the situation as “wicked collaboration,” which had “assumed a dangerous dimension of ethnic cleansing.” According to the PBF, the manner of the killings has given the impression of a sinister script to overrun the people and forcefully annex their ancestral heritage in all ramifications. The Chairman of the PBF and President of Dominion Chapel International Church, Bishop John Praise, stated these during a press conference in Abuja, Punch reports. Praise warned that if nothing was done to address the Southern Kaduna killings, the people would resort to self-help and reprisals. “Failure to act now may compel the people to resort to self-help and reprisals, which could snowball into a conflagration of monumental proportions in terms of scope and impact,” Praise stated. The PBF called on the President Muhammadu Buhari, Governor Nasir El-Rufai and other re...

Leo Igwe Humanists unequivocally denounce the death sentence handed down to a Muslim singer in northern Nigeria for blaspheming against the prophet of Islam. On Monday, August 10, 2020, an Islamic court in Kano ruled that a 22-year old musician, Yahaya Aminu Sharif be hanged for making derogatory expressions in a song that he shared on social media in March. Sharif was arrested after some Muslim fanatics rioted in the city of Kano and burnt down his family house. Sharif, who belongs to a Tijaniyya Sufi order, was convicted after a four-month closed hearing in Kano. Besides, some members of the Sufi order, including its cleric Abdul Nyass, have been tried and sentenced for blaspheming against the prophet of Islam in 2015. It is outrageous that a sharia court in Kano would sentence a human being to death for singing a song and for creatively expressing himself in a work art. Meanwhile, Islam is a work of art and a product of human creativity. It is unfortunate that in places wher...

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has admitted reporting a tricycle rider named Lawal Moshood to the Department of State Services after his mobile phone was allegedly used to send a text message to the monarch. Olawale Bakare widely known as Mandate, who is one of the recently arrested and detained #RevolutionNow protesters in Osogbo released last weekend, said that the DSS operatives did not see the SIM said to have been used to send the message to the monarch yet arrested and had kept him in unlawful detention since that period. He said the young man had been denied access to a lawyer or his family members since he was picked up from Ijebu-Ode by the secret police. Confirming knowledge of the young man’s ordeal even though trying to distance himself from it, Oba Ogunwusi, through his Director of Media and Public Affairs, Comrade Moses Olafare, said that Moshood was arrested for impersonating the Ife monarch. A statement by Olafare on Tuesday said, “You will n...