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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

top imam killed in Mombasa tension in Kenya

Authorities urged the Muslim community to remain calm after Sheikh Mohammed Idris was killed on Tuesday.

Unknown assailants gunned down on Tuesday Sheikh Mohammed Idris, the Chairman of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya.
“I send my condolences to his family and the members of the Muslim community,” Mombasa countyCommissioner Nelson Marwa told reporters.
He confirmed that the top imam, who was also the former head of Masjid Sakina in Mombasa, was killed at around 4am.
“We have started investigations. We have mounted operations based on suspicious characters,” Marwa said.
“The culprits must be brought to book before the day ends,” he insisted.
The Commissioner urged Muslim community leaders and Mombasa residents to be calm.
Mbona Hamisi, the muezzin of Manyatta Mosque in Mombasa, explained how it all happened.
“At around 4am while I was preparing myself for morning prayers, I heard gunshots,” he told Anadolu Agency.
“When I got out, I found out that Mohammed Idrisi was the one who had been shot,” he added.
“While taking him to hospital I could see that he was Top imam killed in Mombasa tension in Kenya ,” Hamisi said. “He was still alive, but he died on the way.”
Ahmed Kassim, a Muslim cleric at the coast, asked members of the Muslim community to come together and support the family of the slain leader.
“This is a blow to us. Muslims at the coast have lost a very great leader,” he told reporters.
“He united both Muslims and Christians here in Mombasa,” added Kassim.
“I ask everyone to come together at this trying moment. This is no time to fight, let the police handle this issue,” he said.
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Monday, June 9, 2014

Ongoing National Confab expresses shock, sadness at Akunyili’s death

The National Conference sitting in Abuja has expressed shock and sadness over the death of Prof. Dora Akunyili on Saturday, saying the deceased was a fine public servant who did her best for the nation.
This is contained in a statement by Mr james Akpandem, the Assistant Secretary, Media and Communications, made available to newsmen in Abuja on Sunday.
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Communications, died in an Indian hospital in the early hours of Saturday after a battle with cancer.
Akpandem said that “the Chairman of the conference, Retired Justice Idris Kutigi, was shocked at the demise of one of Nigeria’s finest administrators.’’
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Akunyili was until her death, a delegate representing Anambra at the conference.
The assistant secretary stated that “the National Conference sitting in Abuja, on Saturday, June 7, 2014, received yet another sad news of the demise of a delegate, Prof. Dora Akunyili.
“Akunyili’s death brings to three the number of such incidents recorded in the life of the conference, inaugurated on March 17, 2014.’’
He added that “Akunyili’s death was preceded by that of AIG Hamma Misau, a delegate representing retired police officers from Bauchi State on Thursday, March 27, 2014.
“The second was Dr Mohammed Jumare, a delegate representing elder statesmen from Kaduna State, who died on Monday, May 5, 2014.
“The chairman of the conference and former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Idris Kutigi, expressed sadness at the demise of one of Nigeria’s finest administrators.’’
Akpandem noted that “on behalf of the principal officers and delegates to the conference, Kutigi expressed his condolences to the family of the deceased.’’
He stated that Akunyili’s last official assignment was on March 24 at the conference, where her eloquent contributions to the debate on President Goodluck Jonathan’s speech to the conference elicited thunderous applause from delegates.
NAN recalled that even when the Deputy Chairman of the conference, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, urged her to contribute while seated, Akunyili insisted on standing like every other delegate who had contributed before her.
She was a pharmacist and an astute administrator who gained international recognition and won hundreds of awards for her work in pharmacology, public health and human rights.
She eventually ventured into partisan politics and contested for Anambra Central Senatorial District on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in 2011, but lost to Sen. Chris Ngige of the rested ACN.
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Late Icon :Akunyili won over 400 local, international laurels -Ozekhome


A legal practitioner and member of the Committee on Law, Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Reforms in the ongoing National Conference, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), on Monday in Abuja paid glowing tributes to a fellow delegate and former Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili.
He said the late Akunyili won for herself over 400 laurels in the course of serving humanity both in Nigeria and in the internationally community.
Ozekhome, in his tribute to the former Director-General of National Agency for Foods and Drugs Administration and Control at the plenary, also stated that Akunyili could cry easily over any form of injustice or oppression of a lesser person.
According to him, as Director-General of NAFDAC, she gave fake and adulterated drug peddlers a bloody nose, adding that even as Minister of Information, she rebranded Nigeria.
He said, “Inspite of her illness, pains, agony, pangs and near blood, she literally defied nature and looked death in the face. She possessed passion and patriotism, she wore the face of the Nigerian of African women better remembered for her famous words that a cabal was holding Yar’Adua to ransom, refusing to let us know the true state of his health.
“Even when the Conference Chairman told her she could sit to contribute to discuss the President’s inaugural speech at plenary, she opted to stand, using her last breadth, her last strength, her last soul, to fight for Nigeria.”
Meanwhile, it was a mournful mood on Monday at the plenary of the confab as delegates paid tributes to both Akunyili and the late Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero.
Bayero, who lived between 1930 and 2014, died on Friday, while  Akunyili, a delegate to the ongoing National Conference died at age of 59 on Saturday.
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Sports lovers :Danagogo Pledges Support For Other Sports In Nigeria

The Sports Minister and Chairman, National Sports Commission (NSC), Dr. Tammy Danagogo says there will be a re-consideration on the exclusion of some sports from the National Sports Festival.
 Danagogo explained that the major reason for the move is to ensure that all sports registered under the NSC are given opportunity to develop, adding that he does not believe that some sports should be classified as lesser sports.
 The sports minister, who was present at the 1st National U-15 Cricket Championship that took place at the cricket pitch of the Package B of the Abuja National Stadium, emphasized the need to make the country competitive in different sports and not just football.
 He assured the President of the Nigeria Cricket Federation that the bat and ball sport will be reconsidered as one of the sports for the National Sports Festival, adding that National Council on Sports may be reconvened to discuss the issue. “I do not believe that any sport should be excluded from the sports festival. I believe the festival should be used to develop all sports. Cricket is one of the serious federations that don’t run to me for funds.
 If cricket can rank 34th in the world without support from government, if government and the private sector come in to support them, then they will do better than they are doing now,” he said, stressing “government should do everything possible to garner laurels from all sports.”
 While reaffirming that he will implement the Federal Government’s road map to developing sports in the country, Dr. Danagogo said ” the era of discrimination of some sports will be over with me on the saddle as sports minister. Since the National Council on Sports is the policy making body where decisions are taken on matters of the sports festival, I will see if it’s meeting can be reconvened to re-evaluate the decision to exclude some sports.”
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