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Kidnappers Are Demanding ₦200m To Free My Priest - Kukah

Kidnappers Are Demanding ₦200m To Free My Priest – Kukah

Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Mathew Hassan Kukah have cried out saying that kidnappers who kidnapped a Catholic priest and reverend sister over three weeks ago are now are demanding ₦200 million from him for their release.  

“As I speak, for the past three weeks, my priest, a young man and a sister are still in captivity even though the Nigerian state wishes to pretend that we are not negotiating with the kidnappers.

“For the past three weeks my priest, a young man and a sister are still in captivity even though the Nigerian state wishes to pretend that we are

Google Celebrates Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti With A doodle

Google Celebrates Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti With A doodle

Multinational technology giant, Google, is celebrating the 119th birthday of late Nigeria teacher, political campaigner, women’s rights activist and traditional aristocrat, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti with a Doodle.

The Doodle, illustrated by Nigerian-Italian guest artist, Diana Ejaita, celebrates a formidable leader who founded what many refer to as one of the most important social movements of the twentieth century. Diana Ejaita weaves together Ransome-Kuti’s likeness with women whose lives she changed. The Berlin-based artist’s style of combining dramatic blacks and soft colours to show “the strength of femininity” aligns well with Ransome-Kuti’s powerful story.

Born on this day in 1900 in …