Prof Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Laureate, has requested that Prof Ibrahim Maqari, the Deputy Chief Imam of Abuja's National Mosque, be removed from office for encouraging the murder of Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a Christian student at the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto State, by her classmates.Soyinka said on Saturday that Maqari should be tried "under any current statutes that approximate hate language, encouragement to murder, and abuse of office."About a wee...

There have been numerous cases of hunters killing human they mistook for animals, and this is another case in Osun as the Police Command in the state arrested a hunter, who allegedly shot and killed a 78-year-old Imam of Alaguntan village in Orile-Owu, Aiyedaade Local Government Area, whom he mistook for antelope.The command’s Spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, made this known during the parade of criminal suspects at the state police headquarters in Osogbo on Tuesday...

Barely 48 hours after he criticized the Buhari led administration, the chief Imam of Apo Juma’at Mosque in Abuja, Sheikh Nuru Khalid, has been suspended by the mosque’s steering committee for criticizing President Muhammadu Buhari over Kaduna train bombing.The Imam, in his Friday sermon, had criticized the president for failure to visit Kaduna over the daring terrorist attack, saying condemnation wasn’t enough.He argued that the president was in Kaduna for campaign...