Tag: mubarak bala

Ado Aminu August 6, 2021

This is the Northern gambit you didn’t know about regarding enforcing Shari’ah

Unless you have a core of steel, shock is a natural reaction to news items like the arrest for blasphemy of Muslims and former Muslims in Northern Nigeria. The news…

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Ado Aminu June 22, 2021

#WorldHumanistDay: Saving Nigeria is everyone’s business including the irreligious

On paper, Nigeria is a secular state. A budding multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural democracy brimming with potential. We have the 1999 Constitution - however imperfect it is - continuously reassuring…

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Ado Aminu February 4, 2021

The #YNaijaCover: The Nigeria Police has cuddled a monster that could become its albatross

The chicken has come home to roost for the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) who whether wittingly or not, historically worked with and in so doing, emboldened the operations of the…

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Op-Ed Editor April 29, 2020

Mubarak Bala is accused of blasphemy but is that enough to want him ‘nailed?’ | The #YNaijaCover

Earlier today, the police arrested Mubarak Bala, President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, for “blasphemy” after he allegedly posted criticism of Islam on his Facebook page. This is the same Bala…

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Ado Aminu April 29, 2020

#FreeMubarakBala: Archaic laws have no place in our books

Blasphemy laws, like many archaic laws in Nigeria’s spazzing justice system, is a relic of our colonial past. That this law, like its myriad useless cousins, no longer serves our…

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June 27, 2014

Opinion: Mubarak Bala and the dangers of buttoned lips

by Emmanuel James Ibe-Anyanwu His family members would not accept that. They beat him up, injected him with sedatives, and took him to a psychiatric hospital where he is now being…

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