Let’s get serious for once in this country. The government gleefully announced that the subsidy on fuel had been removed and made bold to stress that all subsidies on electricity must perforce go. Now Nigerians are waking up to the…
Saudi police arrest citizen who helped Israeli journalist sneak into Mecca
Saudi Arabian police in Mecca have arrested a citizen on suspicion of helping an Israeli journalist enter Muslim sacred places in the holy city. Mecca’s police said in a statement on Friday that a Saudi citizen was “complicit” in helping…
Can someone die twice? Hmm. My cousin did o!
One of my aunts was known in the family as a jazz woman; she was very fetish. That’s what I mean not jazz azin music. My aunt would not go to the toilet without consulting a medium. She believed so…
Going to Mecca and Jerusalem – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Nigerians take so much pride in making pilgrimages to Mecca and Jerusalem in the name of religion. The Muslims and Christians obviously can never have enough of acting holy through these pilgrimages even when they cannot afford it by paying…
COVID-19 threatens centuries-old Ramadan traditions
The coronavirus outbreak threatens to upend faith-based traditions that have gone on for almost 1,500 years. The world’s nearly 2 billion Muslims will not be able to hold communal feasts and prayers that are a hallmark of Ramadan, their holiest…
Saudi Fixes August 6 Deadline for Nigerian Pilgrims to Arrive Madinah (ThisDay)
Nigeria is in a race to airlift the remaining 20,000 hajj pilgrims still stranded across the states to Madinah, Saudi Arabia by August 6. That date is the deadline by the Saudi authorities for all pilgrims to evacuate the city…
Man commits suicide at Mecca’s Grand Mosque (Nation)
A yet-to-be-identified man yesterday committed suicide by throwing himself off the roof of the Grand Mosque in Islam’s holiest city of Mecca. The state news agency, SPA, quoted the police as saying:”A foreigner threw himself from the roof of the…