Owerri—A widow, Ogechi Chukwuocha, has said the desire for a male child made her buy a 10-month-old baby for N650,000 in Imo State, because “my husband is dead and I do not have a male child. I do not know that the child was stolen.”

NACOMYO, in its Eid-el fitri message, urged Federal Ministry of Education (FMOE) to consult and do justice to issues raised by Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Catholic Church over an alleged Islamisation agenda by the ministry on perceived short-changing of Christian Religious Knowledge (CRK) with Arabic/Islamic Religious Knowledge (IRK) and other subjects.

The Chief Missioner, Ansaru-deen Society of Nigeria, Sheikh Abdur-Rahman Ahmad has said that the mosque which was invaded by masquerades in Ikun-Ekiti belonged to her and the imam and other people attacked were members as well.

It has been a rewarding 29-day spiritual activity: a period of recompense, a period of closeness to Allah, a period of illumination by the Glorious Qur’an, a period of re-direction of destinies and possibilities, of charity, of divine blessings. It is indeed a memorable period.

When I wrote on the high expectations over 2017 Hajj, I was just trying to prophesy from experience the nitty-gritty that has over the years controlled the fares paid by Nigerian pilgrims for their holy journeys to Makkah. May be it did not attract the attention of the authorities or the public because that was before the announcement of the 2017 Hajj fare by the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) early June this year. It is interesting to note that Hajj management in Nigeria has been turned around and that going to Hajj has become as easy as any other international journeys, except for the stresses from the tedious movements to attain the spiritual upliftment while in the holy sites.