Day: March 25, 2024

A terse WhatsApp message on Bodija Estates and Environs Muslim Community (BEEMC) by Alhaji Ishaq Kunle Sanni, Chairman, Muslim Community of Oyo State on Saturday evening of March 25, 2023 threw the Ummah into a mournful mood following ” Inna lilah Waina ilayhim rojiun. We lost Baale Rasheed Adesokan today, Janazah details will be announced by his family later” . The short announcement which spread like wildlife to other platforms in a twinkle of an eye and went viral on both social media and online media, sounded unbelievable as we…

I have a very senior police officer friend whose nickname is Ambush. On the front of my friend’s left shoulder is an ugly scar. At the back of the shoulder is an even bigger scar. I remembered Ambush the day it became known that 17 soldiers were murdered in a community in Delta State. My friend got his scars two decades plus two years ago somewhere in the Niger Delta during a routine police assignment. His team walked into an ambush mounted by militants and a firework ensued. A bullet…