{"id":13175,"date":"2018-11-02T11:57:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T11:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13175"},"modified":"2018-11-02T11:57:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T11:57:37","slug":"fg-sees-leah-sharibu-as-nigerias-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13175","title":{"rendered":"FG sees Leah Sharibu as Nigeria&#8217;s daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Thursday, reiterated the commitment of the Federal Government to ensuring the safe release of Leah Sharibu, the remaining hostage from the Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi kidnap.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAs for Leah Sharibu, our message to Nigerians is that they should appreciate that as far as we are concerned, any of our citizens, whether boy or girl, whether Muslim or Christian, is dear to us. We do not look at Leah Sharibu from the prism of religion, we look at her as a daughter of this country. We are doing our best to ensure the safe release of Leah Sharibu,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Everyday.ng reports that the faction keeping Leah Sharibu has sworn to keep her as a slave for life.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, the minister stressed the need for peaceful co-existence between Christian and Muslim faithful in order to engender peace and unity in the country.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The Minister made the remarks in Oro, Kwara State, on Thursday at the centenary celebration of the Saint Andrew\u2019s Catholic Church Oro, saying that the massive socio economic development that has been witnessed in Oro over the years is largely due to the religious harmony in the town.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">He said the lessons learnt from the 100 years of the existence of the Saint Andrew\u2019s Catholic Church in his hometown of Oro is that of tolerance and peaceful co-existence between Christians and Muslims.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Alhaji Mohammed, who attended the centenary Mass in the church, recalled that the premises of the Church was the venue, for three consecutive years, of his Annual Ramadan Lecture.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cNot only are we witnessing 100 years of Catholicism in Oro but actually we also witnessed 100 years of peaceful co-existence between Christianity and Islam and I think to me this is the most significant mark of this particular event.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI think the lesson to learn is that no religion preaches violence, no religion preaches hatred, every religion preaches peace and we should all borrow a leaf from what is happening in this small town so that all Nigerians can live together in peace,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Thursday, reiterated the commitment of the Federal Government to ensuring the safe release of Leah Sharibu, the remaining hostage from the Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi kidnap. \u201cAs for Leah Sharibu, our message to Nigerians is that they should appreciate that as far as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}