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The Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah, has blamed the recent tragic stampedes in Oyo and Anambra states as well as Abuja on the failures of the government to respond actively to the hunger in the land.<\/em><\/p>\n He also noted with dismay that Nigeria was still walking in darkness despite attaining independence over 60 years ago.<\/p>\n In his message to Christians on the occasion of this year’s Christmas celebration Bishop Kukah lamented that Nigeria’s lack of visible and measurable progress was tied…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah, has blamed the recent tragic stampedes in Oyo and Anambra states as well as Abuja on the failures of the government to respond actively to the hunger in the land. He also noted with dismay that Nigeria was still walking in darkness despite attaining independence over 60 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,8259,5631,9837,6223,26375,257,4687,393,254,50238],"class_list":["post-187280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blames","tag-failure","tag-govts","tag-hunger","tag-kukah","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stampedes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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