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Pastor Elijah Chukwuebuka Caught With Human Head, Charms In His Church In Umunze
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Update From NAIJA COVER . COM

From The Information Reaching NaijaCover News Desk, This Evening, One Popular Pastor, Rev Bishop Elijah Chukwuebuka, Who Was The Founder Of God Of Light Anointing Minsitry, Was Caught With Human Head, Charms, Female Undies Inside His Church In Nsogwu Village In Umunze, Anambra State.

The Ugly Incident Occur Around 5pm On November 11th, 2020 Inside His Church, Which Attracted Umunze Youth to the scene of the crime, NaijaCover Reports.

He Is Popularly Known As 'BIG DADDY' In Umunze, Out Of Anger, the Umunze youth wanted to burn him to death but he was rescued and taken to igwe palace in Umunze.

Watch The Video As Obtained By NaijaCover Below:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0xRIOSS6JA


Source: NAIJA COVER BLOG
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Arabic Script On Naira Notes: Culture Clash Over Nigeria's Rival Alphabets
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A lawyer has asked a court in Nigeria's commercial city of Lagos to compel the country's central bank to remove the Arabic script which appears on most naira banknotes. The lettering states the note's currency value.He also wants the army to stop using the Arabic inscription: "Victory is from God", on its logo.The move is likely to reopen an old controversy over the use of Arabic script, which some see as an attempt to Islamise the country.But many seem unaware that the Arabic script used to write in several African languages is known as "Ajami".It was the first means of literacy on the continent, centuries before Western colonisers and Christian missionaries arrived with their Roman script and its A-Z alphabet.Among others, Swahili in East Africa, Tamashek, the language of the Tuaregs in North and West Africa, and Nigerian languages like Kanuri, Nupe, Yoruba, Fulfulde and Hausa all use Ajami.Scholars and administrators in the Sokoto Caliphate, which dominated much of present-day northern Nigeria in the 19th Century, used Ajami to write many documents and books.Nana Asma'u, the daughter of Sheikh Usman Dan Fodio, who founded the caliphate, was a renowned and prolific poet - and probably the first woman to write several books in Hausa and Fulfulde using Ajami.More than 150 years after her death, it is Ajami Hausa, not Arabic, that is on the naira notes.Religious fault lineDeep division and suspicion have been the lot of Nigeria since British colonisers amalgamated the northern and southern parts of the country, alongside the colony of Lagos, in 1914.To this day, some politicians still refer to it as "the mistake of 1914".The divisions are fed by the different cultures, religions and worldviews of the people brought together into one country.Even though the label "largely Muslim north and mainly Christian south" used by the media does not reflect the true complexities of Nigeria, it does capture one of its main fault lines.This background explains the ebb and flow of the case now before a Lagos court.The row first began a decade ago when, to commemorate Nigeria's 50th anniversary, the 50 naira note was redesigned. Four years later for the centenary of the country's creation, the 100 naira too was updated.It provoked a strong reaction across the Christian-Muslim divide when Roman script was used to write the value in Hausa instead of Ajami.

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