A Catholic missionary priest working in The Gambia, Fr Kelvin Ugwu, has shared his thoughts on the controversial interview with presidential aide Daniel Bwala on Al Jazeera.

In a post on his Facebook page on Wednesday, he stated that Bwala was more interested in discussing former presidential candidate Peter Obi.

Recall that Bwala recently claimed that Obi tried to approach him to join his presidential campaign, but he refused.

However, the Catholic priest said Bwala had earlier criticised Al Jazeera’s professionalism but shifted the focus to Obi during the interview with Daddy Freeze.

He asserted that the presidential aide was disappointed when he was not allowed to speak about Obi during the Al Jazeera interview.

“I just watched an interview Bwala had with Daddy Freeze. Is this the man many of you regard as intelligent? After accusing Al Jazeera of not being professional, he turned and focused on Peter Obi. Now I know, he was expecting to talk about Peter Obi with Mehdi,” Ugwu wrote.

The comment comes amid widespread reactions to Bwala’s recent appearance on the Al Jazeera programme Head to Head, where he was interviewed by Hasan.

The interview, which examined the policies and performance of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, went viral on social media and triggered mixed debate across Nigeria’s pubic spaces.

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Nollywood actor, Ganiyu Nafiu, better known as Alapini Osa, has claimed that while President Bola Tinubu is doing everything possible to improve the country, certain individuals within Aso Rock have been undermining his efforts.

It was reports that Alapini Osa, in an interview with his colleague, Kunle Afod, described these obstructive figures in Aso Rock as “tigers and cobras in the forests,” attributing the nation’s current hardships to their actions.

According to him, the detractors are scared that the secrets Tinubu knows may be exposed if the country’s solution comes from him.

He said, “There are many people in Aso Rock who do not want solutions to Nigeria’s problems to come from Tinubu because they fear that the secrets he knows may be exposed. The way he is governing requires knowledge and strategy. That is why some people still believe there is hardship in the country. If he did not apply wisdom in governing, he would not achieve anything before leaving office. Ultimately, it is God who governs the affairs of men, and we should accept that.

“If God did not have a purpose for Nigeria through him, He would not have made him president. I believe he was sent to accomplish something, and he is already working towards it. When we compare the way previous presidents ruled with Tinubu’s style of governance, we can see clear differences. Some former leaders focused mainly on their own regions and believed that only they were meant to rule, making life difficult for people from other parts of the country”

Speaking further, the movie star defended Tinubu’s presidency, stressing that he was already wealthy and famous before taking office.

He added, “However, when we look at the way Tinubu is governing now, those who are fair-minded will see that he wants to lead the country well. Is it money or fame that he is looking for? He already has both. He is a compassionate person, but the place where he is now, Aso Rock, houses powerful and dangerous interests, like a forest filled with lions, tigers and cobras. It takes a brave hunter to enter such a place and succeed.”

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Former Field Commander of Operation Safe Haven, OPSH, Maj. Gen. Anthony Atolagbe, rtd, says bandits kidnap people to use them as human shields from the military.

General Atolagbe made this revelation on Tuesday when he featured in an interview on Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’.

He was speaking about the rising insecurity confronting the country.

“The bandits have a pattern of taking people into their enclave, just to use them as sex slaves, but also as shields for negotiation.

“What I can say also is that I will not be able to dwell on specifics. But in Sambisa, some abducted people were freed. In fact, the first thing that happened was that over 100 of them escaped, based on the heat that was brought on the adversary.

“Now, what is playing out is that these guys are being dislodged, and when they are dislodged, and they lose contact with all these women and these men that are running, who are sex slaves and liberals for them within the theater or wherever they are in their enclaves, what happens is that they try to move to other locations where they think they will be safe.

“And the next thing is to start looking for who they can also grab and bring into their new locations.

“The other side is that it is also another strategy by those that are expecting the arrival of the military that are coming into their enclaves to come and chase them out by using some of these people as human shields when the military approach their location.

“So you see that the analysis has brought it out that they have a pattern that they always want to take people into their enclave, not just to use them as slaves or whatever, but they will also want to use them to negotiate,” the retired military officer said.

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