{"id":361304,"date":"2021-06-06T20:40:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T19:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=361304"},"modified":"2021-06-06T22:58:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T21:58:10","slug":"insecurity-niger-govt-directs-churches-mosques-to-hold-special-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=361304","title":{"rendered":"Insecurity: Niger govt directs churches, mosques to hold special prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Niger State government has directed mosques and churches to conduct special prayers for God\u2019s Devine intervention in the fight against insecurity in the state.<br \/>\nThe state in recent times has grappled with the rising cases of banditry, kidnapping, other forms of crimes and criminal elements.<br \/>\nGovernor Sani Bello, represented by his Deputy, Ahmed Mohammed Ketso at the Muslim special prayers at the Minna Central Mosque enjoined the people to return to God for the carnage will come to an end,<br \/>\n\u201cThe state government is collaborating with the security agencies, working round the clock to ensure that they protect lives and property even as the security challenges are surmountable.\u201d<br \/>\nPrayers will help end banditry \u2013 RCCG\u2019s Pastor Adeboye<br \/>\nThe Chief Imam of Minna Central Mosque, Ibrahim Isah Fari led a group of Ulamas in the Muslim prayer.<br \/>\nAlso, Chairman, Christian Association of Nigerian (CAN), Rev. Mathias Echioda, Senior Pastor of Occupy Ministries in a special Christian prayer held at Micheal\u2019s Catholic cathedral, Minna prayed for peace in the state and the country, while commending the government for believing that God can salvage the country from its present predicament.<br \/>\n\u201cThe admission of government to say that our salvation, our deliverance, our help comes from God to me means so much, it means that God has a heart towards God and therefore a heart towards the people.\u201d<br \/>\nThe state CAN chairman appreciated the courage of the government to call for the prayers, saying they have always been praying for an end to banditry.<br \/>\n\u201cThe security forces are doing a great job which only God can reward them, and we are urging those saddled with the responsibility of taking care of them to give them their dues. They deserve prayers and support of all.\u201d<br \/>\nRev. Echioda also appealed to the bandits to have a second thought, lay down their arms and dialogue with the government to make their grievances known and discuss so that they are integrated into the society.<br \/>\nThe special prayer is expected to be replicated in all the eight Emirates of the state.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"np3zioGXGF\"><p>Christian leaders express concern over worsening insecurity in Benue, others<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<strong><em>DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Niger State government has directed mosques and churches to conduct special prayers for God\u2019s Devine intervention in the fight against insecurity in the state. The state in recent times has grappled with the rising cases of banditry, kidnapping, other forms of crimes and criminal elements. Governor Sani Bello, represented by his Deputy, Ahmed Mohammed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":361305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[5550,2611,56],"class_list":["post-361304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-abubakar-sani-bello","tag-bandits","tag-niger"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/361305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}