{"id":23060,"date":"2011-12-28T20:13:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T20:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/christmas-day-blasts-an-act-of-aggression-ndoma-egba\/"},"modified":"2011-12-28T20:13:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T20:13:24","slug":"christmas-day-blasts-an-act-of-aggression-ndoma-egba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/28\/christmas-day-blasts-an-act-of-aggression-ndoma-egba\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Day blasts, an act of aggression \u2013 Ndoma-Egba"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"62\">\n<p>By Johnbosco Agbakwuru<\/p>\n<p>CALABAR \u2013 SENATE Leader, Chief Victor Ndoma-Egba, has described the recent bombing on Christmas day in Madala, Niger State, as an act of aggression against the government and the people of Nigeria by the Muslim group, Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>Ndoma-Egba, who was reacting to the bombing through his Media Adviser, Chief Sam Arikpo, advised the Federal Government to go beyond sermon to concrete actions, so as to re-assure Nigerians that the sectarian challenges were being contained.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Senate Leader, the bomb attacks were capable of sending wrong signals because they were targeted at Christian churches, which were an evidence of religious intolerance.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIt was irrational for anybody or groups of persons under any guise to bomb innocent Nigerians in their place of worships on a most significant day in the Christian calendar, which is Christmas day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch dastardly act threatens the fabric of national unity and Nigerians must resist the temptation by the enemies of the state to plunge the country into a sectarian crisis as no country has ever benefited from such.\u201d He called on Christians to \u201cresist the temptation reprisal attacks even though they were grievous and painful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continued here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/12\/christmas-day-blasts-an-act-of-aggression-ndoma-egba\/\" title=\"Christmas Day blasts, an act of aggression \u2013 Ndoma-Egba\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christmas Day blasts, an act of aggression \u2013 Ndoma-Egba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Johnbosco Agbakwuru CALABAR \u2013 SENATE Leader, Chief Victor Ndoma-Egba, has described the recent bombing on Christmas day in Madala, Niger State, as an act of aggression against the government and the people of Nigeria by the Muslim group, Boko Haram. Ndoma-Egba, who was reacting to the bombing through his Media Adviser, Chief Sam Arikpo, advised the Federal Government to go beyond sermon to concrete actions, so as to re-assure Nigerians that the sectarian challenges were being contained. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Christmas Day blasts, an act of aggression \u2013 Ndoma-Egba - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/28\/christmas-day-blasts-an-act-of-aggression-ndoma-egba\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Christmas Day blasts, an act of aggression \u2013 Ndoma-Egba - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Johnbosco Agbakwuru CALABAR \u2013 SENATE Leader, Chief Victor Ndoma-Egba, has described the recent bombing on Christmas day in Madala, Niger State, as an act of aggression against the government and the people of Nigeria by the Muslim group, Boko Haram. 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