Head Topics

Lessons Buhari can learn from Martin Luther King on rights and fairness

  • 📰 MobilePunch
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 35 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 17%
  • Publisher: 63%

Nigeria Headlines News

Nigeria Latest News,Nigeria Headlines

On Monday, January 17, Americans observed a national holiday in honour of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the highest civic and honourable leaders in the United States’ history. In March 1957, King, Jr., and his wife, Coretta Scott King, left the highly racialised America and travelled to West Africa to attend Ghana’s independence ceremony with a focus on freeing the people from the British colonial domination. A visit that inspired MLK to campaign more against the oppressive system in the US.

Today in Nigeria, like we have not seen before in naked terms, the society is at its boiling point of entrenched fear, persecution, repression, oppression, bigotry, and severe rights violations.

As one with interest in religious psychology, I once observed in the Quran, in one of its chapters, saying, “O mankind, we have created you … into nations and tribes that you may come to know one another [and not deny one another]” . Prophet Muhammad stated, “All of you are equal. All men, whatever nation, or tribe they belong to, and whatever station in life they may hold, are equal…an Arab possesses no superiority over the non-Arab, nor does a non-Arab over an Arab.”

King once said, “A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.”

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

COCOPACOPIACO1 It won`t rain or them it will pour hard on them🙏🙏🙏

Baba will be like 'who's Mathieu Louisa' that you're talking about ko

That man stubborn ooo abeg free am

Campaign after election

Ok

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 8. in NG

Nigeria Latest News, Nigeria Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

WhatsApp hails Martin Luther King, says he fought for equality, civil libertyMessaging app, Whatsapp, has celebrated late US civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr, saying he fought for equality I hail ooo
Source: MobilePunch - 🏆 8. / 63 Read more »

Rapper King Joel Gives Back To SocietyAs he made his presentation, King further noted that the success of the country depends largely on the future leaders of tomorrow.
Source: Daily Trust - 🏆 13. / 51 Read more »

WhatsApp hails Martin Luther King, says he fought for equality, civil libertyMessaging app, Whatsapp, has celebrated late US civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr, saying he fought for equality I hail ooo
Source: MobilePunch - 🏆 8. / 63 Read more »

Rapper King Joel Gives Back To SocietyAs he made his presentation, King further noted that the success of the country depends largely on the future leaders of tomorrow.
Source: Daily Trust - 🏆 13. / 51 Read more »

Repression of human rights worsening in Nigeria – Human Rights WatchThe report, which reviews human rights trends and developments in more than 100 countries in the world, said the ban on Twitter in June 2021, was indicative of worsening human rights issues in Nigeria.
Source: PremiumTimesng - 🏆 3. / 78 Read more »