Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, and the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, have warned that rising hate speech, religious intolerance and fake news are threatening Nigeria’s unity and peaceful co-existence. Speaking on Monday during a meeting at the National Mosque in Abuja attended by senior Catholic leaders, including John Onaiyekan and Matthew Kukah, the Sultan described hate speech as one of the greatest threats to interfaith harmony, saying it has created deep “perceptual and relational crises” across religious communities. He condemned…
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