{"id":41449,"date":"2021-04-20T18:43:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T18:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=41449"},"modified":"2021-04-20T17:00:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T17:00:42","slug":"al-qaeda-bandits-kidnappers-yahoo-boys-calling-for-pantamis-sack-islamic-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/al-qaeda-bandits-kidnappers-yahoo-boys-calling-for-pantamis-sack-islamic-group","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaeda: Bandits, kidnappers, Yahoo boys calling for Pantami\u2019s sack \u2013 Islamic group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has rubbished those calling for the resignation and sack of Isa Pantami, the Minister of Communications and Digital Planning.<\/p>\n<p>MURIC said those calling for Pantami\u2019s sack are kidnappers, Yahoo boys and bandits.<\/p>\n<p>The group stressed that internet fraudsters and kidnappers against National Identity Number, NIN, registration process are sponsoring what it termed \u201cbaseless calls\u201d for Pantami\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerians have been calling for the minister\u2019s resignation or sack after an audio recording of his past teachings where he supported Al-Qaeda and Taliban resurfaced.<\/p>\n<p>Pantami, however, distanced himself from such extremist groups.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted making such controversial comments but claimed his perception has changed.<\/p>\n<p>However, MURIC, in a statement by its Director, Ishaq Akintola urged Pantami not to resign.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads partly: \u201cIt is a baseless call, and it should be ignored. After all, the US itself has denied it. Pantami has been enjoying unhindered multiple entries to the US for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven Facebook, the US-based social media giant had Pantami\u2019s picture on Facebook\u2019s digital board for several hours as a mark of honor and respect during one of his numerous visits to that country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe campaign of calumny is being pushed by forces against the Federal Government\u2019s NIN policy, Boko Haram terrorists, bandits, criminals in general and political IDPs, Internally Displaced Politicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a well-known fact that NIN is designed to expose the true identity of criminals like Yahoo Yahoo boys, bandits and kidnappers who use the internet and telephone to extort money from foreigners and families of kidnapped victims.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has rubbished those calling for the resignation and sack of Isa Pantami, the Minister of Communications and Digital Planning. MURIC said those calling for Pantami\u2019s sack are kidnappers, Yahoo boys and bandits. The group stressed that internet fraudsters and kidnappers against National Identity Number, NIN, registration process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":41448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,3914,591,2917,254,1680,812],"class_list":["post-41449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-al-qaeda","tag-bandits","tag-kidnappers","tag-nigeria","tag-pantami","tag-yahoo-boys"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Al-Qaeda: Bandits, kidnappers, Yahoo boys calling for Pantami\u2019s sack \u2013 Islamic group - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has rubbished those calling for the resignation and sack of Isa Pantami, the Minister ...\" \/>\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.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/al-qaeda-bandits-kidnappers-yahoo-boys-calling-for-pantamis-sack-islamic-group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Al-Qaeda: Bandits, kidnappers, Yahoo boys calling for Pantami\u2019s sack \u2013 Islamic group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has rubbished those calling for the resignation and sack of Isa Pantami, the Minister ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/al-qaeda-bandits-kidnappers-yahoo-boys-calling-for-pantamis-sack-islamic-group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-20T18:43:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/img-607f088ebead1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"797\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/al-qaeda-bandits-kidnappers-yahoo-boys-calling-for-pantamis-sack-islamic-group#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/al-qaeda-bandits-kidnappers-yahoo-boys-calling-for-pantamis-sack-islamic-group\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Al-Qaeda: Bandits, kidnappers, Yahoo boys calling for Pantami\u2019s sack \u2013 Islamic group\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-20T18:43:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/al-qaeda-bandits-kidnappers-yahoo-boys-calling-for-pantamis-sack-islamic-group\"},\"wordCount\":280,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/al-qaeda-bandits-kidnappers-yahoo-boys-calling-for-pantamis-sack-islamic-group#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/img-607f088ebead1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Al-Qaeda\",\"bandits\",\"kidnappers\",\"Nigeria\",\"Pantami\",\"Yahoo boys\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/al-qaeda-bandits-kidnappers-yahoo-boys-calling-for-pantamis-sack-islamic-group#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/al-qaeda-bandits-kidnappers-yahoo-boys-calling-for-pantamis-sack-islamic-group\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/al-qaeda-bandits-kidnappers-yahoo-boys-calling-for-pantamis-sack-islamic-group\",\"name\":\"Al-Qaeda: Bandits, kidnappers, Yahoo boys calling for Pantami\u2019s sack \u2013 Islamic group - 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