He however ,appealed to the state government to include its members in the scheme of things especially in the local government level.........this people self, Arewa think say Yoruba are igbo, so that you can have door to give us quit notice, Thunder fire you people, Yoruba are ready to fight , you people think Yoruba will join you to fight igbo tribe again, Hausa we are wise now, we can,t not give room you in our Government

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All Africa Youths Summit (AFRYSUM- 2017). Let's Clean The Mess:

The historical youths movement by the common commoners and the undesired and first of it kind in Africa is geared towards championing a New Course For Africa, starting with Nigeria.

This historical gathering of dedicated and selfless Africa Youths, the downtrodden and the undesired youths of Africa will gather in Abuja to set the ball rolling and set timeline for the implementation of set goals to 'Restart' Nigeria which will in turn be a big brother to other Africa countries. it happened Before and it will happen again.

Date: 30th September, 2017

venue: International Conference Centre, Abuja.

Theme: Arise All Africa Youths: In Pursuit of a New Nigeria and Prosperous Africa.

Chairman of the Occasion: Kenneth Kounda-Former Zambia President.

Special Guest of Honour: Julius Malema-Leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters - South Africa

The Keynote Address by Johnmartins Chiedozie Ugwu- Chancellor of the Noble Youths organization of Africa and former International President -All Africa Students for Peace and Development .

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The Benue State government has dragged Fulani herdsmen to the United Nations (UN) over alleged atrocities committed by the group in the state as well as their alleged recent threat to mobilise against the Anti-Open Grazing Law enacted by government.

The state government also released figures of people that were either wounded or killed by the herdsmen, property destroyed and damage done in monetary terms.

Governor Samuel Ortom presented the case to Edward Kallon, UN Resident Coordinator in Nigeria, for onward transmission to the UN when the latter and the UN country team paid the governor a courtesy visit in Makurdi on Wednesday.

Ortom said that figures obtained from a study by the Benue State Emergency Management Agency and the Benue State Planning Commission in collaboration with BENGONET, a coalition of non-governmental organisations in the state, showed the damage done by the herdsmen.

According to the governor, “Between 2013 and 2016 alone, Fulani herdsmen killed more than 1,878 men, women and children in cold blood from 12 LGAs of Benue State. Another 750 were seriously wounded while 200 are (still) missing. Over 99,427 households are affected in Benue and property worth billions of naira destroyed through a brutal scorch-earth strategy.”

He further stated that despite calls that the herdsmen be arrested, the Federal Government and security agencies were yet to arrest any of those that the threatened the state.

The governor called on the UN to evolve an approach on a sub-regional level that would check the alleged atrocities of the nomads.

Reeling out the damage done by the herdsmen in three out of the last 10 years of the clashes, Ortom said a 2014 report by the State Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs showed that “destruction which invading Fulani herdsmen caused cut across 10 LGAs of the state and exceeded N95 billion in that year alone.”

“Some of the challenges that we are facing today are regional in nature. The UN System has the capacity for regional and international synergies and we would, therefore, like to suggest that the UN System considers strengthening its regional approach to these challenges, particularly the destructive assaults by herdsmen on the peace loving farming communities of the Benue valley. This may entail not just a national approach but also one that covers the whole of West and Central Africa.

“For instance, the herdsmen and farmers’ conflict needs to address issues beyond the hoofs on the road and across the fields to climate change and degradation of natural resources such as water and optimal animal to human land-use ratios. It appears only rational that where animal to human population vis-à-vis natural resources use reach an imbalance, it should be the animals and not the humans that are culled,” he argued.

Earlier, Kallon stated that he had seen some “horrific pictures” of massacres carried out by the herdsmen, adding that they were in the state to have firsthand information of the situation by visiting some of the affected areas.

He noted that the UN was worried about the escalating rate of human rights violations and stressed the need to ensure that internally displaced persons (IDPs) were supported to enable them settle down.

Kallon stated that the team was also in the state to find out what the state government was doing and how best the UN could assist it in achieving results in the areas of herdsmen attacks and the amnesty programme.

source : StateReporters News

http://www.statereporters.com/2017/07/06/benue-govt-takes-fulani-herdsmens-case-un/

FACTS VERSUS FICTION: THE JONATHAN BLAME GAME AND JOBLESSNESS OF RENO OMOKRI


Let me make it vividly clear that this article does not by any stretch of the imagination affect my sentiment as to the frightening credentials of former president Jonathan as an accomplished reformer per excellence, a pragmatic Democrat and therefore best amongst the candidates that contested the 2015 presidential elections

The cruise of this discuss however tilts towards the post election matters, the flare of blames on 3rd parties by president Jonathan on his political waterloo and lastly provoked by the recent best seller book of Reno Omokri where the author furnished factually indisputable assertions with illogical and ridiculous conclusions on virtually every major event that bedevilled the Jonathan government.

I spent time to go through the book only to be persuaded to hit the unfavorable conclusion that Jonathan is in fact not what most of us sees him as.

Cannot pass as an average politician, is very weak and irresponsible, is a mistake of history, power monger and unfit to rule a local government in a fragile nation such as ours.

The bitterness that exhumes from his unending name calling and blame game raises questions as to whether he, in all intent and purposes, voluntarily conceded defeat to PMB in 2015.

The book raised questions as to the credibility of the kidnapped chibok girls and took a twist to, at the same time blame the Borno state government of negligence and northern political gladiators in the “opposition”, of politically manoeuvering the situation to lampoon Jonathan and force his government to the brisks.

This further confirms president Obasanjo’s assertion in his book, “My Watch” that the major concern of Jonathan as a president was always his political ambition. Every issue must therefore be discussed in view of its benefits to his campaign and that to me led him to breaking down the PDP, to protect his own political interest without first protecting the future of the party.

He destroyed everything to win the 2015 election. Nothing must stand in his way.

Assuming but not conceding that the chibok girls were kidnapped due to any conspiracies which Jonathan and Reno spoke of with so much assurance and with a deducible conclusion of their knowledge of the identities of the principal conspirators, why didn’t he unearth the evil conspiracy and get the perpetrators to face the full wrath of the law?

Does this not point to his fatal flaw as a leader? Weak, irresponsible, clueless and inept?

The attempt to substitute leadership responsibilities with blame game by the book is unbecoming and grievously hamstrung to the waxing international profile of Jonathan.

I ordinarily would have ignored the futile attempt by Reno to present Jonathan, a sitting president as a victim of an unimaginable northern conspiracy to attract public sympathy and further ignite the already injurious tension which has precipitated magnanimous hatred and suspicion of a section of the country by another which is growingly becoming unhealthy to the unity and progress of the Nigerian state.

Jonathan was incompetent, he has the state powers and yet cries fowl of conspiracy and with an elaborate attempt at any slight opportunity to pin his ineptitude as a leader on the opposition.

His unashamed effort in marketing that particular book triggered this response.

A responsible leader is the one who takes the blame and praise of his regime.

Comrade Okpe Sylvanus
Political Commentator And Civil Right Activist

Source : StateReporters News

http://www.statereporters.com/2017/06/30/facts-versus-fiction-jonathan-blame-game-joblessness-reno-omokri/