President Muhammadu Buhari has frowned at the high rate of illegalmigration of Nigerian youths to European countries through the Mediterranean Sea.Buhari made this known at the 32rd Annual Meeting of the Sahel and West Africa also to mark its week, organised by the Food Crisis Protection Network in Abuja on Monday.

The president, who was represented by Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, called for an immediate stop to the action by Nigerians, saying it was unfair to European countries.

He said that agriculture revitalisation was a solution to the migration issue, while expressing the readiness of his administration to support farmers in order to boost local production in the country.

“We are pained when we see our youths across West and North Eastern Africa in a desperate attempt to cross the desert; get to Libya and cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. “We consider it as something that must stop as fast as possible because it is unfair to Europe.

“We think that if we reorganise our agriculture better, many of these youths will earn a decent living at home rather than become an embarrassment to their host countries and to us here in Africa.
“We are not unmindful of our youths population here, hence the need to ensure that the agriculture sector is revitalised as soon as possible.

“We have decided that we will no longer rely on rainfall, we will create dams, water reservoirs and insist on harvesting food at least three times in a year,’’ the president assured.
On food crisis in the West African region, he described the threat as real, saying that urgent steps were necessary to address the challenge.
According to him, there are 800 million hectares of agricultural lands across the world yet to be cultivated and Africa owns half of them.

The president, appealed to Sahel and West African agricultural stakeholder to devise ideas that would guarantee better management in cattle breeding through artificial insemination.

Buhari, however, said his administration was aggressively tackling humanitarian crisis of the Internally Displaced Persons by attending to issues of food and nutrition, especially for women and children in the North East.

Mr Marcel De Souza, the President of ECOWAS Commission, saidthat no fewer than 40 million Nigerians were internally displaced asa result of the insecurity in the North eastern region.
He listed some of the developmental challenges of the Sahel and West African regions to include economic and political governance.
De Souza called on governments of the regions to invest toward addressing unemployment and food crisis, which he described as bane to development.

Mr Kassoum Denon, the Malian Minister of Agriculture, appealed to various countries in the Sahel and West Africa to share ideas and success stories with a view to addressing food crisis in the regions.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Food Crisis Protection Network is an international network created in 1984 aspart of regional system for the prevention of food crisis. It brings together Sahelian and West African expertise of the humanitarian and development spheres by mobilising available resources for social protection, livelihoods, nutrition, agricultural development, natural resources management to benefit the most vulnerable populations.
It aims to eradicate hunger and malnutrition by 2030 in the regions.

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/buhari-frowns-at-illegal-migration-of-nigerians-to-europe/175663.html

we have no other country than Nigeria, we shall remain despite recession and salvage it. lolz.

Not only frowning. How about frying?

They are opting to be illegal alliens in Europe because it's better than being a citezen under your destructive tyranny.

Your backward, archaic and impracticable policies make Nigeria unlivable for people. Yet you are complaining that they are leaving

Make thunder fire that him mouth wey no get use.

Would he be happier if we migrated to his ancestral home in Niger?

Lol......


Oga PMB, stop frowning, na you and your style of administration cause am.



If me sef get chance, I go run away from this country.This country under the watch of PMB is not livable at all.

pchukwudi:
Not only frowning. How about frying?

They are opting to be illegal alliens in Europe because it's better than being a citezen under your destructive tyranny.

APC govt wants nigerians to stay and go farm rice. lolz.

Even me am I thinking of leaving soon too

... Yes it is a worrying development but pls Mr PMB is there any extant policy or a new policy by your govt to address that? One thing is to pay a lip service to it and another thing is to back it up with a concrete action plan.

As a guide, Kindly create employment, revamp our ailing economy, improve our health care, social infrastructure and create enabling environment for business to thrive and watch as this youth migration to Europe etc will reduced drastically. Thank me later sir.

Nigerians frown at the balkanization and destruction of their economy and the peoples livelihood by Buhari's inept leadership

And Andrew checks out again

If you're that sad then simply resign. Haba you want to keee people with hunger and expect them to stay put?

lol

"..unfair to europe..." says the grass importing dullapo!


How wicked and insensible to ur own citizens' plight can a so called leader be? Thunda faya apc/dullapo/zomBs

@apcharam,gud2see u,man..stay safe

Even some of buharis relatives are cutting out so he needs to calm down! Europe sweet die!

Wait...... What do you people think you are doing
I also frown at it too...... So you want to escape?


No way! We are in this together

Justiceleague1:
"..unfair to europe..." says the grass importing dullapo!


How wicked and insensible to ur own citizens' plight can a so called leader be? Thunda faya apc/dullapo/zomBs

@apcharam,gud2see u,man..stay safe

The same Buhari attended a masked pro-refugee Confrence in London chaired by David Cameron early in 2016 dubbed "Save Syria " where this same Buhari was urging European countries to accept more Arab-Muslim refugees only for him to respond to journalists at the venue who asked him what he thought of the British govts plans to deport about 30,000 Nigerians in which he responded by saying Nigerian asylum seekers where not credible candidates for asylum and that Nigerians are criminals.

Now, all that rants by Buhari was to support the British govt plan of deporting Nigerians in place of his Arab masters.

The buhari is the worst thing to happen to any nation

buhari,macka,why??..

make them migrate joor..

let them be europes problem.

shebi dem dem like free money..

their is a lot of free money in europe...

we should be helping them to get to europe,not staying here..

they are trouble makers..


make una all migrate to europe!!!!...

pchukwudi:
Not only frowning. How about frying?

They are opting to be illegal alliens in Europe because it's better than being a citezen under your destructive tyranny.

It seems you've not stopped smoking cannabis?! Nigerians have been moving to Italy via the mediterranean sea even before we returned to democracy in 1999. It didn't start under Buhari!

If you wanna wail, try apply some decorum considering your age. You're old enough to be a grandfather to some of us here yet you still think like a toddler.

donphilopus:

It seems you've not stopped smoking cannabis?! Nigerians have been moving to Italy via the mediterranean sea even before we returned to democracy in 1999. It didn't start under Buhari!
If you wanna wail, try apply some decorum considering your age. You're old enough to be a grandfather to some of us here yet you still think like a toddler.

But your useless Buhari told Nigerians living in Benin Republic not to return home when he visited that country in 2015

After all his children schooled abroad. Buhari think Nigerians are almajiri tthey tell not to go to school whilst they educate their own children?

thunder fire him mouth.

APCHaram:


The same Buhari attended a masked pro-refugee Confrence in London chaired by David Cameron early in 2016 dubbed "Save Syria " where this same Buhari was urging European countries to accept more Arab-Muslim refugees only for him to respond to journalists at the venue who asked him what he thought of the British govts plans to deport about 30,000 Nigerians in which he responded by saying Nigerian asylum seekers where not credible candidates for asylum and that Nigerians are criminals.

Now, all that rants by Buhari was to support the British govt plan of deporting Nigerians in place of his Arab masters.

The buhari is the worst thing to happen to any nation

na u understand buari recession dullard. buari is d biggest hypocrite in nigeria.

I had to bump this thread back so as to amplify the magnitude of Buhari's bigotry.


This is a man that refused to attend a UN side summit on the plight of the IDPs in the NE, degenerating it as a "low level" assembly but rather attended a Soros' sponsored "open borders" summit dubbed "Save syria" a few weeks later to persuade westerners and Europeans in accepting the failed policy of allowing jihadist migrants using the Syrian carnage as excuse.

In that same "Save Syria" summit, Buhari degenerated the credibility and authenticity of Nigerians hoping to apply for asylum status in the West as fraudulent.

Buhari will claim in the wave of the British govt's attempt at deporting Nigerians in the UK - in order to make way for Arab refugees - that Nigerians in the diaspora did not warrant such considerations in the light of the antecedents of a few bad eggs.

Muhammadu Buhari, has shown with the case of Peter Onu, that his allegiance transcends natural borders, ethnicity and religion.

In this very act of treason, Buhari actively promoted the plight of Arab Muslims while degenerating his fellow citizens in far away UK.

This bastard is the worst thing.

Thunda faya that demonic vegetable! After fulfilling his evil promise to make the country ungovernable and unsuitable for nigerians,what dahell does he expect? 4kn hell,just take a trip to Nis offices and see how immigration officers are frustrating ppl who wanna trip away legitimately! Getting my expired p'port reissued after weeks is like crossing the 7 seas! Shameless presivegetable,nobody wanna stay in ur zoo kwantiri..apart from suffering n smiling zomBs that thunda will locate.. That pure definition of cluelessness n failure shud just give way,abeg..

The mofo knows hes ruined the zoo (for himself,his family and for his goddamm zomBs) and hes tryna keep everyone trapped
a trip to nis and u see ppl who wanna trip outta the zoo...
4k!

i just knew he will be represented.
the man is not up and doing.
what a waste of our time

We can do better with agriculture but the idea that agriculture can soak up all the unemployment or that it is a kind of magic wand is foolish.
We simply do not have the landmass, Technology or the market.
On those new migrants using the Mediterranean, most of them are simply not equipped with the life and educational skills to survive in Europe.