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JUST IN : Two Nigerians killed in South Africa
http://www.constants.net/2016/....07/just-in-two-niger

Disarm Fulani herdsmen as their activities is harmful to the country’s desire to diversify economy through agriculture - Anglican church tells FG
http://www.constants.net/2016/....07/disarm-fulani-her

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like, support it or not, restructuring is Inevitable - Atiku Abubakar
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar at the weekend renewed his call for the restructuring of the country positing that it has become inevitable.
Presenting a paper at a memorial conference in honour of the late Military Governor of defunct Northern Region, Gen. Hassan Usman Katsina, which held at the Indoor Sports Hall, Murtala Square, Kaduna on Saturday, he urged Nigerians to support calls for the restructuring of the federation in order to strengthen its unity and stabilize its democracy.
“I believe that restructuring will eventually happen whether we like or support it or not. The question is whether it will happen around a conference table, in a direction influenced by us and whether we will be an equal partner in the process.
Or will it happen in a more unpredictable arena and in a manner over which we have little influence? It should be at a table and we need to be at that table. A nation is an organism; it grows, it evolves, it changes, it adapts. And like other organisms if it does not adapt, it dies”, the former vice president said.
Buttressing his argument for restructuring, Abubakar said: “My focus here, however, is to show that the north and Nigeria have not been served well by the status quo and there is need for change.
Who among us who went to primary and secondary school in the 1960s had much to do with the federal government? Did the northern regional government wait to collect monthly revenue allocations from Lagos before paying salaries to its civil servants and teachers or fixing its bridges and roads?”
Noting that the fragile unity of the country was being threatened with sentiments and urged the North not to shy away from agitations for restructuring the country, he said, “I am not trying to be a messenger of doom but to alert us to the serious challenges ahead if we do not take immediate corrective actions both in our economic and our politics.”
The former vice president advocated for a revisit of the current geopolitical zones and make it the federating units so as to stop the clamour for creation of additional states. He added that the federating units could decide to have as many local authorities as they desire.
“As our history has shown, a strong centre does not translate to a strong and better base. We should begin to think strategically about how to develop this region (North) as a collective and our states in each geopolitical zone should embark on how to work together to share responsibilities”, he added.
He warned the North against thinking that restructuring the polity will be a mistake, pointing out that as long as the federal government continues with its over-riding power, instability will continue to bedevil the country. Abubakar argued that “national integration was achievable in Nigeria when we (North) do the little things that will help in that regard including intangibles such as values, ideology and sense of investment that help to foster sense of national integration.”
In his remarks at the occasion, President Muhammadu Buhari, who was represented by the Minister of Interior, Gen. Abdulraman Dambazau (rtd), urged Nigerians to use the 1999 Constitution to fight for their rights rather than resorting to violence which has no legal grounds.
Buhari called on Nigerians, especially northerners to emulate the virtues of the late Gen. Katsina.
The President said his administration was improving on current anti-graft war and called on elected office holders to strive for good governance which, he said, is what Nigerians deserve.
“Nigeria has come a long way as a democratic nation. So the rights of all Nigerians is in the 1999 constitution, they must abide by the constitution to achieve whatever goals.
“I call on all elected persons to give good governance to the people, Nigerians deserve good governance.
“My leadership is improving on security and fighting corruption. Boko Haram insurgency has been brought under control. We must unite as a nation for national integration” the President said. http://www.constants.net/2016/....07/like-support-it-o

Don’t declare Republic of N-Delta, Elders Warn Militants
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ELDERS and Leaders of Thoughts of Ijaw ethnic nationality in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, weekend, warned Ijaw militants against their vow to declare a Republic of Niger-Delta, saying that what Ijaw nation wants is true federalism.

Ijaw leaders at a consultative meeting in Warri, Delta State, hosted by Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, said: “The Elders and Leaders of Thought of the Ijaw nation call for the immediate restructuring of the Nigerian nation along the lines of peaceful federalism, and noticed that this is the panacea for the sustainable development of Nigeria.”

Bayelsa state governor, Hon Henry Seriake Dickson, Deputy Governor of Delta state, Mr. Kingsley Otuaro, former Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Sir Gabriel Toby, former Minister of Culture, Alabo Tonye Graham-Douglas and ex-Minister of Police Affairs, Alaowei Brodrick Bozimo attended the meeting.

Also at the meeting were former national chairman of the Traditional Rulers of Oil Mineral Producing Communities of Nigeria, HRM Pere Charles Ayemi-Botu, Mbene III, Ama-Okosu of Ogbe-Ijoh kingdom, Alabo Tobin-West; Chief Boma Obuoforibo, INC National Chairman, and Sir NGO Martins Martyns-Yellowe, Chairman Civil Service Commission On the current dialogue with militants and stakeholders in the region, they stated in a communiqué, “As a demonstration of sincerity of commitment to dialogue, Federal government should immediately withdraw the military from all occupied Ijaw communities, particularly Gbaramatu kingdom.”

Non inclusiveness of current FG The leaders also noted the “non-inclusion policies of the present administration, which has led to the alienation of some components of the federation, particularly the Ijaw nation from the main stream of national development” and called on Mr. President to “redress this ugly state of affairs.” Furthermore, they said the prevailing trend of executive/legislature face off was negatively affecting governance and enjoined both arms to work in harmony in the interest of the nation.

The meeting noted the impact of various activities of militant groups of the Niger Delta on the national economy and ordered them to cease further attacks on crude oil and gas facilities and embrace the offer of dialogue offered by the federal government.

They also called on the FG to release the 10 innocent students of Gbaramatu kingdom. “The meeting passed a vote of confidence on the Chief Boma Obuoforibo-led leadership of the Ijaw National Congress.

We condemn the move to scrap the Nigerian Maritime University approved by the preceding Federal Government with temporary site at Kurutie and call for the immediate takeoff of the university,” the leaders said in the communiqué. Chief Clark, however, noted in his opening remarks that any planned or ongoing dialogue between the federal government and militants amounts to a nullity without the involvement of Ijaw leaders.

He emphasized before the leaders went into a closed-door session that they converged to reach a common ground on the renewed militancy and its impact on the Niger Delta and Nigeria.

“This is not the first time this kind of crisis is happening. In 2008 and 20o9, similar incident happened and Gbaramatu was affected, elders, leaders intervened and we got Amnesty.

“Today we hear that federal government is planning, already talking or negotiating with militants and nobody has consulted us. That will not work.

These children are our children and we cannot fold our hands when they attack them and pretend not to notice. We must be involved in what government wants to do,” he said.

I am vindicated – Gov Dickson In his remark on the occasion, Governor Dickson felt vindicated on the stance of the Ijaw leaders in tandem with his earlier position on the current situation in the Niger Delta and state of the Nigerian nation. “I have said there is no need for more wars in the Niger Delta, certainly not in Ijaw land as the matter is not for war-war but jaw-jaw.

I am delighted that our leaders are thinking in that same direction. This meeting is like a prelude to a larger, more comprehensive Ijaw meeting of all our leaders that the government of Bayelsa state would host in no distant time.
http://www.constants.net/2016/....07/dont-declare-repu

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