The court fixed the date yesterday, after hearing submissions from parties involved in the matter.
At the hearing of the appeal filled by the Mr. Samson Ogah, the court was urged to set aside the judgement of the Appeal Court which upheld the nomination of Governor Ikpeazu, last year.
Counsel to the appellate, Dr. Alex Izinyon, in his argument, submitted that Ikpeazu was not qualified to have stood for the 2015 Abia state governorship election on the platform of People Democratic Party PDP, on the ground that he supplied false information in the document used to secure clearance for the election.
Counsel to the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, Alhassan A. Umar, also urged the dismissal of the appeal and allowed the judgement of the Appeal Court in the matter to stand.
Migration effect and African continent Migration is the movement of people from one place in the world to another for the purpose of taking up permanent or semi permanent residence, usually across a political boundary. People can either choose to move, “voluntary migration,” or be forced to move, “involuntary migration.
People migrate for many different reasons. These reasons can be classified as economic, social political or environmental. Economic migration is a movement of people to paid work or follow a particular career path which is not obtainable at one’s own country. Social migration is a movement to somewhere for a better quality of life or to be closer to family or friends. Environmental migration
is cause by national disaster such as flooding, earthquake and other non man made calamities. Political migration is a movement by people to escape political persecution or war that ravaged ones country due to political struggle between different interest group. This situation brings about the rise of migrants across the globe and sees the emergence of so many refugee centres.
Human movement from one place to another for the search of suitable life has risen in recent time. However, migration is driven by violence and For the Nigerian nation to move forward, it needs to pay adequate attention to the health sector. Health, they say, is wealth.
insecurity. High level of violence and unpopular policies in most African countries continue to plague the continent.
In the case of Nigeria, violence is not only destabilizing factor for the country especially the Northern part since the emergence of Boko Haram insurgence, but other social menace kidnapping, cattle rustlers and militant in Niger Delta militancy, have all contributed negatively toward making many Nigerians to flee the country to other nations seeking better life.
It is on record that thousand of Nigerian’s have fled the country especially at the wake of Boko Haram bombings of motor parks, mosques, churches and market places.
From that time to date in Nigeria people continue fleeing even community level violence, which is often personal and direct made many people to abandoned their home and seek refuge in other countries. In many times during the high time of Boko Haram attacks, women and children were the most vulnerable, they were subject of abuse, rape and murder. For that reason they constitute high percentage of migrants from the country.
One Aminatu Amadu Sarki of Zaitawa in Kano State has given her reason for migrating from Nigeria to United States for fear of violence since the health professionals. Government should encourage and motivate pharmacists to produce drugs in Nigeria in order to reduce importation.
