Today, Nigeria, the acclaimed giant of Africa, is battling with serious security challenges across its regions, while there are industrial acrimonies in some of its establishments. These have resulted in countless killings, kidnappings and industrial actions. But will peace salvage the situation? TOPE SUNDAY writes. The level of insecurity in the country is well-pronounced. There is banditry in the North-west and North-central; Boko Haram Read More
Six Nigerians attended a training on interfaith and cultural conflict mediation at the Center for Interfaith and Cultural Conflict Resolution of Drew University New Jersey in 2016. For an in-house country girl like me, it was not just the first time I would be travelling to America, but also the first time I would be meeting a lot of people Read More
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed confidence that it will win the forthcoming Anambra governorship election and later win the 2023 general elections with its membership strength of over 40 million. The ruling party has boasted that governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states will be in their favour. Secretary of the party’s Caretaker Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee Read More
The Partnership for Initiatives in the Niger Delta, a non-governmental organization committed to peace-building and capacity development in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region is set to mark its 10th years of operation in the region. Since its establishment in 2010 with initial funding from Chevron Corporation, PIND has been promoting peace and equitable economic growth in the Niger Delta region by Read More
Commandant General of the National Unity and Peace Corps (NUPEC) Dr. Chinedu Nneji, has revealed that the Corps has developed a blueprint on how to resolve obvious insecurity bedeviling Nigeria. Nneji assured that the blueprint will be deployed to work as soon as National Assembly legislate its bill and the Corps is commissioned by the federal government. Speaking Tuesday in Read More
The director-general, Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Dr. Bakut T. Bakut, has disclosed that the Institute had concluded arrangements with some stakeholders to achieve a ‘ceasefire’ or ‘silent the guns’ in some Nigerian communities. Addressing a press conference to herald the 2021 International Peace Day in Abuja, Bakut also called on all Nigerians to work assiduously to return peace Read More
The eve of a democratic Nigeria witnessed high incidence of ethnic-related rivalry and violence in the North Central zone, to which Plateau state belongs. These ethnic rivalries posed serious socio-economic threats to the state and the fortunes of the people are being jeopardised. Ethnic rivalries are as old as the world itself.The Plateau ethnic rivalry has received both local and Read More
Protesters on Tuesday besieged the national secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the second day in a row, demanding the removal of the National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus for alleged anti-party activities. Recall that Monday, a handful number of youths storm the party headquarters, Wadata Plaza, Wuse Zone 5, Abuja. The protesters, consisting of male and female of Read More
As the 2023 general elections draws closer the rancour in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) appears to taking a turn for the worse as stakeholders battle over the party’s structure. ABDULRAHMAN ZAKARIYAU examines the situation and its impact on the party’s chances. Barely two years to the next general elections the major opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been Read More
Stakeholders have recommended more funding, equipping of the security agencies and improved education as possible solutions to curb insecurity in the country. They made the recommendations at the just concluded zoom meeting discussion on insecurity in the country shifted to the Northeast midweek organized by CLEEN Foundation. The theme of the meeting was :“Emerging Security Challenges in North-East Nigeria: Convening Read More
We need to believe the fact that “success is not final, failure is not fatal; it’s the courage to continue that counts”.There is an assertion that “Time does not change people, time reveals the real face of people” and my belief is that, excellent work must always be recognised and differentiated as such; while high performers are intrinsically motivated by Read More
Ahead of Saturday’s ward congresses across the country, the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has threatened to sanction any member or group who organises “any purported; parallel congress, parallel party organ and or parallel party office.” The National Caretaker Committee, in a notice issued to all members and signed Friday in Abuja, by the party’s national secretary, Read More
Civil Society Organizations (CSO) have expressed concern over the spate of unemployment, farmers-herders conflicts, cultism, control and ownership of markets and motor parks saying they are sources of security threat across the country . The CSOs noted this at a stakeholders engagement on Emerging Security Challenges in the Southwest organised by Centre for Law Enforcement Education (CLEEN) Foundation at a webinar. Read More
Ahead of the national convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), one of the chairmanship aspirants and former chairman of the defucnt Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Sunny Sylvester Moniedafe, has promised that his leadership would not tolerate godfatherism in the choice of candidates for elections. Moniedafe also promised to ensure the provisions Read More
While taking a vivid look at the article being published on the spiteful statements made by the immediate past United States Secretary of State and former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency , Mike Pompeo, all I saw was nothing but a tool (Pompeo) that is craving for relevance, and being used by the news agency to propagate pernicious propaganda Read More
The National Consultative Front, (NCFront) has appeal to former heads of state, former Presidents and other stakeholders to take a break from their rest and work together to rescue Nigeria from imminent civil war. The group which gathered in Abuja to discuss what they described as “pervasive killings, kidnappings, wanton destructions of public assets and general insecurity in Nigeria” said Read More
Some Christian youths have hailed Rev. Yakubu Pam’s exemplary leadership since taking charge as Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC). The group, under the aegis of Young Christians Forum of Nigeria (YCFN), said the commission has recorded tremendous progress in its operations in the last 10 months. The Christian youths made this known in a strategic report Read More
The appointment of the Plateau-born famed minister of the gospel, Rev. Dr. Yakubu Pam, as the Executive Secretary, Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC), on June 26th 2020 by President Muhammadu Buhari attracted loud applauses within the Christian community in Nigeria. Rev. Pam emerged leader of the commission on the hills of the unceremonious exist of his predecessor, Rev. Tor Uja Read More
Rotary Club of Kaduna has tasked Nigerians to imbibe peaceful coexistence as part of the teachings of the Ramadan fasting to end the banditry, kidnapping and insecurity ravaging parts of the country. President Rotary Club of Kaduna, Joyceline Anagende, told a Peace Symposium /Iftar (breaking fast) jointly organised in Kaduna with Muslim Peace Network and Justice Development and Peace Communication, Read More
God ordained fasting for Prophet Muhammed (PBUH), other prophets and pious people to teach them peaceful coexistence, patience and perseverance and to prepare them for life, an Islamic scholar, Imam AbdulSalam AbdulKadir has said. Delivering a lecture titled ‘Peace Building and Lessons of the Holy Month of Ramadan’, at a Peace Symposium/Iftar (breaking fast) jointly organised in Kaduna on Tuesday Read More
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