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Thursday, 7 December 2017
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Reps Honor Disabled Ex Homeless Street Beggar turned Lawyer, Medical Student Record Breaker
The House of Representatives on Tuesday regarded Mr Abdulsalam Kamaldeen Idowu, a handicapped and previous destitute street homeless person for supporting himself through school to wind up noticeably an attorney and political science graduate.
Likewise regarded was Miss Aarinola Olaiya of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, for achieving uncommon record in her academic interest. The choice took after the reception of a movement sponsored by the House Leader, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila (Lagos-APC).
The House set out to set up, by law, a Parliamentary Honors/Award System for acknowledgment of uncommon accomplishments by Nigerians.
Gbajabiamila said Abdulsalam Idowu showed strength and diligent work by concentrate political science and law from street begging and regardless of being destitute for a considerable length of time dozing at Idumota Motor Park in Lagos. .
"Idowu lost his two legs to polio at 3 years old, lost his mom at 4 years old, began elementary school at 8 and depended on street begging to fund-raise to purchase garbs, books and to encourage.
He begged for arms from essential through optional school and was referred to on the streets of Lagos as a hobo. From street begging he purchased GCE frame in 2002, sat and passed the GCE and JAMB exam and was consequently confessed to contemplate political science at Unilag.
As he was getting ready to finish his first degree, he sat for the WAEC and JAMB. He assed the exams considered law and was later admitted to Nigerian Law School in 2015 and was called to the Nigerian Bar on Nov. 30 2016,
Aarinola, 24, on her part, had Distinctions in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mental Health and Dermatology (500L) and Distinctions in Surgery (600L), an accomplishment that had been subtle for a time of 28 years at OAU," he said.
Gbajabiamila educated his associates that Ayodele Dada who was also regarded at the House on the 26th of March, 2016, for breaking the 5.0 CGPA at Unilag, simply closed his administration at the Central Bank of Nigeria and planning to promote his investigations abroad.
Monday, 4 December 2017
Grace Mugabe has filed for divorce from her 93-year-old Husband Robert Mugabe
Former First Lady of Zimbabwe, Grace Mugabe has allegedly petitioned for separate from her 93-year-old husband Robert Mugabe after he was removed as the President, Zimbabwe Today reports.
Effortlessness Mugabe and Robert Mugabe have been married for a long time. Elegance started by functioning as the secretary of then President Mugabe and when his better half, the previous First Lady kicked the bucket, she married the President and quickly turned out to be First Lady. She stayed First Lady for a long time until the point when he husband was expelled a month ago.
Sources near the Mugabe family affirmed that Grace Mugabe has petitioned for separate. The South African conceived lady has apparently voiced worries over her part as the previous First Lady of Zimbabwe, guaranteeing that it about time she appreciates some tranquil life. She apparently said she isn't set up to be criticized for the years ahead and that her ostracism and her husband's abdication as the pioneer of Zimbabwe have step by step developed into a dangerous cerebral pain.
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A family source revealed to Zimbabwe Today: "She's been exceptionally disturbed as far back as Mugabe offered up to hand over energy to his removed Vice-president. She needed a part as a First Lady, not as a lady who goes about as subordinate. She is likewise not set up to abandon her sumptuous way of life to live in a home of imprisonment. She conceives that the stylistic theme is disgusting and hopeless."
Legal representative, Lawrence Brown has affirmed separate procedures were in movement and if the two gatherings concur, they could go their different routes in about a month.
Sunday, 3 December 2017
''‘I’M RETURNING HOME’ — ATIKU ANNOUNCES MOVE TO PDP''
Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, today said he was returning to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because of the need to steer the nation off “bloody inter-communal and ethnic violence, deepening economic crisis, collapse of our infrastructure and the risk of the unravelling of the amnesty in the Niger Delta.”
The top politician who defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) less than two weeks made this known in a video posted on Facebook on Sunday afternoon.
“From today, I want to let you that I am returning home to the PDP as the issue that led me to leave it has now been resolved,” he said in the video.
“APC had led people, especially our youths down and that rather giving a wrong political speech on this matter, I thought it would be helpful to invite Nigerians to ask me questions on the issues.”
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Saturday, 2 December 2017
Nigerian University Graduates are Unemployable - Ekweremadu
The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, is infuriated by the expanding rate of joblessness in the nation and has prompted government to put resources into professional preparing and ability obtaining as a method for upgrading the work of adolescents.
Ekweremadu who talked as of late in Enugu amid the introduction of a professional preparing foundation, regretted that the joblessness rate in the nation has stayed high in view of the disappointment of the administration to think of dynamic and commonsense techniques of settling the difficulties. .
In a talk with newsmen at the banner off of the program, the delegate Senate president discredited a circumstance where tertiary organizations in the nation graduate a huge number of 'unemployable individuals' yearly. .
He, in this way, called attention to that the professional preparing school has been bundled to fill the hole in the framework. "It's extremely heartbreaking that we have engineers that can't build anything; we have experts that can't settle anything. We have handymen who are simply calamities.
We should grapple with the way that administration alone can't tackle our issues. Common and open administrations can't give employments to the whole people. We should put resources into professional preparing, generally in the following 50 years, the country will be in a significant issue," he said.
Poor Nigerians have no business in governmental issues – Minister .
Poor Nigerians have no business in politics
PDP chieftain, Adeseye Ogunlewe, has said that governmental issues in Nigeria does not have space for the poor to take an interest in. .
He expressed this on Friday amid a meeting on Channels Television. He was reacting to the theory that the gathering agents might be purchased over with cash by applicants challenging the inevitable PDP national chairmanship race. . ."Goodness, that is governmental issues!" the previous representative and a previous minister of works, said when solicited in regards to the likelihood from the applicants tempting the agents with cash to switch their help
"A poor individual does not partake in legislative issues," he said. "A destitute individual has no business in legislative issues. A poor man can't win a race in Nigeria; how might you battle? On the off chance that you are poor, remain in your home," he said once more.
Buhari Incapacitated From Entering U.S - Atiku
Buhari was restricted from entering U.S. for a long time. I will effectively vanquish him in 2019 — Atiku
Previous Vice President Atiku Abubakar has uncovered that Pres. Buhari was prohibited from entering the U.S in light of the fact that Americans had reservations about his religious perspectives, .
"For around 15 years, Buhari couldn't enter America by virtue of religious contemplations," Mr. Abubakar said in a meeting with Dele Momodu.
Momodu had asked Atiku for what reason he (Atiku) had not possessed the capacity to visit the U.S for a long time, in the midst of theories that he is needed in that nation for a large number of sharp practices.
Atiku said the U.S. specialists have nothing against him. He said he could visit Europe frequently without being captured for ahead removal to the U.S.
He said if Nigerians choose him president, he would be permitted into the U.S simply like Buhari and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, both of whom are currently being concurred celebrity main street medications in the U.S. in the wake of getting to be pioneers of their separate nations.
Atiku was named in no less than one fake arrangement in the United States, which included contract grant in Nigeria. He likewise said vanquishing Pres. Buhari will be a cakewalk for him if the president keeps running against him in 2019. .
"I will beat him this time. He has squandered a considerable measure of his gigantic altruism," Mr. Abubakar said. He said many partners of Buhari are angry, however they are noiseless about their dissatisfaction with the president, and are sitting tight for the opportune time to strike back. .
"Many individuals are displeased yet staying silent and lying low.Our adolescents are enduring horribly and now they are being sold into subjugation. .
Everybody knows my reputation of welcoming and drawing in a decent group and giving them the chance to work professionally. Nigerians are worn out on pioneers who can't prepare to stun the world and work enormous," he included.
Libyan Returnee Narrates How Him and His Wife Were Sold and Bought Twice by a Nigerian
In the midst of the uproar over revelations that Libyan nationals are buying and selling migrants as slaves in Libya, Saturday PUNCH has learnt that Nigerians based in the country also sell their fellow countrymen.
This emerged as more Nigerians are repatriated by the International Organisation for Migration with the backing of the European Union in an ongoing exercise that has seen 1,295 retrieved from Libya in November alone.
Since the beginning of 2017, IOM-facilitated repatriation has brought back 5,578 Nigerian migrants, who were trapped in and outside prisons across Libya.
On Thursday night, 150 migrants from mostly Edo and Delta states arrived the country aboard a Buraq Airplane at the cargo terminal of the Murtala International Airport, Lagos. It was two days after 239 migrants had also been brought into the country.
Many of the returnees, who were thankful for being back, confirmed to Saturday PUNCHthat they were sold by their fellow countrymen, who were getting rich in Libya.
One of them, 26-year-old Odion Saliu, a hairdresser from Edo State, said she was kidnapped and handed over to a Nigerian, who forced her to call her mother.
According to her, her mother in Benin paid N200, 000 but she was again sold by the same Nigerian for 3,000 dinars (about N794, 000).
Saliu explained that the Nigerians spoke Pidgin English and some Nigerian languages.
She said, “When I was kidnapped with others and held for some weeks, the Arabs asked if I wanted to be taken to a Nigerian and I readily said yes. I was very happy that I was going to someone from my country. But it was a lie.
“The Nigerian they took me to locked me in a cell and told me to call my mother and ask for N60, 000. The man said he would sell me to a connection house if my family did not get the money. I called to inform my mother and the trafficker who facilitated my journey from Nigeria.
“But the trafficker spoke with them on the phone and told them the amount they demanded was too small. They increased it to N200, 000. My mother paid into an account after they provided her with the account number over the phone.
“The Nigerian said if I wanted to cross the sea, I had to pay him again. But when we got to the seaside, he sold me again.”
Another Edo State indigene, Sunday Anyaegbunam, left Nigeria along with his wife in April.
He said during their nine-day journey through the desert, they were sold twice by Nigerians.
According to him, when their Nigerian “burger” (trafficker) sold them to another set of Libyan traffickers at Agadez, Niger, the traffickers sold him and his wife to a Nigerian who took them to Sabha, Libya, where they were separated in different cells.
“We were made to contact our families on the phone and I had to ensure the payment of N400, 000 for my release and N300, 000 for my wife,” Anyaegbunam said.
Like others, he could only identify the Nigerians trading in their countrymen in Libya through the Nigerian languages they spoke and their accent.
He said, “The Nigerians selling people in Libya are more wicked than many of the Arabs. I have never seen people so heartless as the Nigerians who bought and sold me.
“There are many of them in Agadez and Sabha, who are making so much money from selling their own people. But there are other West Africans doing the business too.
“When you approach them and say, ‘Please, my brother, help me.’ They would tell you, “No brother in the jungle.”
A 25-year-old woman, Esosa Osas, who was in Libya for six months, said she also met many Nigerians selling their countrymen.
“You dare not talk to them, else they would beat you and lock you up. They sell women for 5,000 dinars and men for N4, 000 dinars. I noticed that the connection houses were also controlled by Nigerian women.”
All these accounts were corroborated by 35-year-old Harrison Okotie who lived in Libya for three years until his repatriation.
“Nigerians and Libyans are doing the business like they are one big happy family,” he said.
Most of the migrants who arrived Nigeria on Thursday were from Edo State.
Officials of the state’s task force on illegal migration were on hand with luxurious buses to transport their people back home.
A member of the task force, Mr. Okoduwa Solomon, told Saturday PUNCH that his team had made six such journeys to the airport within the last one month to take their indigenes repatriated from Libya back home.
He said, “The first process is to take them through counselling, then we profile them.
“After that, we put them in a home that the state government has provided for the returnees. The Edo State Government is paying each of the returnees from the state a stipend.
They are going to undergo a training in agriculture, poultry, fishery and others to make them useful to themselves and the system.”
Officials of the National Emergency Management Agency coordinate the reception of the returnees at the airport.South West Zonal Coordinator of the agency, Mr. Yakubu Sulaiman, said the returnees would be lodged in a hotel where they would have the chance to clean up before their journey back home.
Meanwhile, President, Women Arise and Centre for Change, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, has called on the Federal Government to use all diplomatic channels to prevail on the Libyan authorities to ensure the dignity of our people.
She said in a statement on Friday that it was an embarrassment that Nigerians who were treated like royalty in the past were being dehumanised in a foreign land.
“We must build a country where our people have opportunities to prosper and lead useful and productive lives and will only travel on leisure and business and not as illegal migrants desperate to live anywhere other than Nigeria,” she said.
Over 400,000 Nigerians, others still stranded in Libya –AU Commission
Meanwhile, Head, African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has said that over 400,000 Nigerians and others remain stranded in Libya.
Hundreds of thousands more — “400,000 to 700, 000,” according to Mahamat — remain stranded.
European and African leaders have set themselves a tall order to stamp out horrific abuse of African migrants, some of them are Nigerians in Libya, where thousands are suffering in a vast, lawless territory.
On Thursday, a summit of the African Union and the European Union set a goal of immediately repatriating 3,800 migrants languishing in a camp near Tripoli.
But experts pointed to a daunting array of hurdles, from extracting migrants in perilous situations to giving them incentives to stay put when they return home.
Even so, the summit’s commitment, initiated by outrage over a CNN television report on black Africans being sold as slaves in Libya, is being welcomed.
“It is a step in the right direction,” International Organisation for Migration Europe Director, Eugenio Ambrosi, told Agence France Presse by phone from Brussels.
“It is a little bit too much to think it will solve the slavery issue, but it would definitely mitigate (it) to some extent,” Ambrosi said.
He said the summit also showed there was now “international watchdog pressure” that could be brought to bear on the criminal gangs, but it must be “sustained.”
The drive was announced at a meeting on the summit sidelines organised by French President, Emmanuel Macron.
It brought together eight other EU and African countries as well as the AU, EU and United Nations representatives.
Macron said the UN-backed Libyan government of Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj had identified and granted access to the worst camps to enable the returns of people who want to go home.
The Macron group also decided to work with a task force, involving the sharing of police and intelligence services, to “dismantle the networks and their financing and detain traffickers,” he said.
They pledged to freeze the assets of identified traffickers. The AU is expected to set up an investigative panel and the UN could take cases before the International Court of Justice.
Libya calls for campaign against human trafficking
The Libyan government has condemned the reported auction of West Africans in its capital Tripoli, noting that the criminal practice was not part of the culture of the Libyan people.
It called for an international campaign against illegal migration and demanded an end to “exploitation, the suffering of the ambitious African man looking for better life in Europe and human trafficking right from the country of source.”
Speaking on the alleged auction of West Africans in his country at a press conference on Friday in Abuja, the Charge d’Affairs and ambassador-designate, Libyan embassy in Nigeria, Dr. Attia Alkhoder, explained that his government had ordered the relevant agency to carry out a comprehensive investigation into the incident.
He said the government was concerned about illegal migration and human trafficking, adding that Libya needed technical and logistical support to control its southern border, which is the major route for illegal migration across the Mediterranean Sea.
The diplomat criticised the media for attacking and holding his country responsible for the slaves’ auction, noting that human trafficking and the reported slaves’ auction were done by individuals and not the Libyan authorities.
Alkhoder said, “Libya renews its call to put an end to exploitation, the suffering of the ambitious African man looking for better life in Europe and human trafficking.
“Libya calls for an international campaign to put an end to this phenomenon by providing security and border control to end the Libyan crisis, unify its government institutions and end the transition system that contributed a lot in the weakening control of territory.”
The envoy noted that solving illegal migration was a collective responsibility involving countries of origin, transit and destination.
He added that Libya spent a lot of money accommodating immigrants and facilitating their voluntary return to their countries, insisting that curbing illegal migration needed serious coordination of international efforts.
Returnees get N100m, 150 hectares of land for farming
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has approved a seed capital of N100m and 150 hectares of land for 150 victims of human trafficking, who recently completed skills acquisition training in the state.
Obaseki announced this on Friday during the graduation of the participants of the programme, which was organised by the Edo Agricultural Development Programme in Benin City, the state capital.
He also directed the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources to immediately liaise with the relevant authorities towards securing the land for the returnees to commence their agricultural businesses.
According to the governor, the beneficiaries would be put under the supervision of the Benin-Owena River Basin Authority and the EADP.
Obaseki stressed the need for coordinated efforts to end modern slavery.
He stated that the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, marked on December 2 annually by the United Nations, should be seen as a day for deep reflection on how to bring the illicit trade to an end.
Obaseki said, “We ordinarily should not be talking about the menace of slavery given the experience we have had. But it is a reality today and we have no choice but to tackle it.
“However, it is pertinent to point out the fact that modern-day slavery, in its various forms, such as forced labour, debt bondage, and human trafficking, has no place among us. To effectively abolish slave trade as we have it today, it takes a coordinated, deep-reaching, international coalition that will take into cognisance the various forms of modern-day slavery and compel perpetrators to back down.”
He, however, commended the returnees, comprising 51 trained on crop production, 15 on agro-processing, 68 on livestock farming and 52 on fish farming, for participating in the programme.
He also urged them to be ambassadors in the state-wide campaign against human trafficking and illegal migration.
Earlier, the Programme Manager of the EADP, Mr. Peter Aikhuomobhogbe, commended the state government for initiating the training and expressed optimism that the trainees would put the skills acquired to good use.
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Friday, 1 December 2017
Libyan Government Rejects Blame
The Libyan government has rejected obligation regarding the charged slave exchanging of trafficked people going ahead in the nation, portraying the media scope as "savage and visually impaired crusades".
After a CNN report revealed the dehumanizing misuse of African transients in Libya who are as a rule allegedly sold for around N145,000 ($400), the universal outrage has developed to stunning statures.
As indicated by an announcement discharged by the Embassy of Libya in Nigeria, the Government of National Accord said the issue of human trafficking is one that the legislature has been fighting for a considerable length of time.
The legislature guaranteed that the nation itself has been hurt as the center point of African vagrants attempting to sneak their path wrongfully into Europe through the Mediterranean ocean.
The announcement read to some degree, "Libya thinks about such issue, if exact, is a consequence of unlawful migration. Libya is hurt of it, she rejects being considered mindful.
"Unraveling the issue of unlawful migrants is an aggregate duty to the nations of beginning, travel and goal. In addition, Libya spends a great deal of cash to build and oversee camps to suit the migrants and encourage their deliberate come back to their nations."
Notwithstanding not tolerating culpability for the claimed slave exchanging, or letting it out to be the whole truth, the administration guaranteed to take action against culprits.
"The Libyan Authority has quickly trained the significant expert to do an exhaustive examination on this criminal case as indicated by the Libyan law and uncover its discoveries to nearby and global group; catch and rebuff people in charge of it, be it human trafficking of foreigners or human exchanging.
"We accentuate on critical issue of sparing settlers from torment and political revilements.
"Libya and its kin are Africans, mutually puts resources into African nations and open its outskirt to African siblings, she acknowledges more than two million African specialists from various nations working in various fields and lawfully live in pride in Libya. Libya has bug interests in African nations worth over $10 billion."
On Wednesday, November 29, at the European Union-African Union summit in Cote d'Ivoire, African and European pioneers conceded to an earnest clearing arrange for that would see around 15,000 individuals flown out of Libya.
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has uncovered that an aggregate of 1,295 Nigerians intentionally came back from Libya in November subsequent to being stranded in the unstable North African nation.
Libya has been a hotbed for unlawful transients throughout recent years as it fills in as the travel center to the Mediterranean which associates with Europe. Consistently, transients leave on the unsafe journey over the ocean to get away from the monetary and additionally political vulnerabilities in their nations of starting point.
As per Missing Migrants, an association that tracks passings along transitory courses, no less than 2,985 individuals have kicked the bucket attempting to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa or the Middle East in 2017 alone.
Be that as it may, this has not prevented individuals from attempting to make the journey into Europe to look for greener fields.
An administration crackdown on trafficking has brought about an uncommon diminishment in vessel journeys which implies many are caught in Libya for quite a while sitting tight for their swing to travel. The transients are generally held in associating houses or detainment focuses that the smugglers control.
This makes a circumstance where smugglers can misuse the transients, particularly when they come up short on cash to pay which implies they're seen as properties.
Since most carrying rings are controlled by neighborhood sorted out posses, local armies and degenerate security authorities in Libya, numerous casualties are caught in new surroundings with captors who are not timid to fall back on brutal means.
Smugglers are known to coerce transients into doing free work or altogether pitching them to different civilian armies engaged with human trafficking. Different circumstances, they hold transients for payoff and call their families to pay while issuing dangers to murder them.
Female vagrants are supposedly in more risk of being utilized as sex slaves particularly on the off chance that they don't have anything to pay their captors.
Worldwide outrage
UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, portrayed the slave closeout film as "the most appalling misuse of human rights and may add up to violations against humankind."
It has additionally been censured by Libyan Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Metig, Guinean President and African Union (AU) Chairman, Alpha Conde, Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou, and the Senegalese government.
Burkina Faso additionally reviewed its minister to Libya with President Roch Marc Christian Kabore requesting data from the Libyan government about the destiny of around 30 Burkinabe vagrants confined in the camps.
President Muhammadu Buhari's Senior Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa censured the slave closeout in a press articulation on Monday, November 20.
She depicted it as "absolutely inadmissible, detestable, and inhumane and ought to be censured by any individual who is human and has blood going through their veins."
Amid the EU-AU summit this week, French President, Emmanuel Macron, called the disclosure "an unspeakable atrocity" and asked pioneers present to "dispatch solid military and policing activity on the ground to disassemble those systems."
Senior military officers and loyalists dominate Zimbabwe's new 22-member cabinet appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Mnangagwa gave the remote service to real broad Sibusiso Moyo, the armed force authority who on TV two weeks back proclaimed the military intercession that prompted a week ago's prominent ouster of veteran pioneer Robert Mugabe.
The new president in his broadcast declaration late Thursday additionally named Air Marshal Perence Shiri as grounds and horticulture serve.
In his initiation discourse last Friday, Mnangagwa pledged to remunerate a large number of ranchers expelled amid Mugabe's administration and to put tracts of land once more into generation.
The post of data serve went to Chris Mutsvangwa, the pioneer of Zimbabwe's 1980 freedom war veterans development who initiated mass dissents a week ago to constrain Mugabe out of office.
Additionally included were a few priests from Mugabe's previous bureau, including Patrick Chinamas, who comes back to the fund service.
He had been expelled by Mugabe amid a reshuffle in October.
Mnangagwa, who was introduced as president last Friday, did exclude figures from the times of restriction to Mugabe.
Met just before the president's declaration, fundamental restriction pioneer Morgan Tsvangirai said Mnangagwa had a "little window" of chance to demonstrate that he was not quite the same as Mugabe.
"No exchange" had occurred with the new administration, Tsvangirai said.
One faultfinder, legal counselor Alex Magaisa tweeted a photograph of Mugabe and his better half, Grace, chuckling with the words: "when they saw the new bureau."
Previous fund serve Tendai Biti tweeted: "The wedding trip is over even before it had started. What a disgrace. What a missed open door."
Call for reasonable races
Last Monday, the administration of Zimbabwe's Catholic church encouraged Mnangagwa to move in the direction of financial recuperation and "free and reasonable" races in 2018.
On Wednesday, a Harare court decided that voting rights ought to be stretched out to individuals conceived in Zimbabwe to outside guardians, numerous from nearby countries, for example, Malawi.
Around 2 million purported "outsiders" would be qualified for vote, said Douglas Mwonzora, the secretary general of the resistance Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)
Political investigator Barnabas Thondlana said the court administering limited the discretionary shots for Zimbabwe's decision ZANU-PF party.
More Than 700,000 African Migrants are Trapped in Libya Detention Camps, Says EU and African Union
Toward the finish of a two-day summit in the Ivory Coast, EU and African Union (AU) pioneers on Thursday conceded to plans for a quick departure of 3,800 migrants stranded in Libya in the midst of worldwide stun over a slave sale of migrants in the contention ridden nation.
"We have concurred, alongside the EU and the UN, to set up a team for repatriating no less than 3,800 individuals," said AU Commission boss Moussa Faki Mahamat.
"In any case, it's only one camp … the Libyan government reveals to us that there are 42 taking all things together. There are certainly more than that. There are appraisals of 400,000 to 700,000 African migrants in Libya."
Mahamat said that the AU has joined forces with the UN and the EU to devise "longer-term answers for the relocation issue," particularly in Libya, which has been utilized as a take off platform by the larger part of almost a large portion of a million migrants endeavoring to achieve European shores since 2015, as indicated by figures from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Traffickers 'are likewise here'
A large number of sub-Saharan migrants have been caught in Libya after the UN-upheld Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya sought after an approach of confining migrants from sub-Saharan Africa following weight from Brussels to accomplish more to check the tide of relocation.
Gerba Shehu, representative for Nigeria's leader Muhammadu Buhari, revealed to DW that the legislature will do all that it can to return Nigerians in Libya to their own nation. In any case, he noticed that more must be done about human traffickers, even those working outside Libya.
"They are additionally here in the Ivory Coast, where individuals are being diverted towards Libya," Shehu said.
Since despot Moammar Gadhafi was toppled with global help with 2011, Libya has slipped into disarray, with warlords, fear gatherings and contending governments asserting force over the broke nation.
Human traffickers have misused the security vacuum and guaranteed section to Europe to a huge number of sub-Saharan Africans, a large number of them escaping strife and extraordinary destitution at home.
No 'Marshall Plan' for Africa
The two-day summit was relied upon to handle the difficulties emerging from Africa's blasting populace, which is required to contact 2.4 billion individuals by 2050.
EU and African pioneers have cautioned that without optimized improvement, a large number of African young people may endeavor to escape to Europe looking for a superior life or swing to Islamist aggressor bunches as an option.
"A vital open door was missed here," Friederike Röder of the French advancement association One told DW. "All heads of government conceded to the difficulties of statistic change in Africa" however held back before building up new activities, not even the "Marshall Plan for Africa" already talked about by Germany, she included.
EID-EL-MAULUD: AISHA ATTACKS FG FOR DECLARING PUBLIC HOLIDAY
The Convener of Bring Back Our Girls Group, Aisha Yesufu, has criticized the federal government of Nigeria for announcing public holiday to celebrate this year’s Eid-El-Maulud.
The BBOG convener described the holiday as wasteful and an act of competitive religiousity.
Aisha urged the Buhari administration to focus on helping Nigerians than otherwise.
In her tweets, she wrote “Nigeria and our need for wasteful holidays. Which one is public holiday for Maulud? When did we start celebrating Maulud?
“When do we stop all this “competitive religiosity” and focus on doing good for humanity?
“The first Maulud to be a public holiday in Nigeria was declared for Monday, 9 March 2009 by Godwin Abbe, then minister of interior under Yar’Adua’s administration.
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
For being childless, late Taraba lawmaker’s ‘widow’ evicted after his death
Rukkayya, the widow of late Taraba lawmaker, Abdulmumini Dame, has been ejected from her late husband’s house in Jalingo, Taraba State, weeks after the burial of the lawmaker (her husband).
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According to the report, Rukkayya, who is still mourning her husband, who was buried on October 26, was evicted from the apartment of her late husband by his relatives. .
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Mrs. Dame said she married the late lawmaker Islam 9 years ago though they had no child before his death. She alleged that her in-laws usually harassed her for not bearing a child and after her husband’s death, ”she was threatened and bullied for bringing bad luck to the family.” .
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She said she was eventually thrown out of the house. ”As you can see I’m in Takaba (for the 40 days mourning period) but they didn’t allow me to observe it in this house and kept insulting threatening me”, she said. .
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The embattled widow has since filed a suit seeking redress, her lawyer, Muhammad Rabiu, said. The late lawmaker’s brother, Dennis Dame, in his reaction, however, denied that there was a marriage between his brother and Mrs. Dame. .
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”He just ‘kept’ her but not as wife. She didn’t even allow us to observe this mourning period but dragged us to court unnecessarily. We too have filed our suit at the tate High Court, so the matter is before the court,” he said.
Nigerian Roads are not bad - Babatunde Fashola
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says Nigerian roads are not as bad as some people tend to portray it.
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The former Lagos state governor said this when he delivered his keynote address at the United Nations-sponsored capacity building programme for the Federal Road Safety Corps in Abuja today November 29th.
“Members of the public must know that roads are depreciating assets. They do not last forever and require regular maintenance and, with time, replacement, if they are to serve their intended purpose.
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These factors of abuse and lack of maintenance combine to reduce the quality of our motoring experience on the roads.
With this background, I will now pose the question: How bad are our roads? Some have repeatedly said, ‘All the roads are bad.’ That is not true. We have good parts and bad parts caused by abuse and lack of maintenance.” he said
TODAY WE ARE BLAMING LIBYANS, WE TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT YESTERDAY - Squi Ukre
Libya under Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was Europe for Black Africans. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was loved by Black Africans because he always protect them and give them stay in Libya because he believed Libya was for everyone. This was why Libya was known as Jamahiriya ("state of the masses").
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi did lots of development in Libya. About 98% of Libyans were so rich that they need not struggle to work. They were being paid monthly, used free electricity, own free houses as Gaddafi implemented social programs emphasizing house-building, healthcare, and education projects. Sometimes, free cars were being given to its citizens. Proceed from the sale of Libya's crude oil was being shared and paid into the accounts of every Libyan. Gaddafi used Libya's fund to support many African countries to prevent them from borrowing from the West, support education system in many Africa countries and also fund the blacks in South Africa to gain Independence. Gaddafi was more like Africa saviour.
Until the West led a revolution against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi via some ignorant element in Libya. United States former President Barrack Obama and former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy supplied lots of arms and ammunition to militants in Libya to topple Gaddafi's government.
While all these were happening, our African Leaders kept mute. Only Robert Mugabe who was then President of Zimbabwe and Jacob Zuma of South Africa stood to defend Gaddafi but were not strong enough. Nigeria's former president Goodluck Jonathan, who was the then head of Africa Union, kept quiet, because Colonel Muammar Gaddafi once advised Nigerians to divide Nigeria in two and allow the South to be on its own. They hated Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for it, so they turned a blind eyes to what the West was doing to Gaddafi's regime in Libya. Many Black Africans in Libya stood their grounds and fought for Gaddafi because he was their saviour in Libya. Many fought for free.
Years on after Gaddafi has been killed before our very eyes, Libyans have become so broke. There has not been a day of peace since Gaddafi was killed. There are no work for Libyans, no more free houses, electricity, water, gas, free money from oil sale etc. They are so broke that they took into kidnapping of Black Africans for ransom to survive. Those whose ransom were failed to be paid, are therefore sold into slavery for as little as $200.
What you ignore would come around to hurt you. Nigeria's former president Goodluck Jonathan ignored the happenings in Libya because of Gaddafi's comment on splitting Nigeria in two, not knowing that the situation would some day turn around and hurt him. The guns the west supplied to the rebels in Libya, were sold in the black market after Gaddafi was killed. Most of the guns flowed into Chad's black market and from there to the hands of Boko Haram. Boko Haram played a major role in the defeat of Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 election when they (Boko Haram) kidnapped the Chibok girls that lead to a world-wide protest.
Some leaders from the south south and South East then, defended Former President Goodluck Jonathan not to have intervene in Libya. But shortly after the defeat of Goodluck Jonathan, these were the same people protesting that Nigeria must be split in two. If only they were wise enough to have listened to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Biafra would have been in Existence today.
Least we forget that the rebels Barrack Obama armed in Libya against Gaddafi, are now the same ISIS today killing Christians in Libya, Syria, Egypt and in the rest of the world. We sat and kept quiet when Obama was carrying out his evil agenda against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, today we are all paying for it.
My condolence to all Black Africans who have lost their lives in Libya and in the hands of ISIS. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi would forever remain my best African President. May God forever bless his soul.
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Atiku In Open Reconciliation With Obasanjo
Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar has said he is open to reconciliation with his former boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo, in pursuit of his ambition of becoming President in 2019.
This development was disclosed by Atiku’s Media Adviser, Mazi Paul Ibe, when he spoke on behalf of his principal in Abuja on Sunday.
He said the former Vice President, who he described as a master of consensus building, would not discountenance the importance of carrying everyone along.
This he said in reaction to the advice given by the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan.
Jonathan had in an interview with respected journalist and publisher Dele Momodu, advised Atiku to seek reconciliation with ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo if his dream of becoming President must be realized.
Jonathan had described Obasanjo as “the boss of bosses.”
Ibe said, “His Excellency, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, is a savvy politician and he will not discountenance the importance of carrying everybody along in order to build a consensus.”
Monday, 27 November 2017
Buhari Sympathizes With APC Over The Loss Of Atiku
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Buhari chose the venue of the inauguration of the Ama Pepple-led National Minimum Wage Committee to convey his sympathy to the party chairman who joined top government officials for the event.
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During the inauguration in Abuja, Mr. Buhari, while making routine greetings before his remarks, turned to Oyegun, and said: “accept my sympathy for losing a senior member of your party.”
