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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Samuel Oyadongha YENAGOA—THE Eminent Persons  Peace and Reconciliation Committee, recently set up by Bayelsa State governor, Mr Seriake Dickson,  to look into the succession crisis rocking the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC,  has submitted its report. The committee, headed by Chief Joshua Fumudoh,  yesterday, submitted its report to Governor Dickson and Chairman Board of Trustees of Ijaw National Congress, INC, Chief Edwin Clark, at the Asokoro, Abuja residence of the Ijaw leader. Dickson had in April inaugurated the nine- member committee to reconcile the two factions laying claim to the leadership of IYC and ensure a peaceful enthronement of a single executive that will be acceptable to all stakeholders, leaders and elders of the Ijaw nation. Submitting the report, Fumudoh, who was the pioneer president of INC,  thanked Dickson for his leadership qualities and finding his committee worthy to undertake the assignment. He said the committe...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Abdallah  el-Kurebe Sokoto—Barely two weeks after the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami, faulted the takeover move by Sokoto State government of an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, case against a serving commissioner, Abubakar Bello, the state government has finally reacted. Sokoto State’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Suleiman Usman, disclosed that the state government sought to take-over the case because the AGF had granted Attorneys General of states fiat to prosecute Federal cases in their states. Usman said that Malami granted the general fiat to conduct prosecution of all Federal offences committed in various states, including Sokoto on January 30. He said: “There was a petition that there was a similar action initiated by the state government. Even though the latter was called money laundering, the other one was called criminal misappropriation and breach of trust. “We were worried about the...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Caleb Ayansina ABUJA— The National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters, NAPTIP, has said it would open a register in all embassies and other strategic public places to display names of culprits convicted for any form of abuse against Nigerian children. This is even as the agency has secured no fewer than 322 convictions thus far since its inception. Director of Public Enlightment, NAPTIP, Orakwe Arinze, who disclosed these at a briefing on the launch of the campaign to end violence against children organised by the FCT Social Development Secretariat and the Vulnerable Children Technical Steering Committee in Abuja, weekend, said it was unfortunate that women were the main child abusers. He said:  “Majority of the cases we get here (FCT) are child abuses and the women are the largest culprits. “As at this minute, we have 332 convictions of the victims of trafficking since we started. These victims come with some le...

http://ift.tt/2rtmzU4 •Shares his story with Boko Haram kid-survivors *Lara, wife of ex-gov: I never believed my husband could rest By Simon Ebegbulem, Benin-City Immediate past Governor  Adams Oshiomhole and his wife, lara, spent the whole of  penultimate  Wednesday with children at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Ohogua, Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State and it was like a bumper harvest for the children. The former governor and his wife donated bags of rice, beans, oil and several other items to the inmates. Apart from the donation, Oshiomhole spent quality time with the inmates in their class rooms, played football with them and inspected their hostels. In fact, Oshiomhole was impressed with one of the science teachers in SS two class due to the way he taught  the students and he gave him some cash reward. The  former governor had built blocks of classrooms for the IDPs while he was in office. And lara, through her We C...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J NIGERIA Veterinary Medical Association, NVMA has decried  the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in Nigeria hospitals and farms, insisting that the antibacterial drug resistance was spreading at an alarming rate in the country. National President of NVMA, Dr. Godwin Abonyi ,who spoke during this year’s World Veterinary Day celebration held in Asaba, warned that that the use of antimicrobial agent as feed additives should be discouraged to avoid the emergence of superbugs that could be passed on to man which cause serious public health concern. According to him,  the basic rules guiding the proper use of antibiotics like choice of the right antibiotics to treat a particular disease through conducting sensitive tests were no longer obeyed. Frowning at a situation where antibiotics were no longer being used to treat diseases alone but also being applied to promote growth and maximize feed efficiency in commercial animal farms in the form of feed additives....

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Obi Nwakanma A very dangerous rumor is floating around in Nigeria these days about the health of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari. It is feeding the tank of many conspiracy theories. It is dangerous because it has the potential of igniting the tinder of remorseless action whose consequences will be dire for Nigeria as a nation – and the conflagration this time might be too difficult to douse. Let me first tell the nature of this rumor, and its implications for the political terrain. First, it is being quietly circulated, particularly northwards, that president Buhari’s ill-health was specially engineered by an inner circle of power in the APC in order to hold him captive and control the outcomes of his presidency. It all goes back to the early days of Buhari’s nomination as his party’s candidate, and the moves to sell him beyond the bounds of Nigeria. It was assumed that one of the great factors that held down Buhari’s aspiration in those days to bec...