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http://ift.tt/2rSHqiB Nigerian IDPs (Internal Displaced Persons) hold a placard reading "we need peace to survive" during the visit of the Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to the Bakassi IDPs camp in Maiduguri on June 8, 2017, to launch a major humanitarian aid programme. / AFP PHOTO / STRINGER Farmers and fishermen displaced by Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria want to return home, saying it will help ease chronic food shortages for the remote region’s starving millions. Subsistence agriculture is a lifeline in the northeast but the eight-year Islamist insurgency has devastated activities, causing a desperate lack of food and sky-high prices. Many farmers and fishermen have either been killed or fled to camps for the displaced, where they are dependent on food aid, or to live with friends and distant relatives. Aid agencies say a severe funding shortfall is affecting feeding programmes, despite high levels of severe acute malnutrition and repeated war...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Ooni of Ile-Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi Adeyeye, Ojaja II, on Sunday called on Nigerians to work for the unity, peace and corporate existence of the country, using diversity as an instrument of strength. Ooni Ogunwusi made the call in Ilorin when he paid a visit to Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed at the Government House. The royal father said Nigerians have sacrificed immensely for the corporate existence of the nation, calling for more patriotism and mustering of all available resources for the growth and development of the country. “We have more to benefit as a united entity. We must, therefore, sacrifice for the generations yet unborn,” the monarch said. Ooni Ogunwusi described Gov Ahmed as a focus-driven governor and an embodiment of simplicity and humility. He congratulated the governor on the 50th anniversary of the state. In his remark, Gov Ahmed said the country’s diversity should be seen as a source for strength, rather than a source for dis...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Lagos State Government has concluded plans to climax the Lagos@50 celebrations with a spectacular display of fireworks. The Government, in a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, said the fireworks would be on display at midnight of Sunday, May 28 on the water of Eko Atlantic. ”This is to inform the public that there will be a display of fireworks as part of the music and fashion show to round off the 50th ​ ​ Anniversary Celebrations of the State. The fireworks will be on display at exactly 12 midnight at the Eko Atlantic City during the Golden Concert. Residents do not need to panic or nurse any fear whatsoever when they hear the sound of the fireworks as it is only just a symbolic way to draw the curtains of what has been a very splendid and successful celebration of our golden State.” “Residents who cannot attend the concert can also catch it live on Television as it promises to be a historic and exciting nigh...