• Gunmen invade police station in Abia, Akwa Ibom, kill five officers • Police begin the search for stolen AK-47 rifles in Rivers • Ammunition-laden truck involved in a lone accident in Anambra After what appears a lull in Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) activism in the country, a coalition of 127 CSOs under the Joint Action Civil Society Coalition/Nigeria Mourns Secretariat, yesterday, petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, stop the escalating insecurity in the country. They further raised the alarm that the first quarter of 2021 has witnessed all-time high fatalities and atrocious incidences across the country. The petition titled ‘State of the Nation: Stop the bleeding, end carnage now, called for the resignation of the President while urging all Nigerians to register their displeasure with the state of affairs across the country by participating in a series of mass actions from May 26, to commemorate the 4th National Day of Mourning
• Gunmen invade police station in Abia, Akwa Ibom, kill five officers
• Police begin the search for stolen AK-47 rifles in Rivers
• Ammunition-laden truck involved in a lone accident in Anambra
After what appears a lull in Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) activism in the country, a coalition of 127 CSOs under the Joint Action Civil Society Coalition/Nigeria Mourns Secretariat, yesterday, petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, stop the escalating insecurity in the country. They further raised the alarm that the first quarter of 2021 has witnessed all-time high fatalities and atrocious incidences across the country. x
The petition titled ‘State of the Nation: Stop the bleeding, end carnage now, called for the resignation of the President while urging all Nigerians to register their displeasure with the state of affairs across the country by participating in a series of mass actions from May 26, to commemorate
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Non-profit organisation Connected Development had many sitting right up with this startling claim about mortality in Africa’s most populous country. Thankfully, it’s incorrect. To mark World Health Day in April 2021, Nigerian non-profit organisation Connected Development made an alarming claim about child mortality.“In commemoration of #WorldHealthDay2021, we are reminded that annually, Nigeria loses over 99% of children below the age of five due to dilapidated health care services,” the organisation tweeted.
Connected Development, which focuses on helping vulnerable communities, blamed poor health care, especially at the primary level, for this. But do nearly all children in Africa’s most populous country die before they reach the age of five? We looked at the data.
The senator representing Taraba South in the National Assembly, Emmanuel Bwacha, yesterday, raised the alarm that the most populous black nation was “fast sliding (in) to anarchy.”
He spoke during an interactive session with reporters in Jalingo, the state capital. Stating that the best way of rescuing the country was through “prayers”, the Deputy Minority Leader regretted the insecurity in the land.
BESIDES, a coalition of civil society organisations (CSOs) has charged the Federal Government on an urgent national dialogue to address poverty, youth unemployment and shallow education with a view to saving Nigeria from “imminent collapse.
During the National Cohesion and Tolerance Dinner organised by Connected Development (CODE), the organisations noted that government had a major role to play in creating a safer environment for the conversation that could heal past wounds .
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A group of eminent Nigerians, New Fabian Society of the Concerned Professionals, has called on religious, traditional and leaders of thought nationwide to partner for genuine change.
In a release titled, ‘Time to raise the white flag’, signed by Prof. Pat Utomi, Prof. Anthony Kila, Femi Falana (SAN), Tola Mobolurin, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, Dr. Usman Bugaje, Dr. Muiz Banire (SAN), Dr. Isawa Dogo, Joe Atueyi and Bisi Olowoyo, the body backed Prof. Wole Soyinka’s advocacy for external assistance to prevent Nigeria from getting on a “one chance transport on the road to Somalia.”
The statement continued: “Our country is crippled. Our compatriots are being slaughtered like chickens all over the country. Insecurity has become the most interrogated phenomenon of our time and the result is clear for all to see. With our reality as a true existential threat, we must move from emotional rationalisations of our past behaviour to recognising that we have created our trou