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playcharles:
Same Niger doing meruwa without no form of identification, Na them they deport us now...

Osagyefo98:
Niger republic?

All these Niger people littered in Nigeria, did they pass through immigration at all?

“Justice Hadiza Shagari, while ruling in the judgment, directed that the suspects should either pay N50, 000 fine or be remanded in the correctional centre for three months.

The Katsina State Command of Nigeria Immigration Service(NIS), has received 42 Nigerians being deported for illegal entry into the Republic of Niger en route Europe.

The NIS spokesman, Sunday James, gave the number in a statement on Friday in Abuja.

Mr James said they were deported to Nigeria through the Kongolam Control Post.

He said that the affected Nigerians, between 18 and 35 years, evaded immigration clearance and crossed the border to enter into the Republic of Niger.

The spokesman said that a Federal High Court in Katsina had sentenced 12 out of the 42 Nigerians for illegal entry into the Republic of Niger en route Europe.

“Justice Hadiza Shagari, while ruling in the judgment, directed that the suspects should either pay N50, 000 fine or be remanded in the correctional centre for three months.

“The remaining 30 offenders will soon be docked in court on completion of charges against them, ” NIS Spokesman said.


The Comptroller-General, NIS, Muhammad Babandede, in a reaction to the development, directed that the rest 30 persons be tried without further delay.

Mr Babandede advised travellers to always present themselves to the immigration officials for examination whenever they were travelling out.

He also advised that those returning to the country should present themselves for checks in line with Section 15 Subsection (1) a and b of Immigration Act 2015.

(NAN)

The country is battling inflation of almost 800% and dealing with shortages of currency, fuel and food with over 90% of the population out of formal employment.

The country is battling inflation of almost 800% and dealing with shortages of currency, fuel and food with over 90% of the population out of formal employment.

Zimbabwe’s white commercial farmers, who were violently evicted from their land in a series of invasions that began two decades ago, said they have been offered $3.5 billion to settle their dispute with the government.

The offer is for improvements and assets on the more than 4,000 farms that were seized and doesn’t pertain to the land itself, said Ben Gilpin, director of the Commercial Farmers Union. An agreement is yet to be reached. The CFU represented most large-scale farmers in the southern African nation.

Neither Zimbabwe’s agriculture minister nor officials in the finance ministry immediately answered questions sent to their phones Wednesday and it’s not clear where Zimbabwe would find $3.5 billion. The country is battling inflation of almost 800% and dealing with shortages of currency, fuel and food with over 90% of the population out of formal employment.

Dispossessed farmers had been seeking $10 billion, but that was 15 to 20 years ago. Zimbabwe’s government maintains that the U.K., the former colonial power, should help pay the farmers. That’s unlikely to happen because the U.K. and most western governments criticized the seizures and the allocation of the properties to senior members of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party -- alongside allegations of human rights abuses.

The offer is an attempt to draw to a close a dispute that tipped Zimbabwe’s economy into freefall by slashing export income and incurring sanctions from the U.S. and European Union. Zimbabwe’s rulers maintain that the land was taken forcibly during colonial times and needed to be returned to Black Zimbabweans.

The Telegraph reported the potential deal earlier.

Even when OMPADEC and NDDC were established under the leadership of the sons and daughters from the region,no visible devevelopment took place in the region,they looted the trllions of naira allocated to the commission.so,should niger deltan continue to blame the north for their under development.I think,their enemies is their brothers and not the north.

yanabasee1:
The supposed Arewa are Abuja based.... They're very loud and clear in Abuja.....



You'll never see them I. Borno or Sokoto or Zamfara or Katsina where Boko Haram and bandits are killing their brothers and raping their sisters and stealing from their fathers and mothers.....

After the bureau could not publish the report for the last quarter of 2018, there were speculations that the statistics were purposely withheld because of the 2019 elections.

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) will soon commence publishing (un)employment statistics two years after it stopped, the Statistician-General of the Federation, Yemi Kale, has said.

Mr Kale said the bureau was faced with insufficient funding but has received funds from the federal government "to continue the survey."

"But this was slowed down by the (coronavirus) pandemic induced lockdown," he told PREMIUM TIMES.

"NBS did not stop publishing labour force statistics. We had challenges with funding like most other MDAS. We have now received the funds but the lockdown slowed down the work. However, it has now commenced and will be published once the work is done up to q2 2020," he said.

The labour force statistics which reveal the unemployment rate in the country was last published in the third quarter of 2018, meaning there has not been any official release of the national unemployment rate for the past six quarters (Q4 2018 to Q1 2020).

In the last report, Nigeria's unemployment rate increased from 18.8 per cent in the third quarter of 2017 to 23.1 per cent in the third quarter of 2018.

The total number of people classified as unemployed, which means they did nothing at all or worked too few hours (under 20 hours a week) to be classified as employed, increased from 17.6 million in Q4 2017 to 20.9 million in Q3 2018.

Controversy

After the bureau could not publish the report for the last quarter of 2018, there were speculations that the statistics were purposely withheld because of the 2019 elections.

Opponents argued that the report was being delayed until after the election, so as not to harm President Buhari's chances at re-election.

In his defense, Mr Kale had said in a tweet "U guys need to stop this. I know it's election time but I've said this repeatedly. Nobody is calling me to manipulate any data or not to release any data. The work can't be completed due to budgetary releases. It's not hard to confirm when last we got data funding and how much."

However, some Nigerians accused President Buhari of undermining Mr Kale's NBS by starving it of funds.

"If Buhari is starving NBS of funds needed to publish unemployment data, Yemi Kale should resign," a twitter user tweeted.

Also, Ben Murray-Bruce, who was then a senator under the Peoples Democratic Party, kicked.

"The @MBuhari government should provide @sgyemikale, a @OfficialPDPNigappointee, with the funds to do his job even if the report exposes that this government has a poor unemployment record. Yemi Kale wont be treated like this in an @atiku administration"

Recently the bureau published the "Poverty and Inequality in Nigeria" after a decade.

According to the report, 40.1 per cent of the total population in Nigeria was classified as poor, which implies that an average of four out of 10 adult individuals in Nigeria had real per capita expenditures below N137,430 per annum.

Globally, unemployment rates have since increased due to the lockdown on economic activities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic currently ravaging the world.

In the United States, one of the largest economies, about 20.5 million jobs were lost in April alone.

Hunchogee:
Something they are better ways to contribute than insulting people ok

Hunchogee:
Hmmmm, an not surprise about your input so if he picks few render pix I used to express or send the real message , then the thread is trash to you...
Pls don't let me insult you am begging you ok

johnpablo541:
Picture 1 is from a beach in ghana

johnpablo541:
Pic1 finima beach bonny island
Pic 4 port harcourt tourist beach

Brandstudio01:
Walahi Sanusi should just apologize to this man fir peace to rain na

A Federal high court sitting in Kano on Monday dismissed the fundamental human right suit filed by the deposed emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II to stop the probe of the alleged N2.2 billion land scam leveled against him.

Sanusi’s suit was filed against Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Kano Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission, the Chairman of the Commission and Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Kano state.

In his ruling Justice Lewis Allagoa dismissed the suit giving a go-ahead for the investigation of former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has called on the Federal Government to put a stop to the movement of herdsmen from other African countries into Nigeria.

1998 transhumance protocol:

i. Each country sets its entry and exit;
ii. Each defined state reception areas;
iii. Travel must take place along roads defined by the States;
iv. Border crossing should be done in days;
v. Finally, to cross borders ,the transhumant should be equipped with an international transhumance certificate (ITC). In this certificate the stockbreeder must declare all his animals, certifying their immunization and define its route. Source

stonemasonn:
Northern leaders are even more afraid of arming their people to defend themselves less they turn on the leaders later. And to make matters worse Fulani leaders including El Rufai are too sympathetic to the Fulani bandits.
If bandits were Gwari or Berom, they'd been wiped out by now.

"We don't know what we have done to deserve this brutal attack. They have turned their back against us."

The youth leader also called on the government and security agencies to stop the killings.

MinorityOpinion:
Finally, right step my governor

"In our effort to honour the agreement between us, we cancelled all vigilantes and volunteer groups and we allowed them (bandits) to continue with their normal activities in the state."

By John Shiklam and Francis Sardauna

Kaduna and Katsina — Miffed by the renewed attacks, kidnapping and cattle rustling by bandits in Katsina State, Governor Aminu Masari has vowed that he would no longer negotiate with them following their failure to honour previous agreements he had with them.

The governor expressed his frustration with the bandits just as their counterparts, ravaged Kaduna communities, killing nine persons and injuring many others yesterday.

Masari recalled that the bandits had signed a peace agreement with the state government where they pledged to repent and stop banditry, but that they flouted it.

Speaking to BBC Hausa in a live Instagram interview, the governor said: "They could not honour the agreement; they betrayed us."

He noted that some of the bandits were from Zamfara and Kaduna states as well as Niger Republic.

He said he was the first governor to sign an agreement with the bandits in 2016, adding that the gunmen initially honoured the agreement but later repudiated it.

The governor said: "We choose to sign the peace agreement with the bandits so as to avoid loss of lives and property, but it didn't yield a positive result. This time around we will hand it over to security personnel.

"In our effort to honour the agreement between us, we cancelled all vigilantes and volunteer groups and we allowed them (bandits) to continue with their normal activities in the state."

He stated that his government in 2016 initiated an amnesty programme for bandits, adding that the programme was initially successful until some of the bandits reneged on the agreement and went back to kidnapping, cattle rustling and other forms of banditry.

The governor explained that some of the recalcitrant bandits started carrying out attacks, including animal rustling and kidnapping.

He said with the government's new decision, only security operatives could now grant amnesty to the bandits.

"We went through with the amnesty programme because we wanted peace to reign in the state and we did all that within our limited resources to see the initiative succeeded, but peace has continued to elude the state," he added.

Masari said the amnesty programme led to the ban on local volunteer vigilante group, or Yansakai, across the state and measures were taken to ensure that the bandits moved freely with their animals, as well as go to local markets without being harassed.

He said it was due to the lingering security challenge in the state that led the government to ask for the federal government's assistance, which led to the recent major military operation to combat the bandits.

According to him, the military operation, which includes Nigeria Air Force (NAF) personnel, has at least five fighter jets that operate between Katsina, Zamfara and Sokoto states.

He noted that the operation had recorded some successes, but it lacks equipment.

Masari called for adequate provision of equipment for the success of the military operation in the state.

Gunmen Kill Nine in Fresh Attacks on Kaduna Communities

In a related development, nine persons have been killed following a fresh attack by suspected herdsmen on Anguwan Tudu and Agwalla Magayaki communities in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

The incident, according to Mr. Emmanuel Nagaiza, the youth leader of Anguwan Tudu, occurred at 5:30 a.m yesterday.

He told THISDAY that the bandits shot sporadically as they arrived in the village, forcing the villagers to scamper for safety.

He said eight people were, however, killed on the spot, while a woman who sustained serious injuries and was being rushed to the hospital, died on the way.

Nagaiza added that after attacking his community, the bandits moved to the neighbouring Agwalla Magayaki village.

He, however, stated that no life was lost as the residents of the community had fled upon hearing sounds of gunshots during the attack on Anguwan Tudu.

He explained that when the bandits discovered that the villagers had fled, they destroyed all their property, although they did not burn their houses.

Nagaiza said: "Today's (Wednesday) attack was on Anguwan Tudu and Agwalla Magayaki. But the killings took place in Anguwan Tudu because when residents of Agwalla Magayaki heard sounds of gunshots in Anguwan Tudu, they fled their homes. The attackers burnt all their property, but they didn't burn houses.

"Anguwan Tudu was attacked about 5.30 a.m by herdsmen.

"They were well armed with guns, machetes and sticks. As soon as they came, they started shooting sporadically; we had to run to the bushes for our dear lives.

"Unfortunately, eight people were killed on the spot. A woman that was being rushed to the hospital following injuries, died on the way. As I am speaking with you, we are preparing for the burial of nine people killed by these murderers.

"We saw the attackers and we know them. We can identify them. We have been living peacefully with the herdsmen in our community.

"In the whole of Kajuru, there is no place where the herdsmen live more comfortably than in Anguwan Doka.

"We don't know what we have done to deserve this brutal attack. They have turned their back against us."

The youth leader also called on the government and security agencies to stop the killings.

He said residents of three neighbouring communities, Idanu, Anguwan Rana and Anguwan Mudi had fled their homes following previous attacks by herdsmen.

In the past three weeks, many people have been killed following attacks on communities in Kajuru.

Many of those who were rendered homeless in the attacks are said to be taking refuge in five IDP camps in the area.

The spokesman of Kaduna State Police Command, Mr. Muhammed Jalige, was yet to respond to a text message sent to his mobile phone and the police/media WhatsApp platform, when contacted on the issue.

However, the Chairman of Kajuru Local Government Area, Mr. Cafra Caino, confirmed nine people lost their lives in the attack.

He said the timely intervention of security operatives prevented more casualties in the attack.

He said: "We have once again been set back in our confidence building effort and peace engagements after Tudu village in Agwala Dutse general area was attacked this morning.

"It is confirmed that nine lives were lost in the attack. A detailed inventory of casualties is being taken.

"My heart goes out to all the families affected; may God grant the souls of the victims, eternal rest.

"The position of Kajuru LGA remains that all communities must take recourse to the law as against engaging in these killings and reprisals.

"I also passionately implore all and sundry to unite to win this war against criminality in our local government council.

"The council will not relent in its commitment to end the violence but success can only be achieved with the support of every peace-loving citizen."

“Even if you want to pay from your own pocket, you will still need the permission of the federal government and it will be supervised by the federal ministry of works and housing.”