₦airaland Forum

EzeNri:
Yemi Kwale's interest is falsifying data and smuggling Osun above their level.

Blue3k:
Lastly have you witnessed someone getting arrested at a police checkpoints or naira changing hands?

NBS could improve is actually reported victimization rates by tribe, perpetrator by tribe, and if they're foreigners.

“It’s not to shortchange your people, carrying their forest reserve and sell as timber.

“It’s not by force, it’s not by propaganda, it’s not by giving budget that’s unrealistic, fraudulent budgets…a very poor state (Cross River) will be giving budgets of over one trillion when Rivers state cannot give a budget of N400 Billion”, Wike said.

Recall that Ayade had earlier warned the PDP against injustice, calling Wike a 419 (Fraudulent) Governor.

twosquare:
Can checkpoints withstand rocket launchers and heavy artillery? checkpoints are for criminals who still have a pinch of fear of the law. We are talking of lawless die-hard terrorists, you are talking of checkpoints.

PDJT:
-Those black-wearing demons called “police” will increase their kidnapping and robbery enterprise. We know them cowards.

Following the incessant killing of Policemen by unknown Gunmen, IGBERE TV has gathered that all the Checkpoints in Aba, Abia State have been dismantled.

Reliable criminal justice data on the number of intentional homicide victims in Nigeria are not generally available. Moreover, existing data are often patchy and diverging, illustrating the uncertainty surrounding the number of intentional homicide victims. Data provided by the Nigeria Police Force indicate that there were 2,712 and 2,861 homicides in 2012 and 2013, respectively. However, according to the Federal Ministry of Justice, these data are incomplete and comprise only those areas of the country that reported on homicide. A report published recently by the National Bureau of Statistics put the number of “murders” in 2017 at 3,219.a An alternative source is modelled estimates based on public health data provided by the World Health Organization (WHO)22. In 2013, WHO published an estimate of 33,817 homicide victims for 2012, which would mean a homicide rate of 20 per 100,000 population. The following year, WHO revised this estimate down to 17,059, which would mean a rate of 10.1.

In 2017, the National Bureau of Statistics published prison statistics indicating that from 2013 to 2016 a total of 33,057 persons, or an average of 8,264 per year, were imprisoned for allegedly committing “murder”. Other entities try to capture homicide data through detailed monitoring of media reports. For example, according to reports collected by Nigeria Watch, the number of reported homicides in 2016 was 4,127, which was considered a strongly underreported figure.bIn short, the actual number of homicides and the homicide rate in Nigeria are largely unknown.

To find out more about homicide in Nigeria, UNODC, in partnership with the National Bureau of Statistics of Nigeria, made use of an ongoing large-scale household survey that is representative of the country’s population of 186 million (2015).cThe survey was conducted in April–May 2016 and covered 33,067 households selected using probabilistic sampling in all 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. Drawing on the experience of other countries that have included questions on homicide in victimization surveys, a module on homicide was tested in the pilot survey and eventually included in the full household survey. The module asked a randomly selected adult member of a household about any occurrences of violent deaths in the household over the previous three years. Appropriate safeguards were included in the interview to ensure that only victims of intentional homicide were counted (as opposed to unintentional deaths, accidents and suicides), and that these victims were also members of the household during the period in question.

The results of the survey provide strong evidence that the level of lethal violence in Nigeria is likely to be higher than commonly assumed. On the basis of the survey sample, the annual homicide rate of Nigeria in the period 2013–2016 was estimated at 34 per 100,000 population, corresponding to around 64,000 victims of intentional homicide annually.e Thanks to its large sample size, the survey allows for further disaggregation (but within wider margins of error), namely by the country’s six large zones and by the three main types of intentional homicide. The total homicide rate was highest in two northern zones (North-East: 79 per 100,000 population; North-Central: 65) and lowest in the South-West (4.4). By type of intentional homicide, most reported killings fell into the category “terrorist attacks” (a rate of 20.9 per 100,000 population), with high rates also reported in the case of “criminal attacks” (9.1) and “personal conflicts” (4.4). The homicide rate related to terrorist attacks was highest (around 51 per 100,000 population) in the North-Central and North-East zones (it is precisely these areas that are severely affected by terrorist attacks perpetrated by Boko Haram; in the North-Central zone there is also a growing number of confrontations between herders and farmers). The highest homicide rate related to criminal attacks was found in the North-East (22 per 100,000 population), followed by the North-West (10), South-South (9) and North-Central (9) zones.

One question surrounding the validity of this estimate of intentional homicides is whether responding household members understood the questions correctly and excluded unintentional homicides and other deaths from their answer. The fact that 43 per cent of victims were reported as having been killed with firearms and a further 13 per cent with explosive weapons (including bomb attacks), while the rest were reported as having been killed with knives or other or unknown means, does, however, suggest that the information collected is credible. In addition, the demographic distribution of the homicide victims (84 per cent male; 46 per cent of all victims, male and female, being under the age of 30, with a further 32 per cent aged between 30 and 44) is in line with that observed in other countries with high homicide rates and lends further credibility to the validity of the estimate. The estimated homicide rate of 34 per 100,000 population provides an initial indication of the magnitude of intentional homicide in Nigeria. Because of the characteristics of sample surveys, this may be a conservative or lower-boundary estimate. In this case, for example, the survey omitted victims who lived in single-person households (around 3 per cent of the population), victims who lived in closed settings, such as refugee camps, foster homes or prisons, and victims who lived in households with no surviving household members who could be interviewed. Other groups not covered by the survey were those who were not included in the original sample frame of the survey (e.g. homeless people or people who had moved abroad between the reference period and the time of the survey). In view of these limitations, the high estimated homicide rate obtained from this survey in Nigeria makes it clear that more research and improved data collection for criminal justice statistics are urgently needed in countries with low levels of data coverage in order to determine more accurately the actual level of lethal violence and devise better strategies for tackling such violence.

Rossnitti:
40,000 people are slaughtered every year in America, by their fellow citizens.

Rossnitti:
NOT ONCE did we hear Americans lament ''our country is failed. Let's break up!!''

Rossnitti:
The US has over 50 secessionist movements, but they're really just mediocre operations with no public support.




''According to the CDC, between 1999 and 2014 there have been 185,718 homicides from use of a firearm and 291,571 suicides using a firearm in the US.''

That's in just a 5 year period.

It's even more than 40k a year gun deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#Homicide

Meanwhile, Nigeria's death toll from Boko haram, Fulani herdsmen, kidnappers combined, is counted in at most a couple thousand a year, but all we hear is ''INSECURITY!!!!!!'' from people typing in comfy apartments on laptops thousands of miles away from the ''INSECURITY!!!!!''

World bank website. Now do side by side stats if you want to claim nigeria safer than USA.

Intentional homicide rate per 100k:
Nigeria 10 (2015)
USA 5 (2016)


https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5?

Data on homicides, in particular, in Africa is patchy and diverging. In Nigeria official statistics are hard to come by. In 2004 the World Health Organization reported the homicide rate in Nigeria at 5.4 per 100.000 inhabitants. Data provided by the Nigeria Police Force indicate that there were 2,712 and 2,861 homicides in 2012 and 2013, respectively. However, according to the Federal Ministry of Justice, these data are incomplete since not all States appear to maintain statistics or report on them on a regular and reliable basis. A report published recently by the National Bureau of Statistics put the number of "murders" in 2017 at 3,219. An alternative source is provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) who estimated in 2014 17,059 victims of homicide. In 2017, the National Bureau of Statistics published prison statistics indicating that from 2013 to 2016 an average of 8,264 per year, were imprisoned for allegedly committing homicide.

To find out more about homicides in Nigeria, UNODC, in partnership with the National Bureau of Statistics of Nigeria, in 2016 conducted a survey covering more than 33,000 households across all 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. The results of the survey provide strong evidence that the level of lethal violence in Nigeria could be significantly higher than reported to the authorities or estimated based on public health data. On the basis of the survey sample, the annual homicide rate of Nigeria in the period 2013-2016 was estimated at 34 per 100,000 population, corresponding to around 64,000 victims of intentional homicide annually with significant variations across the six geopolitical zones. The total homicide rate was estimated to be the highest in the North-East: 79 per 100,000 population and North-Central: 65 per 100.000. With an estimated 4.4 victims of homicide per 100.000 inhabitants, the homicide rate was the lowest in the South-West.

Agboriotejoye:
What do you mean by all of the above? He's a gov. I suspect he might be referring to something else

Abiodun, who cautioned that Nigeria should learn from the Bakassi Island issue, said governments at both levels must provide social amenities for the residents of the island to prevent Benin from taking advantage of its proximity to the Tongeji and claim ownership.

Agboriotejoye:
If the island belongs to Nigeria how in da hell will Benin claim it?
International engagements don't work that way

Monogamy:
What's your point?

That the Island should be given to Benin Republic?

Blue3k:
These paranoid screeds are irrational. If you dont want to lose the island don't go to ICJ and kill over it. There's no evidence Benin wants or even has a reasonable claim to the island anyway.

while the state was also working with Ondo to activate the Deep Sea Port project in the mutual interest of the two states and the country’s economic development.

Abiodun hinted that the Ogun was determined to make life more meaningful for its resident living on the Island, stressing that the Federal Government must collaborate with the state in giving the residents a sense belonging by providing access road and bridge for them amongst other infrastructural needs.

From Laide Raheem, Abeokuta

Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, has called on the Federal Government to join hands with the state in ensuring that the oil rich Tongeji Island, in Ipokia Local Government Area of the state, is not claimed by the neighbouring Republic of Benin.

Abiodun, who cautioned that Nigeria should learn from the Bakassi Island issue, said governments at both levels must provide social amenities for the residents of the island to prevent Benin from taking advantage of its proximity to the Tongeji and claim ownership.

The governor made the call on Thursday, in his address at the 2-day Interactive Session of the National Boundary Commission with Boundary Committees of states in the South West, held in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.

The interractive session had in attendance, the Ogun State deputy governor, Noimot Salako-Oyedele, her Lagos State counterpart, Femi Hamzat, represented by the Commissioner for Local Government, Wale Ahmed, Ondo State deputy governor, Lucky Ayedatiwa, his Oyo and Ekiti States counterparts, Rauf Olaniyan and Bisi Egbeyemi respectively. Osun State deputy governor was represented by Hon. Nathaniel Agunbiade.

Abiodun hinted that the Ogun was determined to make life more meaningful for its resident living on the Island, stressing that the Federal Government must collaborate with the state in giving the residents a sense belonging by providing access road and bridge for them amongst other infrastructural needs.

He noted that for harmonious co-existence and development in the border areas of the country, there is need for continuous use of peaceful means in resolving boundary issues.

He disclosed that the establishment of the Lagos-Ogun Joint Development Commission was at an advanced stage, while the state was also working with Ondo to activate the Deep Sea Port project in the mutual interest of the two states and the country’s economic development.

“We can hardly talk about production or boundary that we will not be talking about land. Recently, there are lots of communal issues between herders and farmers. All these have to do with utilization of the available land. It is therefore important that all of us must continue to adopt peaceful means of resolving the boundary issues.

“The fact remains that if we do not resolve boundary issues peacefully, the people of the border communities will suffer from both ends. There will be no development in such a place and even investors will not be attracted to such locations”, he stated.

Abiodun, however, said Ogun would continue to be committed to peaceful resolutions of boundary matters, saying “it is critical to the development of the State and its neighbours”.

Earlier in his remarks, the Director General, National Boundary Commission, Adamu Adaji, said the interactive session was meant to serve as a way of sensitising stakeholders on the activities of boundary managers at various levels.

He added it was also means to provide opportunity for relevant stakeholders in the zone to interface with the Commission on ways to strategize and fast-track resolutions on issues of internal boundaries.

Adaji noted that the National Boundary Commission was established as a specialised border problem solving institution to address the shortcomings of the previous ad hoc commission, submitting that the creation of more states had created many boundary issues in the country.

Alhaji Ahmed Rabiu, Managing Director, Dala Inland Dry Port in Kano State says the project will cost 27 million dollars.

Conducting an inspection of the project located at Zawaciki, in Kumbotso Local Government Area of the state, Rabiu, said the first would be completed by June at a cost 17 million dollars.

The port was conceived 20 years ago by the Federal Government.

Rabiu said that the Kano State government already earmarked N2.3 billion for the construction of access road, perimeter fence, electricity and water supply at the site.

“We are going to compete favourably with Lagos in terms of revenue generation and also reduce the loss of containers while in transit between Lagos and Kano.

“When completed, the cost of transportation will drastically reduce because while it costs about N1.2 million to take containers from Lagos to Kano by road, it will cost not more than N200,000 by rail.

“Containers berthed at the Lagos ports will be transported on the old rail lines to Kano in 24 hours, just as the project will enhance the reactivation of trans-Sahara commercial activities,’’ he said.

He added that the project, situated on 200 hectares of land, was designated as a Special Economic Zone, and would be fully completed in December.

He said the dry port could accommodate at least 30,000 containers.

Rabiu said the project would come on stream by the end of 2022 and provide more than 20,000 direct and indirect jobs.

(NAN)

Charmingrascal:
They are set of people who lack understanding, not all though my best from of more than 10 years is an Hausa.
Very nice dude but I still told him the north can NOT threaten the South with anything.

Southerners are wise and innovative

authority2006:
The problem with many of you is you hardly understand what strike was all about. Until you do, dwell in your ignorance because I'm not here to explain anything to you.
Dicksons with livers that couldn't feed themselves. Lol

authority2006:
See ignorant talk! If they start killing southerners living in the north, how exactly are they going to fight back? Call the police! You're a joke. Because you knew that there is no police in Nigeria most especially with the fallout of #Endsars protests

QuotaSystem:
Are you relying on facts or just creating your own reality? Their strike demands were clearly outlined. If you call their demand for safety and free movement in the South a concession demand, then they surely got it based on their agreement with the government and Fani Kayode who conveyed "especially Igbohoe's" assurances.


Finally the country didn’t pay out degenerates. They paid compensation, and rightly so, to innocent food and agricultural traders union whose members have lost their lives and property to savage ethnic attacks by animals in the south and are threatening the food security of the southern part of the country as a consequence.
Face reality.




The markets would have adjusted with supplies from where? Have the poor, tiny neighbouring countries you were planning to import from finished feeding themselves?

QuotaSystem:
Was the strike ever about getting any concessions? (even though Igboho reversed his stance in his talks with FFK & Gov. Bello)

Items 1 & 2 listed above were their only objectives which were achieved, so talking about not getting "state concessions" just sounds like self consolation.

QuotaSystem:
How about a true, factual perspective from a team of 7 professional, reputable southern journalists from an independent southern newspaper?

GamalNasser:
The Federal treasury has been looted with tact once again and the money will be used to fund Banditry, for the south it has opened the opportunity to the south to start working on a food security marshall plan for the regiion

Emempaul:
yes don't hold any leverage it terms of these so called strike. What we just witnessed was the north testing how strong they were. Now remember the military on Monday claimed the they had cleared the road for free vehicular movement only for images to arrive online to show that nothing of such happened. Then the dss invited the chairman the whatever they call themselves. and we didn't even hear anything about what was discussed. did you hear even the northern governors complain.

the answer is no because its not hurting them. if they want to go on strike let them, those Yoruba own don too much " will be their mentality

What was displayed was that their leverage of holding power. Stop to think if this was a southern person that called for the strike, dss would have arrested or threaten him with arrest, all the northern governors would have called for his head for challenge the constituted authority, we would have seen different press release of northern estract demand the immediate stopping of the strike and invoke the power of the dss on him.

They paid money not for any justifiable reason other than the fact that this is my brother, na we dey presidency, come take your share shut up make we hear word.

like I said earlier, the farmers were just collateral damage. they never really cared about them. remember this is a traders and sellers union not a farmers union. if they want their shar they can fight for it too. and I am just as sure that the same thing will play out. unlike their southern counterparts, the north are very predictable

The Amalgamated Union of Foodstuffs and Cattle Dealers in Nigeria (AUFCDN) has called off its nationwide strike after the Federal Government agreed to pay them N4.75 billion to them.

Wiseandtrue:
Ikpeazu has done the right thing by exposing this, let's see what the oil companies will do because e be like say na violence our leaders understand

I trust Niger Delta people

So Ikpeazu when eventually they started performing their responsibilities, do well to also publish this and let us know how you are utilizing the money!!!

Emempaul:
not the farmers naa. they were just collateral damage. do you think that idiot smiling was smiling for the camera?

he was smiling at his now heavy bank alert