The victims of alleged herdsmen’s brutality in Agatu Local Government of Benue have prayed the ECOWAS Court to compel the Federal Government to pay them N10 billion as compensation.
This is contained in an originating application filed by the affected members of the Agatu Community and made available by the court to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Abuja on Wednesday.
The applicants said that the claim would be used to compensate for alleged death, injuries and loss of property recorded from the invasion of their community by alleged violent herdsmen.
The applicants also sought an order directing the defendants to resettle, rebuild and rehabilitate the members of the community.
Agatu burnt houses
Agatu burnt houses
They prayed that the respondents be compelled to provide basic amenities in the destroyed communities in accordance with the provisions of the African Charter of Human and Peoples’ Rights and relevant International Instruments.
The applicants also sought an order directing the defendant to immediately take legislative, administrative and judicial measures to recognise, promote and protect the rights of members of their communities from further attacks.
The plaintiffs urged the court to declare that the inaction of the defendant in restraining attacks by the herdsmen on their community constitutes a breach of their fundamental rights as contained in the African Charter On Human and Peoples’ Rights the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
They also asked the court to declare that “the deliberate inaction of the respondents in its refusal to recognise and protect the rights of the victims” also constituted a breach of their rights in accordance with international instruments.
The victims in the application stated that their communities were attacked by “heavily armed men” on May 12, 2013, December, 2013 and March 2016, respectively.
They alleged that hundreds of citizens lost their lives in the attacks; thousands more were rendered homeless and property worth more than one billion naira was destroyed.
They also claimed that community members who narrowly escaped the loss of their lives were dehumanised and maimed, beaten, tortured and sexually harassed by the said “ herdsmen.
They stated that after each attack, they lodged reports with Nigeria Police and other relevant agencies but no action was taken to prevent the violations of their rights.
“The defendant did not take legislative, judicial or security measures to prevent protect or assuage the continuous killings and destruction of properties in Agatu.
“Despite the wholesome level of human rights violations by the so called “Fulani herdsmen” in March 2016, the defendant’s top functionaries – The President; the Minister of Interior and the Inspector General of Police – have refused to visit the victims and the communities.
Displaced women of Agatu
Displaced women of Agatu
“All the defendant and its agencies do after every attack is to lay the blame on “Fulani herdsmen” and then refuse to prevent further killings and destruction of properties.”
The applicants, however, concluded that their rights were breached incessantly by the “Fulani herdsmen and the defendant, adding that the defendant failed in its responsibility to protect their rights.
They added that they were entitled to compensation, rehabilitation and resettlement by the defendant.
Parts of the Agatu Local Government Area were systematically attacked early this year by invaders suspected to be herdsmen with several people killed and their homes destroyed.
They had therefore, blamed the incident to the inability of the government to adequately protect them.
(NAN)
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By Ochereome Nnann CAN a President lie? If a President says something that is obviously untrue, can he be called a liar? I ask these questions bearing two things in mind. We Africans have our own ideas of things that we consider culturally correct to do or say, even if they do not represent the true situation of things. For instance, it is believed that one should not speak ill of the dead. Why, because the dead is gone and no longer in a position to defend himself. Though people know that when this chap was alive, he was the Devil’s incarnate, the fact that he is dead says it all for him: the river has taken the tattered basket downstream and away from sight. It becomes petty and small for anyone to mount the magisterial podium to pronounce judgement, which is an assignment for God alone. Another reason is that the President is like the head of a household. It is unseemly to look the head of the family in the face and call him a liar, even if he is inveterately such. In Nigeria as in many parts of the world, the President is the living symbol of the nation’s sovereignty; the Chief Executive, Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic. It is a position of enormous symbolic proportions, the import of which is often lost on those who occupy that exalted office. A President who understands the importance of the office he is privileged to occupy cannot just talk or behave anyhow. That is why every little nuance of his words or actions, even as a candidate for that office, is minutely analysed in the public arena, and rated to see how “presidential” he is, or whether he is “qualified” to be President. President Buhari When President Muhammadu Buhari visited his hometown, Daura, to celebrate the Muslim festival of Id el Kabir, he made a statement that was obviously and scandalously untrue. He said to his people: “I want Nigerians to realise that what this government inherited after 16 years of PDP government was no savings, no infrastructure, no power, no rail, no road and no security”. Even the most brainless slowpoke knows this is an impossible statement. You can talk about little savings, poor infrastructure, epileptic power supply, serious infrastructure deficit, a rail system that was just being revived after its total collapse during the years of military rule, bad road network nationwide and grave security challenges. The word: “no” has no place in the speech of anyone who sat on a classroom bench and broke a chalk, let alone the President of a country like Nigeria. It calls into serious question the mental capacity of the user or his motive. It is either he does not know what he is saying or he is saying it to deceive the common people and continue to blame the past governments for his failure to grapple with the challenges of leading a country like Nigeria, unaware that the whole world is listening. That the world was listening was evident shortly after that preposterous speech. It trended like a hurricane over the Internet and made the front pages of newspapers the following day. It did so, not because President Buhari broke earth-shaking news, but because he said something that should never come from a serious president. The truth is, there is nothing that Buhari has right now which he did not inherit from the past regimes – from the military through to ex-Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan. It ranges from the plush Aso Villa he is enjoying to the National Assembly where he sends his Bills and the Judiciary complexes; from his rich fleet of presidential jets to the airports where he takes off and lands on his way to Daura and his frequent foreign trips (including his medical tourism), to the roads he travels on while visiting any part of Nigeria. Even the arms and ammunition he is using to finish the war against Boko Haram which Jonathan had mounted amidst sabotage by some Northern leaders and military personnel, and the rail system which Obasanjo started to revive and Jonathan almost completed while Buhari merely commissioned – you just mention them. The only leader of Nigeria who inherited “nothing” was Sir Frederick Lugard, but even he took off from the properties acquired by the Royal Niger Company, which operated the Nigeria franchise on behalf of the British Crown before we were formally colonised. It is obvious that Buhari made that statement to divert the attention of his Daura townspeople from the failure of his administration to effectively tackle the challenges of an economy in recession. This falsehood peddling seems to be a policy of the APC Federal Government because Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, a supposed pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, has also been on record as saying that the Jonathan regime did not build “a single kilometre of road”, which is a barefaced lie. I have a feeling that Buhari did not realise the enormous responsibility involved in vying for the presidency of this country. The fact that he was a military head of state was neither here nor there because any hammerhead who is a senior military chief can suddenly be asked to lead after a successful coup. Perhaps, he watched Obasanjo, a former military ruler, become an elected President who enjoyed years of oil boom. Then, Buhari decided that he too could equal Obasanjo’s feat. Perhaps, he thought that being President is nothing more than spending billions of oil money stacked somewhere for him by a former President. It does not work like that. Government is an unending relay race. You take the baton, run your lap and hand over to the next runner to continue. You prove your own mettle. Luckily, when the time comes it will not be Daura people alone that will mark his papers. We Nigerians already have our pens and papers out, ready to mark. As we graded Jonathan, so shall we grade Buhari, based on HIS performance, not predecessors.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/09/the-president-did-not-lie/

The man has always been working for buhari. Is a good thing he has released one of the people that worked for him

The fairly constant power in some areas is just because of the raining season that provides more volume of water for the turbines to produce more electricity and not because of Buhari or Fashola

GEJ is far better than this your God, certificate less, deaf and dumb Buhari.

APC and Buhari have brought back polio again o. This country is a mess now.

By Sola Ogundipe, Chioma. Obinna & Gabriel Olawale
LAGOS— The Minister of Health, Prof.Isaac Adewole, yesterday, confirmed an outbreak of wild polio virus, WPV, in Borno State. This is coming after Nigeria celebrated two years without a case of polio. Polio kids victims Meanwhile, the Federal Government has directed the deployment of a national emergency response team, comprising government and partners to Borno State for immediate and robust polio vaccination campaign targeting vulnerable children to prevent the spread of the virus. According to the minister, the outbreak affected two children from Gwoza and Jere Local Government areas of the state. He attributed the discovery and confirmation of the outbreak to the country’s strengthened surveillance due to improved accessibility made possible by the recent military action in liberating more communities in the North-Eastern part of the country. The Minister said: “The detection of children paralyzed by polio shows that surveillance has increased with more access but it is a reminder that the country needs to remain vigilant and immunize all eligible children with oral polio vaccine until polio is completely eradicated worldwide. “Our overriding priority right now is to rapidly boost immunity in the affected areas to ensure that no more children are affected by this terrible disease,” he added. The Federal Ministry of Health through the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) with the support of partners including WHO and UNICEF are conducting detailed risk analysis to clearly ascertain the extent of circulation of the virus, and to assess overall levels of population immunity in order to guide the response. As an immediate response, about one million children are to be immunized in four local government areas in Borno State. Children in adjoining states of Yobe, Adamawa and Gombe will also be immunized bringing the number to about five million in the four states. Adewole reiterated Federal Government’s commitment to achieving a polio-free Nigeria and assures the general public that this outbreak will be controlled as soon as possible, adding that government will provide the needed resources to contain it. He further called on other states and local governments to redouble their efforts by safeguarding their territories from importation of the virus by providing the required leadership and ensuring accountability among healthcare workers and other stakeholders. It would be recalled that in 2012, Nigeria accounted for more than half of all polio cases worldwide, but the country has made significant strides in recent years, going two years without a single case. This progress has been as a result of concerted efforts by all level of government, civil society, traditional and religious leaders as well as dedicated health workers.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/fg-confirms-2-fresh-polio-cases-borno/

By Sola Ogundipe, Chioma. Obinna & Gabriel Olawale LAGOS—
The Minister of Health, Prof.Isaac Adewole, yesterday, confirmed an outbreak of wild polio virus, WPV, in Borno State. This is coming after Nigeria celebrated two years without a case of polio. Polio kids victims Meanwhile, the Federal Government has directed the deployment of a national emergency response team, comprising government and partners to Borno State for immediate and robust polio vaccination campaign targeting vulnerable children to prevent the spread of the virus. According to the minister, the outbreak affected two children from Gwoza and Jere Local Government areas of the state. He attributed the discovery and confirmation of the outbreak to the country’s strengthened surveillance due to improved accessibility made possible by the recent military action in liberating more communities in the North-Eastern part of the country. The Minister said: “The detection of children paralyzed by polio shows that surveillance has increased with more access but it is a reminder that the country needs to remain vigilant and immunize all eligible children with oral polio vaccine until polio is completely eradicated worldwide. “Our overriding priority right now is to rapidly boost immunity in the affected areas to ensure that no more children are affected by this terrible disease,” he added. The Federal Ministry of Health through the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) with the support of partners including WHO and UNICEF are conducting detailed risk analysis to clearly ascertain the extent of circulation of the virus, and to assess overall levels of population immunity in order to guide the response. As an immediate response, about one million children are to be immunized in four local government areas in Borno State. Children in adjoining states of Yobe, Adamawa and Gombe will also be immunized bringing the number to about five million in the four states. Adewole reiterated Federal Government’s commitment to achieving a polio-free Nigeria and assures the general public that this outbreak will be controlled as soon as possible, adding that government will provide the needed resources to contain it. He further called on other states and local governments to redouble their efforts by safeguarding their territories from importation of the virus by providing the required leadership and ensuring accountability among healthcare workers and other stakeholders. It would be recalled that in 2012, Nigeria accounted for more than half of all polio cases worldwide, but the country has made significant strides in recent years, going two years without a single case. This progress has been as a result of concerted efforts by all level of government, civil society, traditional and religious leaders as well as dedicated health workers.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/fg-confirms-2-fresh-polio-cases-borno/

Op with all sincerity most of what u said are not true. I stay in owerri most of the things u wrote are exaggerated.

The work of the best President in Nigeria GEJ

Islam is a curse to the Universe

Am sure he is in Daura after completing his assignment

Just want to know if the Sallah is still today

AjayiWrites:


God bless GEJ too, he started the project, and PMB finished it, God bless them both...

Buhari did not finish anything he met the job already done. God bless the father of all Nations GEJ

sarrki:



Abeg enough of this . Note that obasanjo started to yar dua to Gej then buhari so ?

Your Buhari has done nothing. Once again God bless GEJ

This is the work of the best President in the History of Nigeria GEJ

Ogbeozioma:
Instead of using a library which would mean you did not do most of the work yourself. Try modelling the problem and solving it using any programming language. you can try integrating an oop language like c#, java etc with matlab. The language should have very good GDI.

thanks

proxy20:
Have you tried java jfreechart

thanks

Please house am writing my thesis now and I need to develop a Graphic User Interface application to solve some mathematical equations and plot their graphs on the GUI. Pls what programming language can I use to do d job easily. Thanks as u help

Dont you think Leicester city matches should be on front page?

pillzthadrugz:
If a man is the president or governor of a state his wife is regarded as the first lady but in this case wetin we go call dis woman husband?

First gentleman of the state or country

I will need one but am in owerri

Pls am new here. Can I use my android phone as a satellite finder. Thanks

packing my bags and other things to move to earth 2.0

i dnt tink so. dey ar d most corrupt

Clerverly:
So We Should All Run Away, Because One Useless Drunkard ex President Is Returning Home?

i think u ar nt ok. what has ur new old folish president done

Ibadan – Authorities of the University of Ibadan , (UI) on Monday asked its students to vacate the premises immediately, pending the time the problem of shortage of water and electricity would be addressed.
The directive was issued to students following ‎an advice given by the Committee of Provosts and Deans to the university’s management.
The Director of Communication of the institution, Mr Muhammed Oladejo ,who confirmed the development, said the management only asked the students to proceed on a two-week mid-semester break.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that students of Independence Hall of the institution had in the early hours of Monday stage a protest.
The students complained that they were facing hard time as a result of shortage of water and electricity.
An official of the university, who spoke with NAN, but prleaded anonymity, said, “‎The mid-semester break was declared as a result of power outage.
“The outage is also affecting other services on campus, especially water and electricity supply.
“The committee advised the management on the step taken to avert problems as witnessed recently.
“The mid-semester break will take two weeks. The students living at Independence Hall lodged a complaint and the school authorities decided to take immediate action”..‎ (NAN)
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/university-of-ibadan-close-for-two-weeks-due-to-fuel-shortage/#sthash.cJIDpoSo.dpuf