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[quote author=LoveMachine post=48805841]http://guardian.ng/news/igbo-move-to-boost-southeast-economy/

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Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu

A move is underway by leaders of the southeast geopolitical zone to forge economic integration and reposition the region for development.The initiative will have five governors and an array of prominent Igbo leaders from religious, economic, educational and political platforms rubbing minds together to tackle decrepit infrastructure and leadership void in the region.

Under the aegis of South East Leadership and Development Initiative (SELDI), the move stems from “a near state of hopeless that has befallen the southeast since the end of the Civil War and in particular, since 1999, when the present democratic experience took off.”

The leaders, it was learnt, reviewed the state of the zone in the past 17 years and concluded: “The present democratic dispensation has not helped the area.”Besides governors of the region, the initiative is also being driven by the Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu; former Commonwealth Secretary General, Emeka Anayoku; former Ministers Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, Prof. Charles Soludo, and Prof. Barth Nnaji.

Other include Dr Idika Kalu Idika, Mr. Tony Elumelu, Prof. Pat Utomi, Dr Oby Ezekwesili, Prof. Pita Ejiofor, Prof. Elo Amucheazi, Rear Admiral Ebitu Ukiwe (rtd), Chief Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), former Governor Peter Obi, Dr Orji Kalu, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Prof. Philip Emeagwali, and author, Chimamanda Adichie.

A source told The Guardian: “The assumption that the Federal Government should play a leading role in reactivating the moribund infrastructure that stares the zone in the face is the greatest undoing of the region.”

If you look at it, critically, you will know that over 80 per cent of our active youths have remained without jobs, thus wasting their productive age. If we have the quantum of investments that have remained moribund working, we won’t have the level of unemployment existing in the southeast.”

A document obtained exclusively by The Guardian said SELDI “is dedicated to transforming and fostering the development of Nigeria, especially the southeast region, focusing on leadership development in order to change the fortunes of the people, and giving hope to present and future generations. SELDI is the response to the developmental gaps and challenges that confronted the southeast after the Civil War, which devastated the region.”
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Time will reveal whether this is not the same moribund SEDI, South East Development (that has been there since 2001; http://allafrica.com/stories/200201290347.html) in yet another empty gesture!

tomandjerry:
1. And it came to pass, when the Lord would punish Nigeria, that he gave them a president under whose hand they were mightily oppressed.
2. Before he ascended the throne, he made them hope, with all manner of promises, that he would bring them to the promised land before the coming year began.
3. Thus the inhabitants of Nigeria grew restless with their good condition, and sorely vexed the president under whose hand they had prospered, so that he would not have the office of the president again, but rather resented it.
4. In those days also the Boko haramites laid siege to the north, and slew of the people three and twenty thousand, intending to set up a kingdom which would be ruled by Islam.
5. Thus the inhabitants of Nigeria remembered not the good deeds of Jonathan, but thrust him out of the throne, and made Buhari president in his stead.
6. Buhari was seventy and(?) years old when he began to reign. He reigned one and a half years in Nigeria, and the land became impoverished under him.
7. He persecuted also a few of the people, accusing them and casting them into prison. Thus, the opposition was subdued, the people could not find bread to eat and there was hunger in the land.... Chai, I don tire.

Brilliant. Brilliant Brilliant!

Bede2u:
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/209325-can-fumes-john-kerrys-meeting-sultan-northern-governors-accuses-u-s-bias.html

Very valid points.
The West....also fighting its friends; and, supporting/arming its enemies against its friends. Irony is they think, and call it, it 'strategy'.
Saudi Arabia supports Muslims in Nigeria. Iran supports Muslims in Nigeria. Iraq supports Muslims in Nigeria. Pakistan supports Muslims in Nigeria.
United States (a supposedly Judeo-Christian country not only fights Christians in Nigeria, but actually supports Muslims in Nigeria). Britain (another Judeo-Christian country, supposedly, not only fights Christians in Nigeria, but actually supports Muslims in Nigeria). France (a Judeo-Christian country, supposedly, not only fights Christians in Nigeria, but actually supports Muslims in Nigeria).
Irony is that they (those they support) still continue to bomb and terrorise them at home (US, Britain, France etc) and abroad?

'Consequently the prayer is no longer "God bless Nigeria" but rather "God break Nigeria". It is no longer "God defend Nigeria" but rather "God restructure Nigeria". It is no longer "God deliver Nigeria" but rather "God deliver us from Nigeria".
It is no longer "God preserve Nigeria" but rather "God redefine Nigeria". It is no longer "God remember Nigeria" but rather "God dismember Nigeria".'

Femi Fani-Kayode

Reality 101

dre11:
•Lawyers Condemn Buhari ’ s Board Appointments

•Say It’ s Against Federal Character Principles

https://newtelegraphonline.com/nnpc-kachikwu-removed-gmd/

The way Nigerians can strengthen and deepen their current hard-worn democracy is to enforce the provisions, letter and spirit of the constitution through court actions, NOT BY MERE WORD OF MOUTH AND PERENNIAL WHINING!
On the flagrant abuse of the Federal Character Principle and others, the lawyers would do Nigeria a world of good by approaching the courts for interpretation pending when the Constitution is amended to properly spell out and and make it legally binding to not only obey, but also be seen to have obeyed (or be obeying) the federal character principle, even in appointments that do not need legislative approval. Likewise on mandating an incoming administration to complete projects started by the predecessor administration!

The report though specific to England and Wales, nevertheless, still raises loads of concern and worries about the committee members' real intent and motives.
Here are the worrying paragraphs:
[quote][/quote]D. Civil rights and freedoms (arts. 7, 8, and 13-17)
Birth registration / Name and nationality
33. The Committee recommends that the State party encourage its Overseas Territories to revise the local legislation and the British Nationality Act in order to guarantee the right of migrant children, in particular those children born in the territories, to a birth certificate.
Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
34. The Committee is concerned that pupils are required by law to take part in a daily religious worship which is “wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character” in publicly funded schools in England and Wales, and that children do not have the right to withdraw from such worship without parental permission before entering the sixth form. In Northern Ireland and Scotland, children do not have right to withdraw from collective worship without parental permission.
35. The Committee recommends that the State party repeal legal provisions for compulsory attendance at collective worship in publicly funded schools and ensure that children can independently exercise the right to withdraw from religious worship at school.

See the document here: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CRC%2fC%2fGBR%2fCO%2f5&Lang=en; and,
http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/SessionDetails1.aspx?SessionID=987&Lang=en

Members of the committee are: Ms. Amal Salman Aldoseri (Vice-Chairperson; Bahrain; membership expires 28-02-2017); Ms. Suzanne Aho Assouma (Togolese; member till 28 February 2017); Ms. Hynd Ayoubi Idrissi (Moroccan; Female; member till 28 February 2019); Mr. Jorge Cardona Llorens (Spaniard; Male; member till 28 February 2019); Mr. Bernard Gastaud (Monaco; Male; member till 28 February 2019); Mr. Peter Gurán(Slovakia; Male; member till 28 February 2017); Ms. Olga a. Khazova (Russian Federation; Female; member till 28 February 2017) ; Mr. Hatem Kotrane (Tunisia; Male; member till 28 February 2019); Mr. Gehad Madi (Egypt; Male; member till 28 February 2019); Mr. Benyam Dawit Mezmur (Chairperson; Ethiopian; Male; member till 28 February 2017); Ms. Yasmeen Muhamad Shariff (Vice Chairperson; Malaysia; Female; member till 28 February 2017); Mr. Clarence Nelson (Samoa; Male; member till 28 February 2019); Mr. Wanderlino Nogueira Neto (Brazil; Male; member till 28 February 2017); Ms Sara De Jesús Oviedo Fierro (Vice Chairperson; Ecuador; Female; member till 28 February 2017); Ms. Maria Rita PARSI (Italy; Female; member till 28 February 2017); Mr. José Angel Rodríguez Reyes (Venezuela; Male; member till 28 February 2019; Ms. Kirsten Sandberg (Rapporteur; Norway; Female; member till 28 February 2019); Ms. Renate Winter (Vice Chairperson; Austria; Female; member till 28 February 2017)

Here for UN Human Rights website: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Pages/Home.aspx

wengerjay:
David Cameron has resigned as prime minister after Britain voted to leave the European Union.

The prime minister said Britain required "fresh leadership" to negotiate the country's exit from the EU.

"I do not think it would be right for me to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination," he said in a statement outside Downing Street.

He promised to "steady the ship" over the coming months before stepping down in October.

Mr Cameron was close to tears as he announced his decision.

The referendum, called by Mr Cameron, delivered a shock victory for the Leave campaign.

The Brexit vote immediately sent the pound tumbling and sparked calls for his resignation.

Mr Cameron said the result was the "will of the British people" which was an "instruction which must be delivered.

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-06-24/david-cameron-to-resign-as-prime-minister-after-eu-referendum/

REFERENDUM.
Britain did it
Over Scotland. EU-membership
In each case
Britain
respected
The Voice
Of
The people
Nigeria
Need to do it
Over Biafra
Niger Delta
Sharia states/Boko Haram
Fulani herdsmen
And
Respect
The People's Voice
In each case
To
Free
This Nigeria
From Itself
And
The hanging
Cloud

President John Evans Atta Mills has directed the Minister for Environment, Science and Technology, Sherry Aryittey, to ensure that Nigerian telecommunications giant Globacom begins full operations in Ghana before the end of 2010.

The Minister for Communications, Haruna Iddrisu, who disclosed this on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana Show on Thursday November 4, said the President wants the Environment and Communications Ministry to remove all bottlenecks preventing Globacom from starting full operations.

According to Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, most of the issues regarding Glo’s activities have been addressed except those to do with the erection of telecom masts which is yet to be thrashed out completely.

He gave the assurance that per the President’s directive the two ministries will work rapidly to allow what would be the nation’s sixth telecoms operator offer an alternative.

The Nigerian mobile investor in 2009 threatened to withdraw from Ghana amid claims that its infrastructure was being sabotaged.

Globacom was issued a license in 2008 and had initially scheduled to launch GSM and WCDMA networks by end-2009.

But Globacom is still to launch services in Ghana. The operator claims that its infrastructure has been sabotaged, frequencies have been interfered with and its advertising billboards vandalized.

The operator also suffered from a ban on the erection of new mobile masts.

Ghana has five mobile operators: Zain, Vodafone, MTN, Millicom (tiGo) and Kasapa.

Globacom also runs mobile operations in Nigeria and Benin republic and has invested in sub-marine cable Glo-1.

The cable was expected to go live in 2009 with planned landing points in Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Mauritania, Morocco, Portugal, Spain and UK, but this cable is also yet to be operational.

Source: citifmonline, Accra-Ghana

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