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With a population of over 150 million people, Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. Political unrest, poor governance and corruption have led to decades of water shortages, while the population has increased rapidly. Though there is surface and ground water, rapid population growth, particularly in urban areas, has not been supported with additional resources. Only 11% of people have access to safe sanitation and 42% live without access to clean water. Funding for water, sanitation and hygiene is low and there is little coordination within the government. The poorest and most marginalised people live in unofficial slum settlements using expensive private services.
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Some of the Nigerian Delegation to Rwanda on post-conflict learning visit on Friday stressed the need to restore peace and unity in the North-East for meaningful reconstruction and development.
They made the call while listing some of the lessons learnt during the tour in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kigali.
They expressed worry over the activities of insurgency in the North-East and called for immediate halt and reconciliation mechanisms.
Hajiya Mairo Lawan, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Borno, said that reconciliation and forgiveness was a significant tool she learnt that would propel peace and unity in the North-East region.
Lawan pointed out that without peace and unity national development could not be achieved.
According to her, it is the determination of the Rwandans to live in peace that had enabled them to excel after their crisis as a country.
“The people of Rwanda are driven by good leadership quality and the ability to utilise their own home grown solutions in reconciliation and development processes.
“I hope and pray that the good people of Borno will be willing to emulate such spirit and reconcile with Boko Haram, so that we can catch up with development,� she said.
Similarly, Mr Usman Dadah, Permanent Secretary, Establishment and Training, Office of the Head of Service, Yobe, said unity was a factor not to be compromised in the quest for development.
According to him, total forgiveness was key to ensuring unity and that he now understands what it means to lead.
“I learnt that harnessing of home grown policies is vital to the survival of a nation.
“I learnt that involving the citizens in governmentâ€
s policies and projects enhances development.
“In involving the citizens, there is need for regular communication with people at the grassroots to ensure sustainable development as we have seen in Rwanda.
Meanwhile, the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita said that she would ensure immediate implementation of the public service Performance Management System (PMS).
She explained that the PMS was part of the components of the Human Resource module to boost service delivery.
Oyo-Ita said that Rwanda government believed in their human capacity and had developed it, adding that this would be replicated with intensity in Nigeria.
She applauded the effectiveness of their Integrated Public Pay Information System (IPPIS), acknowledging that all the seven modules were functioning.
“To strengthen our PMS we will work on our feedback to ensure effectiveness in the public service delivery.
“The one we were trying to bring on board was rather too complicated but now we have reduced it, so that it can be easily computed and implemented,� Oyo-Ita said.
The head of service also said the fact that they were able to forgive and encourage peace and unity after the genocide was worth of emulation.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the delegation for the post-conflict learning visit titled: “Readiness for Change� was made up of representatives from Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.
The five day learning visit was to expose State and Federal Government officials to the mechanisms applied during the post-conflict era in Rwanda to help reconstruction of public institutions in the North-East.
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Insurgency: Nigerians Call For Peace, Unity To Rebuild North-East
Mr Johnson Podar, National Director (Mobilisation), of the Buhari Campaign Organisation (BCO), has dragged the Plateau chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to court over alleged injustice during the partyâ€s state congress.
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At the Ifako-Gbagada axis in Lagos, a clash between the Yoruba and Hausa traders ensued at Diya street on Friday.
While the cause of the incident, which started around 2 pm, is still unknown, it has, however, led to a major rampage in the area.
Details later
Yoruba, Hausa traders clash in Lagos
The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has hailed the House of Representatives for calling for the sack of the Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Mustapha Maihaja over the alleged mismanagement of ₦33b. CACOL said that the call by the Reps for President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the NEMA DG was […]
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At least nine refugees in northwestern Uganda have been arrested for attacking a police officer, police said in a statement on Friday.
Josephine Angucia, West Nile Regional Police spokesperson, said the suspects in the Omugo refugee settlement in Arua district disarmed and assaulted a police officer on Thursday as a protest against the meager amount of food given to them.
“They went ahead to hold the humanitarian service providers hostage and disarmed the constable,� said Angucia.
Local policemen are monitoring the situation, she said, adding that it was a “common scenario� at the camp.
In 2017, the World Food Programme announced a food aid cut by 50 per cent to hundreds of thousands of refugees in the east African country due to financial constraints.
In May, at least nine refugees were arrested and charged for leading riots and damaging humanitarian agencies equipment over alleged delay of food ration supply in the same camp.
However, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said its donors would withhold funding for Ugandan operations until refugee numbers were verified, after accusations that officials inflated the figures to steal aid.
Multiple investigations are under way by the Ugandan government, the UN and the EU into accusations that aid has been stolen.
Investigators are looking into whether food and other relief items intended for refugees were sold off, bribes paid and refugee girls trafficked.
Teresa Ongalo, a UNHCR spokeswoman, told a news conference in the Ugandan capital Kampala donors had raised questions about the number of refugees in Uganda.
“Thereâ€s concern that the numbers are not accurate,â€� she said. “What we have received from donors is an indication that until weâ€re able to verify the numbers they will withhold funding.â€�
UNHCR and the Ugandan government have embarked on verification of refugee numbers using the UN agencyâ€s biometric system.
An estimated 1.4 million refugees are in the country, including more than a million from South Sudan where a four-year-old civil has left tens of thousands dead and uprooted an estimated quarter of a population of 12 million.
Other refugees in Uganda come mainly from Burundi and the eastern region of Democratic Republic of Congo.
In recent weeks the rate of daily arrivals from eastern Congo has spiked on the back of spreading inter-communal and ethnic violence.
On Tuesday UNHCR said it had planned for 60,000 new Congolese refugee arrivals in Uganda in 2018 but that the number was already above 40,000.
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9 Refugees Arrested In Uganda For Allegedly Attacking Police Officer
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Nigerian Hollywood actor, John Boyega is set to star in upcoming sci-fi drama ‘Hold Back The Starsâ€.
According to Deadline.com, Boyega will lead alongside Black Pantherâ€s breakout star, Letitia Wright in what is being called ‘Romeo and Juliet meets Gravityâ€.
‘Hold Back The Starsâ€, to be produced by 21 Laps and directed by Mark Cahill, is based on Katie Khanâ€s 2017 novel of the same name.
The story revolves around a man and a woman who revisit memories of their love affair on a utopian earth while they are trapped in the vast void of space with only 90 minutes of oxygen left.
NAN reports that Boyega rose to prominence in the United Kingdom, for his role as Moses in the 2011 sci-fi comedy film, `Attack the Block.â€
He is known for playing Finn in the 2015 film ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens†and its 2017 sequel ‘Star Wars: The Last Jediâ€.
In 2016, Boyega formed his own production company, Upperroom Entertainment Limited and co-produced the Pacific Rim Uprising in 2018, also starring as the filmâ€s lead, Jake Pentecost.
During a Nigerian tour in April, Boyega revealed that he was ready to invest about $25 million (Eight billion naira) into shooting a low-budget Nollywood movie.
According to him, it is a chance for him to develop these stories, merge Hollywood with Nollywood, to bring the genuine and most important stories to light.
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Nigeriaâ€s John Boyega stars in ‘Hold Back The Starsâ€
Polling official wait for voters at a polling station of Isotry district in Antananarivo on November 7, 2018, during the first round of Madagascar's presidential election. – Madagascar went to the polls on November 7, to elect a new president, with a packed field of candidates led by three former heads of state pitching their ideas for ending a political crisis and boosting the economy. (Photo by RIJASOLO / AFP)
EU election observers said on Friday that Madagascar’s presidential election this week had “very minor” irregularities after candidate Hery Rajaonarimampianina alleged the vote was mired by fraud.
“The irregularities were very minor and won’t have any impact on the election’s outcome,” said the head of the European Union’s monitoring mission Cristian Preda.
Two cases of ballot stuffing were reported out of nearly 25,000 polling stations nationwide in Wednesday’s vote, he said.
“What we are describing are difficulties and anomalies, which is to say logistical issues that wouldn’t have affected the credibility of the elections,” Preda said at a media briefing in the capital Antananarivo.
Presidential hopeful Rajaonarimampianina, who ruled from 2014 until September this year when he had to resign to contest the election, said on Thursday that there were “numerous irregularities” in the polls.
“We will not let the people be robbed of their vote,” he warned.
Preda said that any irregularities which came to light should be investigated.
“It’s important not to cheat. For me, people are attempting to cheat when they make (unfounded) allegations of irregularities, I don’t like it,” he said.
Lidia Geringer, the head of the European Parliament delegation, described the election as “something of a last chance poll” for Madagascar’s democratic and economic development prospects.
Madagascar is one of the world’s poorest countries, according to World Bank data, with almost four in five people living in grinding poverty.
The former French colony has struggled to overcome political divisions after a disputed 2001 election that sparked clashes and a 2009 military-backed coup.
According to provisional results released by the election commission on Friday, former president Andry Rajoelina was leading the tally of votes counted so far with 42.86 percent.
Fellow ex-president Marc Ravalomanana was close behind with 40.18 percent, according to the results based on 1,350 polling stations out of 24,852.
Rajaonarimampianina trailed on 4.38 percent.
'Very minor' irregularities in Madagascar vote: EU
By Adeboye Amosu: Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) outfit, Yobe Desert Stars will unveil Ngozi Elechi as their new head coach on Monday, Completesportsnigeria. com reports. Elechi Completesportsnigeria.com learnt, has already penned a two-year contract with Yobe Desert Stars after severing ties with another NPFL side, Go Round FC. He spent five years with Go […]
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Yobe Stars To Unveil Elechi As New Head Coach
In this video share online by @The_Jonathanian shows some boys using Sinper a very poisonous chemical that kills insects and rodents to preserve beans against insects.
Why do people do this ?
BE WARNED! THEY ARE POISONING OUR FOOD
Wickedness, Greed or Ignorance?
Either way, they are poisoning us.
SNIPER is a very poisonous chemical that kills insects & rodents instantly.
These boys use it to preserve beans against insect infestation at the expense of public health.
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Sniper to preserve beans against insects?
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has called on Governors of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, Zamfara, Abdullaziz Yari, Ogun, Ibikunle Amosun and Senator Magnus Abe to dump the ruling party. He said it was high time they left because the party had proved to them that they […]
Why Okorocha, Yari, Amosun, others should dump APC – Ex-spokesman, Frank
Why Okorocha, Yari, Amosun, others should dump APC – Ex-spokesman, Frank
THE fourth RAGA Interdisciplinary Conference Programme is over, however, the points raised at the conference can revolutionise the education sector especially for the girl-child and boost national development over time, if concerned parties act on those points.
RAGA (Raising Girls Ambition) is a non-governmental organisation focused on girl-child issues organised the conference. RAGA is founded by Dr Adepeju Oti. The conference was themed “Equipping Girls for Involvement in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) for Sustainable Development�. It held at Lead City University, Ibadan from October 10 to 12, 2018.
Interestingly, the conference attracted the presence of the Oyo State Government and the military in the persons of Mrs Rose Oyedele, Special Adviser to the Governor on Due Process, representing the governorâ€s wife, and Brigadier General Maina Kadai, representing the GOC of Division 2, Nigerian Army, at the event.
Female students and teachers from secondary schools in Ibadan were in attendance.
Keynote speakers at the conference were Professor Jennifer Weitz, Professor of Astronomy, Paradise Valley Community, College, Arizona, USA. She spoke on “Equipping Nigerian Women and Girls Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics for Sustainable Development.�
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Professor of Mathematics, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, Karin Brodie, delivered the first lead paper titled “Equipping Teacher for Inclusive STEM Methodologies for Sustainable Development.�
The second lead paper on “Equipping Girls for Involvement in Physics and Mathematics for Sustainable Developmentâ€� was delivered by Professor Rabia Salihu Saâ€id, a professor of Atmospheric and Space Weather Physics, Bayero University, Kano.
Lead paper three on “Strategies for Gender Sensitive STEM Curriculum for Sustainable Development� was done by Professor of Educational Technology, Ayotola Aremu, of the University of Ibadan.
Dr Oti said the theme was born out of personal experiences as a woman herself and her observation of society. According to her, but for circumstances, she could have been in the sciences while growing up. Also, most females in society seem ordinarily uninterested in gadgets and things technological in nature, hence the need for the girl-child to be encouraged to pay more attention to STEM.
“It has often been said that women have no role models in STEM. But I did my research and found that though not many there are some. Late Professor Dora Akunyili was one, and lately, a woman won the Nobel Prize in Physics some 45 years after Marie Curie. A bird cannot fly with one wing. For the world to move forward, women must be there in STEM.�
She said a womanâ€s feminine nature to care and nurture could be put to use to produce scientific and technological breakthroughs that bring development, rather than destroy as the male counterparts have done.
She advised curriculum developers to look at the things in the curriculum that hold the girl child back, and modify them to encourage girls to study STEM.
She advised parents who she called “the first teachers of the children� to use the right language, toys and other factors to encourage the girl child to think scientifically and possibly choose a career in STEM.
Brigadier General Kadai expressed happiness that the military was called to be part of the event. He said that with about 50 per cent of the population being female it was important that the girl-child be shown role models, as was done at the conference, of what they could become in life. “We cannot ignore such a huge number of our population that are female.� His message to the girl child was “do not to relegate or stereotype yourself� and “you are one among equals,� so that “you can meet up with the global challenges of the 21st Century.�
Professor Aremu in her paper said there was a need for more women in the sciences based on the uniqueness of womanhood and not just for the sake of gender equality. “Not everybody should be a scientist. People can follow their passion in other areas. But we must ensure that at the foundation, everybody does science.�
She said the learning outcomes from science and scientific attitudes like scepticism, humility and curiosity “work in every profession.�
Professor Aremu added that science process skills like measurement, making an inference and the like learnt in primary schools were useful and could be carried into fields other than science, concluding that “either way, science wins.�
Professor Saâ€id said, “It is not about forcing all the girls to do STEM. But for those who are inclined to do STEM, we should encourage them. We must equip them with strategies to remain and pursue it up to career level.â€�
On teaching methods, she said the use of corporal punishment while teaching STEM subjects especially should be discouraged. “For corporal punishment, it has been experimentally shown that it doesnâ€t work.
“When teaching a subject like mathematics which they are already anxious about, beating them only makes them more anxious. What we should try to do is look for other strategies that will encourage them and lessen that anxiety that they already have.�
She expressed agreement with Professor Brodieâ€s research that errors students make in maths “is actually a learning process.â€�
Professor Brodie in her paper argued that girls including boys must be involved in strategies to learn enough mathematics to produce the scientific development Africa needs. The two main strategies or principles to apply according to her research are: to allow learners to make mistakes, to acknowledge that mistakes are a crucial aspect of learning mathematics, and correct them. The second is for teachers to recognise that students can excel in mathematics through hard work and not just giftedness in the subject. “If you believe you can do it through hard work, those are the fields more women will go into,� the mathematics professor concluded.
Still on the issue of corporal punishment while teaching, Professor Brodie said that research had clearly shown that “the teacher-learner relationship is absolutely the most important to help the learner to learn.
“It is important for the teacher to know that the learner has thoughts and that you can work with those thoughts. What I have seen from my research is that learners want the teachers to care about them. When a teacher starts hitting a learner it tells the learner that the teacher doesnâ€t care.â€�
She said hitting a child introduces violence into what should be a mutually respectful learning experience.
From her observations hitting a child does not stop bad behaviour. There should be other methods of punishment which show that it is the childâ€s behaviour thatâ€s bad and not the child. She said the key thing is to get the learner to like what they are doing. The learner should respect the teacher
“Women and girls are half the global population. With the challenges we are facing as a global society like poverty, limited natural resources, we really must use all the minds available and STEM education is the tool that will enable all our citizens to face those challenges appropriately,� remarked Professor Weitz, in her interview with TribuneOnline on the sidelines of the conference.
“In the United States we see a lower proportion of women and girls engaging in STEM fields so this is a great collaboration to see how we can get women and girls in education and STEM fields.�
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RAGA advocates more female participation in science, technology
