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The rights group said it has been inundated with considerable volume of calls by concerned insiders who have also fingered officials of the Federal Budget Office and the relevant committees with oversight powers over the NYSC in the National Assembly in the huge swindle, which may have gone on since 2010, costing Nigeria nearly N90 billion

Because of this harsh reality, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the battle weary Nigerians to give keen attention to other salient developmental strides that are evolved in the body polity and especially from the National Assembly, which over the last few years has also created considerable reasons for most Nigerians to doubt the integrity of the individual members of those so-called hallowed chambers, both green and red

HURIWA called on national party leaders and strategic national political stakeholders to convoke a self funded national political peace conference to sign a memorandum of understanding on the enforcement of the national period of peace, quiet and tranquility to be moderated by the Independent National Electoral Commission

The United Nations and the United States Government piloted the international dimension of the global wide effort even as the Economic Community of West African States and the Nigerian government coordinated the local and sub-continental dimension of the advocacy approach

And in this same professional dictionary of psychology, we also learnt that traumas or bad experiences can trigger a fear response within us that is hard to quell but in their words: “Exposing ourselves to our personal demons is the best way to move past them

The statement said that a civilian JTF, if established, would partner closely with security operatives to fish out undesirable elements with links to armed insurgents

But there is a cacophony of opinions from a cross segment of the Nigerian Society that the heightened situation of further attacks by these armed marauders has demonstrated that the methods employed by the Nigerian Government is either not working or is too slow to show positive results

Contemporaneously, the bombers from the dreaded armed Islamic sect, Boko Haram, also successfully detonated several explosives at the strategic Apapa Wharf area in the metropolitan city of Lagos, Nigeria’s largest and most populated state

For those who may have collective amnesia, General Sani Abacha, who died in 1998 in suspicious circumstances, is suspected of having looted the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to the tune of about $2.2 billion when he ruled from November 1993 to June 1998. His military regime faced international sanctions following persistent cases of brutal human rights violations and forced disappearances of patriotic Nigerians opposed to military dictatorship

Besides, the recent statement credited to the Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, that the armed Islamic insurgents would extend their bombing campaign should be thoroughly probed to ascertain whether the Sunday attempt to bomb five churches in Owerri, Imo State has any connection, just as politicians have been called upon to be circumspect with their public statements and avoid careless talks on the ongoing insurgency to avoid providing psychological boost for the armed terrorists

Same time, the chronically ineffective and professionally inefficient National Broadcasting Commission issued a set of outrageous [mis] orders directing broadcast media owners to submit the list of their guests scheduled for live program hours before the commencement of broadcast of such programs

While accepting the fact that measures need to be adopted holistically to bring to an end the murderous campaign of terrorism in these North Eastern States, we commend President Jonathan’s decision to extend the emergency without accepting the undue pressure by some interest groups to sack the governors which would have become a big constitutional breach

The range of bloody violence and insurgencies of all dimensions and especially the unprecedented bombing attacks by the armed Islamic insurgents known as Boko Haram over the last three years, Nigeria is facing serious challenges to her survival and understandably the current Federal administration is rated as one of the most antagonized civil administration in the political annals of Nigeria. President Good Luck Jonathan has over the past three years introduced multi dimensional strategies to resolve these unrests and violence of monumental dimension

The above information is not the focus of this piece. The news is what has transpired since the Holy Father, Pope Francis, touched down in West Bank, the Palestinian controlled territory, during which he held high level diplomatic meetings with the political authorities of the Palestinian homeland headed by Mahmood Abbas (Mr. Abu Muazu)

The act of violent kidnap of innocent school girls is widely viewed by members of the international community as not just a declaration of war against civilization but is clearly a crime against humanity

Since the year 2009 that these terrorists started wrecking bloody havocs on Nigerians and several state institutions including the nation’s security agencies and even international agencies like the office of the United Nations in Abuja which came under intense bombing campaign, the current federal administration has come under increasing criticism for failing to apply maximum force to decisively crush these insurgents before they gained notoriety. A lot of critics say the government at the center failed to struck the terrorists literarily when the ‘iron’ was still hot

Besides, the group sees the recent decision of the administration of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Natanyahu, to join international military effort to end terrorism in Nigeria and rescue the over 200 kidnapped girls as salutary

Will you go down on your knees to pray for him after he had had enough of your new wife and stolen as much things as he needs and zoomed off in his motorcycle?

This was the position of the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, which also restated its clarion call for Nigeria to enter into comprehensive military pact with the United States of America or the United Kingdom to fortify its capacity to protect its territorial integrity

On a national scale, one issue that made impact in the corporate life of Nigeria is the mass murder through administrative mistakes by the Nigerian Ministry of Interior and the Nigerian Immigration Service of over 18 youthful Nigerian job seekers during the ill-fated March 15, 2014 recruitment exercise in all parts of Nigeria and especially at the Abuja National Stadium in which young and upwardly looking Nigerian youths in search of better lives were killed during stampede that was occasioned by poor coordination and crowd control