The Buhari Media Organisation has called on socio-cultural groups to stop issuing statements capable of fuelling crisis or inciting people to violence in the country.
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The United Nation Children’s Fund says Nigeria loses over N1.4 trillion annually due to Violence Against Children.
Edema Fuludu, a Match Commissioner to the Nigeria Professional Football League, has advised the League Management Company to deduct nine points from any club involved in any form of violence during Nigeria Premier League matches.
President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration will crack down on those who incite ordinary innocent people to violence and social unrest.
The Peoples Democratic Party has urged persons behind violence attacks and bloodletting in the country to have a rethink and join in the efforts at rebuilding the country.
Civil Society Organisations and the Media in Niger State have called on government at all levels and security agencies to scale up security apparatus at flash points across the state, especially at border towns, to reduce the rate of killing in the country.
As peace gradually returns to areas recently hit by violence in Wukari, Taraba State, Chief Goodman Dahida, President-General, Tiv Cultural and Social Association in the state, has said that the Tiv people were not at war with their Jukunn brothers.
Kano, March. 11, 2019 (NAN) Rabiu Bichi Chairman, Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano State, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to declare the party’s gubernatorial candidate, Alhaji Abba Kabir winner to avoid eruption of violence.
The economic impact of the violence against children in Nigeria is estimated at about $6.1 billion, which is equivalent to about 1.07 per cent of the country’s GDP.
The Independent National Electoral Commission says it is awaiting official report from Resident Electoral Commissioners in areas where election could not hold due to violence and other incidence.
Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman of National Diaspora Commission, on Saturday admonished Nigerian youths not to allow anyone to use them for violence during the voting processes and at the collation centres.
The Oyo State Police Command has pledged to deal with politicians or individuals who engage in any form of violence before, during and after the forthcoming elections.
The Ekiti State Government on Thursday warned the people of Ise, Orun and Emure Communities to allow for a peaceful resolution of a 76-year old boundary dispute among them.
The number of Cameroonians fleeing violence and seeking refuge in Nigeria has crossed the 30,000 mark, the UN High Commission for Refugees has said.
The state Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Bolanle Ampitan, made this known during a news conference in Lokoja on Monday.
Police said one person was shot dead and foreign-owned shops were looted as violence erupted in the South African township of Soweto on Wednesday.
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has advised Nigerian politicians and party supporters to refrain from promoting violence during the forthcoming elections.
Saraki, according to a statement by his Special Assistant on New Media, Olu Onemola, said this while receiving the Amnesty International 2017/18 Report on: “The State of the World’s Human Rights,” and the organization’s report on women who survived Boko Haram, but were later maltreated, from its Country Director, Osai Ojigho, in Abuja.
He said: “Let me use this opportunity to call on the youth in the state and the country at large to conduct themselves well and shun acts capable of disrupting peaceful co-existence.
Tella, who gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Kaduna, specifically advised the youth to behave responsibly during the exercise.