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        Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State   Delta State Governor launches micro-insurance scheme in Asaba The Governor of Delta State, Emmanuel Uduaghan, on Wednesday said terrorism in Nigeria was caused by poverty especially among her youth. Dr. Uduaghan said Nigeria ignored its ordinary citizens for too long thus producing a pool of youth who have now been recruited as kidnappers, armed robbers, terrorists and assassins. “Over the years, we have ignored poverty. We have not paid attention to the people at the lower rung of the society,” the governor said while launching the Delta State Micro Insurance Scheme (DMIS) in Asaba on Wednesday. “The youth have become a pool of people being recruited to become kidnappers, armed robbers, terrorists and assassins. It is not a problem we can solve in one day, but, we can start from somewhere. “The terrorism we are having in Nigeria today is as a result of poverty, we have neglected p...

    Delta State governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has attributed the current spate of terrorism and violent crimes in the country to the problem of youth unemployment. Launching the Delta State Micro Insurance Scheme (DMIS) in Asaba yesterday,  Governor Uduaghan noted that lack of employment over the years has created a pool of youths who are being recruited for insurgency and other nefarious activities. “Over the years, we have ignored poverty; we have not paid attention to the people at the lower rung of the society. Theyouths have become a pool of people being recruited to become kidnappers, armed robbers, terrorists and assassins,” the governor observed, adding, “it is not a problem we can solve in one day, but we can start from somewhere.” The governor said jobs should be created for youths to be positively engaged, adding that his administration devised micro-credit scheme which has empowered a lot of Deltans to become employers of labour as a way of g...

              While we wonder what Governor Murtala Nyako thought would be the result of the #GenocideMemo he penned and forwarded to the 19 Northern Governors, his peers staying condemning its contents. Former military administrator of Lagos, Brigadier-General Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd), has joined the condemnation of the inciting letter, asking Nyako to “shut up”, because “enough is enough. You are setting an unheard of precedent for the younger generations by those inflammatory statements.” Marwa, speaking from his residence in Yola, the Adamawa state capital, said as a son of the soil and former governorship aspirant on the platform of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the 2011 elections, it was necessary to speak to the incoherence and disgraceful content in the letter. He said, “I want to state very clearly that Nyako’s letter does not represent the opinion of the Adamawa State citizenry. Ny...

                                                             OFFICIALS from Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters, on Wednesday, claimed that a group of terrorists, operating under the guise of herdsmen from a camp on the outskirts of Wukari, Taraba State, have been arrested, and later confessed to being part of the Islamist group, Boko Haram. ADVERTISEMENT A statement signed by the Director of Defence Information, Major-General Chris Olukolade, confirmed the development. “A group of terrorists operating under the guise of herdsmen from a camp on the outskirts of Wukari have been arrested, while others died after an attack on military checkpoint at Gindin Dorowa, a suburb of Wukari i...

    Audu Ogbeh Second Republic Minister and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Audu Ogbeh, on Monday, indicted the nation’s security forces over the recent abduction of several secondary school girls at the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. According to him, the continued dastardly operations of the Boko Haram sect in northern parts of the country was a shame to the nation’s military. The former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) told Nigerian Tribune in Abuja, that it was embarrassing for the nation, which prides itself as the giant of Africa, to have its security forces allow criminals go on killing spree unabated. “It is embarrassing and shocking, very strange to me; where were our security forces when these evil men were operating? They successfully abducted the school girls without security forces challenging them. What of the soldiers? What of the check points mounted on those roads...

                         What Jesus says about homosexuality is… … He doesn’t mention it.

President Goodluck Jonathan spent his Easter Sunday at the Aso Villa Chapel in Abuja with clergymen and family members praying for peace in Nigeria. The president had earlier today said the increasing tempo of Boko Haram attacks will not cause the country to break up vowing to keep the country one. He said, “No criminal group will make Nigeria to disintegrate. Boko Haram will come and go.” The President said the hope brought by the resurrection of Jesus Christ gives him assurance that insurgency in the country was ephemeral. “To me, Easter is the most important in Christian faith because our hope would have been in vain without the resurrection of Christ. “The resurrection of Christ gives us hope. Just like Christ told the people when he was alive that his disciple will face tribulations. “As a nation, we are facing tribulation but surely we have hope. Surely, we will overcome the tribulations. “Even those who think that this country will be divided into North, South, East and We...