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Centre offers self-protection training to Nigelians Adel:mi Ad elle sba, A buja
ENTRE for intelligence Studies a od Research, Abuja, offe:"e-"J fa train members of lh~ public in self· protection. t The group said il would also offer ct'une!' in home protection, re'l'onse to medical I!mert;~[lc:ies and other secu rity-related training to help b dhiduals when faced with I rity challenges. Executive Vice-a.aimlan of elRS, Stan Ie!' 1Ukag.a,
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S2id at a p ress conference in Ahuja on Monday the traini ng ,,'ould be done in collaboratio n lvith Ule European Security Academy, Poland. Ukaga stated that interested individuals would however need police clenrance to participate in the programme..
He said the c:entre IV(luid also train security agencies oncounler·measuresagainst terrorism, kidnapping and other ,iolent crimes. He said the centre had gO\'Crnment clearance to offer security courses to civilians locally and in Poland, According to him, the
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train ing will impart skills of detecti ng terrorists, bombs and ways of prO\iding first aid to ,ictims of attacks. Ukaga said, -Our effort is aimed at complcmenti ng the governmcnt in addressing lhe security challenges in tJle count ry. We lvill start training the fi rst batch of interested Nigerians in self-
protection measures and strategies by Novenlber, but they must obta in permission From the police before they can participate.." 1"he representative of the European Academy in Nigeria, Tom Wale rmeulen, said courses for civilia ns would not involve the use of firt'.'lnns ,
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l-WRllANC ft hePooples Oe!f1OCr.:!lic Party in Ekiti Mr. Makanjuoia Ogund ,has d !!rued the party as sdeCl.ed o ne o f the go emorIDi p a1'pimnts to reprrsent the PDP in Ute 2014,pqll. Og,~IJ(liPe S2id this in a state) n ntllD Tu!:!'l4y. 1b s)alen1![( read in part, -,nIt' ned to make the clarilicaticn became impera!i\-e in .-if....- of Uu~ nllTlOur do>i'lg tte rou nds that the ciJi'innan and Ule execvtire men<b ~n han~ int~~~ in a p<,nicular aspu;aol. 'r~r ut'.,:uti.'e members have nr special interest in any gT-ermm.bip aspriant &1ld v~en the till1e comes ou r cpndidate shall be de ten~cd thrcugh the ballot. dellx.:rats, we are lkl nn ined 10 reposition ou r grm t party l .D j enha nce internal demO( mc)'. I Uten;foreenjoin 11 aspirants under Ilhe oonn,'r of the PDP ,I ~ .sll\l~ I n ,' nllnour and UL'>lnU;J IJOtl that can jeopa~ Ollr rt..gI'CSS and and mo~ili<:lltio o ·members for ~e pnily of It party.~ On the follolling
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leade rs ffl ll'1l ~~iti South Senato ·al I D' tnct have insist ltut t he zone should prodll the pany's gOI'Crnorship Ididate. The l 1'01 Publicity Sec:reuh,. I houdl·w est Mr, ~}'odt! Rltade, in ~ statemint, saH th is at a meetin of the ~ '[IP leaders from E~ti SautL He sa» th ! agitation Willi io coDfo:o ml tI with tJle const!t tiOl1 Ofttlf POP Ulat emph~ise: ;olling and rotatio n o f pulitkal power.
• L-R: Managing DiTTCtor/ Chie/ Ettcuriue Officer, Health Foreuer Product LId, Chie/O/ojuwon OkubellO, OJairman of tile occasion, Mr. Wale Abadenn; ond rhe author, Pastor Emmanuel lbekwe. during the presentation o/Sickle Cell Disorder Early lVar"flill9 Si91lals in Lagos ... on Tuesday.
I won't abandon Mimiko's projects - Akeredolu S u nday Abo r isade, Aku ..
A CflON Congress of ..l"'\.Nigeria's candidate for the October 20 Ondo Sta te governorship election, tolr. Rotimi Akereclolu, says he will not abandon projects initia ted by the Gove rnor Olusegun Miniko (ldministrntion irelected. Akeredolu stated this on Monday during his tour of Akoko a head of the election, l ie dismissed Ule rumoul's Utat he wo uld abandon the p rojects imliated by the Mimiko admin istration if elected. l11e fo rmer Nigeria Bar A.,-sociation Preside nt said,
the industries es tablished by the la le Chief Adckunle Ajasin.Akeredotu re-affinned his promise to create 30,000 jobs withi n 100 days in office in order to address the unemployment problem in the state. But tJle state Commissioner for infonnation, M.r, Kayode Akinmade, said since Ule constitution al10ws for a second tenu in offic:e, Akeredolu should allow Mimiko to continue with his project for the next four
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lie saidthepartydecided the position to No rth Senatorial District in line I\ith the mood o f the Slate. lie a lso said Ule district already had an agreement 10 rotate governorship s lot between the Akoko and Owo/Ose. Akeredolll noted Ulal the late Chief Adeooyo Adefarati, a fonner govemo r of the slatc, was from Akoko and tJ181 his elllell:ence was to ena ble Owo/Ose to contest the gOI'emofSh ip. He assured Ule people that his administration wou ld create 30,000 jobs: 10 zone
Nigeria can't afford religious war - Kaigama Jude Owu amOnanl, Jos
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an d my administrntion IVI U not under any guise ab.1l1doll or scrap any of the plOjects, ,lie good people of Ondo State s hould nol entertain an)" fear th ai we are goi ng to scrap or aba ndon a ny ongoing or completed projects o nes by the Labour Party adll1inistmlio n. "Wellregoi ngtocomplete all ongoing dualisation of roads in Akure, Owo and Olldo town and other roads ill the state. ~We will also reli"e all
He said, -rhe fact that Akeredolu agrees tocontinue with Mimiko's projects is an indication that the go\-ernor has done well. "If the people of Ondo Staleare happy with Mimiko and his stylc of go\'emance, as admi tted by Akeredolu, th en members of Ibe public should ask him why he wants to takeover power.Meanw hile, Akercdolu, has denied his choiL'e has breached the wni ng fomlula r in the state. Ue s tated this at Imom ward 10, Ose Local Government o f the stale.
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A11iOLIC Archbishop o f J os, Dr. Ignatius Kaigama, has appe.,led to religious and poli tica l with leaders to treld caution in their conunents o n religious isslles, 53}ing the countl)' cannot afford a religious war. Kaigama, who spoke al the opening ceremony of loth General Assembly of CatJtolic Archdiocese of Jos on Tuesday, s.,id people should stop referring 10 the security problems in Nigeria as Musli m fi,!!;hting against Christia ns or \iet' "er.;a,
t ie said the theme of the assembly The Challenge of the Christian Faith in a Crisis· ridden Society: lbe Nigerian Experience' st resses lht need for Christians to examine thei r faith ~beca use it is in such situat ions that fa ith is Icsted~.
He said it was also to coincidewiththedeclamtion o f this year as a year of faith by Pope Benedict XVl, beginning from October 15 till November 23, 2013 to mark thc 50th a nnil'ersa[)·of Ule Second Vatican Coullcil, which is a lso. the Solemnity orCh rist, the King.
Thearchbishopsaid, "We should avoid th e mistake of saying that what we are currently experiencing is betl\'ecn Christians and Mus lim but s hould mther see it as the handiwork of some religious fan atics who hide under an ulterior moth'e to wage "'ar o n in nocent citiuns .. ~ Our religious leaders, politicians should not fan embers o f disu nity or tag it a religious war because we kno'" of the I!Kpcriences of some countries that fought religious wars and up till loda)', they have not come autorit. ~
Create emplDyment through agric - Expert AkinwaJe Abol u \\"8de,
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said Nigeria may continue to grnpple v.i th challenges of povertya nd undevelopment if desired attention is not paid to resean:h development in agriculture.. They also stressed that more youths should be encouraged tostart farn:ling 10 guarantee food security ill the land The President, Intemational Fund for Agricultural DeI.-elopmenl, Dr. Kanayo Nwanze, in his lecture at Ute Intemational Institute of Tropical Agriculture on Tuesday said exposing the ,¥t:uths to fanning Vt"ouJd save the nation from food crisis. Nwanze, while deliverin& a lecture titled, 'Reju\'enation - In\-esting in agriculture for Ule future of Nigeria (lDd its effects o n young people: lamented that Ule leadership gave little attentiOD to the sector, He said, ·Our govemment invests heavily on u rban areas at th e expense of the rural commuru tes. Howt!\'er, there should be rural urban dynamics for Ole cou nlly 10 de\-'Clop. 1t helpstoeliminale po\·ertyin lheecooomy. Thc rural people are Dot people tha t Deed handouts from politicians and the rich. The ruml people are not proud to be poor." to him, According agriculture, roUter than being looked down upon as iii poo r mao'sjob,should be seen as a serious blL'liocss that can lift the economy. He said, "Our leaders in Mrica don't think of the future; they do n't think of 50years or mOil! ahead. Our leaders are short-sighted with poo r vision, · Unfortunately however, witboutavibmn t ay;cultu re Nigeria's future cannot be ,iable. Food do not grow in cities. You cannot eat or drink oil Oil ~-enue bas not fed the poor people. Nigeria is a dC\-eloping country aDd if we are: not careful the country will still remain in this stale in 40}'Cars. ~ TIle way for..;a rd, he said, was for tbe nation to invest in the futu re through itsyouUl5He urged the na tion to take advanlaJe of the fact that Ule global community is looking at areas of investment in Africa. However, hesaid, Nigeria in spite of the Federal GoI.-emment's policy on agriculture imports more food Iban it ever did in the past. According to him, the counlly's importation increases annually by uper
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