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Less Is More: Buhari and a Failing Security Strategy In the South, By Cheta Nwanze

Less Is More: Buhari and a Failing Security Strategy In the South, By Cheta Nwanze

President Muhammadu Buhari Many governments, even in some authoritarian countries such as China, have decided that the de-escalation of force strategy ends up being “less is more”. They only use force when all else fails. Think, for example, how China has handled Hong Kong. In Western countries, there is a lot of talk about de-escalation of force, risk analysis, and appropriate use of force. Many…

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The Latest: Nigerian leader ahead at count's halfway point

The Latest: Nigerian leader ahead at count’s halfway point

KANO, Nigeria (AP) — The Latest on Nigeria’s election (all times local):

5:15 p.m. A spokesman for the campaign of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari claims they have unofficial numbers showing the leader has won Saturday’s election and his supporters are preparing to celebrate later Tuesday.

Babatunde Fashola, Cabinet minister for power and works and campaign director for election monitoring,…

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Viral Photo: There Are No Cracked Pillars At MMA2 Parking Lot - Operator

Viral Photo: There Are No Cracked Pillars At MMA2 Parking Lot – Operator

NEWSMEDIANG.COM Viral Photo: There Are No Cracked Pillars At MMA2 Parking Lot, Operator, Bi-Courtney Denies The operator of the Murtala Muhammed Airport terminal two, Lagos, Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited has reacted to a viral photo shared by journalist, Cheta Nwanze calling attention to two pillars at the parking lot of the airport terminal. Nwanze on Twitter captioned the photo, “This…

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We are all Biafrans. 53 years ago today, the military… | by Cheta Nwanze | Medium

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Hostile Policing By Cheta Nwanze

Hostile Policing By Cheta Nwanze

On Tuesday, 26 March 2019, a police Deputy Superintendent, Godwin Oshiogbuwe, was kidnapped from a checkpoint along the Ubiaja-Ewohimi-Agbor road by unknown gunmen. His body was found the next day by a police tactical team at about 1640 hours. It had been mutilated, and his gun had been taken away. To my knowledge, none of the men who found the late Oshiogbuwe, was ever received any counselling.…

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Cheta Nwanze: How The Bini Established Lagos, #HistoryClass Explains Why The 'Yoruba' Nation Didn't Exist Until 1893 - NewsWireNGR

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Mengapa Donald Trump begitu populer di Nigeria?

Presiden Amerika Serikat Donald Trump telah menerima peringkat rendah di seluruh dunia untuk penanganan urusan internasional - tetapi tidak di beberapa negara Afrika seperti Nigeria. Menurut sebuah survei baru-baru ini oleh Pew Research Center, sebagian besar orang Nigeria "memiliki keyakinan" bahwa Trump "akan melakukan hal yang benar dalam urusan dunia."

Hasil survei Pew dikumpulkan dari wawancara telepon dan tatap muka yang dilakukan di bawah arahan Gallup - sebuah perusahaan analisis dan penasehat yang berbasis di Washington, DC.

Namun, ini tidak menjelaskan mengapa Trump dipuja oleh beberapa orang Nigeria.

Penulis Nigeria, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, menjelaskan kepada The World, sebuah acara radio publik yang diproduksi bersama oleh BBC, bahwa "gambar pria tangguh" Trump menyerang sebuah kunci di negara terpadat di Afrika:

Orang-orang mengagumi citra pria tangguhnya dan keterusterangannya menghibur. Dia aneh bagi orang Amerika. Dia aneh. Dia berbeda dari apa yang kamu miliki. Tapi kita terbiasa dengan para pemimpin yang berbicara tanpa menahan diri, yang secara verbal kasar ketika mereka mau. Jadi, dia tidak seaneh yang kita kenal seperti orang Amerika.

Cheta Nwanze, Kepala Riset di SBM Intelligence mengatakan kepada Global Voices:

Saya ingin melihat persis DI MANA di Nigeria survei ini dilakukan. Saya berani bertaruh bahwa itu sebagian besar di Nigeria selatan, yang menjelaskan cinta Trump. Banyak dari basisnya adalah orang Kristen evangelis, yang darinya banyak orang Nigeria menarik ilham mereka.

Nigeria, dengan perkiraan populasi 200 juta orang, memiliki dua agama besar: Kristen dan Islam. Muslim dan Kristen membentuk masing-masing 50 persen dan 48 persen dari populasi Nigeria.

Metodologi jajak pendapat baru-baru ini menyatakan bahwa penelitian ini dilakukan di Nigeria "daerah pemerintah daerah dikelompokkan berdasarkan wilayah geopolitik." Namun, negara bagian Adamawa, Borno, dan Yobe di barat laut Nigeria dikeluarkan dari penelitian karena masalah keamanan.

Nigeria memiliki 774 bidang pemerintahan lokal, unit akar rumput dari struktur pemerintahan eksekutif di negara itu. Ada juga enam wilayah geopolitik: Utara Tengah, Barat Laut, Timur Laut, Selatan-selatan, Tenggara, dan Barat Daya.

Posisi Nwanze bahwa umat Kristen di Nigeria selatan harus membentuk inti dari ukuran sampel untuk hasil Penelitian Pew tidak berdasar. Survei itu juga menunjukkan bahwa orang Kristen Nigeria juga "memiliki pendapat yang lebih baik tentang AS (69 persen) daripada Muslim (54 persen)."

Setelah pembunuhan atas Jenderal Iran Qasem Soleimani, oleh Amerika Serikat, kepala polisi Nigeria mengeluarkan peringatan keamanan nasional untuk mencegah gangguan apa pun oleh "kepentingan domestik."

Gerakan Islam di Nigeria menggambarkan serangan udara AS yang menewaskan Soleimani sebagai "deklarasi perang terhadap Iran."

Trump telah digambarkan sebagai "salah satu pemimpin dunia paling kontroversial di zaman modern."

Namun, ia jelas dipuja oleh banyak orang di Nigeria

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UN Condemns Police, Military Killing IPOB Member Across Nigeria

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UN Condemns Police, Military Killing IPOB Member Across Nigeria

calls for urgent action to end violence in Nigeria

Abuja, Nigeria – The United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings condemned rising violence across Nigeria and a “lack of accountability” for perpetrators.

Agnes Callamard, speaking at a news conference on Monday in Nigeria’s capital, said the country needed urgent action to end the “pressure cooker” of violence that has claimed thousands of lives.

Nigeria is currently facing multiple conflicts, from attacks by the armed group Boko Haram to fighting between nomadic herders and farmers.

“The overall situation that I encountered in Nigeria gives rise to extreme concern … The warning signs are flashing bright red: increased numbers of attacks and killings over the last five years with a few notable exceptions,” Callamard said at a news conference.

“If ignored its ripple effect will spread throughout the sub-region given the country’s important role in the continent.”

She condemned police and military “brutality” across the country, and a “generalised system of impunity”.

“The time is now to prioritise the rule of law and to make it part and parcel of the Nigerian system,” especially for those living in extreme poverty, she said.

IMPUNITY

Cheta Nwanze, an analyst at SBM Intelligence, told Al Jazeera: “In almost two decades of Boko Haram’s existence, I can’t recall any of the financial backers who has ever been brought to trial … We’ve not had a single high-level conviction of a Boko Haram member.”

The United Nations estimates more than 27,000 people have been killed and an estimated two million others displaced in Nigeria’s northeast alone because of Boko Haram.

Callamard has been in Nigeria since August 16 and investigated the scope of violence in the country. She has also assessed measures adopted by the government to tackle the killings.

In Nigeria’s central states, clashes between farmers and nomadic herders over dwindling arable land have killed thousands of people and displaced tens of thousands of others.

“Nigeria is a pressure cooker of internal conflict. The absence of accountability is on such a scale that pretending this is not a crisis will be a major mistake,” said Callamard.

“The increased number of people living in absolute poverty, climate change and desertification, and the increased proliferation of weapons, altogether, these are reinforcing a localised system of violence,” she added.

The UN special rapporteur also examined safeguards over the use of the death penalty and laws applied by Islamic courts.

“I have also considered security repression against Shia Muslims, the indigenous people of Biafra, and against Ogoni people,” Callamard said.

She noted there had been key decisions made by courts but added, “these are not being implemented. I am hoping that the government will hear my call and demand that court orders are implemented”.

Nigerian authorities did not immediately respond to Callamard’s comments.

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What, if any, is Nigeria's national interest?, By Cheta Nwanze

What, if any, is Nigeria’s national interest?, By Cheta Nwanze

To define our national interest, we have to first understand if Nigeria is a nation, or just a “mere geographical expression”, as we were told by one of our so-called founding fathers. According to the dictionary, a nation is “a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own.” Anoosheh…

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UN calls out Nigeria on continued violence, blames lack of accountability

The United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings condemned rising violence across Nigeria and a "lack of accountability" for perpetrators. Agnes Callamard, speaking at a news conference on Monday in Nigeria's capital, said the country needed urgent action to end the "pressure cooker" of violence that has claimed thousands of lives. Nigeria is currently facing multiple conflicts, from attacks by the armed group Boko Haram to fighting between nomadic herders and farmers. "The overall situation that I encountered in Nigeria gives rise to extreme concern ... The warning signs are flashing bright red: increased numbers of attacks and killings over the last five years with a few notable exceptions," Callamard said at a news conference. "If ignored its ripple effect will spread throughout the sub-region given the country's important role in the continent." She condemned police and military "brutality" across the country, and a "generalised system of impunity". "The time is now to prioritise the rule of law and to make it part and parcel of the Nigerian system," especially for those living in extreme poverty, she said. Cheta Nwanze, an analyst at SBM Intelligence, told Al Jazeera: "In almost two decades of Boko Haram's existence, I can't recall any of the financial backers who has ever been brought to trial ... We've not had a single high-level conviction of a Boko Haram member." The United Nations estimates more than 27,000 people have been killed and an estimated two million others displaced in Nigeria's northeast alone because of Boko Haram. Callamard has been in Nigeria since August 16 and investigated the scope of violence in the country. She has also assessed measures adopted by the government to tackle the killings. In Nigeria's central states, clashes between farmers and nomadic herders over dwindling arable land have killed thousands of people and displaced tens of thousands of others. "Nigeria is a pressure cooker of internal conflict. The absence of accountability is on such a scale that pretending this is not a crisis will be a major mistake," said Callamard. "The increased number of people living in absolute poverty, climate change and desertification, and the increased proliferation of weapons, altogether, these are reinforcing a localised system of violence," she added. The UN special rapporteur also examined safeguards over the use of the death penalty and laws applied by Islamic courts. "I have also considered security repression against Shia Muslims, the indigenous people of Biafra, and against Ogoni people," Callamard said. She noted there had been key decisions made by courts but added, "these are not being implemented. I am hoping that the government will hear my call and demand that court orders are implemented". Nigerian authorities did not immediately respond to Callamard's comments. Read the full article

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WHO SOLD NIGERIA TO THE BRITISH FOR £865K IN 1899??? By Cheta Nwanze This is the story of the first oil war, which was fought in the 19th century, in the area that became Nigeria. All through the 19th century, palm oil was highly sought-after by the British, for use as an industrial lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain was the world’s first industrialised nation, so they needed resources such as palm oil to maintain that. Palm oil, of course, is a tropical plant, which is native to the Niger Delta. Malaysia’s dominance came a century later. By 1870, palm oil had replaced slaves as the main export of the Niger Delta, the area which was once known as the Slave Coast. At first, most of the trade in the oil palm was uncoordinated, with natives selling to those who gave them the best deals. Native chiefs such as former slave, Jaja of Opobo became immensely wealthy because of oil palm. With this wealth came influence. However, among the Europeans, there was competition for who would get preferential access to the lucrative oil palm trade. In 1879, George Goldie formed the United African Company (UAC), which was modelled on the former East India Company. Goldie effectively took control of the Lower Niger River. By 1884, his company had 30 trading posts along the Lower Niger. This monopoly gave the British a strong hand against the French and Germans in the 1884 Berlin Conference. The British got the area that the UAC operated in, included in their sphere of influence after the Berlin Conference. When the Brits got the terms they wanted from other Europeans, they began to deal with the African chiefs. Within two years of 1886, Goldie had signed treaties with tribal chiefs along the Benue and Niger Rivers whilst also penetrating inland. This move inland was against the spirit of verbal agreements that had been made to restrict the organisation’s activities to coastal regions. By 1886, the company name changed to The National Africa Company and was granted a royal charter (incorporated). The charter authorised the company to administer the Niger Delta and all lands around the banks ...... To be continued......... (at Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz6aEPUpkrh/?igshid=1gcv1k89z4aix

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‘It feels like there’s no hope’: Nigeria’s worsening job crisis | News

Abuja, Nigeria – There was one single promise that has dominated the election manifestos of Nigeria’s presidential candidates as they search to lure the help of the nation’s voters forward of polls in February: jobs, jobs and extra jobs.

This has additionally been the one problem that has consumed Immaculate Uba, who misplaced her financial institution job two years in the past.

“It has been a horrible expertise I by no means anticipated in my life – okaynowing absolutely nicely that you’re keen and in a position to work however cannot safe a job,” she informed Al Jazeera in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja.

“I’m nonetheless looking for a paid job,” she says. Within the meantime, she provides, she’s making an attempt to make a residing by doing bead- and shoe-making work.

Shrinking alternatives

4 out of each 10 folks within the the nation’s workforce are both unemployed or underemployed.

The unemployment fee stood at 18.eight % within the third quarter of 2017, with underemployment at 21.2 %.

The Nationwide Bureau of Statistics has not launched new jobs knowledge since final 12 months, prompting accusations by critics that this is because of political causes.

In the meantime plenty of corporations have exited Nigeria in current months – the most recent being world banking giants HSBC and UBS.

South African on line casino and resort operator, Solar Worldwide, can be near shutting operations after its earnings have been “damage by subdued development and one-off prices”, the corporate mentioned.

Analysts have blamed the exits on shaky investor confidence, dealing a giant blow to international direct funding and jobs in Africa‘s most populous nation.

“Nigeria’s unemployment degree is past disaster ranges, and must be the federal government’s high concern because it has social implications,” Cheta Nwanze, head of analysis at Lagos-based SBM Intelligence, informed Al Jazeera, describing the joblessness figures as “unsustainable”.

Amid this setting, hundreds of younger Nigerians are seeing the prospects of touchdown their dream job fade.

“I had hopes of a really vivid profession after graduating from college,” says Agnes Uzoigwe consideration, a 28-year-old who took her geology diploma six years in the past.

“I regarded ahead to a job with an oil firm within the Niger Delta space however after nearly 4 years of making use of for various roles, I acquired pissed off,” she provides, preventing again tears.

“Essentially the most annoying factor is that it appears like there is no hope. These employed by corporations are being sacked and other people like me with no job expertise cannot even think about getting any job,” she provides.

Uzoigwe’s father, who funded her research, lately retired as a authorities worker and is counting on his pension to cater for his household of seven.

After an extended interval of looking for a job in Abuja, Uzoigwe has now taken up a job as a trainer in a personal faculty. However she says her wage is barely sufficient to deal with her fundamental wants.

‘Pissed off folks will finally flip to demagogues’

Nigeria is Africa’s greatest financial system, but this that has not translated to jobs for a lot of.

Pissed off and determined, many job seekers have usually fallen sufferer to faux hiring corporations which money in on their must get a job.

These corporations promote positions with engaging affords, however find yourself swindling job seekers who’re requested to pay “registration and logistics” charges earlier than touchdown a job.

“With the college system including roughly 1,000,000 folks a 12 months to the workforce, and a really excessive delivery fee, this represents Nigeria’s greatest problem,” Nwanze, the analyst, says.

“Pissed off folks will finally flip to demagogues for his or her every day bread,” he provides.

Political enviornment

The nation’s worsening unemployment scenario has negatively affected the federal government’s picture.

President Muhammadu Buhari received the 2015 elections on the again of a marketing campaign vowing to repair the nation’s financial system, however has struggled to repair the worsening financial disaster.

Now, forward of the February elections, he’s promising to generate extra employment.

“The subsequent degree of effort focuses on job creation throughout varied sectors,” Buhari mentioned in his election marketing campaign’s coverage doc.

“From an enlargement of the N-Energy programme [government loan scheme for young graduates] to investing in know-how and inventive sector jobs to agriculture and revolutionising entry to credit score for entrepreneurs and artisans, there’s scope for over 15 million new jobs.”

His principal challenger for the presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, has attacked the federal government’s job creation report since Buhari assumed workplace 4 years.

“Near 16 million persons are unemployed, 9 million greater than in 2014,” Abubakar mentioned in his personal marketing campaign doc.

Abubakar has promised to treatment this with “the creation of as much as three million self- and wage-paying employment alternatives within the personal sector yearly”.

Iniobong Paul, a hotelier who misplaced her job two years in the past, informed Al Jazeera she hopes that the political guarantees can be realised after the elections.

“It is not been simple,” she says, including that she appears ahead to working once more.

“It is actually been a making an attempt time for me.”

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Cheta Nwanze: The Igbo Versus Yoruba Politics In Nigeria [MUST READ]

Cheta Nwanze: The Igbo Versus Yoruba Politics In Nigeria [MUST READ]

First, we must dispense with the notion that politics is “for the greater good”. Politics is about self-interest pure and simple. One of the things we have done wrong in Nigeria is to pretend otherwise.

Recently I was privy to an unscientific survey in which more than 80% of Igbo and Yoruba respondents identified ‘the North’ as the problem with Nigeria. However, asked if they’d be willing to…

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The high cost of red tape in Nigeria

MANY Nigerians may see building a hotel as an easy way to launder money. For legitimate entrepreneurs, however, running a hotel is far from cheap or simple. In Abuja, the capital, it is rather like erecting a sign that says: “Tax me”. In fact, erecting such a sign would result in city and local taxes of about 80,000 naira ($221) a year.

One Abuja hotelier recorded no fewer than 20 bills for various annual fees, taxes and licences. They range from a 5m-naira charge from the city council for having a car park, to demands from two different agencies for putting a logo on a company car. The hotelier has also been issued with bills for four different types of property tax and a bicycle/cart licence, despite having neither a bicycle nor a cart. Although he is challenging some of the notices in court, it is often safer to pay up and avoid facing the policemen that bureaucrats send to enforce payment on the spot. “It’s a racket …like in the mafia movies,” he says.

Trying to play by the rules can be a laborious, opaque process. Companies that want to renew product licences with Nigeria’s food and drug agency, NAFDAC, have to run the same laboratory tests as they did when they first registered their products, says Affiong Williams, the founder of ReelFruit, a snack company. She was forced to employ an external consultant after a staff member spent one day a week over the course of two months trying to renew the licences (which has to be done every two years). The company was also fined $150 by NAFDAC for not collecting product-registration certificates, but only after it spent almost a year trying to do so and being told they were not ready.

It is possible for the well-connected to pay bribes rather than taxes, says the Abuja hotelier. But those who do risk being presented with a backlog of bills if an election puts a new set of officials in charge. Even those who try to pay the taxman have to beware. Until the introduction of a single bank account for the federal government in 2012, taxpayers could not be sure that they were not simply fattening the personal accounts of mandarins.

There are a number of reasons for Nigeria’s impenetrable thicket of red tape. The first is the low price of oil, which once accounted for as much as 90% of government revenues. When less money is being doled out to state and local administrations, bureaucrats invent new charges.

The main reason, however, is Nigeria’s political system. The “patronage economy” encourages legislators to create ever more government agencies which they can use to provide jobs to pals, says Cheta Nwanze of SBM Intelligence, a research firm. Many simply duplicate work that other agencies are already doing. One local newspaper found that the national parliament was in the process of creating 25 new federal agencies. Among them was a National Council for Research and Development, a National Research and Innovation Foundation, a National Research and Innovation Council and Federal Entrepreneurship Centres across the country. As if that were not enough, it is also creating a Chartered Institute for Entrepreneurs. Many will no doubt start issuing licences and permits to any firm in sight.

Ms Williams knows only too well what happens when firms grow large enough to be noticed. As hers expanded, it was told to register its products with the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, using a near-identical process to NAFDAC’s. Knowing what to comply with (and how) is almost impossible, she says.

The result of all this regulation is that businesses stay small and, where possible, in the shadows. In 2013 the National Bureau of Statistics found that Nigeria has nearly 37m firms employing fewer than ten people (most of them unregistered sole traders). Just 4,670 employed 50-199 staff. No wonder: senior managers at big companies have to spend around 18% of their time dealing with government demands, while bosses at the smallest firms devote just 7%, according to a survey in 2014 by the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank’s private-sector investment arm.

Reformers are trying to snip away at the tangle. Yemi Osinbajo, the vice-president, issued a series of executive orders in May in an effort to move Nigeria up a few notches on the World Bank’s ease of doing business index. It currently ranks 169th out of 190, putting it behind countries such as Iraq and Sudan.

Among his many edicts, Mr Osinbajo has ordered immigration officials to process visas for investors more quickly. He has also forced agencies to publish their regulations online and insisted that officials at ports and airports should be fired if caught asking for bribes.

Yet there is a gulf between promises in the corridors of power and what happens in the depths of the bureaucracy. It is, for instance, possible in theory to renew passports online. But in reality officials still drag their heels, taking months to issue them. In 2011 a report commissioned by the then-president, Goodluck Jonathan, recommended cutting the number of federal agencies from 263 to 161. Since then, however, the number has kept growing.

This article appeared in the Middle East and Africa section of the print edition under the headline "Of mandarins and men"

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The Roots Of “The Anioma Igbo” People By Cheta Nwanze: The Missing Points

The Roots Of “The Anioma Igbo” People By Cheta Nwanze: The Missing Points

By Nze-Na-Ozo Emeka Umeagbalasi

The account presented by Maazi Cheta Nwanze concerning the above subject, published by Elombah Reports on 28th April 2020 and Sundiata Reports on 29th April 2020 is seminally grounded and commendable; particularly the aspect that has to do with missionary, colonial and civil war times’ happenings in ‘Anioma Igbo’ including psychological traumas, identity crises and…

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What is our interest in Ukraine?, By Cheta Nwanze

What is our interest in Ukraine?, By Cheta Nwanze

Now speaking of weak African countries, I was disappointed to read of Nigeria condemning Russia’s actions in Ukraine. There are a lot of questions to be asked of our foreign policy elite in that action, starting with: What are Nigeria’s interests? Are they served by joining a bandwagon to pile in, or are they served by being circumspect, like India has been? I’d like to begin this by saying…