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Sep 5
SURMOUNTING THE FUTURE CHAOS All my life and the whole, I’ve devoted myself To the prosperity of mankind, With the sole aim to keep safe, The integrity of peace-reign chronicles. Why being punished by dismemberment? Is amputation all I receive? Is banishment my deserved credit? What, now, could be the way out? To escape the wrath of the universe And avert the clans’ future outrage. I spoke to myself from within, Pondering the potential possibilities To remain an unwavering pair of block That strengthens the wall of unity Between the singing birds And the blue fire that sweeps the land. The great spring will dry up! The white beast will collapse! And the scorpion hidden under the flower Will rise to the land in broad daylight! The voice of the spirits will be unheard! And all Livings will lose their livelihood! There comes a moment of thick cloudiness, Furiously sluice up of thunderstorms, Inevitable hours of thoughtlessness, And less magnanimity towards the souls. Only when yield to the shamanic words, And the world returns to being pitiful Will the rock touches the ground again – the stream enjoys a free flow of water. I beseech mercy for the weaklings, The wrongfully accused to be acquitted, The feeling of bloodthirst to subdue, All that reek of bloodlust be cleansed Only then will the future chaos be surmounted! ~DaPenWarrior✍ #i_knit_to_knight_the_sleepers
May 22
70% of Nigerian foods rejected abroad as NAFDAC initiates strategy to end challenge The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye Sunday affirmed that 70 per cent of food exports from Nigeria are rejected abroad, blaming it on the deplorable state of export trade facilitation for regulated products leaving the country. Adeyeye who spoke during the commissioning of a New NAFDAC Office complex at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport/NAHCO in Lagos said the incidence has become a cause for concern for the Agency with huge financial losses to the exporters and the country at large. She however added that the incidence of rejection of food exports from Nigeria in some European countries and the United States of America will soon become a thing of the past if collaboration between the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control NAFDAC and other government agencies at the ports is strengthened. Adeyeye added that a visit to NAFDAC Export warehouses within the international airport would explain the major reason for the continuous rejection of Nigerian exports abroad. She noted that the Agency was responding to the challenge by initiating a collaborative adventure with the government agencies at the Ports towards ensuring that goods are of requisite quality and meet the regulatory requirements of the importing countries and destinations before such are even packaged and hauled to the ports for shipment. “This raises the need for more enhanced export regulation – packaging, pre-shipment testing and certification to provide some quality assurance and minimise rejects. To save our national reputation in international commerce, all stakeholders in the export trade should see this as a call to duty and collaborate with NAFDAC for the sake of the country and our collective future. ‘’The mandate to safeguard the health of the populace through ensuring that food, medicines, cosmetics, medical devices, chemicals, and packaged water are safe, efficacious and of the right quality in an economy that is overwhelmingly dependent on the importation of the bulk of its finished products and raw materials could never have been actualized without the effective presence of NAFDAC at the ports and land borders,’ she said. Adeyeye said: ‘’Our push through the resilience of the past Director, Prof Samson Adebayo on assumption of duties, for the immediate return of NAFDAC to the ports that eventually happened in May 2018’’, stressing that ‘’with gratitude for the approval of the President and the various arms of the Government, the results of our presence at the ports are available for everyone to see’’. She commended the Nigeria Customs Service for the symbiotic relationship that exists between its management and the Agency, saying ‘’without customs, they will not be able to do a lot of what they have been able to do. “NAFDAC collaborates with Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Services, to ensure that due diligence is done because over 70 per cent of the products that leave our ports get rejected. Considering the money spent on getting those products out of the country, it is a double loss for both the exporter and the country)’’. ‘’Without the police, we cannot do much in terms of investigation and enforcement. We have over 80 policemen with us in NAFDAC. They help us a lot when we are doing raids or investigations as the case may be’’. She further explained that the Agency has embarked on the optimisation and customisation of its processes, stating that the Ports Inspection Data-Capture and Risk Management System (PIDCARMS) is presently deployed in all of the nation’s ports and land borders to automatically capture and process data for imported regulated products from the Nigeria Customs Information System (NICIS).
May 21
Sudan Conflit: Warring Factions Agree on temporary ceasefire A temporary ceasefire in Sudan has been agreed upon as fight between two warring factions entered its sixth week. Previous truce attempts between Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have tended to collapse within minutes of beginning. But the new deal will be enforced by a “ceasefire monitoring mechanism,” according to a US-Saudi statement. As part of the seven-day humanitarian ceasefire, Sudanese officials have agreed to restore essential services. Fighting between the two sides has plunged the country into chaos since it began last month, with more than a million people thought to have been displaced. Stocks of food, money and essentials have fast declined and aid groups repeatedly complained of being unable to provide sufficient assistance in Sudan’s capital Khartoum, where much of the violence has taken place. Both the regular army and the RSF have been urged to allow the distribution of humanitarian aid, restore essential services and withdraw forces from hospitals. The United States and Saudi Arabia, who sponsored the peace talks in Jeddah, said the ceasefire would come into effect on Monday evening. In a statement, the US State Department acknowledged previous failed attempts at brokering peace in Sudan but said there was a key difference this time. “Unlike previous ceasefires, the agreement reached in Jeddah was signed by the parties and will be supported by a US-Saudi and international-supported ceasefire monitoring mechanism,” it said, without giving more detail. Taking to Twitter, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken added, “It is past time to silence the guns and allow unhindered humanitarian access. “I implore both sides to uphold this agreement – the eyes of the world are watching.” The war broke out in Khartoum on 15 April following days of tension as members of the RSF were redeployed around the country in a move that the army saw as a threat. There was also a power struggle between Sudan’s regular army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who leads the RSF. Hundreds of people have been killed in the fighting and the UN has warned of a worsening situation in Africa’s third-largest country, where a huge number of people already relied on aid before the conflict. It has been two weeks since representatives of the warring factions first gathered in the Saudi capital for peace talks. On 11 May, both sides signed a commitment intended to lay the groundwork for humanitarian assistance in Sudan. But earlier this week, UN aid chief Martin Griffiths told the AFP news agency there had been “important and egregious” violations of that agreement, which he added fell short of a ceasefire. Reports of violence across the country remain rife, with strikes reported on Saturday by eyewitnesses in southern Omdurman and northern Bahri, the two cities that lie across the Nile from Khartoum. An Omdurman resident recalled her house “shaking” early on Saturday as a result of “heavy artillery fire”. “It was terrifying, everyone was lying under their beds,” Sanaa Hassan, a 33-year-old living in the al-Salha neighbourhood, told Reuters by phone. “What’s happening is a nightmare.”
May 20
EFCC vows to not bandy words with suspect The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC has said that it will not bandy words with a suspect. The commission stated this while reacting to the allegation made by Zamfara state governor, Bello Matawalle, that its boss, Abdulrasheed Bawa, demanded $2 million as bribe from him. Matawalle in an interview with BBC Hausa on Friday, May 19, alleged that Bawa had in the past demanded the money from him as bribe. Matawalle has been in a running battle with the EFCC boss after the commission began an investigation into alleged corrupt practices against him. In a statement posted on its Twitter handle last night, the EFCC asked the governor to provide concrete evidence to back up his claims.
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