NYCN Congress: Aspirant unveils key-point agenda. Ahead of the upcoming national congress of the National Youths Council of Nigeria (NYCN), a Presidential aspirant, COMRADE TOSIN ADEYANJU aka Kakaaki, the Executive Director of an NGO, Conscience Nigeria (CN), told Heartland Blaze Magazine in Abuja that he would promote constitutional role for the youth, amongst his most priorities are; 1. Agriculture, 2. Security, 3. Employment and 4. Building of a Youth Village in Abuja , if elected. The aspirant said that he would fight for the constitutional recognition of more than 70 million youths to curb youth restiveness and enhance national security. Adeyanju expressed regrets that since the inception of the council in 1964, the youth had not enjoyed constitutional backing. ``It (NYCN) has not enjoyed constitutional backing like the way it is being practised in other parts of the world. ``I will make it my first task to lobby through our lawmakers in the National Assembly to come up with a bill on the establishment of a National Youth Council of Nigeria. The activist also promised to collaborate with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to evolve a policy that would encourage youths to be self employed through involvement in agriculture. Comrade Tosin Adeyanju is an indefatigable Youth/Students Leader, a Guru of Boardroom and Mainstream of Youth Politics in Nigeria. A revered name in Youth movements across the length and breadth of Nigeria, a motivator and energizer of Youth, a generator and multiplier or resources, a reservoir of God given intelligence, an epitome of natural charisma, a beacon of bright hope, an expender and refiner of ingenuity, a commander of courage, a tactician and strategist who stimulates the loyalty of his subordinate, a friend of the lowly, a voice to the voiceless, an up-lifter of the downtrodden, a cultured gentleman, a consummate advocate of plebeian right, a miracle of providence, an Ambassador of peace and above all, an Apostle of Youth Empowerment. He also told us that his other Priorities and plans in blue-print for the Nigerian Youth will include: Young people’s involvement in Government policy formulation & Implementation. Re-orientation of Nigerian Youth on Social Vices Advocacy Capacity Building Leadership Training for Youth Leaders Send a Bill to National Assembly for direct funding of NYCN "I will add a loud voice to the Federal Government youth Program you win so that it will not be one of those projects that will not come to fruition, but will liaise with the Federal government for youths to really benefit and take advantage of this project for the Nigerian youths to be fully engaged because Young people in most countries today are both a major human resource for development and key agents for social change, economic development and technological innovation. Their imagination, ideals, considerable energies and vision are essential for the continuing development of the societies in which they live" he said. The problem that youths face as well as their vision and aspiration are essential components of the challenges and prospects of today’s societies and future generations. Let us decide wisely, vote ADEYANJU in as NYCN president he calls on Nigerian youths!!!

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US military helicopter crashes near N. Korea border On April 16, 2013 · In News 9:51 am SEOUL (AFP) – A US military helicopter taking part in a joint South Korea-US drill crashed Tuesday near the North Korean border with 21 personnel on board. There were no fatalities. A statement put out by the US Forces in Korea said the CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter had “executed a hard landing” while on a routine flight operation in Cheolwon county, which touches on the border with North Korea. The precise cause of the accident was not immediately known, the statement said, adding that a “comprehensive investigation” had been ordered. All five crew members and 16 other service personnel were taken to a US military hospital in Seoul. Fifteen were subsequently released while six remained hospitalised “in stable condition”, the statement said. Pictures from the site taken by the Yonhap news agency showed firefighters using foam to douse the burned out wreck of the helicopter which had clearly burst into flames after crash landing. The helicopter was taking part in an annual South Korea-US joint military exercise called “Foal Eagle.” The accident occurred at a time of heightened military tensions on the Korean peninsula, partly due to North Korea’s anger over “Foal Eagle”, which it sees as an invasion rehearsal. There are 28,500 US military personnel permanently stationed in South Korea. The crew of the crashed helicopter belonged to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit stationed in Okinawa, Japan.

MEND threatens to kill Muslim clerics, bomb mosques from May 31 On April 15, 2013 · In News 12:05 am By Emma Amaize & SAMUEL OYADONGHA WARRI—FEAR of a religious war loomed, weekend, in Nigeria, following the threat by Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, to commence the assassination of Muslim clerics, bombing of mosques, hajj camps and Islamic institutions as from May 31. The exercise, codenamed, Operation Barborossa, according to spokesman of the militant group, Jomo Gbomo, is to save Christianity in Nigeria from total destruction. MEND’s threat is obviously in response to the bombing of Christians and Christian worship places by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram. ...Militants …Militants It said: “On behalf of the hapless Christian population in Nigeria, MEND will, from Friday, May 31, 2013, embark on a crusade to save Christianity in Nigeria from annihilation. “The bombing of mosques, hajj camps, Islamic institutions, large congregations in Islamic events and assassination of clerics that propagate doctrines of hate, will form the core mission of this crusade code named Operation Barbarossa. “This campaign will not in any way interfere with the ongoing “Hurricane Exodus,” which on Saturday, April 13, 2013, at 1am, swept through the Ewellesuo community, in Nembe, Bayelsa State, leaving the destruction of well 62, belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company in its wake. “We may only consider a ceasefire of Operation Barbarossa if the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, the Catholic Church and Henry Okah, one of the few leaders in the Niger Delta region we respect for his integrity, intervenes. “Also, the assurance for a cessation of hostilities targeted at Christians in their places of worship, made privately or publicly by the real Boko Haram leadership will make us call off this crusade. “We have no problem with their attacks on security agencies including the prisons, for their role in extrajudicial killings, torture, deceit and corruption.”

Minister prepares bill to stop overseas medical treatments for officials On April 15, 2013 · In News ABUJA — A Bill to stop public servants from travelling abroad at the expense of the Federal Government for treatment of ailments that can be satisfactorily tackled in Nigeria, is to be presented to the Federal Executive Council, FEC, this year. President Goodluck Jonathan, is also billed to flag off a stroke awareness campaign in Abuja, as part of measures to tackle the rising burden of stroke, hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases in the country. Disclosing this, weekend, during the presentation of his score card to the press, Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, said the Federal Ministry of Health was already compiling a list of health facilities that could handle specific ailments that Nigerians often go abroad to treat. Chukwu, who observed that the Bill, which was being carefully composed, would become effective this year, asserted that compilation of the list began last year. He said even though the list is not exhaustive, it is being regularly updated. His words: “It is correct to say the Federal government will not sponsor any case that can be satisfactorily handled in Nigeria. We are still at the level of the top management committee of the health ministry. It is a long process, we do not want to send a half-baked memo to the FEC, so it has to be well thought out and we have to carry people along. “It is not enough for the Minister of Health to ask the President-in-Council that we should no longer sponsor public servants for cases that can be handled in Nigeria. We should know where these cases can be handled here.

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Political Boko Haram behind rejection of Amnesty – Yuguda On April 15, 2013 · In News 2:18 am 0 By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor LAGOS— Criminal and politically minded insurgents in the Boko Haram group were behind last week’s rejection of the amnesty plans of the Federal Government, Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State has said. Noting that no genuine Moslem or Christian would shed blood in the name of God, Governor Yuguda affirmed that members of the genuine Boko Haram would bring their issues to the negotiating table once the environment is provided. Speaking to newsmen in Lagos at the weekend, Governor Yuguda also rebuffed insinuations of a crisis in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP over its 2015 presidential nomination, describing claims of a fight between him and Vice-President Namadi Sambo over the ticket as the invention of detractors. *Gov. Yuguda While praising the unifying role of Chief Tony Anenih, the chairman of the Board of Trustees, BoT of the PDP, Yuguda said Anenih is seriously misunderstood by many people on account of his frankness and bluntness on issues pertaining to the party and the country. “On the issue of Boko Haram, amnesty has been given to the real Boko Haram and I believe they are willing to accept that. That is my belief but you know there is the criminal Boko Haram and there is the real Boko Haram. But the criminal and the political Boko Haram, are the armed robbers and that arm of politicians that call themselves Boko Haram and they go about attacking people. “Maybe, it is the criminal Boko Haram that are responding that they don’t want amnesty because they have a different intention. Some of them are gun runners, some of them are armed robbers and some of them are doing that on behalf of politicians. So, they just hide under Boko Haram and perpetrate evil. For those that are actually Boko Haram, I would want to believe that there is something that is agitating their minds, not about killing human beings but probably there are certain things that have agitated their minds-probably joblessness- I understand some of them are university graduates of 15 years with no job.” “Now that the president has extended that olive branch to them, I would like to believe that they are quite happy. There has to be an end to all these. Once they have accepted, we know that we have to face the criminals. Any other person that is calling himself Boko Haram, we know they are the armed robbers and the political Boko Haram. You have to understand this,” he said. Affirming that there was nothing religious about the aspirations of the group, the governor said that no genuine Moslem or Christian would shed blood in the name of God. “For any Muslim or Christian who picks up a weapon and says I want to kill, that man is a criminal. He is not a Muslim, he is not a Christian. And the earlier you start preaching this philosophy, the better for all of us. We must find a reason for the killing.” “If you read the Bible from the beginning to the end, there is nowhere it said go and kill for God. Even the Bible said if you are slapped on the left, you turn the other cheek. What is the justification for the killing of people? Certainly not from the bible! As for you being a Muslim, you cannot be a Muslim without believing in the Bible. In the Koran Jesus is Isah, the son of Mary. You must believe in His mother and believe that He was given birth to by the power of the Holy Spirit.” On the crisis rocking the PDP across the country, Yuguda rebuffed insinuations that the party was on a meltdown saying the PDP would enlarge its present tentacles to 35 of the 36 states of the country in the next round of elections. “PDP is going to win 35 out of the 36 states of the Federation, come 2015,” he, however, shied away from naming the state that would escape the PDP’s offensive. The governor also decried as illogical and farfetched recent reports that he was locked in a combat with Vice-President Namadi Sambo over the presidential ticket in 2015. Asserting a long relationship with Sambo which he said flowed from a long history of cordiality between their two families, he said: “It is the figment of imagination of somebody and this is because I look up to the vice-president as a senior brother. He is competent and is a successful architect. Why should me, Isa Yuguda have blind ambition and I am not that kind of person. I am a loyal party member, loyal to Mr. President and the vice-president,” he said. Praising Chief Anenih’s efforts in stabilizing the PDP, he regretted the aspersions against the BoT chairman who he said is doing a good job in partnership with the national chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur. “Anenih and the chairman are elder-statesman and he is one of the very few that I know that love this country. His word is his word, but he is frank and blunt.”