- The Alumni Association of the National Institute (AANI), has promised to help the federal government in recovering the missing 110 Dapchi girls
- AANI also said it is making moves to resolve the herdsmen-farmers clashes across Nigeria
- Governor Simon Bako Lalong of Plateau state urged the association to keep using different means in ending the clashes
The Alumni Association of the National Institute (AANI), has offered to assist the federal government in ensuring the safe return of the 110 girls recently abducted from the Government Girls Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe state.
Khaleel Bolaji, the AANI president, said this at the 38th annual general meeting of AANI at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in Kuru near Jos.
Bolaji also said the association was also making contributions to bring an end to the herdsmen-farmers crisis throughout the nation, Daily Trust reports.
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He stated that cases such as the kidnapping of the girls by Boko Haram terrorists and the persistent herdsmen-farmers clashes were to be discussed during the business session of the alumni’s meeting.
Jonathan Juma, the acting director general of NIPSS, had earlier said the institute’s research directorate hosted a session on the conflict on the theme: Sedentary Farmers and Nomadic Herders Conflict in Nigeria: Towards a Strategic Response. Juma said the institute will send a policy brief to the government on the development.
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Governor Simon Bako Lalong of Plateau state urged AANI to use such forums to proffer solutions that will assist government at all levels to put an end to the crisis.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that the presidency had revealed why Boko Haram terrorists managed to abduct the 110 schoolgirls in Dapchi.
The personal assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on social media, Lauretta Onochie, said system failure led to the recent abduction of school girls in the northeast region.
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Source: Naija.ng