Across the nation’s states, there is a class of children who neither feel good nor happy. Their outlook paints a vivid picture of their state of helplessness.

Now that the annual Children’s Day celebration has come and gone,the question of what happens to the average Nigerian child after that one day jamboree still lingers in the hearts of concerned parents and education stakeholders.

Going by a report of the United Nations Children Fund, Nigeria is among the 24 countries with a good number of undernourished children in the world.

What I am saying is that for the sake of your children and my children, we must tackle this radicalisation of the Islamic faith, because if you think that the radicalisation process has not started in the South, then you are joking.

In this concluding part of the Vanguard conference hall, discussants insist that now is the time to tackle the radicalisation process that is festering in the country.

MODERATOR: Some people have argued that the proposed amnesty for the insurgents is a double edged sword, yet the likes of Sultan Abubakar Sa’ad, a former military man and intelligence officer, believes that the best option to the Boko Haram crisis, a group that does not believe in dialogue or diplomacy outside its own world view. So where does this leave us?

The orgy of violence in the old Kanem Borno empire had become a threat to sovereignty of Nigerian state, and direct challenge to the authority and power of the Federal Government, as the insurgents had vowed to topple the democratic order by the use of force, to enthrone a theocratic state, based on Sharia’s jurisprudence.

This is the sorry story of the massively embarrassing coincidence of the 20th anniversary of the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, and the move by some Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors annulling the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, election of Governor Rotimi Amaechi as its chairman. It is the story of how democracy in Nigeria is determined by the person defining its terms, not on the global gold standard.

There was an election held on Friday May 24, 2013, at the Rivers State Government House, Abuja by the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) to elect a chairman. Against all odds, Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of RiversState, who was having a running battle with the presidency, got re-elected for a second tenure as he defeated Governor Jonah Jang of PlateauState, said to be the candidate of President Goodluck Jonathan by 19 to 16 votes.

Speaking exclusively to Saturday Vanguard, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor David Jonah Jang, Mr. James Manu said that the Governor reconciles the parties in the Forum. He said: “Well, you need to appreciate it, first and foremost, from the background that he never looked for it.

It looked like a war and true, it was. With every thing in its arsenal, the Federal Government stoutly rose against the re-election of Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of RiversState as the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF.