Kutigi chairs National Conference

President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed former Chief Justice of the federation, Hon. Justice Idris Kutigi as chairman of the National Conference

Chief Anyim Pius Anyim, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, in a statement, in Abuja, Monday, also announced former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Boaji Akinyemi as Vice Chairman.

Dr. Valerie Azinge is to serve as secretary of the conference and therefore in charge of the secretariat

Advocates of Nigeria’s break-up should be stoned — Yuguda

As the National Conference gets underway,  Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State has suggested that advocates of Nigeria’s partitioning should be stoned out of the venue of the dialogue.

Yuguda, in an interview with Vanguard after being conferred with the African Achievers Award in Education Attainment in Accra, Ghana, stated that delegates to the conference should seize the momentum to discuss what would make Nigeria greater and stronger, rather talk about disintegration.

Yuguda said, “What I have always said is that any person who goes there to talk about partitioning Nigeria should be stoned out of the conference because I believe in the unity of this country. Our parents could not have shed blood to unite this country only for our own generation to decimate the country or partition the land and say we cannot live together.

Nigeria doomed without National Conference — Braithwaite

A former presidential aspirant, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, says principalities and powers  were out to frustrate the proposed National Conference, saying that without the confab, the dream of a new Nigeria would remain bleak.

He also stressed the need for Christians not to only support the conference through prayers, but also participate actively in every way.
Braithwaite, who was the guest speaker at a 50th anniversary lecture entitled: The Church Today, convened by the Archbishop Vining Memorial Church Cathedral, said this in Lagos.

He  admonished Christians to get involved in political activities to salvage the country..
His words: “In a recent lecture I delivered at the Apostolic Church on the issue of the imminent National Conference in Nigeria, I had this to say, on the compelling duty and the necessity of Christians, especially the regenerate ones, to be fully involved in the conference.

Even right now, principalities and powers are at work night and day to scuttle the conference. Without a successful conference , birthing a completely new country would be impossible.  The country’s foreseeable picture would be bleak.