Global DAILY News Updates

27/03/2022

2023 GUBER:
UDOM PROMISES DELEGATES, STAKEHOLDERS 1M, 1.5M, 2M NAIRA RESPECTIVELY

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has promised the sum of 1m, 1.5m and 2m to delegates and stakeholders across the state asking them to support and work for his preferred Successor, Pastor Umo Eno. Including those close to and working with other Aspirants, THE INK can report matters of fact.

Political scientists who spoke to our reporter have since described the monetary promise of the Governor as a very desperate bid towards ensuring that he plants Umo Eno as a Governor come 2023 against all odds.

Governor Udom Emmanuel sources said has made mouth watering offers of one Million naira, 1.5m and 2M each to statutory delegates and stakeholders across the State with additional promises of more funds as the PDP nomination enters into an advanced stage.

Checks by THE INK reporter reveal that the Governor and his agents have been calling delegates and stakeholders into the lodge at night in order to execute the plans.

Some of those who attended the night meetings at the lodge informed our reporter that the Governor is on a long thing as they are a people the Governor denied seeing or empowering in the last 7years. The however querried why the Governor has suddenly realized their functions and importance now.

"The Governor and his agents have been calling us into the lodge at night asking us to vote for Umo Eno to win the PDP nomination and will then make promises of 1M, 1.5M and 2M naira with further promises of more money and empowerment if we stand with Umo Eno".

"We are a people he, the Governor denied seeing or empowering in the last 7years. So why now?" A delegate from Uyo querried.

A delegate from ONNA local Government Area who exchanged views with THE INK reporter in Eket said, the Governor is all out to ensure that he clips the wings of Senator Bassey Albert, Barr Onofiok Luke, Mr. Mike Enyong whom he believes are in charge of over 85percent of statutory delegates in Akwa Ibom State.

Our reporter understands that with the amended Electoral Act banning Government appointees from voting or being voted for as delegates, the State Chief Executive became jittery and is said to have since started reaching out to delegates for support.

It was learnt also by THE INK reporter that another reason for the panicking of Governor Udom Emmanuel and his handlers is because going by recent political development in the affairs of the PDP in recent times, that the Party may not allow adhoc delegates.

The realization of this development is said to have sent fresh fears down the spines of the Akwa Ibom State Governor and his promoters, hence his decision to begin a romance with delegates whom multiple sources say have since promised them One Million naira each.

A delegate from Nsit Ibom who also lend her voice to the development describes the act as that of desperation.

She said, it is funny how the Governor is showing signs of ill-preparation for this election despite being on the saddle for seven years and still counting.

Our source said, "We used to plead, beg and ask that the State Governor see us or reach out to us so that we will understand his succession agenda and be a part of it, but NO, we were relegated and treated like second class citizens.

"Today, the Governor and his managers have suddenly realized our worth and he is making offers, such offers will not work because all delegates in Akwa Ibom State are sympathetic to one course or the other. Delegates today are either for OBA, Onofiok, Baba Ntan, Akan Okon and very few others for others.

"With this reach out, is the Governor asking us to leave our benefactors and follow him? We will not. These Governorship aspirants have been with us from time, they have serviced us and kept us afloat while the Governor was busy travelling up and down, so the time for us to reciprocate the love, kindness and support our respective Principals have shown and still showing us is now. We cannot betray our benefactors. We will stand with them. We will be steadfast at least for the love they have demonstrated for us over time".

Another delegate, a strong Chapter Chairman from Abak/Etim Ekpo/Ika Federal Constituency said, the decision to reach out by the Governor is too late. He said, delegates are wiser this time and we will show either our excitement or anger at the ballot.

One of the spokesperson for Umo Eno's Campaign team while responding to these concerns admitted that delegates aren't very friendly towards them. But expressed hope that there could be a change of mind along the line.

Meanwhile, THE INK can report matters of fact that these are not friendly times for the Governor as the position of delegates on the Umo Eno governorship does not represent a position of victory for the Preferred.

"In this Government House, we know finally like finally that Our Boss, the Governor is on a voyage of a Swim against the tide", an aide to the Governor told our reporter yesterday during the inauguration of new Commissioners at Government House.

He however added that, the State Governor will muscle on.

14/03/2022

DAVID UMAHI: HOW DEFECTION INVALIDATES HIS CERTIFICATE OF RETURN

Find attached the Certificate of Return issued to David Umahi before he was sworn in as Governor.

Get any certificate of any Governor in Nigeria, or any elected official, let's have this conversation; please, constantly look at the Certificate of Return as we progress.

Section 75 (1) of the Electoral Act 2010, states that "A sealed Certificate of Return at an election in a prescribed form shall be issued within 7 days to every candidate who has won an election under this Act." See section 72 (1) of the Electoral Act 2022.

Without a Certificate of Return there is no evidence that a candidate won an election and he cannot be sworn into office. A Certificate of Return is the gold medal of an election; without it, you can't lay claim to be a winner.

Now, let's look at the Certificate of Return issued to Umahi.

It says: "I hereby certify that Nweze David Umahi of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been elected to the office of Governor of Ebonyi State..."

Did you see that?

"Nweze David Umahi of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)..."

Let's look at the meaning of the proposition or the word "of".

"Of" is used in expressing the relationship between a part and a whole.

So, the Certificate of Return made it abundantly clear that Nweze David Umahi (is a part) OF Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) (the whole)..." One cannot exist without the other in governing Ebonyi State. That's why the Federal Government led by President Buhari is known as the APC Government. This is how it is all over the world that practise partisan democracy.

You can never divorce your government from your political party. In fact, the president or governor is the leader of his political party at the Federal or State, respectively.

When the people voted for you, it was your party's manifesto, aims, objectives and proposed plans that they voted for. They saw the manifestoes of other political parties but chose yours. You are expected to implement your party's manifesto as Governor. You can't convince people to vote for one manifesto and then turn round to defect and adopt another one they rejected at the polls. That's criminally dishonest.

Back to the Certificate of Return, a new one has not and cannot be issued to David Umahi after his defection. The only Certificate of Return he holds that empowers him to be Governor of Ebonyi State, is the one that reads: "Nweze David Umahi of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)..."

You cannot hold a Certificate of Return that says you are of the PDP, while you have declared publicly that you have left the PDP. By this singular action, you have invalidated the Certificate of Return, the only document that gives you the power to be Governor.

As long as David Umahi maintains he has left the PDP, and as long as the only Certificate of Return issued to him by INEC states that: "I hereby certify that Nweze David Umahi of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been elected to the office of Governor of Ebonyi State...", Umahi cannot continue to be Governor.

He might be righteous but he has destroyed his foundation. And as the Psalmist lamented in Psalm 11:3, "If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?"

This applies to other Governors, like Ben Ayade of Cross River State, who have also decamped but holding Certificates of Return carrying the name of another political party.

- By Firsts Baba Isa (FBI)

14/03/2022

13/03/2022

ARISE O COMPATRIOT. 1

I HAVE NO OTHER COUNTRY TO CALL MINE EXCEPT NIGERIA,
I HAVE NO OTHER COUNTRY TO HAND OVER TO MY KIDS EXCEPT NIGERIA, WHAT AFFECTS NIGERIA AFFECTS NOT JUST ME BUT MY POSTERITY AS WELL. WITH SUCH A HIGH STAKE IN NIGERIA , I OWE MYSELF , MY CHILDREN AND MY FELLOW CITIZENS OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY A NATIONAL DUTY TO MAKE MY SINCERE CONTRIBUTION TO ITS BETTERMENT. NIGERIA TODAY IS STANDING AT A CROSS ROAD, MANY THINGS HAVE GONE AMISS AND THINGS MAY GO WORSE AND OUT CONTROL IF THE RIGHT THINGS ARE SINCERELY DONE ON TIME . THE GROWING DISTRUST, INSECURITY, POLITICAL INTRIGUES AND MANOEUVERING AND LOTS OF OTHER NEGATIVE TRENDS HOLDS OUT GREAT DANGER FOR NIGERIA.
IN MY OPINION LETS DO THE FOLLOWING TO MAKE NIGERIA GREAT AGAIN:

1) POWER SHIFT
POWER MUST SHIFT TO THE SOUTH BY ALL MEANS. THIS IS THE MOST PATRIOTIC THING TO DO AT THIS MOMENT. ANY ATTEMPT TO KEEP POWER IN THE NORTH BEYOND 2023 WILL TRIGGER SOUTHERN REVOLT. OUR NORTHERN BROTHERS SHOULD MAKE THAT SHIFT A UNITY PROJECT TO KEEP NIGERIA A STRONG INDIVISIBLE NATION.

2) POWER SHIFT TO SOUTH SOUTH:
THE REGION WAS SHORT CHANGED TO BRING UP THIS ADMINISTRATION. FROM 2015 TILL DATE SO MANY THINGS HAVE GONE WRONG, IT WILL TAKE A MINORITY RULE TO FIX ALL GRIEVANCE, DISTRUST, POLITICAL CRISES AND COLLAPSE OF ALLIANCES THAT WE WITNESS IN 2015. THIS MINORITY RULE MUST GO FOR 8 YEARS TO COMPLETELY HEALS GREAT WOUNDS, AND RESTRENGTHEN OUR NATION. ANYTHING OTHER THAN THIS MAY THROW UP AN ADMINISTRATION THAT GIVE 70% REVENGE AND 30% GOVERNANCE. THE OTHER BIG BROTHERS MAY GO FOR SHOW OF STRENGTH TO PROVE A POINT IN THEIR TURN BASE ON THE WAY THEY PERCEIVE WHAT MAYBE HAPPENING UNDER THIS REGIME. THE MINORITY RULE IS THE WAY FORWARD FROM THIS QUAGMIRE BECAUSE IT WILL ONLY HAVE KINDNESS TO REWARD NOTHING TO REVENGE AND GOVERNANCE WILL BE GIVEN 100% FOCUS. THAT ADMINISTRATION WILL NOT START WHAT THEY CANNOT FINISH BECAUSE IT WON'T ATTEMPT ANY SUPREMACY CONTEST. ALL STAKEHOLDERS MUST NOTE THIS TO SAVE NIGERIA FROM FUTURE OVER STRETCHED CRISES. IT WILL TAKE 8 YEARS OF LIBERAL RULE FROM SOUTH AND SAME FROM NORTH FROM 2031 TO COMPLETELY STABILIZE NIGERIA.

3) IMPLEMENTATION OF 2014 CONFAB REPORT
NIGERIA HAVE LOTS OF PROBLEMS THAT REQUIRE SERIOUS TACKLING TO SALVAGE NIGERIA FOR IMPENDING IMPLOSION THAT MAY OCCUR IF NOTHING RIGHT IS NOT DONE ON TIME IN SINCERITY. IN THE CONFAB NIGERIA WAS DEEPLY DISCUSSED, ANALYZED AND ADEQUATE SOLUTIONS WERE PROFFERED. LETS BE PATRIOTIC ENOUGH TO NIGERIA!

03/03/2022

𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗧 𝗠𝗔𝗖𝗔𝗨𝗟𝗘𝗬 (1864-1946)

Early African independence advocate Herbert Macauley was born in Lagos, Nigeria on November 14, 1864. His father was the founder and first principal of the Church Missionary Society Grammar School in Lagos, and his mother was a daughter of the Reverend Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the first registered student of West Africa’s oldest University, Fourah Bay College. Herbert started his tertiary education at Fourah Bay College, which the British established in 1827 to train talented English speaking West Africans to serve the colonial government in various administrative positions. In 1890, Macauley obtained a scholarship to study in Plymouth, England where he qualified as a land surveyor and a civil engineer.

Upon his graduation in 1893, he returned to Nigeria where the colonial government appointed him surveyor of crown lands for the colony of Lagos. In 1898, he resigned from his position and established a private civil engineering company in Lagos, Nigeria.

During the 1920s, a period in Nigerian history associated with the beginning of political agitation for self-rule, Macauley became a leading figure in the first generation of Nigerian Nationalists. In 1921, Macauley passionately led protests in Lagos over water rates, land issues, and mishandling of the railway finances. In 1922, he helped a Lagos chief in his legal battle with the colonial government who had forcefully taken some of his land for government purposes. The highest court in England heard the case and returned the land to the chief. This victory inspired Macauley to establish in 1923 Nigeria’s first political party, the Nigerian National Democratic Party whose members were the first to sit in the Legislative Council.

The Nigerian National Democratic Party dominated Nigerian politics throughout the 1920s until the late 1930s. However in 1934, the NNDP lost its dominant position to newly organized student groups such as the Nigerian Youth Movement. In order to avoid the demise of the party, Macaulay’s NNDP joined forces with the Nigerian Youth Movement to form the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons, NCNC. The NCNC led by Macauley was not a political party, it was a nationalist organization designed to advocate for an independent Nigeria. Herbert Macauley did not live to see the attainment of independence in 1960. He died in Lagos at the age of 81 on May 7, 1946.



#𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 #𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆𝗢𝘂𝗿𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 🤎 ✊🏾

03/03/2022

On January 1, 1914, Lord Frederick Lugard, the governor of both the Northern Nigeria Protectorate and the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, signed a document consolidating the two, thereby creating the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria. Forty-six years later in 1960, Nigeria became an independent state. Anniversaries are times for reflection, and given that today, just over 104 years after amalgamation, the country is still grappling with its national identity and a reanimated separatist movement, it is worth reflecting on how exactly Nigeria became Nigeria.

Before Europeans arrived in the territory that is now Nigeria, a number of different civilizations existed whose presence is still felt today. For example, in the north, Islam was predominant. In the nineteenth century, there were two Islamic empires, the Sokoto Caliphate and the Bornu Empire. To the southwest lay numerous Yoruba city-states that generally had in common animist religion and were only sometimes united. To the southwest was an Igbo kingdom, Nri, and a collection of semi-autonomous towns and villages in the Niger River delta. Such regions were linguistically, religiously, and politically distinct.

While other colonial powers, such as the Portuguese, became involved in the region by way of the slave trade as early as the fifteenth century, the British arrived in force only in the eighteenth century. It was not until 1861 that they formally occupied their first Nigerian territory, Lagos, in a bid to protect Christian converts and trading interests, and to further their anti-slavery campaign. In 1884, the British occupied what would later become the Southern Protectorate and the Northern Protectorate piecemeal from 1900 to 1903. By 1903, the British controlled the territory that comprises modern-day Nigeria, but as three separate administrative blocks.

As early as 1898, the British considered combining the then-three protectorates to reduce the administrative burden on the British and allow the rich south to effectively subsidize the much less economically prosperous north. (The Lagos colony was later incorporated into the Southern Nigeria Protectorate for budgetary reasons). This is what Lord Lugard was referring to in his infamous description of how a marriage between the “rich wife of substance and means” (the south) and the “poor husband” (the north) would lead to a happy life for both. Some have suspected that Lugard was also referring to the political supremacy of the north over the south. The name “Nigeria” was coined by the future Lady Lugard in an 1897 London Times article.

With Lord Lugard’s arbitrary conception of Nigeria in mind, one can begin to see the many and varied problems colonialism created in Nigeria, across West Africa, and around the world. Not least among these problems, for Nigeria in particular, was the problem of a unifying national identity. It is no wonder that diverse peoples, forcibly united into single states, sometimes turn to separatism. Contemporary examples range from Biafra (Nigeria), to Ambazonia (Cameroon), to Somaliland (Somalia), and to Azawad (Mali

08/01/2022

Japan recently unveiled the world’s first Dual-Mode Vehicle (DMV), a contraption that runs both on roads, like a bus, and on rails, like a train. The unique bus-train hybrid was unveiled last month, in the town of Kaiyo, Japan’s Tokushima Prefecture. The mini-bus-like contraption didn’t win an...

03/01/2022

REKINDLING HOPE FOR A GREATER NIGERIA

I SEE A COUNTRY WITH MANY PROBLEMS
CRISES FROM BOTH WITHIN AND WITHOUT
A GROWING DISTRUST AMONG ETHNIC NATIONALITIES
POLITICAL BETRAYALS , INSTITUTIONALIZED CORRUPTION,
IMPOVERISHED MASSES GROUNDED BY HIGH INFLATION
RELIGIONS TENSIONS, INCREASING INSECURITY,
MANY CRIMES ESCAPING JUSTICE, RISE OF SELF DEFENSE

AGGRIEVED ELITES , DISILLUSIONED ELECTORATE
NIGERIA GRADUALLY SLIDING INTO A FAILED STATE
WHAT THEN LIES AHEAD AND WHAT IS THE WAY FORWARD
WE CANNOT BEQUEATH A FAILED STATE TO POSTERITY
ALL HANDS MIST BE ON DESK TO GET NIGERIA WORK AGAIN
THIS IS TIME TO STOP POLITICAL PRANKS AND BURY HURTS
THIS IS TIME TO SUBORDINATE PAROCHIALISM TO UNITY

IN FAIRNESS TO ALL ANYONE WHO DO NOT SEEK UNITY FIRST
IS A SWORN ENEMY OF NIGERIA AND HIGHLY UNPATRIOTIC
A COUNTRY DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNOT STAND
DESTRUCTION IS EASY BUT ONLY THE MISGUIDED
SEES HEROISM IN EVIL BCOS LOSSES OUTWEIGHS GAINS
NATION BUILDING IS A TASK WE MUST ALL EMBRACE
TO !MAKE NIGERIA GREAT, PROSPEROUS AND BLISSFUL

NORTH, EAST, WEST AND SOUTH MEANS NOTHING
AND ACHIEVES NO GOOD IF NIGERIA FAILS
WE ARE NATION WITH RESPONSIBILITY FOR AFRICA
LET US NOT FAIL OURSELVES, OUR POSTERITY AND AFRICA
LET THIS GUIDE OUR ACTIONS, SPEECHES AND POLITICS
WE ARE GREATER TOGETHER BOTH NOW AND LATER
IN UNITY IN DIVERSITY LET S BUILD AN ENVIABLE NATION

IT IS IN OUR HANDS TO SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS
A NATION WITH EQUAL RIGHT FOR ALL IS THE ANSWER
OUR AFRICAN BROTHERS ARE WATCHING US WITH HOPE
THAT WE WILL REDEEM OURSELVES AND AFRICA FROM RUIN
GOD ALSO EXPECT US NOT TO FAIL HIM AND DERAIL
ARISE O COMPATRIOTS NIGERIA S CALL OBEY
THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW, FURTHER DELAY IS DANGEROUS

FROM THE PATRIOT
3 JANUARY 2022

06/12/2021

Africa: The Hungry Cow that Produces Enough Milk to Feed the World😟

By Charles Bassey

This hungry cow is not hungry because she has no food within her yard; neither is she hungry because she is incapable of generating enough food on her table. The simple truth is that, this cow is hungry because an iron-lock has been placed on her head to cover her mouth. At the same time, her children are threatened against their lives to accept what they obviously know to be unacceptable. Hence, the hungry cow we see today.

Sadly, those who milk Africa every day are not just greedy people who seek selfish benefit from her riches; they are also wicked monsters who join efforts to starve her so that they can derive happiness and pleasure from the sighting of her suffering and pain.

Let us start by giving deep considerations to the following: For more than 60 years of Independence, no African country is allowed to trade their naturally endowed resources in their own sovereign currencies to ensure that true values of those resources are translated into economic development and empowerment on the African continent.

Any attempt by any African leader to break this global economic system that has deliberately designed and instituted to keep Africa under unending poverty is either assassinated or removed from power, hence, the need for all power-holders on the African continent to be quiet while observing the future of the next generations destroyed in an arm-folding. The real threat did not start with Patrice Lumumba of DR Congo or Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso; neither did it end with the sad removal and assassination of our dear Brother Gaddafi, all of us are victims and whoever sort to challenge this system need to be aware of the true consequence.

Today, the masses of Africa are made to believe that they are suffering because of the corrupt nature of their leaders, however, our under development is designed by something far greater than corruption. After all, corruption is even more abundant in the global system than it is on the African continent, I need not to start pointing direct fingers but I know very well what I am talking about.

Here is the real reason why Africa, with all her huge natural and human resources, continue to remain poor and may have to remain as such for a very long time:

When we (Africa) need a car or anything from the colonizers, we work hard to get their monies to pay for our wants; (this means that, whatever we demand from them, we exchange that with our labour which is of equal in value to what we are taking from them. This, in turn, creates value in their economies); when we fail to work in their economy to obtain their currencies, we only have the option of going to the global financial market to put more of our monies on the supply side to demand for their currencies to pay for such wants (when this happens, we create demand for their currencies as a commodity, and once demand for these currencies increases, the value of their currencies also increases), they then gain value on their currencies and we lose value in return.

On the other hand, when they (the World) need our valuable resources, we are told that, we need foreign exchange and as a result, we allow them to print their valueless papers (in a form of money) to exchange for our valuable resources (this means, they take away all our resources without creating any value in our economies).

Imagine, if Africa tell the world that “when you need our Gold, Diamond, Oil and so forth, you must pay for them in our African currencies”, this will mean that the wold will have to come and work on the African continent and create real value such as infrastructure and technology in order to get our currencies to demand for our valuable resources they cannot do without. Other than that, they have to go to the global financial market to demand for our currencies and this will mean that the value of our currencies will increase rather than the depreciation of exchange rates as we experience each day in every part of Africa.

At this stage, let me point out to you that, it costs less than 50 cents to print 100 Dollar or 100 Euros note, but it costs more than 100 dollars to mine 2g of gold from the ground. So how can we genuinely exchange 2g of gold for 50 cents if not for exploitation?

If we allow China, America , Europe or whoever, to demand for our resources with their own paper money, we are basically saying that we have no control of those resources since these people can freely print any amount of those monies to take away those resources of ours. Our economy can generate true value from the huge resources we are endowed with only when our currencies are backed by these resources, and those resources are exchanged in our own sovereign currencies.

Truth must be told, if the worlds are allowed to print their monies to buy our resources then Africa must also be able to print our monies and use them to buy whatever we need from them. If not, then they must also come and work to get our money before using that to buy our resources like we also work for their monies to buy their resources.

06/12/2021

THE OLD JOS

According to the great historian Sen Luka Gwom Zangabadt, the area known as Jos today was inhabited by indigenous tribes who were mostly farmers. According to Billy J. Dudley,[3] the British colonialists used direct rule for the indigenous tribes on the Jos plateau since they were not under the Fulani emirates where indirect rule was used. According to the historian Samuel N Nwabara,[4] the Fulani empire controlled most of northern Nigeria, except the Plateau province and the Berom Mwagavhul, Ng as, Tiv, Jukun and Idoma tribes. It was the discovery of tin by the British that led to the influx of other tribes such as the Hausa, Igbo, Urhobo and Yoruba, thus making Jos a cosmopolitan city.

According to the white paper of the commission of inquiry into the 1994 crisis, Ames, a British colonial administrator, said that the original name for Jos was Gwosh which was a village situated at the current site of the city; according to Ames, the Hausa wrongly pronounced Gwosh as Jos and it stuck. Another version was that "Jos" came from the word "Jasad" meaning body. To distinguish it from the hill tops, it was called "Jas," which was mis-pronounced by the British as "Jos." It grew rapidly after the British discovered vast tin deposits in the vicinity. Both tin and columbite were extensively mined in the area up until the 1960s. They were transported by railway to both Port Harcourt and Lagos on the coast, then exported from those ports. Jos is still often referred to as "Tin City". In 1967 it was made capital of Benue-Plateau State, becoming the capital of the new Plateau State in 1975.

Jos has become an important national administrative, commercial, and tourist centre. Tin mining has led to the influx of migrants, mostly Igbos, Yorubas and Europeans, who constitute more than half of the population of Jos. This "melting pot" of race, ethnicity and religion makes Jos one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Nigeria. For this reason, Plateau State is known in Nigeria as the "home of peace and tourism." Despite this, in 2001, the city witnessed violent riots between the divided Muslim and Christian populations, in which several thousand people died. In 2004, the former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, was suspended for six months for failing to control the violence. In November 2008, clashes between Christians and Muslims killed almost 400 and wounded many. In spite of the communal clashes, visitors are surprised at the amount of activities still going on in the city. There is still an influx of people into the city and the cost of accommodation and land is still going up daily.[when?] This shows that the city is still one of the most desirable cities in Nigeria, despite the communal clashes.

In January 2011 there were almost daily clashes between Christian and Muslim mobs in villages around Jos since a series of bombs had been detonated during Christmas Eve celebrations a month earlier, killing scores of people. In May 2014, a twin bomb attack in Jos killed 118 people.

Between August 2013 and December 2014, a peace process was undertaken by communities living in Jos. The Jos Forum Inter-Communal Dialogue

ultimately led to a "Declaration of Commitment to Peace" signed by the participating communities (Afizere, Anaguta, Berom, Fulani, Hausa, Igbo, South-South and Yoruba, as well as women who were represented as their own distinct community).

On 12 December 2014 at least 30 people were killed as twin bombs exploded in the central Nigerian city of Jos

Administration

The city is divided into 3 local government areas of Jos north, Jos south and Jos east.The city proper lies between Jos north and Jos south.Jos east houses the prestigious National Center For Remote Sensing. Jos north is the state capital and the area where most commercial activities of the state takes place although due to the recent communal clashes a lot of commercial activities are shifting to Jos south. The Governor's office is located in an area in Jos North called "Jise" in Berom language,"Gise" in Afizere(Jarawa) language or "Tundun-Wada" in Hausa language. Jos south is the seat of the Deputy Governor i.e. the old Government House in Rayfield and the industrial centre of Plateau State due to the presence of industries like the NASCO group, Standard Biscuits,Grand Cereals and Oil Mills, Zuma steel west Africa, aluminium roofing industries, Jos International Breweries among others. Jos south also houses prestigious institutions like the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), the highest academic awarding institution in Nigeria, the National Veterinary Research Institute, the Police Staff College, the NTA television college and the Nigerian Film Corporation. Jos north is the location of the University of Jos and its teaching hospital.The city has formed an agglomeration with the town of Bukuru to form the Jos-Bukuru metropolis(JBM).

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Situated almost at the geographical centre of Nigeria and about 179 kilometres (111 miles) from Abuja, the nation's capital, Jos is linked by road, rail and air to the rest of the country. The city is served by Yakubu Gowon Airport, but its rail connections no longer operate as the only currently operational section of Nigeria's rail network is the western line from Lagos to Kano.
At an altitude of 1,217 m (3,993 ft) above sea level, Jos enjoys a more temperate climate than much of the rest of Nigeria. Average monthly temperatures range from 21–25 °C (70–77 °F), and from mid-November to late January, night-time temperatures drop as low as 11 °C (52 °F). Hail sometimes falls during the rainy season because of the cooler temperatures at high altitudes.These cooler temperatures have meant that, from colonial times until the present day, Jos is a favourite holiday location for both tourists and expatriates based in Nigeria.