OBI ATTRIBUTES STAMPEDE TRAGEDIES IN OYO, FCT, AND ANAMBRA TO HUNGER AND SYSTEMIC ISSUES. (PHOTO).

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 Peter Obi has blamed hunger and systemic failures for the recent spate of stampedes across the country.  Scores of persons were dead, and many others wounded in the tragic incidents in Ibadan, Oyo State; Okija in Anambra and another one in the nation’s capital of Abuja. The stampedes happened in a space of five days with the last two occurring on Saturday morning during food distribution campaigns. Obi, who was the Labour Party (LP)’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, said the incidents underline the rising hunger in the country which has led to desperation. “I am deeply saddened and distressed by the tragic loss of lives in desperate searches for food,” Obi, who is a former governor of Anambra State, wrote in a post on his X account Saturday afternoon. “While I will not cast blame but instead appreciate the organizers of these respective events for their kind gestures in providing palliatives and support to society, especially the poor, these tragedies reflect the...

U.N SECRETARY GENERAL BAN KI-MOOM,ARRIVED BURUNDI TODAY,TO PREVENT FURTHER POLITICAL CONFLICTS.

                     United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moom has arrived in Burundi to try to facilitate a deal to prevent a political conflict from escalating into a wider ethnic conflict.Burundi has been plagued by violence since April last year after President Pierre Nkurunziza declared his bid for a controversial third term in office,one which he went on to win in the July poll.More than 400 people have been killed in the violence while thousands of others have fled to neighbouring countries.The UN is under growing pressure to show it can halt the violence,two decades after the 1994 genocide of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus by the Hutu majority in neighbouring Rwanda,which has a similar ethnic make-up as Burundi.More photos below.                                                                                               

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