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Nigeria jumped 24 areas to rank 154 on the World Bank Undertaking Small business rankings for worldwide economies — making it one of the prime 10 most enhanced economies in the planet. Brunei Darussalam, Thailand, Malawi, Kosovo, India, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Nigeria, Djibouti and El Salvador had been the most enhanced economies, according to the Doing Business enterprise report released on Tuesday. In 2016, President Muhammadu Buhari established the Presidential Enabling Company Environment Council, which is chaired by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo the federal minister of industry, trade and investment is the vice-chairman. The council’s main mandate is the supervision of the competitiveness and investment climate agenda at the federal and state levels, when the Enabling Business enterprise Environment Secretariat (EBES) is charged with day-to-day reform implementation.<br><br><br>This year, Mr. President set us an ambitious target of moving up 20 places in the ranking - I am delighted that we have exceeded his objective," Osinbajo stated via a statement. In spite of this significant leap, the Bretton Woods institution shows that it still requires about 19 days to register a business enterprise in Africa’s largest economy, and 110 days to get a construction permit. By implication, it is much more tough to get a building permit for company in 2017, than it was in 2016. On the other hand having said that, it has grow to be less complicated to get started a enterprise in itself, and to register a house.<br><br><br>I was a crucial member of the PDP. On the second stage, Anambra State has an endemic difficulty of a number of factions of PDP in the state. The state has a negative history of PDP. The court cases following the 2015 elections over the senatorial and Residence of Representatives election are nonetheless on in the Supreme Court. So, Anambra has endemic trouble in the PDP that the Sheriff-Makarfi trouble does not resolve. So, I have to figure out if I have to run this election, I have to create a platform and I have to deploy the three components I named earlier on to make it occur. PT: So, you have been not afraid of the individuals contesting on the platform of PDP?<br><br><br>Chidoka: I would have been the organic winner of that primaries. There is nobody in the PDP that would have defeated me in the primaries. Chidoka: I saw that clearly. I saw that the party had the possible to face defeat in an election because of two causes. A single, there is the voter fatigue - 16 years of a party being in energy can develop voter fatigue. Often individuals reject parties about the world. Individuals have a tendency to get tired of a political celebration except if the celebration itself get into a refresh mode. We’ve by no means noticed a celebration in America sustaining itself in power beyond 12 years or in any other advance democracy apart from Japan exactly where you see the liberal party lasting long.<br><br><br>But they will at some point lose power. So, there was that problem of voter fatigue. In the 16 years of PDP, the celebration suffered too quite a few heats that by the time you present it once again in 2015, there were as well many difficulties that needed to be dealt with. It required a re-imagining, a rethinking. The second 1 was the electoral reforms introduced by the PDP. The voters became empowered. And right after they became empowered, the government of the day needed to have determined the voter demographics in Nigeria and chose which a single they should really align with. So, PDP was not a party for labour.<br><br><br>The labour unions were not in alliance with the PDP. If you go to the ANC they have the labour union with them. The celebration was not aligned with the middle class even even though they aided the middle class. There was no cautious policy to align with the middle class and the middle class were also couple of. All we necessary to do as a celebration was to uncover out which of the groups to align with - be it social, economic or religious. Now APC came and went to the decrease masses of the society and promised them salvation. They sold worry to them of a nation that had left them behind.<br><br><br>They sold fear to ethnic groups that felt they had been marginalised in power. So, they mobilised them against the exact same government. In reverse, the PDP did not sell anything to them. They just wanted to continue in workplace. We didn’t sell something to the masses. We neither sold hope nor fear. So, we just kept attacking Buhari, attacking the APC. So, we have been reacting to the APC. There was no formidable plan to sell to the country why continuity was in their finest interest. And numerous of us sounded that note of warning that the celebration had to sell one thing to the individuals who think in this party. If you noticed, PDP, from 2003, has consistently lost election in the north. In 1999 President Obasanjo won far more votes than Shagari did in 1979 in the north.<br><br><br>In 1979, Shagari lost Kaduna, Kano, Borno, Gongola but in 1999 Obasanjo won all the northern states and won with a vote margin larger than the ones Shagari won with. In fact, many Nigerians nonetheless do not remember that the story of 12 2/three is simply because Shagari did not get the 12 two/three votes cast in Kano. Shagari was struggling to argue that he got 2/three of the 1/three of the two/three in the 13 states. Obasanjo was clearly accepted in the north and the south-east, the south-south but he lost woefully in the south-west. He couldn’t make 25 per cent in the south-west states.<br><br><br>But by 2003, Obasanjo won 96 per cent of votes in Ogun and then lost in all the crucial northern states. He got the entire south-south and southeast. He got the complete middle belt and got Adamawa and Taraba and lost to Buhari in the important northern states. My take is that Sharia and Obasanjo posture as being anti-north aided the 2003 defeats in the important northern states. PDP did not go back to themselves to uncover out what it did incorrect to the north to reverse it for the reason that the north was a big platform of the PDP. They voted for PDP in the governorship elections, but PDP lost in the presidential election - Bauchi, Katsina. All the governors came back but Obasanjo lost. By 2007, we presented a northern candidate, Yar’Adua against Buhari again.<br><br><br><br>ChrisJerry Chidiebere ‘m’ 19yrs<br><br><br>Organising Secretary: Ahmed Hashim<br><br><br>AmOyo-Ita angry ‘over leaked memo’<br><br><br>Ayman Majid (Morocco & FUS Rabat)<br><br><br>Karim Aouadhi (Tunisia & CS Sfaxien)<br><br><br>Jean Michel Seri (Cote d’Ivoire & Good)<br><br><br><br>He lost in the important northern states. He got his votes from southeast, south-south, southwest, Middle-Belt and made some votes in the north and defeated Buhari. By 2011, Jonathan lost in all the important northern states again and won with the southern combination with the middle belt and Kaduna and Adamawa. So, by 2015 he lost the whole 19 (northern) states he lost the whole Middle Belt with each other with the north. He lost virtually 60 per cent of the southwest which applied to be the party’s base. PDP was a celebration without having base. It kept retreating until it became a south-east, south-south affair. In the south-east, there was massive voter apathy.<br><br><br>They didn’t really feel that the government, in spite of the prime Igbos in the administration, represented their interest. So, all these were clear to me in the evaluation, in the frame operate I had. Chidoka: I will come to the existential problems for the reason that PDP had a historic moment. And I will tell you 3 items I feel conspired against the PDP. First was Yar’Adua’s death and the quest for Goodluck Jonathan to develop into president. We introduced anything we called the Doctrine of Necessity. The governors came and got the president to get the National Assembly to pass the Doctrine of Necessity. And in passing the Doctrine of Necessity, the government started to woo distinct groups. So, they improved the salary of civil servants. In 2010, the salary of civil servants went up.<br><br><br>They also drew out from the Excess Crude Account and I suspected in agreement with the governors in order to pass the Doctrine of Necessity. I do not have evidence to that. And then the Boko Haram challenge became intensified. So, government stopped most of its capital projects and spent its revenue paying the new wage bill, which had tripled, began paying for the war against Boko Haram. So, poverty elevated. In that existential moment, Nigeria required to have pressed a reset button. We needed to have halted to say: What are the fundamental concerns affecting us and how can we address it? For instance, I thought the Boko Haram issue presented an chance to reset our security architecture. The one that was done beneath Babangida when we created the SSS, NIA and DIA was already as well old for the nation. The nation had changed in its method, in its method.<br><br><br>Yes, the nation felt a sense of ruthlessness arising from the government at that time since the government all of a sudden had quite a few various battlefronts open. That was a terrible thing for any government to sustain. But instead of taking the rightful choice because an election was coming, they decided to manage it to at least conduct the election. PT: Following the defeat of PDP you played a essential function in convincing the then President Goodluck Jonathan to concede. How did you get to reach that? Chidoka: Like I mentioned in some fora, the president was keen on conceding defeat. When he referred to as me and I came back to Abuja from the East, he was the initially individual that told me that the election had been lost. And then I thought there was nevertheless hope, but he stated we had lost. So, I said what do we do now?<br><br><br>He mentioned he will accept it. That was his 1st reaction. He stated draft anything for me to say that individuals should really calm down, the country ought to move forward. That was in the evening I was with him till about 1 a.m. When I left him, undoubtedly I was sad. I assume I came back in the morning, (Godsday) Orubebe had gone to the National Assembly. So, that was when I invited the then lawyer general to come. And I referred to as Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to come. And the attorney common stated ‘no, even if you concede defeat, you can nevertheless go to court.<br><br><br>So, at about five:17 p.m., if I bear in mind appropriately, I tweeted that the president had just called Buhari and had accepted defeat. So, I felt that he required to take the moral high ground because two points had been vital. This president set up a method that produced him shed an election. I thought history would keep in mind that much more than the weaknesses of his government. I thought that anytime the history of Nigeria would be written, in the next 50 or 100 years, the most significant problem will be that the initially government opposition election victory was done under President Jonathan. History is such a strange story, it doesn’t rather record small items. It takes the higher marks of society.<br><br><br>So, even all the arguments of how he ruled and didn’t rule would have turn out to be an situation if something had gone wrong and he had rejected the outcome. So, he needed to claim ownership of that final results. PT: You talked about his weaknesses and in the final few weeks there have been tales of corruption in the Goodluck Jonathan administration. What are these weaknesses you alluded to and what is your basic assessment vis-a-vis the sort of revelations that are coming out these days? Chidoka: Basically, there is 1 sickness. There is a thing I am very a lot interested in seeing take place in Nigeria.
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Bayelsa and Ekiti states have the lowest numbers of prisoners, with 444 and 585 as at last year. Even then the two states also failed to buck the trend as their cells can accommodate only 200 and 400 prisoners respectively.<br><br><br>NBS data shows that 59,940 Christians were incarcerated in the two year period, in contrast with 71,402 muslims. The number of traditionalists, atheists and others was<br>11,506.<br><br><br>On 6 October, President Muhammadu Buhari expressed concern over the state of the nation’s prisons, noting that it is a national scandal that many prisons are overcrowded by 90 per cent.<br><br><br>"We need a new approach to prison congestion. It is a national scandal that many prisons are overcrowded by 90 per cent, " he said.

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Bayelsa and Ekiti states have the lowest numbers of prisoners, with 444 and 585 as at last year. Even then the two states also failed to buck the trend as their cells can accommodate only 200 and 400 prisoners respectively.


NBS data shows that 59,940 Christians were incarcerated in the two year period, in contrast with 71,402 muslims. The number of traditionalists, atheists and others was
11,506.


On 6 October, President Muhammadu Buhari expressed concern over the state of the nation’s prisons, noting that it is a national scandal that many prisons are overcrowded by 90 per cent.


"We need a new approach to prison congestion. It is a national scandal that many prisons are overcrowded by 90 per cent, " he said.