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NEW REPORT REVEALS BLUEPRINT TO CUT AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES DISPUTES, AS CONFLICTS RISE DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE

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  New report proposes plan to reduce conflicts between farmers and herders in Nigeria Over 4,000 thought to have died from disputes with $13 billion cost to economy as conflicts rise due to climate crisis Search for Common Ground’s new report reveals means of de-escalating tensions, including sharing of traditional cultures. The world’s largest dedicated peacebuilding organisation, Search for Common Ground, has conducted new research to understand how to prevent conflicts between farmers and herders in Nigeria over scarce resources. The researchers spoke to community members, farmers and herders in Adamawa and Taraba states in the north-east of Nigeria where significant reductions in crop yields have been reported as a result of these conflicts. It is also estimated in the report that farmer-herder disputes have claimed over 4,000 lives between 2018 and 2021, as well as costing the national economy more than $13 billion a year, nearly three times as much as the country spends impor...

The tale called LIFE!

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They called me wise when I said little, and a god when I bled in silence. My name once rang like thunder in rooms where power kissed greed on the cheek, but I have lived long enough to learn that thunder never lingers. I have worn crowns that fit like curses, and held hands that trembled with betrayal even as they fed me figs. I’ve tasted the salt of every ambition, swallowed empires whole just to find the hunger never left. You think life rewards the loud? No, it humbles the loud and forgets the quiet. It smiles as you climb and sharpens the blade for when you fall. And fall you must? For no man outruns the gravity of meaninglessness. I buried love with laughter. Chased legacy down alleys lit by ego. And when I found her Legacy, she was just a girl selling echoes of my name for pennies on a street corner where no one stopped to listen. I built kingdoms in people. I was a monument in the hearts of many, until rain came, the kind that washes away memory and leaves only mud where marble...

A WORLD WE CRAVE

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 Let us build a world, warm and kind, where tolerance blooms, and hearts unbind. No fear of judgment, no scornful gaze, just unity in our diverse ways. For in the freedom to believe, we see a world that thrives in harmony. The strength of faith, in its many hues, creates a bond that none can lose. May we stand together, hand in hand, in a world where love and respect expand. For every belief, every voice, every prayer, deserves the grace of peace in the air.

WHEN WE SLEEP...

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Life is fleeting, woven with stories of struggle and triumph, A dance between dreams fulfilled and hope that whispers of a brighter tomorrow. We journey to shape a better world for ourselves, for friends, for family, Driven by the quiet belief that someday, all our striving will bear fruit. At times, we question the path — why we live only to fade — But such answers lie beyond our reach, written by hands far greater than ours. The world spins on, a balance of light and shadow, Each soul leaving its mark upon the earth, like footprints upon shifting sands. Our words, our deeds, the lives we've touched, In time, they become echoes — cherished memories, or reminders of pain. When we pass, others speak our name, But it’s the silent gestures, the unspoken expressions, that linger most, A smile that beams in the heart, a memory that rises like the dawn. Though we may seem to forget, It’s not forgetfulness, but a tender shield, Protecting us from drowning in the sorrow of absence. May the...

Former beauty Queen, Miss Wyoming winner Joyce McKinney being arrested by police after kidnapping Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson from his church, forcing him to be her sex slave for 3 days, 1977.

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 Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming beauty pageant winner from 1973, rose to infamy due to a series of shocking incidents. One of the most notable was in 1977 when she was arrested for kidnapping Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson and holding him captive for three days as her coerced sex slave. After the highly publicized case, McKinney fled to the United Kingdom and used a fake passport to live in the United States. In 2008, she made headlines again when it was revealed that she had cloned her pit bull five times in South Korea, allegedly as part of a scheme involving a teenager committing burglary to fund her horse's prosthetic leg. In 2016, McKinney took legal action against filmmaker Errol Morris over his documentary about her. Tragically, in 2019, she was involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident where she struck and killed a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor with her truck. McKinney fled the scene, abandoning her truck near the Hollywood Burbank Airport. Detectives were unsure ho...

Search For Common Ground Trains Journalists On Conflict Reporting

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The need for journalists to examine issues impartially and cover such issues with inclusivity, reflecting on diverse perspectives which will in turn contribute to peace-building and social change was highlighted at a five-day intensive training on Common Ground Journalism for Journalists from Bayelsa, Rivers and Delta States, with the theme ‘A Community Centered Approach to Transforming Criminality and Violence in the Niger Delta” held in Warri, Delta state. In his opening remarks, Search for Common Ground Head of Office/Programme Implementation in the Niger Delta, Mr. Yacinthe Agbagadjan informed that the training was organized in partnership with Stakeholders Democracy Network, Partnership Initiatives in Niger Delta, and Academic Associates Peace Works, funded by the European Union as part of an 18 month project covering sixty-six communities across thirty-three Local Governments Areas of the three states. Agbadjagan said there was need for media practitioners to contribute to peace-...

I Met Chioma Before I Became Rich – Davido

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Nigerian Afrobeats singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has said that he met his wife, Chioma, before he became rich.. In a video shared on Dami Adenuga's X handle on Sunday,  Davido stated that it would have been difficult for him to enter into a relationship if he had not met Chioma.  Davido also noted that the sacrifices made by popular Nigerian artistes like P-Square,  2Face, and Dbanj are what other musicians are enjoying today.  He said,  “I have a friend, he is like single, anytime I am on the phone with my wife, he would say he has everything in the world, but a wife is what he is missing. “I met my wife before I had money, but I was telling myself if I didn’t meet her before then and now I am single, and I meet a girl, it wouldn’t be the same. I would feel the lady is talking to me because I am Davido and I have money. “My own success is when I am doing something, and I see everybody around me. All these people around me were there when I w...