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Boko Haram: UN to block terrorism funding
 [WORLDSTAGEGROUP] United Nations...the Oyster Bay money pit... ' Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson has assured that the United Nations will tighten the noose on terrorism funding, following the concern raised by President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... of Nigeria that Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... is financed by forces outside the country. Eliasson who briefed journalists in Abuja, during the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Conference of Ministers of Finance, Economic and Planning however said, that UN will not be physically present in individual countries to control arms as that is "within the powers of the countries to fight terrorism domestically." Reacting to the recent killing of secondary school children in Nigerian Eliasson advised the Nigeria government to devise a comprehensive approach to deal with the menace. The UN Deputy Secretary General described Africa as the continent of hope as deliberations at the meeting identified the challenges and opportunities in addressing cases of infrastructure deficit, job creation and unemployment in the continent as well as the six per cent annual growth rate of the continent. Earlier, ECA Executive Secretary, Mr. Carlos Lopes had said that "emerging economies have seen Africa as major trading partners and a place of huge investment." According to Mr. Lopes, "as the rest of the world gets older, Africa is getting younger and more populous, with implications for education and health care, for supply of labour, and for consumer demand. These are positive trends, but there is still much to be done. Aggregate growth is below the 7 per cent threshold required to double the income in a decade, at this rate, African economies would be unable to generate enough jobs. Africa's impressive growth rates must be translated into job creation and poverty eradication." Posted by: Fred 2014-03-31 |
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