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The International Police Science Association (IPSA) and the Institute for Economics and Peace lately jointly released what they referred to as the Globe Internal Safety and Police Index International (WISPI) report, proclaiming Nigeria as having the ‘worst police force in the world’ in their rating for the year 2016. The report mentioned the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has the least capacity to "handle internal security challenges amongst the 127 countries that have been sampled. It is vital to note that the report was compiled by experts, researchers and scholars who had been pre-occupied with safety efforts from all over the planet. This is vital for the reason that, the resultant report from their efforts could be understood much more appropriately only by these who have equal or near equal capacity to apply logic, rationality and simple education to interpret it, not those who will only fixate on the final pronouncement without having giving cognisance to the premises. The IPSA and the Institute for Economics and Peace had intimated from the start off that there were criteria via which assessments had been made. There have been also locations of concern which the two bodies have concentrated on. Hence, the report was not genuinely a blanketed 1 as some commentators have made it out to be. The indices applied in assessing the countries were aimed at measuring what they named "the ability of the security apparatus within a country to respond to internal safety challenges. And the areas of concern were four, viz: capacity, procedure, legitimacy and outcome. Nigeria was said to have scored badly in all four. The report had it that in Nigeria, there are only "219 police officers for every one hundred, 000 Nigerians, properly under each the Index median of 300, and the sub-Saharan Africa region typical of 268… This limits the capacity of the force to measure up to its law and order mandate…" The above certainly provided both the lead to and the effect. In fact, it provided also a superior hint at the solution. To the discerning thoughts, the Nigerian policemen and females are performing far beyond what is expected of any policeman anywhere in the globe. Their peers, even in the poorest African nations are burdened with far much less responsibilities than they are. Add to that equation, un-conducive operating situation, poor remuneration, obsolete gear and other minuses, and you would come out with the expected outcomes, even if IPSA did not prompt you. The report also pointed out that "High levels of political terror have been an issue for Nigeria given that 1993, with the country scoring a 4 on the Political Terror Scale just about every year because then… Terrorism remains one of the greatest threats to internal security. Terrorism has elevated substantially over the last three years, with extra than 62, 000 individuals being killed in terrorist attacks involving 2012 and 2014 …" The take right here is that the so-named political terror in Nigeria is one particular that successive governments in the nation have taken away from the mandate of the Nigeria Police Force, the similar way that other classic roles of the Force, like road safety management, fundamental investigations on economic crimes and other individuals have been taken away. How then do the police, which have not been in the forefront of the fight against terrorism, come to be responsible for what ever outcome that was obtainable from the fight? It would seem that the researchers are not abreast with the peculiarities of Nigeria in this regard. They may have built their assertions on the perfect, not the actual deal in Nigeria. This, of course, is a goof, simply because all variables are supposed to have been viewed as in a investigation of this nature. But we, the citizens, know quite well what is obtainable in our country. Now, if we juxtapose the top rated ten performing African nations, according to the report, we will realise that Botswana, which topped the list has a present population of about 2, 331, 390 individuals. In truth, it was projected that the population may attain 2, 377, 831 individuals at the beginning of 2018. Rwanda, in the second position, has a population of 12, 315, 410 individuals as at Monday, November 13, 2017 based on the most up-to-date United Nations estimate. Algeria has around 41, 571, 214 individuals. Nigeria, on the other hand, has an estimated population of around 180, 000, 000 individuals. With such a diminished capacity in terms of personnel, diminished process in terms of funding and equipment, and diminished legitimacy in terms of welfare and motivation, there is no way outcome would not be diminished. But, despite all these challenges, the Nigeria Police have been able to execute creditably properly in the discharge of its duties. To resolve all of the challenges inhibiting the Nigeria Police, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris has laid out a extensive roadmap towards revamping the Force. The shortage of personnel is getting addressed as 10, 000 men and ladies have been recruited into the Force and trained, with a strategy to recruit a lot more in the years ahead. The challenge of gear is nonetheless a lingering dilemma, as dearth of fund meant that the greatest gadgets could not be obtained to kit them. Even the persistent dilemma of funding is being addressed as IGP Idris Ibrahim has been in the vanguard of the advocacy for the establishment of the proposed Police Trust Fund. Regrettably, the National Assembly appears uninterested in thinking of the bill and possibly passing it into law. In all, the IPSA report, to a specific extent, has revealed the constraints of the Nigeria Police Force. It has also latently recommended the locations that would need to have urgent redress. Those, incidentally, are the locations that have been receiving the interest of the present police hierarchy in the country under Idris Ibrahim. The government also seems to be in tune with the idea that the standard needs will have to be provided, and the synergy involving the police head and the head of the national government may well finish up repositioning the Force for a far far better performance henceforth. Ibrahim writes from Abuja There is no doubt that if the Nigeria Police enjoy the same conducive functioning situation that their peers around the world do, they will execute far better. This is mainly because they are already performing in complete capacity below the sort of situation where other individuals will get coldly incapacitated. 1 attestation to this has generally been the functionality of the Nigerian police in international peace-maintaining missions and IGP Idris is a living example of such shining performances. They have usually been adjudged the ideal in such missions, and this is due to their resilience, endurance, dedication, concentrate and professionalism. We need to celebrate our own heroes. We require to accord them the best treatment and give them all what they call for to execute optimally. I make bold to say, provided the circumstances beneath which they operate, Nigeria Police really should be called the finest.

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2017-11-14T23:04:27Z

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Unity Bank has charged organisations and government agencies to pay greater attention to employee assistance programmes to minimise depression, anxiety and excessive stress in the workspace. This, the lender, said would impact positively on job performance, mental and physical health and emotional wellbeing of their workforce. Writing on its recent partnership of Chosen Vessels Empowerment Foundation (CVEF), the statement added that "the need to increase mental health awareness through a platform that is able to engender greater societal engagement and reach to relevant stakeholders in both public and private sectors informed the Bank’s commitment to promote seminar on Mental Health as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility". Mental Health consultants at the seminar focused discussions on pre-emptive actions that can be adopted to stem the rising cases of mental disorder. One of the facilitators, Chief Consultant Psychiatrist with Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Lagos, Olufumilayo Akinola, identified the ‘main common mental disorders’ as ‘depression, anxiety and substance abuse’. "There are effective and affordable treatments for most emotional disorders. Appropriate treatment can help improve the quality of life for most people experiencing mental disorders and their families", she advised.

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Nelson Mandela worked on "Dare Not Linger", the sequel to his best-selling memoir, but was unable to finish it before he died in 2013. His foundation announced that his unfinished draft has been completed by a South African writer Mandla Langa. Tthe sequel to Nelson Mandela’s celebrated autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom" will be released tomorrow. Titled "Dare not Linger", the book tells of Mandela’s five years as president after the end of apartheid and the first multi-race elections in South Africa in 1994. "Long Walk to Freedom", published shortly after the election, was a global best-seller, selling more than 14 million copies, and was turned into a film starring Idris Elba. Mandela wrote 10 chapters of his follow-up memoir by hand on loose paper and in files between 1998 and 2002, when he stopped working on it due to his age and hectic schedule. Mandla Langa completed the work using fresh interviews and research, as well as Mandela’s own notes from when he was president. The Nelson Mandela Foundation described the project as a "50/50" collaboration between Mandela, who died in 2013 aged 95, and his co-author. The book’s title is taken from the final sentence of Mandela’s first autobiography, when he wrote that "with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended". "If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."br />No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.""br />- Nelson Mandela A hands-on leader Mandela’s widow Graca Machel, wrote in a prologue to the new book that he struggled to complete it due to "demands the world placed on him, distractions of many kinds and his advancing years". She said: "Through the last years of his life he talked about it often — worried about work started but not finished." Mandela served one term as president of South Africa before stepping down. He retired from public life in 2004.

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2017-11-09T14:49:01Z

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China Africa Relations To Focus On Real Results

2017-11-09T00:02:26Z

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