The
staff of AAPW celebrated May Day with a party for 50 friends.
The fallacy was that the workers had to cook on Workers’ Day!
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Danjuma
Sa’idu, AAPW’s Peace Education Officer, has been working
with the Nigerian Opportunities Industrialization Centres (the local
branch of OICI, based in Philadelphia, PA, USA) on peacebuilding
training for the Kano technical skills training centre. Danjuma
obviously enjoys his job!
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Academic
Associates PeaceWorks has been studying the problems of displaced
persons living in the Federal Capital Territory. More than 10,000
Tiv persons have relocated to Abuja, following communal conflicts
in Nasarawa, Taraba and Plateau States. Others have come to escape
imposition of Sharia law in some northern states. Tiv human rights
activist, Yaro Tor Gowon (in beige shirt), has conducted a census
of the Tiv and facilitated their registration for the National Identity
Card. We are working with the Minister of the FCT and the Vice President
in building bridges of collaboration between the Tiv and their hosts,
to avoid possible communal |
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Judith
Asuni with Tiv women and children during a visit to their village
in the FCT. |
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AAPW
worked with the National Orientation Agency in planning and facilitating
an All Parties Conference, which brought together representatives
of all of the 30 political parties. Here Judith Asuni of AAPW; Dr.
Lanre Adebayo, NOA Executive Director of Political and Civic Education;
and Ms. Bose Ogunmuyiwa, Special Assistant to the President on National
Orientation, discuss the programme. February 2003
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