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The All Progressives Congress has warned the federal government against sacking the APC governors and other elected political officials in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states.

APCs Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed stated that it would not be in the interest of Nigeria for the Federal Government to sack those elected officials.

He also warned those he described as attempting to stampede President Goodluck Jonathan into such action, to have a rethink.

He spoke to journalists in Ilorin on Sunday on the sidelines of the emergence of APC Kwara State executives.

Mohammed said, The extension of the emergency rule will be between the President and the National Assembly.

The President cannot declare the emergency without securing two third majority of members of the National Assembly. There are certain issues to be considered by the National Assembly before they would grant the extension.

What is more worrisome is the call by some people to the effect that the democratic structures in those states should be dismantled and that the governors should be sacked.

When and how does a governor become an impediment to fighting insurgency? On the contrary, he cannot fight insurgency when the political structure is not in place.

So I hope those who are trying to stampede the President into sacking those governors will have a rethink because if they do, the consequences will not be in the interest of either the people you want to protect or the country.

The APC spokesman also advised the federal government to reach out to all governors in the country as a potent strategy to addressing the countrys insecurity challenges having gotten their assurances after the expanded security meeting.

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The All Progressives Congress Rivers State chapter, on Saturday elected 36 officers as members of the state executive of the party.

The News Agency of Nigeria, reports that though the officers were elected by consensus, more than 2,000 delegates still cast ballot for them.

Chief Davies Ikanya was elected as Chairman while Chief Emeka Bekee was elected as Secretary.

Other officers elected are Mr Mike Nwielagha, Organising Secretary, Chris Finebone, Publicity Secretary and Dr Abel Tariah, Treasurer.

Mr Cosmos Maduba, the Chairman of the congress organising committee, said that the party was determined to elect officers that would turn its fortunes in the 2015 elections.

We are optimistic that the officers will make the party win the 2015 elections at the state and national levels, he said.

Mr Chris Finebone, newly elected state Publicity Secretary of the party, said that the officers would strive to win the 2015 election in the state.

Finebone said, We have a formidable team and we will work hard to win the 2015 election and continue to give our people quality leadership.

As you can see, the congress was free and fair, and we will carry on in that spirit, he said.

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President Goodluck Jonathan

The All Progressives Congress on Sunday urged the nations leaders led by President Goodluck Jonathan, to embrace global standard in good governance and thereby winning global respect for the country.

The party said this in a statement signed by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

The APC said the resignation of South Korean Prime Minister, Chung Hong-won, over his governments much-criticised poor handling of the April 16 ferry disaster that left over 300 dead or missing, must jolt the conscience of Nigerian leaders, who have been found wanting when they found themselves in similar situations.

The party said until our leaders hold themselves to higher standards, as it was being done in other democracies around the world, they would continue to perpetuate impunity, celebrate mediocrity and cling to power at all costs, even when it was clear that there were not serving any other interest but theirs.

According to the party, the resignation of the South Korean Prime Minister was the culmination of widespread public criticism of the government over the handling of the ferry disaster, especially the slow pace of recovery of the bodies of victims and the conflicting information given by the government over the tragedy.

It said the Prime Minister, also stepped down even though he had paid a visit to the families of the victims, just like the President of South Korea.

The statement partly read, Compare this with the situation in our country, where about 20 job seekers died in a stampede that was directly caused by poor planning and execution by a government agency on March 15, 2014, and for which the supervising minister blamed the victims instead of accepting responsibility.

Compare this with the aftermath of the killing of 75 citizens and wounding of over 200 in a bombing at a bus station in Nyanya, after which the President quickly embarked on an illegal campaign rally in Kano during which he was dancing Skelewu on the graves of the victims, or his trip to Ibadan for a birthday party.

Compare this with the business-as-usual posture of the Federal Government and the playing up of the controversy surrounding Tuesdays political rally by the PDP in Adamawa State, even as over 200 schoolgirls have continued to languish in the den of the insurgents in the Sambisa Forest.

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Faith In Equality: Economic Justice and the Future of Religious Progressives
On April 24, the religion, policy and politics project at Brookings hosted a forum to release a major new report, "Faith In Equality: Economic Justice and the Future of Religious Progressives."...

By: Brookings Institution

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As the demographics of religion change in the United States, faith may have a different degree of influence than it once did.

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Is religion the most important thing in your life? This is one of the questions people had to answer in a 2013 Public Religion Research Institute/Brookings surveyas researchers tried to figure out how much faith influences people's viewson culture and the economy. They got pretty striking results: More than half of people who they considered to be "religious conservatives" said yes, while only about 10 percent of people classified as "religious progressives" said the same. This means that on a whole host of issues, ranging from abortion and gay marriage to welfare and the minimum wage, faith probably has more of an influence on how conservatives think than it does for liberals.

It's tough to get inside people's heads and understand how their beliefs about God affect their views on culture, but a new report from Brookings hints at why researchers might want to: In terms of numbers, religious progressives are gaining on religious conservatives. According to the researchers, "religious progressives" are people of faith who have typically "liberal" opinions on a range of issues: They want more government support for the poor, rather than less; more freedom to have pre-marital sex and drink, rather than less, etc. From this break-down of age and race, you can see that religious progressives dominate America's growing populations:

Blacks, hispanics, and people of mixed race are all more likely to be religious progressives than conservatives; these groups are also among the fastest-growing demographics in the United States. Similarly, Millennials are more than twice as likely to be religious progressives than religious conservatives; in fact, people older than 50 make up more than 60 percent of those who are considered to be religious conservatives. Although it's impossible to talk to an 18-year-old about her views on culture and predict what she'll think in two decades, these demographic trends suggest that the religious right is about to start shrinking.

But the question of influence is a little fuzzier. Although more than a third of Millennials are considered religious progressives, roughly 40 percent don't have any faith at all: A growing number of young people don't identify with a particular religion. That, alongwith the fact that an overwhelming majority of religious progressives don't see religion as "the most important thing in their life," suggests that faith is losing its overall influence over how people think about social and cultural issues.

As the authors of the Brookings study wrote, "Religious progressivism, precisely because of its diversity, will never constitute the same cohesive and relatively homogenous force that religious conservatism represents." In terms of individual hearts and minds, it's hard to tell how much of a role "religion" has in the new wave of "religious progressivism"it's possible to be religious and progressive at the same time, but it's also possible that those progressive beliefs don't have much to do with God.

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