Dapchi girls: NIPSS alumni offer to assist FG

The Alumni Association of the National Institute (AANI) has offered to assist the Federal Government in ensuring the safe return of the 110 girls recently abducted from the Government Girls Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State.

AANI President, Mr. Khaleel Bolaji, said this at the 38th annual general meeting of AANI at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in Kuru near Jos at the weekend.

Bolaji also said the association was also making contributions to bring an end to the farmers/herders clashes across the country.

He said issues such as the abduction of the girls by the suspected Boko Haram group and the persistent farmers/herders clashes were to be discussed during the business session of the alumni’s general meeting.

Earlier, the acting Director General of NIPSS, Jonathan Juma said the Institute’s Research Directorate had a few days ago hosted a session on the farmers/ herders conflict on the theme: Sedentary Farmers and Nomadic Herders Conflict in Nigeria: Towards a Strategic Response.

Juma said the institute will forward a policy brief to the government on the issue.

In his remark, Plateau State Governor Simon Bako Lalong urged AANI to use such forums to proffer solutions that will assist government at all levels to put an end to clashes between farmers and herders.