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Organisation targets 50 years for poverty eradication programmes
The International Christian Organisation for Sustainable Development (ISCOSD), says it is targeting 50 years from 2023 to fight poverty eradication in Nigeria, in line with the UN’s agenda to fight the global poverty challenges.
Bishop Joseph Vambe, ISCOSD’s President, made this known in his seminar presentation on ‘War Against Poverty and Inequality’, to mark ISCOSD 2nd World Day Celebration.
ISCOSD is an international organisation which represents the global voice of billions of people: Christian, Lawyers, Scientists, Journalists, Doctors, Researchers among others.
ISCOSD mission is to rise against global affliction, to change the current global poverty narrative from the church to the entire global community.
“This is a vision given by God in early 2015. The Christian vanguard and movement aligned to achieve the sustainable development goal one (SDG 1) of the United Nations Global Goals by 2072 (50 years target).
“Today is our world ISCOSD day, we had the first one last year where we went to Kuchinkoro village to share with those in the IDP camps and also shared with some widows.
” So this year we decided to meet together to share in knowledge, looking at global poverty and the need for us to key into some of the projects we have in ISCOSD so that we can all live above poverty.
According to Vambe, poverty is the bedrock for global affliction and over 90 per cent of both personal and corporate socio-economic problems, issues and challenges in the global community is caused or aggravated by poverty
He said bad governance, prejudice, violence, illnesses, sorcery, hell, corruption, slavery, dysfunctional families, divorce, low life expectancy, ignorance, injustice, marginalisation are also contributed to the rise of poverty in the societies of the world.
To tackle the challenge, the ISCOSD president explained that the organisation had designed some programmes for the uplifting of both urban and rural poor from poverty through unique projects to live above poverty and comfortably.
He listed some of the projects to include donor specified projects, financial and wealth building intelligence project, church economic synergy project, good governance/leadership project, E-commerce multi-level marketing platform project, social community projects and the rest.
Also, Mrs Mary Agbo, Deputy National Director on Programme and Strategy, said the basic significance of the seminar was to educate the ISCOSD stakeholders to seek ways to eradicate poverty among Nigerians.
In addition, to ensuring that every Nigerian, every human being on the planet earth have a standard of living.
According to her, ISCOSD has the projection between now and 50 years to strategies ways to execute its poverty eradication plans.
In his contribution, Mr Olanrewaju Osho, a participant, said the seminar was not only needed in the church but by the larger society too.
“This seminar is what we need, not only in the church, but in the Mosque, in the shrine, in the school and every where in Nigeria.
“We need this kind of revelational knowledge sharing platform so that Nigerians can understand that 131 out of two hundred million living below poverty is unacceptable. “
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French Envoy Seeks Collaboration With NAN To Boost Seamless Relationship
The new French envoy to Nigeria, Marc Fonbaustier, on Wednesday called for collaboration with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) toward strengthening the mutually beneficial relationship between the two countries.
Fonbaustier, who is the French ambassador to Nigeria and the ECOWAS, made the call when he paid a courtesy visit to Malam Ali Muhammad Ali, NAN’s Managing Director, in Abuja.
The ambassador said that his purpose of visiting was to pay tribute to the MD, and to seek collaboration in three areas with a view to promoting stronger, seamless and fruitful partnership between both countries.
He added that Nigeria and its people were hospitable, especially to the foreigners and ambassadors alike.
He added that Nigeria was a country with so much energy, strength, stamina and so many talents.
In Nigeria, with the population of this size, it is inevitable that the elites of the country are very outstanding, “and there may be a Franco/Nigeria moments now”, he jokes.
According to him, France and Nigeria can collaborate more and learn from each other.
“I could feel it particularly during the state visit of President Bola Tinubu which took place in November 2024.
“I was there and I could see the intensity, the strength and the scope of the partnership, and I am here to scale up that partnership in all sectors.
“I am coming here for three reasons, first, to pay a tribute to the NAN MD and his team for the quality of this agency. We can testify that the contents that you publish are very factual, and also very well set up and structured.
“You do fact checking and you really do try to provide the community with quality information. I think, as a French ambassador, I can recognise that as part of a living democracy,” he said.
The French ambassador said the second reason for the visit was to intimate the NAN MD of France’s eagerness to go on partnership with NAN saying he hoped for assurance of a seamless, fluid and easy relationship.
He said that his third reason stemmed from his observation that NAN recently signed some partnership framework agreements with Egypt and China, saying “it may be time to think of balancing this partnership with others”.
“Especially with French, and to talk with Agence France-Presse (AFP) to see if there’s ground for a closer relationship between NAN and AFP.
“Which is also a recognised agency like yours, and I bet you the sky will be the limit to the collaboration, ’’he said.
Responding, the NAN MD informed the envoy that the agency was African’s biggest news content provider on account of its size.
Ali gave the envoy a little details of the agency’s operation and its outreach, saying “as our continent’s biggest news content provider, we have offices nationwide and in selected African countries.
“We have offices in countries such as South Africa, Cote d’ivoire, Addis Ababa, and then we have offices also beyond the shores of Africa. We have in New York and we are the only resident wire service in the United Nations.
“At a time in the past, the agency had 11 foreign offices, including Moscow, and presently, we are trying to re-open some of our shut offices, especially in London.
“We value partnership and understanding that we have with similar news organisation such as Reuters and, incidentally, we have a long standing relationship with AFP which you just raised.
“I know for years we have exchange of news between NAN and AFP but it’s a cooperation that we will like to strengthen and with your greater involvement,’’ he said.
The MD commended the ambassador for reaching out and engaging with some Nigerians communities to douse the tension of the allegation made by the Nigeriens.
He also lauded the envoy’s leadership and visibility to Nigeria and the ECOWAS, “which has helped to douse the perception and misconceptions about France, especially in the Sahel”.
“I think you have helped to reverse some of this perceptions. I thank you for the kind words that you said about the agency and about our management.
“We also see partnership as an important tool in checking the spread of fake news.
“We’ve seen instances where fake news has done great deal of damage, and with the coming of social media it has done even greater damage.
“Our country is facing a lot of challenges, one of which is the increasing insecurity, and the social media has been used by those who do not want to see our country to prosper,” Ali said.
He further said that NAN was a credible news agency that always fact check to correct the wrong narratives by those who are in the business of causing troubles.
He also told the envoy that the agency has its content in the Nigerian indigenous languages, starting with Hausa and it would proceed to Yoruba and Igbo languages later, “then later in future to French.
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