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Two groups are organizing a summit March 14 in Fayetteville to promote clean energy such as solar.

Sustainable Sandhills and the Cumberland County Progressives are holding the free meeting the New Century International Elementary School at 7465 Century Circle. It's from 11:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Free child care is available, and the R Burger food truck will be on site from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., according to a news release by Sustainable Sandhills.

State Rep. Rick Glazier, a Fayetteville Democrat, is scheduled to speak at the event. State Sen. Jeff Jackson, a Charlotte Democrat, will be the keynote speaker.

"Our vision for this event is to raise awareness about and engage the community in the implementation of solar and other clean energy technologies," Hanah Ehrenreich, executive director of Sustainable Sandhills said in a statement. "In support of this vision, we have scheduled panelists who will address various topics that are facing our region today."

For more information, log on at sustainablesandhills.org/clean energy summit.

- Andrew Barksdale

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Sustainable Sandhills, Cumberland County Progressives holding summit to promote clean energy

The wife of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen MuhammaduBuhari(retd.),HajiyaAishaBuhari, has donatedassorted drugs and relief materials to more than a hundred victims of Saturdays bomb attacks in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

The wife of the Borno State Governor, Hajiya Nana Kashim Shettima,who presented the items on behalf of Mrs. Buhari, said the wife of APC presidential candidatecondoled with the people of Borno State over the multiple bomb attacks on Saturday and Sunday.

She urged women particularly to continue to pray for lasting peace not only in the state but in the country at large.

She commended the efforts of the security agencies and the youth vigilance group in their fight against insurgency in the state.

Receiving the donation, the Chief Medical Director of Borno State Hospital Management Board, Dr.Salisu Bura, said the gesture would go a long way in assisting in the the treatment of the patients.

Hedescribed the gesture as timely, saying the items received included 150 cartons of assorted drugs, 1,000 multi-vitamins, polythene mats and blankets.

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By Nuruddeen M. Abdallah

The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate retired General Muhammadu Buhari has formally dragged the First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan to International Criminal Court (ICC) for urging PDP supporters to stone anyone who ask for change.

Patience Jonathan, during a rally in Calabar, Cross River State last week, called on PDP supporters to "stone" anyone who came to the state asking for change.

The complaint letter to the ICC was signed by Rivers State Governor and Director General of All Progressives Congress Presidential Organisation the Rotimi Amaechi.

Copies of the letter will be sent to the Inspector General of the Nigeria Police (IG) and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), among others.

Governor Amaechi said "Change, as the entire country must know by now, is the slogan of the APC - the rallying cry of a political party that wishes to bring hope of greater and better things to come for Nigeria and Nigerians. By her statement, Mrs. Jonathan was clearly calling on PDP supporters in Calabar to attack supporters and campaigners of the APC in the state."

He also likened some of Mrs. Jonathan's inciting statements and conduct during this political campaign season, to those of Mrs Simone Gbagbo, wife of the former president of Cote D'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, prior to that country's 2010 election.

The ICC indicted Mrs. Gbagbo for her part in planning to perpetrate brutal attacks - including murder, rape, and sexual violence, on her husband's political opponents in the wake of the 2010 election.

Mrs. Jonathan does not occupy any formal office in the Nigerian government, as the position of First Lady is not recognized by the Nigerian constitution. But Mrs. Gbagbo's case shows the ICC's awareness of how someone beyond formal governmental and military hierarchies can be identified as responsible for serious international crimes.

The APC campaign pointed out that Mrs. Jonathan's incontrovertible hate speech not only contravenes the laws of the land, but also goes completely against the Abuja Peace Accord jointly signed by the two presidential candidates, General Buhari and President Goodluck Jonathan - a gesture which is aimed at forestalling violence before, during and after the 2015 election.

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Nigeria: Buhari Taking Patience Jonathan to International Criminal Court

The All Progressives Congress has alleged plans by one of the security agencies to harass and intimidatesupposed sponsorsof the party, which it says is part of the ongoing efforts to cripple its activities in the run up to the March 28polls.

APC believes the agency is apparently acting at the behest of the President Goodluck Jonathan administration.

In a statement in Lagos on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party however said the agency could only target phantom financiers, since the APC was, in reality, being financed by Nigerians, not some moneybags.

Though the Federal Government has used some national institutions to stifle our partys fund-raising efforts, Nigerians have utilised the available platforms to make their donations. It is therefore a futile exercise for anyone to harass some innocent people for supposedly financing the APC, it said.

The APCsaidsecurity agenciesshould only serve national, rather than partisan, interests, because while governments would always come and go, Nigeria as a country would remain.

For example, there is a plan for at least 500 security agents to apply to work as ad hoc INEC staff so they can rig for the PDP, while military and police uniforms are being sewn in a Peoples Democratic Party-controlled state in the South-West, with a view to making them available for PDP thugs to wear on election day, so they can harass and intimidate the opposition.

There is also the disturbing case of four senior officers of the State Security Service, who are being retained for some ignoble role during the general elections, even though they are already due for retirement.

It is interesting that these officers, including three at the states and one at the headquarters of the SSS, are all from the South-East and the South-South, which the Jonathan-led administration considers its stronghold.

Equally disturbing is the fact that a section of the security services has been making sensitive information available to certain PDP members, including a loose-lipped state Governor, just to get at the opposition.

This is sad because Nigeria is bigger than any political party.

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About 60 people participated in the fourth annual Awake The State rally of political progressives Wednesday in West Palm Beach.

The gathering, organized by Tom Conboy, met to draw attention to a series of liberal platform issues as the Florida Legislature gets started in Tallahassee.

Those at the rally outlined a five-point platform they want lawmakers to pass, including:

-expanded access to health care

-more efforts to protect water quality

-expanded use of alternative energy sources

-raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour

-pass anti-corruption legislation.

Of course, a group of progressives arent likely to gather without tossing a few shots in the direction of the conservatives who reign in Tallahassee.

Under Gov. Rick Scott, Florida has only worked for the wealthy and the well-connected, Conboy said. Its important that we make our voices heard in Tallahassee.

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