| National Dialogue Interactive Session |
4.10pm - Youth want a three month duration for the confab and another three for national referendum.
3.39pm - Youth call for more participation in national roles.
3.19pm - Committee secretary, Akilu Ndabawa, however, dismissed reports that the retired colonel had been suspended. “He is not the only one that is not here,” Ndabawa said.
3.18pm - Tony Nyiam, who led some people during the committee sitting in Benin to shout down Governor Adams Oshiomhole, is not at the interactive session in Lagos.
2.54pm - Ndigbo Council said participants in the conference should be screened by the advisory committee before participation, saying that would not allow the conference to be hijacked by politicians.
2.51pm - Another hall in NIIA, Victoria Island has been opened for live streaming due to overflowing crowd.
2.48pm - The 500-capacity NIIA hall is filled to capacity.
2.42pm - No to NASS ratification of national confab outcome – Gani Adams
2.36pm - Tunji Braithwaite responds to comments attributed to the ACF. He says the confab will not fail like others in the past.
2.34pm - Gani Adams disagrees with Fasheun’s position, says no need to send a bill to NASS prior to the confab.
2.34pm - No confab, no election – the Yoruba
2.20pm - People with disabilities, women groups, ethnic minorities call for adequate representation.
2.19pm - The Yoruba call for the convocation of the conference before the 2015 elections.
2.18pm - Yoruba groups agree that the time for the conference is now.
2.16pm - Almost all presenters declared that any ethnic group that does not agree with resolutions from the the confab should be allowed to walk away (“seize to be part of Nigeria”).
2.13pm - There is an overwhelming support on the point that resolutions from the confab must not go to the national.
2.05pm - CD, NBA, Ikeja branch, Fasheun want the NASS to pass a bill consenting to the confab to give it a legal backing.
1.54pm - Afenifere and Afenifere renewal, among others do not want a bill passed to the NASS for ascent to the confab.
1.49pm - Most groups agree that the confab must not be politically based.
1.46pm - Groups presenting conflicting figures on the number of ethnic representatives to attend confab.
11.58pm - A member of the committee, Prof. George Obisun, arrived at the conference late. Obisun arrived at NIIA at 11.10am, two hours after the commencement of the session.
11.56am - Position papers have been distributed to participants as they are presented.
11:54am - Tight security at the South-West Interactive Session at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos.
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