Worried by incidences of crisis across the country, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has said peace is attainable in Nigeria, despite threats to the nation’s peaceful co-existence.

Osinbajo admitted that even though there was threat to peace in the nation, pragmatic approach could be adopted to enhance peace in the nation.

He said this at the twenty-eighteen International Day of Peace, held in Lagos, organised by the Lagos State Citizens Mediation Centre, saying the Centre was doing great things in Lagos to enhance peace through Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Osinbajo spoke through Rule of Law Advisor, Office of the Vice President, Akingbolahan Adeniran, charging Nigerians to embrace peace and shun all forms of violence, as the twenty-nineteen general election.

Lagos Commissioner for Justice, Adeniji Kazeem, said this year’s International Peace Day event coincided with the seventieth anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations which aimed to highlight the importance of all segments of society to work together to strive for peace and respect for Human Rights.

Kazeem, said the United Nations had been able to achieve its laudable programmes through the thousands of partnerships each year with governments, civil society, the private sector, faith-based groups and other non-governmental organizations.

He said in nineteen ninety-nine, government in line with its constituted functions of ensuring peace within the State; established the Citizens’ Mediation Centre to provide access to justice to the indigent residents of the State.

According to him, the Centre is an initiative of government under the Ministry of Justice with a Mission to serve as a non-adversarial dispute resolution centre through the use of mediation mechanism in dispensing justice fairly, speedily and without discrimination fear or favour between disputing residents of the State.

He said the existence of peace in any society was germane to democracy and a panacea to socio-economic development and growth, saying peace is what the world needed at this time to promote bilateral partnerships, among nations.

Kazeem who spoke through a director in the Justice Ministry, Maria Olaniyi, said the sustenance of Human Rights would eradicate acrimony and entrench self love and mutual respect among citizens which in the end contributed to the global peace.

Director, Lagos Citizens’ Mediation Centre, Omotola Rotimi said peace was very important if any society or nation was going to move forward, while stressing the need for peace in the homes, schools, communities, among others.