Tag: Arewa
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Quit notice: Igbo, Arewa youths reach truce, set up 10-man peace committee
Sequel to the crisis triggered by the quit notice recently issued to Igbos residing in the north, the Arewa youth and Igbo leaders have started resolving the imbroglio to douse tensions in both regions. TheNewsGuru.com reports that the Coalition of Northern Groups and Igbo leaders in the North met on Friday in Kano on the…
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Dangote and Arewa Youths’ Uncouth Ranting
By: Okanga Agila Madness has no defined pattern. To insist on orderliness in insanity is asking for the impossible or the Biblical camel passing through the eye of a needle. I also know that personal idiosyncrasies cannot be garbed in general conviction for every person. What has got me thinking is the insistence of Northern…
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Politicians using ill-gotten wealth to fund Arewa, Igbo agitations – Magu
The acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has identified corruption as the root cause of separatist agitations and militancy in the country. The spokesman of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren, said in a statement that Mr. Magu made the remarks at the opening session of a two-day Electronic and Social Media…
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Quit notice: Call for arrest of Arewa youths unpatriotic – Kwankwaso
Former governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has advised against call for the arrest of leaders of Arewa youth groups who have given the Igbo a three-month ultimatum to quit the northern part of the country by October 1, 2017. Describing the call even from some governors of the North as unpatriotic and…
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Political elites responsible for Biafra, N’Delta, Arewa agitations – Osinbajo
The Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Sunday attributed the current ethnic and regional tensions in the country to the handiwork of some political elites. Osinbajo made this known at a meeting of regional youth leaders organised by the Office of the Special Assistant to the President on Youth and Student Affairs at the NICON Transcorp,…
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Elites, masses are only two major tribes in Nigeria – Emir Sanusi
*My grandfather was a Northerner, I am a Nigerian… The Emir of Kano, Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II,has on Wednesday condemned groups that have resorted to ‘hate speech’ along ethnic lines. In a series of posts on Instagram, Sanusi said that due to regional separation, we still speak in the language of 1953. The Emir,…