Tag: north
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2023: APC baits Jonathan for North’s 2027 calculus, By Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon While Southern politicians are scrambling for the presidency in 2023 – that’s all things being equal, and the position is zoned to the South – Northern politicians are planning for both 2023 and 2027. Northern politicians’ calculation is simple: If they can’t retain power after the eight-year tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari…
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Fulani quit notice: Nigeria may go up in flames if… – ACF warns
The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has called on the Federal Government to stop the attack on Fulanis in Ibarapa area of Oyo State now or it will instigate counter-attacks in the north. The ACF, in a statement on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary of the ACF, Emmanuel Yawe, said the body received reports of…
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North’s ‘restructuring’ as gambit for 2023, By Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon The “restructuring day” appears to break in Northern Nigeria, thanks to a vocal protagonist of reordering of the prevailing system, and convener of Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), Prof. Ango Abdullahi. In a no-holds-barred interview with Vanguard, Abdullahi, a former Vice Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, calls for a return…
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127 influential Nigerian leaders petition UN, US, UK, others; say Nigeria’s 1999 constitution skewed to favour North
Some influential Nigerian leaders numbering 127 under the aegis of the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination in a meeting in Lagos on Saturday have alleged that the 1999 constitution was skewed in favour of the North. The leaders also petitioned the United Nations Security Council, African Union, European Union, United States and the British…
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Why North is backward in education – Report
A research commissioned by Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation has revealed why the North is backward in education. The research group headed by former Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai, said during virtual public presentation of the research work on Thursday in Kaduna, that states in the region have failed to accord education the priority…
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Abused Trust of Appointees: Nigerians should look beyond North in 2023 – Yoruba Group
…says unending terrorism, banditry, failed anti-graft war evidence of Buhari’s ineptness A group under the auspices of Yoruba Youth Social Cultural Association, YYSA on Saturday said Nigerians should look beyond the north in 2023 for credible leadership. In a statement signed by its President, Hammed Olalekan said the signals of failed leadership are too glaring…
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Ango Abdullahi’s robe of many colours
By Bala Kuta Professor Ango Abdullahi is an amusing character at his octogenarian age. He is a Northern varsity don, an intellectual, administrator and former minister in Nigeria, whose name should ordinarily strike profound memories. But in his latter days in life, he has proven to be a negation of whatever an elder should represent.…
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Stop mere condemnation of murderous attacks in North, swing into action now, Sultan tells FG, Govs
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar lll, has decried the persistent killing of people in the country by bandits and insurgents. Abubakar who is also the President-General of the Jamaatu Nasril Islam said the spate of insecurity in Nigeria, with particular reference to the North, should give those in government at federal and state…
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Northern leaders, elites and the scourge of greed – Mideno Bayagbon
By Mideno Bayagbon Today i want to take up a topic the former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and his friend, Governor Nasir El Rufai, broached a few months back, which is that the north must change its attitude and stop being a clog in the wheel of Nigeria’s development. Like them, i want…