As part of efforts to safely navigate the country through its turbulent times, the technical committee set up by the Northern Elders forum and Southern Elders to discuss modalities to address some challenges confronting the country have met in Abuja with a resolution to have a broadbased Nigerian Elders Forum NEF that can intervene in crisis situations.

Makurdi—Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to cry out for help from the international community to stem the killings by herdsmen which he, yesterday, described as ethnic cleansing.

A University Don, Malam Bala Mohammed, of the Faculty of Communications, Bayero University, Kano, has accused the Igbo of being responsible for the drug abuse prevalent among youths in the north. He was reported to have made this wild claim  of “unscrupulous Igbo drug dealers as brain behind the scourge” while presenting a paper titled “Nexus between youth, drugs, crime and insecurity” at the Kano Youth Summit on Peace Advocacy and Development, organised by Hamisu Magaji Foundation, at Mambayya House, on Tuesday, 3rd of April, 2018.

AHEAD of 2019 general elections, a group of elders and stakeholders in the North have begun moves aimed at getting a consensus presidential candidate from the zone.

*Say Buhari, Yar’Adua were imposed on the region By Joseph Erunke ABUJA-AHEAD of 2019 general election, the elders and stakeholders in the North have begun moves aimed at getting a consensus presidential candidate from the zone other than President Muhammadu Buhari. The elders, who are already in Abuja, the nation’s capital city brainstorming towards that […]