New Service Chiefs not enough to fix Nigeria’s insecurity – Northern Elders
By Luminous Jannamike The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, on Wednesday, said it will require more than the appointment of new Service Chiefs to fix Nigeria’s security challenges. The Forum argued that the change of the Service Chiefs by President Muhammadu Buhari was not an end in itself, but a means to […]
Benue Killings: Ethnic Cleansing or Jihad? Soyinka, Northern leaders tango
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.
Drug Abuse: Ndigbo and the real authors of moral decadence among northern youths
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.
2019: Northern leaders set up C’ttee on restructuring, shop for presidential candidate
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.
2019: Northern elders, stakeholders converge on Abuja for a consensus presidential candidate
*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 […]
2019: Northern elders rally for unity, justice, equity
Some Northern political elite have started preparation for political alliance with other geo-political zones based on unity, equity and justice.
