Ten governors from Northwest and Northcentral will attend a United States-sponsored Governors’ Symposium on Peace and Security in the North. A statement by Chief Press Secretary to Katsina State Governor, Ibrahim Mohammed, said the symposium, organised by Africa Centre at United States Institute of Peace (USIP), addresses security challenges i...
•The Senate The Northern Senators Forum (NSF) has said that the escalation of kidnappings in the North, particularly Kaduna State lately, is not only “reprehensible” but also calls for “urgent and resolute action” to tackle the mass abductions of citizens. As a body, it said it had the mandate to ensure that the security situation […]...
•Senator Abdulaziz Yar’Adua Members of the Northern Senators’ Forum (NSF) yesterday named Senator Abdulaziz Yar’Adua as the replacement for Sen. Abdul Ningi as the Chairman of the group. Yar’Adua, a younger brother to the late President Umar Yar’Adua, hails from Katsina State. He is also the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, reports Ni...
•’Japa’ Nigeria’s economic crisis has plunged millions of its citizens into poverty. The situation is dire in the northern region, where insecurity, poor infrastructure and low human capacity development have worsened living conditions. In this report, our correspondent captures a migration trend among northern youths who leave the...
•Protest in northern Nigeria Desperate Nigerians have been protesting against soaring food prices as an economic crisis forces people to skip meals and eat poor-grade rice used as fish food. To feed their children, women in northern Nigeria have even resorted to digging up anthills in search of grain stored by the insects, according to [&helli...
•Aerial view of Lagos The Chidi Ibe-led faction of Ohanaeze Ndigbo has expressed concern over what is described as “the glaring silence exhibited by the Northern governors to the relentless and malicious media attacks by certain Northern groups and political leaders toward the alleged intention of the Federal Government to relocate certain off...
•Tinubu Prominent groups in the Northern states are currently at loggerheads over certain policies of the Bola Tinubu administration seen by some as anti-North. The latest of such policies is the recent move by President Bola Tinubu to relocate some departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to Lagos from Abuja, the Federal Capital. [&he...
A coalition of Youth groups in the 19 northern states, Arewa Youth Ambassadors (AYA), called on President Bola Tinubu’s administration not to sell crude oil to Dangote Petroleum Refinery (DPR), in dollars but naira. They also ask President Tinubu to continue working with the private refinery owners, particularly DPR and provide them with crude...
•CBN headquarters, Abuja The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has expressed concern over the reported plans by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to relocate major departments from the Abuja headquarters to the former headquarters in Lagos. NEF made this known a statement signed by Abdul-Azeez Suleiman Director Publicity and Advocacy/Spokesperson an...
•Tinubu The Concerned Northern Forum has cautioned President Bola Tinubu over the use of the report before him submitted by Jim Obazee, the special investigator hired to check the activities of the country’s apex bank under its suspended governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele. The group disclosed this today in statement signed by the Chairman, Aliyu Muh...
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