Tag: Arewa Consultative Forum

Insecurity/Secession agitations: ACF to meet Ohanaeze, Afenifere

Aminu Imam

…Asks Igbo leaders to stop killings of northerners in S/East The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has said it is planning to meet with leaders of Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo, Afenifere and South-South groups, in the wake of agitations for the break-up of Nigeria and other security concerns. It, however, in the interim assured the security of Ibos living in the North and called on the South-East leaders to equally stop daily attacks and killing of ordinary northerners living and doing business in the South-East. These were contained in a communique issued…

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Insecurity: Nigeria will burn if Northerners retaliate attacks’ – ACF

Aminu Imam

The Arewa Consultative Forum, (ACF), has said that Nigeria will be in flames if Northerners retaliate the attacks on them in other regions. The ACFs spokesman, Emmanuel Yawe, stated this while cautioning Northern youths against retaliation in the face of all forms of provocations. Yawe appealed to Northern youths to remain calm and not set Nigeria ablaze by avenging attacks. Yawe, in a statement, recalled how the 1960s retaliatory killings set the country in flames. You see the thing about the North is that people will be provoking the region and they…

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Camels being used to carry deadly weapons into Nigeria ACF raises alarm

Aminu Imam

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has alleged that camels are being used to carry deadly weapons into the country. In a statement issued yesterday, the ACF National Chairman, Audu Ogbeh, said the weapons are imported from a neighbouring country through Sokoto and Zamfara States. The former minister of agriculture said some of the weapons being ferried into Nigeria include rocket propelled grenades, (RPGs), and anti-aircraft guns, adding that security operatives do not check the cargoes. He said, At the last meeting of our National Executive Council, NEC, in October 2020,…

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Insecurity: Act on insecurity now – ACF to Buhari

Aminu Imam

Says people are angry A Pro-North group, Arewa Consultative Forum, (ACF), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to address the insecurity crippling the socio-economic activities of the North. In a communique issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Emmanuel Yawe yesterday, the Forum expressed displeasure over the spate of insecurity in the region, calling on President Buhari to live up to his oath of office. After its National Executive Council meeting held in Kaduna, the ACF said the call is simply to convey the anger and frustrations of many Northerners who…

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CAC deregisters Ohaneze, ACF, over security concerns

Ishaku Yohanna

The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has withdrawn the registration certificate of Ohanaeze Ndigbo General Assembly, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and other socio-cultural groups in Nigeria. Disclosing this at the weekend in Abuja, the Registrar General of CAC, Mr Garba Abubakar, said the measure was part of the reforms the Commission was putting in place to subject such applications to thorough scrutiny following security threats that may arise from such registrations. He noted that the reforms are a measure put together to sanitise the Commission operations which lead to the…

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