Tag: Arewa Group

Nationwide Protests: Arewa Forum backs CDS Musa’s call for media blackout

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The Arewa Concerned Citizens Forum (ACCF) has backed the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen. Christopher Musa’s call for a media blackout on the on-going nationwide protests. In an issued statement made available to newsmen in Kaduna yesterday, signed by its National Coordinator, Dr. Victor Bobai, Assistant Secretary, Moses Enenche and Director, Media and Publicity, Ibrahim Kolo. Recall that the CDS had on Friday, during a press conference in Abuja, asked both international and local media to stop covering the 10-day nationwide protests, which began on Thursday. He argued that…

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Arewa Group withdraws support for rotational presidency

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…Accuses Tinubu of short-changing region A socio-political group, Arewa New Agenda, (ANA), has emerged with a focus on repositioning the northern region as a dominant force in Nigeria. ANA declared its opposing stance on the rotational presidency yesterday in Yola, the Adamawa state capital,, alluding to President Bola Tinubu’s “it is my turn” comment before the 2023 election. Addressing newsmen on the new move, the president of the group, Senator Ahmad Abubakar MoAllahyidi, alleged that Northern Nigeria was short-changed by the Tinubu administration, despite its numerical strength to determine the…

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‘Reinstate subsidy, remove Governors from palliative chain’ – Arewa Forum urges Tinubu

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The Arewa Economic Forum, (AEF) has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to reinstate subsidy payment on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly known as petrol or fuel, using extra money paid to the States from the Federation Account Allocation Committee, (FAAC), to cater for it. AEF’s Chairman, Ibrahim Shehu Ɗandaka, conveyed the Forum’s position at a press conference yesterday in Abuja, amid prevailing economic challenges faced by the Nigerian masses with removal of fuel subsidy. The body wants the President to act on it urgently if he knows he can’t find…

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“There’s increasing spate of poverty, insecurity, political conflicts across the land” – Conference of Northern CSOs tell Tinubu

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The Conference of Northern States Civil Society Networks, at the weekend, has lamented the increasing spate of poverty, hunger, insecurity and political conflicts in Nigeria. They called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to take the bull by the horn and declare a state of emergency on security, particularly, in some States in the North. The Conference of Northern States Civil Society Networks also expressed deep concern over what it described as looming danger as a result of plots to truncate Nigerian democracy on the, “conspicuous fixation to snatch the mandate…

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Crude oil Theft: Arewa Group urges probe of Naval Chief

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A group, Arewa Intelligentia Caucus (AIC) has asked President Bola Tinubu to investigate the Nigerian Navy under its present Chief, Admiral Ogalla, over allegations of crude oil theft, economic sabotage, and promotion of insecurity in the country’s waterways. A statement issued by its president, Abubakar Ciroma, and Publicity Secretary, Nasir Adamu, said the allegation made by another group, Oodua Integrity Network, should not be discarded. The group recalled that the Federal Government had contracted the surveillance and protection of oil pipelines in the Niger Delta region to private security companies…

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Arewa accuses Tinubu, APC of using Judiciary to destabilise Northern region

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An Arewa movement, known as Northern Coalition Youths Movement Initiative, (NYMI), has accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration and the ruling All-Progressives Congress (APC) of an hidden agenda to destabilize the Northern commercial nerve centre in order to weaken the economy of the region. This was disclosed in a world press conference at Arewa House in Kaduna state yesterday. The Secretary-General of the movement, Comrade Ibrahim Mohammed Inuwa, pointed to series of moves being made by the government to undermine the region using the judiciary to subvert the people’s mandate…

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“Leave Emefiele alone”, Arewa group tells security agencies

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Members of the Concerned Northern Forum (CNF) have asked security agencies of the federal government to let the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, to breathe after being granted bail by a Federal High Court in Abuja. The group’s chairman, Comrade Ali Sani, in an issued statement yesterday, said although the judge exacted a promise from Emefiele‘s lawyers to present him in the court for trial whenever needed and also to deposit his international passport in the court, the condition which was immediately fulfilled by…

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Northern group raises alarm over alleged plot to unseat NASS Speaker, Abbas

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A group, the Arewa Development and Democratic Agenda (ADDA) has raised the alarm over the alleged plot to unseat the Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas. The group specifically fingered the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha as the top plotter against the 10th National Assembly Speaker after the National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal in Umuahia, Abia State declared her winner of the February 25 election for the Isuikwato-Imunneochi federal constituency. Addressing newsmen at a hotel in Kaduna, President of ADDA, Comrade Yusuf Maigari vowed…

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Coup: Northern Consensus Group asks Gowon, IBB, Danjuma to caution Tinubu against Niger invasion

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A group, under the auspice of Northern Consensus Movement (NCM), has called retired military heads of state in Nigeria, retired Generals Yakubu Gowon, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida, and T.Y Danjuma to caution President Ahmed Bola Tinubu against invading Niger Republic after exhaustion of the seven days ultimatum given to military juntas of the country. The group said many of the past military heads of state in the once experienced war and its devastating effect on Nigeria. Calling on President Tinubu who also doubles as the chairman of the Economic Community…

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‘Fulbe Community to Strategically Position for National Development, Peacebuilding’ – Arewa New Agenda

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Aminu Imam The Fulbe community in Nigeria has agreed to strategically position itself to make its most effective contributions to national development and peacebuilding. The decision was reached at a consultative meeting of Fulbe leaders from all over the country, which was held in Abuja on August 6. The meeting was organized by the Arewa New Agenda (ANA), a non-governmental organization that promotes peace and development in northern Nigeria. According to a statement issued after the meeting by theConvener of the Group, Sen. Ahmed Abubakar MoAllahyidi, the ANA Chairman, Muhammadu…

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