Prominent Northern advocacy groups – the Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF) and the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) – have jointly raised strong concerns over what they describe as deepening marginalisation of Northern Nigeria under President Bola Tinubu’s administration. Both groups, in separate but similarly themed events in Kaduna, accused the federal government of neglecting the region across critical sectors including education, infrastructure, agriculture, and security. At the Government-Citizens Engagement Forum, organised by the Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, (NEF) Chairman, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, painted a bleak picture of the North’s socio-economic…
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Insecurity: Our groups mission is to rescue the North and Nigeria Pastor John Dara
By Maryam Zakari The convener of a new group of concerned eminent Northern Nigerians, Pastor John Dara, has said that one of the objectives of the group is to bring an end to insecurity that has ravaged the northern region of the country lately. Pastor Dara, who is a former presidential aspirant under the platform of National Transformation Party (NTP) in the 2011 election, disclosed this on Liberty TV programme Dialogue yesterday, stated that neglect of the education sector over the years is largely responsible for the insecurity. According to…
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