Tag: Middle-Belt

FG expels American missionary, Barber over alleged incitement

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FG expels American missionary2

The Federal Government has expelled the American missionary, Alex Barber, from Nigeria, accusing him of making statements that could incite violence and deepen divisions in the country’s conflict-prone Middle-Belt region. The development was confirmed by Abiodun Essiet, Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Community Engagement (North-Central), during an interview, who said Barber’s activities had raised serious concerns about national unity and public safety. “Alex Barber is no longer in Nigeria. He was removed and sent out of the country because of the work he’s doing, which is…

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Insecurity: “M’Belt is grateful to Trump” – T.Y Ɗanjuma

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TY Danjuma

Former Minister of Defence, Lt.-Gen. Theophilus Yakubu Ɗanjuma (rtd), has praised United States (U.S) President Donald Trump for drawing international attention to the security challenges in the Middle-Belt region of Nigeria. Ɗanjuma made his position known at Plateau State University, Ɓokkos, during its combined 8th and 9th convocation ceremony, where he was conferred with an honorary doctorate degree (Honoris Causa). The former army chief said that Trump’s public statements on the situation in Nigeria, particularly the threats facing communities in the Middle-Belt, have made the term a recognised part of…

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Thousands march in Abuja, demand official Middle-Belt recognition

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M'Belt protest

Tens of thousands of Middle-Belt indigenes took to the streets of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) yesterday in a massive but peaceful protest, calling on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to formally recognize the Middle-Belt as a distinct geo-political and administrative region separate from the North. Carrying bold banners and placards, protesters gathered from early morning along Ahmadu Bello Way, Eagle Square, and the Three Arms Zone, chanting in unison: ‘Middle-Belt is not North!  ‘Middle-Belt deserves recognition; ‘We are Middle-Beltans, not northerners’; ‘No more forced assimilation into the North’. The protesters,…

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Restructuring: Northern minorities demand South, Middle-Belt, North regions

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Restructuring demands

Northern minority ethnic nationalities, under the auspices of Coalition of Indigenous Middle-Belt Organisations, (CIMBO), have risen from a two-day maiden conference in Kaduna, calling for restructuring of Nigeria into three regions, namely, South, Middle-Belt and North. The ethnic nationalities also demanded that the current 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) should be rewritten, saying that, restructuring and enactment of a new peoples constitution is the panacea to peace and development of Nigeria. A communiqu issued at the end of the two-day conference, which had as its…

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Middle-Belt: TY Danjuma, Jerry Gana, others storm Yola, as Gongola ethnic nationalities regroup

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Middle Belt regroup

Former Chief of Army Staff Theophilus Danjuma; former Minister of Information, Professor Jerry Gana; ex-Plateau State governor, David Jang; incumbent Governor, Caleb Mufwang and Governor Kefas Agbu, of Taraba State, among others, are set to be honoured by the ‘Gongola Peoples Forum’ in Adamawa State, today, Saturday. The Forum will confer its ‘Mega National Award’ on these dignitaries, whom it lauds as illustrious sons and daughters, in recognition of their past or ongoing contributions to regional and national development. The Gongola Peoples Forum, comprising individuals with traditional ties to regions…

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FGs demand for grazing lands will worsen insecurity – Midde-Belt group

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A group, Middle Belt Patriots, has urged state governors not to succumb to pressure from the Federal Government to cede lands to herders for grazing. The group said yielding to such demands would worsen the security situation in the middle belt and other parts of the country. Recall that President Bola Tinubu, while speaking at the flag-off of the agricultural mechanisation revolution for food security in Minna, Niger State capital on Monday, had called on State governors to give parts of the land in their States for ranching purposes. In…

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2023: Middle-Belt presidency agitation leader, Ayom,declares for Tinubu

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…Donates structures Leader of the Middle-Belt presidency agitations, Moses Ayom has declared support for the presidential bid of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The Benue-born philanthropist, who has been playing roles in the economic policies of the Muhammadu Buhari administration, also donated some multi-billion campaign structures to the Senator Abu Ibrahim-led Independent Campaign Council, ICC, of Tinubu. At the weekend in Abuja, he led the national coordinator of ICC and former deputy governor of Nasarawa state, Silas Agara, in company of Pius Akinyelure,…

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