Tag: North

Food Insecurity: ‘Biting hunger resulting from low-crop yield leading to mortality in North’ – Stakeholders

Aminu Imam

Across Nigeria, in spite of the advent of rainy season which led to heavy rainfall, the annual seasonal farming in northern Nigeria, stakeholders have raised alarm that biting hunger resulting from low crop yield is leading to mortality in the North, resulting in food insecurity in the region. Lamenting the situation to newsmen, a father of five, Malam Garba, (not his real name), from an Adamawa community, said he lost his first daughter, A’isha, as a result of hunger resulting from low crop yield. At the burial ground, when Aisha…

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Tinubu Okays construction of 1,000 houses in 7 Northern States Shettima

Aminu Imam

Vice-President, Kashim Shettima has said President Bola Tinubu had approved the construction of 1,000 houses in Sokoto, Kebbi, Katsina, Zamfara, Kaduna, Niger, and Benue States. Director of Information, Office of the Vice President, Olusola Abiola, in a statement, said Shettima made this known on Friday, at the commissioning of projects executed by the Borno State Government in the last 100 days. The Vice-President explained that the housing projects were part of a broad plan by the Federal Government to address conflicts in the North. Shettima also revealed that Tinubu approved…

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NASS Leadership Tussle; Northern Elders Forum Chides VP Shettima, urges Presidency’s non interference

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Northern Elders Forum NEF has asked the Nigerian presidency to allow the members of the National Assembly to choose their leaders without interference and eschew religious sentiments being bandied about. The Forum spoke in reaction to the statement credited to Vice President Kashim Shettima with regards to the suitability of Abdull-azeez Yari and Godswill Akpabio. Briefing the media in Kaduna, the Director, Publicity and Advocacy of the Northern Elders Forum, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed said the forum has cautioned the President Tinubu administration on many occasions to respect the rights…

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2023: “Ill change Northern Nigeria through agriculture” Peter Obi

Aminu Imam

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, (LP), Peter Obi, says he plans to change the Northern region through agriculture if elected president of Nigeria in 2023. Obi, who made this promise at a virtual meeting with Labour Party support groups on Friday, said adequate investment in the sector can help to address food inflation and insecurity in the country. He said, I am going to change the region. We need to cultivate arable land there; respected Nigerians from the North have ruled this country but the ten poorest states…

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“Disregard North and pay a heavy price” – Northern Broadcast Media Chieftain tells presidential candidates

Aminu Imam

The Chairman, Northern Broadcast Media Owners Association, (NBMOA), Alh. Abdullah Yelwa, Ajiyan Yauri, has called on political parties and their candidates not to make the mistake of underrating the potency of the broadcast media stations in the North as political campaigns are set to commence. Alhaji Yelwa, who is the founder and chairman of Caliphate Radio/Television, said, “We note with deep concern the tendency of some political actors to prioritise the use of a few Lagos-based television stations for political messaging in the North.  According to him, “Political education and…

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Between Slaughtered Cattle and Insecurity in Nigeria

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

By; Ishaq Moddibo Kawu. Recently, the video of hundreds of slaughtered cattle, was making the rounds, on various social media platforms. An old classmate posted it on my Secondary School Class WhatsApp platform; and because he neither spoke Fulfulde nor Hausa, he was sufficiently alarmed, to request for translation of what was being said, by the obviously distressed people, in the video. I made a translation of the conversation; but I thought it was proper to provide some more engaging context for the video. There have been circulated in.the recent…

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ICC Prosecutor to probe abduction of school children in Northern States

Aminu Imam

The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, Karim A. Khan, has expressed its readiness to investigate kidnappings in northern Nigeria, closure of schools, and the persistent failure of the federal and State authorities to end such. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP), made this announcement yesterday. Recall that SERAP had in a petition in September urged Khan to push for the trial of those suspected to be responsible and complicit in the crimes. The rights group said the severe and lifelong harms that result from depriving children of the right…

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PDP zones chairmanship to North

Aminu Imam

The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), has zoned the position of National Chairman to the North. The Chairman of the Zoning Committee and Governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, announced this on Thursday afternoon. Ugwuanyi said National Working Committee, (NWC), positions currently being held would be swapped between the North and the South. He said the mandate of his committee did not include zoning of the office President and Vice President. The decision came after a meeting of the PDP Governors Forum held on Wednesday night, where nine governors were said…

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You lack capacity to deal with violence in the North, Falana-led group tells FG

Ishaku Yohanna

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), says the federal government has shown lack of capacity to deal with the violence in the north. Reacting to recent killings in Kaduna and other northern states, ASCAB blamed the government for the mayhem, saying the central authority has the constitutional responsibility to ensure the protection of lives and property in the country. In a statement by Femi Falana, its chairman, ASCAB said it is undoubtedly clear that the government has shown lack of capacity to deal with the sad events. It said the government appears…

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