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Insecurity: Northern group raises concern, urges united front for region

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Northern group raises concern

The Northern Reconciliation Group, (NRG), has expressed concern over the escalating violent attacks, abductions, kidnappings and banditry across Northern states. NRG, in a statement yesterday in Kaduna, called for an urgent and collective action to end the menace. According to the statement, which was jointly signed by the Pro-tempore Secretary of the group,  Dr. Joseph Lengmang, and the group’s Pro-tempore spokesperson, Prof. Usman Yusuf, the persistent insecurity in rural and semi-urban communities has continued to expose families to fear, grief and uncertainty. The NRG extended solidarity to the victims of…

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Northern group faults Nigeria-France bilateral agreement

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Northern group faults

A Northern group, Northern Star Youth Empowerment Initiative, (NSYEI), has kicked against the seeming “close romance” between France and the federal government under President Bola Tinubu. In a statement issued to newsmen in Kaduna yesterday, signed by the Director-General of the group, Dr. Abdullahi Idris, recalled that during his recent state visit to France, President Bola Ahmed signed many bilateral agreements with the president of France including on military cooperation and exploitation of Nigeria’s mineral resources by France. “At the moment, our people in the north live in apprehension of…

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Northern group backs Ndumes stance on hunger, insecurity under Tinubus Govt.

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Northern group backs Ndume

A non-political group, also known as the Concerned Northern Forum (CNF), has thrown more weight behind the 10th Senate Chief Whip, Senator Ali Ndume, who appeared last Thursday on a television programme, where he said there is much hunger in the land under the present administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubus ‘Renewed Hope Agenda’. Senator Ndume, who represents Southern-Borno at the Red Chamber also said that, despite hunger and insecurity bedevilling the nation, it has been very difficult for some Ministers, Special Advisers and other appointees of the federal government…

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Northern caucus demand zoning of LP chairmanship to region

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The Forum of Northern Labour Party (LP) Chairmen and Secretaries has urged the partys hierarchy to let the north produce next chairman of the party. Convener of the Forum,  Hussaini Saraki, made the demand while speaking at a press briefing on Wednesday, in Bauchi. Saraki, who asserted that the LP is united and has no faction, said the leadership of the party should be zoned to the North because the presidential candidate is from the South. Recall that on March 27, the LP conducted a controversial national convention in Anambra…

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Northern Group hails Tinubu for suspending Betta Edu

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Says, “Our eyes on all ministers” The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has commended President Bola Tinubu for suspending Betta Edu as minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation. In a statement on Monday, Yarima Shettima, president of the group, said Edus suspension shows that the president has zero tolerance for corruption. Edu has come under scrutiny after a leaked letter surfaced where she authorised the Accountant-General of the Federation, Oluwatoyin Madein, to transfer N585 million to a private account. Tinubu directed her suspension and asked the Economic and…

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Igbohos 10-day threat for Fulani: Northern group threatens to stop food supply to South

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A group, the Northern Consensus Movement of Nigeria, has vowed to stop the supply of food from the North to the southern part of the country. The group made this threat following a recent ultimatum issued by a Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, in a recent video, for the Fulani community to vacate Yoruba land within 10 days. The group also vowed to do everything in their reach to stop the move, adding that if the threat persists, they will force the Yorubas living in…

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Ministerial List: Dont appoint ex-northern Govs, APC Group urges Tinubu

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A group, the Northern Progressives Union, has urged President Bola Tinubu not to take former northern governors into his government, saying that they wont bring about any significant changes. The appeal, which was made in a statement released yesterday by NPU Coordinator, Mohammed Kiyawa, was made in response to mounting concern over the presidents list of ministerial nominees ongoing postponement. Kiyawa urged Tinubu to refrain from picking any of the recently-departed state governors from the North as ministers or cabinet members. According to him, some of the governors betrayed the trust…

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2023: ‘North youths unfairly treated by APC leadership structure’ – Tinubu/Shettima media group

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An All Progressives Congress (APC) northern media youth group, the APC Media and Mobilisation Group for Tinubu/Shettima, (BATIMA), has lamented that northern youths are unfairly treated by the parties leadership structure. The BATIMA DG, Kingsley Omadoye, in an issued press statement yesterday, stated: “We are groups of individuals who have been in the party since its merger stage till date. We are members of the different political parties that made up the APC. (CPC, ANPP, ACN, and APGA). We observe that the lingering information about our Northern brothers and fellow…

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N/Delta: Kaduna Group fumes over the award of pipeline surveillance contract to Tompolo

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…Calls for Sylva, Kyari, others’ removal A group, Amalgamated Arewa Youth Groups yesterday kicked against the award of the pipeline surveillance contract to an ex-militant leader of the Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta, (MEND) Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo by the Federal Government. The group, in a statement by its Spokesman, Comrade Victor Duniya, said it received the news of the award of a pipeline surveillance contract worth over N4bn monthly by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Ltd to Tompolo with rude shock. According to him, the group…

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Worsening Insecurity: Northern Group fumes, urges Buhari to sack Service Chiefs

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Following the surge in terrorists and bandits’ attacks in the northern region in the last few weeks, a group, the ‘Northern Advocacy for Peace’ (NAP), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack the serving Service chiefs over the resurgence of bandits attacks on communities in the N’East, N’West and parts of the S’East region of the country. Recall that in the past two weeks, terrorists and bandits have continued to attack communities in Kebbi, Niger Sokoto, Zamfara, Kaduna and Imo states leading to the death of uncountable unarmed…

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