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“The only way North can overcome its numerous challenges” – IBB

January 12, 2025January 12, 2025 Aminu Imam

Former military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has said the only through unity can Northern Nigeria overcome its numerous challenges. IBB made the assertion when officials of the Northern Star Youth Empowerment Initiative, (NSYEI), led by former governor of Sokoto State, and chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the movement, Attahiru Bafarawa, accompanied by the co-chairperson Hajia Naja’atu Mohammed and its Director-General, Dr. Abdullahi Idris, visited him at his HillTop residence in Minna, Niger State. The former military president, popularly known as IBB, commended the activities of NSYEI,…

Northern Nigeria�s existence in next five years uncertain – ACF

October 7, 2024October 7, 2024 Aminu Imam

�Says region�s insecurity out of control The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has expressed fear that banditry and insurgency have gone out of control in Northern Nigeria to the extent that it may threaten the cohesive existence of the entire region in the next five years. The ACF’s Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT), Alhaji Bashir Muhammad ?alhatu, has expressed the Forum�s concern over the current insecurity in the North, and warned that banditry and general insecurity have posed serious threat to the survival of the region. ?alhatu issued the…

“North faces existential threat from poverty, insecurity” – Uba Sani to ACF�Says proposed national protest ill-timed, counter-productive

July 23, 2024July 23, 2024 Aminu Imam

Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, yesterday received in audience a high-powered delegation of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), led by the newly elected Chairman, Mamman Mike Osuman, (SAN), OFR. While commending the ACF for been steadfast in its commitment to the promotion and protection of the interests of the people of Northern Nigeria, he drew the attention of the regional association to the disturbing negative developmental indices and security challenges confronting the North. Governor Sani expressed concern over the high rate of poverty, out-of-school children and the general insecurity in…

�Abuja Security Roundtable to seek lasting solution to insecurity in North’ – CNG

January 23, 2024January 23, 2024 Aminu Imam

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF)�s Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, has said the roundtable discussion organised by the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) will assist in finding lasting solution to the security situation in the North. Suleiman, in a statement issued at the weekend, expressed support for the initiative and emphasized the need for all stakeholders and critical actors to come together and find practical solutions to the prevailing insecurity in the region. According to him, the roundtable discussion, scheduled to take place in Abuja as from tomorrow,…

“Endless fighting, killings in North attempt to plunge Nigeria into anarchy” � VP Shettima

January 1, 2024January 1, 2024 Aminu Imam

Vice-Pesident, Kashim Shettima, has called for a collective fight against poverty, destitution and backwardness in the North, saying there is no reason for the fighting and killing, instead of tacking issues threatening development in the region. The Vice-President, who frowned at the Christmas killings in Jos, Plateau State, urged Nigerians to resist any acts that would plunge the country into anarchy. He noted that the North was far lagging behind, hence the need for the people to embrace and tolerate each other for peace and development. Shettima, who was in…

�Northern Nigeria mostly affected by climate change� – Environment Minister

November 20, 2023November 20, 2023 Aminu Imam

Minister of State for Environment, Dr. Iziak Salako, has noted that the northern part of Nigeria is more vulnerable to climate change than other parts of the country. The Minister, who spoke during the launch of Report on ‘Mapping Climate Change Impact, Policy and Action in Nigeria�s 36 States including FCT‘, explained that the impact of climate change varies according to every region in the country. The Minister explained that the low rainfall in the region exposes the population, who are mostly farmers, to different climate change effects such as…

Bauchi Discussion Circle: The Circle of Northern Nigerian Politics and Nigeria�s Independence Top of Form

September 27, 2023September 27, 2023 Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

By; Abubakar Al-Sadique & Abubakar Ahmed On October 1, few days from this day, amalgamated Nigeria will be 63 years in independence. The first of October every year is being celebrated as the nation�s independence anniversary day because it was the day the country secured its independence from Britain after being colonized for forty-six years from the 1914 amalgamation. This makes the anniversary day the most important date in the political diary of the country. Unlike other countries that had to shed blood securing their independence, Nigeria in 1960 became…

Oodu�a group warns against threatening North

May 29, 2023May 29, 2023 Aminu Imam

The Oodu�a Peoples Frontiers (OPF) yesterday condemned the alleged threats by the Oodu�a People�s Congress (OPC) to the North for contesting the National Assembly leadership sharing formula announced by the National Working Committee of the All-Progressives Congress (APC). The OPC had warned northern politicians against blackmailing the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, over the leadership of the National Assembly. But speaking in Lagos yesterday, convener of the group, Moses Odewale, urged the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to distance himself from those it described as agents of destabilisation operating in various guises and…

‘Poor leadership driving poverty in northern Nigeria’ � Arewa Group

January 27, 2023January 27, 2023 Aminu Imam

The Arewa Economic Renewal Forum (AERF), has said that poor leadership has been the major reason for the high poverty rate in northern Nigeria. The Forum said this during a press briefing in Abuja. Speaking at the event, the Chairman of AERF, Ibrahim Yahaya, said, �Over the years, Nigeria, and especially the North, have suffered an epileptic form of leadership, borne out of a lacklustre attitude of elected persons to engineer the much-desired economic prosperity by exploiting regional assets, demographic potentials, geologic advantages and agricultural benefits for economic, infrastructural and…

Service to Humanity:��”Late Gen. Hassan Usman Katsina left behind only half a million Naira”, Says son, Babangida��

November 28, 2022November 28, 2022 Aminu Imam

The son of former governor-general of northern Nigeria, Babangida Hassan Usman Katsina, has revealed that, when their father General Hassan Usman Katsina died he only left behind N500, 000.00. Usman made this revelation in Katsina at the weekend, while speaking at the maiden General Hassan Usman Katsina public lecture organised by the Hassan Usman Katsina polytechnic, Katsina. He however noted that their father left behind good name, honesty, discipline and transparency for all to copy. Usman lamented that had it been their father had been alive he would not be…