Tag: Northern States

“North’s greatest misfortune is its leaders’ -Solomon Ewuga

Aminu Imam

By Maryam Zakari A former senator and minister of State for the FCT, Solomon Ewuga, has said that why the North is in a mess is  that its great misfortune is that the president is from the region, because according to him, there is nothing to show for it. Ewuga, who is also a former deputy governor of Nassarawa State, stated this during a Liberty TV/Radio programme: “State of the Union” yesterday. According to him, “The North has the highest level of insecurity, unemployment and illiteracy, yet it had produced…

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Northern group embarks on mass protest in 19 northern states over “abduction” of its leaders in Kaduna

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Coalition of Northern Groups CNG has raised alarm about the abduction of its Board of Trustee BoT Chairman and National Coordinator Nastura Ashir Shariff and Balarabe Rufai’s who were abducted in Kaduna Thursday, and called for mass protests across the 19 northern states on Friday. Spokesperson CNG, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman said in a statement that as at 6.30pm of Thursday, their whereabouts remain unknown. He explained that their “people who have been trailing the arrest vehicles reported that they lost the trail at Jere on the way to Abuja after…

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Bugaje mobilizes for a 5 million-people movement to salvage the ‘North’ ahead of 2023

Ishaku Yohanna

Dr. Usman Bugaje, a two-times Katsina State gubernatorial aspirant has begun plans to mobilize no less than 5 million people from the nineteen (19) Northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to ‘salvage’ the region and the country at large. Dr Bugaje elaborated the idea in a long essay he wrote.  In his write-up, Dr Bugaje argued that “… in the real world, no one gets what he deserves, one only gets what he negotiates for and the currency for that negotiation is power.” He further explained that “power…

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