Tag: Northern Youths

Pipeline Contract: Replace Service Chiefs with Tompolo, Northern Youths tell Buhari
Demand revocation of pipelines contract in seven days

Aminu Imam

A Coalition of 225 Youth Groups mainly from Northern Nigeria, Amalgamated Arewa Youth Groups, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Service Chiefs over their failure to secure the nations pipelines against vandals. In a press statement issued by its spokesman, Comrade Victor Duniya, Amalgamated Arewa Youth Groups, condemned the award of pipeline surveillance contract to Tompolo, describing it as an empowerment scheme for Niger-Delta Youths, despite the billions of Naira spent on what it called the failed amnesty programme that is exclusively designed for them. The Coalition was…

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ASUU Strike: Northern students set to join NLC solidarity protest

Aminu Imam

…”NLC proposed solidarity protest with ASUU illegal” Lai Moh’d The Coalition of Northern Groups Students Wing (CNG-SW), yesterday, directed the 19 northern State chapters to mobilise students and parents to join Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) for a massive protest across the region. Recall that the Federal government and ASUU have been at loggerheads over the failure of the former to fulfill some of the agreements it made as far back as 2009. CNG-SW, in an issued statement signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade Jamilu Aliyu Charanchi and National Secretary-General,…

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2023: Northern Youths group rejects el-Rufa’i endorsement by TSO as Tinubus running mate

Aminu Imam

Northern Youths, under the umbrella of the North-East Stakeholders Forum of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have kicked against the open endorsement of Kaduna State Governor, Nasir Ahmed el-Rufa’i, by the Tinubu Support Organisation (TSO) as the ideal candidate for the vice-presidential slot. The TSO had described el-Rufa’i as the best among the contenders being proposed as running mate to the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The TSO Director-General, Aminu Suleiman, while briefing newsmen in Kaduna on Monday, said that they had decided after a consultative meeting with critical…

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2023: Northern Youths vow to resist moves by INEC to suppress Northern voters

Aminu Imam

Demands for resignation of mgt. The Northern Youth Council of Nigeria, (NYCN), has vowed to resist moves by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), to suppress Northern voters during the forthcoming 2023 general elections. The group, in an issued press statement yesterday, signed by its President, Dr. Isah Abubakar, and its Director-General, Media and Publicity, Hon Mock Kure, the NYCN stated that most States in the North-West region and few others in North-Central had to shut down telecommunications networks to enable the military carry out operations to rid the regions…

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Northern APC Youths, Women in ‘mother-of-all’ rally to Villa, adopts Tinubu as Consensus candidate

Aminu Imam

Thousands of women and youths from across the 19 northern States, yesterday, converged on Abuja and marched to the Presidential Villa to demand the adoption of All Progressive Congress, (APC) National leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as the consensus candidate of the party in the forthcoming presidential election. According to the women and youths, Tinubu is the only person fit and capable among all those that have been declaring their intention to turn around the economy of the country. Led by one Patriot Yakubu Dauda, they said the APC youths and…

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“Declare State Of Emergency on Security”, Northern Youths urge Buhari

Aminu Imam

The Unified Nigerian Youth Forum, (UNYF), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency on security following the recent attacks on Kaduna airport and Abuja /Kaduna train service by terrorists. A statement issued by one AbdulSalam Mohammed Kazeem, on behalf of the Forum on Thursday, stated that the series of attacks has further exposed the inability of the current administration to keep to her campaign promises. The country as usual again just lost some finest brains though many were injured while others were kidnapped. To our…

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Poverty, unemployment cause of insecurity in Northern Nigeria – Naja’atu Moh’d

Aminu Imam

Frontline northern woman activist and founder of the Salama Youth Empowerment Organisation, (SYEO), Hajia Naja’atu Muhammad, has identified poverty and unemployment as the major reasons behind insecurity in northern Nigeria. Hajia Naja’atu, at a town hall meeting which was held in Sokoto yesterday to sensitise youths on the federal governments entrepreneurship and empowerment programmes, noted that many youths, who constitute 70% of the population, are unemployed, illiterate and ignorant of the consequences of social vices. She said; Our youths are like uranium; uranium, when in its original form is harmless,…

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‘Resign!; 25 civil society groups urge NNPC GMD, Kyari, Farouk Ahmed over lingering fuel crisis

Aminu Imam

No fewer than twenty-five civil society organisations (CSOs) of northern extraction under a coalition of ‘Concerned Northern Forum’ yesterday called for the resignations of the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Ltd, (NNPC), Mele Kyari, and the CEO of the Nigeria Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, (NMDPRA), Engr. Farouk Ahmed, over the lingering fuel crisis being experienced across the nation. Recall that the country has for the past three weeks been thrown into fuel scarcity due to imported adulterated fuel, causing long queues at petrol-filling stations.…

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2023: Arewa youths ask Dangote, Otedola, others to join presidential race

Aminu Imam

Shehu Sani reacts Northern youths, under the aegis of the Arewa Youth Assembly, have called on prominent private sector players to come to the nations rescue by joining the 2023 presidential race. The Arewa Youths stated this in a statement on Friday, titled: Private Sector Players to Join the 2023 Presidential Race, jointly signed by the groups Speaker, Mohammed Danlami, and National Clerk, Desmond Minakaro. According to them, Nigeria needs the managerial acumen and leadership skills of citizens such as Aliko ?angote, Femi Otedola, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and many others,…

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2023: Ohanaeze shortlists Amaechi, pledges N10bn for Igbo Presidency

Aminu Imam

In an apparent move to solicit support for an Igbo president ahead of the 2023 general elections, the pan-Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has started its negotiations with other regional leaders and stakeholders. Ohanaeze Ndigbo has said it has set aside N10bn in support fund for the actualisation of Igbo presidency in 2023. Leading a delegation, Secretary-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, met with the National President of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), Yerima Shettima, in Kaduna, in its bid to woo and support the presidential ambition of…

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