Tag: Northerners

FCT: Kano Govt. condemns forceful unconstitutional deportation of northerners

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Kano Govt. condemns

…Says ‘Abuja is not anyone’s property’   Kano State Government has expressed concern over the repeated deportation of citizens from the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), Abuja, to Kano and other states in the North. The state’s Commissioner for Women Affairs, Children and Disabled Persons, Amina Sani-Abdullahi, who made this known yesterday in a statement to newsmen in Kano, said the state government observed that within the last four weeks, several Nigerian citizens, including indigenes of Kano, Jigawa, Katsina, and Kaduna, were deported from the FCT to Kano. According to her, the…

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NEF condemns eviction order against Northerners in Delta

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NEF condemns

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has strongly condemned the recent eviction order issued to northerners residing in Avavo, Delta State, as reported by the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, (BBC). NEF Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, in a statement issued yesterday, said the action was deeply concerning and unacceptable. He said, According to the BBC report, the ejection order fails to distinguish between northerners as a race and the criminal activities of a few individuals. It disregards that most northerners are not Fulani, most Fulani are…

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‘Northerners are tired of northern politicians’ – APC Chieftain

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Says Tinubu accepted in North, S’West, can give Atiku nightmare An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in Niger State, Jonathan Vatsa, yesterday said less-privileged northerners are tired of politicians from the region and would vote for a southern politician in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. Vatsa, who stated this in Minna, Niger State capital, said the only way the ruling party can retain power after 2023 is to make former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu its presidential candidate, adding that the APC will lose the presidency if a…

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Attacks on Northerners in S/East: “We cannot bear it any longer” – Wamakko

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…Says ‘Enough is enough’ Former Governor of Sokoto State, Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, has called on political leaders and other prominent persons in the South-East to speak up on the attacks on Northerners in that part of the country. In a statement he personally signed and issued yesterday, titled: “A clarion call on Igbo leaders: Enough Is Enough“, Wamakko said, If leaders from the South-East feel they can allow their people to do what they wanted, we may have no choice than to stop dousing the increasing tension among our…

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