Northern leaders on Saturday urged the region to strengthen its unity and take urgent action against insecurity as the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) marked its 25th anniversary. The former Head of State, retired Gen. Yakubu Gowon, represented by former Vice-President, Alhaji Namadi Sambo, said unity and peace remained the North’s most vital assets. He said […]
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has expressed its frustration in advising President Muhammadu Buhari-led government on security matters in the country without fruitful results. The forum lamented that the government appeared not to be serious in taking proactive measures to bring the worrisome situation to an end. Rising from its Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting […]
The pan-northern socio-political organisation, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) yesterday reprimanded the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari over the rising insecurity in the North. Daily Times reports that the ACF, in a statement titled: “ACF condemns endless killings in the North’ urged the President to live up to his oath of office. The statement was […]
The Arewa Consultative Forum has threatened to stop further supply of foodstuffs to the area due to attacks by suspected members of the Indigenous Peoples Organisation of Biafra. The Chairman of the ACF in Rivers State, Usman Ibrahim,said the decision was due to attacks targeted at those supplying food into the South by proscribed IPOB […]
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has reacted to the emergence of the North-Central Peoples Forum, (NPCF) saying that the Forum’s membership is not by force. The ACF’s National Publicity Secretary, Emmanuel Yawe, said this in an interview on Thursday, September 11. On Wednesday, Daily Times reported that leaders from the North-Central announced their exit from […]
The National Chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Chief Audu Ogbeh, has said if they did not save the North from its present security situation, the North will be lost totally. Ogbeh said this in a communique after their first inaugural meeting held in Kaduna on Wednesday, August 19. The chairman said, “Some Nigerians […]
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) on Thursday expressed dismay over the gruesome murder of Rev. Lawan Andimi, Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria CAN, Michika in Adamawa by the Boko Haram terrorists. The National Publicity Secretary ACF Alhaji Muhammad Ibrahim, in a statement equally appealed to the Federal and State Governments to fish out perpetrators of […]
Kaduna – The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has condemned in strong terms the Killing of aid workers by Boko Haram terrorists in Borno. The aid workers were abducted by terrorists in July 2019 on their way to a remote community in the northeast to provide humanitarian support to victims of Boko Haram violence. This is […]