The Arewa Dignity Advancement Initiative (ArDA) has called for urgent, innovative solutions to address what it considered as “unbearable” hardships facing Northern Nigerians, citing inflation, unemployment, insecurity, and governance failures. In a statement signed by Chairperson of the group, Hajiya Baheejah Mahmood and Secretary Abubakar Muhammad, ArDA decried escalating banditry, terrorism, and economic neglect. It […]
Governor Uba Sani has said that the north has enough human resources to solve its development challenges, if the elite can come together and chart a way forward. The Governor who spoke when the leadership of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), led by Alhaji Bashir Dalhatu, Wazirin Dutse, paid him a courtesy call, noted that […]
Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (Rtd.) has warned that the North was facing grave existential threats capable of destabilising not only the region but the entire country if not urgently addressed. He said the North remained a vital pillar of Nigeria’s stability and prosperity but continued to grapple with insecurity, poverty and […]
…Appoints Oweh, Chairman, Egbabor, DG By Nosa Akenzua The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Isoko North Chapter has constituted the campaign council for the July 13, 2024, local government council elections in the state. The campaign council was inaugurated, Friday, at the Otor-Igho country home of the Member representing Isoko Federal Constituency Hon. Jonathan Ukodhiko by […]
By Doosuur Iwambe The North Central Frontiers (NCF) has backed the lawmaker representing Biu/Bayo/Shani Federal Constituency of Borno state, Hon. Muktar Aliyu Betara, for the position of Speaker in the 10th National Assembly. The group, in a statement signed by Hon. Moses Onah and Andrew Bot, its president and secretary-general respectively said Betara is tailor-made […]
In a bid to allay fears and apprehension in the mind of Nigerians over a perceived notion that the political elites in the North are scheming to retain power in the centre beyond 2023, the Arewa Mandate Initiative, has said that the North is ready for a power shift to the South after President Buhari’s […]
This is North West’s world and Kim Kardashian West is just living in it. California Governor Gavin Newsom shared on Twitter a public service announcement from the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star herself as she urges residents to continue to stay home and practice social distancing. But beside her important and urgent message, it was her 6-year-old daughter North who stole […]
Despite the outrage generated by his comment on young persons in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has again spoken on the “uneducated” youth. While speaking at a Commonwealth forum in London, Buhari had said a lot of Nigerian youths have not been to school and they want everything free, banking on the notion that Nigerian […]
Tanko Yakassai, a founding member of Arewa Consultative Forum, has revealed that the north engaged in massive electoral fraud to elect President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 presidential election. The elder statesman made this revelation while speaking to journalists during a visit to former military Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida, at his residence in […]
Dr. Adetokunbo Pearce, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Lagos State, and former publicity secretary of the Segun Adewale led Lagos faction of the party under the Sen Ali Modu Sheriff’s then PDP. In this interview with INIOBONG IWOK, Pearce talks about the state of the party in Lagos State, the forth […]
* Berate Fayose over presidential ambition * ‘Any zone in South can produce National Chairman’ Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja Leaders and elders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the North have vowed that the presidential candidate of the party in the 2019 presidential elections must be produced by the zone in strict compliance with the […]
Arewa Youth Forum (AYF) leader, Alhaji Ibrahim Gambo Gujungu, has insisted that whether President Muhammadu Buhari indicates interest in second term or not, the north will still retain the presidency. Gujungu described recent reports giving credit to acting President Yemi Osinbajo for certain achievements recorded by the presidency, as an insult to the north. Speaking, […]