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Northern Elders Forum (NEF) to Sue Government to International Court (Listen to interview with NEF spokesman Prof. Ango Abdulahi)
Listen to interview with NEF spokesman Prof. Ango Abdulahi The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) will file a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Nigeria’s government of human rights violations, according to spokesman Ango Abdullahi. “What we are doing now is to organize our evidence that would make it possible for us to
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Northern Elders Forum (NEF) to Sue Government to International Court (Listen to interview with NEF spokesman Prof. Ango Abdulahi)
Listen to interview with NEF spokesman Prof. Ango Abdulahi The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) will file a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Nigeria’s government of human rights violations, according to spokesman Ango Abdullahi. “What we are doing now is to organize our evidence that would make it possible for us to
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(1957) Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, “Unity and Diversity in Independence”
In 1957 the Nigerian House of Representatives passed a motion requesting Independence from Great Britain and calling on that colonial power to officially set the date for that Independence as October 1, 1960. After the motion was passed, Alhaji Abubakar Balewa, a member of the House who would soon be named Nigeria’s first prime minister,
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Explosion Rocks Gen. Buhari’s Hometown In Katsina – PREMIUM TIMES
Explosion and sporadic gunshots rocked the quiet town of Daura, Katsina state, home town of opposition leader, Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday night. The attack started at about 10 p.m. and was still ongoing one hour later. Witnesses said the attackers brought down police station and robbed banks and homes. Some residents said the attack started around
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6 United States of Nigeria
Assuming Sanusi is right, Gowon finished the joke Britain stated by creating 12 artificial states in an artificial nation they called Nigeria. The government with 36 states which arose from equally artificial considerations instead of from resource oriented realities, have become unmanageable as productive and federating units. Federating unit means you give as well as
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A Template For The New Nigeria!
To me, the place to start is a redefinition of the identity of this country AFTER we have accepted there is no country. There is no way thousands of ingredients can be put together without processing and it will be called a soup. What we have now is the thousand ingredients or tribes. We don’t
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Our fathers used our resources to make Nigeria what it is today – Northern Elders
As the battle heats up for the 2015 presidential election, the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, yesterday averred that the presidency should be shifted to the region comes 2015 as a mark of equity and justice, saying that the region made Nigeria what it is today. Secretary of the NEF, Prof. Ango Abdullahi said this, when
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Dokubo-Asari should learn from civil war’
Alhaji Gambo Ibrahim Gujungu, the National President of the Kaduna-based Arewa Youth Forum (AYF), in this interview with Regional Editor Northwest, Hassan Ibrahim, expresses dismay at the recent comments by Mujahid Dukobo-Asari, leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force (NDPVF), that there will be crisis if the Goodluck Jonathan presidency did not continue in
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2015: Jonathan must consider Nigeria’s unity before deciding to run —Ekwueme
Nigeria’s vice-president during the Second Republic, Dr Alex Ekwueme, is in the class of highly respected elder statesmen in the country today. Safe for when he gives speeches during pubic events, the co-founder of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rarely grants interviews. After being on his trail for some time, the elder statesman, eventually,
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Why Asari Dokubo Should Not Be Ignored
By Jude Banye “Our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers, the men in high and low places that seek bribes and demand 10 percent; those that seek to keep the country divided permanently so that they can remain in office as ministers or VIPs at least, the tribalists, the nepotists, those that make the
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Asari Dokubo defends his position on 2015, Jonathan Presidency
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