Arewa
2 Apr
A Northern group, Arewa Think Tank (ATT), has said that Northern elites cannot stop President Bola Tinubu’s election for a second term bid in 2027. According to the group, this is because the North does not need political power for now but infrastructural and educational development by a leader who cares for the region. Fielding…
7 Jan
In the play Femi Osofisan’s objective is the establishment of a good government and a well-ordered society in which the rights of the people and state authority are expressed in accord with the same high principles.
5 Jan
Youths in the North, under the umbrella of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), have called for the cancellation of the Computer-Based Test (CBT) format in the forthcoming West African Examinations Council (WAEC) examination in the country. The AYCF said that if such a mode of examination is introduced will ultimately result in massive failure…
28 Oct 2023
As congratulatory messages to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over last Thursday’s Supreme Court judgment, which affirmed his victory at the 2023 presidential election continued to pour in yesterday, leaders of ethnic nationalities in the country have charged the President to focus...
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Apex Igbo socio-cultual organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide and Arewa Group, the Northern Defence Network, have dissociated themselves from attacks by some faceless groups against the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) and its group chief executive officer, Mele Kyari. A group, which calls itself ‘Coalition of GMD NNPC Mele Kyari Must Go’, had in…
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The Coalition of Arewa Civil Society Groups, after a stakeholder meeting to reflect on issues relating to the zoning of leadership positions of the 10th assembly, has realised that zoning the Senate presidency to the South East geo-political zone was an answer to power exclusion and marginalisation.
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Stakeholders in the North have urged the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, to prioritise national interest in the choice of the next leadership of the Senate, saying personal and parochial interests of former leaders in the National Assembly...
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