The Arewa Consultative Forum, a pan-northern socio-political organisation, has condemned the relocation of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and key departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to Lagos by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
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Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has narrated how the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, arrested him in Anambra state when he was governor of the state in 2013.
El-Rufai, who made this disclosure at an interactive session … Read the rest
By Farooq Kperogi
Centuries before colonialism and the British-supervised formation of Nigeria, much of what we know today as northern and western Nigeria have had robust encounters.
The past few months have ignited impassioned and frenzied political brickbats between the … Read the rest
“It is very easy to persuade the uneducated youths
to take up arms against an imaginary enemy and
fight, believing that by doing so they are guaranteed a life
of perpetual bliss in the hereafter;
the life that has been … Read the rest
At the centre of separatist campaigns in Nigeria, and possibly around the world, is the desire to have “homogenous” nations, or nations where an ethnic group is overwhelmingly in the majority, thereby leaving little room for rivalry, conflict and instability. … Read the rest
Yusuf Buhari and Zahra Bayero
The attack on and abduction of military officers at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) are at once unprecedented, humiliating, and dispiriting, but they are not in the least shocking because they merely represent a predictable pattern of Nigeria’s tragically progressive … Read the rest
FEARS of “Fulani domination” have endured since Nigeria’s founding but, more than ever before, there is now an insanely unhealthy obsession with the Fulani in Nigeria’s South. The Fulani are not just routinely reviled with genocidal rhetorical venom, all manner … Read the rest