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With few months to the 2023 elections, the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has urged Nigerians to vote for candidates with competence and capacity. NEF

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has expressed its condolences to the family of Paul Unongo, former minister of steel development.

The apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has condoled its northern counterpart, Northern Elders Forum

The Convener of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Prof Ango Abdullahi has called for Nigeria to return to Parliamentary system government adding the current presidential system of government has catastrophically failed the country. Ango, a former Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, said the presidential system of government in Nigeria kept recycling politicians from 1979 to date, without adding any value to the development of the country in all indices.

The federal government says 23 passengers still in captivity after an attack on a train in Kaduna have regained their freedom.

Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) has criticised how his counterpart in the Labour Party, Peter Obi has been hobnobbing with Nigerian ex-military leaders.  Former military dictators including Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha and Abdulsalami Abubakar all have massive corruption cases and human rights abuses hanging on their necks.  In a post on his Twitter handle on Sunday, Sowore knocked the regimes of the former dictators and how they appear to want...

Tukur Mamu, media consultant to Ahmed Gumi, the popular Islamic cleric, has been reportedly arrested in Cairo, Egypt capital.

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Monday denied endorsing the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) which has former governors, Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima. The CAN President, Archbishop Daniel Okoh, in a statement by his spokesman, Luminous Jannamike, faulted a media report that the association had changed its position regarding the same-faith ticket. He said the report was ridiculous, malicious, untrue and should be disregarded in its entirety...

Speaking at a book launch in Kaduna Thursday last week, Prof Ango Abdullahi, leader of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), accused some unnamed persons of