The Coalition of Northern Groups has asked the Federal Government to take immediate steps to evacuate all herdsmen currently in the South back to the north. This, the group said, was in the light of the unfolding scenario set by the ratification of a regime of laws that potentially seek to.The Advocate
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Chairman of the Southwest Governors’ Forum and Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, yesterday, cautioned the Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu.
Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has said Nigeria needs a new Constitution, not mere alterations or amendment to the 1999 Constitution. Okowa stated this when he received the Senate Sub-Committee on review of the 1999 Constitution led by Senator James Manager at Government House, Asaba, on Wednesday. El-Rufai sacks 19 political appointees After Ramadan, devotion […]
In a statement made available to journalists by its spokesman, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, the forum berated Southern leaders over their recent moves, saying they were making a desperate but futile attempt to split the North along fault lines.
Daily Trust reports that agitations for secession were gathering momentum in the South-West and South-East as exemplified by the unhindered activities of ethnic chauvinists.
For instance, Sunday Igboho, who is championing the actualisation of Oduduwa republic and Nnamdi Kanu who is the leading the agitation for the Biafra republic, were seen as getting the tacit support of some political leaders in the South.