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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 ta...

Malami. Photo/TWITTER/HOPEUZODINMAThe Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, looks to me like a man who enjoys the company of controversy. But I am not sure that controversy enjoys his own company on issues that seem crystal clear to most people. This Senior Advocate of Nigeria prefers the company of fogginess. He complicates and compounds what seem to most people clinical and straightforward, attempting to use his convoluted sense of legalese or constitutionalese as the fulcrum of his attempts at public deception. Some time ago when virtually all Nig...

By Deji Elumoye President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday took issue with Southern governors over their ban on open cattle grazing in the region. The president, in a statement by his media assistant, Mallam Garba Shehu, described the ban, announced as one of the resolutions the 17 governors from the zone made during their May 11 meeting in Asaba, Delta State, as of questionable legality. According to him, the governors’ action is of “questionable legality, given the constitutional right of all Nigerians to enjoy the same rights and freedoms within every one of our 36 states (and FCT)-regard...

Vanguard News Before Nigeria fails [opinion] By Chidi Nkwopara LET us devote a few minutes to day, for our dear country, Nigeria. This reflection, in the writer’s considered opinion, has become absolutely necessary because patriots believe that Nigeria does not need to fail, even as it is crystal clear that the country is in dire straits. There are a number of things that sadly brought Nigeria on its knees. Take the Federal Character Law as an instance. It appears to discerning minds that it has been abandoned completely. Appointments have continued to be manifestly nepotic and made in favo...

The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, has said that in the light of the unfolding scenario set by the ratification of a regime of laws ...