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Translate BAN ON OPEN GRAZING: Group berates Lawan, Gbajabiamila, Yusuf for opposing Southern Govs On By Festus Ahon, ASABA THE League of Professionals for Strategic Advocacy, Monday, berated the President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ahmed Lawan, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila and former Chairman of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Prof Usman Yusuf for opposing the decision Southern Governors to ban open grazing of cattle, call for national dialogue, restructuring of the country among others. The League in a statement by its C...

x Atiku on Saturday urged the 17 Southern governors engaged in the ‘Asaba Declaration’ to convene a national conference should President Muhammadu Buhari refuse to heed to their demands. “What our present challenges, therefore, call for is not fragmentation but concentration,” Atiku tweeted. “We must concentrate and focus our national willpower and resolve towards fighting these unNigerian tendencies. “I call on Nigerian Governors to stop waiting on Abuja to make changes, and instead convene a National Unity Summit of all Nigerian Governors to i...

says 17 govs not against nation’s unity The Chairman of the South-South Governors’ Forum and Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, on Saturday, pushed back on the anti-restructuring comments by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and other critics of the resolutions reached by the Southern Governors’ Forum during last Tuesday’s meeting. Okowa spoke on behalf of 16 other governors from the Southern zone of the country who he hosted in Asaba, Delta State capital. This is as Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, also, on Saturday, said the decisions reached by the Southern governors, includi...

In the face of palpable existential threats, governors of Southern Nigerian states called out President Muhammadu Buhari. Will the president choose rhetoric or take decisive action? Louis Achi asks On Monday, 24 hours before embattled governors of Southern Nigeria, meeting in Asaba, Delta State, issued a ‘proclamation’ calling out President Muhammadu Buhari over spiraling national insecurity, the militant Palestinian Hamas group began targeting Ashkelon and Tel Aviv, Israeli cities close to the Gaza Strip, with rockets and claiming lives. The six administrative districts constitutin...