FORMER Lagos State governor Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is to meet with the All Progressive Congress's (APC) incumbent governors over the next 24 hours and task them with the assignment of picking his running mate as the deadline for submission looms.
Yesterday morning, Asiwaju Tinubu emerged as the APC's presidential candidate...
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I wonder if any state government in Nigeria actually has statistics to show how many Almajiri beggars end up as terrorists, kidnappers and bandits
According to a global survey published by Habitat for Humanity in 2015, Nigeria has 24.4m beggars. Also, according to this survey, 16.5% of Nigeria’s population is...
NIGERIA'S main opposition the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has been warned by the youth wing of Ohaneze Ndigbo not to bother standing any candidates for elective positions across the southeast if it fails to field an Igbo presidential candidate in 2023.
Although not constitutional, Nigeria's component parts have a...
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Kudos to the members of the Southern Governors Forum (SGF) for finally waking up from their slumber. They have finally realised that it is they who will fix Nigeria, not the federal government
Waiting for the federal government to come and bail you out is just looking for a lame excuse in my opinion. As we have seen...
MEMBERS of Nigeria's Northern State Governors’ Forum (NSGF) are meeting in Kaduna today to debate the vexed issue of value added tax (VAT) that has become a hot potato over the last week as southern states have won the legal right to localise it.
Up until now, VAT has been paid into the federal coffers but in August, a...
NIGERIA'S Northern State Governors Forum (NSGF) has finally accepted the recommendation of its counterparts the Southern Governors Forum and conceded that open grazing is no longer sustainable and all cattle should now be raised in ranches.
Earlier this month, the Southern Governors Forum met in Asaba, the Delta State...
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National Council of Traditional Rulers
Northern State Governors Forum
Nigerian Governors Forum
Christian Association of Nigeria
Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs
Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria
APC board of trustees
PDP board of trustees
Manufacturers Association of Nigeria
Nigerian Labour...
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We wholeheartedly endorse the call by our southern counterparts calling for a restructured Nigeria run according to the dictates of the 1963 constitution whereby the federating units control all the resources within their domains
We are in 100% support of an immediate federal ban on open grazing
We shall open six...
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Our herdsman crisis can only be resolved by opening cattle ranches. We need to attract about $5bn to build six mega ranches with accompanying leather tanneries, milk processing plants, veterinary clinics and animal feed compounders
In Turkey, they used Islamic finance to build a Eurostar-type railway tunnel under the...
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(1) By 2023 we will elect a president who will stop this division of Nigerians along ethnic lines. President Buhari is unique even by Fulani standards as neither presidents Shagari or Yar’Adua were this nepotistic
(2) By 2025, Boko Haram would have been eliminated as what is currently lacking is the political will to...