North, South-South Leaders Renew Pre-Independence Alliance & Charge Communities: Defend, Protect Yourselves

Leaders of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and South-South Peoples Conference (SSOPEC) have urged communities to brace up for their defence and protection as the security situation in Nigeria is taking a turn for the worse. At a top-level meeting in Abuja on Friday to renew their age-long working cooperation and political alliance concerned leaders from the two […]

Meet Murtala Aliyu, ACF Secretary-General

One of the 60 eminent Nigerians who were born in the year of Nigeria’s Independence is Muhammad Murtala Aliyu. He is one of those featured by Project 60@60 in a compendium of eminent citizens. Aliyu is the Secretary-General of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), (a political and cultural association of leaders in Northern Nigeria formed in 2000 which has considerable influence in […]

Failed State: Obasanjo’s Bombshell Unsettles Buhari, Arewa

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s comment on Thursday on the state of the nation is unsettling the Buhari administration and the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF). But, socio-political groups in Nigeria pressing for the restructuring of the country’s twisted federal system on Sunday gave President Muhammadu Buhari a thumb down, and sided with Obasanjo. Obasanjo said Nigeria […]

Can Amotekun really cost south-west 2023 presidency as Miyetti Allah warned?

In my column article of January 6 – a riposte to Isa Funtua’s prejudiced utterance on the Igbo — I wrote: ‘’Funtua’s statement reeks of corpulent arrogance, bigotry and an acute sense of entitlement. It reinforces the stereotype that his section of the country bullies any region that does not kiss the ring of the […]

2023 Presidency tears Northern leaders apart

Northern leaders and groups championing the interest of the region are currently divided over power rotation and the 2023 presidency, just as some elders under the banner of Northern Elders Forum have called an emergency meeting for next week to manage the cracks and explore the possibility of presenting a common position. One of such […]

FBI’s Nigerian Fraudsters: Penalty for violating zoning arrangements?

The recent news that the United States’ Department of Justice has indicted 80 individuals, 78 of whom are Nigerians, (mostly Igbo), for email scam and money laundering scheme of about $3bn, has expectedly led to the ethnicization of the issue. I had a very light-hearted chat on the issue with a friend who ‘theorized’ that […]