Our diverse cultural background, ethnicity and religion should be our strong foundation of tolerance, survival and other psychological barriers, or face break-up. Our divergent views will not let us face issues headlong because of our various parochial interests! We carry our parochial interest to deceitful high heavens. I’ve always admired the Igbo people, they do not only possess business initiative Read More
Kaduna State governor and chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Committee on True Federalism, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has declared that it is an injustice to agitate for equal unequal, adding that in population and resources each region also differs. He, however, said that because the representatives of the agitators are few in number, “the majority must always win.” Speaking Wednesday Read More
The National Association of Seadogs (NAS), also known as the Pyrates Confraternity, has joined other Nigerians and groups calling for the restructuring of the country, even as it demanded immediate action. The Pyrates said following the perceived imbalance in the country, it was constrained to join others in the calls on the federal government to “pay heed to the urgent Read More
Th e combination of, on the one hand, the stubbornness of the advocacy for the restructuring of Nigeria, defi ance of the advocates and, on the other hand, the resoluteness of the opponents of the re-structuring is what is increasingly defi ning the interrelationships among various communities and sections of the country. It is, perhaps, because either no suffi cient Read More
Borno state Governor, Kashim Shettima, revealed yesterday that 52, 311 children in the state were orphaned by Boko Haram insurgency in the North east zone of Nigeria. Shettima disclosed this in Maiduguri during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the state government, Fadama III and the World Bank. He also disclosed that some 54, 911 women were Read More
Awka Former governor of the old Anambra state, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has urged the federal government to align with the growing calls for restructuring of the country rather than watch her disintegrate. The former governor, who spoke in Awka yesterday at the end of Anambra 2017 gubernatorial debate organised by Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), also claimed that the people of Read More
…Demand restructuring A forum of the Southern, Middle-belt Leaders Forum (SMLF) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to stop intimidating Nigerians with the military invasion of some part of the country, asking the President to urgently put machinery in place for restructuring. The forum which comprise of delegates from the South-west, South-east, South-south and Middle-belt states condemned in totality the military’s operation Read More
A young Nigerian presidential hopeful based in America, Chris Emejuru, has said that to restructure the country at this time is the best thing to do, so as to move the country forward, even as he considered the agitation for division of Nigeria as unrealisable. According to him: “Nigeria is one; from the beauty of the North, to the magnificence Read More
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has disclosed that devolution of powers and resources in the federation was one of the critical issues canvassed by the various political parties that formed the APC in 2013. Oyegun said this when he received a delegation of the Nigerian Christian Elders Forum (NCEF) at the APC National Read More
…As cleric seeks proscription of CAN, JNI Amidst the ongoing agitation for restructuring, separation and the 2019 general elections, former Vice President and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has cautioned Nigerians to be mindful of others who may not think, act or believe in what they do, saying the country’s diversity ought to be Read More
Former Vice President and chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) Atiku Abubakar, has clarified his position in a section of the media which quoted him as saying that the North is not prepared for restructuring. A statement signed by his Media Adviser, Mazi Paul Ibe, Monday in Abuja quoted the former Vice President as saying “that restructuring is not just Read More
National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Bola Tinubu has warned against attempts to break Nigeria into smaller pieces, saying such move would make the nation more vulnerable to outside influences, adding that it was important to restructure the nation. The former governor of Lagos State, argued that there are numerous benefits Nigeria and her people would Read More
The restructuring committee set up by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to come up with the position of the party has said that agitations for referendum by a section of the country will not be foreclosed. It also said that the 2014 National Conference organised by the former President Goodluck Jonathan will be consulted as part of it activities. Read More
By Muhammad Tanko Shittu Jos Th e Middle Belt Patriotic Front (MB-PF), has kicked against the appointment of Kaduna state Governor, Nasir El-rufai, as chairman, Restructuring Committee by the federal government. Th e group in a press conference yesterday in Jos, Plateau State, condemned the appointment of El-rufai, saying has no heart of repentance, when he was a minister. cer, Read More
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