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Nigeria Needs Quick Reprogramming – Burdened Elders

David Folami — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 00:59:59 +0000

Respected elder statesmen under the auspices of Burdened Elders have cried out for a quick reprogramming to save the country from its several problems. They disclosed that killing, insecurity, kidnapping and tribal battles will not stop in Nigeria until it is reprogrammed to benefit everyone. To rescue the nation, they advised Nigerians to welcome a [...]

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The Nation’s Security And Law Are Now Stretched – Northern Elders

David Folami — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 22:48:11 +0000

Northern elders have rejected President Muhammadu Buhari as their candidate for the 2019 general elections. They said Buhari’s leadership has failed the region and, therefore, must be replaced by competent persons. The northern leader also said the current administration lacks strong will to tackle the Boko Haram insurgency, rural banditry and herdsmen/farmers clashes that have [...]

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Buhari Meets With Niger Delta Elders

David Folami — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 13:05:24 +0000

President Buhari met elders from the Niger Delta region on Tuesday, November 1, 2016. This is in a bid to find a lasting solution to the lingering crisis and alleged degradation of the environment in the oil rich region. Speaking to newsmen on the meeting, the Minister of state for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu said negotiations [...]

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PMB To Meet With Niger Delta Elders

David Folami — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 19:49:14 +0000

President Muhammadu Buhari will meet with elders from the Niger Delta region on October 29, 2016 in Abuja. This is in-line with calls by some militant groups for a dialogue between representatives from the oil rich region and government. According to Vanguard, Chief Edwin Clark might head the group which is known as, the Pan [...]

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Appointing Ali Modu Sheriff As Chairman Upset Us – PDP Elders

David Folami — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 14:03:53 +0000

A group of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) elders, under the aegis of PDP Rescue Group, have asked the newly selected party chairman, Ali Modu-Sheriff, to resign. The leader of the group, Wilberforce Juta said “most PDP members did not see in Sheriff a model of impeccable integrity that the party badly needed to lead it [...]

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#Akwa-Ibom > Political Elders Support President Buhari, DSS Against Terrorism, Corruption

Wale Adebayo — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 13:30:46 +0000

Political elders, stakeholders and leaders of thoughts from Akwa State have thrown their weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption drive, just as they hailed the Department of State Security services for the recent search of the state’s Government House. The group in a statement signed by former Minister of Women Affairs, Obong Rita Akpan- Ibesikpo, [...]

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#Nigeria > Lopsided Appointments: Northern Group Slams President Buhari’s Critics, Says Jonathan Also Appointed Southerners

Wale Adebayo — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 23:30:10 +0000

A group, Concerned Elders of the North (CEN) has reacted to the accusation of lopsided appointments by President Muhammadu Buhari, made by some aggrieved people from the South. In view of this, the group has released a list of some appointments made by the Goodluck Jonathan government. It claimed that what Buhari has done is [...]

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Elders Must Lift Up Their Voices Against Violent Desperados, Says Atiku

Wale Adebayo — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:15:09 +0000

Former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has called on Nigerians to remain calm following Tuesday’s bombings in different parts of country, during which several people lost their lives. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a restaurant in Yobe State while the All Progressives Congress governorship rally in Okrika, Rivers State, was disrupted [...]

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Nasarawa PDP Elders’ Caucus Vow To Resist Bid To Stop Al-Makura’s Impeachment

Wale Adebayo — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:15:49 +0000

Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in Nasarawa State have vowed to resist any attempt to stop the impeachment process of Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura. They were reacting to reports that the presidency may have waded in to save Al-Makura following a meeting between principal officers of the Nasarawa House of Assembly, led [...]

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North-East Elders To Jonathan: Drop Idea Of Renewing Emergency Rule In Borno, Two Other States

Wale Adebayo — Thu, 08 May 2014 16:15:47 +0000

A group of elders from the North-East have told President Goodluck Jonathan in no uncertain terms that his wife, Dame Patience and some highly-placed government officials were treating the case of the missing Chibok schoolgirls with disdain and callousness. The elders under the aegis of North-East Forum for Unity and Development (NEFUD), made their position [...]

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Northern Elders As Scare Mongers

David Folami — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 20:06:50 +0000

They are the moral guide to the society and they do all in their wisdom to engender peace and preserve the interests of the larger society. Unfortunately, the various elders’ groups in Nigeria–in the East, West, South-South, Middle Belt or North -are different; they observe this rule in the breach. The most typical of them [...]

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