Friday, April 26, 2024

Northern Governors’ Forum

March 14, 2024

Mass Abductions: Northern governors, NSA Ribadu, security chiefs in closed-door meeting

The Northern Governors’ Forum has gone into a closed-door meeting with the national security adviser and service chiefs in Abuja.

SECURITY CHIEFS (credit: Guardian)
December 16, 2023

Northern govs meet over insecurity, donate N180 million to Kaduna drone attack victims

Mr Yahaya said the forum commended the Federal Government over its fight against insecurity.

November 6, 2022

Abuja-Kaduna train attack happened due to Buhari regime’s failure on intelligence processing: Peter Obi

Mr Obi made the remark at the Presidential Town Hall meeting on Sunday in Abuja.

A photo of Peter Obi , used to illustrate this story
May 15, 2022

Northern governors worried over “extrajudicial” killing of Deborah: Lalong

The governors noted that any attempt to adopt self-help in addressing grievances could lead to further chaos.

Slain Deborah Samuel/Plateau Governor Simon Lalong
March 29, 2022

Bandits attack on Kaduna-Abuja train barbaric: Northern Governors

The governors extended their sympathises to the families of those killed as well as those kidnapped or injured.

Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong
January 16, 2022

2023: NEF clamours for northern president, says he must be better than Buhari

“If you must be a Northerner who’s better than all the candidates; for us, that’s the bottom line.”

NEF Chair Ango Abdullahi, Muhammadu Buhari and NEF Spokesperson Hakeem Baba-Ahmed
October 8, 2021

Gov. Lalong declared holiday to bar PDP from Saturday LG election: Lawyer

PDP says Governor Simon Lalong’s “sudden” declaration of October 8 as a public holiday ahead of Saturday’s local government elections is an attempt to bar the party.

Simon Lalong and PDP
September 28, 2021

Northern governors tell Buhari to act fast on livestock programme

Nigeria’s 19 northern governors have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to speed up the national livestock programme.

Northern governor
September 27, 2021

2023: Northern governors, emirs meet in Kaduna, reject power-shift to Southern Nigeria

As the 2023 general elections draw nearer, controversies have raged over zoning of presidency.

Northern governors
August 26, 2021

Muslim women task northern governors on Almajiri education

“Ten million almajiri children in Nigeria have rights to quality education that will make them productive Nigerians in the future.”