The YNaija Cover &#8211; the 17th of July

The Big 5: Act now before it’s too late – Anyaoku tells Buhari, NASS; Northern Elders wants herdsmen to relocate from the South | Other top stories

These are the stories that you should be monitoring today: Relocate from the south – Northern elders tells herdsmen The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) on Tuesday asked herdsmen to leave the south, stressing that their safety in that part of the country is no longer guaranteed. Chairman of the forum, Ango Abdullahi, who made the call... Read More

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June 10, 2018

The Big 5: Northern Elders Forum says ‘June 12 declaration’ not enough, W.H.O warns of possible cholera spread and other stories

These are the stories you should be monitoring today: The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has expressed reservations on President Buhari’s declaration of June 12 as Democracy day and award of posthumous national honour on Chief M.K.O Abiola Chairman of the forum, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, who spoke in an interview with Punch Newspapers, said Buhari was taking Nigerians... Read More

Featured, The News Blog

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September 23, 2017

The YNaija Cover this evening – the 23rd of September

Read the full stories and analyses on YNaija: [The Sexuality Blog] Watch the ‘gay’ side of life in Nigeria according to Batta Box If I was marking Nigeria’s script at 57, I will grade her a failure – Ango Abdullahi Police release journalist arrested for reporting diversion of relief items

Cover Stories

Ango Abdullahi, Battabox, gay, journalist, YNaija Cover

September 23, 2017

If I was marking Nigeria’s script at 57, I will grade her a failure – Ango Abdullahi

Spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Ango Abdullahi has said Nigeria is a failure, 57 years after it gained independence. In an interview with The Sun, Abdullahi said Nigeria has failed, if compared to other countries who gained independence at the same period. “If I was a teacher marking Nigeria from 1960, or a teacher... Read More

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August 9, 2017

Ango Abdullahi, Anti-Igbo song, Northern youth

Ango Abdullahi is one principal loser from the anti-Igbo song

by Alexander O. Onukwue Reactions continue to trail the anti-Igbo song that has been on the internet over the past days. While there are speculations about the brains behind it, no particular persons or group has taken ownership of it. APC Chairman, John Odigie Oyegun, has placed the blame at the feet of the losers... Read More

Story of the day

August 5, 2017

Ango Abdullahi, Farooq Kperogi, Niger delta oil, Northern myths, Northern Nigerian Colonial Economy, Shell

Farooq Kperogi: Ango Abdullahi and his lie about Northern Nigerian Colonial Economy and Niger Delta Oil

by Farooq Kperogi In my May 6, 2017 column titled “Top 8 Popular National Lies that Won’t Die in Nigeria,” I called attention to out-and-out historical lies that vast swathes of Nigerians treasure and reproduce intergenerationally, and that are, I said, almost “impossible to uproot.” One of such lies, I pointed out, is the idea,... Read More

Opinion

July 18, 2017

You are an ingrate | Ganduje, Abdullahi, Mohammed blast Jerry Gana

Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje; Prof. Ango Abdullahi, and Dr. Junaid Muhammed, on Monday described former information minister, Jerry Gana as an ‘ingrate’. They said this while reacting to a statement credited to him, that the Middle Belt will not join the North, if the country eventually splits. [Read Also: MIDDLE BELT WON’T JOIN NORTH... Read More

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June 17, 2017

Igbo quit notice: I have freedom of speech, I didn’t commit any crime – Ango Abdullahi

Former Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Ango Abdullahi has said he committed no crime by supporting Northern youths ultimatum to Igbos living in the region. Abdullahi had supported an ultimatum by a coalition of Northern youths asking Igbos to leave before October 1. In an interview with Punch, Abdullahi said he simply exercised his... Read More

Ango Abdullahi, igbos, Northern youths, quit notice

June 12, 2017

James Comey and his book deal, #HalleluyahChallenge | Here are last week’s winners and losers

Last week saw the political audience across the world torn in separate directions as the United States and the United Kingdom witnessed defining moments in their political terrain. The UK general elections held on the same day as former FBI Director, James Comey’s hearing about the Trump/Russia affair before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Back here... Read More

Featured, Thinking Through

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Should the presidency call Ango Abdullahi to order?

by Alex O. Onukwue The duty of the President and the Executive, by extension, is to ensure the safety and security of all citizens in Nigeria. But, no, this is not about sending the Directorate of State Security (DSS) after Prof. Ango Abdullahi. In a week where Boko Haram invaded Maiduguri again, the shenanigans... Read More

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The YNaija Cover this evening – the 10th of June

Read the full stories and analyses on YNaija: Why Ango Abdullahi should be dropped by the Northern Elders Forum Boko Haram attack village, slit villagers throats “He is shooting the moon and boxing the air” | Dino Melaye kicks as process to recall him begins

Cover Stories

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Groundnut Economy: What is Ango Abdullahi talking about?

by Alexander O. Onukwue The Government College Umuahia, the buildings that came to be after the Ajayi Crowther structures in Badagry and the refineries, all were developed with money from the North. That is one way of interpreting the claim by Prof Ango Abdullahi, spokesman for the Northern Elders Forum, made as part of... Read More

Ango Abdullahi, Emir of Kano, groundnut economy, igbos, nigeria, north, Reno Omokri, south, Story of the day

Why Ango Abdullahi should be dropped by the Northern Elders Forum

by Alex O.Onukwue A former Vice Chancellor of a top Nigerian University, Prof Ango Abdullahi, has left very many persons bemused. Standing not to be corrected, the Kaduna-born elder statesman who was also a Federal Minister of Education, vehemently threw his weight behind a statement that threatened “visible actions” against Nigerians of Igbo extraction... Read More

Ango Abdullahi, elders forum, igbo, north, Northern youth, south east, Story of the day

Northern Youth Council asks FG to arrest supporters of ‘The Kaduna Declaration’

The Northern Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), has asked the Federal Government to arrest Arewa Youth that asked Igbo to vacate the North within three months. They also demanded arrest of Ango Abdullahi, Northern Elders’ Forum spokesman, for supporting them, Daily Post reports. NYCN told newsmen on Saturday in Kaduna that if Ango Abdullahi and... Read More

Ango Abdullahi, Arewa Youth, Northern Youth Council

Ango Abdullahi is not new to making polarizing statements | 5 odd things he has said in the past

by Alex O. Onukwue Nigerians are at a loss as to how to react to the statements attributed to Prof Ango Abdullahi, which appear to support the declaration by the Arewa youth groups for the vacation of the Igbos from the North. The Former Minister of Education and former Vice Chancellor of the Ahmadu... Read More

Ango Abdullahi, Arewa Youth Group, kaduna, Nasir el-Rufai, nigeria, north, Story of the day

February 7, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: For every Dangiwa Umar, there is Ango Abdullahi

by Akin Osuntokun Personally I cannot wait for the day when my sense of dignity will be enhanced by the knowledge that Nigerians no longer need to prostrate before the gods of the Niger Delta to get their daily bread; when I can call the bluff of Asari Dokubo, look him in his crude oil... Read More

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August 15, 2013

Opinion: Of Ango Abdullahi’s Born to Rule Mentality

by Remi Oyeyemi Of all the above three variables, the South is more favoured than the North. It is only in Nigeria that the Sahara Desert is more populated than the Savanna and the thick Forest. Compare the population density of the Nigerian desert states with that of Chad, Mali, Burkina Faso and others like... Read More

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August 1, 2013

Michael Orodare: Enough of the politics of every man for himself (Y! Politico)

by Michael Orodare The truth is that we have been infected with the age-long ‘virus’ – lack of trust, which our leaders battled with after gaining independence. Every time we gather at symposiums to discuss the way forward for Nigeria, the social media has become a second home, where we derive ‘pleasure’ in lashing out on public office holders,... Read More

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July 28, 2013

Opinion: The North has no right to demand power in 2015

by Emmanuel Onwe To refer to other regions of Nigeria, populated by patriotic and freeborn citizens as mere enclaves is to suggest that such regions are not qualified either to aspire to or to remain in the central executive position in this country. The agitation for power shift being mounted by northern leaders has reached... Read More

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July 21, 2013

Opinion: Wole Soyinka and his army of nay-sayers

by Obi Nwakanma But to demean her, and to ask the president to “call his wife to order” without as much as understanding the intricate issues behind the Rivers situation exposes Soyinka to needless partisanship. Last week, Professor Wole Soyinka, our world-renowned playwright and Nobel laureate for literature inserted himself in a very unseemly way... Read More

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July 9, 2013

We will not support Jonathan in 2015 – Northern elders

The Northern Elders’ Forum on Monday said that the North would not support President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 presidential election. The spokesman for the group, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, stated this in an interview with one of our correspondents, while reacting to a statement by the Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, Babangida Aliyu. Aliyu,... Read More

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June 14, 2013

Opinion: Zaria – My encounter with depression

by Gimba Kakanda I compared that young and ambitious Maitama Sule to the defeated old and blind philosopher I saw in Zaria. And that was when, with tears in my heart, I muttered: May God save us from us! Last weekend was not only the date of the setting out of a political firework that... Read More

ABU, Ango Abdullahi, Dr. Yusuf Maitama Sule, Gimba Kakanda, Justice Mamman Nasir, lecture, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, north, Professor Abdullahi Mustapha, University

May 9, 2013

“How can the President begin to worry governors simply because of their regular meetings?” – Northen elders

Northern Elders Forum (NEF), yesterday, examined the rift between President Jonathan and governors under the aegis of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, and passed a verdict on the matter: Jonathan should concentrate on the enormous task of solving Nigeria’s problems and stop dissipating energy on needless war with governors. Northern Political Similarly, the Northern elders... Read More

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May 5, 2013

Obasanjo (co)created all the problems we have now – Prof Ango Abdullahi

A former Vice-Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, who is also a leading member of the Northern Elders Forum, speaks about the controversies of his tenure, and the proposed amnesty for the Boko Haram sect, in this interview What was your experience as the Vice-Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University? That... Read More

Ahmadu Bello University, Ango Abdullahi, Babangida, Obasanjo, PDP

April 4, 2013