Tag Archives: North

The leader of the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, has slammed the North for claiming to have the numerical advantage to dictate who becomes the president. Naija News reports that Adebanjo said this while speaking on Monday during a public lecture themed, ‘Nationalism and nation-building in Nigerian history,’ held …

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been seen holding hands with his daughter as they were pictured for the first time in public at the launching of an intercontinental ballistic missile.   This is kind of big news in the region because his children are not allowed to be mentioned …

Seoul, South Korea CNN  —  North Korea said that it conducted a “test firing of a new kind” of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Friday, according to the government-run KCNA news agency. Japan warned on earlier on Friday that the missile had the potential range to reach the US mainland. …

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has said that the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, stands little or no chance in getting votes from the North. AYCF National President, Yerima Shettima shared his thoughts on the political atmosphere in the country during a chat with Daily Post. Shettima …

The Nigerian army has confirmed that a soldier shot and killed a staff of one of the Non-Governmental Organisations providing humanitarian support in the North-East.   Army spokesperson, Major Samson Nantip Zhakom further revealed that the soldier also shot a colleague and injured the co-pilot of one of the United Nations helicopters.   …

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has criticized Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State over a recent statement against Nigerians of Fulani origin. Recall that Ortom, last Sunday, while playing host to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) G5 Governors in Benue State, said he would not be supporting the presidential candidate of …

By the time you reach Aarhus on the train from the south, there is a sense of having penetrated deep into Jylland, the long Danish peninsula whose name is often rendered as “Jutland” on English and German maps. At Fredericia, a one-time garrison town on the east coast, the overhead …

Seoul, South Korea CNN  —  As a statement of intent, it was about as blunt as they get. North Korea has developed nuclear weapons and will never give them up, its leader, Kim Jong Un, told the world last month. The move was “irreversible,” he said; the weapons represent the …

The road to Upper Nidderdale is a road to nowhere. Somewhere ahead of us, the ashphalt runs out and farm tracks take over. In the village of Bewerley, my son points out the slow-down road signs illustrated with comic rubber ducks. We pass a beer garden shaded by a two-storey …

Tinubu made the pledge at an interactive session on his vision for the Northern Region, organized by some Northern groups on Monday in Kaduna. According to him, there is abundant oil and gas in the Benue Trough, Chad Basin, and other prospective locations in the North. “These gas projects will …