North, worst place to live, bandits operate freely – Sultan
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, on Thursday lamented the high rate of insecurity in the North, saying it was the worst place in the country to live. The Sultan, who stated this at the fourth quarterly meeting of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council in Abuja, said bandits were fast overrunning the North as residents slept with their eyes open. The meeting had as its theme, ‘Questioning for peace in the challenges of insecurity and COVID-19’ While describing the North as the worst place to live, he said that bandits had become daring. He said they moved from house to
2023: North will support northern Candidate – ACF chairman
The north will support and vote for a presidential candidate from the region in 2023, acting Chairman, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) Alhaji Musa Liman Kwande has said. “I’m expressing my opin- ion as a Northerner and a Nigeria and not that of ACF. Northern Nigerians who are tested and trusted should contest for any po- litical office with anybody from any part of Nigeria; people should exercise their democratic franchise to vote for their candidate of choice,”Kwande said in Lafia, yesterday. Kwande said the ACF and Northern Elders Forum (NEF) were pressure groups striving for the development of the north
