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The League of Professionals for Strategic Advocacy, has described the coordinated condemnation by a section of northern leaders on Southern governors’ resolutions banning open cattle grazing, call for national dialogue and restructure.
In a statement, Convener of the league, Prince Obaro Unuafe, chairman, Mr. Pius Mordi and the Secretary, Mr. Fred Akpewe, yesterday said the disposition of the northern leaders towards the resolutions was provocative, insulting and a confirmation that the security challenges confronting Nigeria is orchestrated by dubious groups thriving under the current unjust political situation.
The group took exception particularly to the statements attributed the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan and former a Chairman of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof Usman Yusuf, saying, “In accusing the southern governors of not consulting the Fulani before banning open grazing of cattle, Prof. Yusuf is still clinging to same old but baseless thinking that
Views: Visits 5 By Festus Ahon, ASABA THE League of Professionals for Strategic Advocacy, Monday, berated the President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ahmed Lawan, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila and former Chairman of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Prof Usman Yusuf for opposing the decision Southern Governors to ban open grazing of cattle, call for national dialogue, restructuring of the country among others. The League in a statement by its Convener, Prince Obaro Unuafe, Chairman, Mr Pius Mordi, and Secretary, Mr Fred Akpewe, secretary, described the coordinated condemnation by a section of Northern Leaders of the decisions made by the Southern Governors “as provocative, insulting and a confirmation that the security challenges facing Nigeria are orchestrated by dubious groups that thrive under the current unjust political situation.
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By Festus Ahon, ASABA
THE League of Professionals for Strategic Advocacy, Monday, berated the President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ahmed Lawan, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila and former Chairman of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Prof Usman Yusuf for opposing the decision Southern Governors to ban open grazing of cattle, call for national dialogue, restructuring of the country among others.
The League in a statement by its Convener, Prince Obaro Unuafe, Chairman, Mr Pius Mordi, and Secretary, Mr Fred Akpewe, secretary, described the coordinated condemnation by a section of Northern Leaders of the decisions made by the Southern Governors “as provocative, insulting and a confirmation that the security challenges facing Nigeria are orchestrated by dubious groups that thrive under the current unjust political si
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The Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) has faulted Federal Government’s decision to use the £4.2m (about N2.2b), being part of former Delta State Governor, James Ibori’s loot to be repatriated to Nigeria on the Second Niger Bridge and Lagos-Ibadan road.
It argued that the money should rather be spent on projects in Delta State, being the owner of the fund, describing Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami’s disclosure that the money would be used for projects outside Delta as unacceptable.
In a statement yesterday, Presidential-General, Olorogun Moses Taiga, condemned the decision saying: “The Federal Government should use the money to rehabilitate the Delta part of the Benin-Warri road, failed portions of the East West Road in Delta and fund the Federal University of Petroleum, Effurun.