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Northern governors have opted for a development-oriented president to run the nation’s affairs from 2015. His characteristics should include ability to make the generality of Nigerians happy and contended,according to Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State. The northern governors, at their last meeting in Kaduna,said the Presidency should return to that region in the next election. Although, Governor Lamido, speaking ...

AFP – African leaders met in South Africa on Friday to discuss ways of drawing in the diaspora to help advance the world’s poorest continent. “Africa and its diaspora need to work together in more organised ways than before to advance the African agenda worldwide,” host President Jacob Zuma said. He told the one-day meeting to draw up plans to ...

For over four hours on Friday, there was traffic gridlock from the Ojota end of Ikorodu Road, Lagos to the Berger end of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State, as scores of policemen cordoned off the route when the acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, came to the Centre for Management Development, Lagos State. Abubakar was in Lagos for the graduation ...

Weep not for me o African, For thy tears in nought will flow. Weep rather for the future of your children, Whose tears may never cease to flow. Weep not for me O African, The travails thou doth witness are of thy making. For when thou ought to have spoken, The courage to resist the evil ones thou was lacking. ...

By SaharaReporters, New York The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, today in Kaduna called on the North to “come back to its senses” and end the problems that are tearing it apart. The Sultan was speaking at a meeting of Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), Nigeria’s foremost Muslim organization, which was attended by many leading clerics. Describing the ...