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Arewa Youth Condemns Call For The Privatization Of Nigerian Universities

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The Arewa Youth Consultative Council has urged a member of the House of representatives representing Daura, MaiAdua, and Sandamu Federal constituency to apologize over a call on the floor of the House to privatize public universities.

 

In a statement by its Director of Media and Publicity Aliyu Danladi, the northern body said Education must never be privatized ‘

Arewa Youth said the member’s heartless statement should not be condoned by everyone.

 

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To all Nigerian Youth..

 

Let’s condemn the motion raised by a fellow youth in the house of Representatives on the need to privatize Nigerian Universities. We understood that opinion varies; but the security, health, and education of the common men should not be compromised or rubbished.

 

HON. FATUHU MUHAMMED is a youth and a Member representing Daura/Sandamu/MaiAdua Federal Constituency of Katsina State. He is one of the privileged youths to be elected into the house of the law, we expect him to give the youths a good name, vibrant representation, and youthful coloration. Katsina State, the North, and Nigeria should frown at this member for his heartless, taught less, careless and merciless comments on the privatization of the Nigerian Universities.

 

The Arewa Youth added “We urge all Katsina and Northern Youths to write letters of grief to this ‘fellow youth’ demanding an urgent apology to Nigerian Students and the educational system”‘ said the Arewa Youth

 

 

 

All alumni, students, lecturers, and associations of political science must call HON. FATUHU MUHAMMED back to order, condemn his ill wish, and remind him about the condition of the common man in Nigeria.

 

All Nigerian Youth should learn the procedures of Section 69 of the 1999 Constitution on the process of recalling a member of the House of Representatives or even Section 110 for recalling any member of the House of Assembly. This may be necessary for curbing the menace of ineffective representation. Nigerian youths deserve better.

How Daura people are being misrepresented

“We are warning anybody or group that’s planning to privatize public universities. We hope that the Federal Government is not part of this drama. If it is a plan that anybody is using the member to test the patience of Nigerian youth, we warn that such wickedness and ill-fated plan will never be tolerated lightly. Universities remain the “only left hope” of the common man even as they’re battling challenges of inadequate funding, lack of consistency in government policies, shortages in personal and overhead cost” lamented Arewa Youth

 

Let’s HON. FATUHU MUHAMMED and all those youths shaming us to know that we’re watching them and we will never forgive them for insulting our youthful place in governance, they are a shame to our youthful class and we’re not praying for such youths to be the leaders of our future. May we have more conscious youths in governance as good representatives?  ‘’noted the Arewa Youth

 

 

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News Analysis: Emergency Rule on Return to Democracy

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By Abbas Yushau Yusuf

When Nigeria returned to democracy on May 29, 1999, General Olusegun Obasanjo was the first beneficiary of the country’s return to civilian rule. A four-star general who had handed over power to President Shehu Shagari on October 1, 1979, twenty years later, destiny beckoned on Obasanjo, and he took charge again as Nigeria’s President.

But before General Obasanjo’s return in 1999, Nigeria, especially the northern part of the country, experienced serious religious upheavals and uprisings, starting from the Maitatsine riots of 1980 in Kano and the Zangon Kataf religious crisis of 1987 in Kaduna State, in which former Governor of Rivers State, General Zamani Lekwot, was the mastermind.

Then another religious crisis engulfed the city of Kano over the visit of a Christian monk in 1991, Reverend Rent Harnboky. The people of Kano resisted the visit because earlier, a renowned Islamic scholar of comparative religion, Sheikh Ahmad Deedat, intended to visit the state. He was denied, and when that of Rent Harnboky was approved, it turned into serious attacks on non-Muslims in the state.

It took the military Governor of Kano state retired Major General Idris Garba to deploy soldiers in Mosques and churches across the city.

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Another deadly religious riot that shook northern Nigeria again was the 2000 religious Shariah crisis in Kaduna when former Governor Ahmad Makarfi intended to introduce Shariah in the state. An unaccounted number of people were killed during the Obasanjo regime. Another killing took place in Lagos by the Odua People’s Congress during the time of Governor Bola Ahmad Tinubu, now President Tinubu, in the year 2000.

In 2001, the once peaceful northern city of Jos, Plateau State, was rocked with a serious crisis of unprecedented proportion in which many Muslims and Christians were killed.

During the second term of President Olusegun Obasanjo, a local government in the depths of Plateau State, Yelwa Shendam, was thrown into religious conflict during the time of Governor Joshua Chibi Dariye, where Muslims were killed in unprecedented proportions.

On May 11,2004 , the Yelwa Shendam crisis spilled over to Kano, where reprisal attacks took center stage, in which many Christians were killed.

On Tuesday, May 18, 2004, President Olusegun Obasanjo addressed the nation, in which he declared a state of emergency in Plateau State and removed democratic structures in the state.

President Obasanjo accused Governor Joshua Chibi Dariye of aiding the Plateau crisis. He appointed General Chris Alli as the administrator of the state for six months, where it ended on November 18, 2004.

Analysts say the removal of Governor Dariye by President Obasanjo was because the crises were threatening the whole country, hence his decision to take decisive action.

In his address, Chief Obasanjo said the crisis had already reverberated to Kano and was now threatening the FCT and some parts of Katsina State. While his state was boiling, Governor Joshua Dariye was somewhere in Abuja attending the National Sports Festival.

Another political crisis in 2006 engulfed Ekiti State, where President Obasanjo suspended democratic structures, including Governor Ayodele Fayose, and appointed an administrator.

Obasanjo’s state of emergency differs from that of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, who declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states of Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe in 2013 as a result of the Boko Haram crisis that turned the states into a killing field.

Governors Murtala Nyako, Kashim Shettima (now Vice President), and Governor Ibrahim Gaidam were not affected, as President Jonathan did not suspend the democratic structures, only massively deployed the military.

Jonathan’s approach, analysts say, is more in tandem with Nigeria’s constitution than Obasanjo’s. Now, President Tinubu’s declaration in Rivers State, where Governor Fubara and the state assembly were suspended on March 18, 2025, through a presidential broadcast, has sparked debate.

Some lawyers flayed President Tinubu’s declaration as autocratic and partisan because the Minister of the FCT is being accused of fueling the Rivers crisis due to the lack of influence he has over his successor, Governor Siminalayi Fubara. Many international human rights associations did not back President Tinubu’s declaration in Rivers State because they see it as more political than aimed at returning peace to the oil-rich state.

Of the four Presidents Nigeria has had from 1999 to date, only the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and President Muhammadu Buhari did not declare a state of emergency in crisis states like Zamfara, Borno, and Yobe during the term of President Muhammadu Buhari from 2015 to 2023, when banditry took a serious toll on the lives of many.

 

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Fubara’s Whereabouts Unknown As Military Moves Trucks Into Rivers Govt House

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The movement of Governor Siminalayi Fubara was unknown on Tuesday night when the military moved trucks into Rivers Government House in Port Harcourt.

The trucks were placed within and outside the Government House on the first night of the State of emergency declared by President Bola Tinubu.

Tinubu declared emergency rule amid the attacks on oil installations in Rivers State.

Some militants groups had threatened to blow up pipelines if the Rivers House of Assembly impeach Fubara.

However, hours after the lawmakers served the governor with notice of alleged misconduct, the militants carried out their threat.

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Breaking :President Bola Tinubu has declared a state of emergency in Rivers state,Removes Democratic Structures

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The president made the announcement on Tuesday in a nationwide broadcast over the political crisis and instability in the state.

Tinubu said Siminalayi Fubara, governor of the state; his deputy, Ngozi Odu; and all members of the Rivers assembly are “hereby suspended for an initial period of six months”.

“Having soberly reflected on and evaluated the political situation in Rivers State and the Governor and Deputy Governor of Rivers State having failed to make a request to me as President to issue this proclamation as required by section 305(5) of the 1999 Constitution as amended, it has become inevitably compelling for me to invoke the provision of section 305 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended, to declare a state of emergency in Rivers State with effect from today, 18th March, 2025 and I so do,” the president said.

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