Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, says the current economic situation has exposed the weaknesses in having a central government. An advocate of restructuring, Atiku said the responsibilities of the federal government needs to be reduced to avoid it collapsing “under the weight of too many responsibilities it burdens itself with”. He questioned the rationale behind having […]
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Nigeria as currently constituted is an entity that is rooted in corruption, impunity and injustice and thus must be reconstituted, a former vice-president said on Monday. Atiku Abubakar, who served under former President Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999-2007, said at a forum in Abuja that the current system is the bane of Nigeria and not the […]
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A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has asserted that Nigeria needs people like former vice president, Atiku Abubakar to make life more meaningful for Nigerians. In a letter to felicitate with the former vice president on his 70th birthday, Tinubu described the Turakin Adamawa as a man of faith, saying […]
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Ijaw leader and elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark has restated that the only way out of the present security, economic and political logjam in the country is restructuring. Clark made this known at a Stakeholders Consultative Meeting of Niger Delta Coastal States ongoing at the conference hall of the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) in Effurun, […]
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Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar has said that there are serious challenges ahead if Nigerians do not take corrective economical and political actions. Atiku said the fragile unity of the country was being threatened with sentiments and as long as this keeps going on, instability will continue to rock the country. He stated this while speaking […]
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A former Vice President and chieftain of APC, Atiku Abubakar, has urged leaders of the All Progressives Congress to shift from “extreme positions to a centrist one for the interest of democracy and the party, the new administration and the country at large”. The former Vice President made the call Thursday against the backdrop of […]
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Constitutional lawyer and elder statesman, Prof. Ben Nwabueze (SAN) has declared that only the restructuring of the polity will save Nigeria from its recurring socio-economic and political challenges. As a first step towards realising the goal, Nwabueze has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately convene a fresh National Conference. He said that the 2014 […]
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Following the renewed militancy in the Niger Delta and related agitation by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, has said that the All Progressives Congress-led government under President Muhammadu Buhari, has not learnt from the past administrations on how to tackle such challenge. Atiku, an APC stalwart, also called for a […]
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The umbrella body of all youths of Ijaw descent, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide, on Monday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, warned that unless the ownership structure of oil blocs in the region was rearranged to ensure fairness, attacks on oil platforms would continue. President of the IYC, Udengs Eradiri, who spoke as part of […]
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NIGER- DELTA Avengers, Thursday, listed some oil blocs allegedly owned by former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Minister of Defence, General Theophilus Danjuma, ex-Minister of Petroleum, Alhaji Riwanu Lukman, other Northerners and South-Westerners in Niger-Delta region and issued them a two-week ultimatum to shut them down operations and evacuate the workers from the locations or […]
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