• Former Vice President of Nigeria  An Arewa Voice Asks: "Where Are The Companies You Collapsed?" A video is trending from the North. Not a politician. Not a party spokesperson. Just an angry Arewa man in a yellow babanriga, speaking directly to camera.  His message was simple and devastating:   "If Nigeria were divided today, poverty would kpai people in the North." And then he asked the question no one in the opposition wants to answer. THE LIST THAT SHAMES A GENERATION  The man didn’t shout slogans. He listed names. Dates. Places. Over 44 companies.   "I'm asking Atiku. I'm asking El-Rufai. I'm asking Obasanjo. Where are those companies?" He went down the list:   - Nigerian Paper Mills, Kwara - Collapsed 2005   - Lafiagi Sugar Company, Kwara - Collapsed 2005   - Nigerian Bottling Company, Kano/Kaduna/Plateau/Borno - Collapsed 2004   - Kaduna Fertilizer Company - Collapsed 2002   - Ariwa Textil...

I have known Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai since 1972. I was one year his senior.  We were students of Barewa College, Zaria, one of the country's foremost institutions of learning and, for generations of Northern Nigerian boys, an institution that shaped not only our education but also our character, outlook and understanding of public service. My knowledge of El-Rufai did not begin with politics. It did not begin with his appointment to government. It did not begin with his tenure as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory or Governor of Kaduna State. I knew him before he became El-Rufai the public figure. I knew him as a young Barewa student, "the giant", as he was fondly referred. That distinction is important. Over the years, I have watched his remarkable transformation from a young student into a quantity surveyor, businessman, public administrator, reformer, minister, governor and one of the most controversial, but undoubtedly consequential, figures in contemporary Nigeri...

Northern Nigeria Perspective Quarterly Journal of Policy, Politics & People VOL. 1 • SPECIAL ISSUE ENDORESED BY ADC PUBLISHED: AUGUST 2026 His Excellency Alhaji (Dr.) Atiku Abubakar, GCON - Waziri Adamawa and Former Vice President of Nigeria THE AGENDA TO RESCUE NIGERIA COME 2027 Restoring Stability, Rebuilding Education, & Igniting Economic Prosperity From the Desk of the Coordinator Dear Readers, As Nigeria approaches the critical political crossroads of 2027, Northern Nigeria urgently requires a media platform that is bold, analytical, and uncompromisingly committed to our region’s development. This special edition of Northern Nigeria Perspective —our premier issue endorsed by the African Democratic Congress —was born out of necessity. For years, our country...

The Middle Belt Forum’s 17 August 2026 statement on the Federal Government’s cattle-ranching policy is troubling not because concerns about land acquisition, consultation, compensation or security are illegitimate, but because it frames them within a doctrine of ethnic territorial ownership. At its core is a claim that must be rejected: that parts of Nigeria belong exclusively to particular ethnic groups and that other Nigerians may be treated as outsiders regardless of citizenship or constitutional rights. This is inconsistent with the Constitution and with the region’s complex history. It seems to have been a page extracted right out of a Stone Age Manuscript!  2. The portrayal of Adamawa, Taraba and parts of Plateau State as exclusively indigenous Middle Belt territory from which Fulani people are historical outsiders is a historical and political revisionism. The Fulani are not strangers to these areas any more than other ethnic groups. In Adamawa and Taraba in par...

================================================================================              URGENT MEDICAL APPEAL FOR MY FORMER DRIVER ================================================================================ Dear Friends, Associates, and Philanthropists, I am writing to seek your urgent support for Suleiman Abubakar, who served loyally as my personal driver from 2005 until recently, when severe vision loss forced his disengagement. Suleiman is 40 years old, a husband to Rukayya, and the sole provider for their six (6) young children. • Abubakar Suleiman (patient) • Referral  📋 The Medical Situation He has been diagnosed with advanced Glaucoma and issued an urgent referral from Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital, Yola to the National Eye Center, Kaduna for specialized testing and potential surgery to prevent total, permanent blindness. 💰 Financial Estimate Medical Bills (Tests, Surgery, Drugs): ₦1,550,000...

In May, 2013, I wrote an article titled “*Co-Relation Between Democracy, Poverty and Insurgency in Nigeria*” which central essence was to argue that Nigeria’s persistent insurgencies and insecurity are fundamentally rooted in the failure of democratic governance to deliver social justice, equitable distribution of economic wealth and credible political participation, rather than being driven solely by religion, region or ethnicity. I explained that lasting national security could only be achieved through inclusive economic development, reduction of poverty and inequality, and genuine democratic reforms that restore public trust in government.  2. Between 2013 when I wrote that article and now, the insecurity and violence have metastasized across the country proportionate to the increase in leadership failures over the years at all levels of government. The present discourse, therefore, is an epilogue to that article. In other words, it is a treatise on the nexus between...

Official documents exclusively obtained by Saturday PUNCH have cast fresh doubt on the Presidency’s insistence that the controversial Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council never existed. The documents reveal that the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation received, acknowledged and acted on correspondence submitted in the council’s name months before the Presidency publicly disowned it. Specifically, the SGF’s office formally processed and forwarded a request by the council’s self-styled Director-General, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, seeking office accommodation from recovered Federal Government properties through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The correspondence, dated November 21, 2024, was signed by the Permanent Secretary, General Services Office, Nnamdi Maurice Mbaeri, on behalf of the SGF. Attached to it was Adeyemi’s November 7, 2024, request for office accommodation for the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council....