Call your youths to order, ASETU tells ACF, NEF
Don’t blame Uwazuruike for seeking peace—BIM
IPOB faults composition of Igbo leaders that met Osinbajo
By Michael Eboh, Emmanuel Elebeke, Nwabueze Okonkwo & Ugochukwu Alaribe
ABUJA: Youths from 19 northern states under the aegis of Oil & Solid Mineral Producing Area Landlords’ Association of Nigeria, OMPALAN, yesterday, condemned the quit notice by a coalition of northern youths to citizens of Igbo extraction living in the northern part of Nigeria.
This came as the Association of South East Town Unions, ASETU, urged the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, and the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, to call their youths to order, as the position of the youths is capable of worsening the fragile security situation in the country if not handled with care.
OMPALAN in a statement signed by its Secretary, Mr. Steve Ogebe warned the sponsors of the controversial quit notice fronting as ‘coalition of northern youths’ to retrieve their treasonable statement immediately and let sleeping dogs lie.
He said: “It is to be noted that Nigerians have built solid bridges of peace across ethnic and religious divides over the years, cementing age-long fissures that were generated by ethnic and religious bigotry. Nigeria is far from 1966, making the success of ethnic war in 2017 very remote.
“This means that an Igbo man will protect a northerner if threatened in the east and vice-versa. Mistakes have been made in the past by our political leaders and we cannot continue to live in the past as a progressive nation. Let us throw the bitter past into the trash can of history and forge ahead into the future as a people with a common destiny impelled by the rule of law.”
Ogebe called on all Nigerians to unite across political and ideological divides in order to build the desired momentum to defend the country’s hard-earned democracy from the common enemies of progress, who are working hard to control the levers of power for purely egocentric goals. Read more
Don’t blame Uwazuruike for seeking peace—BIM
IPOB faults composition of Igbo leaders that met Osinbajo
By Michael Eboh, Emmanuel Elebeke, Nwabueze Okonkwo & Ugochukwu Alaribe
ABUJA: Youths from 19 northern states under the aegis of Oil & Solid Mineral Producing Area Landlords’ Association of Nigeria, OMPALAN, yesterday, condemned the quit notice by a coalition of northern youths to citizens of Igbo extraction living in the northern part of Nigeria.
This came as the Association of South East Town Unions, ASETU, urged the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, and the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, to call their youths to order, as the position of the youths is capable of worsening the fragile security situation in the country if not handled with care.
OMPALAN in a statement signed by its Secretary, Mr. Steve Ogebe warned the sponsors of the controversial quit notice fronting as ‘coalition of northern youths’ to retrieve their treasonable statement immediately and let sleeping dogs lie.
He said: “It is to be noted that Nigerians have built solid bridges of peace across ethnic and religious divides over the years, cementing age-long fissures that were generated by ethnic and religious bigotry. Nigeria is far from 1966, making the success of ethnic war in 2017 very remote.
“This means that an Igbo man will protect a northerner if threatened in the east and vice-versa. Mistakes have been made in the past by our political leaders and we cannot continue to live in the past as a progressive nation. Let us throw the bitter past into the trash can of history and forge ahead into the future as a people with a common destiny impelled by the rule of law.”
Ogebe called on all Nigerians to unite across political and ideological divides in order to build the desired momentum to defend the country’s hard-earned democracy from the common enemies of progress, who are working hard to control the levers of power for purely egocentric goals. Read more
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