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Daily Rendezvous The Northeast Youth and Elders People Forum has thrown its weight behind the leadership of the North East Development Commission, Mohammed Goni Alkali, saying under his leadership, the NEDC, has already built over 1000 housing units in Borno state, and that it has already commissioned the building of another 1500 more housing units with 500 each to be cited in Bauchi, Yobe and Adamawa states. The group maintains that it has completed work on a burn Center at FMC Yola and also on a fully Equipped Molecular laboratory, at the Specialist Hospital in Yola, Adamawa state. This is contained in a press statement issued by the National President of the Northeast Youth and Elders People Forum, Salihu Magaji, on Wednesday in Yola, Adamawa state. The Forum adds that, it has embarked on massive infrastructural development in the region, disbursed food and non food items, to cushion the debilitating impact of insurgency on residents of the region.  Accor...

Daily Rendezvous The National Chairman of the Northern Leaders Youth Forum (NLYF), Elliott Afiyo, has asked the APC and other parties to immediately collapse their structures and rally behind the incumbent governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, because of his outstanding display of good governance and monumental infrastructural accomplishment in just a little over two years. Afiyo said, he and the members of his organisation are highly impressed by the legacy projects in the state and that the NLYF is committed and willing to deploy both human and material resources to ensure governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri is returned for a second term. This is contained in a press statement issued by Elliott Afiyo, over the weekend in Yola, Adamawa state. Speaking on the outstanding infrastructural development by the Adamawa state governor Afiyo said, "We are highly impressed by the infrastructural developments in Adamawa State.  "We observed with great disbelief that such a ...

Daily Rendezvous - Nigeria Needs a President for all not Regional President, NYLF To Southern Governor's The Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF) has faulted Femi Fani-Kayode's defection claims describing it as "Lame Claims" that he has influenced the defection of three PDP governors to APC and that he has already set into motion plans to influence three more governors including Bala Mohammed, Seyi Makinde and Ifeanyi Uguanyi into the APC. The group says his claims are characteristically part of his praise singing antics designed to please his task and paymasters and that his departure from the PDP could not be far fetch from the truth that he is either pursuing him or something is pursuing him. The NYLF maintains that there is no circumstances under which Bala Mohammed is contemplating defecting to APC because his is committed to rescuing Nigeria from drifting into chaos. This was made known at a press conference held by the national chairman of the Northe...

Daily Rendezvous Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has described as unfortunate Mondays fire disaster at the PZ round about where property worth millions of naira were destroyed.  The governor while thanking God that no life was loss, expressed sympathy with  those who were affected by the inferno urging them to take heart and have hope in God that they will have a comeback and not to see the unfortunate incident as the end of the road for them.  The Governor regretted the sad and unfortunate incident which occured Monday morning. "I feel saddened by the event and I'm particularly disturbed by the news of the disaster. My heart goes out to those who were affected". He said. Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri notes that the event happened at a difficult time of biting economic doldrums as citizens work hard to make ends meet.  While regretting the huge losses, Governor Fintiri notes that, "My government stands by you at this trying moment." He further states t...

Daily Rendezvous The Director-General, Media to Gov. Fintiri, has aimed a dig at the senator representing northern Adamawa, Ishaku Abbo, advising the senator to devote some of his misdirected energy used in glorifying fables to serving his constituency and his constituency would have been better for it. Kumangar challenged the senator to provide any glimpse of evidence suggesting of his performance as a senator representing his constituency instead of going about being concerned with the affairs of a high profile performer like Gov. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri. Kumangar said, "Focus on tackling your relegation in APC, not Gov. Fintiri. He accused Ishaku Abbo of peddling, "Unsavoury comment and childish outburst against his principal over the allegation by some online media that the governor is maltreating his deputy, Crowther Seth." Kumangar made this known in a piece titled, ‘Abbo and the burden of apprentice leadership’, which was made available to Daily Rendezvou...