DAILY RENDEZVOUS

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 The Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF) says it is not unawares of the scheemings, intimidation techniques and attempt at coertion by some powerful Nigerians, including a retired general, to infiltrate the decision of the delegates of the forum towards changing its decisions that narrowed down its presidential candidacy to Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state and Raymond Dokpesi. The Forum states that it would not be intimidated or cornered into reversing its decision by including a third name which is the name of a sitting governor. This was made known in a statement issued by the Zonal Coordinator (North West) of the NYLF, Sadiq Musa, and made available to Newsmen, Wednesday. Sadiq said, "The attention of the NYLF Leadership has been drawn to the scheming and political maneuverings by some powerful and influential politicians to cause division amongst our Delegates so as to create chaos during our Delegates Conference. "We are also...

Daily Rendezvous Northeast governors forum has began to strategise how to intergrade the 'Almajiri' system into formal system of western education in order to stem the tide of unemployment among young people in the zone as a result of lack of education. The chairman of the North East Governors Forum and governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, kick-starting the meeting said, the recent youth restiveness witnessed in the country is a direct result of a blooming youth unemployment in the north east and the country at large and that government has a responsibility to create avenues for gainful employment and engaging the youth in productive ventures in order to curb the security threat posed by unemployment. Zulum said, education remains the most potent tool in addressing unemployment and creating gainful employment for youths in the north east region in order to curb the menace of insurgency and kidnapping. Zulum made this known in his opening remarks at t...