DAILY RENDEZVOUS

Daily Rendezvous The North's most influential group, Northern Leaders Youth Forum (NLYF) is set to endorse either Bauchi state governor, Bala Mohammed or media mogul and founder of DAAR Communications, Raymond Dokpesi, come 5th June, 2021. The group, during its 27th national delegates conference held in Yola, Adamawa state, said, it would not be intimidated from endorseing either Bala Mohammed or Dokpesi, come 5th June, 2021. The group alleged that its group members have come under severe threat by some powerful Nigerians trying to influence the groups endorsement after it scaled down twenty seven names it earlier shortlisted to two persons, of Bala Mohammed and Raymond Dokpesi. Conspicuous absences from the list is PDP's 2019 flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar, Nyesom Wike, among othet notable names earlier shortlisted. Speaking to Newsmen at a press conference in Yola, the National Chairman of Northern Leaders Youth Forum (NYLF) Comrade Eliot Afiyo, said the ...

Daily Rendezvous The Northern Leaders Youth Forum (NLYF) the umbrella body for some forty two northern youth groups have endorsed the ban on open grazing in the country and has also called for a national dialogue to address the countries problems. The Northern Leaders Youth Forum made this known at its 27th delegates' conference held in Yola, Adamawa State. Southern governors have penultimate week issued a ban on open grazing in the Southern part of the country. Addressing journalists in Yola, National Chairman of Norther Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF), Elliot Afiyo, condemned the Minister Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, for his utterance on the ban on open grazing. He said, "we have taken time to study the communique issued by the Southern Governors, especially on the ban on open grazing. "We want to state clearly that open grazing has been the greatest threat to the environment of the northern region and also a major ...

Daily Rendezvous The Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF) has denounced as false and a figment of some media's imaginations, the claims in some local and international media, that it has endorsed Nyesom Wike as its candidate for presidency come 2023. The national chairman of the Forum, Elliot Afiyo, said, the organisation is not unaware of the desperation and the scheemings of some groups in view of the 2023 presidency, but NLYF has its protocols for endorsing a candidate and that the process is already in progress to endorse a candidate. Afiyo, has described as false and misleading, certain claims by the BBC and VOA, that Nyesom Wike or any other candidate has indeed been endorsed for presidency in 2023. Elliot made the remarks in a press statement, made available to Daily Rendezvous, Tuesday. Afiyo said, following one of the forum's NEC meeting in Sokoto, only three persons namely, Gov. Bala Mohammed, Raymond Dokpesi and Bola Ahmed Tinubu, were presente...

News Rendezvous Comrade Elliot Afiyo is the National Chairman of the unarguably most popular and influential Northern Youth Organization called Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF) the umbrella body for some 42 Northern Youth Groups formed by the Northern Political, Religious, Traditional and Military Elites in 1990. NYLF is unarguably the most powerful and influential Youth Organisation in the North in particular and the Nation in general.  This Forum has been engineering the processes of determining who the President of Nigeria becomes since 1999. Comrade Afiyo is the third National Chairman of the Forum after Prof. Musa Danladi Musawa and Prof. Sadiq Usman Abubakar. He is also the Secretary –General of the Association of West African Monarchs and a Senior Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). In this explosive interview, Comrade Eliot opined that the former Lagos State Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has the best quality from the southern part of Nigeria ...