DAILY RENDEZVOUS

Daily Rendezvous  The Association of West African Monarchs (AWAM) and the Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF) hearily congratulates, His Royal Majesty, the Hama Bachama, Humon Daniel Shaga Ismaila on his new National Honours of the Commander of the Order of the Niger confered on him by the president of the federal Republic of Nigerian, President Muhammadu Buhari. AWAM and the Northern Leaders Forum (NLYF) congratulates you for this noble feat and elevation which marks the significance of your leadership as an exemplary monarch that has promoted peace, love and mutual respect among diverse cultures and political views. This honour is a true picture of your commitment to peace, brotherliness and peaceful co-existence among your numerous subjects. In you Nigeria, Adamawa and indeed southern Adamawa has found a beacon of hope, a leader of integrity and a man committed to changing the narratives of how traditional institutions promotes unity, progress and national developmen...

Daily Rendezvous  - Obasanjo's Comment on Atiku was Quoted Out of Context - Osinbanjo Was APC's Preferred Aspirant Until RCCG Interfered Comrade Elliot Afiyo is the National President of the Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF), unarguably the most politically influential Youth Group in Nigeria. NYLF was formed in 1994 by northern political, military, and traditional leaders. The Forum is the umbrella body for 42 groups and is considered the Political Wing of the Northern Oligarchy and Kaduna Mafia. The Forum has been actively playing major roles in the emergence of Presidents since 1999 till date. The Forum is also grounded with a strong base in the rural North where 70% of Northern votes come from.   Comrade Afiyo is also the Secretary-General of the Association of West African Monarchs (AWAM), the umbrella body of the West African Traditional Rulers. In this explosive interview with Daily Rendezvous, Comrade, Elliot Afiyo in his unassuming and unequivocal manner ...

Daily Rendezvous Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF), has described  the Lagos declaration by the Southern governors demanding for a Southern President in 2023 as provocative, insensitive, offensive, confrontational and a political assault on all well meaning Nigerian. According to the group, it is a deliberate and intentional scheming to project the political interest of some few individuals against a collective National interest and concern for the overall wellbeing of Nigeria. Comrade Eliot Afiyo, the National President of NYLF, made the position of the group known at a press conference in Yola, Adamawa state. Eliot said Southern governors have exposed their political inexperience and infancy and lack of interest for the general wellbeing of Nigeria as a country. Afiyo who was speaking to pressmen after a Six day consultative tour of the North-East Zone following the endorsement of Senator Bala Mohammed as NYLF presidential Candidate for 2023, maintained that the dec...

Daily Rendezvous Comrade Elliot Afiyo is the National Chairman of the Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF), the umbrella body of 42 Northern Youth Organizations formed by the Northern Political, Traditional, Religious and Military Elites in 1990 with a membership of over four million Youths.  Comrade Afiyo is the third National Chairman of NYLF. He is also the Secretary- General of the Association of West African Monarchs and a senior Pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). In this interview with Daily Rendezvous, the National chairman of the Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF) Comrade Afiyo Eliot revealed that it would consider supporting candidates for 2023 presidency from the South and north east exclusively . It went further to single out the current Bauchi state governor, Bala Mohammed, Atiku, the 2019 presidential candidate of the PDP, the APC national leader from the South West, Bola Tinubu, Rivers State governor and PDP power house, Nye...

Daily Rendezvous   - Northern Group Says It Regrets Supporting Buhari in 2015 - Says it's Ready For Violent Confrontation with Protesters - Praise Bala Mohammed for Outstanding Display of Leadership The North's most influential youth group and onw of the country's most potent political and social mobilisation group, The Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF) has emphatically said it is for now done with backing any presidential candidate from the north west side of the country, with respect to 2023. The NYLF, is undoubtedly, the most influential northern youth groups, with an impeccable history of influencing electoral outcomes not only for the region but for the country at large. The Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NLYF), which is a group fully backed by northern elders Forum with the mobilisation capacity of about forty two (42) affiliate northern youth bodies formed in 1990, has for the first time in its history, turn, its back on providing political or mobilisati...

Daily Rendezvous - Northern Group Says It Regrets Supporting Buhari in 2015 - Says it's Ready For Violent Confrontation with Protesters - The North Will Not Support North West Candidacy The Northern Youth Leaders Forum, has showered praises on the Bauchi state governor, Bala Mohammed, for averting the EndSARS protests that swept the country recently, saying he was one of the few governors who meticulously distributed palliatives in his state by piloting the distribution as the adhoc committee head. The National chairman of the Forum, Comrade Afiyo Eliot, said, Bala Mohammed, distinguishes himself as an examplery leader faithfully getting palliatives to communities in his state, thus, curbing activities of youths who went to various warehouses but could not hidden palliatives. Eliot said, this is the kind of leadership the north needs to tackle the social and security challenges of the region and the forum would gladly support these kind of visionary leaders for higher p...