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The federal government has assured all Nigerians of safety and security following the ultimatum given to Igbos by a northern group to leave the region. The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, ACYF, a coalition of socio-political groups in northern Nigeria, had on Tuesday issued a three months ultimatum for all Igbos in the 19 northern states to vacate the region. Responding on Wednesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said the threat is not new. “It is not the first time that different groups will issue such threats,” he said. Mr. Mohammed, who spoke with State House correspondents after a meeting of the Federal Executive Council, which held inside the council Chamber of the Presidential Villa also said the threat is being handled by the relevant agencies of government. “It is not new, but what I want to assure you is that the security agencies are on top of the situation,” he said. Also, the Kaduna State Government has assured every resident of the s...

Sixteen northern youth groups rose from a joint meeting in Kaduna on Tuesday to give Igbo residing in their states up to October 1, 2017 to vacate the region. The youth organisations in attendance at the Kaduna meeting included Arewa Citizens Action for Change, Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Arewa Youth Development Foundation, Arewa Students Forum and Northern Emancipation Network on the Igbo Persistence for Secession. The Beginning Of North-South/Hausa-Igbo Beef in Nigeria In a communique issued at the end of the meeting, and cited by Nigerian Bulletin, the group listed 8 provocative reasons why it gave all Igbos til October 1, 2017 to vacate all Northern regions: 1. The Igbo people of the South-East, without remorse for the carnage they wrought on the nation in the 1960s, are today boldly reliving those sinister intentions connoted by the Biafran agitation that led to the very first bloody insurrection in Nigeria's history. 2. Emboldened by the apparent indiffere...