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Northern Elders Forum Launches 2-Day Northern Nigeria Investment and Industrialisation Summit 2025

Daily Dispatch September 29, 2025

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has commenced its maiden Northern Nigeria Investment and Industrialisation Summit 2025 in Abuja, a two-day event themed “Unlocking Strategic Opportunities in Mining, Agriculture, and Power (MAP 2025).” The summit brings together a wide array of stakeholders

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Northern Nigeria: A Partner in Progress – NEF Unveils Investment and Industrialization Summit

Daily Dispatch September 22, 2025

By Ujunwa Eunice Nwankwo The Northern Elders Forum (NEF), in collaboration with the 19 Northern Nigerian states and the New Nigeria Development Company (NNDC), has officially announced the maiden Northern Nigeria Investment and Industrialization Summit, describing the region as “a partner in progress – a region of promise, opportunity, and resilience.” The announcement was

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Northern Elders to President Bola Tinubu: “You cannot take credit for the removal of fuel subsidy”

Daily Dispatch July 1, 2023

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) spokesperson, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has told President Bola Ahmed Tinubu not to take credit for the removal of the fuel subsidy in Nigeria. Tinubu, on the day of his inauguration into office, declared that the fuel subsidy era had ended. The president’s announcement received a barrage of mixed reactions as marketers immediately hiked the

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North has sunk lower under Buhari, NEF, ACF, CNG, others lament

Daily Dispatch April 9, 2021

Seventeen famous Northern groups, including the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) have lamented the region is worse off under President Muhammadu Buhari. This was one of the major outcomes after a two-day Northern People’s Summit in Kaduna. The groups, in a communiqué read by Professor Doknan […]