ACF: Scorecard at Twenty-five, by Muyiwa Adetiba

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), one of the self- appointed custodians of northern interests, marked its 25 years of existence a couple of weeks ago. But there could be no clinking of glasses to notch the occasion, or celebratory pats on the back for milestone achievements. Instead, the anniversary came at the most inopportune and the most inauspicious of times.
The episodic insecurity which had plagued the north for most of the existence of ACF, reached another climax at this time