Nigeria, April 4 -- A group of Northern leaders led by Ahmed Gumi on Sunday visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo as part of continued efforts to find solutions to the general insecurity in the country and particularly for the menace of banditry, kidnapping and ransom payment.

Mr Gumi was accompanied by Usman Yusuf, Tukur Mamu, Umar Ardo, Ibrahim Abdullahi, Suleiman Gumi, Suleiman Yakubu and Buba Mohammed to the home of Mr Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital.

The meeting was centred on causes, remote and immediate effects of insecurity as well as implications, actions and reactions by communities, local authorities, state governments, national government and governments of neghbouring countries and countries within West Africa...