North Korea said Friday its two latest rounds of weapons tests this week were successful while vowing to bolster its nuclear war deterrent and speed up the development of more powerful warheads. It appeared North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did not attend the tests on Tuesday and Thursday, which were detected by the militaries of neighbours South Korea and Japan. But Kim did inspect a munitions factory where workers pledged loyalty to their leader, who smashes with his bold pluck the challenges of US imperialists and their vassal forces,” state media said. North Korea has been ramping up its…
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Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has hailed Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, over Wednesday’s primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. The Ekiti State governorship primary election produced Bisi Kolawole as party’s flagbearer for the June 18 poll. Fayose thanked PDP aspirants, members and supporters for their conduct during the exercise. In a statement by spokesperson, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said the Oyo helmsman proved to be “a man of his words and he deserved to be appreciated.” “By ensuring a level playing ground before and during the primary election, Governor Makinde has further earned my…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, David Ayodele Asalu has called for an end to the campaign of calumny targeted at Senator Ademola Adeleke. Asalu also said such a campaign is a calculated attempt to weaken the party towards the upcoming gubernatorial primary election in the party and election in the state. Asalu who made the call in a personally signed statement on Thursday noted that those opposed to the candidature of Senator Ademola Adeleke went too far with the outright falsehood and blackmails they have employed in their push to stop him from contesting…
The governorship primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Osun State is to hold on March 7, ahead of its governorship election slated for June 16, 2022. The date was announced by the party’s National Organizing Secretary, Umar M. Bature, while releasing the activities lined up for the governorship election in the state. According to him, “The National Working Committee (NWC) of our great party, the PDP at its 544th meeting Wednesday, the 26th of January, 2022, after a careful consideration, approved the Osun State Screening Committee and Appeal Panel reports, which cleared all the six gubernatorial aspirants.”…
President Joe Biden on Thursday called on Congress to immediately enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment in the U.S. Constitution and formally protect women’s rights nearly a century after lawmakers first raised them. In a statement, Biden urged Congress “to pass a resolution recognizing ratification of the ERA,” saying recent legal analysis showed there was nothing preventing lawmakers from acting. The Democratic president’s call comes amid jostling over the deadline to enact the ERA, which passed Congress in 1972 with a 1982 deadline to be enacted if 38 state legislatures voted to approve. Nearly 100 years have passed since it was…
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday said it has constituted the Gubernatorial Appeal Panel to consider appeals arising from the conduct of the governorship primary election for the upcoming 2022 election in Ekiti State. This was contained in a statement by Hon. Umar M. Bature, National Organizing Secretary of the party. According to the statement, the appeal panel is scheduled to sit on Friday, January 28, 2022, at the National Executive Committee (NEC) Hall of the PDP National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza, Wuse Zone 5, Abuja at 3 pm. The members of the appeal…
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, state government officials and All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwarts have endorsed the ambition of party leader, Bola Tinubu. On Thursday, they attended the launch of the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Movement (ABAT) in Ikeja. The organization was formed to mobilise grassroots support towards making Tinubu the next President. Sanwo-Olu announced their unshaken support for the former Lagos Governor, declaring him “the best man to lead Nigeria from 2023”. The governor said Tinubu’s qualification rests on his capacity in deploying “genius and statecraft to nurture a city on the brink to a flourishing economy”. He…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Thursday urged Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State to immediately unseal the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) state secretariat that has been shut since 2019. He said it is uncalled for that the state government refuses to unseal the secretariat as the 2023 election approaches. Speaking through Raymond Dokpesi, Chairman of the Technical Committee for the actualisation of Atiku Abubakar presidential ambition, he said Umahi should also consider releasing Nwoba Chika Nwoba, the party’s Publicity Secretary, from police custody after he was seized over alleged fake news and cybercrime. “I remember vividly when I came…
The Ekiti State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of another suspected thug with guns and other weapons. This is coming after, over one hundred thugs were arrested at border town of Ekiti with dangerous weapons by soldiers. According to the spokesperson for the Ekiti State Police Command, “On 26th January, 2022 at about 1830hrs, the operatives of Ijero Divisional Police Headquarters on patrol led by the DPO sighted a Toyota Hiace Bus parked by the roadside conveying about twelve hefty men suspected to be thugs. “The Police operatives advanced toward the suspected men and on sighting the Police, they…
There’s still room for diplomacy in the Ukrainian crisis. At least that’s the conviction of French President Emmanuel Macron, who continues to push for dialogue with Russia despite signs pointing to a potential war. His stance reflects France’s post-World War II tradition of carving its own geopolitical path, refusing to line up blindly behind the US. It’s also part of Macron’s domestic political strategy amid campaigning for April’s presidential election, where nationalists are setting the agenda and a war in Ukraine could prove an unwelcome distraction. Macron is preparing to talk Friday with Vladimir Putin, and Macron’s presidential palace hosted…