The year 2021 was an eventful political year which witnessed a burst of activities that will remain evergreen in Imo’s political calendar. InfoStride News correspondent compiled some of these issues and events that shaped the heartland State’s politics and made it an unforgettable political year. Dramatic Imo Assembly: impeachment of two Speakers in 12 months and suspension of lawmakers: In the last 12 months, Imo political space, especially the State House of Assembly stayed in the scene almost all year round and witnessed the swearing in of three Speakers within a space of one year. At first, former Speaker, Hon.Chiji…
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Ahead of the 2023 general elections, an All Progressives Congress group has called for the sack of the Director-General of Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Alhaji Salihu Moh Lukman. The group, which operates under the aegis of All Progressives Congress Youth Development and Solidarity Forum (APC-YDSF) accused the DG of harbouring selfish interest that favours the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying if he.was not sacked immediately, the ruling party must be ready to face its consequences. In a statement, which was signed by its Secretary-General, Hon. Tobias Ogbeh and made available to the media on Thursday in Abuja, the group…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s tagging of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP as a failure. InfoStride News recalls that President Buhari, during an interview with Channels Television on Wednesday, said what comes to his mind when the acronym, PDP is mentioned, is failure. Reacting, Governor Ortom in a statement issued on Thursday by his Chief Press Secretary, Nathaniel Ikyur said it is the ruling All Progressives Congress that failed Nigerians by retrogressing the affairs of the nation. He said, “as a critical stakeholder of the PDP, this is completely false. If anyone has…
A public commentator in Zamfara State, Ahmad Bakare has said the threading of words between the ruling APC in the state and the opposition PDP has opened the eyes of Zamfara people to what has been going on within the circle of the state government. In an exclusive interview with Newsmen in Gusau, the public commentator said citizens all along were kept in total darkness regarding the expenses of the state government. He said the state PDP spokesperson, Professor Kabiru Umar Jabaka knew about the monumental corruption rocking the state government and refused to open up until he was short…
The leaders of Japan and Australia signed a landmark defense agreement Thursday that allows closer cooperation between their militaries and stands as a rebuke to China’s growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met in a virtual summit to sign the Reciprocal Access Agreement, the first such defense pact signed by Japan with any country other than the United States. The agreement follows more than a year of talks between Japan and Australia aimed at breaking down legal barriers to allow the troops of one country to enter the other…
Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, on Thursday, said the experiences he had garnered over two decades in government placed him in a vantage position to rescue Nigeria. Anyim, a former Senate President, spoke in Enugu during a South-East briefing and consultative session, which had in attendance stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from the zone. At the event, he asked the people of the zone for their support as he seeks to take over the presidential seat in 2023. Some of the party leaders at the meeting hosted by Anyim included…
Older members of the All Progressives Congress in Cross River State have insisted that they are given appointments and paid by the Governor Ben Ayade government as promised. On 20 May 2021, the governor defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to APC and took over control of the power structures, supporters and aides. Later he assured that the older members of the party, particularly members of the state caretaker committee that midwife the collapse of the two rival factions that steadied the party until the arrival of Ayade, would be accommodated through appointments and payments. Chief Samson Edem Ene,…
The leadership of the pan-Ijaw youth group, Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide, has flayed the remarks credited to the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, against the Ijaw nation. The President of IYC, Peter Timothy Igbifa, in a statement, issued to the media on Thursday from Port Harcourt, said it was sad that Wike, while making his speech during the Ogoni Day celebration, remarked that the Ijaw were behaving as if they owned the Niger Delta. “We don’t know where he got his impressions from. But whatever he said does not represent our noble ethnic group. Ijaws died in the 2015…
The Federal Government is planning to downsize the civil service. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, explained that the downsizing is aimed at cutting the cost of the government’s recurrent expenditure yearly. Ahmed disclosed that the Federal Government is working on an exit package for workers that would be affected. In a statement, the minister said the government has set up a committee to review the collapse of agencies, using the Stephen Oronsaye report. Buhari govt to cut civil servants’ salaries – Minister According to Ahmed, the committee would be led by the Secretary to the…
The United States and Germany said Wednesday that Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine’s border poses an immediate and urgent challenge to European security and that any intervention will draw severe consequences. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock presented a unified front on Russia after a meeting in Washington, but still would not detail what the consequences might be. The severity of any response to a Russian invasion of Ukraine hinges largely on Germany, Europe’s biggest economy and a diplomatic heavyweight within the 27-nation European Union. Both Germany and the United States see Russia’s actions toward…