A coronavirus surge has upended plans to hold a major nuclear treaty conference at the United Nations, with participants agreeing Thursday to postpone the meeting just days before its scheduled start. After nearly two years of pandemic delays, delegations from around the world had been scheduled due to converge on U.N. headquarters Tuesday to take stock of the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty, a pillar of nuclear arms control. But organisers are now penciling in an August 1 start date for the already long-delayed conference, according to an email Thursday from the U.N. disarmament office to entities involved. An inquiry was sent…
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The opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Saturday, dismissed the All Progressives Congress, APC-led government’s performance claims in 2021 as reeled out by Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed. The PDP described it as a litany of lies. Debo Ologunagba, PDP National Publicity Secretary, in a statement, challenged the President Buhari led-government to name one landmark project it conceptualised, commenced and completed in the last six years. The PDP, however, believed that Nigerians will not hold back in pronouncing verdict on the APC in the 2023 elections through their votes. The statement, while questioning the performance claims, said such…
The National Leader of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu will contest in the 2023 Presidential elections. InfoStride News reports that this was disclosed by the Director-General, Bola Tinubu Support Group Management Council, Abdulmumini Jibrin Kofa. Speaking while conducting what he termed International Press Conference to start up the 2022 New Year, Kofa, who is a former House of Representatives member said, “Tinubu’s Presidential contest is a done deal”. He said in his position as the DG Highest Management Campaign Council of Bola Tinubu, which is overseeing over 2000 other APC National Leader Campaign Councils, “I have the full…
The National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Samuel Anyanwu has expressed worries over the security challenges in the country, especially, the South East geopolitical zone. He said Nigerians, especially the youths will have no option than to leave for Ghana if APC returns to power after President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. Senator Anyanwu, who was a member of the 8th Senate, expressed regret that the APC government had only worsened the suffering of Nigerians, after using Chibok girls to blackmail Jonathan’s administration out of power in 2015. The party scribe, who stated this at his country home in…
India is likely to face more challenges at the northern border as China implements its new border law from Saturday. Sources said from now on China is likely to dig in its heels at the current disputed positions at the Line of Actual Control and will come up with more model border villages — to be used both for military and civilian purposes. Making a provocative assertion, China on December 30, 2021 renamed 15 places of Arunachal Pradesh in their map. Major General Ashok Kumar (Retd) told IANS, “The new land border law is the latest attempt by China to…
Towards 2023 general elections, the build-up to governorship race in Cross River state is generating diverse interests among party faithful and stakeholders across party lines. This is in view of the re-alignment of interests and high profile cross-carpeting of politicians between the major political parties, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The issue of zoning, which has been on the front burner, is still generating interest. The APC seems to have resolved the controversy about its zoning agreement going by the declaration of the state governor, Senator Ben Ayade while receiving some founding members of PDP…
Saliu Mustapha, an aspirant to the office of the national chairman of All Progressive Congress (APC) has promised to run an all-inclusive government if given the opportunity to lead the party. In a letter to members of the party, he personally signed, Mustapha said he is aware of various challenges facing the party as one of its founding fathers and has developed strategy to continue making it a winning party. He said, “I have the privilege of being one of the senior figures in the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) who pulled through the merger with the Action Congress…
In 2022, political parties and politicians will be in full campaign mood, as 2023 gets closer. While the 2023 general elections are still in limbo due to the rejected electoral bill, several other factors will determine the polity in 2022. The 2022 campaign will take place amidst the general insecurity across the country. The 2021 Anambra election has shown that security plays a major role in elections. The election saw a record low turnout, as voters stayed away from the poll due to the threat by the IPOB. As it stands, bandits are on the rampage in the Northwest and…
Uche Nwosu, a chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) from Abia State, has berated the recent declaration by the Senate Minority leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe to vie for the position of Governor of Abia State come 2023. Senator Abaribe had declared intentions to contest in the state’s governorship election in 2023. The Abia South Senator disclosed this while answering questions from journalists at an event in Obingwa and Aba North Local Government Areas. Abaribe had disclosed that he already informed the state Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu of his ambition to succeed him come 2023. However, while making his position known in…
President Xi Jinping on Friday flagged unification of Taiwan with the mainland as an aspiration in his New Year address, as he highlighted the ruling Communist Party’s achievements, including its recent key meeting that paved the way for his unprecedented third term in power. The complete reunification of our motherland is an aspiration shared by people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, Xi Jinping said in his New Year-eve television address to the nation. His Taiwan reference is considered significant as China has increasingly come under pressure from the US, the European Union and other western countries, who have…