The budget consists of N173billion in recurrent expenditure and N210billion in capital expenditure. Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has assented to the state’s 2021 Appropriation Bill. He also assured that the state government will strive to recover from the economic challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Okowa, who signed the bill on Monday, November 30 in Asaba, commended the state’s House of Assembly for speedy passage and said that signing the budget a month before the end of 2020 will avail the state government the opportunity to plan and implement properly. “You have just witnessed my signing into law the…
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Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on Monday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to without delay, address the spate of insecurity in the country. Makinde, who spoke in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, expressed grave concern over state of insecurity in different parts of the country. He called for proactive step on the part of the federal government to tackle the menace. Makinde was reacting to the recent gruesome killings of 43 rice farmers in Borno state by armed bandits. The Governor spoke during the official opening ceremony of the 2020 Annual Press Week of the Oyo state Council of Nigeria Union…
Uche Secondus, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, has stated that Nigeria is falling apart under the Government of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Secondus made the claims on Monday while speaking at a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) mega rally for Bayelsa West Senatorial District at Sagbama, in Bayelsa State. The Chairman, who presented the party’s flag to its Senatorial Candidate, Chief Henry Seriake Dickson, lamented that everything including in the country’s economy and security sectors are falling apart. He noted that the only chance of redemption was to put credible people in the National Assembly who…
A security expert and political analyst, Lekan Jackson-Ojo, has described the alleged plan to make the former President Goodluck Jonathan stage a comeback to the presidency as a gimmick of the Northern political elite. He said that the present ruling “APC came to power in 2015 with four legs and no head destroyed Jonathan to hijack the political machinery in 2015”. Political analysts opined that the Northern elite, having realised that the constitution can only allow Jonathan to spend only one term more, decided to use him as a short bridge back to power, adding that such an agenda would…
Dr. Salihu Lukman, the Director General of Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), in this interview with ADAMU ABUH, says despite speculations surrounding Governor Dave Umahi’s defection to All Progressives Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari would not handpick his successor in 2023. There are insinuations in some quarters that APC is a power-grabbing machine and a real danger to Nigeria’s democracy? You see, we tend to hold some views, which unfortunately are not logical. What is politics without power? Politics without power content is empty. What is power, I dare ask? Power is the capacity to influence others. This is the thing.…
The Spokesperson of the House of Representatives, Ben Kalu has disclosed that the House will consider the deregistration of political parties that fail to submit their audited accounts to the Independent National Electronic Commission (INEC) in the new electoral bill. Kalu stated this while appearing on Sunrise Daily on Channels TV on Monday. He noted that deregistration could be adopted as a punitive measure to ensure that political parties comply with the law that mandates political parties to submit their audited accounts to INEC. “That is one of the things we will consider at the course of this amendment. This…
A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Dr. Garus Gololo, has charged the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the North East Development Commission (NEDC), Mohammed Goni Alkali, to wake up from “slumber” and deliver on the mandate given to him and the commission. This call was coming barely 48 hours after about 110 persons were reportedly killed in a Boko Haram attack on a farming community in Jere Local Government Area of Borno State. Though officials and residents had pegged the casualties of Saturday’s attack on rice farmers to 43; on Sunday, the UN resident…
As the rumour of defection of more Nigerian Governors continues to trend in the media following the defection of the Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi to the All Progressives Congress, and with the claim by a former Governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, that Governor Okezie Ikpeazu would be joining the APC soon, TheInfoStride Editor, Nwagboso Ifeanyi spoke exclusively with the Abia State Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi Kalu who foreclosed the possibility of his principal dumping the PDP saying that both ”APC and Orji will wait till thy kingdom come.” Excerpts… How would you respond to…
A former Governor of Katsina State, Ibrahim Shehu Shema, has denied he is set to defect to the All Progressives Party (APC). Shema stated this while speaking with journalists in Katsina, after the inauguration of the state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Caucus and Elders Committees. The speculation began after he took a picture with the current Governor, Alhaji Aminu Bello Masari. The picture was taken during the installation of Col. Abdulaziz Musa Yar’Adua (rtd) as Mutawallen Katsina, which took place at the palace of the Emir of Katsina and has been trending on social media. However, Shema said: “It was…
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi has reiterated that he did not defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC) to contest for presidency in 2023. Umahi made the declaration on Sunday during the first APC stakeholders meeting he was superintending over since his defection to the party. According to him, who dash monkey Banana; I did not negotiate with the presidency or anyone to contest the position under the APC. “My next line of action after my governorship is in God’s hands and there is nothing God cannot do. “Anyone wishing to contest for the presidency or governorship of the state…