In response to the National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal’s ruling that Senator Orji Uzor Kalu should be recognized as the victor of the Abia-North senate election, the organisation Friends of Democracy has filed an appeal. Coordinator Okafor Azubuike issued a statement on Monday urging caution, saying the poll results were too close to call. Both the Labour Party’s Nnamdi Iro Orji and the People’s Democratic Party’s Mao Ohuabunwa candidates for the Senate seat representing Abia-North had challenged Kalu’s victory. Petitioners from Abia-North’s Ohafia and Arochukwu local government areas claimed election day chaos prevented voting in more than 120 polling units,…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticized Governor Alex Otti of Abia State for his attacks on the leadership of the Anglican Church, Aba Diocese. In a statement released on Monday, Abia PDP Vice Chairman and Acting State Chairman Hon. Abraham Amah voiced his dissatisfaction with the Otti administration’s handling of the Anglican Church of Aba Diocese’s recommendations, as outlined in a communique issued following the church’s 17th Synod. The Church had urged the State government to stop firing governmental servants and instead invest in repairing the economic highways in Aba. He claimed that rather than take the counsel in…
Ayodele Fayose, a former governor of Ekiti State, has commented on President Bola Tinubu’s most recent success. The United Arab Emirates said on Monday that Tinubu and President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan had reached a historic accord in Abu Dhabi, ending the country’s visa ban on Nigerian citizens. Fayose thought it was a wonderful turn of events. X “Resolution of the diplomatic row between Nigeria and the UAE is no doubt heart-warming,” he wrote. Fayose pointed out that many Nigerians whose businesses are related to the UAE are unhappy with the decision to allow a diplomatic row that culminated…
Representative for Niger State’s Edati/Lavun/Mokwa Federal Constituency Joshua Audu-Gana has announced his intention to challenge the election petition tribunal’s ruling. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the three-person tribunal presided over by Sylvester Godspower found in favor of the petitioners and rendered its decision on Monday. Following the tribunal’s invalidation of ballots cast in 26 polling units within the constituency, Gana received 46,494 votes and Gbatamagi received 39,159. While the tribunal has called for a rerun in some voting units in my constituency, I remain a member of the House of Representatives until all court processes are exhausted,…
Anambra Civil Society Network (ACSONET), a coalition of non-governmental organizations in the state, has asked Governor Chukwuma Soludo to explain why he plans to give grains to 530,000 households. The group also questioned the governor on Anambra’s allocation of the federal aid package for states that will result from the removal of gasoline subsidies. Residents in the state are struggling as a result of the removal of fuel subsidies, thus the coalition urged Soludo to immediately begin distributing the rice and other palliatives. The CSOs stated the palliatives were intended to ease the suffering of citizens in light of the…
The Kwara State government has granted a N184 million refund for 2,300 pilgrims who made the Hajj to Saudi Arabia in 2018. The sum of N3 million was paid by 2,300 pilgrims as Hajj fare for the recently finished journey, and this money will be used to reimburse them for any overpayments they made. The Ilorin office of the Kwara State Muslim Pilgrims’ Welfare Board has begun issuing refunds to travelers. There are Kwarans and people of other ethnicities among the state’s 16 local government areas’ worth of recipients. In a statement issued in Ilorin, Alhaji Abdulsalam Abdulkadir, Executive Secretary…
The governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, has tasked the state’s head of service and permanent secretaries with guiding each employee by assigning them a schedule of duties to support their employment. On Tuesday, while nine newly appointed permanent secretaries were being sworn into the state civil service, Buni delivered the proclamation. As you are aware, this administration recently hired more than 2,600 degree holders, certificate recipients, and holders of NCEs to fill open posts in the state civil service in order to increase productivity. “I charge the office of the Head of Service and the Permanent Secretaries to…
More than 30 illicit oil refining plants were destroyed in the last two months by the air component of Operation Delta Safe near Cawthorne Channel and Bille in the Degema Local Government Area of Rivers. Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, the NAF’s Director of Public Relations and Information, said this on Sunday in Abuja. Gabkwet claimed that the air strikes increased efforts to stop oil thieves and those who run illegal oil refineries from destroying the environment by bursting pipelines. According to him, four active illegal refining facilities were destroyed by air strikes on Friday near Cawthorne Channel. These sites had…
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on food security and agricultural development was signed between the United States Government and the Republic of Cuba. Abubakar Kyari, Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, signed the MoU on behalf of the Nigerian government in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday, according to a statement released by Olusola Abiola, Director of Information in the Office of the Vice President. On the margins of the ongoing G77+China Leaders’ Summit, officials from both nations gathered at the Ministry of Agriculture in Cuba to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU), according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).…
Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has issued a warning to states not to misuse aid from the federal government intended to ease the financial blow of the gasoline subsidy cut. At the Sir Abubakar Tafawa Memorial Stadium in Bauchi over the weekend, a portion of 89,000 25kg bags of rice were distributed among Persons Living with Disabilities (PLWDs), where Mohammed issued the warning. The governor made it clear that they would spare no one who stood in the way of their efforts to offer relief to the people. Part of the interventions, according to Mohammed, who is also a…
The campaign council for the governorship election in Imo, scheduled for November 11, was officially launched by All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman Abdullahi Ganduje. Ganduje, who led the drill on Saturday, urged the people of Imo to re-elect Governor Hope Uzodinma so that the state could continue on its current path of progress. He said that President Bola Tinubu’s selection of Cross River Governor and Senator Bassey Otu to head the campaign council was indicative of the importance the President places on the upcoming election. He urged the people of Imo to use Uzodinma’s cross-ethnic goodwill and sage advice…
Timipre Sylva, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for governor in Bayelsa State, claims that Senator Douye Diri, the state governor, has hired spies to track his every step. Sylva, through his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Julius Bokoru, released a statement to the media on Sunday, in which he claimed that credible intelligence indicated that spies operating across the state, particularly at the Bayelsa International Cargo Airport, had been asked to document and report his movements in the state to some off-grid security architecture in Bayelsa. The former governor said that the governor’s personal security adviser was behind the…
Senate Minority Leader Simon Davou Mwadkwon has called the tribunal rulings that nullified the election of some Plateau State National Assembly members as “bizarre” and has vowed that they will not be upheld. Senator for the Plateau North Senatorial District and member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mwadkwon issued a statement on Friday expressing confidence that the Appellate Court would not uphold a ruling that ran counter to Supreme Court decisions. He urged PDP supporters in Plateau State to maintain composure and warned that “those presently rejoicing inside their house of lies will face the reality of their self…
Rep. Ngozi Okolie (LP), who represents the Aniocha/Oshimili federal constituency in Delta State, has said that his opponent in the last general election, PDP member Ndudi Elumelu, knew he wouldn’t win but thought he could buy the victory with money. Okolie claims that Ndudi, who contested his election victory in tribunal, was just out to “fish” and see who would join him. The lower panel that overturned the politician’s election “fished” with Ndudi, according to the lawmaker. Okolie made the assertion during a Friday appearance on Arise Television. According to previous reports by Infostride News, on Thursday the court of…
On Friday, the Court of Appeal in Abuja validated Rep. Jafaru Leko’s election as the representative for Bauchi State’s Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal Constituency. Kefas Magaji of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had filed an appeal, but it was unanimously rejected by a three-judge panel presided over by Justice Lawal Shuaibu. The court found that Magaji and PDP had not provided sufficient evidence to support their claims. In a federal constituency election held on February 25, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) reportedly announced that Leko of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had won. Magaji and the PDP were unhappy with…
On Friday, a vote of confidence in Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the New Nigeria Peoples Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, was passed by the party’s chieftains from the South West zone, adding a new dimension to the crisis shaking the NNPP. The party elders made the call at a required meeting of the South West zonal leadership in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State. Infostride News readers may recall that before it had been announced that a party faction led by Dr. Boniface Aniebonam had expelled the ex-governor of Kano State from the party. On the other hand, party leaders in…
By Saturday evening, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) had returned full power to Sokoto State. This was reported by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in a statement from Mr. Ndidi Mbah, GM, Public Affairs, based in Birnin Kebbi. He guaranteed that the business was working hard to restore power in Kebbi and the surrounding areas after the tragic fire at the Birnin Kebbi Substation on Thursday night, September 14. The Talata Mafara Substation is once again supplying Sokoto State with its primary source of electricity. To link Kebbi and the surrounding area to the grid via…
In response to Vice President Joe Biden’s announcement that he will run for president in 2024, Trump has reportedly claimed that Biden is “not too old” but “grossly incompetent,” according to The Hill. Trump is quoted as saying in an upcoming interview, “Age is interesting because some people are very sharp, and some people do lose it, but you lose it at 40 and 50, also.” This interview will air on Thursday. However, he is not quite as elderly as you think. Trump remarked on SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show” that he is “grossly incompetent.” Polls suggest Trump, then 77…
According to Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia, the state’s judiciary would be granted financial independence in 2021 under the Benue State Judiciary Fund Management (Financial Independence) Law and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. On the occasion of the 2023-2024 Judiciary Legal Year celebration in Makurdi, Benue State, Governor Alia made the announcement on Saturday, September 16, 2023, at the City Bay Event Centre. The governor argues that empowering the judiciary with independent funding is crucial to establishing the rule of law and ensuring that judges are able to impartially implement the law while protecting citizens’ basic liberties.…
On Friday, the Uyo-based Governorship Election Petition Tribunal dismissed the appeal submitted by Mr. Jeremiah Akpan, the Action Alliance (AA) candidate for governor in the March 18 election in Akwa Ibom. The petition was dismissed for lack of competence because it did not comply with the Electoral Act 2022, as read by Justice Buetnaan Mandy on behalf of the other two members of the tribunal. Petitioner Akpan went to the tribunal because the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) wouldn’t post his name as a candidate for election on its website. In response to the tribunal’s ruling, INEC’s legal counsel, Dr.…