Elections for YOWICAN’s Adamawa State chapter’s executive positions were called off by the organization’s national secretariat. Despite the controversy surrounding the election’s handling on Friday, two factions within the wing spoke to the media on Saturday, claiming that the event’s organizers had not followed protocol. The YOWICAN headquarters in Abuja responded on Saturday night by declaring the election null and void in a memo acquired by the media. Belusochukwu Enwere, CAN’s national chairman, sent a memo to CAN’s Adamawa State chairman, Rev. Dami Mamza, declaring the election null and void because it was held without his approval. “I am writing…
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Former military spokesman Major-General Bernard Onyeuko (rtd) has passed away. After allegedly complaining of a cold and being rushed to a private hospital on Saturday morning, the former Director, Defence Media Operations, reportedly passed away. Former President Muhammadu Buhari spokesman Garba Shehu expressed his condolences for Onyeuko’s passing. Major-General Bernard Onyeuko (rtd) was the previous military spokesperson, and I just got the devastating news of his passing. I pray that God will give the family the strength they need to deal with this tragedy. He tweeted, “R.I.P.
The exiled government of Biafra states that it has established a bureau in the U.S. state of Maryland’s capital city of Baltimore. Simon Ekpa, Prime Minister of BRGIE and a lawyer in Finland, made the announcement on Saturday. He said that holding this position will help advance the cause of a Biafran independence referendum. According to Ekpa, the office will assist Biafrans all over the world. As he put it, “The Biafra Republic Government In Exile Administrative office in the United States is ready to serve Biafrans worldwide.” The BRGIE convention, he had said earlier, would kick off in October…
After protests broke out across Pakistan and hashtags denouncing the country’s astronomical electricity prices began trending online on August 27, interim Prime Minister Anwarul-haq Kakar reportedly summoned an emergency meeting, as reported by The Express Tribune on August 27. The meeting took place in Islamabad, and according to the Express Tribune, the caretaker premier had requested a full briefing on the topic from the energy ministry and electricity distribution corporations. According to the PMO statement, discussions will be made to determine how best to reduce electricity costs for consumers. The Express Tribune reports that the government was forced to act…
On Saturday, Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia spoke out against the killing of Justice Margaret Igbetar, a former President of the Customary Court of Appeal. According to Infostride News’ archives, Igbetar was discovered dead in her Makurdi home on Thursday by her son. She had been murdered earlier in the week by unknown intruders. Alia responded with concern, expressing it in a statement released by his Chief Press Secretary, Sir Tersoo Kula. The governor was perplexed as to the motive behind the brutal murder of a citizen who had done her part in the growth of the state in numerous…
Nigeria’s president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said that the country’s economic reforms would be best served by avoiding a war with the Niger Republic. This was announced on Saturday by Presidential Media Adviser Aguri Ngelale after a meeting between Tinubu and US Presidential Envoy and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Ambassador Molly Phee. Tinubu urged the United States to work with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to strengthen democracy in the region. He said ECOWAS was still open to ideas for re-establishing democracy in Niger’s republic. Diplomatic efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the…
On the eve of the United Nations General Assembly gathering, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has agreed to meet with Vice President Joe Biden. Following a meeting between Tinubu and US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Ambassador Molly Phee, the news was made public on Saturday by Aguri Ngelale, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity. Tinubu reaffirmed that private enterprise will flourish in Nigeria under his administration. He suggested the American government get creative by establishing incentives for American businesses to set up shop in Nigeria. The private sector will take the lead if we establish the…
This weekend in Abuja, the 63rd Annual General Conference of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) will begin. It is likely to be opened by President Bola Tinubu. Barrister Yakubu Maikyau, SAN, the leader of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), invited the President to declare the event open. On Friday, while hosting the group at the Presidential Villa, Tinubu made good on his promise to have his administration do a comprehensive assessment of judicial officer compensation structures in the country. Given his historic success in reforming justice administration in Lagos State, the President believes a thorough examination of judicial officers’ wages…
Mohammed Sani Kila, chief of staff to the governor of Kaduna State, has denied that he was approached by hotel management over unpaid debts. According to the aforementioned allegation, he spent weeks at a hotel without footing the bill. Ibrahim Aliyu Giwa, chief of staff to the governor of Kaduna State, issued a statement refuting the claim and calling it “false and malicious.” The statement states, “the story was intended to impugn and smear the character, integrity, and reputation of the Chief of Staff.” “The Chief of Staff resides in his house in Kaduna, [while] the hotel was secured for…
Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has come under fire from the federal government for his criticism of President Bola Tinubu’s economic strategy. Obaseki told reporters in Benin on Thursday that Nigerians’ hardships had been exacerbated by Tinubu’s administration’s decision to end gasoline subsidies and overhaul the country’s foreign exchange system. The subsidy has ended, and the exchange rate is becoming more stable. The most helpless and defenceless members of society would end up bearing the brunt of these policies. I find it shocking that those who ran for office across the country promising to end subsidies have offered no details…
Kaduna State’s Election Petition Tribunal for the National Assembly has ruled against a challenge to the election of two People’s Democratic Party (PDP) representatives to the House of Representatives. Petitioners from the Kachia/Kagarko Federal Constituency, David Umar Gurara, and the Kauru Federal Constituency, Hon. Bashir Shadow, had their cases dismissed by the tribunal on Saturday. They won a seat in the House of Representatives in the election held on February 25, 2023, and were re-elected. The candidates for the All Progressives Congress (APC), Honourable Gabriel Haar Zock and Honourable Mukhtar Zakari, hauled them before the tribunal. Zock asked the tribunal…
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said on Friday that Putin would not be attending the G20 conference in New Delhi on September 9-10. The official Kremlin news source Tass said that a spokeswoman denied any plans by the president. Peskov said the details of Putin’s involvement would be worked out at a later date. Putin was not present for the in-person BRICS Summit that was held in Johannesburg. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke on his behalf. Putin skipped the first in-person BRICS meeting following Covid-19 because an arrest warrant was issued for him in March…
The Labour Party (LP) has denied reports that its executive committee, headed by Julius Abure, was terminated by the Appeal Court. According to the LP, Mr. Basil Maduka, a candidate for the Labour Party’s governorship nomination in Imo State, had his appeal refused by the Court of Appeal in Owerri, dealing yet another devastating blow to the Lamidi Apapa-led group. The LP has asked its constituents and the public at large to separate themselves from “falling and compromised members of the party” it claims to have expelled. LP National Publicity Secretary Obiora Ifoh issued a statement on Thursday claiming that…
Two members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) have been suspended. One of the party’s original founders, Dr. Boniface Aniebonam, and the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Dr. Agbo Major, have been suspended from membership. The party said Aniebonam and Major had been suspended while a disciplinary committee looked into their conduct. Mallam Abba Kawu Alli, the party’s acting national chairman, made the announcement on Thursday. Daily Post obtained a statement from Alli in which he said that Aniebonam and Agbo had been suspended for anti-party activities. He continued by saying that NNPP will…
Dotun Babayemi, an Osun State PDP stalwart, has asserted that he is still a fully paid-up member of the party. Several months ago, he was kicked out of the Osun PDP, which he called a “Kangaroo action.” He claimed that the state party was being run by thugs whose business model relied on operating above the law. Babayemi was kicked out of the PDP in his neighborhood after Ademola Adeleke was proclaimed the victor in the Osun 2022 gubernatorial election, as reported by DAILY POST. After the ward chapter was expelled, the state chapter followed suit. But in a statement…
In Abia State, members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who are loyal to former Minister Uche Ogah have rallied around Donatus Nwankpa’s appointment as the party’s National Welfare Secretary. Nwankpa, the former State Chairman of Abia APC, was elected as the party’s National Welfare Secretary, contrary to media reports. The announcement was signed by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Offor Okorie, and released in Umuahia. According to the APC’s response to the statement attributed to the Kingsley Ononogbu -led APC faction, the persons who are responsible for the discord in the Abia APC are behind the rejection of Donatus Nwankpa.…
The FCTA has dismissed the new FCT Minister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike’s authorisation of widespread destruction in Abuja. The media has recently reported that 6,000 homes in 30 Abuja slums will be demolished. A statement sent on Wednesday by FCTA spokesperson Anthony Ogunleye said, “these stories are entirely false and without any basis in reality.” Ogunleye said, “for the avoidance of doubt, the Minister did not in any of his pronouncements list the areas or the number of illegal houses to be removed; rather, his emphasis has always been that illegal settlements and structures would be removed for the greater good…
Judgment in a case brought by Prince Mohammed Kabir Olaoye against the kingmakers’ selection of Prince Afolabi Ghandi Olaoye as Soun of Ogbomoso is scheduled for October 3. After Oba Jimoh Oyewumi’s transfer on 12 December 2021, the Soun of Ogbomoso stool fell empty, as previously reported by Infostride News. Tuesday, as decided by Justice A.K. Adedokun. After attorneys for both sides of the action stamped HOG/27/2022 and filed in July 2022 followed their processes and presented their arguments for and against the litigation, a judgment date was set. Oladapo Atanda represented Olaoye, while Kolawole Fatoye represented Ghandi and the…
Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has issued an arrest warrant for the building’s landlord. The FCT police confirmed in a statement obtained by Infostride News on Thursday that two people had been killed, and that twenty more were taken to hospitals. Around 10 p.m. on Wednesday, a two-story plaza in Lagos Crescent, Garki II, Abuja, which housed numerous commercial establishments, fell. After Wike and inspectors from Development Control inspected the fallen building on Thursday, he issued an arrest warrant for the landlord in response to the tragic event. A building plan is required not because the…
To put a stop to the instability in the Southeast, a special House committee has demanded Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), be released immediately and unconditionally. To curb kidnappings, murders, and acts of banditry in the Isiukwuato and Umunnochi local government areas of Abia State, a committee was formed to liaise with law enforcement. During Thursday’s meeting, Committee Chairman Obinna Aguocha remarked that the IPOB leader’s release is a potential “magic bullet” for restoring calm to Southeast Asia. Aguocha said that in order to solve the insecurity in the southeast, the government must…