President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will address the nation through national television on Monday, today. This was announced on Monday by Dele Alake, the President’s Special Adviser on Special Duties, Communications, and Strategy. He claims that the airing will take place at 7 o’clock tonight. He urged all electronic media outlets to use the Nigerian Television Authority’s and Radio Nigeria’s network services during the broadcast. More information coming soon…
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Shehu Sani, who once represented the Kaduna Central Senatorial District, has asked the Senators of the 10th Assembly to reject Malam Nasir El-Rufai’s confirmation as Minister. El-Rufai was the governor of Kaduna State. Former congressman expressed amazement on Sunday in a message to journalists that El-Rufai’s name appeared on the list of ministerial nominees despite his clear religious coloring, which poses a threat to national unity. For the sake of the nation’s future, he urged the three senators from Kaduna State to stand tall in honor and oppose the confirmation and approval of the former governor. El-Rufai was disqualified from…
The IPOB has reiterated its call on the people of Southeast Nigeria to ignore Biafra agitator Simon Ekpa, who lives in Finland. As IPOB’s spokesperson Emma Powerful put it: “Every Biafran must comprehend the importance of this message. Fans of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, you must hear him out. With Kanu, the man Ekpa claims to be following, languishing in captivity, Powerful questioned why Ekpa would call himself Prime Minister of Biafra and urged Igbos to quit “giving credence to the enemy of Ndigbo and Biafrans claiming to be Kanu’s disciple.” A possible role for Mazi upon his public unveiling may…
The DSS has allowed Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to get a second opinion on his health. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Kanu’s primary attorney, stated on Friday that the IPOB leader had been examined by doctors at a hospital in Abuja. “We are pleased to inform you that Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu met with his choice personal physician yesterday (Friday) in a hospital in Abuja, outside the facility of the State Security Service (SSS),” Ejiofor said in a statement. As is customary, I was present during the consultation. He (Kanu) will shortly advance to the next…
Adamu Garba, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, has claimed that the United States and France had baited the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) into a full-scale war in the area. Garba warned that Nigeria could be destroyed if its military intervened in Niger by accident. After giving the alleged coup leader in Niger Republic, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, seven days to hand power back to Mohammed Bazoom, he has now made this declaration. The resolution included the decision made during an emergency meeting of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government convened in Abuja on Sunday.…
Governor Agbu Kefas of Taraba State was named by the People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) to lead the party’s Bayelsa State National Campaign Council. The appointment was announced in a statement released to the press on Sunday in Jalingo, the capital of Taraba, by Yusuf Sanda, the state governor’s chief press secretary. The statement claims that Kefas will head the 122-person team to the state before the governor’s race on November 11. The statement claims that the move is an effort to rally voters behind Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State in the upcoming governorship election. Dr.…
There have been at least 7,331 resignations and departures from the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Imo. In a briefing to reporters on Sunday afternoon in Owerri, the capital of Imo State, the party’s former secretary, Mr. Ogbonna Alozie, made the announcement. The state party chairman, Prince Marshal Okaforanyanwu, resigned from his job and the party two days prior, according to a report by Infostride News. Party officials at all levels, from the state level (all 24 of them) down to the ward level (6,710) resigned in protest. Alozie claimed the decision was made by the officials as a show…
Nicolas Petro, son of the president of Colombia, has been taken into custody. On Saturday, police in Spain arrested Nicolas on suspicion of money laundering and ill-gotten gain. President Gustavo Petro verified the news by saying Nicolas and his ex-wife Daysuris Vasquez were taken into police custody. The 37-year-old and Vasquez were abducted from the port city of Barranquilla and taken to the country’s capital of Bogota. When asked about the situation, Petro said he would not participate in his son’s prosecution in court. He wished success and power for his son. I pray that he uses this time to…
The recent coup in the Niger Republic has been strongly opposed by Arewa Civil Society Organizations, or CSOs. They complained that the situation of poverty and underdevelopment in West Africa may be traced back to the coup. Adamu Aminu Musa, the groups’ chairman, made a statement in which he strongly denounced the coup and called for the protection of the country’s constitution, the rule of law, and the basic rights of its residents as a means of preventing similar events in the future. In it, they added, “We believe a violation of citizens’ rights, disrespect for the rule of law,…
Imo State’s governor, Hope Uzodinma, has asked President Bola Tinubu and the rest of the Federal Government’s security forces to bring Biafra agitator Simon Ekpa back to Nigeria from Finland. Uzodinma has called for Ekpa’s return to Nigeria so that he can either take part in the sit-ins he calls for or face justice for his actions. While at the Government House in Owerri, he called the newly appointed General Officer Commanding 82 Division, Enugu, Major General Hassan Dada. He stressed the importance of ending the insurgency in the Southeast once and for all. “What is foremost in our cases…
The Police Command of Imo State has urged citizens to ignore the IPOB’s illegal sit-at-home order and continue with their normal activities without fear of violence or intimidation. The police reiterated their earlier order not to stay indoors and instead go about their daily routines. This was announced on Sunday during a press briefing at the Imo State Command headquarters in Owerri by CP Mohammed Ahmed Barde, the state’s top cop. The CP made the following statement: “I want to use this medium to call on Imolites to disregard the illegal sit-at-home order and go about their lawful businesses without…
Popular Biafra agitator and Separatist Simon Ekpa has declared that he absolves Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, from any responsibility for the conduct of the Biafran people. Ekpa, the Biafran government’s prime minister and a Finnish lawyer, made the comments in a video posted to Twitter on Sunday. Infostride News recalls hearing rumors that Kanu told Ekpa to cease criticizing governors in the southeast. However, Ekpa said that the letter was forgery and untrue. He claims the letter was written by troublemakers who oppose Biafra’s independence. For the sake of sustainable peace in the southeast,…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Oyo State has announced that it will run candidates in the upcoming municipal election. The APC is the state’s largest opposition party. According to Infostride News, the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC) has finalized preparations to hold local government elections inside the State. A date in April 2024 has been set for the election. Wasiu Olawale Sadare, the APC’s publicity secretary, sent a statement to DAILY POST in which he reaffirmed the party’s intention to run candidates in the upcoming election. Sadare declared, “The unanimous decision at the stakeholders meeting held today at…
The IPOB has denied that its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, wrote a false letter, as claimed by Simon Ekpa, a Biafran separatist resident in Finland. When asked if the letter from Kanu instructing Ekpa to cease the sit-in in the Southeast was genuine, IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, said it was. On Friday, Kanu had written a letter to Ekpa, instructing him to call off the sit-in in the Southeast. Aloy Ejimakor, Kanu’s Special Counsel, was the one to deliver the letter on his behalf. Powerful, who had previously confirmed the letter, stated that Ekpa’s claim that Kanu’s letter was phoney was…
On Sunday, the Enugu State chapter of the pan-Igbo social and cultural group Ohanaeze Ndigbo announced their full backing of the State government’s decision to call off the sit-at-home. Simon Ekpa, self-proclaimed Prime Minister of Biafra and resident of Finland, led a faction of IPOB that enforced a weekly stay-at-home policy. The group is using the sit-in to demand the release of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, from the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Nigeria. Ohanaeze Ndigbo, however, praised State Governor Barr Peter Mbah for his bravery in ending “the scourge of sit-at-home in Enugu state” in…
The abolition of the gasoline subsidy and the foreign exchange regime policies have been met with praise and support from international communities, according to President Bola Tinubu. The office of the Head of the government Service of the Federation hosted a Gala/Award Night this past weekend to celebrate and honour outstanding government servants in celebration of this year’s Civil Service Week, during which Tinubu addressed. Senator George Akume, who serves as Secretary to the Government of the Federation, spoke on behalf of the president. Akumen claims that Tinubu praised public personnel for their roles in Nigeria’s economic growth, as reported…
According to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Saturday, political instability in Niger as a result of a military coup that ousted the country’s president this week threatens the economic assistance Washington provides to the African nation. Adding Niger to the expanding list of military governments in the Sahel area of West Africa, members of the Niger military declared on Wednesday that they had overthrown democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum. On Friday, they appointed Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani as the new leader of the nation. The sustained security and economic agreements that Niger has with the US depend on the…
The petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives candidate for the Kaura Federal Constituency, Gideon Gwani, to void the election of his Labour Party (LP) rival, Donatus Mathew, was dismissed by the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Kaduna on Friday. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) held its House of Representatives election on February 25, 2023, and Donatus, a former Okada rider, won. Unhappy with the election results, Gideon Gwani—the Minority Whip at the 9th Assembly of the House of Representatives—filed a petition with the tribunal asking that Donatus’ victory be declared unlawful. When…
Former senator Shehu Sani called President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s pick of ministers “a big disappointment.” In a recent interview with ARISE TV, the human rights activist criticized Nasir el-Rufai, the former governor of Kaduna State, for being included on the list of ministers that was recently made public to the Senate. On Thursday, President Tinubu sent 28 cabinet candidates to the Senate through his chief of staff and former House Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila. On the Senate floor, Senate President Godswill Akpabio read the names of ministerial nominees, including four former governors.
Festus Keyamo, a former minister of labour and employment, has cautioned that a coup d’état may not be the answer to contentious elections in Africa and has insisted that it is unacceptable to advocate a coup under any pretext. Keyamo asked everyone to categorically reject and denounce the coup in the Niger Republic, regardless of whether they were affiliated with the ruling party or the opposition. The former minister asserted that those who believe they have gained ground by equating the coup with their so-called narrative of a fraudulent election in Nigeria should be aware that they are making a…