INEC has asked the Enugu Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal to base its decision on the certified true copies of BVAS data tendered by the Labour Party candidate for governor on March 18. This data pertains to allegations of overvoting in the Nkanu East Local Government Area. In response to the Tribunal’s Saturday subpoena, INEC requested that the copies the commission hadavailed Labour Party and which have been tendered before the court be accepted as valid evidence, as INEC had failed to bring some of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation Systems (BiVAS) machines used for the Owoh and Ugbawka areas in Nkanu…
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The appointment of Permanent Secretaries in the state civil service will going forward be based on a competency exam, according to Babagan Zulum, governor of Borno State. During yesterday’s ceremony to swear in the newly appointed Secretary to the State Government, three Special Advisers, and a Permanent Secretary, the Governor made this statement. The swearing-in of the appointees, according to Zulum, was one of the crucial actions taken to carry out his administration’s program. He also noted that the SSG’s office serves as the hub for processing all government business, with all government transactions being directed there. For the necessary…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) faction leader Simon Ekpa has been advised not to go through with preparations to hold the sit-at-home protest in Lagos State by the Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba land, Iba Gani Adams. Ekpa has stated that Lagos State would participate in the sit-at-home protest currently being carried out in the South East. He claims that the stay-at-home protest is a component of efforts to demand Nnamdi Kanu’s release. However, in response to Ekpa’s preparations, Gani Adams warned the ethnic propagandist based in Finland to cease from “repeating the mistake of the 1970s” and abandon the…
The governor of Kaduna State, Uba Sani, has informed the corps members that the state’s security plans and budget sufficiently address their security and wellbeing. The Governor affirmed that his administration had unflinching faith in the program during the swearing-in ceremony of the Corps members on Friday. The Governor was represented by Stephen Joseph, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Human Services and Social Development. Governor Sani stated that his administration is steadfastly dedicated to creating the enabling environment required to maintain the scheme’s viability and guarantee the welfare and safety of corps members. He maintained that the state places a…
The Kano State Government has been ordered by a high court not to proceed with the planned demolition of homes along BUK Road in the state’s Gwale Local Government. The ex parte motion application, filed on July 4 by Ibrahim Adamu, Counsel to the Plaintiffs on behalf of Malam Bashir Abdullahi and 19 other parties, was approved by the court. The Kano State Bureau for Land Management, Kano Urban Planning and Development, the State Attorney General, and Governor Abba Yusuf are listed as respondents in the lawsuit, according to NAN. In order to prevent the respondents from intruding on the…
Socio-political analyst Shehu Sani has claimed that Nigeria cannot have food security while farmers are being murdered by terrorists. He bemoaned the fact that the country cannot have food security when criminals compel rural communities to pay levies. In a tweet, Sani stated: “Food security cannot exist in a nation when farmers are murdered by terrorists and rural communities are compelled to pay bandit levies. The falsehood surrounding those rice pyramids and the folly of sealing the land borders were revealed by the proclamation of an emergency on food security. Remember how President Bola Tinubu declared a food emergency? This…
Chinese businesses have expressed interest in making investments in Afghanistan as part of the Belt and Road Initiative recently, but they face difficulties because of terrorism and instability, according to Voice of America (VOA). In its position paper on Afghanistan, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs promised to “do its best” to aid in the country’s development and rehabilitation. One of the centerpieces of the Belt and Road Initiative, which Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled in 2013, is the USD 62 billion CPEC connectivity project. According to VOA, the plan consists of a number of global infrastructure investments and initiatives with…
The All Progressives Congress (APC)’s elected female national offices and zonal women leaders have expressed their displeasure with Betta Edu, the party’s national women leader, in what appears to be a developing crisis. This was revealed on Saturday in a letter to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from Hon. Omorede Osifo, the APC’s deputy national treasurer, and eight other female leaders. Recall that two days earlier, Edu and APC leaders paid Tinubu a visit at the Presidential Villa. Edu has faced a unanimous vote of no confidence from the APC-elected women executives and zonal leaders, who have also distanced themselves from…
Labour Party, LP member Peter Obi has denounced what he called a “emerging pattern” of false media reporting based on interviews and press statements he never gave. Obi expressed sorrow at how far the politics of the country have descended, making media manipulation a lucrative business. The LP presidential contender stated he will nonetheless keep discussing current national concerns with reputable news and media organizations. The former governor of Anambra State said in a statement posted on his verified Twitter account on Saturday that the Obidient Movement’s primary goal of building a new Nigeria would remain their major focus and…
According to Mr. Julius Abure, the Labour Party’s national chairman, the party is strategically positioned to win the governorship election for Edo State in 2024. When Mr. Stephen Osemwegie, a party candidate for governor, paid a formal visit to the party headquarters in Abuja, Abure made this statement. He declared that the party was dedicated to running a qualified candidate and that it would support any contender who would promote the advancement of the Edo people. He claimed that because the party’s primary elections will be open, fair, and legitimate, a level playing field was guaranteed. There is no denying…
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has been charged with plotting to expel Rauf Aregbesola, the previous interior minister, from the organization. The claims were made in a statement released on Thursday by Abosede Oluwaseun, a former head of the Osun APC’s breakaway youth group. Oluwaseun also expressed concern over the possibility of Aregbesola’s suspension. “The plot is being orchestrated by ousted former governor Gboyega Oyetola and five of his loyalists, among whom is a Senator and former Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly who lost their re-election,” he claimed. According to reliable sources,…
Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma raised the state’s minimum pay for employees to N40,000. To lessen the pain from the withdrawal of the fuel subsidy, Uzodinma raised the minimum wage. This information was revealed by the governor on Saturday in Owerri, the state capital, during a meeting with important stakeholders. He also announced free transportation and healthcare, as well as a N5 billion revolving loan for farmers. The salary and pay of state employees would be immediately reviewed in the upward direction, according to Uzodinma. This resolution increases the minimum salary to N40,000 with optional consequential changes. At least your…
The Governor of Kebbi and Chairman of the Palliative Committee on Subsidy reduction, Dr. Nasir Idris, informed Nigerians that measures were being taken to mitigate the consequences of the subsidy reduction. Idris provided the reassurance during the committee’s meeting on Saturday in Abuja. His spokesperson, Ahmed Idris, said this in a statement. “The group discussed potential strategies to mitigate the effects of subsidy reduction, and Nigerians would soon begin to profit from this. All Nigerians must just be patient, supportive, and cooperative in order for the committee to accomplish the goals and objectives that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu put forth…
In the state governorship election petition tribunal, former governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle has brought the 19th witness to support his complaint against governor Dauda Lawal-Dare. However, the case has been postponed until July 19, 2023. Dare of the Peoples Democratic Party was declared the election’s victor by the tribunal after Matawalle, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, filed a complaint. The previous governor requested that the tribunal declare him the winner, asserting that he received the majority of the valid votes cast, and claimed that the March 18, 2023 election was marred by irregularities. Additionally, he requested that the…
Ademola Adeleke, the governor of Osun, has urged bank CEOs to reopen closed branches in the state’s municipalities. The Governor gave the banks reassurance that a new Sheriff had arrived. Infostride News recalls that several bank branches in the state closed their doors due to insecurity after the July 16, 2022 gubernatorial election. Urban Alert, a civil society organization, has also expressed concern in 2022 about the closure of many bank branches in the state. Former Governor Adegboyega Oyetola’s lack of political will to address the issue was the cause of the development, according to Urban Alert. The group asserted…
Alhassan Sule Mamudo, the state’s secretary of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, received condolences from Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni on the loss of his wife. Buni, speaking through his media assistant Mamman Mohammed on Saturday, termed the death as a significant loss for the family and the union but comforted the grieving by saying that this was Almighty Allah’s decision. He prayed for the departed person’s soul to find eternal peace in Aljannatur Firdaus. “May Allah (SWT) forgive her mistakes and give her and her family the strength to endure the tremendous loss, amin,” The governor prayed.
Putin’s comments add to the bizarre turn of events that have followed the Wagner private military company’s failed uprising last month, which posed the greatest threat to Putin’s 23-year rule amid the war in Ukraine. When it comes to private military companies, the law is silent. Putin said this of the Wagner squad late Thursday to a Russian publication. Putin gave his account of a June 29 event in the Kremlin where 35 Wagner commanders, including the group’s chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, were present to Kommersant. Only five days had passed since Prigozhin and his forces had mounted a spectacular but…
Judgment on the appeal filed by the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, to have President Bola Ahmed Tinubu disqualified from the presidential election held on February 25 due to his unlawful candidacy was reserved by the Presidential Election appeal Court on Friday. After the parties adopted their closing briefs, in which they formally asked the court to do one of several things, the hearing was postponed indefinitely. Tinubu’s Vice Presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, is being challenged by APM in court for allegedly allowing himself to be nominated twice for various seats. After one Kabiru Masari, the initial Vice Presidential candidate to…
Uchenna Onyeizu, the Labour Party’s candidate in the Abia South Senate race on February 25, has filed his appeal at the Court of Appeal in Owerri, asking to be proclaimed the winner of the poll. Onyeizu, the LP candidate, claimed that he won the election and defeated Senator Abaribe of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in a case filed on July 13 at the Owerri Division of the Appellate Court. Panel 1 of the National Assembly election petitions tribunal in Umuahia had previously dismissed his petition on technicalities rather than considering the merits of his argument, which he found…
Sen. Rochas Okorocha was cleared of all corruption accusations brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by Justice Yusuf Halilu of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). After being accused of fraud and corruption while serving as governor of Imo State from 2011 to 2019, Okorocha has now been acquitted of all charges three times. On Friday, Justice Halilu dismissed the anti-graft agency’s claims against the ex-governor as an abuse of judicial proceedings and exonerated him from the charge. The court found that it was improper for the EFCC to file duplicate charges…