The former Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has been advised to apologise for allegedly working against President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC). The advice was given by a former Commissioner for Information and Strategy who served in Aregbesola’a first term as governor of Osun State, Sunday Akere, on Monday in Osogbo. The Osun APC chieftain was speaking in reaction to statements credited to Aregbesola on Sunday at a reception organised in his honour by the concerned Muslim scholars and clerics in the South-West of Nigeria in Oyo town, Oyo State. At the reception, Aregbesola had said he…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo said the seven members of the State Working Committee who resigned did so because they were afraid of an indictment. The former executive members of the chapter defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) after dumping the PDP on Sunday. They include Deputy Chairman Martin Ejiogu; Vice Chairman Chibuisi Obido; Secretary Ray Emeana; Collins Opurozor, Publicity Secretary; Youth Leader Greg Nwadike; Woman Leader; Maria Mbakwe, and Treasurer, Josiah Eze. Reacting, Financial Secretary Bede Ejimmadu said a report implicated them for alleged mismanagement of N1.4 billion earmarked for the 2023 presidential campaign. Ejimmadu, alongside…
The Enugu State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, on Tuesday, dismissed the petition filed by Uche Nnaji of the All Progressives Congress, APC, against Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, during the March 18 elections. Nnaji filed the case against Mbah, Hon Barr Chijioke Edeoga of the Labour Party and Frank Nweke of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA. The APC candidate had petitioned the court alleging that the candidates of the three other political parties were not qualified to contest the March 18 election. However, in a ruling delivered by its chairman, Justice K. M.…
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and his party will on Thursday, June 22 close their case in their joint petition challenging the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election. The petitioners, according to a pre-hearing report were supposed to close their case on Tuesday but their lead counsel, Chief Chris Uche (SAN) brought to the notice of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that they lost two days out of the days allotted to them and asked that the two days be returned. The petitioners, who told…
Some unknown gunmen attacked the convoy of Imo West Senator, Rochas Okorocha. Okorocha’s convoy was attacked at the Ihube community on the Okigwe-Enugu expressway on Friday, leaving one policeman dead. The former Imo State governor was en route to the burial ceremony of a former Imo State governor, Ihedioha Ohakim, when he was attacked. He disclosed this on Sunday at Amaimo in the Ikeduru Local Government Area of the state. Okorocha said it was after he had finished attending the funeral ceremony at Mbaise and the convoy had dropped him at his Spilbat mansion in Owerri and was heading back…
Mr Simon Lalong, the immediate past governor of Plateau, has called on Nigerians to pray for the state to overcome its current security challenges. Lalong made the call at a dinner organised in his honour by the 1990 set of the Faculty of Law, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. Chairman of the set, Sylvanus Tahir, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), and his set put together the event, which was held on Sunday night in Abuja. The ex-governor, who decried the wanton killings and destruction of properties in the state, said there was a need for Nigerians to collectively pray…
Tinubu sacks all Service Chiefs, Advisers, Comptroller General of Customs, names replacementsPublished on June 19, 2023By Williams Anuku President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the immediate retirement of all Service Chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police, advisers, Comptroller-General of Customs from service as well as their replacements with immediate effect. A statement by Willie Bassey Director, Information, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and obtained by Infostride News stated on Monday thus; It named the newly appointed Officers as S/N NAME APPOINTMENTS 1 Mallam Nuhu Ribadu National Security Adviser 2 Maj. Gen. C.G Musa Chief of…
President Bola Tinubu has pledged to give priority attention to the health and safety of Nigerians, noting that for any country to develop, the health of its people, particularly the workforce, is critical. The President spoke when he received the co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr Bill Gates, and the President of the Aliko Dangote Foundation, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, on Monday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. While saluting the courage and commitment of Bill Gates to working for humanity, he commended the partnership with the Aliko Dangote Foundation. The President said his administration would do all that…
The Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara has pleaded with his predecessor, Nyesom Wike not to stay away from him even if he crosses over to the other side of the political divide. Fubara said this during a thanksgiving reception for Wike on Sunday at his private residence on Ada-George Road. “While we are seeing signs that it’s like you want to go over to the other side with everybody wishing that, please don’t be too far from me because I know that the sharks, the tigers are really around looking for what to hurt. “So, being around would continue…
Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has said he will continue fighting for the rule of law in the country, asserting that he will neither strike a deal nor surrender even if the government puts him in jail. Addressing the nation via YouTube on Sunday evening, Khan said his fight is for the better future of his country and its people. “I will neither make a deal nor surrender even if they put me in jail. I will continue fighting for the rule of law and a better future for the people of my country, Khan said.
Seven members of the State Working Committee (SWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo have joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) just 24 hours after quitting the party. The freshly decamped PDP members, led by its deputy chairman, Martin Ejiogu, also declared that they would be supporting the November 11 reelection of Governor Hope Uzodimma. DAILY POST had earlier reported that the seven PDP officials resigned from their various positions and dumped the party on the claim that there was no indication that Senator Anyanwu, the party’s candidate, was serious about running for governor in November. The former…
The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Monday struck out the vote buying allegation, levelled against Governor Dapo Abiodun and the All Progressives Congress (APC) by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate, Ladi Adebutu. Adebutu had dragged Governor Abiodun and the APC to the tribunal challenging their declaration as the winner of the 18, March 2023 governorship election in the state. But the governor’s lawyers, led by Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), in their defence to the petition, made weighty allegations backed up with police report, establishing that Adebutu and the PDP engaged in…
Three Presiding Officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday told the Presidential Election Petition Court ( PEPC) that the refusal of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) to transmit the presidential election results on election day frustrated their jobs. The Officers admitted that the results of the Senate and the House of Representatives election were transmitted unhindered and that the problems of technical hitches arose at the point of transmitting only the presidential poll results. Testifying on Subpoena at the ongoing hearing of petitions challenging the outcome of the February 25 presidential election, the three witnesses admitted…
Former Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, on Sunday, disclosed that he was poisoned at the secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 2018. Wike said the poison affected his liver and kidneys, adding that it almost killed him but for God’s intervention. He disclosed this during a special Thanksgiving service organised by his family at the St. Peters Deanery, Rumuepirikom, Obio-Akpor area of the state. The former governor said he was flown to Beirut at midnight, where doctors informed him that his liver and kidneys were gone. According to wike, after attending to him, the doctors informed him…
Former Nigeria president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has claimed that the founders of Boko Haram told him that poverty and unemployment drove them into insurgency. Obasanjo also warned that the 20 million out-of-school children in the country were a breeding ground for more “Boko Haram members of the future”. He stated these while speaking at the launch of a book titled, ‘Pillars of Statecraft: Nation-building in a changing world’ written by his daughter, Dr Kofo Obasanjo-Blackshire, in Lagos. “During the early days of Boko Haram, when the man who started the movement was said to have been killed, I said I wanted…
Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has claimed that some state governors were involved in his failed third-term ambition. In 2006, a bill to amend the 1999 Constitution and extend term limits by another four years failed to sail through the National Assembly. Ever since the fiasco, Obasanjo has consistently denied that he tried to extend his stay in office beyond 2007, saying some governors were behind it all. In an interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo, Obasanjo spoke about his time in office and his administration’s stance on anti-corruption. On his failed third term bid, he said: “The governors,…
A member of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Advisory Council, Prof Gregory Ibe, has enjoined President Ahmed Bola Tinubu to give the Igbos a sense of belonging in his administration through appointments into critical national positions. This, he said, would dispel the perceived sense of imbalance in the minds of the Igbos concerning the scheme of things in Nigeria. Ibe, who made this call while speaking on recent events in the country, advised that the composition of both elected and appointed officials at the federal level should reflect and encourage religious and tribal equilibrium for the nation’s progress. The Ohanaeze chieftain, who earlier…
A popular Nigerian politician and elder statesman, Tanko Yakassai, said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is best for Nigeria at this time and moment. His statement countered former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s recent comment that Peter Obi of the Labour Party remained a better presidential candidate Nigeria needed. Yakasai, according to NAN, after meeting with President Tinubu recently, said that what Nigeria required at this time was a man with a track record of good governance and a well-versed politician to get it out of the woods. He said that with the precedent set in Lagos State when Tinubu was the governor…
The Abia State Government has denied reports that the former administration of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu left N24 billion in the state’s accounts, describing the reports as false. Rather, the state government said the past administration left a whopping N191 billion in debt for Otti to grapple with. The Special Adviser to Governor Alex Otti on Finance, Mike Akpara, made this disclosure in a statement in Umuahia . Akpara said that the $200 million and $50 million the past administration claimed it left for the new administration were loans they were pursuing which had yet to crystalise. Akpara said that the…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang in Beijing, in the highest-level trip by a US official to China in nearly five years, Al Jazeera reported, adding, The visit aims to stabilise ties between the two powers, Al Jazeera reported. Blinken’s two-day trip to Beijing comes during the frosty bilateral ties and follows the discovery of a suspected spy balloon above the US in February that caused him to delay the trip which was planned for the same month. China and US have expressed their hopes of improving communication although they have minimised the expectations…