Residents of Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State, have continued to respond to the socioeconomic difficulties brought on by the elimination of fuel subsidies nationwide. While some locals applauded the federal government for eliminating the fuel subsidy, others criticized the execution as being ill-timed and poorly thought out. Murtala Saheed Olayinka, the NLC chapter chairman for Kwara State, stated that “the government had no choice but to do what it did as it would be difficult for it to carry out proper and effective governance without it. The labour leader continued, “A set of the cabal were feasting fat on…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
Ademola Adeleke, the governor of Osun State, has named 30 Special Advisers. According to Infostride News, the Governor Adeleke had requested the House of Assembly confirm 25 Special Advisers. In addition to the 25 previously approved Special Advisers, the Governor has obtained clearance for five more Special Advisers, bringing the total to 30, according to a statement signed by his spokeswoman, Olawale Rasheed. Ten of the projected 30 advisers are from the ranks of the government, according to the announcement. Here are the recently appointed Special Advisers: Azeez Badmus, Mosudi Yakubu, Femi Carena, Stephen Olaniran Akanfe Atidade, Dr Adekunle Akindele,…
The High Court of Akwa Ibom State in Uyo has ruled that women are entitled to inherit their father’s property. The court also ruled in favor of the nieces, awarding them N20 million, against Mr. Sampson Silas Udoh, who had denied his late brother’s daughters access to their inheritance. Udoh, a native of Itiam Etoi in the Uyo Local Government Area, was fined N20 million by the sitting court, Justice Ntong Ntong, for violating the rights of his two nieces by preventing them from receiving their late father’s property. On August 16, 2022, Mr. Williams Ubetem filed a lawsuit against…
After Russia terminated a pact that allowed the shipments, the agriculture ministers of the European Union gathered on Tuesday to examine other means of transporting grain important to global food security out of Ukraine. At the same time, they want to ensure that farmers in nations neighboring the war-torn nation may maintain their current incomes. Since Russia cut off the wartime pact that allowed grain to flow from Ukraine to nations in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, where famine is a growing danger and high food prices have pushed more people into poverty, the ministers convened in Brussels for…
On Monday, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo said that most Nigerian politicians are hollow, claiming that they are ill-equipped to handle the responsibilities of their posts. As Obasanjo put it, “You will weep for our nation over their level of emptiness as far as development issues are concerned.” The wise man admitted that he backs moderate change, since a complete overhaul would be counterproductive. Obasanjo has tasked the newly elected leaders of Nigeria with removing the country’s obstacles to growth, but he has expressed disappointment that so few of them are actually willing to do so. At the Abuja book launch for…
At the Kano State Election Petition Tribunal, the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) ended its case without presenting any witnesses in response to a petition filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC). In its final submission to the tribunal, the NNPP’s legal team, led by Barrister Tijjani Yahya, informed the judges that the party no longer has any witnesses to submit. The petitioner, the All Progressives Congress (APC), disagrees with the results of the March 18, 2023 election and INEC’s declaration of Abba Kabir-Yusuf of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) as the victor. INEC, Governor Abba Kabir-Yusuf, and the…
Primate Elijah Ayodele, leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, said the forces behind the election results will stand solidly against a repetition of the 2023 presidential election. Primate Ayodele warned that the All Progressives Congress (APC) would be exposed by leaks in the court if they were not contained. According to him, the APC is closely watching the proceedings at the electoral tribunal to make sure nothing is done to help the opposition win. Ayodele’s Media Aide, Oluwatosin Osho, released a statement in which he said, “If the tribunal wants to be fair, the best is to call for a…
During Monday’s cross-examination of witnesses at the current governorship election tribunal in Kaduna, a witness stated that there was over-voting by 100 votes in his polling unit. As Haruna Abubakar testified before Justice Victor Oviawe’s panel, using his deposition as evidence, 700 voters were registered, but 800 ballots were counted in the end. A businessman named Abubakar said in court that he waited around for the election results after casting his ballot, but that, contrary to what is required by the Electoral Act, he was never informed of the outcome. The witness said “no” when asked by INEC’s counsel, Alhassan…
Both of Kano State’s former commissioners from the previous administration of Abdullahi Ganduje have recently gone away. Alhassan Muhammad Dawaki, the commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, and Barrister Zubaida Damakka, the commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, both passed away on Friday. A statement made by the Chief Press Secretary to the Deputy Governor, Ibrahim Garba Shu’aibu, said that Alhassan Muhammad Dawaki, 79, passed away after a brief illness. He was survived by his wives and 15 children. Barrister Zubaida Damakka passed away in Abuja following a brief illness, according to Abubakar Aminu Ibrahim, a former Senior Special…
Senator Samuel Anyanwu, the PDP candidate for governor of Imo State in the next election on November 11, 2023, claims to know how to end the state’s security crisis. Additionally, he stated that he, his running mate, and their entire team are prepared to replace the current state government. While in the Oguta local government area of the state, Anyanwu made this comment to local party leaders and members. He reassured them, “Have no fear. Our forces are ready for battle. If everyone does their part, our votes will be safe and we will not be stopped. God has chosen…
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), currently in prison, has reiterated his call for the suspension of regular sit-ins in the country’s southeast. Kanu issued a statement through his attorney Mike Ozekhome, SAN in a video that was seen by the press. On Monday, Dan Nwomeh, Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State’s Senior Special Assistant, Mainstream Media, posted the video on his Twitter account. Ozekhome reports that Kanu disavowed the sit-in, saying he could not simultaneously fight for his people and shut down their economy. He lamented that the people’s mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being had been…
African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has said that the government of President Bola Tinubu is planning to unleash social and economic terror on Nigerians. On Monday, Sowore sent a status update to his verified Twitter account complaining about the rising expense of living in Nigeria. He noted that tuition at some schools had increased by 500%, petrol prices had quadrupled, and many Nigerians could no longer afford to eat. The social critic claimed the government was ready to inflict social and economic terror on Nigerians and promised swift retribution. Monday morning and the roads are hungry and…
Hajiya Aishatu Yan Guru Bungudu Nahuche, a woman from Zamfara, was honoured by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for her integrity after she returned $80,000 (about N60 million) that she had found while undertaking the 2023 pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. The president was pleased to be informed of the incident and directed the National Hajj Commission to organise a national press conference with the lady for record-keeping, as reported by Alhaji Musa Mallaha, chairman of the Zamfara State Hajj Committee, during a press briefing in his office. The lady had already been transported back to her native state in Nigeria when…
According to a media source on Saturday, the Afghan Taliban have encouraged the Pakistani government to start new negotiations with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan terror organization, which is outlawed. A top Afghan Taliban leader has reportedly advised Islamabad to choose peace over conflict. The Express Tribune daily said that Pakistan’s most recent efforts to persuade Kabul to take action against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) failed to garner traction. This week, Pakistan sent a special envoy on a three-day mission to Kabul to make it clear that the interim Taliban administration in Afghanistan must take serious action against the TTP, which is…
Some PDP supporters from the state’s Idanre Local Government Area have been welcomed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State. Members of the Social Democratic Party, or SDP, also defected to the ruling party in the same area. The main driving force behind the defectors’ choice to join the APC was the underwhelming showing by their various former parties in the most recent general election. They claim that their search for a new political platform was prompted by their discontent with the incapacity of their prior parties to successfully run their affairs. The State Chairman of the APC,…
Alhaji Abubakar Bawa, the embattled leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Taraba State, announced that he has appealed the most recent ruling of the State High Court. According to Infostride News, Justice Nuhu Adi, the presiding justice of the State High Court, recently removed Bawa from his position on the grounds that his nomination as the party’s substantive chairman was “unconstitutional.” Bawa said on Sunday in Jalingo, the state capital, that he had filed an appeal with the Court of Appeal of Nigeria, Yola Judicial Division, over the ruling. His notice of appeal includes the following sentence: “That…
Dr. Kachi Nwoga, candidate for governor of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), has spoken out against the Imo State government’s decision to charge opposition parties N54 million to put up campaign billboards before the election on November 11. On Monday, Nwoga met with a small group of journalists in Abuja, where he expressed his frustration that the state’s ruling party did not give its political opponents any room to operate. It was an immoral and repulsive fee, he said. The candidate for governor said, “The opposition is not permitted to breathe. If I wanted to put up a billboard right…
Abdulkarim Abdussalam Zaura of the All Progressives Congress (APC) lost his case against Rufai Sani Hanga of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) because he could not prove that the NNPP had violated the Electoral Act of 2022. Zaura brought the complaint because he believed that Ibrahim Shekarau, a former senator from Kano Central and former governor of Kano, should have been the NNPP candidate instead of Hanga. However, Justice I.P. Chima ruled that the NNPP had acted within the electoral act’s 14-day limit by replacing Shakarau with Hanga, hence the lawsuit was thrown out. The judge also ordered the…
The current administration has guaranteed constitutional roles for traditional rulers. On Monday, while hosting the royal fathers of the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Senate President Godswill Akpabio made the announcement and noted that this will be made possible through a constitutional modification. The traditional rulers had asked for such an assurance, stressing the significance of the royal fathers’ duties in governance generally and in security issues in particular. Having grown up in a constitutional democracy, Akpabio remarked, “Your request for constitutional role in governance is not strange to us.” One of the warrant officers…
Prof. Ben Ayade, a former governor of Cross River State, has argued that the election of Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe as senator for Cross River North should be nullified before the Election Petition Tribunal in Calabar. To back up his demand, Ayade submitted data from 310 polling locations in which he claimed electoral inconsistencies occurred during the election on February 25, 2023. The petition, with the case number EPT/CR/SEN/02/2023, was heard by the tribunal on Monday. The tribunal is presided over by Justice M. A. Sambo and includes Justices A. C. Akabua and J. Zululu. Ayade is represented by Mike Ozekhome,…