The office of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday that Vladimir Putin would not be attending the BRICS economic summit in Johannesburg next month. As a result of this ruling, South Africa will not have to decide whether or not to comply with an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for the Russian leader. Despite having strongly hinted that it would not carry out the arrest order, South Africa is obligated by the treaty that established the ICC to arrest Putin. But Ramaphosa’s announcement with Putin on Wednesday means South Africa can sidestep the issue altogether.…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
Mr. Stephen Onoji, a member of the State Working Committee for the PDP in Kogi State, resigned from the party. Onoji served as the PDP Youth Leader for Kogi State until his resignation. Onoji thanked the party for the chance and the benefits he received while he was a member of the party in a letter dated Wednesday, July, 19th, 2023 and made available to the media. The letter was sent to the Ward Chairman of Odolu Ward 6, Odolu, in the Igalamela Odolu LGA. The opposition party has been in turmoil ever since Senator Dino Melaye was named the…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State has received Abdulrazaq Lawal’s letter of resignation as State Secretary. Prince Tunji Moronfoye, the party’s state publicity secretary, released a statement on Tuesday in Ilorin saying that Alhaji Lawal had resigned as the state party secretary and given personal reasons for his departure. The letter of resignation had been delivered to the state party chairman and made public. “We have been informed and have received Alhaji Razaq Lawal’s resignation letter as the party’s state secretary. We value his contributions and wish him success in the future,” Moronfoye remarked.
Reno Omokri, a former presidential adviser, has praised Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the last election, for strengthening democracy in Nigeria. Obi was formerly the governor of Anambra state. This was said by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader and Facebook user Omokri in a post celebrating Obi’s 62nd birthday. To celebrate Mr. Peter Obi’s 62nd birthday, he penned, “Happy Birthday!” During your time on Earth, you left an imprint that will never be erased. To give hope to millions of Nigerians, especially those who call themselves Obidients, is possibly your greatest accomplishment. You widened the political arena…
The substantive case sitting before an Abuja Federal High Court in the action of 2023 All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate Senator Aishatu Dahiru, commonly known as Binani, has been adjourned until July 24, 2023. On July 10, 2023, the court issued an interim order prohibiting INEC from proceeding with criminal charges against Hudu Ari, the suspended Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), awaiting the respondents’ opportunity to show cause why the application should not be granted. Since the defendants had not been served, the court could not consider the motion. The original summons that was served on the defendants in…
On the first day of Muharram 1445 AH, Wednesday, July 19, 2023, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State proclaimed a state holiday. In honor of this year’s Hijrah 1445, Makinde has proclaimed today a holiday. The Governor’s Chief of Staff, Segun Ogunwuyi, issued the announcement in a circular. Sulaimon Olanrewaju, the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, released the statement to the press. In his New Year’s message, the governor extended his best wishes to Muslims around the world. He also encouraged them to use the holiday to pray for the stability of the state and the nation as a whole.
Atiku Abubakar’s 2023 presidential campaign adviser Daniel Bwala has criticized the Federal Government for the recent increase in gas prices. Bwala complained that Nigerians are going through’shege’ again due to the unexpected increase in the price of gasoline. He questioned the logic behind making Nigerians pay the international market price for fuel but failing to pay them the international minimum wage. Bwala tweeted that when former President Muhammadu Buhari was spotted hiking near Daura, Katsina State, he issued a warning to the people of Nigeria. If Bwala is to be believed, then, “Are our workers paid the international minimum wage…
Musa Salihu Mubarak was the NNPP’s gubernatorial candidate for Kogi State in the upcoming election on November 11, however he was disqualified by the Federal High Court in Abuja for unlawful replacement. Mubarak was disqualified from running for governor of Kogi by Justice James Kolawole Omotosho on the grounds that his name had been falsely submitted to INEC as a candidate for the NNPP. On Tuesday, Justice Omotoso ruled that Hon. Hassan Abdullahi should once again serve as the party’s candidate for governor of Kogi State because he legitimately prevailed in the party’s primary election held on April 16, 2023,…
Bola Tinubu, the current president, met with his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, in the State House on Tuesday. The purpose of Jonathan’s visit, as Head of the ECOWAS Mediation Team to Mali, was to update the president on several continental problems, he told reporters following the meeting. ‘I came to brief the president on various continental and subcontinental entities,’ he explained. In addition to my role as chair of the West African Elders Forum, I also serve as an ECOWAS mediator for Mali. So, I talk to different presidents about issues that span both the continent and the subregion. On June…
Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, governor of Kano State, has authorized the appointments of fifteen additional Special Advisers. The governor’s chief press secretary, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, announced the nominations in a statement released on Tuesday. Review the complete set: The Special Adviser for Disaster Management is Retired Colonel Abubakar Usman Garin Malam Religious Affairs Special Advisor Malam Usamatu Salga Investment and Public-Private Partnership Advisor, Hon. Abduljabbar Muhammad Umar Solid Minerals Special Advisor, Hon. Aminu Abba Ibrahim Engineer Nura Hussain, Commercial Advisor Special Adviser on Cooperative Groups, Hon. Jamilu Abbas Public Relations Advisor for National and International Affairs, Hon. Muhammad Jamu…
In a matter of days, Governor Dapo Abiodun is expected to submit his list of commissioner nominees to the Ogun State House of Assembly, at which point he will presumably form his second government. The governor must submit the list to the legislature for approval by July 27 in order to formally swear in the new commissioners. The law now requires the President and governors to do this within 60 days of their inauguration, whereas in 2019 the governor waited almost seven months to have the luxury of time needed to scrutinize the nominations. On his last day in office,…
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has returned to Abuja after spending the weekend in Kenya for the African Union’s 5th Mid-Year Coordination Meeting. At 4:20 on Monday afternoon, his plane landed at the Presidential Wing of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, was among the crowd of government officials waiting to greet him at the airport. Femi Gbajabiamila, the President’s Chief of Staff, Hope Uzodinnma, the Governor of Imo, and Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the former Governor of Kano State, were the others. At the meeting, President Tinubu represented ECOWAS in his role…
Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Fintiri has honored a notable native son and former minister by naming a major roadway in Yola after Dr. Mahmud Tukur. Fintiri has decided to honor Mahmud Tukur, the brother of Bamangar Tukur, a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), by changing the name of Abuja Road in the Yola South Local Government Area to Dr. Mahmud Tukur Street. Dr. Mahmud Tukur, a renowned scholar and philanthropist, served as the first Vice Chancellor of Bayero University in Kano and as Minister of Commerce and Industry under former President Muhammadu Buhari’s military regime in…
Ademola Adeleke, the governor of Osun State, said he went into self-imposed exile in 2018 after being unfairly denied reelection. Adeleke complained that his mandate had been stolen through a rigged legal system, prompting him to go into self-imposed exile. The event took place on Sunday at Adeleke University in Ede, Osun State. The governor, according to a statement released by his spokesman Mallam Olawale Rasheed, said that going into self-imposed exile allowed him to avoid capture by his opponents. The governor also encouraged young people to prioritize their aspirations, saying that the single most important ingredient in realizing one’s…
Reno Omokri, a former advisor to former President Goodluck Jonathan, has spoken out against President Bola Tinubu’s plans to establish a state of emergency in the southeast. Omokri insisted that declaring a state of emergency would do more harm than good, and that it would be a huge PR win for IPOB (the Indigenous People of Biafra). He suggested that Tinubu establish a Southeast Development Commission and use the funds intended for sending troops into the area to instead fund the region’s rapid infrastructural development. On Monday, the social critic issued a message via his verified Twitter account, urging people…
According to a US official familiar with the matter, as reported by NBC News on Tuesday, a US soldier is said to have been captured by North Korea after crossing the border from South Korea. According to US officials, the incident is still “fluid,” and tensions are rising over North Korea’s nuclear programme as they gather information. Unauthorised US national who was on an orientation tour crossed the Military Demarcation Line into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), according to the American-led UN Command. They claimed in a tweet that they think the person is now being held in…
Alhaji Inuwa Bakari, the state’s ousted interim PDP chairman, must be immediately reinstated, according to an order from the Taraba State High Court in the state’s capital of Jalingo. The reinstated acting party chairman’s requests were all granted in the judgement that Justice Nuhu Adi presided over. Former state governor Arc. Darius Dickson Ishaku fired Bakari, and Alhaji Abubakar Bawa, who had served as Ishaku’s special adviser, took his position. Bakari sought the court to invalidate Bawa’s appointment since the party’s constitution’s due processes were not followed, as he did not agree with the previous governor’s choice. The judge ordered…
All Progressives Congress (APC) leader Barrister Sani Mohammed Takori bemoaned that internal disputes were to blame for the party’s Zamfara State chapter losing the governorship race. He insisted that the party was seriously fractured because things had gone wrong and the centre could no longer support it. Takori attributed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,’s victory over the party to a power struggle between previous governors Bello Mohammed Matawalle and Abdulaziz Yari. He claimed that the party’s National Secretariat made every effort to reconcile the two groups in order to help the party win all of the State’s elective seats. He…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) proceeded to call witnesses when the governorship election petition tribunal met in the state capital of Abeokuta on Monday. Several parallels and contradictions in the witnesses’ testimony have followed the proceedings. During cross-examination by the counsel for INEC, a witness from Ota named Mrs. Mulikat Yemi acknowledged similarities in her statement with that of another witness, Balogun Olanrewaju, including the same error and omission in paragraph 6 of their statements, and requested that the tribunal question her attorney for the repetition. Another witness, Thomas Abiodun, a photographer from Iyesi-Ota in Ado Odo Ota Local Government,…
According to the Labour Party (LP), if President Bola Tinubu is dismissed from office by the court, there won’t be anarchy in Nigeria. On the basis that he did not receive 25% of the votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Tinubu had urged the presidential election tribunal to reject the challenge filed by LP trying to overturn his victory in the general elections of 2023. In a closing written statement to the tribunal, Tinubu asserted that the FCT is the 37th state for election reasons through his attorney, Wole Olanipekun. Any other reading, in the president’s words, “would…