Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun has begun providing citizens with temporary relief from the effects of the recent elimination of gasoline subsidies. According to Infostride News, the Ogun State Government has stated that it has received 30,000 bags of rice from the Federal Government in an effort to alleviate the suffering of the Nigerian people. While beginning distribution in Abeokuta, Governor Abiodun announced that the 50-kg bags of rice will be re-bagged into 10-kg bags. According to Abiodun, this will enable the administration to communicate with 300,000 households in 5,400 voting locations across the state. According to him, his deputy…
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The distribution of sacks of food to citizens of Kano State has been initiated by Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf. He said that over 1060 individuals will be helped by the gesture, and that in addition to rice, millet, and corn, additional food products would also be handed to the needy. Governor Yusuf insisted that the government had taken the necessary steps to distribute the food products fairly by forming a number of committees. During the Kano launch of the agricultural intervention programme, he made the announcement. He claims the move was made to ease the financial blow of ending fuel…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) called for a two-day strike notice after the federal government did nothing to address the difficulties caused by the removal of the fuel subsidy. Comrade Gabriel Amari, chairman of the State NLC, made the news in an interview with the press on Monday. Representatives for the workers say the federal government has stopped negotiating with them and is disregarding previous agreements. Worker unions in Nigeria protested what they viewed as President Bola Tinubu’s anti-people policies on August 2. According to Amari, the plight of Nigerian workers has worsened immeasurably since the federal government eliminated the…
Publicity Secretary for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State, Prince Tunji Moronfoye, has resigned. What’s Happened Consists of a letter dated April 9, 2023, sent to Babatunde Muhammed, the party’s state chairman. With this letter, Prince Tunji announced his resignation as state publicity secretary of the party and a member of the State Working Committee (SWC). He explained that he had to make the choice for himself and that he harbored no ill will toward the PDP or its leadership. The rest of his time in office was spent working with the SWC, for which he had “nothing…
Sunday Karimi’s election as senator for the Kogi West senatorial district was validated by the Election Petition Tribunal in Lokoja. After reviewing the petition, the tribunal upheld Senator Karimi’s election and dismissed the petitioner’s arguments as without merit and utterly without foundation. The tribunal ruled that the majority of valid votes cast in the election were for the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Karimi, and it fined the People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) complainant, T.J. Yusuf, N150,000. Infostride News readers may remember that in 2023, Yusuf accused the ruling APC of manipulating the senatorial election in Kogi West by claiming that…
US President Joe Biden is “disappointed” that Chinese President Xi Jinping will not be attending the G20 Summit in New Delhi this week, but is still looking forward to his trip to India. The White House announced on Friday that President Joe Biden would travel to India on September 7 for participation in the G20 Summit and hold a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 8 on the margins of the historic conference. On September 9 and 10, 2018, India will host the annual summit of the G20 in New Delhi as the group’s current president. On…
Nigerians can count on President Bola Tinubu to follow through on his vow to radically alter the country’s economic landscape. While hosting a solidarity visit from the Tinubu Support Organisation (TSO) to the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Tinubu made the promise. Chief Frank Ebere-Njoku, the group’s National Spokesperson, said as much in a statement released on Monday, as reported by NAN. Tinubu, in his address, praised TSO for sticking to his mission and emphasized that Nigeria was on the road to recovery. The president has faith in his cabinet colleagues to pull the country out of its current economic crisis.…
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has been plagued by a leadership crisis, and on Sunday the party’s new leadership under Dr. Agbo Gilbert Major decided to investigate the possible mismanagement of over N1 billion raised from the sale of forms to aspirants in the 2023 general elections. While outlining its plans to restructure its structures at all levels nationally in the coming days and weeks, the new leadership also called for written complaints from unhappy candidates who were shortchanged after paying for forms into the party’s account. Acting National Publicity Secretary Abdulsalam Abdulrasaq released a statement to the media…
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal finally set the date for ruling on the three petitions contesting the proclamation of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election to be this coming Wednesday, September 6, ending two weeks of speculation. The date was announced on Monday by Umar Mohammed Bangari, chief registrar of the Court of Appeal. Bangari, whose court is hosting the Tribunal, has stated that all necessary measures have been taken to ensure that the verdicts in the three petitions are delivered without delay. Abubakar Atiku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi of the…
On Monday, the Taraba State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal reserved judgment on a petition filed by Professor Sani M. Yahya, candidate for the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), challenging the 2023 gubernatorial victory of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Governor Agbu Kefas. Yahya is attempting to have the election he claims was tainted by irregularities thrown out of court. Shortly after the suit’s parties adopted their last written addresses, the tribunal reserved decision. The tribunal’s chairman, Justice G.A. Sunmonu, has promised to notify the parties as soon as a date is fixed for delivering a verdict. Barrister Ibrahim Ishaku, lead…
On Sunday, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, leader of a group inside Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the largest Igbo socio-cultural organization, said that Nigeria would not face a military incursion if the North did not approve of such action. As a warning to President Bola Tinubu, the group made the accusation. Ohanaeze forewarned Tinubu that the recent coup waves in some Francophone African countries are warnings over the continual declarations of fraudulent election results in Africa, bad governments, lack of respect for the constitution by political elites, and the imposition of geriatric African Presidents by the West. “Northern leadership and political leaders are dissatisfied with…
The former head of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Lauretta Onochie, has disputed rumors that she was evicted from a London flat. On Saturday, word spread that Onochie’s family had disowned her after she caused embarrassment. On Sunday, though, Onochie responded by saying she was not, in fact, stuck. She said her cousin, whom she was housing at the time, had tried to steal her house, but that she had successfully fought him off. What a battle, I recovered my home,” she tweeted. My second cousin once removed, Victor Ashiedu Fejokwu, and his wife, Ruth Emereze, were destitute and…
On Saturday, IPOB (Indigenous People of Biafra) declared that releasing Nigeria’s leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was the only option for the country’s survival. IPOB said this as it criticized the Save Nigeria Movement (SNM) for attacking House ad hoc Committee Chairman Obinna Aguocha for his comments about Kanu. After the ad hoc committee finished its inquiry, Obinna Aguocha, a Nigerian lawmaker, demanded that Kanu be released from solitary incarceration without any conditions. After lengthy debate in the chambers about the state of security in Nigeria, particularly in the Southeast, the chairman of the ad hoc Committee concluded that releasing Kanu was…
At the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu will leave Abuja on Monday for the G-20 Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi, India. This was announced on Sunday by President Trump’s media adviser, Ajuri Ngelale. The President will also take part in the Nigeria-India Presidential Roundtable and the Nigeria-India Business Conference, both of which will take place on the sidelines of the summit. The CEO roundtable will feature prominent businesses and government officials from both Nigeria and India. According to Ajuri’s statement, Tinubu plans to use this forum to drum up FDI in Nigeria’s main labor-intensive…
Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s ex-president, claims his government cleaned the country of corruption. According to Buhari, the fraudulent plots against Nigeria’s economy were foiled thanks to his administration. To address the claims made by former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adokie, regarding Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID), the Paris Club, and the Ajaokuta steel plant, he released a statement through his spokesman, Garba Shehu. According to the ex-president, the scandals uncovered by Adokie date back to a government in which the ex-AG served. Buhari emphasized that the contract and incidental judgment in the P&ID were inherited…
The Motor Vehicle Administration of the U.S. state of Maryland now offers drivers’ permit tests, vehicle registration, and study materials in Yoruba. Yorùbá was one of the largest non-English languages spoken in the state, therefore it was added based on the most recent data from the United States Census. The Yoruba language test for the Maryland learner’s permit will be available beginning in September. A breakthrough that is not even accessible in Nigeria, home to the highest number of native Yoruba speakers. The announcement is one of many new programs being launched around the state to accommodate the state’s rapidly…
To better represent the state’s population and its most marginalized members, the Forum of Civil Society Organizations in Akwa Ibom State, also known as the Guild of Community Development Advocates, has requested that Governor Umo Eno reconsider the membership of the palliative committee. On Sunday, the group expressed regret that the key target segments of society, including youths, women, and persons with disabilities (PWDs), “who are disproportionately affected by the subsidy removal,” were not represented in the newly constituted committee. The statement was endorsed by the forum’s chairman, Harry Udoh, and the secretary, Dr. Nsekpong Udoh. The conference advised the…
There will be no military coup in Nigeria, Primate Elijah Ayodele, leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, has informed the federal government, but more political coups are to be expected. Primate Ayodele said in a statement sent by his media aide, Osho Oluwatosin, that a military coup in the country was futile since God had canceled it. He predicted that a military coup would be forgotten over time but that a revolution would be remembered forever. Ayodele said that the revolution might be viewed as a political coup, in which voters will remove from power anyone who fails to deliver…
Abdullahi Ganduje, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), claims he will receive 99 percent of the vote and win the governorship race in Kogi State on November 11. At the official launch of the APC’s National and State Campaign Councils for the governorship race on November 11, Ganduje addressed party members and supporters. According to NAN, he said he expected a large turnout of APC supporters from the state’s population because of the party’s long history there. “Today we officially launch the state campaign committee, which will work with the national campaign committee and the LGAs’ campaign committees…
In the Edo State local government election held on Saturday, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, won all 18 LGAs. According to Channels Television, the state independent electoral commission announced that PDP received the most votes in every local government area in the state. On Saturday, all of the state’s municipal governments held their elections. The PDP wasn’t the only major party to have candidates in the election for ward chairmanships and councillorships; the Labour Party and the All Progressives Congress also fielded candidates. There has been no official announcement of the election results from either the APC or the LP…