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…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
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…
On Friday, union leader Mrs. Funmi Sessi compared the Federal Government’s plan to pay N8,000 to 12 million households for six months to a drop in the ocean. As players in the sector reacted to the government’s plan, Sessi, Chairman of the Lagos Chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), made this statement in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). In an appeal to the National Assembly, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu expressed his desire to ensure the well-being of the country’s impoverished and vulnerable citizens through the Federal Government’s National Safety Net Programme. Tinubu stated that 12…
From President Bola Tinubu’s N819 billion palliative to soften the blow of the fuel subsidy cut, the House of Representatives would receive N70 billion. Rep. Tajudeen Abbas, reading from a letter from the President dated July 12, said that the money would be used to improve the working conditions for new members of Congress. Rep. Julius Ihonvere, the Majority Leader of the House, reportedly introduced a N819 billion supplemental appropriations bill for a second reading. According to the Majority Leader, this was to help Nigerians cope with the loss of their fuel subsidies. In the meantime, Rep. Benjamin Kalu, the…
The Ekiti State House of Assembly is set to resume the screening of the remaining seven commissioner-nominees on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. According to the statement made available to newsmen in Ado Ekiti, the Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon. Babatunde Oke, representing Ikere Constituency I, stated that the screening of the 21 commissioner-nominees forwarded to the House by Governor Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji for screening and possible confirmation will be continued on Tuesday, July 18, 2023, in line with Section 192(2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended). It would be recalled…
The Labour Party (LP) has called for INEC chairman Mahmood Yakubu to be removed, but INEC has stated the LP has no legal standing to do so. In a news conference on Thursday, the LP demanded that the world community take “punitive action” against INEC chairman Yakubu and other key officials for their roles in the shady handling of the 2023 polls. The party claimed that the reports from election observer groups proved its case. But INEC’s Chief Press Secretary, Rotimi Oyekanmi, told NAN that the “reasons adduced by the LP in making the latest and familiar demand are not…
Hope Uzodimma, governor of Imo State, disavowed Thursday the controversial ‘Security Vote’ he had been accused of operating. He has instead advocated for state governors to be granted additional authority to address security concerns at the sub-national level in concert with the federal structure of the United States. The governor spoke candidly after meeting with President Bola Tinubu in private at the Presidential Villa in Abuja to request a meeting with the president to discuss the persistent security threats facing the Southeast and Ohaneze Ndigbo. Remember that instability in the South East has occurred because the sit-at-home policy is still…