The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not be attending the funeral of mercenary head Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died in a plane crash. Some Russian media have speculated that Prigozhin’s funeral could take place as soon as Tuesday in his hometown of St. Petersburg, but Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has refused to comment on the specifics of the funeral. St. Petersburg’s Fontanka news source and other media have reported that Prigozhin, 62, will be buried at the Serafimovskoye cemetery, which has been the site of notable military burials in the past. The cemetery where Putin’s parents…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
Following the indifference of the Prince Dapo Abiodun led administration in allowing the statutory Federal allocations to get to the Local governments in Ogun state as envisaged by the 1999 Constitution, Wale Adedayo with support of other Local government chairmen wrote to the former governor of Ogun state; his excellency, Akinrogun Olusegun Osoba, The letter reads in full; “Akinrogun Olusegun Osoba, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Your Excellency, This letter should have been written about two years ago. But I was wary of what many naive people would say about me. Besides, at your age and given the level of your selfless…
Concerned by the recent collapse of a major bridge in the Shendam Local Government Area, Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State has spoken out. Mutfwang released a statement on Tuesday in Jos through his Director of Press and Public Affairs, Mr Gyang Bere, in which he called the occurrence sad. When the bridge collapsed on Sunday following heavy rain, it cut off economic connections between numerous nearby communities. Some of the local villages would have temporary difficulties getting to their farms because of the collapsed bridge, he said. However, he was relieved that no lives were lost and asked the…
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Zamfara State has spoken out against the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) purported plot to sway the electoral petition tribunal’s (ECT) unrevealed verdict in favor of the APC. Acting PDP State Chairman Mukhtar Muhammad Lugga, speaking to reporters in Gusau, claimed that the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) was plotting to make the state unruly. The State APC has been threatening all ruling party functions in the state. He claimed that the APC does not want calm to prevail throughout the state. It was claimed by the PDP Chairman that “in a widely circulated audio…
The media team that had been assigned to the office of Edo State Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu has been dismantled. Additionally, Governor Godwin Obaseki told Shaibu to contact the Ministry of Communication and Orientation in the future if he wanted the media to cover his events. On Monday, Commissioner for Information Chris Osa Nehikhare released a statement from Obaseki in which he made this claim. When the Deputy Governor’s media crew tried to barge into the hall where the Governor and other dignitaries were already seated during the colloquium commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Midwest Referendum, the Governor issued…
Gombe State’s governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, has issued a statewide ban on nightclubs (also known as “Gala Houses”), effective immediately. The governor has ordered all security departments to enforce this directive. Professor Ibrahim Abubakar Njodi, Secretary to the State Government, made the news in a statement released on Monday. Njodi claims that this action was prompted by public outcry about the nightclub industry’s alleged failure to adequately prevent and punish illegal behaviour. According to him, the order called on the Nigeria Police, the Nigeria Civil Defence Corps, and Operation Hattara to promptly deploy their personnel to carry out the command…
On Monday, President Bola Tinubu ordered his ministers to do everything they could to improve Nigeria’s economy as soon as possible. During his first meeting as chairman of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) in Abuja’s Presidential Villa, he passed down the order. Wale Edun, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, delivered the “Roadmap for the Economy” to Tinubu’s cabinet during the three-hour meeting. Edun noted that the economy is not where it should be during a later briefing session with State House Correspondents. He disclosed that FEC has analysed eight top priorities and established three-year goals for…
Barrister Muhuyi Magaji Rimin Gado, chairman of the Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC), has stated that he is not frightened of being investigated for the work of the commission. Rimin Gado, who is now under investigation by the EFCC, stated that the agency would not be deterred in its pursuit of corrupt public officials by threats or intimidation as long as the law creating the commission allowed it to do so. As reported by Infostride News, the commission was investigating allegations of misappropriation of funds by former governor Abdullahi Ganduje, and it was also claimed that members…
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has given Kayode Egbetokun, the head of the Nigerian police force, 48 hours to get out of the National Union of Road Transport Workers’ (NURTW) headquarters in Abuja. This was announced by NLC in a statement released Monday after an urgent meeting of the National Administrative Council (NAC). As a result, the NLC requested that President Bola Tinubu immediately dispel the false rumours that have been spreading about him since a group of people, backed by security forces, seized control of the NURTW’s secretariat. You may remember that the NURTW administration had previously voiced concern…
In response to the kidnapping of eight National Youth Service (NYSC) volunteers by unknown gunmen, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has harshly criticised the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Infostride News recalls that on Friday of last week, eight members of the corps were abducted by gunmen along a highway in Zamfara State. The kidnappers have asked for N4 million in ransom from the corps members’ loved ones. PDP National Publicity Secretary Hon. Debo Ologunagba released a statement on Monday in response to the development, in which he accused the ruling party of being callous to the safety of…
The trial date for the federal case in Washington alleging Donald Trump with seeking to change the results of the 2020 election has been scheduled for March 4. A defense plea to postpone the trial until April 2026 was denied by US District Judge Tanya Chutkan. This date is nearly a year and a half after the 2024 election and is further out than the January date sought by special counsel Jack Smith’s team. At the opening of Monday’s status conference, Chutkan made it clear to both parties that she found neither proposition acceptable. She remarked, “The two proposals are…
The United Nations General Assembly is taking place in New York City, and President Bola Tinubu has ordered the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs to stop issuing visas to any government officials planning to attend. This afternoon, the President issued an order that is thought to be part of a larger effort to lower the cost of governance in Nigeria, according to a statement released by the President’s media adviser, Ajuri Ngelale. It was clarified that the order was directed at anyone who could not provide documentation of their attendance at formal UNGA events. The Nigerian presidency also noted that…
Kenneth Eze, who heads the Senate Committee on Information, has said that nobody will challenge President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s election. Eze asked the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership and members in Ebonyi State and Nigerians at large to quell opposition rumors that President Bola Tinubu’s win could be reversed. While celebrating the Ezza Ezekuna Ukaku New Yam festival at his country house in Onueke, Ezza South LGA of Ebonyi State, he addressed executives and other officials of the APC from Ebonyi Central. In his opinion, there is an excessive amount of diversion. The adversaries are making every effort to divert…
The New Nigeria Peoples Party’s Forum of State Chairmen has voiced concern about what it calls the “desperate moves” of the party’s National Working Committee to modify the party’s constitution for the third time in six months. The Forum claimed the most recent plan was an attempt to limit the BoT Chairman’s authority as retaliation for his refusal to let injustice flourish within the party. However, the group claims that the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) has compromised its positions, integrity, and vision, demonstrating that it can no longer successfully run the party. Spokesperson for the NNPP Forum of State…
Taraba State’s Governor Agbu Kefas is saddened by the passing of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman Victor Bala Kona. His Special Adviser on Media and Digital Communications, Emmanuel Bello, sent a statement to the press on Sunday in Jalingo, the State capital, in which he lamented the “sad news of the passage of the former Chairman of our great party, Chief Victor Bala Kona,” which he described as “such a painful one.” And, he continued, “We didn’t only lose a political icon, but a father and a consummate family man.” The Governor expressed shock at the news, stating that his…
Lukmon Atobatele, the Deputy Minority Leader of the Ogun State House of Assembly, has asked the executive branch to include legislators in the distribution of federally funded relief supplies. As part of the efforts to mitigate the impact of the loss of the gasoline subsidy on the people of Ogun, the federal government has sent 30,000 sacks of rice, as reported by Infostride News. Talabi further revealed that the federal government has provided the state with an undisclosed sum of money for this same objective. Atobatele urged that the distribution of the food and money not be politicized or monopolized…
Atiku Abubakar, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) nominee for president in the 2023 election, claims that the alleged mistakes he found in President Bola Tinubu’s certificate prove his investigation was correct. According to Infostride News, Tinubu’s attorneys acknowledged Wednesday that the President’s academic certificate presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) contained errors and placed the blame for those mistakes on the clerk of the Chicago State University (CSU). The ex-vice president claimed in a statement released on Saturday that Tinubu’s academic records from the university showed “disturbing discrepancies and circumstantial fallacies,” based on documents given by his lawyers…
A total of N5,233,379,834.30 was distributed among the 20 LGCs in Ogun State during the month of August. This distribution was announced at a meeting of the Ogun State Joint Account Allocation Committee (JAAC) in August. The meeting took place in the Conference Hall of the Oba’s Complex in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta. In his opening remarks, Dr. Rotimi Akinlesi, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, commended the local government chairmen for their work over the past two years and urged them to continue their development efforts. The Permanent Secretary and Accountant-General of the State Treasury, Babatunde…
The governor of Taraba State, Agbu Kefas, has requested that entrepreneurship centers be constructed by the TETFUND administration. He argued that adolescents would benefit from training at such facilities because it would help them become economically independent of the state. On Friday, while meeting with TETFUND representatives, the governor issued the demand. For students taking the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) and other standardized tests, he pleaded for the establishment of electronic libraries and Computer-Based Test (CBT) centers. Any TETFUND initiative in the state, Governor Kefas pledged, would be under his watchful eye. To have “quality education in the state,”…
According to a media report, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak could face some transparency problems connected to his wife Akshata Murty’s Infosys shares, estimated to be worth 500 million pounds. The Observer reports that the Labour Party and trade experts are skeptical of the entire financial impact because Akshata’s father, Narayana Murthy, co-founded Infosys, a software service major headquartered in Bengaluru. As Sunak gets ready to visit India for the G20 Leaders’ Summit next month, the two countries’ FTA discussions enter their twelfth round of talks. The Prime Minister has discovered the importance of accurately disclosing his financial interests. Labour…