The House of Representatives has promised to rigorously monitor the rollout of palliative care initiatives in Nigeria. According to NAN, House Spokesperson Rep. Akin Rotimi made the promise in a statement on Tuesday after President Bola Tinubu’s nationwide broadcast. The statement claims that the house is pleased with Tinubu’s announcement of measures to mitigate the negative economic repercussions of the subsidy’s elimination. According to the statement, many Nigerians were upset after the subsidy was cut off but before relief measures were put in place. It hoped the President’s declared programs and initiatives would be moved quickly to help the people.…
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Atiku Abubakar, the PDP’s presidential candidate in the previous election, has arrived at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal for the final legal fireworks in his petition against Bola Tinubu’s declaration as winner of the election. Atiku, who was wearing a light blue kaftan, and his entourage of political allies and friends arrived to the Court of Appeal, where the trial was being held. Several members of the former Vice President’s legal team escorted him into the courtroom. According to this account, Atiku’s courtroom appearance was the main attraction. Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN, lead lawyer to President Tinubu, and Chief Chris…
AFTER DARKNESS COMES THE GLORIOUS DAWN My fellow citizens, I want to talk to you about our economy. It is important that you understand the reasons for the policy measures I have taken to combat the serious economic challenges this nation has long faced. 2. I am not going to talk in difficult terms by dwelling on economic jargon and concepts. I will speak in plain, clear language so that you know where I stand. More importantly, so that you see and hopefully will share my vision regarding the journey to a better, more productive economy for our beloved country.…
On Monday, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu made an impassioned plea to the moral fiber of Nigerians to back his administration’s subsidy removal policy and other intervention initiatives. He used the national briefing to explain why the policy was implemented in the first place, saying that since his administration took office just over two months ago, the country had avoided spending over a trillion Naira on the wasteful fuel subsidy. Tinubu added more support for the charges by saying that the questionable subsidy scheme simply benefited smugglers and crooks. “That money will now be used more directly and beneficially for you…
In the next weeks, a Georgia prosecutor looking into efforts by Donald Trump and his friends to overturn the former president’s 2020 election defeat is set to seek a grand jury indictment. More over two years ago, after a recording of a call between Trump and Georgia’s secretary of state in January 2021 was made public, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened an investigation. According to Willis’s hints, any indictment would be handed down between July 31 and August 18. The case will likely go before one of two grand juries that were sworn in on July 11. Trump…
Professor Gregory Ibe, a member of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Advisory Council, recently called on Professor Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra State, to use his position as National leader of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) to revitalize, fortify, and expand the party’s reach across the country. Ibe gave the recommendation while congratulating the Anambra State Governor on his 63rd birthday, telling him to put his leadership position in APGA to good use by working closely with the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) to restore the organization’s fortunes and expand its reach to all 50 states. He said that expanding and…
The presidential candidates for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, will adopt their final speeches in their petitions against the 2023 election on Tuesday, August 1, 2023. On the basis of numerous claims, both Atiku and Obi are contesting INEC’s announcement of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the victor of the presidential election held on February 25. The adoption was scheduled to take place that morning at 9 a.m., according to a hearing notice issued by the Tribunal and sent to Atiku and Obi. Media reports claim that President Tinubu’s lawyer, Chief Wole…
President Bola Tinubu has been criticized by the Labour Party (LP) over the ministerial list he sent to the Senate. There was nothing exciting about Tinubu’s list of ministerial aspirants, LP’s National Publicity Secretary Obiora Ifoh said. He blamed Tinubu for repeating some failed and dumb politicians. According to Ifoh’s comments, Tinubu’s ministerial list demonstrates that he is unfit to lead. He said, “Nigerians expected more quality, character, dynamic, and result-oriented Nigerians to be on that list, but what we see is a recycling of some failed and clueless politicians who have contributed to bringing Nigeria to its parlous situation.…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will address the nation through national television on Monday, today. This was announced on Monday by Dele Alake, the President’s Special Adviser on Special Duties, Communications, and Strategy. He claims that the airing will take place at 7 o’clock tonight. He urged all electronic media outlets to use the Nigerian Television Authority’s and Radio Nigeria’s network services during the broadcast. More information coming soon…
Shehu Sani, who once represented the Kaduna Central Senatorial District, has asked the Senators of the 10th Assembly to reject Malam Nasir El-Rufai’s confirmation as Minister. El-Rufai was the governor of Kaduna State. Former congressman expressed amazement on Sunday in a message to journalists that El-Rufai’s name appeared on the list of ministerial nominees despite his clear religious coloring, which poses a threat to national unity. For the sake of the nation’s future, he urged the three senators from Kaduna State to stand tall in honor and oppose the confirmation and approval of the former governor. El-Rufai was disqualified from…
The IPOB has reiterated its call on the people of Southeast Nigeria to ignore Biafra agitator Simon Ekpa, who lives in Finland. As IPOB’s spokesperson Emma Powerful put it: “Every Biafran must comprehend the importance of this message. Fans of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, you must hear him out. With Kanu, the man Ekpa claims to be following, languishing in captivity, Powerful questioned why Ekpa would call himself Prime Minister of Biafra and urged Igbos to quit “giving credence to the enemy of Ndigbo and Biafrans claiming to be Kanu’s disciple.” A possible role for Mazi upon his public unveiling may…
The DSS has allowed Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to get a second opinion on his health. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Kanu’s primary attorney, stated on Friday that the IPOB leader had been examined by doctors at a hospital in Abuja. “We are pleased to inform you that Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu met with his choice personal physician yesterday (Friday) in a hospital in Abuja, outside the facility of the State Security Service (SSS),” Ejiofor said in a statement. As is customary, I was present during the consultation. He (Kanu) will shortly advance to the next…
Adamu Garba, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, has claimed that the United States and France had baited the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) into a full-scale war in the area. Garba warned that Nigeria could be destroyed if its military intervened in Niger by accident. After giving the alleged coup leader in Niger Republic, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, seven days to hand power back to Mohammed Bazoom, he has now made this declaration. The resolution included the decision made during an emergency meeting of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government convened in Abuja on Sunday.…
Governor Agbu Kefas of Taraba State was named by the People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) to lead the party’s Bayelsa State National Campaign Council. The appointment was announced in a statement released to the press on Sunday in Jalingo, the capital of Taraba, by Yusuf Sanda, the state governor’s chief press secretary. The statement claims that Kefas will head the 122-person team to the state before the governor’s race on November 11. The statement claims that the move is an effort to rally voters behind Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State in the upcoming governorship election. Dr.…
There have been at least 7,331 resignations and departures from the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Imo. In a briefing to reporters on Sunday afternoon in Owerri, the capital of Imo State, the party’s former secretary, Mr. Ogbonna Alozie, made the announcement. The state party chairman, Prince Marshal Okaforanyanwu, resigned from his job and the party two days prior, according to a report by Infostride News. Party officials at all levels, from the state level (all 24 of them) down to the ward level (6,710) resigned in protest. Alozie claimed the decision was made by the officials as a show…
Nicolas Petro, son of the president of Colombia, has been taken into custody. On Saturday, police in Spain arrested Nicolas on suspicion of money laundering and ill-gotten gain. President Gustavo Petro verified the news by saying Nicolas and his ex-wife Daysuris Vasquez were taken into police custody. The 37-year-old and Vasquez were abducted from the port city of Barranquilla and taken to the country’s capital of Bogota. When asked about the situation, Petro said he would not participate in his son’s prosecution in court. He wished success and power for his son. I pray that he uses this time to…
The recent coup in the Niger Republic has been strongly opposed by Arewa Civil Society Organizations, or CSOs. They complained that the situation of poverty and underdevelopment in West Africa may be traced back to the coup. Adamu Aminu Musa, the groups’ chairman, made a statement in which he strongly denounced the coup and called for the protection of the country’s constitution, the rule of law, and the basic rights of its residents as a means of preventing similar events in the future. In it, they added, “We believe a violation of citizens’ rights, disrespect for the rule of law,…
Imo State’s governor, Hope Uzodinma, has asked President Bola Tinubu and the rest of the Federal Government’s security forces to bring Biafra agitator Simon Ekpa back to Nigeria from Finland. Uzodinma has called for Ekpa’s return to Nigeria so that he can either take part in the sit-ins he calls for or face justice for his actions. While at the Government House in Owerri, he called the newly appointed General Officer Commanding 82 Division, Enugu, Major General Hassan Dada. He stressed the importance of ending the insurgency in the Southeast once and for all. “What is foremost in our cases…
The Police Command of Imo State has urged citizens to ignore the IPOB’s illegal sit-at-home order and continue with their normal activities without fear of violence or intimidation. The police reiterated their earlier order not to stay indoors and instead go about their daily routines. This was announced on Sunday during a press briefing at the Imo State Command headquarters in Owerri by CP Mohammed Ahmed Barde, the state’s top cop. The CP made the following statement: “I want to use this medium to call on Imolites to disregard the illegal sit-at-home order and go about their lawful businesses without…
Popular Biafra agitator and Separatist Simon Ekpa has declared that he absolves Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, from any responsibility for the conduct of the Biafran people. Ekpa, the Biafran government’s prime minister and a Finnish lawyer, made the comments in a video posted to Twitter on Sunday. Infostride News recalls hearing rumors that Kanu told Ekpa to cease criticizing governors in the southeast. However, Ekpa said that the letter was forgery and untrue. He claims the letter was written by troublemakers who oppose Biafra’s independence. For the sake of sustainable peace in the southeast,…