European Union ministers urged caution on Monday over a failed revolt by mercenary soldiers in Russia. This came after the incident raised troubling questions about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power and whether Wagner group fighters might install themselves just over the border in Belarus. At the talks in Luxembourg, some EU foreign ministers likened the short-lived uprising led by Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin to Putin unleashing Frankenstein’s monster of his own creation, and to some powerful and evil spirit. But several others, concerned that they might be seen to be offering support, were at pains to point…
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The Ebonyi State Government said on Sunday it has no plan whatsoever to bribe the election petition tribunal judges in a bid to pervert the course of justice and obtain undue favour from them. The state government made this known through the Commissioner of Information and State Orientation, Jude Okpor, who reacted to an allegation by the president of the Association of Ebonyi Indigenes Socio-Cultural in the Diaspora (AEISCID), Paschal Oluchukwu. Infostride News recalls that Oluchukwu had accused the Ebonyi State Government, led by Governor Francis Nwifuru, of attempting to hijack the course of justice with plans to use one…
Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has described as saddening the news that former Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike is heading to the All Progressives Congress, APC. He wondered how the former Governor, who boasted in a public glare that he cannot leave the malaria-infested PDP for a cancerous APC, is now being urged to formally pitch tents with the ruling party. Eze accused Wike of having fallen apart with the PDP owing to his blatant display of crude sabotage and other anti-party activities. Recall that one Tony Okocha, a…
The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused the immediate past governor of the state, Nyesom Wike of terrorizing it for eight years. The Publicity Secretary of the party, Darlington Nwauju, said Wike can’t join the party due to the terror he unleashed on the party for eight years. He disclosed this in a statement he issued. He described Wike as an enemy, hence wouldn’t be allowed to join the party. The statement reads partly: “The terror unleashed on our party members in the cause of his eight years of maximum rulership alone is enough evidence…
The Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has slammed the former Governor of the state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, over his latest media interview, describing his assertion as a ‘drama of absurdity and cocktails of lies’. Recall that Daniel, who is representing the Ogun East Senatorial district at the red chamber of the National Assembly, had granted a media interview, where he alleged that Governor Dapo Abiodun is still at daggers drawn with him for supporting President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, during the APC presidential primaries elections in 2022. Reacting to the senator’s outburst, the State Assistant Publicity Secretary…
Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has set up a Judicial Panel of Inquiry charged with recovering alleged stolen government property from people who served in the previous administration in the state. A statement issued by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Prof Kenneth Kalu, named Justice Florence Ikwuoma Duruoha-Igwe of the State High Court Umuahia as the chairman of the panel. Other members of the panel, according to the SSG, are Prof Ogwo Ekeoma Ogwo, Mazi Ugochukwu Okoroafor, Rev Fr Alex Okonkwo and Prof Ursula Ngozi Akanwa. The details and scope of the duties of the government panel…
The United States President, Joe Biden, has exchanged views on the situation in Russia with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, according to the White House. The partners reaffirmed their “unwavering support” for Ukraine, a US government statement said. Biden was also briefed on Saturday morning by his national security team on developments in Russia, where a mercenary force is challenging the government, NAN reports. Other attendees included United States Vice President Kamala Harris, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, and Secretaries of Defence and State Lloyd Austin and Antony Blinken, the statement…
The suspended local government chairmen in Benue State have accused the state Governor, Hyacinth Alia, of illegality and impunity. They made the accusation while faulting their suspension by the state governor after he assumed office. Acting on the recommendation of the state House of Assembly, Alia suspended all the local government chairmen and their councillors in the state indefinitely. The governor’s directive was contained in a letter signed by the Permanent Secretary of the Bureau of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Ode Ochelle. Responding, the chairmen under the aegis of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria, ALGON, vowed never…
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Director General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, on Saturday reacted to the criticisms from Nigerians over the photographs he took in Paris, France. Okonjo-Oweala had posted a photograph of him in which President Bola Tinubu was cropped out. The WTO DG had taken the photograph during the summit for ‘A New Global Financing Pact’ convened by the French President, Emmanuel Macron. The summit afforded Tinubu the opportunity of projecting, on a global stage, his advocacy for widening the fiscal space, economic justice for Africa as the world accelerates the pace of energy transition, and the urgency…
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has restated that the staff audit exercise across the state public service is not a witch-hunt. Adeleke also assured the state workforce that the audit will strengthen the capacity of the state government to satisfy the needs of the workers, the members of the public and the state leadership. According to a statement by the governor’s, spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed on Saturday, the governor made this known at the flagging off of the exercise in Osogbo. The exercise it was also revealed is meant as a plan to fill up existing vacancies within the education, health…
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said the turmoil caused by the unprecedented challenge to the authority of President Vladimir Putin by Wagner fighters may not be over yet and could take weeks or months to play out. Blinken in a series of television interviews said tensions that led to the aborted mutiny by forces led by Yevgeny Prigozhin had been rising for months and that the turmoil could affect Moscow’s capabilities in Ukraine. “Our focus is resolutely and relentlessly on Ukraine, making sure that it has what it needs to defend itself and to take back territory…
Aloy Ejimakor, the Special Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Sunday urged President Bola Tinubu to undo the injustice of his predecessor, ex-President Muhammadu Buhari. Ejimakor said Tinubu should undo Buhari’s injustice by releasing Kanu. He pointed out that the constitution has empowered the president to stop any criminal trial. Tweeting, Ejimakor said Tinubu does not have to wait for the Supreme Court to release the IPOB leader. According to Ejimakor: “Under the Constitution, the AGF (in practice: the President) has the power to stop any criminal trial. “So, President Tinubu doesn’t have…
The former Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State, Collins Opurozor on Sunday said over ninety percent of PDP members in the state are getting set to sabotage their party at the polls in November. He alleged that there is no leadership in the party and that Senator Samuel Anyanwu, the Governorship candidate of the party has no capacity to provide one. The former Publicity Secretary, now the Spokesman of the 7 defected Executive Members of the PDP made the claims in a statement made available to the media in Owerri. Reacting to claims that he’s…
A former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has insisted there is no political relationship between him and the immediate past governor of the state, Emeka Ihedioha. Okorocha stated this while speaking with journalists at his Spilbat mansion in Owerri, the state capital. He explained that his relationship with Ihedioha was not political. According to Okorocha, he visited Ihedioha to commiserate with him over the death of his mother. “I have no political romance with Ihedioha. I don’t have one and I don’t intend to have any. “I visited Ihedioha’s house because of the death of his Mother. “I know…
The chairman of All Progressives Congress in Utugwang, Utugwang North Ward, in Obudu Local Government Area of Cross River State, Paul Akpanke, has been suspended. The suspension was endorsed by the Utugwang ward chairman and his exco. They accused Akpanke of financial impropriety, misconduct and disregard for party rules and directives. The suspension was contained in a notice signed by ninety ward executives and addressed to the chapter chairman of the party. According to the notice of suspension, it takes effect from Friday, June 23, 2023. The exco members who passed a vote of no confidence on the ward chairman,…
A star witness of Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last presidential election, Mike Enahoro-Eba, on Friday evening at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), faulted the judgement of the United States of America’s court in which President Bola Tinubu reportedly forfeited $460, 000 dollars for alleged drug offences. The witness, who is a lawyer of 17 years, admitted that the judgement copy was not registered in Nigeria as required by law when delivered to make it effective in the country. He admitted that there was no evidence in the judgement that…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has denied that it invited the immediate past governor of the state, Nyesom Wike to join the party. APC described those making the claims and the calls for Wike to join their party as imposters. The party in a statement by the state Publicity Secretary, Darlington Nwauju, said Wike is ashamed of joining the same party he had described as cancer. Nwauju said the terror unleashed on APC members during Wike’s administration is enough evidence to confirm that Wike has no business with Rivers State APC. The Spokesman of APC, therefore, disassociated…
A stakeholder of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, from the southeast, Obiora Ugwu, has written to President Bola Tinubu, on the lingering intra-party crisis ravaging the national leadership of the party. It comes on the heels of a court judgement, which purportedly sacked Barrister Sly Ezeokenwa, and affirmed Edozie Njoku as the authentic APGA national chairman by the court of the land. In an open letter, signed and addressed to Tinubu and made available to newsmen on Saturday, Ugwu berated an alleged abuse of the judiciary arm of the Nigerian government by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in…
The Enugu State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Saturday refused an application for interrogatory filed by the Labour Party against Governor Peter Mbah. oga filed the application seeking to interrogate Mbah, the 2nd second defendant in the petition he filed before the Tribunal. The application was when the matter last came up on Thursday, June 22, after which it was adjourned to June 24 for ruling. While delivering its ruling today, Saturday, the three-man panel, led by Justice K. M. Akano rejected Edeoga’s application. The Tribunal held that the particulars the LP is seeking could be obtained either during cross…
Reno Omokri, a socio-political activist, has insisted that President Bola Tinubu attended and graduated from the Chicago State University. On Friday, the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, admitted in evidence a transcript in aid of admission into Chicago State University made by South West College in the name of Tinubu, who was identified as a female gender. The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his party tendered the document along with other documents to prove the allegations in their joint petition challenging Tinubu’s declaration as the winner of the February 25 presidential election. Reacting,…