India has become the world’s most populous country, overtaking China, data released by the United Nations today showed. According to UN estimates, India’s population is at 1.42 billion or 1,428,600,000 against China’s 1,425,700,000. India now has 2,900,000 more people than China. India has, for the first time, topped the list since 1950. China had remained at the top since 1950 when the UN started presenting the data. According to the National Statistics Bureau, China’s population declined by 850,000 in 2022. This was the first time it declined since 1960. With an ageing workforce and a plunge in birth rate, China…
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Two aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have pleaded with an Abuja High Court to void and cancel the party’s Kogi governorship primary election, which was held on April 11. Mr Realwan Akpanachi and Yahaya Seidu-Nuhu, in an originating summons filed by their Counsel, Mr Promise Ogbodu, sued six of the contestants as 1st – 6th defendants, APC and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as 7th and 8th defendants respectively, for what they called a violation of the Electoral Act 2022 and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The six contestants are Abdulkareem Jamiu (Chief…
Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari didn’t confer any advantage on the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) during the February 25 Presidential election. Mohammed stated this to State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday. He made clarifications of his comments during a recent official trip to the United States. Mohammed said, “I went to the US to balance the skewed report about the just concluded elections, and everywhere I went, I said very unambiguously that the last general elections…
Following the completion of re-run elections into the Kaduna State House of Assembly, the All Progressive Congress (APC) has 22 elected members, while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has 12 elected members of the total 34 seats. In a statement signed by Malam Yahaya Baba Pate, the Kaduna State Secretary of the APC, he said the party won in the supplementary elections conducted in four constituencies. He commended the electorates for voting for them and assured residents of the state of the dividend of democracy as they resume office in May. He further thanked the residents of Giwa West, Kudan,…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has denied allegations that its officials deployed to conduct the just concluded governorship elections in Adamawa State paid a nocturnal visit to the state Government House before the conclusion of the poll. Reports had said that the alleged meeting aimed to ostensibly rig the polls for the incumbent Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri. It was alleged that the officials met with some persons at the government house, where they received a list of “collation and returning officers”. But the commission, in a statement issued on Wednesday by its National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and immediate past Deputy Chairman of Bende Local Government Area, Hon Promise Uzoma Okoro has advised the Abia State Governor-elect, Dr Alex Otti to rescind his decision of inviting a former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon for an inaugural prayer ahead of his swearing-in. Okoro, in a statement made available to the media on Thursday, said the handlers of the Abia State Governor-elect, Otti, must consider the feelings of Abians and Ndigbo to avoid the negative backlash it would bring to them. He wondered while the Abia State Governor and his…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adamu Garba has issued a stern warning to the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Garba said the presidency would forever remain a dream to Obi for allegedly insulting the North. He issued the warning in response to Obi’s promise to alleviate poverty starting from the North. Obi had said he remained committed to transforming Nigeria starting from the North. The LP candidate had tweeted: “Beyond regaining our mandate, I am committed to lifting people out of poverty and I remain committed to transforming Nigeria starting from the North to every…
The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has said that Mr Julius Abure, the embattled national chairman of the party remains his own man amid the leadership crisis rocking the party. Obi spoke on Tuesday at the LP National Executive Council, NEC, meeting in Asaba, Delta State. The post-election crisis in the LP took another dimension a few days ago after the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, sealed its secretariat. Recall that a Federal High Court, in Abuja, had ordered Abure to stay away from parading himself as the national chairman of the LP a week after a ward in…
Ahead of the May 29 inauguration, questions on the whereabouts of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu have taken the centre stage. It has become a norm in Nigeria for people of the upper echelon of government to keep their health status secret even when this becomes a major concern for the country. The dark clouds over the exact nature of the illness being suffered by the leaders always led to rumours and speculations from concerned Nigerians and members of the opposition. This will also leave their aides, their political parties and party chieftains with the gargantuan task of managing the huge…
Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle of Zamfara State has called on Muslims to mark the upcoming eid-el-fitri with utmost caution and the fear of God, encouraging them to continue praying for the restoration of peace to the State. The Governor felicitated with Muslims in the state for a successful completion of the Ramadan fast and wished that Allah will accept the worship and repentance of everyone. This was contained in a press statement issued by the Special Adviser to the Governor on media and publicity, Comrade Zailani Bappa. “I am specifically impressed with the multiple and persistent prayers from especially the…
Unanimously, the World Court of Human Rights has established, verbatim, that there is no right to same-sex marriage. The 47 judges from the 47 countries of the Council of Europe, which are members of the Plenary Court of Strasbourg (the most important human rights court in the world), published a statement of great relevance which has been surprisingly silenced by the progress of information and its field of influence. In fact, all 47 justices unanimously endorsed the ruling that “there is no right to same-sex marriage. The sentence was based on a myriad of philosophical and anthropological considerations based on…
Nigerian President-elect, Bola Tinubu has called on the Police to investigate the controversy that trailed the Adamawa Governorship rerun. Tinubu in a statement he personally issued on Wednesday, urged aggrieved candidates to pursue legitimate means of addressing their grievances. The former Lagos Governor also congratulated winners of the Supplementary Governorship elections that took place in Kebbi and Adamawa States on Saturday. Tinubu said: “The supplementary elections have now brought the 2023 general elections to a final, fitting conclusion. I observed, with satisfaction, the largely peaceful atmosphere during the supplementary election on Saturday. It was further testimony that our citizens have…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will on Wednesday present the Certificate of Return to the Adamawa State Governor-elect, Ahmadu Fintiri, and his Deputy, Professor Kaletapwa Farauta. INEC made this known in a statement on its Twitter page. The ceremony will be held at 3pm at the INEC headquarters, in Maitama Abuja. ”Members of the National Assembly-elect (Senators and House of Representatives) will receive their certificates from 11am today. Venue: Conference Room, INEC Headquarters, Maitama, Abuja. Members of State Houses of Assembly-elect should contact our State offices for their Certificates,” the statement read.
All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Adamawa State, Aisha Dahiru Binani has dismissed the claim of N2billion bribe. The suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Hudu Yunusa-Ari had declared the Senator the winner of the election on Sunday under controversial circumstances. In a statement on Tuesday, Binani said her attention was drawn “to a very bizarre and wild allegation purportedly made by an officer of the Department of State Services (DSS)”. The DSS officer, in a video, said the flagbearer gave out N2billion to some unnamed Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, officials. “I never did. I would never do such”,…
The Labour Party, LP, won 14 out of the 24 constituency seats in Enugu State House of Assembly. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, made the confirmation on Tuesday. In the list of members-elect released by the umpire, the LP won 14 seats at the March 18 state elections. The ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will occupy the remaining 10 in the 10th House to be inaugurated in June. INEC’s Head of Voter Education and Publicity in Enugu, Rex Achumie listed the names, constituencies, parties and number of votes scored. Achumie advised members of the public to disregard any unauthorised…
The National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Tuesday, said embattled Senator George Thompson Sekibo and Rt. Hon Austin Adiele Opara, were not individually and separately suspended by the party contrary to the rumour making the rounds. It also said the purported suspension by the executive of Ward 2 of the Ogu/Bolo Local Council Area and Ward 10 of Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of Rivers State was false and should be disregarded. The party’s spokesman, Debo Ologunagba disclosed this in a statement in Abuja to newsmen. The apex organ of the party said the…
Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has accused some politicians with federal power of trying to truncate his victory at the just concluded gubernatorial election in the state. InfoStride News recalls that after several controversies that trailed the conduct of the election, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared the governor winner of the polls. Professor Muhammed Mele, who served as the returning officer for the election, declared that Fintiri polled a total of 430,861 votes to beat his opponent, Aishatu Dahiru Binani of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who garnered 396,788 votes. The electoral umpire had on Sunday, suspended…
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kogi State, Dino Melaye has said his counterpart from the All Progressives Congress, APC, Usman Ododo lacks the quality to rule the state. Melaye said Ododo has never contested an election in his life, not even a class monitor. He noted that PDP would always present a better candidate than the APC. The former Kogi West Senator spoke on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme on Tuesday. According to Melaye: “PDP is as old as the Fourth Republic in this country, parties like APC are operating for less than a…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the victory of Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa State as a momentous triumph for democracy and the will of the people over tyranny and desperate manipulative forces which sought to take over control of the state illegally. PDP said the spontaneous jubilation of citizens in Adamawa State and across Nigeria at the official declaration of Fintiri as the rightful winner of the election, irrespective of the nefarious schemes by the rejected All Progressives Congress, APC, is a confirmation that the PDP, and its candidate, are indeed the choice of the people. Debo…
Akin Alabi, a member of the House of Representatives, has described the controversy surrounding the Adamawa State governorship election as “a disgrace.” Alabi, who is a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), stated this on Tuesday in a tweet via his verified handle. DAILY POST recalls that a Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Adamawa State had illegally announced Aisha Binani, the candidate of the APC as the winner of the supplementary election in the state. The announcement, which generated negative reactions across the country, has since been overruled by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The commission earlier…