Turkey has launched a temporary salary support scheme and banned job cuts in southern provinces hit by the devastating February 6 earthquakes that killed over 42,000 people in the country as well as in Neighbouring Syria, an official gazette said. The government will provide salary support for employers in provinces under the state of emergency to partially cover the wages of their workers. Employers will be able to benefit from the allowance if their workplaces are “heavily or moderately damaged”. In addition, the government also banned layoffs in the earthquake zone, except for reasons of not complying with the rules…
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The presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, said on Thursday that his “imminent victory” in the upcoming presidential election would be a deliverance for Nigerians. Atiku spoke through the spokesman of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Momodu. A statement by Momodu said Atiku’s recent interactions with all classes of Nigerians in the course of his nationwide campaign confirmed to him that Nigerians needed deliverance. The statement reads: “Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s hustlings across all parts of Nigeria confirmed further to him how grievously Nigerians are suffering and how desperately they desire and pray for deliverance.’’ The statement quoted…
Ahead of Saturday’s presidential and national assembly elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commenced the distribution of sensitive and non-sensitive election materials to the 20 local government areas of Ogun State. The Ogun State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Niyi Ijalaye confirmed this to newsmen in Abeokuta Thursday. He said INEC in Ogun took delivery of the materials, which include result sheets and ballot papers in the early hours of Thursday. Speaking while inspecting the materials kept inside the Abeokuta branch of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Ijalaye disclosed that the materials would be accompanied by armed security…
Ahead of Saturday’s presidential election in Kaduna State, the Inspector General of Police has deployed three Commissioners of Police (CP) and four Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCPs) for election duty. A statement issued by the Kaduna State Police Command spokesperson, DSP Mohammed Jalige, noted that the officers are headed by CP Sunday Babaji, the newly posted Commissioner of Police. Babaji, according to the statement, assured the people of the state and all political actors of absolute neutrality and a level-playing field in the Saturday general election, adding that the deployment is meant to provide watertight security before, during and after…
If American intelligence is right and China really is about to arm Russia in its genocidal war against Ukraine, we may be entering a new era in international relations. An even more dangerous one? That remains to be seen. In effect, Chinese military support for Russia would finally turn the Ukrainian conflict into a proxy war between two hostile blocs, with a third trying to stay out of the fray. The US, the European Union and the geopolitical “West” — from Canada to Japan and Australia — would be supplying Kyiv. China, Iran, North Korea, Belarus and a few other…
The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said all the recently released polls in favour of Peter Obi of the Labour Party were meant to prepare grounds for unrest by giving false hope of winning to his supporters, otherwise referred to as ‘Obidient’. The Special Adviser on Media and Strategic Communications, Dele Alake, stated this Wednesday while addressing a press conference in Abuja. He said the polls will only lead to despair, despondency, utter shame and disappointment because the pollsters only took a flight of fancy. Alake stressed that there was no evidence and reality…
Ahead of Saturday’s presidential election, the former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Uche Secondus has said the alleged move by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, to canvas votes for the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, would end in futility. Speaking during Arise Television program on Wednesday, Secondus declared that Rivers people have rejected the former Lagos governor. There have been reports that Wike, who is the leader of the aggrieved governors elected under the platform of PDP, is working for Tinubu to emerge winner of the presidential poll. But Secondus countered the move,…
The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Kalu, has said the G5 governors would work for Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu in the February 25th presidential election. He disclosed this on Wednesday in a Channels Television interview monitored by the media. He said, “The G5 Governors came together and realized they must work together. And they are working together. I don’t believe the Governor of Benue State is working for the Labour Party; he wants to use that to win the election. “The G5 Governors have made up their minds that they will not work for any other person other than…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday drew the curtain on his campaign rally in Lagos State, with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo not attending any of them. InfoStride News observed that Osinbajo did not attend any of Tinubu’s presidential campaign rallies across the country. This might not be unconnected to their differences prior to the APC presidential primaries in 2022. Osinbajo had endured a frosty relationship with Tinubu during the APC presidential primaries in 2022, as followers of the latter believed that the Vice President should have backed his political godfather. During the APC…
As the general election beckons, the electorates in Ondo State are already warming up to storm the 3,933 polling units across the 18 local government areas of the state, where they will cast their votes for the candidates of their choice. However, with Ondo State being among the few states in the country that will not be having governorship elections in the 2023 elections, voters within the state’s 203 political wards will be at the polls on February 25 to elect the president and National Assembly members, as well as on March 11 to cast their ballots for the 26…
Ahead of the forthcoming 2023 general elections, the Deputy President of the Senate, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege has dropped 19 reasons for Deltans to remember before casting their votes in the presidential election slated for Saturday, February 25. Sen. Omo-Agege gave the reasons on his Facebook page, DAILY POST reports. According to him: “Before you vote on Saturday, remember not to forget that: For eight years, Okowa could not fix Effurun-Sapele Road from Effurun Roundabout to Enerhen Junction. For eight years, Okowa could not fix Udu Road down to Express Junction. For eight years, Okowa could not fix Enerhen Road from…
As the country inches closer to January 25, the day for the presidential and National Assembly elections, Nigerians have serious concerns about the capability of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to deliver a hitch-free election. The country’s electoral umpire until this moment maintains that it is capable and ready to conduct free, fair and credible elections. At any rate, no one is doubting INEC’s capacity, given that it had delivered on its mandate in polls held in the last few years (as seen in the Edo and Osun governorship elections) in a clinical fashion that won the confidence of…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kaduna State has condemned the government’s free food, free transport and medical services for residents of the state. The state PDP considered the measures taken by the state government as purely vote-buying ahead of the 2023 general election in a state where the citizens have suffered in the hands of the APC-led government. The state government, the media reports, had announced the provision of free transport services, free medical care for common illnesses like malaria and typhoid, as well as food to alleviate the effect of the current scarcity of cash being faced by…
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Western countries Tuesday of igniting and sustaining the war in Ukraine, dismissing any blame for Moscow almost a year after the Kremlin’s unprovoked invasion of its neighbour that has killed tens of thousands of people. In his long-delayed state-of-the-nation address, Putin cast Russia and Ukraine as victims of Western double-dealing and said Russia, not Ukraine, was the one fighting for its very existence. We aren’t fighting the Ukrainian people, Putin said in a speech days before the war’s first anniversary on Friday. Ukraine has become hostage of the Kyiv regime and its Western masters, which…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday wished the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its Presidential Candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu luck in Nigeria’s general elections billed for Saturday. Buhari made this remark at the grand finale of the APC Presidential Campaign held at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Surulere, Lagos State. “l hereby raise the hand of the next president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu. “Congratulations and l wish APC the very best of luck,” the President said. In his remarks, Tinubu thanked Buhari for his support and encouragement…
The governorship candidates of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, and Allied Peoples Movement, APM, in Jigawa State have decamped to the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC. This was contained in a statement by Habibu Nuhu Kila, Special Adviser on Media and Public Relations to Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar. While receiving the decamped candidates at Government House, Governor Badaru Abubakar assured them that they will be accorded all the rights and privileges enjoyed by all members of the APC. The chairman of APM in Jigawa State, Alhaji Shehu Ibrahim said all the candidates of various offices of the party, from the…
The senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for Kano Central senatorial zone, Abdussalam Abdulkadir Zaura announced a scholarship scheme for 10,000 students in tertiary institutions. Zaura announced the N200 million scholarship scheme on Monday at a rally. According to him, the scholarship, to be awarded in batches, will take off with N60 million for 3, 000 students of tertiary institutions from the state’s 44 local government areas. Speaking at the event, the APC senatorial candidate promised to raise the number of beneficiaries to 30,000 when elected as a senator. He said: “I wish to thank the Almighty God…
Adams Oshiomhole, a former National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has kicked against President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision on the naira redesign policy. Oshiomhole, who said Buhari is on his own following his recent comment on the naira redesign policy last Thursday, also insisted that Godwin Emefiele, the Central Bank Governor, will expire after Saturday’s presidential election. The former Edo State governor, who stated this at Jattu market in Auchi, Edo North, also urged Buhari to obey the Supreme Court verdict on the naira notes. Speaking in pidgin, Oshiomhole said: “All this wahala wey Buhari put for currency…
The New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, in Kano, has threatened to withdraw its support for a peace accord earlier signed in the state because of an alleged plot by police and the state government to intimidate candidates of the party. The party alleged that the Kano State Police Command, on the order of the state government, has perfected a secret plan to arrest NNPP stalwarts across the 44 local government areas of the state. Dr Baffa Bichi, who is NNPP senatorial candidate for Kano North, disclosed this during a media briefing organized by the party at its secretariat in Kano.…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Akwa Ibom State, James Iniama has noted that some of the candidates of other political parties for the 2023 general elections were actually aggrieved politicians made in PDP. Iniama, who did not mention the names of the candidates, alleged that such persons were just looking for power for vengeance and not for better governance. It could be recalled that at the build up of the PDP primary of May, 2022, the governorship candidates of the Young Progressives Party, YPP, Senator Bassey Akpan and his counterpart in the All Progressives Congress, APC…