The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has stated that the news of the withdrawal of the Department of State Services (DSS) personnel from the security details of Governor Ademola Adeleke is a bad omen. The party also stated that the news of the insult on the DSS personnel was an unsavoury development which has placed the State in the news for negative reasons. Unconfirmed reports have it that personnel of the DSS attached to the Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke were being insulted in the course of carrying out their duty, a development which made the DSS headquarters…
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Ahead of the 2023 election, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President Atiku Abubakar said Nigerians must not allow the All Progressives Congress (APC) to come back next year because of its poor performance. The former Vice President, in a message to its supporters through its campaign organization on Sunday, charged Nigerians to continue to support PDP to win, rescue, and rebuild the country. Atiku said “from Uyo on 10 October, to Katsina on Tuesday, 20 December, our campaign would have covered 15 states in campaign rallies across the country.” Continuing, the statement read “It’s…
Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) will announce its preferred presidential candidate before the 2023 election. The new President, Baba Othman Ngelzarma gave the hint at the weekend in a chat with repoters in Abuja. Ngelzarma disclosed that he already presented the demands of the pastoralists to top flagbearers. The MACBAN leader, from Yobe State, said his administration would operate under the CORE agenda. “CORE means Consultation, Orientation, Reintegration and Empowerment. As part of consultation, I met some presidential candidates. “I presented our demands to Bola Tinubu (APC) at the town hall meeting in Minna, Niger State. “I…
After decades funding Britain’s governing Conservatives, businessman Gareth Quarry has switched allegiance and started donating to the opposition Labour Party in the belief that it offers more certainty and stability. The 63-year-old entrepreneur abandoned the Conservatives after what he called “a litany of misdemeanours” that destroyed Britain’s centuries-old reputation for financial stability. Quarry is one of a growing number of investors, company executives and bankers turning to Labour, which has a strong lead in opinion polls over Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives before a national election expected in 2024. “A lot of us are finding our way to Labour,” Quarry,…
Popular socio-political activist, Aisha Yesufu has vowed that even at gunpoint, she would vote for the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in the forthcoming February poll. Responding to a question of who she would support if the former Anambra Governor stepped down for another party candidate, Aisha Yesufu said she would still vote for Obi. According to her tweet, she does not bother if she is alone in the move to make Obi the next president of the country. Her tweet reads, “I will still vote for him on February 25th 2023, even if I have a gun on…
The former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, has told the campaign media team of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to focus on how to sell its candidate to Nigerians instead of attacking publisher of Thisday Newspapers and Arise Television station, Prince Nduka Obaigbena. Secondus said the attacks on Obaigbena were nothing but needless distraction by the media team of the APC. The PDP’s ex-chair wondered why the ruling party’s presidential media team are more committed to attacking Obaigbena instead of the business of marketing their principal. In a statement he signed on Sunday and…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Jigawa governorship candidate for the 2023 general election, Dr Mustapha Sule Lamido, on Saturday visited Senator Danladi Abdullahi Sankara representing Jigawa North West Senatorial District at his residence in Abuja. The governorship candidate was accompanied by the former governor of the state and the PDP senatorial candidate for Jigawa North West, Saminu Turaki, on Saturday on his second visit in barely two weeks. Sankara, a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Information and National Orientation, suddenly developed cold feet at attending APC activities in Jigawa…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State has denied allegations that personnel of the Department of State Security (DSS) attached to the security detail of the state governor, Ademola Adeleke was physically assaulted. The Osun All Progressives Congress (APC) had alleged on Sunday in a statement by Kola Olabisi, the Osun APC Director of Media that a DSS operative was slapped by the elder sister of the governor, Modupe Sanni. The Osun PDP in a reaction by Oladele Bamiji, its Director of Media on Monday described the APC as rudderless and in severe pain over its loss of political…
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has mocked the wife of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, Titi over a recent gaffe.. Keyamo described Titi Abubakar’s error as a slip of tongue. Recall that while addressing some women, Titi urged them to get their Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, and vote for APC. She said: “Go and get your PVC and vote for APC on the 25th of February.” Reacting, Keyamo said it is unreasonable to make a mountain out of such molehills. In a series of tweets, Keyamo wrote: “Wife to Atiku, Titi…
The U.S. is poised to ban the lucrative trade in shark fins, a move conservationists hope will help protect millions of sharks that are butchered every year to satisfy demand in China and other parts of Asia. The practice of shark finning, whereby sharks are caught for their fins and their carcasses then dumped back into the ocean, has been banned in U.S. waters for decades. But the U.S. remains a major hub for the brisk trade, where as many as 73 million fins are sliced off of sharks around th world each year. The House and Senate passed identical…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State on Friday inaugurated its 110-member East Senatorial Campaign Committee to mobilise votes for the party, ahead of the 2023 general elections. Inaugurating the committee, Sen. Ganiyu Solomon, the Director General, APC Presidential Campaign Committee (PCC) for Lagos State, said the committee had the mandate to woo voters for the party’s Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and his running mate, Sen. Kashim Shettima and others. Solomon, who appreciated party’s leaders for their commitment and perseverance, said Mrs Olayinka Oladunjoye (ex-state commissioner) would serve as the Deputy Director General (DDG) and leader of the…
A former Secretary to the Oyo State Government, Barrister Sharafadeen Abiodun Alli has warned residents of Ibarapa geo-political zone against electing people whom he described as strangers, but claiming to be Ibadan indigenes. Alli, who is the Oyo South Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 election, made this disclosure while addressing hundreds of residents of the zone during a zonal rally of the APC. Some of the APC stalwarts at the event included the gubernatorial candidate of the party, Senator Teslim Folarin, Chief Akinade Fijabi and Barrister Lowo Obisesan. DAILY POST reports that Oyo South…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar Campaign organization has told the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu to apologize to Nigerians instead of campaigning. Atiku’s Campaign organization lambasted Tinubu and the ruling APC for comparing the years of the PDP to the alleged famished years of the APC. The spokesperson of Atiku’s campaign organization, Kola Ologbondiyan in a statement on Saturday, also described the APC Presidential Campaign as “plagued by a Lying Spirit”. Atiku campaign organization insisted that life was exceptionally better under the…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Femi Fani-Kayode has said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar is not the stepping stone to Igbo presidency. Fani-Kayode said Atiku who has been vying for the presidency in the past 30 years but failed, can’t be the stepping stone to Igbo presidency. Atiku had promised to bequeath the presidency to Igbos if they elect him in 2023. He made the pledge during his campaign rally in Anambra State. Reacting, Fani-Kayode nobody can stop Igbos from producing the presidency when the time comes. A Facebook post said Fani-Kayode described…
The House panel investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is considering recommending the Justice Department pursue three criminal charges against former President Donald Trump, including insurrection. The panel is also considering recommending prosecutors pursue charges for obstructing an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The committee’s deliberations were continuing late Friday, and no decisions were formalized on which specific charges the committee would refer to the Justice Department. The panel is to meet publicly on Monday, where the recommendation would be made public. The…
The Jigawa State Governor, Muhammad Badaru Abubakar said the opposition parties would clearly understand the difference between people’s choice party and despised parties during the 2023 general election. The governor stated this on Friday while addressing a mammoth crowd in Kaugama Local Government Area. He was reacting to the destruction of posters and billboards of the All Progressives Congress, APC, allegedly by opposition parties. He said the ruling APC in the state has provided a free level ground for all the opposition political parties in the state. According to him: “It is quite unfortunate, as the party in power, we…
The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Alhaji Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso suffered another setback as the deputy governorship candidate of the party in Niger State, Mr John Bahago resigned from the party. InfoStride News recalls that the Kaduna State chairman of the party on Thursday resigned from his appointment because, according to him, the party has derailed. Kure while Speaking at a news conference in Kaduna on Thursday, noted that while he still has high regard for Kwankwaso, he wasn’t interested in being a member of the party any longer because the party “is not fully on…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, has disclosed that the president refrained from removing former Governor Ayodele Fayose from office at a time he had the powers and opportunities to remove the Ekiti governor. Adesina made the disclosure in an article he wrote to commemorate Buhari’s 80th birthday anniversary, slated for December 17. In his weekly article titled: ‘Buhari at 80: No Malicious Bone In His Body,’ the presidential spokesman recounted how Fayose had criticized Buhari during the 2014 campaigns. Adesina noted that after the president won the election, he could have retaliated against Fayose by mobilizing the state House…
The Leader of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has sent warnings to the President of Southern Sudan, Salva Kiir ahead of the 2024 presidential election coming up in the country. In a statement signed by his Media Aide, Osho Oluwatosin, Primate Ayodele noted that Kiir is a good candidate to take the country forward but there will be serious gang-ups against his ambition. The man of God who had prophesied the adoption of Kiir as his party’s candidate in the election revealed that there would be many troubles, crises and betrayals against his presidential ambition. Primate Ayodele…
Speaking at a conference of Orthodox Jews on Friday, Donald Trump did not address a widely criticized private meal he shared last month with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist and a rapper who has spewed antisemitic conspiracies. The former president told the audience he was the best ally you’ve ever had. Over and over, Trump heaped praise on the Jewish people and highlighted his support for Israel as he addressed the annual President’s Conference of Torah Umesorah at his National Doral club in Miami. He alleged Congress was almost anti-Israel and said without evidence that some Democrats in Washington hate Israel…