Nepal’s ruling alliance has won a majority of seats in four of the seven provinces, as the Election Commission announced the results for the provincial Assembly polls. The results of the provincial Assembly polls were announced on Wednesday evening, Xinhua news agency reported. No single party has commanded a majority in all the seven provincial assemblies, as is the case for the House of Representatives of the parliament. The four ruling parties – the Nepali Congress, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center), the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) and the Loktantrik Samajbadi Party — are in the majority…
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As the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign train arrives in Osun State, residents of Osogbo have lamented the untold traffic hardship it has imposed on them. The PDP presidential rally is holding on Wednesday, December 7, 2022, at the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, Osogbo. Most routes in the town have been blocked as both commercial cars and motorcyclists as well as private vehicles have been forced to take alternative routes. Residents have also complained of the traffic congestion as most of them were not aware of the presidential rally that has been scheduled for today in Osogbo. While complaining that…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that 132,626 Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) belonging to voters in the 21 local government areas of Anambra State are still uncollected. The commission also stated that it has relocated six local government area collection centres in the state, as a result of the insecurity ravaging most parts of the country. The state’s Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr Queen Elizabeth Agwu, stated this on Wednesday, during a meeting with stakeholders at the state headquarters of the commission. Agwu who addressed all the political parties representatives, traditional rulers and civil society groups said the…
A federal High Court sitting in Abuja has voided the primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ebonyi State, just a few months before the general election. Recall that the Party, PDP, in its first primary election conducted in May 28th and 29th 2022, elected Mr. Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii as its gubernatorial candidate in Ebonyi State. The party also held another primary election on the 4th and 5th of June 2022, which produced Obinna Ogba as its factional governorship candidate. It was gathered that the 1st primary election of the PDP which produced Odii as a guber candidate…
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has ruled that the National Assembly candidates of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State can take part in the 2023 general elections. The Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State had filed a suit seeking the court to disqualify the APC National Assembly candidates for alleged non-compliance with the Electoral Act in the conduct of the party primaries. The PDP prayed the court to direct the Independent National Electoral Commission to delist the names of the APC candidates from the election. But the presiding judge, Justice Turaki Muhammed on Wednesday struck out…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is attending a pair of regional summits in Saudi Arabia this week amid efforts to kick-start economic growth weighed down by strict anti-COVID-19 measures. The Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Xi will attend the inaugural China-Arab States Summit and a meeting with leaders of the six nations that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council in the Saudi capital of Riyadh. His state visit to Saudi Arabia will end on Saturday. China is the world’s second largest economy and a major source of outward investment. To fuel massive demand, it imports half its oil, of which…
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday reaffirmed the government’s strong commitment to supporting all efforts that promote and uphold freedom of expression and free media. He was addressing an event organised by the Islamabad Journalist Safety Forum on the theme of the UN ten years Plan of Action, according to an official statement. The Prime Minister said his government believes that the freedom of expression is sacrosanct and will remain at the heart of the development of democracy. Shehbaz noted democracy and media reinforce each other and that there can be no democracy without freedom of expression and…
The Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Jigawa has accused the ruling All Progressive Congress APC in the state of planning to buy votes during the 2023 general election. The National PDP Youth leader Mohammed Kadade Suleman made the allegations after presenting flags to the party’s candidates held at the state headquarters in Dutse, Jigawa State. He said the mammoth crowd is a clear indication that Jigawa State is for PDP and people are ready to vote out APC coming 2023 general election. “I heard one minister from Katsina State say APC has saved money and is planning to buy votes…
The Zamfara north senatorial district of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded that former chairman, Dr Ahmad Sani Kaura who died recently be replaced by somebody from the zone. A group known as “Zamfara Youth Forum” appealed to the leadership of the party to look into the matter and return the chairmanship position of the party to the zone, considering that Nigeria is in a democratic era. The youth forum explained that its attention was drawn to the rumours of plans to give the position to another senatorial district. The leader of the forum, Abba Muhammad Gusau made the…
A public commentator, Alhaji Ahmed Bakare, has urged Nigerians to vote wisely in the 2023 general elections. He said that the electorates should be very careful, saying that the time has come to push out the old brigades in Nigeria’s political system. He, however, blamed the Federal Government for its inability to address the teething security challenges bedevilling the entire country. Bakare, while speaking with DAILY POST in Gusau, the state capital, said the federal government has no reason for its inability to end banditry and insurgency. “We unitedly voted Buhari into power in 2015 as a former military man…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has criticized his counterparts from the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar. Tinubu said Atiku and Obi are not competent and are not qualified to become Nigeria’s president. He disclosed this during his interview with BBC Africa. The APC presidential candidate said none of those contending for the Presidency has the track record to occupy the highest political office in the country. This was as he boasted of being the only qualified candidate to become Nigeria’s president. Tinubu also expressed optimism that the 2023 elections…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has lamented over the poor turnout in the collection of Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVC) in Kogi State ahead of the 2023 general election. INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Kogi State, Dr Hale Gabriel Longpet disclosed this during an interview with InfoStride News in his office on Tuesday. He said voters in Kogi State are expected to be 1.9 million which include those who registered between 2019 to June 2022. Dr Longpet said as of 2nd of December 2022, out of 154,984 voters cards which were produced for voters who registered in 2019, only…
Former lawmaker Senator Shehu Sani has reacted to an alleged threat by a member of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa to members of his constituency. Sani expressed his concern on Tuesday in a post via his Twitter handle. Doguwa was caught on video issuing a threat to his constituents to either vote for the All Progressives Congress, APC, on election day or be dealt with. According to the report, Doguwa, who spoke mainly in Hausa and also used abusive language to threaten prospective voters, said: “To God who made me, on election day, you must vote for APC, or…
Nigerians of voting age resident in the United Kingdom and various parts of the world have dragged President Muhammadu Buhari and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before a Federal High Court in Abuja seeking enforcement of their fundamental rights to vote in the 2023 general elections. In the suit marked FHC/ ABJ/ CS/2119/2022, they are praying the court to stop Buhari and INEC from further proceeding with the 2023 electioneering process until INEC’S voter register and bio-data base are updated to accommodate them as registered voters. The plaintiffs in the suit are Barrister Chikwe Nkemnacho and Kenneth Azubuike Nkemnacho,…
The Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma on Tuesday received the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi in Owerri, the state capital. The former Anambra governor is in Imo for the flag-off of the Labour Party’s presidential campaign. The part which made the disclosure in a tweet on its verified Twitter handle claimed that Obi would be the next president of the country. The tweet reads, “Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma welcomes the People’s President @PeterObi, to the Eastern Heartland for @NgLabour 2023 Presidential Campaign Flag-off. “Even APC know the next President of Nigeria. A New Nigeria is Possible!…
North Korea on Tuesday fired a barrage of artillery rounds into waters near rival South Korea for the second consecutive day in a tit-for-tat response for the South’s live-fire drills in an inland border region. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected North Korea firing around 90 artillery rounds from a front-line area along its eastern coast around 10 a.m. It said the shells, which were likely from multiple rocket launchers, landed in the northern side of a maritime buffer zone the Koreas established in 2018 to reduce border tensions. The firings came shortly after the North Korean…
Pakistan’s Election Commission on Tuesday initiated the process to remove Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan from his post following his disqualification in the Toshakhana case. A notice has been issued to the former prime minister and the case has been fixed for hearing on December 13, the Dawn newspaper reported, quoting a top ECP official. Khan,70, is in the crosshairs for buying gifts, including an expensive Graff wristwatch he had received as the premier at a discounted price from the state depository called Toshakhana and selling them for profit. He was later disqualified by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)…
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has addressed the controversies concerning his age, school and work history. Tinubu provided these answers while speaking at Chatham House in London, UK on Monday. The former governor of Lagos State noted that he was born on March 29, 1952. He bragged that those who disputed claims that he’s from the Tinubu family should request for a DNA test. On his academic and work records, Tinubu claimed he has received his original certificate from Chicago State University. He also said Mobil Oil has attested to his outstanding record.…
The All Progressives Grand Alliance has expressed concern over attempts by alleged political traducers to deliberately destabilize the party. The party said it is poised to go into the coming elections and secure victory in the majority of elective political offices in Abia State, including the senate, house of representatives, state assembly and local government areas councils. Ozonkpu Victor Ike Oye, the national chairman of APGA was speaking during the recent meeting of the National Working Committee of the party held at the national secretariat in Abuja, wherein, he evaluated the outcome of various primaries done throughout the country and…
The Association of Igbo Town Unions, ASETU, on Sunday, disclosed that it was yet to make a statement on the candidate it would support during the 2023 presidential election. This was contained in a communique issued after the group’s meeting in Enugu, signed by the National President, Chief Emeka Diwe. ASETU said it was deliberately delaying making a categorical statement on its preferred presidential candidate, “to allow Nigerians all over the world to make informed choices devoid of tribal or any other cheap considerations.” While expressing satisfaction at the level of political consciousness Nigerians are showing towards the 2023 Presidential…