One month on since Rishi Sunak took charge as Britain’s first Indian-origin Prime Minister, indications on Friday are that his popularity with the UK electorate remains on stronger ground than that of the governing Conservative Party. The 42-year-old former chancellor had pitched himself as a steady hand to steer the country’s economy through a tumultuous cost-of-living crisis in the wake of the COVID pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. With predecessor Liz Truss making the dubious history of being Britain’s shortest incumbent at 10 Downing Street after a disastrous unfunded mini-budget, his message of clamping down on inflation on a war…
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An inquiry into a former Australian prime minister secretly appointing himself to multiple ministries recommended Friday that all such appointments be made public in future to preserve trust in government. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he would recommend his Cabinet accept all of the retired judge’s recommendations at a meeting next week. Albanese ordered the inquiry in August after revelations that his predecessor Prime Minister Scott Morrison had taken the unprecedented steps of appointing himself to five ministerial roles between March 2020 and May 2021, usually without the knowledge of the existing minister. The extraordinary power grab came to light…
The Lagos State Government has announced traffic diversion for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential and governorship candidates, Bola Tinubu and Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The event is slated for Saturday at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Surulere. The rallies will be held between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. according to Commissioner for Transportation, Frederic Oladeinde. Lagos residents were asked to plan their movement around Teslim Balogun Stadium, Funsho Williams Avenue and Alhaji Masha. Motorists on Funsho Williams/Western Avenue inward Lagos Island will be diverted to the Express Lanes at Barracks for people going to Costain, Apapa, Ijora, Victoria Island, Lagos Island,…
The camp of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has slammed the All Progressives Congress, APC, National Chairman, Adamu Abdullahi, over his concerns about using Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for the 2023 general election. Dele Momodu, the PDP Director of Strategic Communications, said Adamu is jittery over using BVAS in the 2023 elections, adding that the ruling party is afraid that technology would expose them. The APC National Chairman had said Nigeria was not ready to use BVAS using elections. Adamu raised the concern while addressing a Commonwealth delegation on the 2023 general election in Abuja…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Nasarawa State has boasted that it will relocate Governor Abdullahi Sule to Saudi Arabia after the 2023 elections. The State PDP chairman, Mr. Francis Orogu made the assertion on Thursday during a media dialogue in Karu Local Government Area of the State. According to Orogu, the governor lacked the capacity to ensure effective administration of the State. “The APC, by all indices, has failed our people; the coming election is therefore just a walkover for the PDP. By 2023, we will relocate him to Saudi Arabia,” the Chairman said. He assured that the PDP…
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has pledged to negotiate with all agitators in the Southeast amid Biafra agitation led by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Tinubu said the negotiation with all agitators would ensure peace in the Southeast if elected president in 2023. He made the pledge during Thursday’s APC presidential and governorship campaign rally in Ebonyi State. Tinubu insisted that negotiation was the best way for people to get their demands and complaints rather than resorting to violence. He also promised to invest in education if elected president.…
Germany’s foreign minister appealed on Thursday for greater scrutiny of Iran ahead of a special session by the UN’s top human rights body devoted to the Islamic Republic’s bloody crackdown on protesters. All our efforts go to the people who demand their rights with courage and dignity, Annalena Baerbock, the foreign minister, said in a statement. For these demands alone, they are killed by the hundreds, arrested by the thousands, and oppressed by the millions. The Human Rights Council was set to debate and vote on a proposal, presented by Germany and Iceland and backed by dozens of other countries,…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has promised $10b for the prosecution of youth employment and empowerment of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises if elected president in the 2023 general elections. He made the pledge in Ilorin on Thursday at the flag-off of his presidential campaign for the North Central geopolitical zone, held at the Metropolitan Square along Asa Dam Road. Atiku further promised to address the issues of insecurity and the poor economic situation of the country. He urged the party supporters and people of Kwara State to vote massively for PDP in…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Femi Fani-Kayode, has identified the biggest challenge the party will face in 2023. Fani-Kayode identified complacency as the biggest challenge the APC would face in 2023. The APC Presidential Campaign Council spokesperson disclosed this in his latest article. The former Aviation minister urged APC supporters to “struggle for every vote.” The APC chieftain also urged the ruling party not to allow “anything to divide” them. According to Fani-Kayode: “The biggest challenge that we face is complacency. “We must take nothing for granted, we must fight for every inch of space and we…
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) will file an appeal at the Federal Appeal Court to challenge the action, activity and decision of the INEC in preparations for the 2023 general elections. The suit (No. FHC/KD/CS/116/2022) was earlier dismissed by the Federal High Court, Kaduna Judicial Division on 22nd November 2022 on the ground that the suit was statute-barred, as according to the court, the suit was challenging the erstwhile ward congresses for the election of delegates and primary elections of the APC conducted in April and May 2022 respectively. Briefing newsmen in Kaduna on Wednesday, the NNPP gubernatorial candidate…
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday reversed the unlawful substitution of the Labour Party (LP) senatorial candidate for Enugu West Senatorial District, Honourable Chukwuma Amadi. The judge while reversing the unlawful substitution affirmed that Amadi remains the candidate of the party unless he withdraws his candidacy or occurrence of death. Delivering judgment in a suit instituted by Amadi against Labour Party to challenge his purported substitution, Justice Ekwo removed honourable Uchenna Ekwe, who was unlawfully nominated to replace the plaintiff. Justice Ekwo invoked sections 29, 31,32, 33 and 34 of the Electoral Act to nullify…
The project, costing approximately $500 million, was planned under the Sri Lankan governmentâs renewable push. Sri Lanka’s ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was issued a notice by the Supreme Court on Thursday over a presidential pardon granted by him to a former lawmaker of his party who was convicted in a murder of a party colleague in 2011. Rajapaksa, who pardoned Duminda Silva– a former parliamentarian from his Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party, has been issued a second summons since he left office in July this year. Silva who was sentenced to death in 2017 for involvement in the 2011…
Adetokunbo Pearse, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Committee member for Atiku Abubakar, has urged the party to expel Bode George. The chieftain accused the former Deputy National Chairman of anti-party activities. Pearse made this call at a news conference on Wednesday at the PDP secretariat in Lagos. His comments followed George’s meeting with five governors led by Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike. Wike, colleagues and other aggrieved stalwarts announced the formation of Integrity Group on Sunday. They reiterated their demand that National Chairman Iyorchia Ayu should resign for a Southerner to succeed him since Atiku hails from the North.…
Governor Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa State, on Wednesday, urged the electorate to vote for Sen. Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023 for continuity. The governor said that voting for Tinubu was important in order to ensure that he continued with the road, rail line and other Federal Government projects initiated by President Muhammadu Buhari in the State. Badaru spoke in Gumel shortly after presenting flags to APC’s candidates contesting for various elective positions in Jigawa Northwest Senatorial District. He said that APC remained the only party trusted by people in the State and…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out a request seeking to nullify the candidature of Bola Tinubu for the 2023 election. The Action Peoples Party (APP) dragged the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential flagbearer to court. Suit no. FHC/UM/CS/124/2022 joined the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the first defendant. The former Lagos governor is the second defendant, and the ruling APC the third defendant. The plaintiff argued that Tinubu allegedly submitted to the 1st defendant false information in his form EC9. They said he failed to include his primary and secondary education in his form CF001 of…
The Court of Appeal has fixed Thursday, November 24, to give judgment in the appeal against a high court ruling voiding the governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa State. The Federal High Court sitting in Yola had last month quashed the Adamawa APC governorship primary held in May, canceled the candidacy of Senator Aishatu Ahmed Binani who won that primary, and declared that the APC had no governorship candidate for the 2023 governorship election in the state. The APC, Binani, and Nuhu Ribadu, who instituted the original suit at the high court, had taken the case…
After Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva narrowly won in Brazil’s presidential elections last month, outgoing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has filed a petition to formally challenge the poll results, CNN reported. In the petition filed on November 22, Bolsonaro and the leaders of his Liberal Party claimed that some voting machines had malfunctioned and demanded the annulment of votes cast through them. Following the election results, Bolsonaro has not accepted his defeat in the presidential elections. However, he had said previously that he will continue to “fulfil all commandments of the constitution.” The complaint revealed that removing those votes…
The Supreme Court sitting in Abuja has struck out an appeal by Mr Mbam Ojemba Chikodili Fidelis challenging the victory of Senator Sam Egwu in the May 29 PDP primaries. Egwu a two-time ex-governor of Ebonyi State is seeking for reelection to represent Ebonyi North Senatorial District in the National Assembly for the third time. Recall that Ojemba, an aspirant in the last primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ebonyi State that took place at the People’s Club Abakaliki, lost out to Senator Egwu who secured the highest vote cast. DAILY POST gathered that Ojemba had since…
Counsel to former Gov. Segun Oni and SDP candidate in the last gubernatorial election in Ekiti state has told the Ekiti Governorship Election Tribunal that the All Progressive Congress, APC, had no candidate in the June 18 guber poll. Segun Oni said this on Wednesday in Ado -Ekiti, at the Ekiti Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, at its resumed hearing. The tribunal, led by Justice Wilfred Kpochi had resumed sitting for the lawyers of the petitioner and the respondents, to finally present their written addresses to the tribunal. Segun Oni who is the Social Democratic Party(SDP) governorship candidate in the June…
The deputy governorship candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Ogun State, Shakirat Arowolo, has said women in Nigeria, Africa and the world at large should start clamouring for 50 per cent affirmative action, saying the usual 35 per cent is no longer tenable. According to Arowolo, women in Nigerian politics have been sidelined by their male counterparts, who considered them weak. Arowolo spoke in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, during the party’s campaign flag-off held at Adatan, Abeokuta. Arowolo called all women to stand up for their rights stating “it’s time to speak out.” She charged that…