For the 21st year in a row, the US has designated North Korea as a state violator of religious freedom. “I am announcing designations against Burma (Myanmar), the People’s Republic of China, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, Nicaragua, the DPRK, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan as Countries of Particular Concern under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 for having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement on Friday. DPRK stands for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, North Korea’s official name,reports Yonhap News Agency. According to the…
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President Joe Biden on Thursday tried to allay concerns raised by French President Emmanuel Macron about a clean energy law that benefits electric vehicles and other products made in North America. But the US and Europe remain divided over the landmark law. Hours before hosting Macron at a state dinner, Biden acknowledged that the law contains glitches, but said there are tweaks we can make to satisfy France and other European allies. The United States makes no apology. And I make no apologies,” Biden said, but changes may be needed to the four-month-old law “to make it easier for European…
The Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Niger State, Mr Joshua Bawa has called on other gubernatorial candidates to submit themselves to a drug test to prove they are not conducting campaigns or holding meetings under the influence of hard drugs. The LP governorship candidate made the call at the Peace Empowerment Security Summit organized by a group of youths under the aegis of Mandate Youths in Minna. Bawa argued that the call became necessary due to the behavioural pattern of some of the youths who follow the alleged politicians around the state. Bawa insisted:” I am ready to submit…
The national leadership of the Labour Party has raised the alarm alleging that their party structures at both state and federal levels have been infiltrated by opposition parties. Labour Party National Secretary, Mr Umar-Farouk Ibrahim stated this while reacting to the suspension of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) Director-General, Doyin Okupe, during a press conference in Abuja on Friday. Recall that the Ogun State chapter of the party had on Thursday, suspended Okupe and 10 other party members for various offences. However, Ibrahim who declared the suspension null and void accused opposition parties of orchestrating the crisis in the…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to call Zamfara State governor, Bello Matawalle to order over his alleged role in the ongoing clampdown on its leaders. PDP also charged the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba to investigate the Zamfara State government. Addressing a press conference, PDP National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, on Friday, said the All Progressives Congress (APC) is disoriented by the increasing popularity of the PDP and its candidates ahead of the 2023 general elections. According to Ologunagba, APC has allegedly scaled up vicious assault and clampdown on PDP candidates…
The Labour Party, LP, has reacted to the purported suspension of its Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) Director-General, Doyin Okupe, saying it is null and void. This was disclosed in Abuja on Friday by the National Secretary of the party, Mr Umar-Farouk Ibrahim. Ibrahim said that the leadership of the party was shocked at the suspension by the Ogun chapter, as it was without due process. “The Ogun State Chapter has acted outside its constitutional jurisdiction; the party has an internal conflict resolution mechanism of handling cases against members as enshrined in the party’s constitution,” he said. He further added that…
A former Minister of Mines and Steel, Elder Wole Oyelese, and prominent leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State have pledged to work against any member who refuses to support the presidential candidate of the party in 2023, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku. The PDP leaders made this disclosure during the meeting and inauguration of over 400 support groups for Atiku on Thursday. Oyelese, Engineer Femi Babalola and other prominent PDP leaders from the 33 local government areas of the state were in attendance. Oyelese while speaking after he was appointed and inaugurated as grand patron of all Atiku…
The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organization has said the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, should focus on the whereabouts of “his imported wife.” The Atiku/Okowa campaign Organization urged Nigerians not to take Oshiomhole seriously because he was unstable. It was reacting to Oshiomhole’s comment where he described the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar as a ‘serial betrayer’ and a ‘divorcee,’ who can’t unite the country. Oshiomhole also labeled Atiku as the weakest among the top presidential candidates vying for the 2023 election. However, the Atiku/Okowa campaign Organization said the APC Presidential Campaign…
Ahead of the 2023 elections, the presidential flagbearer of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso has arrived in the United State of America to interact with some officials of the government. The former Kano State Governor made this known in a tweet on his verified Twitter handle on Thursday night. Sharing photos of his arrival, the NNPP candidate wrote, “I’ve just arrived for my interaction with some senior officials of the United States Government, in Washington DC”. Other presidential candidates, including Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party were recently…
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has again lambasted the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, noting that the former Vice President is merely wasting his time. This was contained in a statement made available to DAILY POST on Friday by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, Secretary-General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide. The Ohanaeze scribe said Atiku was a victim of nemesis, stressing that he was reaping the fruit of what he did to former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015. “Nemesis has caught up with Atiku Abubakar after he treacherously rounded hijacked some governors in 2015 to provide the…
Former President Barack Obama and Sen. Raphael Warnock on Thursday urged Democratic voters to keep pushing an apparent head start in early voting in the Georgia Senate runoff against Republican Herschel Walker, ahead of Friday’s last day of early in-person voting and Tuesday’s election day. If they didn’t get tired, you can’t get tired, Obama told a crowd gathered in a cavernous former railroad repair shop east of downtown Atlanta. Voters have already cast more than 1.4 million ballots amid an all-hands-on-deck push by Democrats to bank as many votes as possible while Republicans, especially Walker, have taken a less…
The Treasury Department said on Wednesday it has complied with a court order to make former President Donald Trump’s tax returns available to a congressional committee. The Supreme Court last week rejected Trump’s request for an order that would have prevented the Treasury Department from giving six years of tax returns for Trump and some of his businesses to the Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee. The court, without dissent, cleared the legal obstacle to disclosure of Trump’s tax returns. A department spokesperson said Treasury has complied with last week’s court decision but declined to say whether the committee had…
Reno Omokri, a socio-political activist has said the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi will lose the 2023 election. Omokri said Obi knows he would lose the presidential election and fade away in history’s dustbin. In a series of tweets, the social critic insisted that Obi was ill-prepared for the presidency. He noted that barely two months to the presidential election, the former Anambra State governor has not presented his manifesto. Omokri accused the LP presidential candidate of churning out fake economic statistics. He wrote: “Peter Obi will definitely lose the 2023 election and fade away into history’s dustbin.…
A former House of Representatives member, Ned Nwoko, has called on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to expel Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State from the party, following his grievance with the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Nwoko accused Wike of trying to destroy the PDP because he out-spent Atiku and other aspirants during the party’s presidential primaries. The constitutional lawyer wondered if Wike would have campaigned against Atiku if he had been picked as the party’s presidential running mate. Wike has been at loggerheads with the PDP leadership after he lost at the party’s presidential primaries. While accepting Atiku…
The crisis within the Niger state Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, might have been resolved, following resolutions taken at a series of meetings held in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, recently to ensure successful outing in the 2023 governorship election. The meetings were allegedly held at the residence of the party’s gubernatorial standard bearer, Alh Isah Liman Kantig,i between the elders and executive members of the party It was gathered that the faction of former Governor Aliyu led by Hon. Sani Kutigi was in attendance. InfoStride News learnt some of the resolutions reached were that Hon. Sani Kutigi should not…
A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has raised concerns over the current developments in the political space. According to Jega, he has palpable fears about the outcome of the 2023 general elections. He stated this while speaking at a colloquium organised by the Electoral Hub in Abuja on Wednesday. Jega, however, expressed optimism that Nigeria will pull through the current challenges. “I have a lot of fears about the outcome of the election. But you will see people like me are what I’ll call an incurable optimist about the future of our country.…
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “failing in his brutal war of aggression” in Ukraine and is “responding with more brutality”. He made the statement on Tuesday while attending a forum in the Romanian capital of Bucharest. In his opening remarks, Stoltenberg said that in response to Russia’s full-fledged invasion of Ukraine, “we are raising the readiness of our troops”. “We have doubled the number of NATO battlegroups from four to eight, including one in Romania, led by France,” he said. The Secretary General stressed that NATO allies and the alliance are not a…
A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has accused the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi’s supporters, popularly known as Obidients, of threatening to kill, rape, and maim those supporting Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC. To this end, Fani-Kayode urged Obi to call his followers to order. He warned that Obi’s supporters would be held responsible if anything happened to Tinubu’s followers. In a series of tweets, Fani-Kayode said Obi’s supporters found wanting would be made to face the consequences of their actions. He wrote: “@Peter Obi, tell ur little e-rat bullies & thugs to stop threatening to kill,…
The Lagos State Government has announced road closure for the All Progressives Congress (APC) march on Wednesday. Commissioner for Transportation, Frederic Oladeinde, issued an advisory on Tuesday. The traffic diversion is the second in five days after Saturday’s rally for presidential candidate Bola Tinubu and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. This time, the government said the APC Presidential and Gubernatorial Campaign Team would go on a walk. The ‘Ring out the Vote’ event would take place from the Trade Fair to Iyana-Iba, along Lagos-Badagry Expressway from 7:a:m. Oladeinde told Lagos residents to plan their movement around the corridor as travel time might…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano state has called for proper investigation by the state police command currently holding in its custody, two members of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Imam Dayyabu and Nasir Sani, for allegedly leading other party members to attack people and destroy APC campaign properties on Saturday and Sunday at Galadanci Quarters in Gwale local Government Area of the state. The APC, which made the call in a statement issued by the spokesperson for the Gawuna/Garo Campaign Council and Commissioner For Information and Internal Affairs, Malam Muhammad Garba, said the thugs brandishing dangerous weapons,…