The Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi has lambasted the Federal Government over sponsoring the training of public office holders while Nigerian varsity students are out of school due to prolonged strikes. InfoStride News recalls that photos of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, emerged online a few days ago as he was undergoing a course at the John F Kennedy School of Government at the Harvard Business School. Gbajabiamila’s course at Havard, allegedly sponsored by the government came to light amid the controversy and rift between the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU and the…
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A court in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong has handed down a six-year jail term to an outspoken poet who called on ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping to step down, two years after his trial, a media outlet reported. Zhang Guiqi, 49, who is widely known by his penname Lu Yang, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment by the Liaocheng Intermediate People’s Court, which found him guilty two years ago of ‘incitement to subvert state power’, RFA reported. ‘They informed his family by phone that he has been sentenced,’ Independent Chinese PEN’s freelance coordinator Zhang Yu…
The Labour Party has said the sixteen years of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP and the seven years of the All Progressives Congress rule in Nigeria are a total waste. A Labour Party gubernatorial candidate in Jigawa State, Abdullahi Tsoho Garba stated this while addressing party supporters in a Town Hall meeting held at the NLC Headquarters in Dutse, the state capital of the state. He said the aim of the meeting was to sensitize the general public on the importance of obtaining their voter cards before the 2023 general elections. According to him “All the noise you are making…
The All Progressive Congress (APC) has berated opposition Senators at the upper chamber over moves to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari. Jigawa State APC Chairman, Aminu Ahmed Gumel disclosed this while reacting to threats from PDP lawmakers to impeach the President. Opposition Senators on Wednesday issued six weeks ultimatum to Buhari if he does not address the insecurity situation of the country. Gumel described the move as unhealthy and nefarious to Nigerian democracy. He said, “what is needed now from Senators and all Nigerians are to unite and join hands together to fight and push out those miscreants, terrorists, and their…
The governorship standard-bearer of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Abia State in the 2023 general election, Apostle Ngozika Johnson-Ogbuneke, has challenged all the gubernatorial candidates to declare their assets as a way to sanitize the rot in the system and position Abia to become the state we are desirous of. She threw the challenge during an interactive session with newsmen in Aba, the commercial nerve centre of Abia State, on Wednesday. Johnson-Ogbuneke regretted that the current situation of Abia State does not need the same people who have been in the government system and queried why a man that…
The Kaduna State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has constituted a committee to reconcile aggrieved party members in the State ahead of the 2023 elections. The reconciliation committee was mandated to reach out to members who contested primaries for the 2023 elections but lost. The APC Zonal Publicity Secretary, North West, Malam Musa Mada disclosed this in a statement issued, Wednesday, in Abuja. The statement said: “The Kaduna State APC stakeholders, led by the Governor Malam Nasiru El-Rufa’i, comprising State Working Committee, Local Government Chairmen, elected representatives, Elders, members of the State Executive Council, have ordered for immediate…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned he’s ready to use his nuclear weapons in potential military conflicts with the United States and South Korea, state media said Thursday, as he unleashed fiery rhetoric against rivals he says are pushing the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war. Kim’s speech to war veterans on the 69th anniversary of the end of the 1950-53 Korean War were apparently meant to boost internal unity in the impoverished country suffering pandemic-related economic difficulties. North Korea will likely intensify its threats against the United States and South Korea as the allies prepare to…
Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has appealed to flagbearers of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to embrace those who lost out in the primary elections. The governor made the appeal when he hosted a stakeholders’ meeting with the Northwest APC Consultative Committee, on Wednesday in Katsina. He emphasised that unity among party members had always been the gateway to victory at elections. The governor appreciated the leadership of the party in the State for constituting reconciliation committees to heal the wounds of losses at its primary elections. Masari urged chairmen of the 34 local government areas in the State…
Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, on Wednesday apologized to Nigerians over his recent post, insisting that it was not his intention to cause disaffection amid the ongoing strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other unions. InfoStride News reports that Gbajabiamila recently posted a picture of himself attending a leadership course at Harvard University in the United States of America. The 60-year-old politician came under fire for celebrating his “return to class” amid the ongoing ASUU strike. Several stakeholders and activists described the Speaker’s post as insensitive. Under Gbajabiamila’s tenure as Speaker,…
Dr Tom Otuka, a close associate of the factional governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) for the forthcoming 2023 general election in Abia State, Chief Ikechi Emenike, and Party chieftain, has dumped the party and defected to the Action Peoples Party (APP) in the state. Recall that Otuka, who hails from Ndoki-Ohanso in Ukwa east local government area of Abia State, was also the deputy governorship candidate to Emenike, a factional governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in 2019. His defection came on the heels of the recent announcement of renowned technocrat and academician, Professor Osondu Akoma…
Ahead of next year’s election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives caucus has visited a former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Daniel Bwala, to woo him to join the party. InfoStride News report that Bwala dumped the APC after its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, announced former Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima as his running mate. The leader of the delegation, House Minority Leader, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, who met with Bwala, Wednesday in his Guzape office in Abuja urged him to join the PDP to rescue Nigeria. Elumelu commended Bwala for dumping the APC on the…
The Singapore government has allowed former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to extend his stay in the country for another 14 days after he fled the crisis-hit island nation, according to a media report on Wednesday. The report on the extension of Rajapaksa’s visit pass came a day after Sri Lanka’s Cabinet spokesman Bandula Gunawardena said the ex-president was not hiding and is expected to return to the country from Singapore. Rajapaksa, 73, arrived in Singapore on July 14 on a “private visit” from the Maldives after he fled his country to escape a popular uprising against his government’s economic…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said there is a limit to what it can do in terms of curtailing vote buying during elections in the country. The INEC Commissioner representing Niger, Kogi and Kwara States in North Central Nigeria, Professor Mohammed Sani Adam, made the assertions in Minna, Niger State during a visit to monitor the ongoing voter registration exercise in the state. Prof Adam explained that vote buying is a national issue, a sociological problem and is a dimension to jeopardize the process of credible elections in Nigeria. ” There are the anti-corruption agencies like the ICPC…
The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele on Wednesday, issued a warning to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar over his ambition. Primate Ayodele in a warning to Atiku, alleged that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and three other PDP governors are planning a “great tsunami” against him if he fails to resolve the crisis within the party. He said Atiku would be shocked if he failed to strategize well as some governors would work against him in the election and the Presidency will be ceded to another person. In a…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ariyi Emami, has claimed that the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu is from Delta State. Emami made the remark while stressing that Tinubu was the best person to be APC’s presidential candidate. Addressing journalists on Tuesday, Emami described the Tinubu-Kashim Shettima ticket as a good product that the ruling party can easily market. According to Emami: “When a product is good, you don’t need a lot of advertisements to sell it. Asiwaju is a very good product in Delta State, I don’t see any difference in other parts of…
Hon Jacob Orban, member representing Katsina-Ala west at the Benue State House of Assembly, has defected from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to Peoples Democratic party, PDP. Orban’s defection was contained in a letter to the Speaker of the State Assembly, Rt Hon Titus Uba and read by the Deputy Speaker, Rt Hon Christopher Adaji who presided during Tuesday’s plenary on 26th July, 2022. He cited lack of internal democracy in the APC as the major factor that informed his defection, noting that the development had led to the spring up of several factions and aggrieved groups within the broom…
US officials say they have little fear that China would attack Nancy Pelosi’s plane if she flies to Taiwan. But the US House speaker would be entering one of the world’s hottest spots where a mishap, misstep or misunderstanding could endanger her safety. So the Pentagon is developing plans for any contingency. Officials told The Associated Press that if Pelosi goes to Taiwan still an uncertainty the military would increase its movement of forces and assets in the Indo-Pacific region. They declined to provide details, but said that fighter jets, ships, surveillance assets and other military systems would likely…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Benue State has been hit with another crisis as stakeholders of the party from the Benue South Senatorial District rejected Sam Ode, running mate of the APC governorship candidate, Fr. Hyacinth Alia. The Zone C APC elders had issued a statement rejecting the reported choice of Ode as the running mate of Fr Alia. The party stakeholders, on Tuesday, insisted that they have not had any conversation with the said Ode and wondered why he was declared the deputy governorship candidate. The elders had denied knowledge of Ode being nominated as the deputy governorship…
The Governor-elect of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has constituted a 37-man transition committee to facilitate a smooth transition between the incumbent and the newly-elected administration in the state. A statement issued by the media office of the Governor-elect disclosed that the transition committee is made up of seasoned technocrats, present and former public office holders and experts from a diverse field of endeavour, including the academia, finance, law, engineering, labour, local government administration and the media. The Committee is to be chaired by a Doctor of Nuclear Medicine and a Fellow of the Euro Institute of Reticulo-endothelial Biology &…
The Ekiti State Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Ado-Ekiti has granted two prayers of the candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Chief Segun Oni, who is challenging the victory of the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Mr. Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji, at the just concluded governorship election in Ekiti State. The tribunal members which had its inaugural sitting today were led by Justice Wilfred I. Kpochi, chairman, Justice Sa’ad I. Zadawa (Member 1) and Justice Jacob A. Atsen (Member 2). The tribunal granted the prayers of the SDP candidate, Segun Oni, in the motion ex-parte: “an order of leave to…