Ahead of the 2023 general election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday announced that a total of 1,091,157 old Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) are still uncollected by their owners in Lagos state. The commission also said that after two months it flagged off distribution of 34,242 newly printed PVCs for new registrants; only 6, 382 applicants had come for collection across the state. Mr Olusegun Agbaje, the Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC, made this known at the Stakeholders’ Meeting on Election with leaders of political parties, on Tuesday in Ikeja. Agbaje described the low rate of PVCs collection…
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The South East Revival Group (SERG) has hailed the “rare patriotic view” of Hakeem Baba-Ahmed on Labour Party (LP) presidential flag bearer, Peter Obi Baba-Ahmed, a former permanent secretary, served as Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) secretary. The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) spokesman recently met Obi whom he commended for his zeal to fix the country. “I wish those who see him as an ethnic candidate can get to know him better. I also wish those who try to sell him will tone down his ethnic identity. “I hope the nation will see the candidates up close, we could see…
China’s latest assistance is in addition to Beijing rolling over USD 4.5 billion debt due to be paid by Islamabad in March this year and USD 2.5 billion given in 2019 to boost the sagging foreign exchange reserves of Pakistan. China has again rushed to bail out Pakistan by providing USD 2.5 billion in assistance to prop up the fast-depleting foreign exchange reserves of its cash-strapped all-weather ally, months after it rolled over a USD 4.5 billion loan due to be paid this year. The announcement of the Chinese assistance came after France signed an agreement with Pakistan to suspend…
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, refused to grant a motion, seeking an order compelling Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from accepting Bola Tinubu as presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The court also declined to grant the prayer, asking INEC from recognising Atiku Abubakar as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate for the next year’s poll. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling, ordered the plaintiffs; Incorporated Trustees of Rights for All International (RAI) and Northern Nigerian Youth Democrats (NNYD) to put all the defendants on notice. Justice Ekwo, who refused to grant prayers one, two…
A former Special Assistant to a former Governor of Kaduna State, Namadi Sambo, Zachariah Diwong, has described as ridiculous, claims by the Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Ango Abdullahi, that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar cannot fix Nigeria. Abdulahi had in a recent interview with a national paper suggested that Nigeria will be in chaos if either the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu or Atiku emerged President of Nigeria. Diwong in a statement issued Tuesday said only the people of Nigeria have the right to decide who…
Pastor Paul Enenche of Dunamis International Gospel Center on Tuesday, lambasted Nigerian politicians and leaders of major political parties for denying Southerners tickets for the 2023 presidential elections. Speaking during the healing and deliverance service at the church’s headquarters, Glory Dome Abuja on Tuesday, the fiery gospel preacher lamented how ethnic and religious groups are being marginalized in the country. The clergyman claimed major political parties, including the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC should have zoned the presidency to the South-east to calm the ongoing agitation for secession. He said, “When president Olusegun Obasanjo…
The Senate on Tuesday mandated the Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, to go ahead with the probe of the crisis in the judiciary by looking into the complaints raised in the petition by the Justices of the Supreme Court. It also tasked the committee to interface with the three arms of government, as well as the Bar and the Bench to collate aggregate views and positions on the short-term, medium-term and long-term measures needed to decisively address the crisis facing the Judiciary. The Senate explained that such measures must include the immediate fiscal intervention as well as…
A conservative lawyer who aided former President Donald Trump’s efforts to undo the 2020 election results and who has been repeatedly referenced in House hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol said Monday that federal agents seized his cell phone last week. John Eastman said the agents took his phone as he left a restaurant last Wednesday evening, the same day law enforcement officials conducted similar activity around the country as part of broadening investigations into efforts by Trump allies to overturn the election results in an unsuccessful bid to keep the Republican president in power.…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has approved the appointment of Mr Bamidele Olugbenga Agbede as the new Head of Service in the State Civil Service. Agbede, until his new appointment was the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works and Transport. He takes over from the State’s first female Head of Service, Mrs Peju Babafemi, who is billed to retire from the State Civil Service on June 30th, having attained the mandatory 35years in the service. Agbede’s appointment as Head of Service takes effect from July 1, 2022. Meanwhile, Governor Fayemi has commended Mrs Babafemi for her demonstrated brilliance, diligence and…
After losing the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential ticket, Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, on Monday said he has opted out of the 2023 electoral cycle and will not run on any other political platform. Recall that Moghalu, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria was the presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) in the 2019 elections but defected to the ADC in the build-up to the 2023 party primaries to pursue his presidential aspiration. Moghalu after losing the ADC primaries to Dumebi Kachikwu, on June 8 in Abeokuta, Ogun, resigned from the party. Moghalu, in a…
The Chairman of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), in Abia State, Nelcinn Chimex Uluocha, has vowed that the party would take over the governance of the state in 2023 and render efficient and quality services to the people. He spoke at a massive rally to unveil the candidates under the platform of the YPP, held at Ngwa High School, Aba during the weekend. Uluocha reiterated the readiness of the party to change the status quo and position the state on the path of growth and development, admonishing the youths and all progressive-minded Abians who long for a better Abia to…
The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Ebonyi State, Mr. Stanley Okoro Emegha on Monday blamed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for allegedly stepping down the name of the state governor, David Umahi from the shortlisted APC senatorial candidates. Emegha who spoke to journalists in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, said the stepping down of the governor’s name was not done by the national leadership of APC but was a minor error from the INEC. He said, “I went there, it was a minor error from the INEC side and it has been corrected. There was nothing like that, the…
President Joe Biden and western allies opened a three-day summit in the Bavarian Alps on Sunday intent on keeping economic fallout from the war in Ukraine from fracturing the global coalition working to punish Russia’s aggression. Britain’s Boris Johnson warned the leaders not to give in to fatigue even as Russia lobbed new missiles at Kyiv. The leaders were set to announce new bans on imports of Russian gold, the latest in a series of sanctions the club of democracies hopes will further isolate Russia economically. They also were looking at possible price caps on energy meant to limit Russian…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that it did not vote the sum of N6.5 trillion to compromise the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), security operatives, judicial officers and to buy votes ahead of the 2023 elections. The ruling party said it was focused on delivering the dividends of democracy to Nigerians in hope that they would reciprocate by supporting and voting for the party’s candidates come 2023 elections. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Felix Morka, in a statement issued Monday said only a party that was a masterful looter of the national treasury such as…
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has promised to help the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, find a good running mate ahead of the 2023 presidential election. Gbajabiamila made this vow while responding to Tinubu’s remarks at an event to celebrate the speaker’s 60th birthday. “You said in your address that many years ago you consulted with a younger brother on the issue of WAEC and that consultation bore fruits,” Gbajabiamila said. “I give you my own parting shot. It is that time again to consult with your younger brother. I…
Alhaji Aminu Achida, Speaker, Sokoto State House of Assembly, and three gubernatorial aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State. Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and the PDP Vice Presidential Candidate received the defectors in Sokoto State on Sunday. The gubernatorial aspirants, who defected to the PDP were identified as former Minister of Sports Yusuf Suleiman, Alhaji Abubakar Gumbi and serving Rep. Balarabe Salame. Others include, Rep. Yusuf Kurdula, Sen. Bello Gada, State lawmaker, Murtala Maigona, serving National Commissioner in the Public Complaints Commission and Sen. Jibril Gada. Okowa…
Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and a former Chairman of Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State, Alhaji Jelani Danbuga, has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). This was contained in a statement by Malam Bashar Abubakar, the Special Assistant to Sen. Aliyu Wamakko (APC-Sokoto) on New Media, and issued to NAN in Abuja on Monday. Abubakar disclosed that Wamakko, who is also the leader of the party in the State, received Danbuga into the APC fold on Saturday in Sokoto. According to him, Wamakko described the defection of Danbuga as a “welcome development and promised,…
President Joe Biden rarely mentions his predecessor by name. But as he spoke to a nation processing a seismic shift in the rights of women, he couldn’t ignore Donald Trump’s legacy. It was three justices named by one president Donald Trump who were the core of today’s decision to upend the scales of justice and eliminate a fundamental right for women in this country, Biden said Friday after the Supreme Court’s conservative majority voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling from 1973 that provided constitutional protections for women seeking abortions. The abortion decision marked the apex in a…
A former Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima has said the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has nipped the crisis in the Senate caucus of the party in the bud. On Sunday, Shettima led some APC senators to meet with Tinubu in Abuja. Speaking with reporters after the meeting, he said Tinubu had helped to address the pressing issues among senators in the ruling party. He also said the lawmakers were ready to work for the progress of the APC in the 2023 elections. “These senators are accomplished individuals in their own right, who have…
Former member of the House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has ruled out speculations that the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria’s Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso will be a running mate to his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi. Jibrin stated this on Sunday during an interview on Channels Television amid reports that the Kwankwaso is in talks with Obi over a planned merger. He explained that Kwankwaso, who according to him is one of the most popular politicians in the northern part of the country, would garner at least 70% of total votes, stressing that Obi can only poll 30%.…