Oby Ezekwesili, a former Minister of Education, has called on the National Assembly to invite President Muhammadu Buhari to account for insecurity in the country. Ezekwesili made the call in response to the beheading of a member of the Anambra State House of Assembly, Okechukwu Okoye by unknown gunmen. Okoye’s head, without his body, was found on Saturday at Nnobi, in Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State. This development occurred days after he was abducted. The Anambra lawmaker, from Soludo’s constituency, was kidnapped last week. Reacting, Ezekwesili tweeted: “Perhaps, now that our @nassnigeria has seen that their fellow…
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Former Governorship aspirants in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State, Otunba Yinka Akerele has emerged as the party’s House of Representatives candidate for Ekiti North Federal Constituency. Akerele emerged unopposed. Joju, son of former Governor Ayo Fayose won the ticket for Ekiti Central Federal Constituency 1, comprising Ado and Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government. He polled 69 votes as against nine votes by his opponent, Deji Adeosun. Also, Fayose’s Spokesperson, Lere Olayinka, emerged candidate for Ekiti Central Federal Constituency 2. Olayinka on Sunday in Aramoko Ekiti polled a total of 54 votes to defeat a rival, Mr Victor who scored…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, on Sunday, held its primary elections to elect candidates for House of Representatives and State House of Assembly. InfoStride News gathered that the shadow elections were marred with crisis in some local governments, especially in Ogun Central and some parts of Ogun East. It was observed that there was a delay in the supply of voting materials, as the exercise did not start across the state until Sunday night. In Abeokuta South 1 & 2, Abeokuta North and Odeda, there were controversies over the list of delegates, a situation that almost disrupted…
Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the US’s Indo-Pacific strategy is “doomed to fail,” making his remarks while President Joe Biden is in the region to increase engagement with allies and counter China’s rise and influence. “Facts will prove that the so-called ‘Indo-Pacific strategy’ is essentially a strategy for creating divisions, a strategy for inciting confrontation, and a strategy for destroying peace,” the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement after Wang met his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto in Guangzhou Sunday. In his first trip to Asia as US president, Biden has met with South Korea’s newly elected leader Yoon Suk…
Some delegates to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary in Oyo State have disclosed that they have been chased out of the venue of one of the primary elections in the state. InfoStride News recalls that the party had fixed today (Sunday) as the date for the House of Assembly and House of Representatives primary elections ahead of the 2023 elections. It was however gathered that some delegates for Ibadan South East House of Assembly Constituency II have been chased out of the venue of the primary election. They claimed they were chased out of Saint John Primary School, Alake, Academy,…
The youth wing of apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has accused the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government of attempting to put the country’s democracy in jeopardy. Ohanaeze youths in a statement issued on Sunday by President-General, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike said President Muhammadu Buhari’s delay in the signing of the amended Electoral Act was not a good signal. He said some persons who do not mean well for the country were ill-advising the President. InfoStride News reports that an air of uncertainty is hovering within the political circle as political parties begin primary elections this week, even…
Ahead of the 2023 general election, an All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant in Rivers State, Bernard Mikko, has rubbished the argument that the party’s ticket should be zoned to the riverine area. Bernard, who spoke in Port Harcourt at the weekend, said the argument lacked sincerity and credibility because the entire state is riverine and no part should be categorised as more riverine than the other. Bernard, who once represented the Gokhana-Khana Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, said the fact that the state was christened Rivers explained his position that the entire state is riverine. He, however,…
The National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu has put to rest the discrepancy surrounding his health status. InfoStride News reports that there have been speculations that the former Lagos State Governor who is one of the frontline presidential aspirants under the platform of APC, has medical issues he is battling with. Several video clips had emerged on social media indicating how physically unfit the Asiwaju of Lagos is. However, speaking at the Nasarawa Government House, Lafia, on Friday while pleading with state delegates to vote for him during the May 30th APC presidential primaries, Tinubu…
Governor Samuel Ortom has charged members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, electoral panels for the House of Assembly and House of Representatives primaries to be firm, but ensure that the process is free, fair and transparent. Governor Ortom gave the charge while addressing members of the panels, made up of principally government appointees at the PDP state secretariat in Makurdi on Saturday. The primary elections for the State Assembly and House of Representatives are scheduled to hold on Sunday, 22nd May 2022 across the state. The Governor maintained that conducting transparent, free and fair primaries would give all the…
Russia said on Saturday it had so far banned 963 Americans from entering the country – including previously announced moves against President Joe Biden and other top officials – and would continue to retaliate against what it called hostile U.S. actions. The largely symbolic travel bans form part of a downward spiral in Russia’s relations with the West since its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, which prompted Washington and its allies to impose drastic sanctions on Moscow and step up arms supplies to Ukraine. Separately, the Foreign Ministry said it had added 26 new names to a list of Canadians…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said primaries to nominate candidates for State Houses of Assembly and the House of Representatives will hold Sunday, 22nd May 2022. PDP in a statement by its National Organizing Secretary, Hon. Umar M. Nature, Saturday also explained that the Senatorial Primary to elect Senatorial candidates will hold on Monday, May 23, 2022. The statement partly read “for the avoidance of doubt, the State Houses of Assembly Primaries to elect our State House of Assembly candidates will hold on Sunday, May 22, 2022, the House of Representatives Primaries to elect our House of Representatives candidates…
The leader of the All Progressives Congress APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has begged Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar to have some respect for elders and give him some delegates for the coming party’s presidential primary election. Tinubu made the request on Friday while addressing APC delegates at Manpower Development Institute, Dutse the state capital. “We are many vying for this ticket, I know my way, I know what I am running for, all of us cannot make the presidency. He begged Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar to consider his age and give him some delegates for the coming party’s presidential primary election.…
Youths of Anambra State, comprising many groups have begged the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to rescind its decision to throw open the contest for the presidential ticket, describing it as an affront to the South, especially the Southeast zone. The youths, donning white T-shirts during a rally presented a position paper to the leaders of the party in the state on the matter. They had converged on Ekwueme Square in Awka, from where they danced through the streets of Awka to the secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at Udoka Housing Estate, Awka. At the PDP secretariat, Mr Ikechukwu…
Russian troops bombarded a riverside city on Friday in what appeared to herald a major assault to seize the last remaining Ukrainian-held territory in a province it claims on behalf of separatists. Ukrainian officials said Russian forces had launched massive artillery bombardment against Sievierodonetsk, one of the last Ukrainian-held bastions in Luhansk, one of two southeastern provinces Moscow and its proxies proclaim as independent states. The city, and its twin Lyshchansk on the opposite bank of the Siverskiy Donets river, form the eastern part of a Ukrainian-held pocket that Russia has been trying to overrun since mid-April after failing to…
No fewer than five aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have indicated interest to represent Oyo North senatorial district in the National Assembly. InfoStride News gathered that the aspirants purchased the nomination and expression of interest forms and have been screened by the party few days ago in Abuja. Oyo North is made up of thirteen local government areas of Nigeria. The local government areas include 10 in Oke Ogun geopolitical zone and 3 from Ogbomoso geopolitical zone. Five people have represented the district since the beginning of the fourth republic in 1999. Those who have…
Deji Adeyanju, Abuja-based human rights activist, has identified three top top presidential aspirants in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Adeyanju explained although Peter Obi is the most popular candidate in the country, the three main candidates in the PDP by delegates power are Atiku Abubakar, Nyesome Wike and Aminu Tambuwal. He further disclosed that the PDP Governors are torn between supporting Wike and Tambuwal, but there are indications that they might unite to oppose Atiku. ”The 3 main candidates in the PDP by delegates power are: Atiku, Wike, Tambuwal. One of these 3 will be the candidate. ”But Peter Obi…
The Labour Party gubernatorial candidate in the Osun 2022 guber poll has raised an alarm that his life is in danger. The former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives made this known during a press conference in Osogbo on Friday. Yusuf, who was twice a gubernatorial aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2018 and 2022, revealed that his campaign team and office had been subjected to several attacks in the last few days. He added that the latest attack that made him to raise the alarm was the one which was carried out by suspected political thugs…
Ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention slated for 28 and 29 May to elect its 2023 Presidential candidate, the party has said those eligible to vote are the 3 ad-hoc delegates elected at the Ward Congresses and a National Delegate per Local Government. PDP made this known in a statement by its National Organizing Secretary, Hon. Umar M. Nature on Saturday. The opposition party explained that by Section 84(8) of the Electoral Act, 2022, delegates to vote at the Indirect Primaries and National Convention of political parties to elect candidates for elections shall be those democratically elected…
Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven leading economies pledged to deliver $19.8 billion of budget aid to Ukraine this year as the country struggles to continue functioning amid destruction wrought by Russia’s invasion. “While also addressing Ukraine’s humanitarian and other material needs, we recognize, in particular, Ukraine’s urgent short-term financing needs,” G-7 finance ministers said Friday in a communique following two days of meetings near Bonn. The amount includes $9.5 billion of commitments made in the run-up to this week’s meeting, “to help Ukraine close its financing gap and continue ensuring the delivery of basic services to the Ukrainian…
Amidst opposition from his home turf, Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of Rivers State is one of the presidential hopefuls under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Wike had promised during his governorship electioneering campaigns in various fora to create jobs, empower the youths, pay salary and pension to workers and pensioners, offer scholarships and bursary to students among others. But seven years down the line, the state workforce and pensioners have accused the Governor of refusal to deliver on his promises. Part of the contentious issues are irregular payment of salary, unpaid pensions and gratuities. Not only that,…