The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has revealed that an emergency National Executive Committee meeting (NEC) will be held on Wednesday, 20th April 2022. The maiden post-National Convention meeting of the ruling party will be held in Abuja. The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka in a statement said all members of the NEC are expected to attend the meeting. He said: “Pursuant to Article 25.2.ii of the Constitution of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the National Working Committee (NWC) hereby invites members of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of our great Party…
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Former Kano Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has said he controls votes and has what it takes ahead of the 2023 election. Kwankwaso made this known while speaking with Chude Jideonwo. According to the ex-governor, he worked for President Muhammadu Buhari after he was convinced not because of his tribe or money. Kwankwaso urged presidential aspirants to come to him adding that the presidency is not an appointment but by who is capable. The former Governor said, “My former colleagues in government met in Lagos and said the presidency has to go to them, how? Come and talk to me, we…
An Anambra lawmaker, Dr Timothy Ifedioranma (APC-Njikoka – I) on Friday charged Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and Bola Tinubu to give up their presidential ambitions for the Southeast. Ifedioranma told newsmen in Awka that giving up their ambition was the way to the path of justice, equity and fairness. He said, “Both Tinubu and Vice-President Osinbajo are citizens of this country and they are qualified to contest and occupy that position in this election. “But I urge them as elder statesmen to toe the path of justice, equity and fairness by giving up that position for a South easterner to emerge.…
Chairman of the House Committee on Women Affairs and Social Development, Hon. Adewunmi Onanuga, has been accused of poor representation. A business expert, Segun Olusola, said the woman, who is representing Remo Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives in Ogun State, is performing “below the bar”. Olusola, who is the Gbolugboye of Isara Remo, in an interview withthe media, described Onanuga’s representation as being absolutely “embarrassing and ridiculous.” According to him, the majority of elected lawmakers are in Abuja to do their biddings instead of representing the constituents that elected them to be their ears and eyes in the…
Russia, contesting elections to four UN committees, lost all of them, including one to Ukraine, a verdict being seen as Moscow’s isolation on the global stage. Elections were held in the United Nations Economic and Social Council on Wednesday to fill various vacancies in subsidiary and related bodies. Russia was contesting elections to the Committee on Non-Governmental Organisations, UN Women Executive Board, UNICEF Executive Board and Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Russia competed in 4 elections to @UN committees today. It lost in all of them. The UN membership is isolating Russia and stands with Ukraine, the United Kingdom Mission…
The All Progressives Congress Zonal Youth Leader (North-West), Abdulhamid Umar Mohamed, has urged the National leadership of the party to reduce the Intent Forms Fees by 50 percent, to allow youths chances of full participation in politics. The youths on Thursday asked the National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Adamu to quickly grant 50% discount on intent forms for youths seeking to contest elective positions under the platform of the party if the APC genuinely wants youths’ active participation. Muhammad who made the call in a statement said such a gesture would encourage youth participation in governance and make them…
As the preparation for the 2023 general election is gathering momentum, the Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, has urged members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state to play politics with decorum and not to see the forthcoming general elections as a matter of do-or-die. The governor who stated this on Wednesday while addressing the party faithful at a Ramadan Iftar organized for members from the three senatorial districts, held at the Presidential Lodge, Abeokuta, declared the party would follow its constitution to the letter without prejudice in selecting people that will represent the state at all…
The Leader of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, on Thursday, released a fresh prophecy concerning the Ogun State 2023 gubernatorial election. In a statement signed by his Media Aide, Osho Oluwatosin, Primate Ayodele revealed that Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State will have a second term, although it will not be rosy. He said the challenges Abiodun will face are within the All Progressives Congress, APC, and that there is no serious person in the camp of former governor Ibikunle Amosun that can take the seat away from him. The man of God noted that Governor Abiodun…
The All Progressive Congress, (APC) Political Alliance (APA) group has warned Governor Yahaya Bello to jettison the idea of imposing unpopular candidates on the people of Kogi State ahead of the 2023 general election. The group, while lamenting the recent political wrangling in the Kogi State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress said the alleged imposition of unpopular candidates by Governor Bello could make the party lose all elective seats in the state to opposition parties. Speaking with newsmen on Thursday, the group’s spokesman, Shehu Mustapha stressed that, Governor Bello’s recent stand to force unpopular candidates on the people will…
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday urged China to use its special relationship with Russia to persuade Russia to end the war in Ukraine. Beijing cannot expect the global community to respect its appeals to the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity in the future if it does not respect these principles now, Yellen said at the Atlantic Council, a nonpartisan think tank. Yellen’s speech at the Atlantic Council comes a week before the world’s finance ministers and central bank governors convene in Washington for the International Monetary Fund-World Bank Group Spring Meetings. Her direct appeal to China underscores…
All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Bola Tinubu has declared that Nigeria needs a courageous leader like him. Tinubu described himself as the most qualified for the position of Nigeria’s President in 2023. The former Governor spoke at a parley in Lagos attended by former and serving All Progressives Congress (APC) Speakers and their Deputies. “We have the brilliance, the resources, the focus. We don’t just know how to run the race and take care of the gear of progress. “Just as I need Nigeria, Nigeria needs me”, he said at the event hosted by Lagos Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa. Tinubu…
Some aspirants, under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, on Wednesday, staged a protest at the Party’s secretariat on Aba road, Port Harcourt over alleged failure to issue them with nomination forms. The protesters, who were mainly aspirants for the State House of Assembly seats, were at the State secretariat of the PDP with their receipts of payment for party nomination forms. One of the protesters, Isreal Agbasi, who spoke on behalf of others, said they were asked to pick their forms at the State party secretariat after making payment at the national party office…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the registration of 88,630 new voters in Osun State as invalid. The development comes weeks to the gubernatorial election in Osun. The polls will be held on Saturday, July 16, 2022. According to data presented by the commission at a media briefing on Wednesday, 218,142 new voters have been registered in Osun, out of which 129,512 were valid, 88,630 were invalid. This number, the electoral umpire stated, represents 40.6% of the new voters who completed their registrations. Speaking at the briefing, Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, said invalid registration was recorded in all…
The Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned, in strong terms, what it called “the blatant refusal of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) government in the State to pay the 20 months outstanding workers’ cooperative deductions.” The PDP described as a huge shame that the APC government, instead of “swallowing its empty pride, still has the balls to hoodwink Ogun State workers by attempting to change the conversation that the unremitted cooperative deductions were owed by the last administration.” In a statement made available to the media on Thursday, the Publicity Secretary of the PDP…
Annual inflation in Russia accelerated to 17.49 per cent as of April 8, its highest since February 2002 and up from 16.70 per cent a week earlier, the economy ministry said on Wednesday, as the volatile ruble sent prices soaring amid unprecedented Western sanctions. Prices on nearly everything from vegetables and sugar to clothes and smartphones have risen sharply since Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine. The central bank warned on Wednesday that consumer inflation in Russia will keep on accelerating in annual terms due to base effects, saying that ruble volatility will lead to upside inflationary pressure. Weekly inflation…
Nine gubernatorial aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from Kwara North Senatorial District, have resolved to pick a candidate for the 2023 general elections in the state without any rancour through consensus arrangement. InfoStride News reports that the party had earlier zoned the governorship ticket to the senatorial district for the general elections. The resolution was contained in a communique issued at the end of a meeting held in Abuja with the national leader of the party, Dr Bukola Saraki on April 12, 2022, at his Maitama residence, in the Federal Capital Territory. Part of the communique made available…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said his decision to run for the Presidency is not to negotiate the Vice Presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Wike disclosed this while addressing PDP delegates and leaders in Calabar, Cross River State capital, on Wednesday. The PDP presidential aspirant said he was in the state to meet party members and signify his seriousness to be Nigeria’s next president. Wike also dismissed claims of picking the Senatorial forms like other aspirants of the party have done secretly. He said: “I am here to introduce myself to you. We have started…
The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has asked Nigerians to ignore one Olugbenga Olaoye, Co-Convener, ‘Osinbajo Think Thank’ over his comments during an interview. Olugbenga while reacting to the presidential ambition of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu in an interview with Arise TV said Nigerians do not want another sick president who would be embarking on foreign medical trips. He said Nigeria needs a capable person like the Vice President who formally declared on Monday to run for the top political office in the 2023 elections. He said, “We cannot afford another sick President who…
To mark the exit of Senators Abdullahi Adamu, Abubakar Kyari and Hassan Muhammad Nasiha from the Senate, the upper legislative chamber on Wednesday held a special session for them. Senator Abdullahi Adamu was the former governor of Nasarawa State and a three-time Senator representing Nasarawa West Senatorial who emerged the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Senator Abubakar Kyari also emerged Deputy National Chairman of APC (North), while Senator Hassan Muhammad Nasiha was appointed the Deputy Governor of Zamfara State. They all resigned their Senatorial seats for the new assignments. The session which commenced at 11.45 started…
Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday that 1,026 soldiers of Ukraine’s 36th Marine Brigade, including 162 officers, had surrendered in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. Mariupol, which has been encircled by Russian troops for weeks, has seen the fiercest fighting and the most comprehensive destruction since Russia invaded on Feb. 24. The main Sea of Azov port is the biggest target in the eastern Donbas region that Moscow now calls the focus of its campaign, and if captured would be the first major city to fall since the war began. Its capture would help secure a land passage…