A candidate of the African Democratic Congress party (ADC) for the June 18 governorship poll in Ekiti State, Dr. Wole Oluyede, has indicated support for local government autonomy. Oluyede said it would take concerted and ingenious efforts for Ekiti to stand afloat economically, with over N88 billion in debt, N37.8 billion indebtedness on retirees’ gratuity and arrears of workers’ salaries. The medical doctor spoke in Ikere- Ekiti, on Thursday, during an interactive session with journalists. Lamenting the opposition given to local government autonomy, Oluyede said: “Why are local governments not autonomous? If the government is local, then development will be…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
In the build-up to the 2023 general elections, Chairman of the Nigeria Governor’s Forum (NGF) and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has said his Ogun State counterpart, Dapo Abiodun, deserves a second term in office, having performed beyond expectations. The endorsement came when the outgoing governor of Ekiti state paid a visit to Abiodun in Abeokuta. Recall that Gov. Dapo Abiodun succeeded Ibikunle Amosun, now a Senator representing the Ogun Central District of Ogun State. He is serving a second term in the Senate. According to Fayemi, “As Chairman of the Governor’s Forum, I was elected to protect…
A Bayelsa State governorship hopeful on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Ebegha Tarelayefa, has expressed sadness over the killing of an APC chieftain, Sunday Frank-Oputu, saying the state was tired of unresolved murders. Recall, that the media had earlier reported that gunmen yesterday assassinated a factional Chairman of APC in the state, Sunday Frank Oputu, while in his home in Yenagoa. Tarelayefa, said the recent brutal killing of Frank-Oputu in his sleep at his residence in Yenagoa, the state capital, must be subjected to thorough investigations. He asked the state government and security agencies especially the police…
Uncertainty over the safety of war-wracked Ukraine’s nuclear power plants has reignited concerns over a Russian-owned nuclear power station now being built in a quake-prone area on Turkey’s southern coast, Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot activists said Wednesday. About 200 activists representing two dozen organizations from both sides of ethnically divided Cyprus converged inside the United Nations controlled buffer zone that cuts across the capital Nicosia. They sought to voice their unease over ongoing construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, which is only 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the island nation’s northern coast. Organizers said the annual event to…
Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of Rivers State, has declared a member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Farah Dagogo, wanted for allegedly hiring suspected cultists to attack the state secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Port Harcourt. A statement issued by Wike’s Special Assistant on Media, Kelvin Ebiri, on Wednesday directed the Rivers State Police Command to arrest Dagogo without delay. The statement reads in part: “The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has declared Hon. Farah Dagogo wanted for hiring cultists to attack the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secretariat in Port Harcourt. “The governor has hereby…
An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Paul Okorie, has described the endorsements of aspirants for elective offices as undemocratic. The former Commissioner for Housing and Transportation in Ebonyi spoke to reporters in Abakaliki on Wednesday. Okorie said democratic practices dictate that people be allowed to choose their preference in open and free contests. He spoke in reaction to the alleged endorsement of Francis Nwifuru, an APC governorship aspirant, Governor Dave Umahi. Okorie noted that anyone who wants to lead should subject himself to scrutiny and not hide under anybody or people to push him through. He said aspirants should not…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the Adamawa State House of Assembly for removing a member of the House, Ayuba Kwada, because he defected to the APC from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Twelve PDP members and one APC member of the 25-member Adamawa State House of Assembly sat Wednesday morning and declared Ayuba’s seat vacant because he announced last weekend that he had left the PDP to the APC. Responding, the Adamawa State chapter of the APC in a statement Wednesday evening rejected Ayuba’s sack and said it had instructed its lawyers to institute a suit against it. “As…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State, Uche Nwosu, has said that it was unfair for some southern politicians to accuse the north of trying to retain power while they have refused to support the southeast to produce the next president. According to Nwosu, such politicians are not sincere to themselves, insisting that it was actually the turn of the people of the southeast region to produce the next president of Nigeria. The former Imo State governorship aspirant said that those agitating for power shift to the south without supporting the southeast in 2023 are being…
Donald Trump has appealed a New York judge’s decision to hold the former president in contempt of court and fine him $10,000 per day for failing to comply with a subpoena for evidence in the state attorney general’s civil investigation into his business dealings. Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, filed a notice of appeal Wednesday with the appellate division of the state’s trial court the second time in two months that Trump has sought to overturn Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron’s ruling against him in a subpoena matter. In court papers, Habba questioned the legal basis for Engoron’s contempt ruling Monday, arguing…
The main opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday commenced screening of Kaduna State aspirants for the upper and lower chambers of the National Assembly. The exercise took place at the party’s secretariat, Kawo, in preparation for the primary election. Yusuf Dingyadi, chairman of the Kaduna State National Assembly Screening Committee, told journalists shortly after a meeting with aspirants and other stakeholders that the committee would ensure equal treatment, fairness and a level playing ground for all the aspirants in the party. He explained that 76 aspirants comprising 63 house of representatives aspirants and 13 senate aspirants, would undergo the…
There was tension in the Adamawa political circles on Monday over an alleged plan by the state House of Assembly to declare vacant the seat of a member who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC). Ayuba Joseph Kwada, who represents Michika constituency in the state House of Assembly, had at the weekend announced switching of membership from PDP to APC, saying the PDP had long been sidelining him in activities and decisions that should involve him or require his input. His defection from the PDP allegedly caused panic within the House leadership…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is currently in his home state, Ogun, to meet stakeholders over his 2023 presidential ambition. Osinbajo has arrived Sagamu, where he met with the Akarigbo and paramount ruler of Remo, Oba Babatunde Ajayi, amidst other Obas in Remoland. After this, the Vice President would head for the palace of the Alake and paramount ruler of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo, in Abeokuta. At the presidential lodge in Ibara, Osinbajo would have talks with Governor Dapo Abiodun and other leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He is expected to end his consultation at the palace of…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, the nation’s capital, has dismissed the appeal filed by the former Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun state, Mr. Samson Bamgbose and his co-travellers seeking to upturn the 22nd of June, 2021 consent judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja. Bamgbose and five others, including their sponsor, Mr. Segun Seriki, had tried in vain to attend the National Convention of the party held in Abuja between the 30th and 31st of October, 2021. They had approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, to seek interlocutory injunction that would enable them to…
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday warned against an imminent World War III looming in the forefront as Ukraine fails to comply with the peace talks. Lavrov spoke with various Russian news agencies where he criticized Ukraine’s approach to the peace talks, reported The Moscow Times. He said: “Goodwill has its limits. But if it isn’t reciprocal, that doesn’t help the negotiation process.” On the recent meeting between Russia and Ukraine, held in Istanbul, Turkey, Lavrov mentioned that Kyiv had presented a draft agreement which marked a departure from its previous stand. Further, Lavrov asserted that Russia will continue to…
Some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Irepodun local government and Orolu local government have kicked against the alleged attempt made by Osogbo/Olorunda local government’s party leaders and stakeholders to hijack the House of Representatives ticket previously zoned to them. The Secretary of the APC in Osogbo Federal Constituency, Hon Abayomi Oyedeji, in a communique issued after a meeting on Monday in Ilobu, said that the conduct of the political affairs in the constituency has been with mutual agreement and respect for each other, adding that the zoning arrangement should not be disrupted for equity and justice to…
Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has slammed the South-West and South-South 2023 presidential aspirants. Kalu, in a statement on Tuesday, said it is unjust and embarrassing that the aspirants from both the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have no single respect and concern for the South East. National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (Southwest); former Senate President Bukola Saraki (North); Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State (North); Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (Southwest) and Nyesom Wike of Rivers State (South-South) are among the 2023 presidential aspirants. According to Kalu, having…
Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has suggested that former President, Goodluck Jonathan, is the only person that can make him step down his Presidential ambition. Mohammed said that out of respect and modesty, he may reconsider his presidential ambition if Jonathan should join the race for the 2023 presidency. He said this when he featured on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, explaining that his stance was based on respect for Jonathan, who appointed him as the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) back in 2010. As InfoStride News reported earlier, northern elders met at the home of former military…
All Progressives Congress (APC) members in Orolu and Irepodun Local Government Areas of Osun State have kicked against moves by some members of the party to distort the zoning arrangements for both Senatorial and House of Representatives seats. The APC members, who had gathered at the party Secretariat in Ilobu on Monday, insisted that the House of Representatives ticket of the party should be retained in Irepodun/Orolu, while the Senate ticket remained in Osogbo/Olorunda as it was agreed in 2018. While alleging that some individuals within the party were currently scheming to have the two tickets of the party zoned…
Russian forces in Ukraine tried to storm a steel plant housing soldiers and civilians in the southern city of Mariupol on Saturday in an attempt to crush the last pocket of resistance in a place of deep symbolic and strategic value to Moscow, Ukrainian officials said. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, announced he would meet Sunday in his nation’s capital with the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and the US secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin. The White House declined to comment. Speaking at a news conference, Zelenskyy gave little detail about logistics of the encounter but said he…
There was confusion on Sunday as members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun West protested the zoning formula adopted for the Osun West Senatorial ticket in the 2023 general elections. The party had adopted to zone the senatorial ticket in the district to Iwo. The commotion started when the party chairman for Osun West Senatorial District, Omolaoye Akintola, announced during a stakeholders meeting of the party that the ticket had been zoned to Iwo. The adoption made party members campaigning for the senatorial ticket be zoned to other federal constituencies in Osun West to disrupt the proceedings. They…