The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Iyorchia Ayu says there is much that Nigeria can learn from China, promising that cooperation between the two countries would be strengthened when it returns to power in 2023. Ayu who gave the assurance on Friday, when a two-man delegation from the Chinese Embassy in Abuja, Messrs Wu Baocai and Li Ineijian, paid him a courtesy visit in his office at the PDP National Secretariat, Abuja, said Nigeria was impressed with the great industrial leap in China, especially in the last 30 to 40 years. The PDP National Chairman noted…
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French President Emmanuel Macron will head to Moscow and Kyiv next week as part of his push to try to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from launching an invasion of Ukraine and find a diplomatic way out of the growing tensions. The visit Monday and Tuesday comes after the U.S. accused the Kremlin on Thursday of an elaborate plot to fabricate an attack by Ukrainian forces that Russia could use as a pretext to take military action. The U.S. has not provided detailed information backing up the claims. While France is a major player in NATO and is moving troops…
The Forum of former All Progressives Congress (APC) members in the House of Representatives has urged the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the party to ensure an all inclusive and credible convention. The forum tasked the committee to ensure that internal democracy is sustained in the party. The forum made the call in a communique issued Friday and signed by its Protem Chairman, Ibrahim Zailani. It said, “The forum urged the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee to organise an all-inclusive, credible, free and transparent national Convention.” The Forum also appealed to delegates who will be attending the February 26 convention…
A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kachia Local Government, Amos Mairago on Friday condemned the attack and killing of residents as well as burning of houses in Kagarko, Kaduna by suspected Fulani militia 11 people were reportedly killed while over 51 houses were razed in Kagarko and neighbouring communities by suspected Fulani militia who stormed the area on Sunday. Reacting to the ugly incident on Friday, Mairago, a PDP Chieftain who served as the Local Government Chairman in Kachia between 2015 and 2018 described the killings as barbaric. He called on the Kaduna State government to take urgent…
Activist, Deji Adeyanju has said President Buhari will be making the greatest poitical move of history if he supports former Lagos Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode to return to power in the state. Adeyanju said Buhari would be liberating the Southwest by supporting Ambode to emerge as the governor of Lagos State in 2023. In a tweet, the activist said Buhari’s backing of Ambode will be one of the greatest political moves in the South West. He said Ambode’s emergence would liberate Lagos State from the hold of Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC. He wrote: “One…
The leadership of the Rauf Aregbesola’s faction in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osun State has accused the state Commissioner of Police, Wale Olokode of supporting Governor Gboyega Oyetola. The leader of the group, Rasaq Salinsile accused Oyetola of masterminding attacks on members of the faction. Salinsile disclosed this at a press conference held at Oranmiyan House, in Osogbo, on Friday. Salinsile disclosed there are “intelligence reports of the Gboyega Oyetola-led IleriOluwa faction’s plan to assassinate and main us, and we had promptly passed the information to the Commissioner of Police in particular and all other security agencies. But nothing…
United States Secretaries of State and Defence, Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin, have promised to return for another congressional hearing on the challenges in Afghanistan following the US withdrawal, according to Senator Jim Inhofe’s office. “We still face a lot of real challenges in Afghanistan even though our troop presence is gone. Secretary Blinken and Secretary Austin spoke to a number of these challenges today, including how many American citizens are still left behind in Afghanistan and an update on efforts to bring to justice those who planned the Abbey Gate attack, which killed 13 U.S. service members, but their…
Forum of former and serving members of the House of Representatives on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has charged the party leadership to throw open the presidential ticket for all the zones to contest. Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, the forum claimed the debate on zoning is a poisoned chalice calculated to shift attention and focus away from the incompetency and failure of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaking on behalf of the Forum, Mukhtar Ahmed explained that if the presidential ticket is opened to all, the best candidate will emerge. He added that…
The Senate Deputy Minority Leader, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the governing All Progressives Congress (APC). The Lawmaker representing the Taraba South Senatorial District at the upper chamber was officially received into the party by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja. Personal Assistant to President Buhari on Digital and New Media made this known in a tweet on his official Twitter handle. Details shortly…
An Osun High Court in Ikirun on Wednesday remanded five members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) faction loyal to the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, in Ilesa Correctional Centre over the clash between them and loyalists of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola in Ikirun on Tuesday. The five members are 38-year-old Akinlade Abayomi, 25-year-old Sodiq Atitebi, 28-year-old Azeez Adejimi, 36-year-old Solomon Alatayo, and 68-year-old Siju Oyewumi. InfoStride News gathered that they were arraigned and slammed with a three-count charge on conspiracy, unlawful society, attempted murder and conduct likely to cause a breach of peace in the town. Reading out the charge,…
Deji Adeyanju, an Abuja-based rights activist, on Thursday, accused the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of ignoring the southeast for the 2023 presidency. Adeyanju alleged that the APC and PDP are not considering the southeast for the 2023 presidency. In a tweet, the convener of the Concerned Nigerian Advocacy group accused Nigeria of being unfair to the southeast. Adeyanju said the southwest should not be considered for the presidency in 2023. He explained that the southwest produced a president that ruled Nigerians for eight years and produced a vice president for another eight years. Adeyanju…
The leader of the violent Islamic State group was killed during an overnight raid carried out by US special forces in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, President Joe Biden said Thursday. The raid targeted Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, who took over as head of the militant group on Oct 31, 2019, just days after leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died during a US raid in the same area. A US official said al-Qurayshi died as al-Baghdadi did, by exploding a bomb that killed himself and members of his family, including women and children, as US forces approached. The operation came as IS…
Following the bye-election for the Akure South/North Federal Constituency in Ondo State scheduled for February 26, 2022, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will on Thursday elect its standard-bearer for the poll. With 249 delegates within the two local government areas expected to vote at the primary, five aspirants have been screened and cleared by the party to contest for the ticket. According to the Publicity Secretary of the PDP in the State, Kennedy Peretei, none among the aspirants had signalled intention to withdraw from the race. While assuring that the exercise will be seamless and peaceful, Peretei expressed optimism that…
General Abdulsalami Abubakar, former Head of State, has noted that Nigeria is at war and is facing a hard time. Abubakar regretted that this ‘war without morality’ has spread across all corners of the country where people slaughter themselves at any slightest provocations. The former military leader stated this at the 30th convocation of the Federal University of Technology (FUT) Minna, the Niger State capital, on Wednesday. “We are facing a hard time, security-wise. The war front is everywhere. This is a war without any morality, where the old and the young are slaughtered without any cause,” he said. Abubakar…
Former military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB, has thrown his weight behind the 2023 presidential ambition of former Senate President, Bukola Saraki. Babangida explained that he supports Saraki’s presidential ambition because he is the “best for Nigeria” in 2023. He spoke while receiving a delegation of the Abubakar Bukola Saraki, ABS, National Campaign Advocacy Council, led by its Chairman, Prof Hagher Iorwuese and the Director-General, Chief Osaro Onaiwu, at his Minna Hilltop residence. The delegation was in Minna, Niger State to seek Babangida’s support for Saraki’s presidential ambition. Describing Saraki as “Self Propelled artillery gun,” the former military…
A political pressure group, Northern Advocates for Good Governance (NAFGG), has advised political parties to ensure that experience, competence and capacity become the criteria in choosing or zoning the 2023 presidential ticket. The National Coordinator of the group, Mr Mahmoud Katun, while briefing newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday, advised that all zones in the country should be allowed to seek the presidential position. He opined that it was important for political parties to consider experience, competence and capacity in choosing or zoning their presidential ticket. According to him, “Nobody has the right to exclude any segment of this country from…
U.S. President Joe Biden has approved sending additional forces to eastern Europe, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday, as Washington reinforces its allies against what it describes as a Russian threat to invade Ukraine. One of the officials said about 2,000 American troops would deploy from the United States to Poland and Germany, while around 1,000 troops now based in Germany would head to Romania. In signs that, publicly at least, Russia is in no mood to signal compromise, the Kremlin mocked British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as “utterly confused” and ridiculed British politicians for their “stupidity and ignorance”.…
Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Bauchi Central senatorial zone have raised concerns that the national reconciliation committee set up by the national headquarters of the party is yet to visit the state to mediate among aggrieved party members. This was disclosed on Wednesday by the chairman, Bauchi Central APC Stakeholders, Adamu Noma during a press conference. The APC committee, headed by a former Nasarawa State Governor, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, was set up by the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led caretaker committee of the party to look into complaints emanating from the congresses held last October in the…
Ahead of the forthcoming 2023 presidential election, the Former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido has appealed to political stakeholders to avoid the issue of zoning as the criteria for leadership selection in the general elections. Lamido noted that with a proven track record of trustworthiness and a national outlook Tambuwal should be encouraged to join the 2023 presidential race. The former Jigawa State Governor made the call when he received Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State and his entourage in his Bamaina country home in Birnin Kudu local government area of the state on Tuesday. The visit was part of…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has vowed that no amount of attacks would stop its victory in the 2023 presidential election. PDP’s spokesman, Debo Ologunagba, made the remark while condemning the attack on the campaign office of its 2019 Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in Gombe State. Arsonists and hoodlums believed to be working for the All Progressives Congress, APC, had attacked Atiku’s campaign office in Gombe State. Reacting, Ologunagba urged President Muhammadu Buhari to stop APC members from their involvement in violence. He described the attack “as a great threat to democracy, national security and peaceful co-existence in Nigeria.” Ologunagba…