The Swedish parliament will decide on Monday whether Social Democratic Party leader Magdalena Andersson should become the nation’s first female prime minister after the first vote ended in a flop. Andersson took over as prime minister from Stefan Loefven on Wednesday but had to tender her resignation hours later, after a rift over the 2022 budget prompted her minority coalition partners to leave. Parliamentary speaker Andreas Norlen said he had consulted parties over the phone and scheduled another vote at the 349-seat parliament, or Riksdag. He said he would again propose Andersson as the next prime minister. “The vote is…
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The immediate past National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has advocated a short-term restructuring before the next general election to address myriads of challenges confronting the country. Jega, however, accused the executive and legislative arms of the Federal Government of treating the restructuring issue with levity. He said that both arms of the Federal government “were not serious in making the restructuring a reality as the two arms of the government had been treating the restructuring with levity. The former university Don said this at the 2021 Public Lecture of the Achievers University, Owo,…
Special Adviser to former Vice President Namadi Sambo on Media and chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Umar Sani has said that chances of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)in 2023 is very slim because the party has been factionalized. He said that unless and until the main opposition party, puts her house in order and addresses holistically lingering issues in the party, her chances of taking over power both at state and federal levels in 2023 will be very slim. While addressing a press conference in Kaduna on Wednesday, he said that the PDP is currently facing a…
Former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has accused the National Assembly of spending N1 billion annually on constitution review without making any headway. The Ijaw leader, who noted that the South, North and the entire country are calling for restructuring, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to as matter of urgency convoke a Representative Assembly or Town Hall meeting. He advised that the meeting will consider either Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State’s All Progressives Congress, APC, Committee Report on restructuring or that of 2014 National Conference report. Clark, the leader of Southern and Middle Belt Leaders…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has faulted the Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, for traveling out of the country without handing power to his deputy. The state chapter of the party in a press release by the state media and publicity secretary, Mr. Okelo Madukife said Anambra people only got to know that their governor was abroad, when he was put on the watchlist list of the Economic And Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Okelo said: “We care about a new issue that has emerged from the responses given from ANSG (Anambra State Government) side to effect that Anambra State…
In a significant move, India, Russia and China on Friday called for ensuring that the territory of Afghanistan is not used to attack any country, pitched for the formation of a “truly inclusive” government and pressed for immediate and unhindered humanitarian assistance to the war-torn country. The foreign ministers of the three countries, at a virtual meeting held under the Russia-India-China (RIC) framework, also reaffirmed their support for the basic principle of an “Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process. The ministers stressed the necessity of “urgent elimination” of UN Security Council proscribed terrorist groups such as al Qaeda, ISIL and others…
The immediate past chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State, Dr. Ben Nwoye has stated that members of the bar were responsible for the right and the wrongs in the society. Nwoye, who is also a lawyer, said this when he played host to the law students of a famous primate institution, Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu. They were at Amuri Ancient Kingdom, in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State for their second annual picnic. Nwoye said the society placed a lot of responsibilities on lawyers and it should not be taken for granted in spite…
The Gombe State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday, dismissed a report alleging mass resignation of its ward executives in Yamaltu/Deba Local Government Area (LGA) of the State. The APC State publicity secretary, Mr Moses Kyari disclosed this when he addressed newsmen in the State. Kyari was reacting to a social media report indicating that over 80 percent of APC ward executives in Yamaltu/Deba LGA have resigned their positions in solidarity with Senator Danjuma Goje, whose convoy was allegedly blocked by political thugs and miscreants while on his way from the airport to the wedding venue of his…
Three former Niger State All Progressives Congress, APC, executives have filed a suit against their colleagues to the Chief Magistrate Court Bosso over purported conspiracy and defamation of character. Three persons in a joint suit include the state’s former APC Chairman, Jibrin Imam, Secretary Barrister Muhammed Liman and Treasurer, Doctor Shaffi’i Abdulsalam. They accused the former party executives for conspiring and maliciously publishing and granting interviews alleging that they misappropriated the state’s party funds. The trio prayed the court to take into cognizance the offences contrary to section 97 and 392 of the Penal Code Law and tried the…
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday, urged the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government to emulate the infrastructural development in states being governed by governors elected on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in order to surmount unemployment that is breeding social ills, including insecurity in the country. Atiku Abubakar stated this in Bauchi while inaugurating the 4.2 kilometres Gombe-Maiduguri Bypass road constructed by the administration of Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed. According to the former vice-president, infrastructural projects were instruments of economic empowerment being used to create jobs for unemployed youths, declaring that unemployment was the root cause…
A global alliance of lawmakers on China has expressed deep concern over the election of senior Chinese government official Hu Binchen to the Interpol Executive Committee at the General Assembly meeting. “Mr Binchen HU of China and Mr Praveen Sinha of India have been elected to the posts of Delegate for Asia (3-yr term),” Interpol said in a tweet. The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) said in a statement that the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has repeatedly abused the Interpol Red Notice to persecute dissidents in exile. The elections were held in Turkey during the ongoing…
Women rights groups, Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre, Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA), have said National Gender Policy (NGP) could not be implemented in Nigeria if it remained at the national level, adding that if not domesticated at state and local levels, the policy would remain a sham. Speaking during a capacity building, training of gender equality and social inclusion for Wards Councilors, FaithBased/Community leaders, in Port Harcourt, Executive Director of Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre, Emem Okon, charged various state governments to implement the NGP in all states, stressing that it will add credibility to…
An aspirant in the Ekiti State gubernatorial election in 2022 under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olusegun Oni has lamented the state of insecurity in Ekiti, while challenging the governor, Kayode Fayemi, on people’s safety. Oni stated that Ekiti under the current dispensation has become a place of fear and the people can no longer move freely. He said: “Those in diaspora are afraid of coming to the state as there are various forms of atrocity, stealing, robbery, kidnapping, banditry, rape and so on. “ Safety and security don’t just happen, they are the result of our…
The Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) has said it will welcome its presidential ticket from any region in the country. Falalu Bello, the Party’s National Chairman, disclosed this while receiving one of the party’s presidential hopefuls, Madam Patience Ndidi Key, at its national secretariat in Abuja. He told the presidential aspirant and her supporters at the secretariat that the party has not zoned its presidential ticket to any region, stressing that everyone is free to seek the ticket of the party. He said, “The party has made the presidential ticket available to all zones in the country in order to ensure…
Six political parties have fielded candidates for the Dec. 4, Ekiti State local government councils poll, an official has said. Justice Jide Aladejana, the Chairman of the State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC), disclosed this when he spoke with newsmen in Ado-Ekiti. Aladejana assured that the election would be free, fair and credible. He said that no politician would be allowed to hijack and manipulate the outcome of the elections. “Let me use this opportunity to assure the electorate that the commission will conduct free, fair and credible poll that will meet the yearnings of all participating parties in the state,”…
The Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has tasked Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, to wake up to his responsibilities and rescue citizens from the current insecurity in the state. Reacting to the murder of a kidnap victim, Adegboyega Onijala, the PDP alleged that despite reported cases of kidnappings and killings in different parts of the state, “the governor has not demonstrated any commitment to deal with the situation.” The party in a statement in Ilorin on Thursday by the state Publicity Secretary, Tunde Ashaolu, condemned the murder of Adegboyega Onijala noting that ” the spate of kidnap for…
The Biden administration included Taiwan among the 110 invitees to its upcoming democracy summit, the State Department announced on Tuesday night, a move that’s intended to show solidarity with a key regional partner but risks angering China. Taiwan was invited to join nations, including the UK and Japan, at the December 9-10 virtual summit, the State Department said on its website Tuesday. The online gathering is an event Joe Biden vowed to host while a candidate for president last year, with the goal of rallying like-minded countries around efforts to fight corruption and authoritarianism and advance human rights.
Events of the past days at the National Secretariat of Nigeria’s governing political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) did much to underscore the point that really, uneasy lies the head that bears a crown. On Sunday November 21, 2021, the Forum of Progressive Governors (PGF), held a closed-door meeting, which agenda were not unconnected to the fire on the APC mountain. Although the details of the meeting were kept to their chest, it was gathered that the governors were troubled by a lot of life threatening developments in the party, including the new Electoral Act, which tends to pull…
A group of professionals from different walks of life across the 774 councils in Nigeria under the aegis of Nigerians United for Osinbajo (NUFO), has declared that the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, is the best candidate to succeed President Mohammed Buhari. In a statement, the spokesman of the group, Engr. Kabir Ahmed, noted that VP Osinbajo possesses the right qualification and experience to occupy the number one seat in the country. He said: “At NUFO, we believe that VP Osinbajo is the only candidate that possesses the right attribute that all Nigerians are looking for in a president. He has…
The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia State has said that it will welcome persons who are willing to contest elective positions in 2023. The party also restated its promise to run an open-door policy for all members, insisting that the internal democracy must be observed and followed in selecting the candidates of the party for the 2023 elections. The party leadership made its position known in a statement by the APGA Chairman in Abia, Reverend Augustine Ehiemere, made available to newsmen in Umuahia, the state capital, on Thursday. The Abia leadership formally announced that four governorship aspirants have…