The Ex-President of the Nigerian Senate and presidential hopeful on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Bukola Saraki, has disclosed that he and other aspirants of the party are currently working towards coming up with a consensus presidential candidate that has the capacity to address the prevailing insecurity in Nigeria. He stated this after a closed-door with the Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu at his country-home Umuobiakwa community in Obingwa Local Government Area of the state, alongside other notable presidential aspirants of the PDP. His statement was contained in a press release made available to newsmen on…
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Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, a Presidential aspirant, has faulted the influence cabals have on leadership. Wike said leadership should not be a cabal thing. He stressed that leadership should not be about secret alliances that make people disconnected from the government. The PDP Presidential aspirant spoke while meeting some stakeholders of the party in Edo State, NAN reports. Wike vowed to retrieve power from the All Progressives Congress, APC, if given PDP’s presidential ticket. According to Wike: “If you’re running in an election, power isn’t given for free; it is taken. I have come out and I’m going…
A stalwart of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, Abayomi Nurain Mumuni has enjoined supporters of both the national leader of the party, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo not to inherit enemies because of the duo. Mumuni also advised supporters of the two politicians to desist from name-calling and inciting comments in the interest of the party. Recall that Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State had a few weeks ago declared his intention to contest the 2023 Presidential election on the platform of APC. Osinbajo, who had worked as a Commissioner under…
Less than a year to the 2023 general elections, a Pan Igbo Socio-cultural group known as Izu Umunna Cultural Association an affiliate of Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo has called on the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to zone its presidential ticket to the South-East. The Group said Igbos have over the years continued to give the PDP support since the return of democracy and it will be in the spirit of fairness that the zone be considered to produce the next President of the country under the party. Izu Umunna in a press statement jointly signed by the President Dr.…
Russia’s Defence Ministry on Friday promised to ramp up the scale of missile attacks on Kyiv in response to Ukraine’s diversions on the Russian territory. The statement comes a day after Russian authorities accused Ukrainian forces of launching airstrikes on residential buildings in one of the country’s regions on the border with Ukraine, in which seven people sustained injuries. According to Russian officials, some 100 residential buildings were damaged in Thursday’s attack on the Klimovo village in the Bryansk region. The Defense Ministry said that the Russian forces in Ukraine’s Chernihiv region shut down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter that was…
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…
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…