The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has accused Governor Nyesom Wike of encouraging illegal oil bunkering, describing it as the major cause of the soot shortening the lives of residents of the State. Wike had last Sunday, in a state-wide broadcast, declared those he described as kingpins of oil bunkering activities wanted. Bunkering and illegal crude oil refining activities are on the high rise in different riverine communities in and around Port Harcourt. Wike vowed to publish the names of those behind illegal bunkering activities in Okrika communities, Rivers South-East and Rivers South-West Senatorial Districts and declare them…
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called on Pakistan to come talk and renegotiate the loan programme, if it intends to get the requested three weeks extension to implement prior committed actions. The IMF’s latest demands come in the wake of a request by Pakistan to get a three weeks extension in the process of implementing prior actions it committed to implement before the sixth review meeting with the global lender, scheduled for Wednesday. However, the demands have not been accepted by Pakistan. “When I approached them for extension, they asked to renegotiate the programme,” said Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has advised the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to take advantage of the ‘brewing crisis’ within the All Progressives Congress, APC, to take over power in 2023. Gov. Wike gave the advice on Monday when he paid a courtesy visit to his Bayelsa State counterpart, Sen. Duoye Diri at the Government House, Yenagoa. He stressed on the need for stakeholders in the PDP to remain united and formidable ahead of the 2023 general elections. The Rivers Governor reiterated that Nigerians were waiting for the PDP to rescue the country from the APC. He said, “I’ve come…
The Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has disclosed that actions will be taken against a chieftain of the party, Bode Obanla, for instituting court case against former Governor Olusegun Mimiko, over leadership of the party. According to PDP, the court action against Mimiko by Obanla was a rude shock to party members and leaders in the state as well as an embarrassment to the party. Obanla had on Monday approached the state High Court where he filed a suit to bar Mimiko from assuming the leadership of the party. PDP in a statement by its Publicity…
National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has spoken on the purported ambition of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, for 2023 presidency. Tinubu, while fielding questions from State House Correspondents on Monday, shortly after his visit to President Muhammadu Buhari, said he is not interested in discussing individuals but himself. He said this after informing the President of his intention to run for presidency in 2023. When asked to comment on Osinbajo and Yahaya Bello and other politicians with similar presidential intentions in APC, Tinubu said, “I don’t want to discuss…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Monday, said it has constituted a committee to screen its aspirants for the July 16, 2022 Osun State governorship election. Hon. Umar M. Bature, National Organizing Secretary of PDP, in a statement on Monday, named members of the screening committee as; Mohammed Adoke Bello, SAN – Chairman, Amb. Sen. Aminu Wali Member; Hon. Mrs. Nnenna Ukeje – Member, H.E. Fidelis Tapgun – Member, Chief Rahman Owokoniran – South-West Zonal Secretary. According to him, the screening exercise is scheduled for Wednesday, January 12, 2022, at the NEC Hall of the PDP national secretariat, Abuja at…
West African nations will close their borders with Mali, sever diplomatic ties and impose tough economic sanctions in response to its “unacceptable” delay in holding elections following a 2020 military coup, the 15-state regional bloc said on Sunday. The fresh measures from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) represent a significant hardening of its stance towards Mali, whose interim authorities have proposed holding elections in December 2025 instead of this February as originally agreed with the bloc. In a communique issued after an emergency summit in the Ghanaian capital Accra, ECOWAS said it found the proposed timetable for…
The All Progressives Congress has assured that the satanic killings of innocent Nigerians in Zamfara villages by terrorists won’t go unpunished. The party expressed its heartfelt condolences to the families that lost loved ones and also commiserated with the government and people of the state. The National Secretary of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the party, Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, said this in a statement issued Monday, where he assured Nigerians that banditry and insurgency would be crushed. He said the President Muhammadu Buhari government has been steadfast in retooling the armed forces, recruitment of personnel and intensified training to…
A group, the Forum of Enugu 2019 Governorship Candidates, on Sunday, passed a vote of confidence in Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of the State. They made their position known while refuting a publication which had asked Governor Ugwuanyi to call his loyalists to order. The Forum said the publication did not emanate from the 2019 Governorship Candidates and did not in any way represent the views of its members. A statement to that effect, made available to newsmen, was signed by Hon. Obioma Nnamani, Coordinator, Forum of Enugu Governorship Candidates 2019, Dr. Gerald Abonyi, Hon. Dr. Afam Ani, Hon. Engr. Chinedu…
Following a meeting on Wednesday at the residence of Senator Abdullahi Adamu in Abuja, the Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker Committee, governor Mai Mala Buni is to realign the party’s structure in Gombe State. The party structure has been a subject of feud between Senator Mohammed Danjuma Goje and governor Inuwa Yahaya. Buni is to lead other chieftains of the party to meet with Goje over the reorganisation of the party structure in Gombe State as soon as possible. The scheduled meeting with Goje, a former governor of Gombe State, was part of the resolutions reached…
The leadership of the All Progressives Congress in Osun State has asked the National Reconciliation Committee to disregard whatever was contained in the petitions forwarded to it by the dissenting members of the party called “The Osun Progressives, TOP”. The party, on Sunday, alleged that members of the group – The Osun Progressives, TOP – are already holding meetings with the opposition. The factional chairman of the APC in Osun, Rasaq Salinsile, had demanded that Governor Oyetola should resign from the National Caretaker and Extraordinary National Convention Planning Committee since he has declared his intention to contest for a second…
Iraq’s new parliament held its first session on Sunday, nearly three months after Iraqis voted in a general election whose results have been contested by powerful Iran-backed factions. The meeting ushers in what is likely to be a lengthy period of political wrangling among rival groups to choose a new president and prime minister. As leader of the biggest bloc, Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr a maverick leader remembered for leading an insurgency against U.S. forces after the 2003 invasion has the upper hand in choosing the new prime minister. But he will have to manage tensions with rival Shiite groups…
Two of the leading aspirants in the 2023 presidential election, Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar will be in their 70s by 2023. Mr Tinubu will be 71 years old in 2023, while Atiku Abubakar will be 77 at the same time. The recent comment by President Muhammadu Buhari that at his age, he is struggling with the rigour of the office, has brought the question of age into the front burner of the national discourse on the 2023 race. The 79-year-old President had said, “And about my age, yes, I see my colleagues, they are now resting and I assure…
A founding member of governing All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Osita Okechukwu has commended the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the timely clarification of its stand on zoning the 2023 Presidency. The PDP had through its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, clarified on Sunday that it was yet to zone its presidential ticket contrary to claims by former Governor, Babangida Aliyu. Ologunagba had stated: “The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party has been drawn to comments and speculations from certain individuals claiming that our party has zoned its presidential ticket to a particular part of the country. “This is…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has released a revised timetable and schedule of activities for the conduct of the 2022 Governorship Primary Election in Ekiti State. The APC has equally fixed January 27, 2022 for the conduct of the Governorship Primary Election in the state. This was in accordance with provisions of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) guidelines, This was contained in the party’s official notice issued by the National Secretary of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Sen. John James Akpanudodehe. INEC has fixed June 18, 2022 for the Ekiti governorship…
Former Minister of State for Health, Engr. Fidelis Nwankwo, has urged stakeholders and leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ebonyi State, to obey and implement rotation of the governorship seat, which started from the northern part of the state in 1999. InfoStride News gathered that Ebonyi is made up of three senatorial zones; north, central and south and rotation of governorship started from the north, which had Sam Egwu as the first civilian governor, then followed by central zone, which had Martin Elechi and finally, David Umahi, from southern zone. Nwankwo, who served as a minister under President…
At least three people were killed and 14 others trapped in debris after a building collapsed due to a suspected gas leak at a Sub-District Office in southwest China on Friday. The blast occurred at the Sub-District office in Wulong District’s Chongqing Municipality, trapping 27 people. Thirteen people had been pulled out from the debris, three of whom died during rescue efforts, state-run CGTN-TV quoted the on-site emergency response team as saying. The accident took place at 12:10 pm local time due to a suspected gas leakage which triggered the explosion and caused the collapse of the canteen building, the…
Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has said the Southeast would not rule out a political solution in the case of Nnamdi Kanu, pro-Biafra agitator. Ekweremadu said the Southeast would keep engaging the government in a push for a political solution. Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had ruled out a political solution to Kanu’s case. Buhari, who made the comment during an interview with Channels Television, said he would not interfere with Kanu’s trial. This was after some Igbo elders led by former Aviation Minister, Mbazulike Amaechi urged the President to release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra,…
Ahead of the local government election in Enugu State, aggrieved indigenes of Enugu East Local Government Area took to the streets on Saturday protesting alleged imposition of a candidate. The angry residents, who stormed the Enugu Government House, said they would no longer allow a single family to decide the fate of the entire people. They said that since the creation of the Council Area, the chairmanship position had remained under the control of one family, vowing not to let the status quo remain. One of the protesters, Prof. Paul Nnamchi, who said he is from Eko Nike, said they…
An All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, Otunba Demola Popoola, has said the party stands a good chance of winning the 2022 governorship election if it conducts a free, fair and credible primary on January 22. Popoola averred that the only thing he solicited from the party is allowing a level playing ground during the primary, describing this as the best way to have an easy ride in the June 18 poll. The aviation expert spoke at the APC secretariat in Ado Ekiti on Friday while declaring his governorship ambition, being a follow up to the procurement…