The Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has predicted that the corporate existence of the country may come to an end if the north retains power in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. Speaking during a sermon at the adoration ground in Enugu State, the popular Catholic priest warned President Muhammadu Buhari against planning to hand over power to the north. According to Mbaka, the Northerners should forget about leadership in the coming political era, saying there may be a disaster if the north tries to impose the next President on Nigerians. He said, “The issue…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said he has not yet thought about an extension to Chief of the Army Staff Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa’s tenure as there is still time for his term to end, according to a media report on Friday. Talking about the contentious issue of the extension in Bajwa’s tenure, Prime Minister Khan said that he enjoyed an unprecedented relationship with the military leadership, the Dawn newspaper reported. The current year has just started and November is far away. Then why there is worry about extension in the tenure of the army chief, the prime minister…
The year 2021 was an eventful political year which witnessed a burst of activities that will remain evergreen in Imo’s political calendar. InfoStride News correspondent compiled some of these issues and events that shaped the heartland State’s politics and made it an unforgettable political year. Dramatic Imo Assembly: impeachment of two Speakers in 12 months and suspension of lawmakers: In the last 12 months, Imo political space, especially the State House of Assembly stayed in the scene almost all year round and witnessed the swearing in of three Speakers within a space of one year. At first, former Speaker, Hon.Chiji…
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, an All Progressives Congress group has called for the sack of the Director-General of Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Alhaji Salihu Moh Lukman. The group, which operates under the aegis of All Progressives Congress Youth Development and Solidarity Forum (APC-YDSF) accused the DG of harbouring selfish interest that favours the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying if he.was not sacked immediately, the ruling party must be ready to face its consequences. In a statement, which was signed by its Secretary-General, Hon. Tobias Ogbeh and made available to the media on Thursday in Abuja, the group…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s tagging of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP as a failure. InfoStride News recalls that President Buhari, during an interview with Channels Television on Wednesday, said what comes to his mind when the acronym, PDP is mentioned, is failure. Reacting, Governor Ortom in a statement issued on Thursday by his Chief Press Secretary, Nathaniel Ikyur said it is the ruling All Progressives Congress that failed Nigerians by retrogressing the affairs of the nation. He said, “as a critical stakeholder of the PDP, this is completely false. If anyone has…
A public commentator in Zamfara State, Ahmad Bakare has said the threading of words between the ruling APC in the state and the opposition PDP has opened the eyes of Zamfara people to what has been going on within the circle of the state government. In an exclusive interview with Newsmen in Gusau, the public commentator said citizens all along were kept in total darkness regarding the expenses of the state government. He said the state PDP spokesperson, Professor Kabiru Umar Jabaka knew about the monumental corruption rocking the state government and refused to open up until he was short…
The leaders of Japan and Australia signed a landmark defense agreement Thursday that allows closer cooperation between their militaries and stands as a rebuke to China’s growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met in a virtual summit to sign the Reciprocal Access Agreement, the first such defense pact signed by Japan with any country other than the United States. The agreement follows more than a year of talks between Japan and Australia aimed at breaking down legal barriers to allow the troops of one country to enter the other…
Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, on Thursday, said the experiences he had garnered over two decades in government placed him in a vantage position to rescue Nigeria. Anyim, a former Senate President, spoke in Enugu during a South-East briefing and consultative session, which had in attendance stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from the zone. At the event, he asked the people of the zone for their support as he seeks to take over the presidential seat in 2023. Some of the party leaders at the meeting hosted by Anyim included…
Older members of the All Progressives Congress in Cross River State have insisted that they are given appointments and paid by the Governor Ben Ayade government as promised. On 20 May 2021, the governor defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to APC and took over control of the power structures, supporters and aides. Later he assured that the older members of the party, particularly members of the state caretaker committee that midwife the collapse of the two rival factions that steadied the party until the arrival of Ayade, would be accommodated through appointments and payments. Chief Samson Edem Ene,…
The leadership of the pan-Ijaw youth group, Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide, has flayed the remarks credited to the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, against the Ijaw nation. The President of IYC, Peter Timothy Igbifa, in a statement, issued to the media on Thursday from Port Harcourt, said it was sad that Wike, while making his speech during the Ogoni Day celebration, remarked that the Ijaw were behaving as if they owned the Niger Delta. “We don’t know where he got his impressions from. But whatever he said does not represent our noble ethnic group. Ijaws died in the 2015…
The Federal Government is planning to downsize the civil service. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, explained that the downsizing is aimed at cutting the cost of the government’s recurrent expenditure yearly. Ahmed disclosed that the Federal Government is working on an exit package for workers that would be affected. In a statement, the minister said the government has set up a committee to review the collapse of agencies, using the Stephen Oronsaye report. Buhari govt to cut civil servants’ salaries – Minister According to Ahmed, the committee would be led by the Secretary to the…
The United States and Germany said Wednesday that Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine’s border poses an immediate and urgent challenge to European security and that any intervention will draw severe consequences. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock presented a unified front on Russia after a meeting in Washington, but still would not detail what the consequences might be. The severity of any response to a Russian invasion of Ukraine hinges largely on Germany, Europe’s biggest economy and a diplomatic heavyweight within the 27-nation European Union. Both Germany and the United States see Russia’s actions toward…
Jimoh Raheem Agboola, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lone member in the Kwara State House of Assembly, has again been reprimanded by the House for alleged contempt and breach of privileges. InfoStride News reports that he is to abstain from the service of the House for 14 days in line with Order 10, Rule 16, Sub-sections 4 and 11 of the House rules. The embattled lawmaker from Ilorin South constituency, is also to apologize to the House without which the order abstaining him will not be waived. The order was handed down on Wednesday, in a resolution contained in the…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday dismissed alleged planned defection of former president, Goodluck Jonathan from the opposition party to the All Progressives Congress (APC). PDP made its position known on Wednesday through its Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba. According to him, PDP is currently talking to strong members of the party on how to rescue Nigeria from APC in 2023. He said the leadership of the Dr. Iyorchia Ayu-led National Working Committee is reaching out to members of the party, including the former president, to join hands with it to help rebuild and rescue Nigeria. According to the statement,…
The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has said the anticipated presidential ambition of the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo would cause crisis within the ruling party. Primate Ayodele said Osinbajo’s presidential ambition would cause crisis between him, President Muhammadu Buhari, and Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC. In a statement by his spokesman, Oluwatoyin Osho, the Primate, however, said there is no harm in trying. According to Ayodele, Osinbajo won’t find it easy because there would be opposition. He said: ‘’His ambition will cause crisis between him and President Buhari, Bola Ahmed Tinubu…
The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), has challenged the Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma to furnish the people of the state with the identities of the four hundred bandits he claimed were arrested by the men of the Nigeria Police. This call follows a recent public broadcast by Governor Uzodinma on the hostilities in Imo State, wherein the governor claimed that men of the Nigeria Police arrested and apprehended about 400 criminals who are majorly not Indigenes of Imo State. He claimed that the police had arrested the suspects who masterminded the destruction of police formations and the correctional…
Britain’s Opposition Leader Sir Keir Starmer has tested positive for Covid for a second time and is now isolating, a Labour Party spokesman said on Wednesday. The 59-year-old Labour Party leader will miss the year’s first House of Commons showdown with Boris Johnson at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) as the UK Parliament returns from its Christmas recess on Wednesday. This is the second time Starmer has missed a major Parliament session due to a positive COVID test, having missed out on the Budget session last October. “The Labour Leader has tested positive for coronavirus, a party spokesperson said. Starmer is…
Supporters and officials of the Cross River State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have lamented that they operate from individual offices since the party does not have a secretariat in Calabar, the state capital. They also expressed anger and surprise that as a state ruling party, their leaders are unable to acquire or erect a befitting property to serve as their state office. They warned that it is demeaning for party officials to roam with sensitive party files and documents and keep some in politicians’ offices and homes, saying such can be very dangerous for the party. Before…
The Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted to the statement credited to Professor Kabiru Jabaka, the State Deputy chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that Bello Matawalle’s administration is insensitive to the people’s welfare and security. Addressing newsmen at the Secretariat of the party in Gusau, the State capital, the State publicity Secretary of the APC, Comrade Yusuf Idris Gusau said that the PDP was only looking for cheap publicity to rubbish the image and reputation of the Governor. According to him, Jabaka still had some questions to answer bordering on alleged corrupt practices…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ondo State chapter has revealed that action has began towards petitioning the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over alleged looting of the State by Governor Oluwarotimi and his family. While revealing the eight proxy companies allegedly used by Akeredolu’s family, particularly his wife, Betty and his son, Babajide, the PDP maintained that the governor’s family had been using the companies to get contracts in the state. The Publicity Secretary of PDP in the State disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday while revealing the companies being used by the first family in the State…