The Osun Progressives (TOP), a caucus of the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola and Olawale Olokode, the Osun Police Commissioner, to tender an unreserved apology for the alleged malicious damage done to the reputation of a factional chairman of the State APC Chairman, Rasaq Salinsile and six other leaders of the party. The Chairman of the caucus, Adelowo Adebiyi while reacting to the dismissal of the court case instituted against the caucus leaders, stated that it was only an apology tendered publicly through the media that can mitigate…
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Prince Uche Secondus, a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the court to stop the party from conducting the National Convention which has been scheduled to take place on October 30 and 31, 2021. In a letter addressed to the party (6th respondent) by his counsel, Tayo Oyetibo (SAN) on Friday, Secondus said the planned convention should be suspended pending the outcome of his case in the court. Recall that following the crisis that recently rocked the party, a Rivers State High Court had on September 10, asked Secondus to stop parading himself as chairman…
Chairman Northeast Publishers Forum, Malam Hassan Gimba, has argued that the northeast region has all the required qualities to produce the nation’s next president in 2023. This, he made known at the 2021 Northeast Star Magazine awards, which took place in Yola, Adamawa State on Friday. Urging the region to tread extra legitimate miles in mobilizing and sensitizing people on the fact that it is now its turn to produce the next president, if given the chance, the much desired growth, he believed, would be attracted to all parts of the country. Stressing that the quest for the number one…
Over ten thousand policemen who monitored last year’s gubernatorial election in Ondo State have begged the police authority and other stakeholders to release their allowances. InfoStride News recalls that the gubernatorial election was held on Saturday, October 10, 2020 in Ondo State. Our correspondent gathered that no fewer than thirty thousand policemen were deployed from about twenty four states to monitor the gubernatorial election which was won by Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu. Our correspondent however gathered that about ten thousand out of the policemen are yet to receive their allowances for monitoring the election. It was gathered that about three hundred…
Twitter amplifies tweets from right-leaning political parties and news outlets more than from the left, its own research suggests. According to BBC, the social-media giant said it made the discovery while exploring how its algorithm recommends political content to users. But it admitted it did not know why, saying that was a “more difficult question to answer”. Twitter’s study examined tweets from political parties and users sharing content from news outlets in seven countries around the world: Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, the UK, and the US. It analysed millions of tweets sent between 1 April and 15 August 2020.…
No fewer than 1,000 members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Peoples Redemption Party ,PRP and All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Dass Local Government Area of Bauchi State. Receiving the defectors at a ceremony held at the Government Lodge in Dass, PDP chairman in the area, Alhaji Sani Korau, welcomed the defectors to the ruling party. According to Korau, from the inception of the Fourth Republic in 1999, Dass was never in the opposition until recently as a result of certain reasons, which he said had been politically resolved. The party…
Former Nigerian Ambassador to Algeria and Philippines and Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Nnamdi Onochie, has blamed the undemocratic activities of the political class, for the current political violence and instability in Nigeria. Onochie also attributed the current gale of defections among politicians belonging to major dominant political parties in the nation to the present heightened instability in Nigeria. He further regretted the alleged failure of lawmakers at the National Assembly to enact a law disqualifying sitting political office holders from cross carpeting from one political party to another, insisting that, this common and undemocratic practice among the political…
A faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC), loyal to former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, has called on the Appeal Committee of the party to cancel the outcome of the state congress of the party, which held last Saturday with Barr. Dennis Otitio emerging winner as Chairman of the party. But the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and leader of the APC in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, accepted the outcome of the state congress and congratulated the newly elected State APC executive members, describing the result as a reflection of the oneness and…
An Osogbo Magistrate Court on Friday dismissed the suit instituted against seven members of The Osun Progressives (TOP), a caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State and loyalists of Rauf Aregbesola, a former Osun governor and current Minister of Interior. Presiding Magistrate, Olusegun Ayilara dismissed the suit filed by the Nigeria Police against the seven leaders of the caucus. The Nigerian Police through its prosecutor, John Idoko, had on August 23, 2021 arraigned Alhaji Rasaq Salinsile, a former Osun APC Caretaker Committee Secretary and former Osun APC Chairman, Reverend Adelowo Adebiyi. Others that were arraigned with the…
The government filed an affidavit in the Delhi High Court, saying that WhatsApp, being a foreign company, cannot avail of fundamental rights under Articles 19 and 21 of the Constitution, invoke the jurisdiction of the court or challenge the constitutionality of an Indian law. The Facebook-owned messaging giant had filed a lawsuit in the high court against the Indian government in May, seeking to block the traceability clause of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 that requires social media platforms with more than 5 million users to locate “the first originator of the information”,…
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered his Service Chiefs to make sure nothing stops the Anambra governorship election from holding. The election has been scheduled for November 6. Buhari’s order was confirmed by the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, while speaking with State House correspondents on Thursday. This followed a security meeting the service chiefs had with Buhari at the presidential villa. “The president has directed that under no circumstances will anything be allowed to stop the elections from taking place successfully. The people have a right to vote and select their leader. “No group or individual will be allowed to…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Thursday, said it was satisfied with the current level of preparations for the November 6 Anambra State governorship election The commission, in a statement by its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, vz in Abuja, said that virtually all non-sensitive materials have been delivered in readiness for the election. Okoye appealed for support from all in Anambra to ensure that the election will not only be peaceful, but also free, fair and credible. He noted that the training of ad-hoc staff is also going on as scheduled and INEC is…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Screening Committee has disqualified three aspirants from participating in the October 30 national convention. Convention Committee Chairman, Ahmadu Fintiri made the disclosure to reporters in Abuja. The screening team submitted its report to the organising committee on Thursday, he announced. Of the 31 candidates that indicated interest for national positions, 27 were cleared, one withdrawn and three disqualified. The disqualified aspirants are Prof. Wale Oladipo, Okey Muo-Aroh and Dr Eddy Olafeso. Muo-Aroh and Olafeso wanted to contest the positions of National Secretary. Fintiri said they were dropped because they filed a lawsuit with the intention…
The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has mocked his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, Senator Andy Uba, over his inability to flag off his governorship election campaign. Soludo in a press release by the director of media of his campaign organization, Mr C. Don Adinuba, said the delay for the flag off of Uba’s campaign was because he was afraid of meeting the people of Anambra State to answer questions about his past actions. Recall that Senator Uba had twice rescheduled the flag off of his campaign, citing the insecurity in the state, and…
US officials are issuing new warnings about China’s ambitions in artificial intelligence and a range of advanced technologies that could eventually give Beijing a decisive military edge and possible dominance over health care and other essential sectors in America. The warnings include a renewed effort to inform business executives, academics and local and state government officials about the risks of accepting Chinese investment or expertise in key industries, officials at the National Counterintelligence and Security Center said Thursday. While the center does not intend to tell officials to reject Chinese investment, it will encourage efforts to control intellectual property and…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, 2023 governorship aspirant in Benue State, Mr Terver Akase, on Friday said if elected, his administration will utilize the abundant opportunities in Information and Communications Technology, ICT, to create jobs for the youths. Mr Akase said this on Friday when he featured on Radio Benue live interactive programme ‘Area Matter’. The immediate past Chief Press Secretary to Governor Samuel Ortom said ICT remains one of the greatest tools for employment and wealth creation, stressing that youths of Benue State are among the most active people on social media who would gladly embrace the opportunities on…
The newly-elected exco of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Benue State has asked one Barrister Omale Omale to stop parading himself as the consensus candidate of the party in the recently concluded state congress. InfoStride News had reported that the congress, which was held on October 16, saw Austin Agada emerge as chairman of the party after an election was conducted. He emerged during the elective congress of the party held in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, following the inability of the party to have a consensus candidate. Agada, a native of Owukpa, in Ogbadibo LGA, polled over…
Former presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has highlighted the kind of leadership Nigeria needs ahead of 2023 elections. Atiku said Nigeria needs a leadership that can bring about unity to the entire country. The former Vice President expressed the hope that the country would thrive under a leadership that would unify and promote peace. He spoke at the 70th birthday lecture of Engr. Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi, with the theme: “Technology: A Missing Link in Nigeria’s Development,” on Thursday. Atiku stressed that Nigeria needs a leader that can restructure the country and reform the economy. According…
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has claimed that former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar and Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, have indicated interest in contesting in the 2023 presidential election. There have been speculations in the past weeks over the candidates for the next general elections, especially with the issues raised around zoning. Makinde, speaking during an interview on Channels Television on Thursday, boasted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has “eminently qualified” personalities that can lead Nigeria. He also said the only way PDP can be stopped, is if the party is divided internally. “Once PDP governors are able to…
Nine months after being expelled from social media for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, former President Donald Trump said Wednesday he’s launching a new media company with its own social media platform. Trump says his goal in launching the Trump Media & Technology Group and its Truth Social” app is to create a rival to the Big Tech companies that have shut him out and denied him the megaphone that was paramount to his national rise. We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American President has…