The state congress of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has been postponed again. InfoStride News reports that this is the second time the congress would be postponed. Our correspondent gathered that the congress was slated to hold last Saturday. It was, however, shifted to this Saturday due to alleged falsification of documents and was scheduled to hold this Saturday. Our correspondent, however, gathered that the congress has been shifted again. A member of the House of Representatives, Olaide Akinremi announced the postponement of the congress. Akinremi, who represents Ibadan North, made the announcement in Abuja on Thursday. He…
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The leadership of Imo All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA has asked Gov Hope Uzodinma of Imo State to find ways to stop the killing in the state or resign if he is unable to provide adequate security to the people he is governing. The opposition party said security of lives and property is paramount to the people, calling on Gov Uzodinma to rise up and combat increasing insecurity in the State. APGA said,” Indeed, Imo State has become a fiesdom of killings as no week passes without one killing or the other with accusing fingers pointing at the infamous unknown…
A Northern group, Arewa Youth Alliance for 2023, has thrown its weight behind the presidential aspiration of Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC. The youths noted that Tinubu was the best presidential material in 2023. The group’s coordinator, Hon Lawan Bello, said the managerial skill, technical know-how, and national appeal of Tinubu put him in the best position to rule Nigeria in 2023. Bello said the group would ensure that the former governor becomes president in 2023. He urged all political parties in Nigeria to adopt Tinubu as the sole candidate for Nigeria. In a statement…
The All Progressives Congress (APC), Imo State chapter, on Thursday, expressed worry over the silence of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on the mindless attack which led to the untimely death of two prominent traditional rulers in the State, leaving many others severely wounded. The ruling party under the leadership of Hon. Macdonald Kelechi Ebere said, “Our party has observed with great concern the silence of the political oppositions in the face of these reckless attacks on innocent citizens of the State. “We are further worried that the same opposition will not hesitate to rise in critic against government and…
A Swiss court has dismissed Google’s bid to block the award of a government cloud computing contract worth up to 110 million Swiss francs ($119 million) to rival bidders. “In an interim decision, the Federal Administrative Court rejects Google’s request to grant suspensive effect to its appeal. The Federal Office for Buildings and Logistics may therefore conclude the public cloud contracts with the selected tenderers,” the court said in a statement on Wednesday. The decision may be appealed to the Swiss supreme court. The government had awarded the contract in June to Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Alibaba, Swiss media…
Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (KADSIECOM) on Thursday, vowed that nothing would stop it from conducting the Local Government elections on Saturday October 23, 2021, in the remaining two local government areas. The election was earlier postponed due to security challenges. In a statement on Thursday by the KADSIECOM chairman, Dr. Saratu Binta Dikko-Audu, he noted that residents in those local government areas were free to vote for any candidate of their choice. According to her, the election would hold between 8.00am to 4.00pm in Zagon Kataf and Birnin Gwari Local Government Areas of Kaduna State. The statement further said…
The screening committee set up to screen the candidates jostling to be members of State Executive of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State says it has disqualified all the aspirants eyeing the post of State Assistant Youth Leader. The committee made this disclosure on Wednesday. InfoStride News reports that the APC State congress has been fixed for this Saturday. The congress was earlier scheduled to be held last Saturday but was postponed due to alleged irregularities. The screening committee has, however, said that it has disqualified some aspirants. The committee noted that it also disqualified four out of the…
Since the return of democracy in 1999, Nigerian governors remain one of the main power blocs in the country and ahead of the 2023 elections, governors in both the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are once again moving to strengthen their position. Through the control of party structures in their respective states and funding of the party, governors decide the direction of their parties. The inclusion of section 87 in the electoral amendment bill, is generating a buzz, as many believe it could be an attempt by the federal lawmakers to checkmate the powers of…
The Kwara State factional group of the All Progressives Congress, APC, loyal to Information Minister, Lai Mohammed, on Wednesday, warned that the ruling party may be heading towards electoral defeat in the 2023 general elections. The factional state APC Deputy Chairman, Chief Sunday Oyebiyi, handed the warning at a press conference in Ilorin, the state capital. Oyebiyi, described Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq as “a liability and dangerously navigating the party back to Egypt instead of the promised land that the ‘Otoge’ revolution had in stock for Kwarans.” The group assured the people of the state that there will definitely be light…
Jack Ma, the co-founder of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., is traveling to Europe for the first time since a bruising government crackdown on his tech empire, according to Hong Kong media reports. The 57-year-old billionaire is in Spain after a stop in Hong Kong, according to a report in the Alibaba-owned South China Morning Post. Ma is abroad for a series of business meetings, including a tour of the agricultural industry and environmental technology in Spain, the paper said. An Alibaba spokesperson declined to comment on Ma’s whereabouts, referring queries to his foundation. The foundation didn’t immediately respond to an…
The newly elected state Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, Chris Finebone has reacted to the emergence of a parallel executive committee of the APC in the state. Finebone threatened that the party will get security agencies to arrest ” impersonators” in the party. The threat comes a day after party members loyal to Sen. Magnus Abe held an event in Port Harcourt where they declared that Ben Golden Chioma had been elected as the Chairman of the party in the state through a parallel Congress. They, however, did not disclose the date or venue for…
Borno youths under the umbrella of Borno All Progressive Congress (APC) Youths Vanguard have called on Governor Babagana Zulum to withdraw his statement describing the youths as miscreants and hanger-on stating that unless the governor withdraws his statements, the days ahead will remind him of how they worked hard to bring him to power. Speaking in an interview with journalists at the NUJ Press Centre on Tuesday, the spokesman of the group, Ibrahim Hassan, said, “We have worked hard to bring this government in power, only for the governor to say that it was youths vanguard (ECOMOG) and Mohammed Yusuf…
Zamfara State Deputy Governor, Barrister Mahdi Aliyu Gusau has boasted that the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) was very much ready to battle the All Progressives Congress (APC ) in the 2023 general elections in the State. The Deputy Governor said that he was the new PDP leader in the state, adding that he assumed that position since the defection of his boss, Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle and his supporters to the APC. According to him, he had been preparing for the battle ahead, pointing out that his inspection of the party’s Secretariat formed his readiness to face the ruling party…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Tuesday night said the screening of aspirants vying for various national offices in the 2021 National Convention of the party, has been scheduled for Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at the Legacy House, Maitama, Abuja. Mohammed Adoke Bello, SAN, Chairman, Screening Sub-Committee of the party in a statement on Tuesday night said the exercise will start with a media chat at 10 am. The screening proper is to commence at 12 noon and the appearance scheduling will be on “first come, first served,” basis. He urged aspirants to come along with the originals of their…
Pakistan may remain on the ‘grey list’ of the FATF till the global money laundering and terror financing watchdog meets for its next session in April 2022, according to a media report on Tuesday. Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will be in session for three days from October 19-21 and it is expected that Tuesday’s session may be informed that Pakistan is still short of meeting the FATF criterion, according to a report in The News International reported from the French capital. The report, quoting sources in German media house Deutsche Welle, said the global body’s decision on putting…
The Leader Of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has advised the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to make use of electronic transmission of results in the forthcoming Anambra State governorship election. Primate Ayodele also urged the INEC to dialogue with the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ahead of the election. In a statement signed by his media aide, Osho Oluwatosin last night, Ayodele said INEC should engage IPOB in order to have a peaceful election in the State. The cleric said the electoral transmission of results will prevent rigging in the coming election, adding that “if the government…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Yobe State has made another ‘big catch’ as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, State Deputy Chairman, Alhaji Usman Amale, Assistant Secretary Ahmadu Biriri and others have defected to the ruling party. Receiving the former PDP officials in Damaturu on Tuesday, the State Governor and Chairman APC Caretaker Extraordinary Convention, Hon. Mai Mala Buni, said they should be part of the movement to salvage Nigeria. This was disclosed by Buni’s Spokesman, Mamman Mohammed in a statement he signed and made available to newsmen. Buni in the statement said, “APC is now a movement that is…
Senator Magnus Abe who formerly represented Rivers South East Senatorial district Tuesday inaugurated his parallel State Executive of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State. The inauguration came two days after the nationwide State congress of the APC which was laced with crisis in several States of the Federation. The inauguration took place at the Freedom House, a campaign secretariat of Sen. Abe located at the GRA area of Port Harcourt, thereby deepening factional crisis of the party in Rivers as another faction loyal to the former governor and Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi were also claiming to be…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State, Hon. Sunday Frank Oputu, has said a repeat of what happened to the party in Zamfara and Rivers State in 2019, where the court disqualified the party from contesting in the general elections due to their primaries, is imminent in the state. InfoStride News reported that the faction of the party loyal to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, conducted a peaceful state congress and elected its 36 State Executive Committee (SEC) members, as Barr. Dennis Otiotio emerged as state chairman of the party. But…
A House committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is moving swiftly Tuesday to hold at least one of Donald Trump’s allies in contempt as the former president is pushing back on the probe in a new lawsuit. Trump is aggressively trying to block the committee’s work by directing former White House aide Steve Bannon not to answer questions in the probe while also suing the panel to try to prevent Congress from obtaining former White House documents. But lawmakers on the House committee say they will not back down as they gather facts and testimony about the…