Women rights groups, Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre, Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA), have said National Gender Policy (NGP) could not be implemented in Nigeria if it remained at the national level, adding that if not domesticated at state and local levels, the policy would remain a sham. Speaking during a capacity building, training of gender equality and social inclusion for Wards Councilors, FaithBased/Community leaders, in Port Harcourt, Executive Director of Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre, Emem Okon, charged various state governments to implement the NGP in all states, stressing that it will add credibility to…
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An aspirant in the Ekiti State gubernatorial election in 2022 under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olusegun Oni has lamented the state of insecurity in Ekiti, while challenging the governor, Kayode Fayemi, on people’s safety. Oni stated that Ekiti under the current dispensation has become a place of fear and the people can no longer move freely. He said: “Those in diaspora are afraid of coming to the state as there are various forms of atrocity, stealing, robbery, kidnapping, banditry, rape and so on. “ Safety and security don’t just happen, they are the result of our…
The Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) has said it will welcome its presidential ticket from any region in the country. Falalu Bello, the Party’s National Chairman, disclosed this while receiving one of the party’s presidential hopefuls, Madam Patience Ndidi Key, at its national secretariat in Abuja. He told the presidential aspirant and her supporters at the secretariat that the party has not zoned its presidential ticket to any region, stressing that everyone is free to seek the ticket of the party. He said, “The party has made the presidential ticket available to all zones in the country in order to ensure…
Six political parties have fielded candidates for the Dec. 4, Ekiti State local government councils poll, an official has said. Justice Jide Aladejana, the Chairman of the State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC), disclosed this when he spoke with newsmen in Ado-Ekiti. Aladejana assured that the election would be free, fair and credible. He said that no politician would be allowed to hijack and manipulate the outcome of the elections. “Let me use this opportunity to assure the electorate that the commission will conduct free, fair and credible poll that will meet the yearnings of all participating parties in the state,”…
The Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has tasked Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, to wake up to his responsibilities and rescue citizens from the current insecurity in the state. Reacting to the murder of a kidnap victim, Adegboyega Onijala, the PDP alleged that despite reported cases of kidnappings and killings in different parts of the state, “the governor has not demonstrated any commitment to deal with the situation.” The party in a statement in Ilorin on Thursday by the state Publicity Secretary, Tunde Ashaolu, condemned the murder of Adegboyega Onijala noting that ” the spate of kidnap for…
The Biden administration included Taiwan among the 110 invitees to its upcoming democracy summit, the State Department announced on Tuesday night, a move that’s intended to show solidarity with a key regional partner but risks angering China. Taiwan was invited to join nations, including the UK and Japan, at the December 9-10 virtual summit, the State Department said on its website Tuesday. The online gathering is an event Joe Biden vowed to host while a candidate for president last year, with the goal of rallying like-minded countries around efforts to fight corruption and authoritarianism and advance human rights.
Events of the past days at the National Secretariat of Nigeria’s governing political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) did much to underscore the point that really, uneasy lies the head that bears a crown. On Sunday November 21, 2021, the Forum of Progressive Governors (PGF), held a closed-door meeting, which agenda were not unconnected to the fire on the APC mountain. Although the details of the meeting were kept to their chest, it was gathered that the governors were troubled by a lot of life threatening developments in the party, including the new Electoral Act, which tends to pull…
A group of professionals from different walks of life across the 774 councils in Nigeria under the aegis of Nigerians United for Osinbajo (NUFO), has declared that the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, is the best candidate to succeed President Mohammed Buhari. In a statement, the spokesman of the group, Engr. Kabir Ahmed, noted that VP Osinbajo possesses the right qualification and experience to occupy the number one seat in the country. He said: “At NUFO, we believe that VP Osinbajo is the only candidate that possesses the right attribute that all Nigerians are looking for in a president. He has…
The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia State has said that it will welcome persons who are willing to contest elective positions in 2023. The party also restated its promise to run an open-door policy for all members, insisting that the internal democracy must be observed and followed in selecting the candidates of the party for the 2023 elections. The party leadership made its position known in a statement by the APGA Chairman in Abia, Reverend Augustine Ehiemere, made available to newsmen in Umuahia, the state capital, on Thursday. The Abia leadership formally announced that four governorship aspirants have…
The All Progressive Congress is set to hold its national convention on a yet-to-be determined date in February 2022. But the planned convention may be coming amid raging crisis in some of the state chapters of the party. Congresses held in some states ended in crisis as parallel congresses were observed in several states. In Zamfara State, Mala Mai Buni, the Governor of Yobe State and Caretaker Chairman of the APC has been accused of fueling the crisis in the state. In this report, InfoStride News looks at the challenges ahead of the ruling party ahead of the February date.…
Former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has accused the National Assembly of spending N1 billion annually on constitution review without making any headway. The Ijaw leader, who noted that the South, North and the entire country are calling for restructuring, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to as matter of urgency convoke a Representative Assembly or Town Hall meeting. He advised that the meeting will consider either Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State’s All Progressives Congress, APC, Committee Report on restructuring or that of 2014 National Conference report. Clark, the leader of Southern and Middle Belt Leaders…
Former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki has said the North Central geo-political zone has worked hard for the unity of the country, stressing that it is time for the region to produce the next president. Saraki stated this on Tuesday at the Benue Peoples House, Makurdi while interfacing with the State Working Committee of the PDP and select stakeholders across the state as he began consultations for his presidential ambition in the 2023 polls. The former lawmaker also lauded Governor Samuel Ortom for his efforts in ensuring PDP remains strong in the region and the entire country. He said, “We…
For several years, the human rights community had called for the prosecution of the operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) over incessant arrests, detention, torture and extrajudicial killing of citizens. As such calls were ignored by the authorities the SARS intensified the brutalization of citizens particularly young people. The video of the reckless killing of an unarmed young man in Delta State sometime in the first week of October 2020 by trigger happy SARS officials went viral and led to spontaneous street protests in many states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory. In its initial reaction…
The appeal committee constituted by the All Progressive Congress (APC) from the national headquarters of the party to look into complaints from aggrieved members of the party in Zamfara State has lamented the committee has not received any complaint from anybody. Addressing newsmen at the state secretariat of the party, the secretary of the committee, Barrister Usman Mohammed Eleju said they have been in the state since last week, saying that nobody has come forward with any complaints. “Even though we made adequate public enlightenment we have not received anybody with a complaint” Fielding questions from newsmen over whether the…
Sweden’s Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson became the largest Nordic nation’s first female prime minister after winning a narrow vote in parliament. A last-minute deal with the ex-communist Left Party ensured that a majority of lawmakers accepted the Social Democrat leader in a parliamentary vote, 100 years after women in the country known for its egalitarian foundations were first able to exercise full voting rights. Andersson, who has been finance minister since 2014, still faces a fragmented legislature after the Nordic nation’s politics have been upended by the emergence of the far-right Sweden Democrats in the last decade. Her government only…
JPMorgan Chase and Co’s Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon joked on Tuesday that his bank would last longer than China’s Communist Party. While reiterating his bank’s commitment to doing business in China, Dimon said: “I made a joke the other day that the Communist Party is celebrating its 100th year – so is JPMorgan. I’d make a bet that we last longer.” Dimon added: “I can’t say that in China. They are probably listening anyway.” He was speaking as part of a Boston College series of CEO interviews. JPMorgan has been operating in China since 1921, the same year the…
A former governorship candidate under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State, Uche Nwosu, has advised the party to reconcile all factions before its national convention. Nwosu, who is a chieftain of APC maintained that holding the February 2022 convention without resolving the crisis in some state chapters of the party amounted to setting the cart before the horse. He expressed concern that the party would lose several members in the event that it conducted the national convention as between 12 and 13 states were factionalised. His words: “The best thing the leadership of the party…
Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) held a closed door meeting on Sunday night in Abuja. Meeting under the aegis of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) were the host governor and chairman of the group, Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi, his counterparts from Kwara, Imo, Borno, Ebonyi, Lagos and Zamfara. Others were governors of Niger, Ogun, Cross River, Kogi, Nasarawa, Katsina, Plateau, Ekiti, Jigawa and Kano States. As at 10:00 p.m., their counterparts from Osun, Yobe, Gombe and Kaduna States were still being expected. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting was expected…
The Buhari Media Organisation says the fresh N656 billion bailout to 36 states confirms President Muhammadu Buhari is a caring leader. A statement on Wednesday by the Chairman, Niyi Akinsiju, and Secretary, Cassidy Madueke, said the latest facility is the fourth in six years. Each state will get N18.2 billion to help them meet financial obligations and budget support due for repayment. The funds will be disbursed in six tranches over six months, with a 30-year tenor, and a 2-year moratorium at an interest rate of 9 percent. BMO noted that the presidential gesture was unprecedented and commendable. “Not even…
Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu West Senatorial Zone, on Tuesday, declared that the party has no chairman in Enugu State. This came amidst claims by Barr. Ugo Agballa that he was elected chairman during one of the congresses conducted in the State earlier in October. Another congress also produced Comrade Adolphus Ude as chairman of the party in the Coal City State. But at a stakeholders meeting held in Oji-River Local Government Area, the stakeholders said Agballah, a non-member of the party could not in any way be said to be the party’s chairman. They recalled…