Former Director-General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Chief George Eneh, has defected from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Eneh disclosed that he decided to join APC to wrest power from the PDP and connect the state to national politics. He said this at his Enugu residence on Wednesday, expressing confidence in the ability of the state APC Chairman, Chief Ugochukwu Agballa, to turn things around for the party in the state. While welcoming the former director-general and the party members from the other camp, Agballa thanked them for their decisions. He described…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
Armed policemen have taken over the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abuja the nation’s capital. The police officers who are heavily armed stormed the area on Wednesday in Toyota Hilux vans and surrounded the premises. InfoStride News learnt that the move was to forestall a planned protest at the secretariat by some party members who are against the Mai Mala led Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee. But the Secretary of the Caretaker Committee, Sen John Akpanudoedehe who spoke to newsmen on the development, said the move was sequel to a security report. He insisted that there was no…
Dino Melaye a former senator in the 8th national assembly has countered some governors who are agitating for indirect primaries in the 2023 general elections. InfoStride News recalls that the Senate, after thorough deliberation by both chambers, recently passed the harmonized version of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021 which allowed for direct primaries as a means of returning democracy to the people. But some Governors of the opposition People’s Democratic Party, kicked against the move, calling on the lawmakers to reverse the law. Dino, in a video on his verified Facebook page on Wednesday, backed the lawmakers, explaining that…
The former Minister of State for Information, Hon. Ikra Bilbis has reacted to last week’s All Progressives Congress (APC) parallel Congress, saying it was an unfortunate situation for the party in Zamfara State. The former minister, in a press statement he personally signed, said the situation requires the intervention of critical stakeholders and leaders of the APC otherwise all the years of toil and sacrifice made to build the party will be in vain. “I say this with all sense of responsibility given my deep knowledge of how the party birthed at the national level and became accepted by the…
China on Wednesday asked its all-weather ally Pakistan to create enabling conditions for thousands of Chinese nationals working on the USD 60 billion CPEC projects, apparently flagging concerns over security and the slow pace of construction. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is the flagship project of China’s ambitious multi-billion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and it links China’s Xinjiang province with Pakistan’s Gwadar port in Balochistan province. Media reports from Pakistan said Chinese investors were concerned over the slow pace of construction on the projects. On Monday, Pakistani officials hosted a meeting of Pakistan-based Chinese companies and briefed them about…
The youth wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), has issued a 30-day ultimatum to every presidential aspirant of southeast extraction in the 2023 general election to open their campaign offices in the region. The council expressed regrets over the glaring absence of any presidential campaign office in the region, even as the political party’s primary election is barely 10 months away. They urged all the potential candidates for the 2023 presidential election from the southeast to act like Zik and demonstrate their preparedness and zeal for the contest ahead thereby ensuring that their campaign offices are efficiently…
Following the appointment of Babajide Akeredolu as the Director-General of Performance and Project Implementation Monitoring Unit, PPMIU, by his father, Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has lashed out at the Ondo State Governor over the development. While condemning the appointment, the state chapter of the party emphasised that the move signalled flagrant abuse of office on the part of the governor. Akeredolu had on Tuesday announced Babajide’s appointment as well as the names of the 21 Commissioner-nominees and Special Advisers. Stressing that the appointment was an affront on the people of the state, the PDP in a…
Former lawmakers in Zamfara State House of Assembly, Hon. Dayyabu Adamu Rijiya and Hon. Abubakar Ajiya Bita have declared their political support for former Governor, Abdulaziz Yari. The two former legislators who formerly had political alliance with the former deputy Governor, Malam Ibrahim Wakkala had shifted their political allegiance to former Governor, Abdulazeez Yari. It could be recalled that Hon. Dayyabu Adamu Rijiya had represented Gusau 11 and Hon. Abubakar Ajiya Bita who also represented Bukkuyum constituency. It was gathered that the two lawmakers met with the former Governor at his Abuja residence and had a vital political meeting. A…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has described the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as a “murderous party”. This was sequel to the report of the Special Panel instituted to investigate the alleged killings of some youths at the Lekki tollgate, Lagos, October last year, during the #EndSARS national rally. The PDP, in a statement by ita National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondinya, on Tuesday, said the report of the panel confirming the gruesome killings of innocent youths at the Lekki Tollgate during the 2020 EndSARS protest, strengthened the fact that the APC was running a “murderous and oppressive regime”, that has…
American journalist Danny Fenster, who was freed after nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar, arrived Tuesday in the United States for an emotional reunion with his family. Fenster, who was sentenced last week to 11 years of hard labor, was handed over Monday to former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson, who helped negotiate the release. He is one of more than 100 journalists, media officials or publishers who have been detained since the military ousted the elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in February. It’s been a long time coming, a moment I had been imagining…
A court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt in Rivers State has struck out the appeal by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State over the subsisting injunction retraining the party from conducting the ward, local government and state congresses. The Court, in its ruling over the suit numbered CA/PH/246/2021, said the appeal is defective, lacked merit and as a result struck out. Justice H. S. Tsammani, who led other Justices P. O. Elechi and R. M. Abdullahi, who read the ruling of the court, said the appeal by the Bayelsa APC is fundamentally defective and agreed with the…
Chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River State, Venatius Ikem, has said that stakeholders are those to decide which of the three senatorial districts in the state shall produce the governor in 2023. In the last few days, there have been feverish debates by key politicians in the state over zoning, many insisting that zoning should no longer be respected while others have clung to the Calabar-Ogoja Accord. Most politicians and PDP stakeholders from southern senatorial districts such as Senator Gershom Bassey, representing the district himself a governorship hopeful, has declared that the argument about zoning…
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has tasked the governorship candidates of the various political parties that participated in the just-concluded Anambra state election, to desist from challenging in court the victory of the new governor elect, Prof. Charles Soludo, who contested under the platform of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA. The leadership of the group made this known in a statement signed by the National Director of Information, Comrade Edeson Samuel and forwarded to the media on Tuesday. MASSOB further urged the governorship candidates of All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Andy Ubah…
The People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) has called for an independent audit of the over N5 billion allegedly expended on the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Niger State Government. The PDP made the call in a press statement signed by the state chairman, Tanko Beji and made available to newsmen in Minna. He argued that it is questionable for such an amount to have been expended when in truth most IDPs can hardly eat a single ration of food in a day Beji insisted, ” it will be recalled that even when IDPs thronged into the state capital most of…
The camp of Governor Umar Abdullahi Ganduje in the All Progressives Congress (APC) has suffered a serious blow as his former Deputy Governor, Prof. Hafiz Abubakar, has openly declared his full loyalty to Malam Ibrahim Shekarau. Ganduje and Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau fell apart shortly after the APC State Congresses where Ganduje’s candidates filled all the positions, leaving Shekarau and others without any serious position. However, disagreeing with the outcomes of the Congresses, Shekarau, and others organized their own factional congress which has Ahmadu Zago as their Chairman. But, Abubakar who has not shown his open interest in any of the…
Pakistan will allow India to send 50,000 tons of wheat through its territory to neighbouring Afghanistan, which is reeling from a severe hunger crisis as its economy has stalled since the Taliban took over in August, according to an Afghan government official. Islamabad agreed to allow over land wheat shipments nearly a month after Kabul sought permission, Sulaiman Shah Zaheer, a spokesman of the Afghanistan Ministry of Commerce and Industries, said. “The issue has now been resolved, and India can now send the wheat to Afghanistan via the Wagah border in Pakistan.” The aid will be the first such consignment…
The Osun Progressive (TOP), a caucus of the Osun All Progressives Congress (APC), has alerted security agencies of a fresh plot by members of IleriOluwa, another caucus within the party, to climate its notable members. In a press statement signed by its Chairman, Adelowo Adebiyi, and made available to journalists in Osogbo on Monday, the group revealed that information at its disposal clearly revealed with the level of desperation of IleriOluwa group, it has concluded plans to eliminate TOP leaders as a means of putting a stop to members of the opposition. Adebiyi stated that evidence showed that some of…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has released the schedule of activities and timetable for the Ekiti and Osun Governorship Elections. John Akpan Udodehe, National Secretary, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) issued a statement on Tuesday. The scribe said the announcement is in accordance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) and INEC guidelines. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) fixed June 18, 2022 and July 16, 2022 for the polls in Ekiti and Osun respectively. For Ekiti, Notice of Election to the State Chapter was on Monday November 15; Sale of Forms (National Secretariat) on Tuesday November…
The Asiwaju Leragun of Egbaland, Chief Toyin Amuzu, has decried the daily rising cost of living and the hardship being experienced by Nigerians, saying it clearly showed that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is wicked and inconsiderate. Amuzu said it also showed that the ruling party has “no idea or solution on how to salvage the people from the myriad of problems confronting the nation.” Speaking in a chat with the media in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, Amuzu condemned the recent increment in the prices of electricity metres, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), otherwise known as cooking gas and…
A Russian weapons test created more than 1,500 pieces of space junk that is now threatening the seven astronauts aboard the International Space Station, U.S. officials said Monday. The State Department confirmed that the debris was from an old Russian satellite destroyed in Monday’s anti-satellite weapons test. It was dangerous. It was reckless. It was irresponsible, said State Department spokesman Ned Price. Earlier Monday, the four Americans, one German and two Russians on board were forced to seek shelter in their docked capsules because of the debris. At least 1,500 pieces of the destroyed satellite were sizable enough to show…