Britain on Friday warned Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping that its allies would stand together to fight for democracy against dictatorships that it said were more emboldened than at any time since the Cold War. Speaking in Australia, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said Britain and its allies in the “free world” must respond together to global threats, deepen ties with democracies in the Indo-Pacific and “face down global aggressors” who were using economic dependence to get what they want. Truss and Britain’s defence secretary, Ben Wallace, met with their Australian counterparts in Sydney on Friday…
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A former Governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff has insisted that the purported zoning of the chairmanship position of the All Progressives Congress to the North-central zone was fake. Sheriff stated this during a media interaction on Friday in Abuja, ahead of the party’s convention slated for February 26. He said he was the target of the story because all other aspirants are afraid of going into the convention with him. He was of the opinion that anyone can be chairman but not everybody has the capacity to be the chairman. Sheriff stated: “I have to tell you an…
The Cross River State chairman-elect of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Barr. Alphonsus Ogar Eba has called on all aspirants for the vacant Ogoja/Yala Federal Constituency seat to ensure that they complied by the rules. He also cautioned them to shun any form of violence and antagonism against fellow aspirants. Addressing party faithful in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, Eba also charged politicians and supporters not to employ devices and antics that were inimical to the growth and progress of the party beyond 2023. “I would want you all to be committed to a level playing field, shun…
Ahead of the 2023 governorship election in Enugu State, former Senate President, Senator Ken Nnamani declared support for Nkanu East Local Government Area. There has been contention in Enugu State over which zone should produce Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s successor. But speaking while addressing leaders of Nkanu East Consultative Forum, Senator Nnamani threw his weight behind Enugu Nkanu East Local Government Area. The Forum was led by the former Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji on a visit to Nnamani’s Amechi Awkunanaw country home in Enugu. Professor Nnaji had sought the support of Senator Ken Nnamani in the quest for Nkanu…
The immediate past Caretaker Committee Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State, Dr. Ben Nwoye has absolved the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, of any involvement in the murder of two chieftains of the party in the State. InfoStride News had reported that two chieftains of the APC in Enugu South Local Government Area were murdered by unknown gunmen during a reconciliation meeting at Obeagu. Some members of the party blamed the incident on suspected members of the IPOB who were enforcing the Tuesday sit-at-home ordered by the pro-Biafra group. Those murdered include the Assistant State Youth…
The Senate Judiciary Committee in the US has approved a key antitrust reform that would ban Big Tech from favouring their own services and products over those of their rivals. The American Innovation and Choice Online Act is a bipartisan bill spearheaded by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA). “I want to stress that this bill is not meant to break up Big Tech or destroy the products and services they offer. Rather, the goal of the bill is to prevent conduct that stifles competition, while ensuring that pro-consumer innovations and offerings are still available,”…
Former Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu has explained his reasons for visiting former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, saying, he went to receive his blessings. Tinubu stated this after a closed-door meeting with the elder statesman in his Hilltop country home in Minna, Niger State. Responding to newsmen on the purpose of his visit to IBB, the former Governor of Lagos State said he was in Niger State to sympathize with the state over its security challenges and decided to visit the elder statesman to receive his blessings. He stated, “if you restrict my visit to…
Some supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa, on Thursday, clashed in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital over rivalry on the choice of candidate to contest for position at the Federal House of Representatives come 2023. The clash, which threw the people of Kpansia community into panic, led to the burning of cars and matchet attacks on individuals and passersby. A car belonging to one Ada Morris, an aide to the State Governor, was also set ablaze. InfoStride News gathered that the supporters involved in the bloody clash allegedly belong to two rival camps, one for the State…
Bola Tinubu, a presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has met with former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB. Tinubu met with Babangida on Thursday afternoon in Minna, the Niger State capital. He arrived at IBB’s hilltop residence at about 2.30pm and both went straight into a meeting behind closed-door. The meeting is not unconnected with Tinubu’s aspiration to run for the presidency in 2023. Tinubu visits Babangida after similar moves to some influential power blocs and individuals across the country. He had last week cleared the air over doubts of him running…
A former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari has described the immediate past Secretary of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Abdulahi Shinkafi as a ‘noise maker’ and an ‘errand boy’. Yari, a chairmanship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said he would not join issues with Shinkafi considering his antecedents in APGA. Shinkafi had while declaring his intention to contest for the chairmanship of the ruling party challenged Yari to present his membership card. He claimed Yari was no longer a member of the APC because he didn’t participate in the recent revalidation and registration exercise of the…
US President Joe Biden has said that Vice President Kamala Harris would be his running mate if he stood for office again in 2024. President Biden made this emphatic assertion on Wednesday amid US media reports alleging dysfunction among her staff and doubt on her standing within the administration. Harris, 57, is the first woman and first Black and Asian American person ever sworn in as US vice president. Harris was born at Oakland in California. Her mother Shyamala Gopalan migrated to the US from Tamil Nadu, while her father, Donald J Harris, moved to the US from Jamaica. Asked…
The Governor of Cross River, Ben Ayade has said he will run for president in 2023 if the All Progressives Congress (APC) considers him. Ayade stated this while speaking on Sunrise Daily, a Channels TV programme on Wednesday. While responding to a question on if he will contest for the presidency in 2023 on the platform of the APC, the Governor said the party should make the decision based on zoning. “I think the party should take a decision based on zoning principles which would be resolved as a party. “Let me say, yes and no. If the family (APC)…
The ambition to run for the Osun governorship election has torn Osun’s Adeleke family apart. The members of the family — Senator Ademola Adeleke and Dele Adeleke — have been screened and cleared as aspirants for the Osun governorship election under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Infostride News reports. The two family members were part of six governorship aspirants for the July 16 governorship election in Osun State cleared by Mohammed Adoke, the chairman of the party’s screening committee. However, there has been continuous hot disagreement within the family over the ambition of Dele, who served as Ademola’s agent at…
Ohanaeze Ndigbo has hinted that Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State is being considered for the position of Nigeria’s President in 2023. There has been a continuous clamour for an Igbo man to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023, a quest hinged on equity and power rotation. Speaking when a delegation of some Enugu residents in the 19 Northern States paid him a visit in Abuja, the Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro said Governor Ugwuanyi was being considered for the position. The visit followed a meeting the Ohanaeze Secretary-General held with some Northern groups ahead of the 2023…
The Forum of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Party Chairmen in Osun Local Government Council Areas has cautioned the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, to stop henceforth the disturbance of the political peace of the State. The APC party chairmen who spoke through their chairman, Rufus Awotidoye, on Tuesday, after a meeting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, stated that the conduct of Aregbesola constituted an obvious distraction to the administration of Governor Gboyega Oyetola. Awotidoye disclosed that the Interior Minister’s affirmation in Ilesa last Friday “of being the brain behind the obnoxious, leprous and antagonistic pressure group within…
One year into a presidency defined by lofty ambitions and at-times frustrating shortfalls, President Joe Biden will try to talk anxious Americans through the challenges of delivering on his lengthy to-do list as he holds a rare news conference and asks for patience with the pace of progress. In advance of the session, set for 4 p.m. EST Wednesday, his 365th day in office, Biden gave no indication that he felt a reset was in order. But his appearance was playing out on the same day that prolonged Democratic efforts to overhaul the nation’s voter laws appeared set to go…
Ahead of the February 26 convention, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied zoning party positions. The National Secretary of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Senator James Akpanudoedehe, while addressing journalists on Wednesday in Abuja, said the committee has not taken a position on zoning. He described the report in some sections of the media that various party positions had been zoned as falsehood. The secretary said, “We are also here to rebuff the fake news going round the social media that we have zoned party offices, we are yet to meet on the issue of zoning.” However, in…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) has announced the timetable for its national convention. The schedule of activities was adopted in Abuja on Wednesday at a meeting of national leaders. A statement by John Akpan Udoedehe, the national secretary of the party said the Interim Report of the National Reconciliation Committee will be received on January 31. “Consideration and adoption of Reports of State Congresses – 02/02/2022; Inauguration of the State Executives – 03/02/2022”, it read. “Sales of forms to aspirants vying for national offices will commence at the secretariat on February 14; the Deadline for…
Some Nigerians on social media have bashed Bola Ahmed Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), after he was seen in a video promising to pay the West African Examination Council (WAEC) fees of Nigerian students. Tinubu, who last week revealed his ambition to run for president in the 2023 election, said his party will crush poverty and make lives easier for Nigerians. However, his promise has sparked outrage among Nigerians who aired their opinion Wednesday on Facebook. “In this century a Presidential aspirant talking of paying WAEC fees. Affliction will not rise again in Nigeria,” Olamobisi Robert…
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday fixed March 8 and 14 to deliver judgments in the multiple suits filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking the sack of Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi and his Deputy, Dr. Kelechi Igwe from office on account of their defection from its fold to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the dates after counsel in the suits marked FHC/ABJ/CS/ 920/21 and FHC/ABJ/CS/ 1041/21 had adopted their briefs of final arguments for and against the suit. In an originating summons marked FHC/ABJ/CS/920/2021, the PDP had principally urged the court to…