The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the timing of the planned subsidy removal would cause hardship on citizens. To this end, the governing party has commended the Federal Government for suspending the move. The National Secretary of Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, in a statement issued Monday said its removal at this time would have heightened inflation and caused undue hardship on the citizenry. He said its removal in due course would usher in the eventual and full deregulation of the country’s petroleum sector. The secretary stressed that in line with the new Petroleum Industry…
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The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Dr Sikirulai Ogundele, has said Governor Dapo Abiodun has no clear-cut policies to provide jobs for unemployed youths in the state. As a state with the highest number of higher learning institutions, Ogundele worried that Ogun has an increasing number of unemployed graduates every year with no engagement from the state government. According to him, many youths in the Gateway State roam the streets, adding that there are no strategies put in place by the Abiodun government to support the entrepreneurs among them. Ogundele is concerned that the lack…
Ahead of the national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) slated for February 26, Mr Sunny Monidafe has said that he has not stepped down from the chairmanship race. Monidafe disclosed this on Monday while addressing a press conference in Abuja. He, however, explained that if the position was not zoned to the northeast, he would contest for the highest position zoned to the region. Monidafe added: “I desire and pray that it is zoned to the northeast; if it is not, I have said it on different fora that I will pick up the form for the positions…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and leader of the Oodua People’s Congress New Era in Ekiti State, Niyi Adedipe, popularly known as ‘Apase’, has alleged that some powerful authorities and desperate actors within the state are planning to kidnap him and if possible, take his life. To this end, Adedipe has called on various security chiefs in the state to save his life by giving him adequate protection ahead of the primary election of the party scheduled for next week. According to Adedipe, the alleged planned attack on him was due to his support for one of…
China flew 39 warplanes toward Taiwan in its largest such sortie of the new year, continuing a pattern that the island has answered by scrambling its own jets in response. The formation Sunday night included 24 J-16 fighter jets and 10 J-10 jets, among other support aircraft and electronic warfare aircraft, according to Taiwan’s defense ministry. Taiwan’s air force scrambled its own jets and tracked the People’s Liberation Army planes on its air defense radar systems, the defense ministry said. Chinese pilots have been flying towards Taiwan on a near-daily basis in the past year and a half, since Taiwan’s…
A Chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Plateau, Saleh Mandung Zazzaga have asked the National leader of the APC, Ahmed Bola Tinubu to apologise to Nigerians over comments made years ago against Nigeria. Zazzaga tasked Tinubu to apologise to the old and young for saying he does not believe in one Nigeria in 1999. The APC Chieftain said although Tinubu made the comment many years ago, it is now being recalled by Nigerians especially as he declared his intention to run for office in 2023. Speaking to journalists in Jos, Plateau State, Zazzaga said if Tinubu does not…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State on Monday said he is not against anyone defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC in the state. The governor stated this at the Benue Peoples House in Makurdi, during a meeting with members of the PDP from Gwer West Local Government Area of the state. He, however, insisted that no right-thinking person will contemplate joining a sinking party, the All Progressives Congress, APC for whatever reason. The Governor thanked the people of Gwer West for being solidly behind his administration and the PDP in general, stressing that…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has disclosed that he conferred with the late ex-Oyo Governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala, ahead of the 2015 general election. He said the meeting with Alao-Akala followed his nomination as the All Progressives Congress (APC) Vice Presidential candidate. Osinbajo made the revelation in Ogbomoso on Sunday during a condolence visit to the family of the deceased. The VP and his entourage were received by the widows of Akala, Florence Alao Akala and Oluwakemi Alao Akala. Osinbajo noted that the late politician was a man widely regarded as a titan in Oyo and Nigerian politics. The Senior Advocate of…
An analyst, Alhaji Musa Ahmad, has countered the Zamfara State Government for claiming to have upper hands over bandits bedeviling the state. Ahmad said the government is making such a claim when innocent people are being killed by terrorists on a daily basis. Speaking with the Journalists in Gusau, the state capital on Sunday, the analyst noted that it seems the government was not ready to end the insurgency because of some reasons best known to the higher echelon of the society, pointing out that they were only making the common masses scapegoats. “Recently, Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle told the…
The head of the German navy resigned late Saturday after coming under fire at home and abroad for comments he made on Ukraine and Russia. Speaking at an event in India on Friday, vice admiral Kay-Achim Schoenbach had said Ukraine would not regain the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014. Schoenbach also said it was important to have Russia on the same side against China, and suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin deserved “respect.” His comments, captured on video, caused anger in Ukraine, which summoned the German ambassador to complain. They also sparked consternation and a swift rebuke back…
Ex-Rivers State governorship aspirant and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Prince Tonye Princewill has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may return to power in 2023 if the APC is unable to resolve its internal crisis. Princewill, in a chat with newsmen in Lagos, said if the APC is unable to resolve its internal crisis before the 2023 elections, it will be possible for the former ruling party to take over the leadership of the country. The former guber aspirant anchored his position on the short memories of Nigerians, who may have forgotten what the PDP did…
A foundation member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Osita Okechukwu has described the recent rejection of Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) overtures by former President Olusegun Obasanjo as a signal to another defeat in 2023 presidential election. Mr Okechukwu wondered whether PDP leaders have refused to understand that Nigerians are suspicious and were no longer interested in reinforcing the PDP’s share the money culture. He said it smacks of political incorrect move for a party, whose membership card was publicly shredded to go back asking for the support of the same statesman that rejected its association. Mr Okechukwu, who…
The Social Democratic Party, SDP, national executive council has suspended its national chairman, Olu Ogunloye for alleged misconduct. SDP National Secretary, Shehu Gabam was also suspended. They were suspended for allegedly disregarding part of the provisions of the SDP constitution, especially Article 12.5 (iv) 12.2.2 (viii) and also Article 9.4. The party in its statement added that SDP’s deputy chairman, Adul Isaq, will immediately act as the interim chairman, while Simon Adesina steps in as the national secretary, pending the outcome of its convention. Part of the statement read: “The NEC observed the wanton disregard to the provisions of the…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Toyin Amuzu has warned Nigerians and the people of Ogun State to reject the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) during the 2023 general elections. He said the party deceived Nigerians in 2015. Amuzu urged Nigerians, especially Ogun residents, to fully embrace the PDP as the only platform that could save the masses from the APC, which he said “has little or nothing to offer.” Amuzu stated this in a chat with the media during the visit of the National Chairman of the Party, Senator Iyorchia Ayu and members of his National…
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Sunday informed that she has canceled her wedding amid a new wave of Omicron cases in the country. “My wedding won’t be going ahead but I just join many other New Zealanders who have had an experience like that as a result of the pandemic,” Ardern said during a regular COVID-19 news conference today, CNN reported. She said that health authorities have reported nine Omicron cases in Motueka in a single-family household, CNN reported adding that the family travelled to Auckland to attend a wedding, a funeral, an amusement park, and a tourist…
The Senior Pastor of Divine Mercy Church, Olatobiloba Peters has cautioned Bola Tinubu, a 2023 presidential aspirant against going ahead pursuing his ambition to become president. Pastor Peters said members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, would collect Tinubu’s money and vote against him. Speaking with the media, the clergyman said God showed him that APC members would use Tinubu’s money to push for the Vice President, Osinbajo to become president. Tinubu, who informed President Muhammadu Buhari of his intention to contest for the 2023 Presidency, had said the move was a life-long aspiration for him. The APC National Leader…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration as clueless, saying the president has destroyed what his predecessor achieved between 1999 and 2003. Ayu said the current administration was piling eternal debts for the present and future generations, towards subjecting them to the servitude of slavery. While describing the present administration as wicked, the PDP Chairman blamed Buhari for Nigeria’s international reputation as an insecure country and the poverty capital of the world, a reversal of fortunes, which he measured, was the direct opposite of the achievements of former President Olusegun…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that he would never return to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, saying he has retired from partisan politics. The ex-president, who renounced his membership of the party in 2015, stated this when he received the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu; and other stakeholders who paid him a visit on Saturday in Abeokuta, Ogun State. According to sources, the visit was targeted at returning the former president to the opposition party ahead of the 2023 general elections. But, Obasanjo, while addressing the stakeholders, said he had vowed to remain as a statesman. He, however, said…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu, is currently in a closed-door meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Ayu had on Saturday led four former governors and members of the PDP National Working Committee (NWC) to Obasanjo’s residence in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The PDP leaders arrived at the former President’s Pent House residence at Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Oke Mosan, at about 12:25 pm. The PDP Vice Presidential candidate in 2019, Peter Obi; former Governors Sule Lamido of Jigawa, Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo, as well as Liyel Imoke and Donald Duke, both of…
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday expressed his willingness to host an in-person summit of the Quad countries in the first half of the year in Japan during his virtual talks with US President Joe Biden. In a conversation that lasted for approximately 80 minutes, the two leaders shared the intention to coordinate closely under the strong Japan-US Alliance and to deepen cooperation with like-minded countries including India toward realizing a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific.” “In this regard, Prime Minister Kishida expressed his intention to host the Japan-Australia-India-U.S. (QUAD) Summit Meeting in Japan in the first half of this…