The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman in Zango Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Mr. Francis Zimbo, has won the rescheduled elections conducted on Saturday. The local government elections in Zagon Kataf and Birnin Gwari local government areas had been scheduled for Saturday, October 23, 2021, due to a security threat. The Returning Officer, Prof. Nuhu Garba, who declared the result on Sunday, said Zimbo scored 28,771 votes to defeat Mr. John Hassan of the All Progressives Congress who polled 19,509 votes. He said Zimbo, having satisfied the requirements of the law and scored the highest number of votes…
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The Ebonyi State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has faulted claims that its newly elected Chairman, Mr. Tochukwu Okorie, was foisted on the party through an undemocratic process. In his petition to the PDP Congress Appeal Committee made available to the media, Mr. Silas Onu, one of the chairmanship contestants in the just-concluded State Congress held in Abakaliki, alleged that “Mr. Okorie failed to meet the minimum requirements for nomination and therefore did not qualify to stand election at the Congress”. He accused the party’s National Working Committee of gifting Mr. Okorie a nomination form contrary to the…
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari and the governors of the Southeast States to take prompt action to forestall the massive bloodbath that may be unleashed should the Federal Government of Nigeria carry out its threats to take military action against groups standing in the way of the Anambra State governorship election in less than two weeks away. HURIWA, in a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director, Miss Zainab Yusuf, at the weekend, said it was worried by the fact that up until…
Singapore on Saturday announced the removal of India and five other South Asian countries from its travel restriction list as the island-state continues to adjust border measures in response to the global Covid-19 situation. All travellers with a 14-day travel history to Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka will be allowed to enter or transit through Singapore from Wednesday, the health ministry said. However, travellers from these countries will be subjected to the tightest of border measures, which involve a 10-day, stay-home notice period at a dedicated facility, it said. The ministry said in a release that it…
Ifeanyi Ubah, the governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party, YPP, in next month’s Anambra State gubernatorial election, on Saturday, said he would emerge the winner of the poll. Ifeanyi Ubah said his knowledge in law would help him as the next governor of Anambra State. He spoke with journalists after he was awarded a Bachelor of Law degree at the Baze University in Abuja. The Anambra South Senator said he was able to combine his academic works and legislative activities because he set his agenda and always ensured that his priorities were always right. He said, “Politics come with…
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has warned Nigerians against carrying arms in defence of any politician. Makinde, who spoke in Lagos State on Saturday, noted that no politician is worth dying for. He warned Nigerians, especially the youths that no one should lose his life supporting politicians. Makinde, who spoke during the wedding ceremony of one of the sons of former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, advised people fighting over politics and religion to have a rethink. He advised those who intend to die because of politicians to have a change of minds. He then cautioned that as…
The factional Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Rasaq Salinsile, has revealed that Governor Adegboyega Oyetola avoided an open embarrassment by directing the Ministry of Justice to withdraw the charges against him and six other leaders of the party. In a personally signed press release, Salinsile also disclosed that the withdrawal of the case was not in the spirit of reconciliation or compassion as the Governor and his people want innocent members of the public to believe. The former Osun APC Caretaker Committee Secretary who explained that the withdrawal of the frivolous charges against them was just face…
Ahead of the 2023 general election, a support group working to actualize Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu presidency, known as Tinubu Support Group, (TSG) has been inaugurated in Abuja. Director General of the group, Arc. Umar Ibrahim Mohammed charged the State Steering Committee to properly, under the vision and mission of the socio-political group, harmonize their activities with other interest groups back in their various States. InfoStride News reports that the event was well attended on Saturday by members of the group from the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory. Speaking further, the DG stressed that there…
US Secretary of State Antony J Blinken and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday discussed topics of global importance including Afghanistan, according to US State Department. In a statement, the state department said that Blinken and Guterres also discussed their shared concern over the worsening conflict in northern Ethiopia, including the escalating violence and its impact on humanitarian operations. Secretary Blinken expressed US appreciation for the Secretary-General’s efforts to address the humanitarian crisis and commended the efforts of the UN Country Team in Ethiopia, which continues to work under challenging conditions. “The Secretary and Secretary-General Guterres discussed opportunities to…
The Osun Progressives (TOP), a caucus of the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola and Olawale Olokode, the Osun Police Commissioner, to tender an unreserved apology for the alleged malicious damage done to the reputation of a factional chairman of the State APC Chairman, Rasaq Salinsile and six other leaders of the party. The Chairman of the caucus, Adelowo Adebiyi while reacting to the dismissal of the court case instituted against the caucus leaders, stated that it was only an apology tendered publicly through the media that can mitigate…
Prince Uche Secondus, a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the court to stop the party from conducting the National Convention which has been scheduled to take place on October 30 and 31, 2021. In a letter addressed to the party (6th respondent) by his counsel, Tayo Oyetibo (SAN) on Friday, Secondus said the planned convention should be suspended pending the outcome of his case in the court. Recall that following the crisis that recently rocked the party, a Rivers State High Court had on September 10, asked Secondus to stop parading himself as chairman…
Chairman Northeast Publishers Forum, Malam Hassan Gimba, has argued that the northeast region has all the required qualities to produce the nation’s next president in 2023. This, he made known at the 2021 Northeast Star Magazine awards, which took place in Yola, Adamawa State on Friday. Urging the region to tread extra legitimate miles in mobilizing and sensitizing people on the fact that it is now its turn to produce the next president, if given the chance, the much desired growth, he believed, would be attracted to all parts of the country. Stressing that the quest for the number one…
Over ten thousand policemen who monitored last year’s gubernatorial election in Ondo State have begged the police authority and other stakeholders to release their allowances. InfoStride News recalls that the gubernatorial election was held on Saturday, October 10, 2020 in Ondo State. Our correspondent gathered that no fewer than thirty thousand policemen were deployed from about twenty four states to monitor the gubernatorial election which was won by Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu. Our correspondent however gathered that about ten thousand out of the policemen are yet to receive their allowances for monitoring the election. It was gathered that about three hundred…
Twitter amplifies tweets from right-leaning political parties and news outlets more than from the left, its own research suggests. According to BBC, the social-media giant said it made the discovery while exploring how its algorithm recommends political content to users. But it admitted it did not know why, saying that was a “more difficult question to answer”. Twitter’s study examined tweets from political parties and users sharing content from news outlets in seven countries around the world: Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, the UK, and the US. It analysed millions of tweets sent between 1 April and 15 August 2020.…
No fewer than 1,000 members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Peoples Redemption Party ,PRP and All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Dass Local Government Area of Bauchi State. Receiving the defectors at a ceremony held at the Government Lodge in Dass, PDP chairman in the area, Alhaji Sani Korau, welcomed the defectors to the ruling party. According to Korau, from the inception of the Fourth Republic in 1999, Dass was never in the opposition until recently as a result of certain reasons, which he said had been politically resolved. The party…
Former Nigerian Ambassador to Algeria and Philippines and Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Nnamdi Onochie, has blamed the undemocratic activities of the political class, for the current political violence and instability in Nigeria. Onochie also attributed the current gale of defections among politicians belonging to major dominant political parties in the nation to the present heightened instability in Nigeria. He further regretted the alleged failure of lawmakers at the National Assembly to enact a law disqualifying sitting political office holders from cross carpeting from one political party to another, insisting that, this common and undemocratic practice among the political…
A faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC), loyal to former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, has called on the Appeal Committee of the party to cancel the outcome of the state congress of the party, which held last Saturday with Barr. Dennis Otitio emerging winner as Chairman of the party. But the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and leader of the APC in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, accepted the outcome of the state congress and congratulated the newly elected State APC executive members, describing the result as a reflection of the oneness and…
An Osogbo Magistrate Court on Friday dismissed the suit instituted against seven members of The Osun Progressives (TOP), a caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State and loyalists of Rauf Aregbesola, a former Osun governor and current Minister of Interior. Presiding Magistrate, Olusegun Ayilara dismissed the suit filed by the Nigeria Police against the seven leaders of the caucus. The Nigerian Police through its prosecutor, John Idoko, had on August 23, 2021 arraigned Alhaji Rasaq Salinsile, a former Osun APC Caretaker Committee Secretary and former Osun APC Chairman, Reverend Adelowo Adebiyi. Others that were arraigned with the…
The government filed an affidavit in the Delhi High Court, saying that WhatsApp, being a foreign company, cannot avail of fundamental rights under Articles 19 and 21 of the Constitution, invoke the jurisdiction of the court or challenge the constitutionality of an Indian law. The Facebook-owned messaging giant had filed a lawsuit in the high court against the Indian government in May, seeking to block the traceability clause of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 that requires social media platforms with more than 5 million users to locate “the first originator of the information”,…
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered his Service Chiefs to make sure nothing stops the Anambra governorship election from holding. The election has been scheduled for November 6. Buhari’s order was confirmed by the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, while speaking with State House correspondents on Thursday. This followed a security meeting the service chiefs had with Buhari at the presidential villa. “The president has directed that under no circumstances will anything be allowed to stop the elections from taking place successfully. The people have a right to vote and select their leader. “No group or individual will be allowed to…