Dozens of foreigners, including Americans, have left Kabul on an international commercial flight, marking the first large-scale evacuation since US and NATO forces left Afghanistan late last month. Their departure on Thursday represented a breakthrough in the bumpy coordination between the US and Afghanistan’s new Taliban leaders. The Taliban have said they would let foreigners and Afghans with valid travel documents leave, but a dayslong standoff over charter planes at another airport had cast some doubt on Taliban assurances. The Qatar Airways flight is heading to Doha. A senior US official said that Americans, green card holders and other nationalities…
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The People’s Democratic Party’s Kaduna Central Senatorial District candidate in the 2019 general elections, Alhaji Lawal Adamu, has noted that the deteriorating situation in the country needs urgent intervention before it reaches an irredeemable point. He said, “The economy is in tatters, naira has plunged to a sorry state, unemployment in its worst stage and the government seems unconcerned about the plights of the masses.” Speaking when he hosted PDP councillors from Kaduna North in Kaduna, Adamu lamented that, “The deteriorating situations in the country are lamentable and need urgent intervention before we find ourselves in irredeemable point.” He further…
The pan Igbo socio-political organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Friday said the Southeast needs Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, if they are to stand a chance to produce Nigeria’s president in 2023. Dim Uche Okwukwu, Deputy President-General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, said Tinubu controls the votes in Yoruba land; hence the Igbos need him to produce Nigeria’s president. Speaking exclusively with the media, Okwukwu urged the people of the Southeast to show solidarity to the APC National Leader over his ill-health. Okwukwu pointed out that the former governor of Lagos State was the most benevolent Nigerian politician…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has recognised Mr Valentine Ozigbo as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Nov. 6 Anambra governorship election. INEC said it took the decision after a court order. The commission disclosed this in a statement by Mr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, on Thursday in Abuja. Okoye said INEC met on Thursday and considered a number of issues relating to the governorship election, including the latest court order. “The Court of Appeal has ordered the commission to recognise and publish the name of Ozigbo as…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it will win the November 6 Anambra governorship election by closing ranks. Acting National Chairman, Yemi Akinwonmi spoke on Thursday in Abuja when he inaugurated the campaign council. Akinwonmi said the party was optimistic that members selected were competent enough to deliver the state back to PDP. He said the cooperation of all and sundry is expected for the actualisation of PDP’s dream. The chairman thanked all the aspirants who contested with the candidate, Valentine Ozigbo. He appealed to them to help the flagbearer deliver Anambra to PDP. “We call on all of us…
President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke for 90 minutes on Thursday, in their first talks in seven months, discussing the need to ensure that competition between the world’s two largest economies does not veer into conflict. The U.S. side said the “proof will be in the pudding” as to whether the stalemate can be broken with ties between the superpowers languishing at their lowest point in decades. In a statement, the White House said Biden and Xi had “a broad, strategic discussion,” including areas where interests and values converge and diverge. The conversation focused on economic issues,…
Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has been appointed Chairman of the National Convention Planning Committee of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). A statement released on Thursday by Governor Fintiri’s Press Secretary, Mr Humwashi Wonosikou, said the decision was reached earlier in the day at the 93rd National Executive Council meeting of the party in Abuja. Governor Fintiri is to be assisted by the Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, according to the statement which explained that the Committee has 128 members. The statement added that another Committee set up to ensure zoning of party offices for the Convention is…
The coalition of Lapai youths has called for the cancellation of the just concluded APC, Local Government congress in Lapai Local Government. They also called for the conduct of a fresh election for the position of the party Chairmanship in the council. This follows various complaints of manipulations and imposition of candidates for the position of chairmanship in the just concluded local government APC congresses. The Leader of the group, Comrade Ibrahim Nuhu Muye who stated this while speaking to newsmen in Minna, alleged manipulation and imposition of candidates for the post. Muye claimed that Article 12 sub 13 of…
The legal tussle on the national Chairmanship of the All Progressive Grand Alliance APGA has taken a new twist with the Court of Appeal in Abuja imposing an N10 million fine on two chieftains of the party for filing incompetent suit in the matter. The two chieftains are Chief Edozie Njoku and Chief Chinedu Benedict Okoro who have approached the court with a request to review a judgment delivered by the Kano division of the Appellate Court. Justice Jummai Zankey in a ruling on the application held that the Court of Appeal in Abuja has no jurisdiction to review the…
The Osun State Chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Tosin Odeyemi, has vowed that his party will win the 2022 gubernatorial election in the state. Speaking with newsmen in Osogbo at the end of the state working committee meeting on Wednesday, Odeyemi disclosed that NNPP is set to take over the state from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and also defeat the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the polls. Odeyemi disclosed that the party would put machinery in motion ahead of the gubernatorial election in order to take over Osun State from the leadership of the APC. According…
Russia President Vladimir Putin on Thursday in his address at the 13th BRICS summit said that Afghanistan should not become a threat to its neighbouring countries and stressed that the US withdrawal has led to a new crisis in the region. Virtually speaking at the summit chaired by India, Putin said, “Afghanistan should not become a threat to its neighbouring countries, a source of terrorism and drug trafficking.” “Outstanding regional conflicts have not stopped, on the contrary, they have erupted again becoming more violent. The US and its allies’ withdrawal from Afghanistan has led to a new crisis and it’s…
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has hit out at his Ebonyi State counterpart, Dave Umahi, who said God will give Nigeria a president “who has a good heart like President Muhammadu Buhari” in 2023. Umahi had made the remarks while addressing State House correspondents on Monday, after meeting with Buhari at Aso Villa in Abuja. But Wike, in a veiled reference to Umahi, said that his colleague had lied. Wike claimed that even Buhari himself knows that God won’t give the country another president like him in 2023. The governor stated this during a stakeholders’ meeting in Port…
Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, on Wednesday, received hundreds of defectors from the leading opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Oyetola, accompanied by his deputy, Benedict Alabi; the party chairman, Gboyeha Famodun, welcomed the defectors who were led by former Special Adviser on Strategy and Planning to former Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Funmilayo Olasheinde Mustapha. Other leaders of the APC present at the event are: former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Patricia Etteh, former deputy Governor, Senator Iyiola Omisore, Senate’s spokesperson, Senator Ajibola Bashiru among others. Funmilayo, who was a former member Osun State House…
The Northern Consensus Movement, on Wednesday, insisted that, North Should Retain Presidency in 2023. Speaking at a press conference in Kaduna, the group explained that the South has ruled for several years beginning from ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, who took over in 1999. The convener of the group, Comrade Awwal Abdullahi Aliyu noted that the North should be allowed to rule for four more years to balance the period of years enjoyed by the South. He said, “We still have a balance of four years. The South combined has held the office of the President since 1999 for 14 years. According…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State has described the government of Governor Dapo Abiodun as one that is largely thriving on falsehood, deceit and propaganda, saying “it is uninspiring.” The PDP accused Gov Abiodun of allowing governance to suffer in Ogun because of his struggle to control party structure. In an interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, the Publicity Secretary of the PDP in Ogun State, Akinloye Bankole, reacted to the crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State. InfoStride News had earlier reported that parallel congresses were held in Ogun by two factions of the…
UN chief Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called on the international community to use all tools at its disposal to counter the global terrorist threat in Afghanistan and support the establishment of an inclusive government in the war-torn country, a day after the Taliban announced an interim government dominated by the top leaders of the insurgent group. Afghanistan must never again be used as a platform or safe haven for terrorist organisations to threaten or attack any country. I appeal to the Security Council and the international community as a whole to speak with one voice, act together and use all…
The Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has commiserated with the wife, children and other family members of Honourable Tunde Agboola who died on Wednesday. A statement signed by the State Publicity Secretary, Tunde Ashaolu, on Wednesday said the deceased served as Commissioner for Commerce and Cooperative during the immediate past administration of Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed. The party said it received with rude shock and sadness the death of late Tunde Agboola. It also commiserated with friends and associates of the deceased as well as the entire PDP family in Isin local government area of Kwara State.…
The National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Ralph Okey-Nwosu has raised an alarm over the activities of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra State, accusing it of coercing politicians in the state to join the party. Nwosu alleged that many politicians in the state have been bullied by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to join the APC and that many were currently being intimidated to move from their parties to APC. The National Chairman who briefed journalists in Awka, on the aegis of Allied Parties, a coalition of political parties supporting the emergence of…
The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has denied issuing a sit-at-home directive in the Southeastern part of the country ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Imo State on Thursday. There have been reports that the secessionist group, during a broadcast on radio Biafra, ordered residents of the region particularly, Imo State to observe a sit-at-home during the president’s visit in solidarity with its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who is currently in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS. But in a statement issued on Wednesday, the Head of Directorate of State, Chika Edoziem, IPOB dismissed the…
The All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA in Imo State has slammed President Muhammadu Buhari, describing his scheduled visit to the state as a huge mockery on the people of the state. APGA said for the majority of Ndi Imo to see a meaning in the Presidential working visit, Buhari must be taken to the Federal Medical Center, FMC, Owerri, mortuary department and to see for himself, the dead bodies of innocent Imo youths killed by UNKNOWN UNIFORMed MEN (UUM). A statement signed by John Iwuala, the APGA Chairman in Imo said the party wants to know what the President’s visit…