The UK high court on Tuesday began hearing the case related to fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi’s appeal against his extradition to India. Earlier this August, Nirav Modi was granted permission to appeal against his extradition from the UK to India to face fraud charges on the grounds that a return to India would harm his mental health and place him at risk of suicide. Modi’s lawyers had long argued that their client suffered from severe depression and would not receive adequate medical care if he is imprisoned at the Arthur Road jail in Mumbai pending his court appearance. They stated…
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The chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Cross River State, Alphonsus Eba has called on Governor Ben Ayade’s appointees to immediately register with the party or be shown the way out next year. He said the party was abiding with her constitution article 9 subsection 2 and gave a deadline of December 31st 2021 for those that have not yet decamped to do so. Eba said the party constitution cautions them against accepting appointments in opposition parties while non-members of the party are not welcome to hold appointments or engagements. Ebah addressed members of the NUJ at its press…
Some stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Anambra State have cautioned the minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige to desist from attacking members of the party. Secretary, Media and Publicity Committee of the Senator Andy Uba Governorship Campaign Organisation, Mr Obi Trice gave the warning in a press release. Trice alleged that the minister had been in the habit of using his media assistant, Ngige Nwachukwu to disparage members of the party in the state. He said: “The media aide to embattled former leader of the party, Senator Chris Ngige is warned to desist from spreading…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said the onus of having a new electoral framework ahead of the 2023 general elections resides with the National Assembly and the Presidency. Festus Okoye, the INEC’s Commissioner, said this at the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room National Stakeholders’ Forum on Elections on Monday in Abuja. According to him, as far as the electoral management body was concerned, INEC was still operating with the existing electoral legal framework because the new one was not ready. He said that there were some fundamental issues around the new electoral framework. One of the big issues…
The national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, has said that the Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Senator George Akume, will soon return to the main opposition party. The PDP Chairman said that Akume, who is the leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the North-Central zone would return to the PDP and would be received as a prodigal son. The PDP boss said this in Gboko when he received a member of the House of Representatives, John Dyeh, who defected from the APC to the PDP. “Your lost son, George Akume, is coming back to…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian held a phone conversation to discuss the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. The top diplomats on Monday reaffirmed their common position to restore the nuclear deal in its original balanced text, approved by the United Nations Security Council, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. They stressed that this is the only correct way to ensure the rights and interests of all participants in the deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Xinhua news agency reported. Multilateral negotiations to save the Iran nuclear deal resumed…
The fortunes of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Benue State have further depleted with the exit of a three term member of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon John Dyegh and his teeming supporters. A former director of administration at the Federal Medical Centre, Makurdi, Dr Joseph Igbawua also dumped the APC for the PDP. The decamping ceremony which was held Monday, 13th December, 2021 at NKST Primary School Genyi-Yandev in Gboko Local Government Area witnessed thousands of APC members in Gboko local government leaving the party in droves. National Chairman of the PDP, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, who presented…
The 63rd birthday celebration of the Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma held at Government House Owerri on Sunday has provoked a furious reaction from the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state. The PDP in a statement signed by Mazi Emenike Nmeregini, Acting State Publicity Secretary, Imo PDP made available to Newsmen in Owerri, said the lavishly obscene birthday party where hundreds of millions of naira were spent on very expensive wines, champagnes and young girls imported from foreign countries, while workers and pensioners are owed in arrears, roads in the state are in collapsed…
National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Iyorchia Ayu has kicked against imposing candidates on electorates, holding that his leadership would give no room for such politics. Senator Ayu who was recently sworn in as chairman of the party, spoke at the weekend in Makurdi the Benue State capital while addressing stakeholders of the PDP during his first visit to the state as PDP National Chairman. According to him, whoever emerges the candidate for any elective position would have his support, pointing out that he has a competent team that has been carefully selected for the enormous task…
The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has said the southeast would not kneel and beg for the Presidency in 2023. Uchenna Madu, leader of MASSOB, said the southeast would fight tooth and nail to produce Nigeria’s president. In a statement he signed, Madu said Igbos are not beggars; hence it would be an abomination to the region to stoop that low. According to Madu: “How do you think that your enemies will trust you? Even if you kill your wife or children to show your loyalty to them, just as our so-called Igbo/Abuja politicians…
Australia signed a A$1 billion ($716.5 million) defence deal with South Korea on Monday, boosting Seoul’s efforts to grow its military exports. Under the terms of the deal, South Korean defence company Hanwha Corp will build 30 self-propelled howitzers and 15 armoured ammunition resupply vehicles for Australia. “It’s an important further chapter in the defence industry story for Australia as we continue to build our sovereign capability and (South) Korea is an important partner in that journey,” Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters in Canberra. The deal positions Hanwha as a frontrunner for Australia’s planned A$30 billion contract to…
Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State has authored a book explaining how the Igbo ethnic group of southeastern Nigeria can reclaim their rightful place in the country. During the presentation of the book titled “Reflections on the Igbo question,” Uzodinma said the Igbo can reclaim their place by building on their comparative advantage over other Nigerians. The governor said the Igbo need to leverage on their special and God-given talents to get their dues in Nigeria. “One of the talents is technology. The other is commerce and trade. Currently, the evidence is there that it was helpful to us in…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Iyorchia Ayu says the opposition party is determined to reclaim at least 25 states and the National Assembly in 2023. Iyorchia Ayu said this on Sunday, December 12, 2021, at a thanksgiving service/reception held in his honour at the Aper-Aku Stadium in Makurdi, the Benue State capital. He said, “We are determined to reclaim at least 25 states in this country. We determined to claim the two national assembly seats. We will stop the drift of people who migrated from the PDP to other parties. We shall move on a serious…
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor must be a southerner. The governor said this while delivering the 45th convocation lecture of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, on Saturday, December 11, 2021. In September, Akeredolu said southern governors have unanimously agreed that the 2023 presidency must be zoned to their region for the sake of justice and fairness. The governor, who is the chairman of the Southern Governors Forum maintained that his counterparts in the region have all agreed to oppose any political party that fields a northern candidate for president in…
Chairman of the Jigawa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Aminu Sani Gumel, says Nigerians should count themselves lucky for having Muhammadu Buhari, a retired army general, as President. “President Buhari has done a lot for the development of Nigeria and we are lucky to have him as president because if it is somebody else, only God knows the situation Nigerians would have been going through now,” Gumel said during a media parley organised by the state Correspondents’ Chapel in Dutse. “People have forgotten so easily the security situation of the country during PDP (Peoples Democratic Party)…
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett began the first official visit by an Israeli leader to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, seeking to strengthen Gulf ties at a time of heightened regional tension as world powers try to revive a nuclear deal with Iran. Bennett, a far-right politician who took office as the head of a broad Israeli coalition government in June, plans to hold talks on Monday with the UAE’s de facto leader, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan. The diplomatic outreach comes as world powers negotiate with Iran on salvaging a 2015 nuclear deal opposed by…
When the task of fixing the crisis-ridden All Progressives Congress (APC) fell on Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni and 12 others that formed the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), party members heaved a sigh of relief that the eluded peace and unity would return to the ruling party in no long time. Their expectations, at that period, were not out of place because of Buni’s antecedent as two-term national secretary of the party and an administrator who was in charge of APC secretariat when those crises began to manifest and became almost inextricable. Besides, Buni received massive support from…
Former Interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bisi Akande, has narrated how Atiku Abubakar, ex-Presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress, AC, asked Bola Tinubu, APC National Leader for money in 2007. Akande narrated that during a meeting that members of AC had with Atiku, he would direct them to ask Tinubu for money, whenever the need came. In his autobiography, “My Participation,” Akande said Tinubu was the only person spending during the electioneering period. Akande, who was the National Chairman of AC stressed that Tinubu dedicated his energy and resources towards forming AC. He said: “What prompted…
Bisi Akande, a founding member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has disclosed how Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President, rejected Bola Tinubu, APC National Leader as his presidential running mate in 2007. Akande, who was a former National Chairman of Action Congress, AC, said despite the nomination of Tinubu, Atiku opted for Ben Obi as his running mate under the party. The Osun State-born politician disclosed this in his autobiography, “My Participations”, where he opened up on some of the untold incidents that happened before the 2007 elections. Akande had released his autobiography over the weekend. Akande disclosed that Atiku…
Some appointees of Governor Dapo Abiodun may not be happy with their principal over his open support for Lagos West Senator, Olamilekan Adeola, who has been making frantic efforts to cross over from Lagos to Ogun West. InfoStride News reliably gathered that many of the appointees from Ogun West are filled with seething resentment and may be forced to jolt the Abiodun government in no distant time. To prevent this, the governor recently asked those interested in the 2023 general elections to resign their appointments on or before January 31, 2022. “Any activity that is capable of undermining the implementation…