North Korea has ruled out the “possibility of any contact” with the US, according to a state media report. “We are not considering even the possibility of any contact with the US, let alone having it, which would get us nowhere, only taking up precious time,” Foreign Minister Ri Son-gwon said in a statement on Wednesday released by the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). Ri also said his Ministry “welcomes the clear-cut press statement issued by the vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, which is to brush off hasty judgment, conjecture…
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The Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau State, Senator Tunde Ogbeha, has promised to resolve the infighting rocking the party in the state and reposition it ahead of the 2023 general election. However, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state has declared its readiness for the coming local council election. Plateau PDP has been in crisis as a result of the state congress last year, thus polarising the party along Senators Jonah Jang and Jeremiah Useni camps. This led to multiple of litigations that made the National Working Committee (NWC) to set up a caretaker committee headed…
The Delta Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) State Working Committee (SWC), on Wednesday slammed the one-month suspension on Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, over alleged anti-party activities. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Nwaoboshi is the PDP Senator representing Delta North Senatorial District in the National Assembly. The suspension notice is contained in a statement signed by the party’s State Publicity Secretary, Dr Ifeanyi Osuoza, in Asaba. Osuoza said “This action has become necessary against the backdrop of the recent romance with an opposition party, verbal recklessness and unprovoked utterances of Sen. Nwaoboshi, particularly against the person of…
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday, fixed Sept. 27 to hear a suit filed by the Incorporated Trustees of Egalitarian Mission for Africa, a group, challenging the citizenship of former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the plaintiff instituted the suit in 2019 challenging Abubakar’s eligibility to contest for president. When the matter was called, counsel to the plaintiff, Mr Akinola Oladimeji told the court that he was not prepared to go on with the matter. Oladimeji told the court that it was only on Wednesday that he got wind of the…
Chuks Ibegbu, a chieftain of the Igbo apex socio-political organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has berated Nigerians for suggesting that President Muhammadu Buhari may extend his tenure in 2023 due to insecurity. Ibegbu, a former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze, described Nigerians suggesting that Buhari would extend his tenure as “idle.” There are claims that Buhari may harp on insecurity to extend his tenure. Olusegun Bamgbose, Esq., National Coordinator, Concerned Advocates for Good Governance, CAGG, had said Buhari will remain in power in 2023. Bamgbose said the president will use insecurity as an excuse not to hand over power in 2023.…
President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that he intends to nominate a senior union lawyer to the U.S. National Labor Relations Board as Democrats move to retake control. Joe Biden plans to tap David Prouty, general counsel of Service Employee International Union (SEIU) Local 32BJ, the largest labor union for property service workers in the country with over 175,000 members, to fill the seat currently held by Republican William Emanuel, the White House said. Emanuel’s term is set to expire Aug. 27. Biden last month nominated veteran union lawyer Gwynne Wilcox for a vacant seat on the NLRB. If both…
Former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has won all the 21 local government areas of Anambra State in the governorship primary election held in Awka on Wednesday by the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for the November 6 election. The election was held by the Chief Victor Oye faction of the party, which also has the support of the only governor of the party, Chief Willie Obiano of Anambra State. Soludo in the primary election which he contested with four other aspirants, Hon ThankGod Ibe, Hon Okwudili Ezenwankwo and Barr Damian Okolo, scored 740 votes…
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mai Mala Buni, has named the party’s committee for the Anambra State governorship primary election. John Akpan Udoedehe, the National Secretary confirmed that the primary election will be held June 26th, 2021. Buni, the Governor of Yobe, appointed his Ogun counterpart, Dapo Abiodun as the chairman and Sen. John Enoh as the secretary. The members are Uba Maigari Ahmadu, Goodluck Opiah, Cathleen Oby Nwoforn, Shitu Muhammed and Sylvester Imohanobe. Udoedehe said the composition of the committee was in line with the provisions of the APC constitution and guidelines for the nomination…
Security operatives have been deployed in Awka, Anambra State capital, today over the conduct of the primary election of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). The heavy deployment is reportedly in response to the formation of another faction of the party, which, led by Jude Okeke, announced a separate date for the party’s primary. Meanwhile, journalists have been barred from entering the venue of the exercise, casting doubt about what the party plans to do, within the conduct of the process. The primary election started with accreditation at the Alex Ekwueme Square before delegates were moved to Dora Akunyili Women…
The Supreme Court has voided laws enacted by the states’ Houses of Assembly which allow governors to sack elected chairmen of local governments and councillors and replace them with appointed administrators. It has become a tradition among governors to dissolve the Executive Councils of the states’ LGs and replace them with their appointees, who they call caretaker committees. In a unanimous judgement of five Justices of the Supreme Court described the practice as “executive recklessness”, which must not be allowed to persist. The judgment by the five-man panel, led by Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour was on the appeal in relation to…
US Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a sweeping bill to overhaul federal elections, heightening already inflamed tensions over voting rights. The Hill reported that Senators voted 50-50 in the evenly divided Senate on advancing the For the People Act, splitting along party lines and failing to get the 60 votes needed to gain the majority. The legislation included setting national voting standards, changed the composition of the Federal Election Commission, added new restrictions on congressional redistricting, overhauled campaign finance and included new ethics rules for the president and vice president. That contest was historic as it took place during the…
Deji Adeyanju, an Abuja-based activist, on Wednesday hinted on candidates the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders are considering to field as presidential candidate in 2023. Adeyanju, convener of Concerned Nigerians claimed that PDP stakeholders are considering either Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State or Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State. In a series of tweets, the former PDP member claimed that the party’s stakeholders are tired of fielding Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate. The activist claimed that PDP stakeholders are angry with Atiku for allegedly abandoning the party in the 2015 elections. According to Adeyanju: “PDP stakeholders want to…
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) will today, Wednesday, hold a primary election to elect its candidate for the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra State. The election is expected to hold at the Alex Ekwueme Square in Awka, the State capital. Four aspirants of the party who will be slugging it out in today’s primary election are: former Central Bank Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, a lawyer, Barr Damian Okolo and two lawmakers, Hon ThankGod Ibe and Hon Okwudili Nwankwo. Meanwhile, InfoStride News gathered that there are plans by the party to crown Prof. Soludo as its candidate, and that the…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari will hand over to another apostle of his when he completes his assignment in 2023. President Buhari’s tenure is expected to come to an end in 2023 when he must have completed another four years in office. VP Yemi Osinbajo spoke at the Army Resource Centre, Abuja on Tuesday during the presentation of a book entitled ‘Buhari in Us’ written by Haruna Abdullahi. The VIce President, who said that Buhari was conspired against and removed during his military regime, insisted that the President has given his best to Nigeria…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday, said the confession by the leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who gathered in Abuja for a youth conference that their party and President Muhammadu Buhari failed to deliver, vindicates its position that they will leave office in 2023 without any legacy. This was contained in a statement on Tuesday, which was signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary of the party. The party described the efforts by the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, to blame President Buhari and the APC’s failure “on a so-called face-off between the executive and the National Assembly…
The Federal High Court siting in Abuja on Tuesday, 22nd June, 2021 ruled on the leadership tussle for the authentic Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party in OGUN State and Hon. Sikirulai Ogundele was favoured by the ruling as the authentic State Chairman of the Party. The judgement delivered by Honourable Justice M. O. Olajuwon recognized and upheld the terms of settlement brokered by the Dr. Bukola Saraki led National Reconciliation and Strategy Committee of the Party and attested to on the 18th of March, 2021 by the leaders and representatives of both contending factions known as the Ladi…
The fundraising arm of the Republican Party raised less money in May than its Democratic counterpart but spent more, shelling out millions on efforts to win back Congress, as well as $175,900 at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Disclosures filed on Sunday with the Federal Election Commission showed the Republican National Committee raised $11.1 million last month, just below the $12.1 million raised by the Democratic National Committee. The RNC spent nearly $23 million during the month, more than twice what it raised, transferring $10 million to party committees that support candidates as the party prepares for next year’s…
Ahead of the forthcoming Local Government elections in Plateau, the Acting Chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) Enoch Fanmak, on Tuesday said the party is fully ready for the polls. He also assured that the party would provide a level playing ground for all aspirants seeking its ticket to contest in the elections. InfoStride News recalls that the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC) has scheduled Local Government elections in the state for 9th October 2021. Fanmak disclosed this while speaking with journalists shortly after addressing members of the Party’s screening committees for the 17 Local Government Councils…
Alhaji Bello Dankande, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara, has died at the age of 56. Alhaji Lawal Liman, the state APC caretaker committee chairman disclosed this when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gusau, the state capital, on Tuesday. Liman said the deceased died at a private hospital in Gusau after a brief illness on Tuesday. “On behalf of the entire APC family in the state, I extend our condolences to the APC leader in the state, Alhaji Abdul’aziz Yari and other party stakeholders over the loss. “I also pray to…
The Labour Party (LP) has disowned one Mr. Maurice Ekeng, who claimed to be Chairman of the party in Cross River State, and his purported exco who defected to the All Progressive Congress (APC). The party, in a press statement made available to the media on Tuesday, described the action of Ekeng and others as laughable and unfortunate for an old man who parades himself as an elder of the church. The statement signed by Comrade Dr. Ofem Lekam, State Publicity Secretary of the party said, “The attention of the leadership of Labour Party in Cross River State led by…