Senator representing Osun Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Ajibola Basiru has said he is not a member of The Osun Progressives (TOP), a group within the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaking during an interview on a radio current affairs programme monitored by the media in Osogbo on Friday, Basiru claimed he is a member of the APC in the state and also a member and the facilitator of the Osun Positive Force (OPF). He disclosed that the OPF has been part of the APC structure in Osun since 2012 and it has been working…
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said President Muhammadu Buhari exposed his cluelessness during his interview on Arise Television. PDP insisted that Buhari exposed his paucity of ideas on how to develop and unite Nigeria during the interview. The former ruling party in a series of tweets noted that some of the president’s comments are capable of encouraging terrorism and further creating violence and division in the country. PDP lamented that Buhari dodged an opportunity to enlighten Nigerians on the works of his administration by laying claims to projects of former administrations. According to PDP: “The @OfficialPDPNig is appalled by…
A South African woman who claims to have given birth to ten babies is appealing for money to help raise the huge brood as officials insist they can’t find any evidence of her alleged delivery. Gosiame Sithole, 37, a former store manager, said today that she will be unable to return to her job following the birth on Monday night in Pretoria, and urgently needs donations of nappies, baby formula, bottles, clothes and cash to get by. Sithole, whose husband is unemployed, told Pretoria News that she exhausted her savings by taking unpaid leave from work two months into her…
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday defended a decision by the Justice Department to continue to defend Donald Trump against a lawsuit by a writer who accused him of raping her decades ago and defaming her during his presidency. “The job of the Justice Department in making decisions of law is not to back any administration, previous or present. Our job is to represent the American people,” Garland said during testimony before a U.S. Senate appropriations panel. “Sometimes it means that we have to make a decision about the law that we would never have made and that we…
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, says the President Muhammadu Buhari administration respects the Nigerian constitution. He spoke in Zamfara at the presentation of official vehicles to Magistrates and Sharia Court Judges. Malami, under whose supervision the federal government shunned court orders in cases of ex-National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki, publisher and activist Omoyele Sowore, Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, among others, said regards for the law remains a major cardinal principle. The AGF had explained that they were not released in the overall national interest. “I concede that I…
Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s threat against secessionists in the Southeast. Reno Omokri said Nigerians should blame Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for Buhari’s threat against the Southeast. Buhari had vowed to treat the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in ways they would understand. The president, in an interview on Arise Television, vowed to mobilise the military and police against IPOB. He had described IPOB as a dot in the circle with nowhere to go. However, Omokri berated Buhari for issuing such a threat. The former…
The Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Thursday lashed out at Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu over plans to build a new Governor’s Lodge with N2 billion. While disclosing that the construction of a new Governor’s Lodge with such amount was a misplaced priority, the opposition party described the move as wasteful. Akeredolu had during the anniversary of his 100 days in office revealed his desire to build a new Governor’s Lodge, stressing that the existing one was no longer fit for human habitation. But the Chairman of the PDP in the Ondo, Fatai Adams, during a press…
Political campaigns for Algeria’s impending legislative elections ended Tuesday. Algerians are gearing up for the June 12 elections to elect members of parliament. Supporters of Algeria’s MSP party rally ahead of the civic exercise. “Be it our way, our criterion of conduct to cut off the road to the children (supporters) of France here in Algeria who want to forget the values of November, I invite you all to stand up to renew our oath to the declaration of the first November”, said Abderrazak Makri, president of Algeria’s Movement of Society for Peace (MSP). There are more than 13,000 candidates,…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that no individual has the power to decide on zoning for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Buhari, who spoke on Thursday during an exclusive interview with Arise TV, said only eligible members of the party would decide the fate of the party on zoning. The president claimed that the process of restructuring the party has begun, noting that the recent membership registration was part of the move to reorganise the party. Buhari, who stressed that no member of the party would be allowed to go against its decision, revealed that a convention would soon…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) will decide who replaces him as president in 2023 and not himself. He stated this on Thursday while fielding questions from journalists on Arise TV. “About succession, what this admin can do is to make sure APC lasts beyond this administration. “We have started registration from ward to local government and to the state level. That way, the APC can know the number of members they have state by state and local government by local government so that by the time this administration goes, the legacy can continue. “And that…
The Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has debunked allegations that its state executive has been removed by a Federal High Court in Abuja. There have been rumours in the state that a High Court in Abuja had removed the State executive of the party in a judgement delivered through zoom. The State Chairman of the party, Mr Ndubuisi Nwobu who addressed a press conference at the State party secretariat in Awka dismissed the judgement. He said: “We’re here to bring you to pace about certain developments in the party. Our attention has been drawn to a…
Stakeholders of Enugu West Senatorial District of Enugu State have rejected the much-talked about zoning of governorship position in Enugu State. InfoStride News reports that ahead of the 2023 election, controversies have been trailing zoning of guber position in the State. There have been claims that it is the turn of Enugu East Senatorial District to produce the next governor, after Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi who is from Enugu North Senatorial Zone. The proponents are of the opinion that since the position has gone round the 3 senatorial zones, it should start afresh from the East. Barr. Sullivan Chime, who is…
Russia’s foreign ministry has put the US on notice ahead of a meeting between American president Joe Biden and and his Russian counterpart. Sergei Rybakov, the Russian deputy foreign minister, warned president Vladimir Putin’s government would send “unpleasant” messages to the US if they did not discuss a range of issues at their upcoming meeting. “The Americans must assume that a number of signals from Moscow … will be uncomfortable for them, including in the coming days,” he said, according to reporting from Russian news agency RIA. Biden and Putin are expected to meet on 16 June in Geneva. Biden…
The party calls on the international community to hold President Buhari, Lai Mohammed, and Malami responsible for the escalated abuse of human rights in Nigeria. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Saudi Arabia to impose a visa ban on President Muhammadu Buhari and members of his cabinet involved in stifling freedom of speech in Nigeria. The opposition party said the Federal Government’s ban on Twitter is in violation of the UN International Charter on Human Rights. The party said this in a statement titled, ‘Twitter Ban: Impose Visa Ban on Buhari,…
National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has said being in opposition does not rob the party of its enviable position as the continent’s biggest political platform, by a mile. The chairman made the remark, Wednesday, at the inauguration of the party’s e-registration committee at the Wadata Plaza, Abuja, headquarters of the PDP. Secondus said despite being the ruling party in the past six years, the All Progressive Congress, APC does not command the kind of numerical strength the PDP has across the country. He said “When we say that PDP is the largest party in…
The Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF) adopted Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, as its choice presidential aspirant for the 2023 election. The Forum, which has been adopting presidential candidates since 1999, picked Bala Mohammed through a poll in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, where delegates of the forum voted to decide between Bala and AIT founder, Chief Raymond Dokpesi. Bala and Dokpesi had emerged as the last shortlist of a long list of people who were initially being considered for adoption by the northern Youth Leaders Forum, according to the Forum’s National Chairman, Comrade Eliot Afiyo. At the forum’s poll,…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has published the official notification for the November 6 Anambra governorship election. The electoral umpire made this known in a statement on Wednesday by Rotimi Oyekanmi, Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu. The spokesman said the notice can be found at all INEC offices in Anambra. Two activities will commence from Thursday, June 10 – primaries by parties to nominate their candidates and the collection of nomination forms at the INEC headquarters. The commission appealed to political platforms to conduct credible and rancour-free primaries in compliance with regulations and guidelines. The All…
China is the single nation that militarily, economically, diplomatically and politically has the ability to try to “disturb” the rules-based order that America, its friends and allies strongly defend, US Secretary of State Tony Blinken has said. Blinken also told lawmakers during a Congressional hearing on Tuesday that China is both the most consequential and most complicated relationship the US has. It (China) is the single nation state that militarily, economically, diplomatically, and politically has the ability to try to disturb the rules-based order that we strongly defend because it’s advanced our own security and prosperity for so many years,…
Hope Uzodinma, Governor of Imo State, has insisted that governors from the South-Eastern region of the country and many others would join the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the next general elections in Nigeria. Hope Uzodinma spoke to journalists at the Presidential Villa after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday. The governor challenged Nigerians to provide him with reasons why the APC should not win the 2023 elections. While answering a question of whether more governors from the Southeast would defect to the APC, Uzodinma said, “Not just from the South-east, many governors in Nigeria will join the…
A People’s Party (PDP) chieftain in Ekiti State, Mrs Bola Owolabi, has been hospitalized following a facial injury she sustained during an attack from a party member at a ward meeting in Ado Ekiti. Mrs Owolabi aka Afidipote was allegedly attacked by Tosin Adebayo, an aide to former Ado Ekiti Local Government Chairman, Hon. Ayodeji Ogunsakin, at Ado Ekiti Ward 9 meeting on Monday. A party source who was at the meeting disclosed that Adebayo smashed the face of the women leader with a wooden turning stick known locally as “omo orogun” during the meeting. InfoStride News gathered that the…