The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday split along party lines over whether to advance the nomination of gun control advocate David Chipman, President Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). In the lead-up to the tie vote, Republicans vocally opposed Chipman’s nomination, citing his history of advocating stronger gun regulations. “Mr. Chipman wants to ban assault weapons,” Ranking Republican Charles Grassley said on Thursday. “This nomination is like a Republican putting the NRA in charge of ATF,” he said, referring to the pro-gun rights National Rifle Association. The U.S. Senate…
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President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, approved the review of the timeline for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Congresses. President Buhari received the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) at State House, Abuja. He endorsed the Progress Report, the schedule of outstanding activities with regards to Congresses, the National Convention and the forthcoming Anambra Governorship election. The President approved Ward Congresses to be held on 24th July, 2021, Local Government Congresses on 14th August, 2021 and State Congresses on 18th September, 2021. CECPC National Chairman and Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni led the delegation to the Presidential Villa. Buni was…
Ahead of the forthcoming Local Government elections in Plateau State, the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said, there is a grand plan by the electoral umpire, Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC) to exclude the party from the polls. The PDP said it will resist any plans by the electoral body to subvert justice. InfoStride News recalls that the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC) has scheduled Local Government elections in the state for 9th October 2021. This was disclosed by the Party’s State Caretaker Committee Secretary, Patrick Ogbu, while briefing journalists at the State Secretariat, in Jos, the…
The All Progressives Congress, (APC) in Ekiti State has inaugurated an Electoral Committee to oversee forthcoming Congresses. The seven members committee is headed by Chief Samuel Abejide and has Maryam Ogunlade as a representative of the women party stalwarts. Other members are Abiodun Aluko, Bashorun Odetola, Babatunde Onipede, Akindele Femi, and Adumo Sunday. The Chairman of Ekiti APC, Paul Omotoso performed the inauguration ceremony at the party Secretariat in Ado Ekiti. The Chairman announced that the committee will assist members of the National Congress Committee assigned to the state to monitor and coordinate congresses in the state. The Electoral Committee…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and a former governorship aspirant, Barr Ike Oligbo has called on the 16 aspirants of the party to negotiate among themselves and reduce the number of aspirants in the party for ease of management. Oligbo who spoke to journalists in Awka said it would be fair if the party, PDP goes to the primary election on Saturday with fewer aspirants, saying it would be easier for the party to manage. The politician said he is aware of peace accords and various meetings that the aspirants have held, which he said include plans…
European Union countries bordering Russia rejected a Franco-German plan to resume official meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, with one leader likening the move to an attempt to talk a bear out of stealing honey. In a statement in the early hours of Friday morning, EU leaders said only that they will explore formats and conditionalities of dialogue with Russia. There was no mention of any high-level meetings or plans for a summit with Putin. The European Union is deeply divided in its approach to Moscow. Russia is the EU’s biggest natural gas supplier, and plays a key role in…
The Governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has expressed deep concern at the current exchange of political brickbats by politicians and groups over who succeeds him in 2023, describing such exchanges as unnecessary, premature and capable of distracting his administration. This was contained in a statement issued on Friday by Sir Onyebuchi Ememanka, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor. According to the statement, Governor Ikpeazu told all 2023 governorship aspirants in the state that he was still in charge of Abia Government and would not be stampeded out of office by people who want to alter the natural…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State has again accused Governor Hope Uzodinma of impoverishing the people of the State. The Imo PDP Director-General of New Media, Collins Opuruzor made the accusation on his Facebook page. He said the State where the Governor had superintended for more than one year was now the most deteriorated environment for business and investors in the country, according to the statistics of Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC). The party spokesman said, “out of the 52.3 million dollars that came to the Southeast as Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), in the last thirteen months,…
The Oyo State Government has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of playing politics with the death of Rahmon Azeez. Taiwo Adisa, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde lambasted the opposition on Thursday. Azeez, 36, was killed last week in the violence that erupted in Iwo Road. The deceased just got a visa to travel to the United States to see his wife and newborn twins. Azzez had arranged for his spouse to travel to America where she put to bed. Adisa, during a programme on Agidigbo FM, Oyo Updates, said rather than seeking to gain undue attention, politicians…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Emmanuel Lyambee Jime as the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers Council. The appointment is for a renewable four-year tenure. Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu made the announcement in a statement Thursday night. Jime, who holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law, is expected to use his wealth of experience in the new role having distinguished himself in several public offices. The appointee was formerly Managing Director of the Nigeria Export Processing Zone Authority (NEPZA). Jime was two-term member of the House of Representatives. He represented Makurdi/Guma Federal constituency of Benue between 2007 and…
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday for the first time since taking a lead role in immigration issues, her office said, bowing to pressure that she make the high-profile trip. VP Kamala Harris will travel to El Paso, Texas, on Friday with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Harris spokeswoman Symone Sanders said. Harris, who visited the U.S.-Mexico border many times as a senator and attorney general from California, was assailed by Republicans when she visited Mexico and Guatemala this month. She said she would go to the border eventually. President Joe Biden assigned her…
Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Thursday said he would not be distracted by attempts by some highly placed members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state to pitch him against his predecessors. Speaking while receiving hundreds of members of opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency, who defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Okowa said all governors who ruled the state since 1999 performed very well. He said that the attempts by some persons in the state to put him on a collision course with past leaders of the state would not work…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has devolved its Committee on Electronic Registration, into strategic sub-committees in its bid to deliver on its electronic membership registration exercise. This was contained in a statement issued by Kola Ologbondiyan, the National Publicity Secretary of the party on Thursday. He said, “The main committee has Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state as Chairman and Governor Ahmed Fintiri of Adamawa State as Deputy Chairman.” “The subcommittees include the Strategy and Intelligence, (H.E Godwin Obaseki- Chairman, H.E Ahmed Fintiri -Deputy Chairman), the Publicity sub-committee: (Kola Ologbondiyan -Chairman, Barr. Emmanuel Enoidem -Deputy Chairman), the Technical and System…
Ahead of the June 28 commencement of the nationwide INEC Voter’s Registration/Revalidation exercise, several sociopolitical groups in Nigeria have advised Igbos and Nigerians to take the exercise very serious as it will give credence to the Equity and Justice project in 2023. Among the groups include the Pan Nigeria Presidency of Igbo Extraction Coalition (PANPIEC), World Igbo Peoples Assembly (WIPAS), Coalition of Civil Society Organization of Nigeria (COCSON), and Nigeria Peoples Parliament (NPP). InfoStride News recalls that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had announced June 28 the commencement of a nationwide continuous Voter Registration to deepen the use of…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday launched an online portal for eligible voters to register ahead of the 2023 general elections. This was disclosed by the Chairman of the Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu while addressing newsmen shortly after the launching. The Commissioner said the portal was created for intending registrants to commence the process online before the centres would reopen. The Commissioner urged those intending to participate in the exercise to register by imputing their important details before proceeding to the next stage of the registration exercise. According to him, the decision to register first online was due…
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…
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.…