The Justice Department will make its policies for obtaining records of U.S. lawmakers more rigorous after former President Donald Trump’s administration secretly secured data on members of Congress, journalists and a former White House lawyer, the top U.S. law enforcement official said on Monday. Attorney General Merrick Garland in a statement also said that “political or other improper considerations must play no role in any investigative or prosecutorial decisions” and that anyone within the department who fails to live up to that principle “will be met with strict accountability.” Democratic congressional leaders on Sunday vowed to investigate the department’s “rogue”…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said another Democracy Day may not be celebrated in Nigeria if the system of government is not decentralised. Soyinka said this during an interview with Arise News which focused on the June 12 Democracy Day that was celebrated on Saturday. The Nobel Laureate lamented that the country is on a slide, as he advised the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to listen and take action against the challenges which are causing people to demonstrate. “And that is what’s happening to people on the streets. That’s why they are moving, that’s why they are…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is panicky because the ruling platform now has “over 40 million members.” In a statement, John Akpan Udoedehe, Secretary of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee said the PDP was clutching on straws. The APC said it is providing critical infrastructure, access to education, health facilities and empowering citizens. The scribe accused PDP governors of wasting resources on meetings while owing workers and pensioners. The opposition had in a communique queried loans procured by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. The PDP further alleged that the current leadership is…
A former Minister of Works and National Chairman of South West Agenda for 2023, Senator Dayo Adeyeye, has restated that the fact that the zone has produced the president in the past won’t stop it from clinching the presidential ticket if the All Progressives Congress zoned the ticket to the South. The former Minister opined that former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, remains the best and the right man to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari after bowling out in 2023 based on experience and political networks. Adeyeye spoke in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday during the official launching of the…
Former chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, Chief Jide Awe, has said that the ghost of the governorship primaries conducted in 2018 was still haunting the party in the state. Speaking with journalists in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, Chief Awe alleged that APC had mismanaged itself both at the state and national levels and the primaries for the 2022 governorship election must be conducted in a transparent and acceptable manner if the party wanted to retain the governorship in the state. He bemoaned the situation where the ruling party was being run by the caretaker Committee…
U.S. Democrats will not back down on President Joe Biden’s sweeping infrastructure goals, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday, signaling turbulence ahead for a scaled-back bipartisan proposal unveiled in the Senate. Joe Biden has set his sights on a sweeping infrastructure bill that would both revamp the nation’s roads and bridges as well as boost spending on services including healthcare and child care though Republicans reject the idea that those latter priorities even qualify for the label “infrastructure.” A bipartisan group of ten Senate moderates on Thursday reached a deal for an infrastructure plan that a source…
The Governors of the 36 states of the federation plan to hold a virtual meeting on Wednesday to further discuss the issue of financial autonomy to judicial and legislative arms in states. This is contained in a statement by NGF Head of Media and Public Affairs, Mr Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo on Monday in Abuja. Bello-Barkindo said efforts were already being made in all states to either constitute State Accounts Allocation Committees (SAAC) or inaugurate them. This, according to him, is preparatory to the granting of full autonomy to the two arms of government at the subnational level. The Judicial Staff Union…
Former presidential candidate, Donald Duke has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Bukola Saraki, a former Senate president made this known on his facebook page as he welcomed the former governor into the opposition party. Recall that Donald Duke in 2018 dumped PDP and ran for presidency in 2015 under the Social Democratic Party, SDP. Saraki while posting a picture receiving Donald Duke wrote: “Yesterday in Calabar, alongside the Chairman of our great party, Prince Uche Secondus, and other party leaders. “It was an absolute pleasure to receive my dear friend, former Governor Donald Duke, back into the Peoples…
Honourable Chukwuma Umeoji, one of the five disqualified All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) guber aspirants for the primary election on June 23 in Anambra State, has said he will appeal his disqualification. InfoStride News reports that Umeoji alongside Nze Akachukwu Nwankpo, Cater Dike Umeh, Hon Nonso Smart and Ozoka Odera Ifeanyi were not cleared to participate in the APGA guber primary election. A former CBN governor, Prof. Charles Soludo and Okwudili Ezenwankwo, Damian Okolo and ThankGod Ibeh were cleared by the Screening Committee to participate in the exercise to select a candidate to flag the party’s flag for Nov. 6…
Commissioners, Special Advisers, Assistants and other political appointees have abandoned their offices in Cross River State. InfoStride News Correspondent went round various offices and observed that many offices of the top appointees were empty. Some staff working with some of the appointees said their bosses said they cannot work under Governor Ayade/APC-led government. “My bosses had said openly that they cannot work under Gov Ayade-led APC government, hence they have to abandoned their offices. Most of those who defected with him said, they will come back to PDP during the elections. “It’s only that they have nothing doing for now,…
U.S. President Joe Biden brought a sharply different tone to the Group of Seven summit from his predecessor Donald Trump by allowing frank and collaborative discussion of global issues without sowing disruptive chaos, a source with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters. “It used to be complete chaos,” said the source. “Before, we were on edge the entire, the whole time just trying to keep the G7 intact – and you don’t have to worry about that now.” “You can have a frank discussion without having to start it off by saying: ‘No. Russia is not going to come back…
Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the immediate past National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday appealed to the party faithful in Edo state to keep faith in the party, irrespective of the present challenges facing the party in the state. He made the appeal during the party’s enlarged leaders’ meeting across Edo north senatorial district of the state. He said that irrespective of the outcome of the last governorship election in the state, the party in Edo north has enough reasons to sustain self-pride and self-confidence for winning the senatorial zone. “The unity of this senatorial zone must be…
The Forum of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors has condemned what it described as mindless borrowing by the APC-led administration at the centre. The forum noted that the careless borrowing has plunged the country into uncontrollable debt profile with over 80% of normal appropriation spent on debt servicing. These was contained in a communique issued at the end of a one-day meeting of the 14 PDP governors in the country held on Monday at the banquet hall Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital. The Chairman of the Forum, and Governor of Sokoto State, Alh. Aminu Tambuwal, who read the communique, said…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Uche Secondus, Gov Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State and former Senate President, Bukola Saraki have said they were in Calabar to formally give a quit notice to Gov Ben Ayade of Cross River State. The people alongside chairman of PDP Governors Forum, Waziri Tambuwal, deputy governor of Zamfara State, former vice presidential candidate of PDP, Peter Obi and other PDP stalwarts, also formally received former governor Donald Duke back to the party. Secondus said they were also in the state to formally commission the new state party secretariat even as…
Governor Umar Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has said he is not retiring from politics like Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State and he will remain active even beyond 2023. Governor Ganduje told newsmen that his political influence can not be tamed in a few years as he is still actively in the system. “My Political dexterity goes beyond the 1970s and I will remain active in politics even beyond 2023 not retiring because I’m not entirely tired of the system”. Ganduje hints that he can not clearly spell out what or which position he is going for, “but…
Victory was claimed on Sunday by Algeria’s main moderate Islamist party the Movement of Society for Peace (MSP) in the country’s early legislative elections. The party also issued a warning against any attempts as was allegedly done in the past, to tamper with the election outcome whose first results are still pending publication. “We call on the President of the Republic (Abdelmadjid Tebboune) to respect the popular will,” insists this party, the main parliamentary opposition formation, which had decided to participate in the election to “contribute to the desired change. The Independent National Authority for Elections without explicitly naming the…
A support group within the Bauchi State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Manazarta Siyasar Jam’iyyar APC, on Monday warned that the state governor, Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed is not welcome in the party. The group’s warning came on the heels of rumours that Governor Bala Mohammed wants to defect from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC. Addressing journalists in Bauchi, the chairman of the group, Yahya Idris Suleiman, said members of the party did not want the governor in APC, saying that the governor defection would spoil the APC. Suleiman claimed the group was already doing everything…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Kaduna State has urged the APC-led administration in the state to change its approach of governance and give the people the much-anticipated dividends of democracy. The party explained that the essence of government is to meet the basic needs of the people. The party noted that it is appalling that in Kaduna State, the political history in the past six years under the APC-led government has been dominated by anti-people policies, militia activities, banditry and kidnapping for ransom. The PDP lamented that it looks glaring that the APC government in the state is powerless to…
The Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has lost one of its Treasurer, Adekunbi Banjoko. The APC Caretaker Committee announced the “untimely death” of Banjoko, on Monday. The Ogun APC spokesman, Tunde Oladunjoye, disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday. Oladunjoye said Banjoko died in the early hours of Monday, saying he was also a member of the Ogun State Board of Public Health until his death. “A devoted Christian, seasoned politician and former Secretary to Sagamu Local Government. He also served as treasurer of the party diligently, humbly and to the best of his ability.…
Former Super Eagles captain, Mikel Obi has said no better youth to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari than Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State. Mikel, who currently plies his trade with Stoke City, England made the remark during a courtesy call on the governor. The former Chelsea star said Nigeria has come of age to produce a youthful leadership. Mikel also pledged to support Yahaya Bello’s political ambition ahead of 2023. He said youths should be given the chance to get the much-desired change. “What better person to lead the youths than him, because he has been doing all these good…