The United States House of Representatives has impeached President Trump for incitement of insurrection. The resolution followed the debate on the article of impeachment. Democrats in the House moved the article of impeachment following the invasion of the Capitol hill during the certification of 2020 presidential election on January 6th. Prior to the invasion, Trump who is yet to concede the Nov 3rd election which Joe Biden won, addressed a rally of his supporters to “take their country back.” According to reports on US media, several Republicans vowed to vote in favour of the impeachment. Wyoming Representative, Liz Cheney, the…
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Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has described ex-Military Administrator of Lagos State, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu as a rare breed for his singular consistency and unwavering commitment to social justice, democracy and federalism in Nigeria. Tinubu lamented that Kanu who so “loved this country and its many people” passed from us on Wednesday in Lagos State at 77. He stated this in a statement signed by his Media Aide, Tunde Rahman. Tinubu said: “I’m deeply saddened by the passing of former military administrator of Lagos and Imo states, Real Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu. “He was my…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Reconciliation Committee in Southwest is in Ogun State. The committee met with former Governor Gbenga Daniel and some PDP leaders on Tuesday. It met other party chieftains in Abeokuta, the state capital, on Wednesday. The body is chaired by former Osun State Governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola. Members are ex-Lagos Deputy Governor, Koforola Akerele -Bucknor; ex-Nigerian High Commissioner to Uganda, Omolade Oluwateru; top stalwart, Saka Balogun; and Monsuru Kukoyi, the secretary. The stakeholders, drawn from the three senatorial districts, urged the committee to do its job without fear or favour. They told the PDP national leadership to…
The Benue State Government has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on Ukum and Katsina-Ala Local Government Areas. The curfew was imposed as part of measures to address insecurity there. The north-central state’s Deputy Governor, Mr Benson Abounu, who disclosed this at the end of a security council meeting on Wednesday said the curfew will be from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily. ”It is part of our efforts to tackle banditry, kidnapping, armed robbery and general insecurity in the two local government areas,” Abounu told newsmen after the meeting. He added that the Security Council also resolved to ban the use…
National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Umar Tsauri, has described All Progressives Congress, APC, as a political club that has nothing to offer heavyweights such as Yakubu Dogara and Dave Umahi. The PDP scribe made the description in an interview with Vanguard, where he expressed optimism that, ahead of the 2023 polls, Umahi (Ebonyi State governor) and Dogara (ex-Speaker, House of Representatives), and others who quit the party for APC, will return “in the interest of Nigeria”. Tsauri told Vanguard that Umahi and Dogara needed to join the PDP in its quest to salvage Nigeria and reposition…
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi says the All Progressives Congress (APC) will triple its membership ahead of the 2023 general elections. Bello, who is the chairman of the newly inaugurated APC Women and Youth Sensitisation and Mobilisation Committee for the membership registration and revalidation exercise, stated this on Tuesday in Abuja. Bello assured that the committee would move to the field immediately, adding that it would liaise with every stakeholder within the party and across its lines. He said the committee would create the desired awareness to ensure that it tripped the party’s present membership. The Kogi governor said the…
The January 16 local government election in Kano has polarized the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). On Wednesday, the Kwankwasiyya faction restated its decision to boycott the poll. The Chairman, Shehu Sagagi, told newsmen that the party had sued Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) for contempt of court. The politician said the KANSIEC Chairman “is either ignorant of the extant laws or he is just behaving like a politician”. Sagagi recalled that the faction set to participate in the election “had earlier gone to court and we won the case.” He noted that only the National Executive Committee (NEC) has…
Mr Valentine Ozigbo, a former President of Transcorp has lamented the high debt profile of Anambra State under the leadership of Governor Willie Obiano. Ozigbo who spoke in a press conference Tuesday night said what was more annoying was that the infrastructure on the ground in the state was not commensurate with the humongous sum already borrowed by the state government since 2014. The ex-banker said, “Anambra’s debt profile under this government has risen by 1,600 percent since this administration came in 2014. For bankers like us, we like to make meaning off numbers.” Ozigbo who is also a governorship…
The Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday said the party would take a decision on the issue of zoning of the presidential election at the fullness of time. PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan spoke while appearing on Arise Television. Ologbondiyan said the ongoing discussion on the zoning of the 2023 presidential ticket in the All Progressives Congress, APC, is an indication of President Muhammadu Buhari’s failure. He insisted that some APC chieftains who worked towards Buhari’s emergence are afraid that the party’s agreement won’t be reached. According to Ologbondiyan: “There are conversations in the APC over where to choose their…
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday dismissed a legal action challenging the validity of the primary election that produced Mr Rotimi Akeredolu as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State in the last gubernatorial election Justice Iyang Ekwo in a judgment held that the suit instituted by one Mrs. Olajumoke Anifowose was statued barred having been filled outside 14 days allowed by law for a pre-election matter. TheInfoStride reports that Mrs Anifowose in the suit filled on her behalf by her counsel Mr Adesina Oke had challenged the indirect primary election that produced…
A fierce battle has erupted for the soul of Kwara State All Progressives Congress, APC, as claims and counter claims continue over the purported removal of the State caretaker committee chairman, Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa by a faction of the party. TheInfoStride reports that, on Monday, a faction of the party reported that Bolarinwa, who was appointed by the national body of the party led by Buni led committee, had been removed and replaced by Abdullahi Samari Abubakar, the deputy chairman. However, on Tuesday, January 12, 2021, another group of stakeholders, denounced the purported removal of Bolarinwa, “warning of dire consequences.”…
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has boasted that the All Progressives Congress, APC, will continue to win the presidential election in the country. Bello said APC would continue to win due to the party’s ability to mobilise Nigerians at the grassroot level. He spoke at the inauguration of the Party Women and Youth Sensitisation and Mobilisation Committee by the Yobe State Governor and Chairman Caretaker/ Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni, on Tuesday. The governor disclosed that APC will liaise with stakeholders across party lines to actualise the party’s election goals. He said: “This is yet another…
Prof. Lara Brown has predicted that the Republican Party will break up due to President Donald Trump’s actions and utterances. Brown is the Director of the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University. The political scientist spoke on Tuesday at a virtual news briefing on the January 20 presidential inauguration. NAN reports she chided Trump for insisting that the November 3 election was rigged. Brown recalled that the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council Executive Committee (GCC) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) declared it the most secure in history. “His actions are dividing the Republican Party,…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said that it was reviewing its adopted technologies for elections, with the view of introducing new ones to improve the conduct of the elections in the country ahead of 2023. Mr. Nick Dazang, the INEC Director of Voter Education and Publicity Department (VEP), stated this on Tuesday, at a workshop for the department on the “Review of National Voter Education Manual” held in Keffi, Nasarawa State. Dazang, speaking with journalists on the sideline of the workshop, disclosed that INEC began the process for electronic voting since 2004 when it introduced optic map registration…
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has urged Prof. George Obiozor, the newly-elected President-General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, to improve upon the cooperation between the group and other ethnic-social groups in the country. Atiku, in a statement signed by him on Tuesday in Abuja, felicitated with Obiozor, advising him to ensure that the unity of the country was stronger and that peace reigns across Nigeria. He also expressed optimism in Obiozor’s inter-personal skills and enough group dynamics experience for the job and to weather the storm. Atiku said, “I’ve known Obiozor since his days as Director-General of Nigeria Institute of International Affairs, and…
President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has warned that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer’s move to impeach him again is causing tremendous anger and danger. The President, however, said that both lawmakers have continued on this “terrible” path, even though he does not want violence. The Nancy Pelosi-led US House of Representatives introduced the article for Trump’s second impeachment on Monday. The President for the second time denied he triggered the deadly attack on the US Capitol and his rally speech before the riots meant no harm. “They’ve analysed my speech, my words and my final paragraph,…
The Chairman of the south-east governors’ forum and governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi on Tuesday vowed to arrest and prosecute members of the All Progressive Congress, APC, and the People Democratic Party, PDP, who instigates security breach in the state. Umahi made this known while briefing journalists at his country home at Uburu community, shortly after a combined security meeting. “Whether PDP, APC, APGA anybody that is causing the problem must be arrested and dealt with.” He maintained that the Fulani herdsmen and Ebonyi people have been living in peace for a long time and so, any act intended…
The Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the October 10 Ondo State governorship election, Eyitayo Jegede, has told the Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Akure that Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of the APC was not validly nominated by his party. Jegede who was in the witness box for over an hour to defend his petition before the Tribunal said the Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, as a sitting governor was not supposed to function as the Caretaker Chairman of the APC. Jegede began his defence by tendering some documents in respect of the October poll through his lawyer, Onyechi Ikpeazu, which…
The All Progressives Congress, (APC) in Ekiti State has urged residents of the state to go about their normal activities without any fear of threat to their lives or property. Reacting to a statement credited to the opposition People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) that people are no longer safe in the state under the present administration of Dr Kayode Fayemi, the APC in a statement signed and released by its Public Relations Officer, Hon. Ade Ajayi pointed out that insecurity is a national malaise and not peculiar to the state alone. “It is like comparing Satan with Jesus, when the situation…
The peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said President Muhammad Buhari released the former National Security adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) not because he believed in the rule of law. It would be recalled that the former National Security Adviser who was arrested since 2015 and the Nigerian activist, Omoyele Sowore were all released on 24 December, 2019 after the Attorney General ordered their release on bail. But Chairman of the Jigawa State PDP Congress, Dr. Umar Ardo said while responding to questions from newsmen in Dutse, after the Congress, that President Muhammad Buhari doesn’t believe in the rule of law.…