The leader of INRI Evangelical spiritual church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has warned Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State about attempt to frustrate his political assignment. Primate Ayodele said Obaseki should wake up because he foresees his political assignment being frustrated by his enemies in the State. The popular prophet advised the governor and his deputy not to allow “discrepancies, and kangaroo court judgments to be used to oust them out of their administration.” He stated this in a statement he forwarded to TheInfoStride. Primate Ayodele said the enemies were doing everything to get Obaseki out of the way, and “to…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
There are many unresolved issues triggering apprehension, as Southeast stakeholders of All Progressives Congress (APC) meet today in Owerri, Imo State. Some of these issues include the question as to who serves as leader of the party in the zone, the crisis in some state chapters and perceived presidential aspiration of some stalwarts. Although the recent enlistment of Governor Dave Umahi into the APC seems to have solved the fractionalization of the party in Ebonyi State, the situation in Abia and Enugu States’ chapters remain fluid. Even in Imo State, which is serving as the venue of the stakeholders’ gathering,…
The Federal High Court, Abuja, has adjourned the alleged certificate forgery case of the All Progressives Congress (APC) against Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo until December 30. NAN reports that at the resumed hearing on Tuesday, the APC through its counsel, Mr Akin Olujimi, SAN, attempted to tender some documents in evidence through a subpoenaed witness. The PDP and Obaseki, however, objected to the tendering of the documents on the grounds that the process did conform with the laws guiding admissibility of documents. Obseki’s counsel, Mr Ken Mozia, SAN, added that there was no evidence of payment for the documents…
Lagos State House of Assembly, on Tuesday, passed the state government’s N1.164trillion budget for 2021. It was endorsed after a report by Hon. Gbolahan Yishawu (Eti Osa 2), chairman of the joint committee on Economic Planning, Budget and Finance. The legislature approved N460,587,43,741 as recurrent expenditure from the Consolidated Revenue Fund and N702,935,416,976 as capital expenditure from Development Revenue Fund. The Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, disclosed that during parliamentary sessions, the lawmakers agreed that the Youth Empowerment Scheme (O’YES) of the Ministry of Agriculture, was not yielding the desired results. Obasa added that the Coconut Agency has been recommended for scrapping,…
The Chairman of Shiroro local government council of Niger state, Comrade Suleiman Dauda Chukuba, has been impeached. He was impeached for allegedly withdrawing and spending local government Internally Generated funds IGR without approval from legislative council as well as embesslement of funds. Eleven out of fourteen councillors in the council voted in favour for the impeachment of the chairman. More allegations levelled against the Chairman include withdrawal of and spending local government Internally Generated Reverse IGR without approval from legislative council as well as embesslement of funds. Others are gross misconduct and refusal by former Chairman to lay before…
The PDP alleged that he was unlawfully nominated as APC candidate. The Federal High Court Abuja, on Tuesday, struck out a suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking Osagie Ize-Iyamu’s disqualification from the September 19 governorship election in Edo. Delivering judgment, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, struck out the suit on grounds that it had become academic. The judge also said that he saw no legal benefit that would accrue to the plaintiff if the suit succeeded. The PDP had dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Ize-Iyamu to court praying for an order…
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday swore in a new member-elect, Mr Obafemi Saheed, as lawmaker representing Kosofe Constituency II. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Saheed won the Dec. 5 by-election to replace late Tunde Braimoh, who died earlier in the year. The Speaker of the House, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, said during the swearing-in ceremony that the Oath of Allegiance of Membership had been administered on the lawmaker-elect by the Head of the Legal Department of the assembly. The speaker prayed that Saheed’s tenure would bring development to his constituency and the state. He said:…
Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), is dead. LP Deputy National Secretary, Kennedy Chigozie, confirmed his exit Tuesday evening. Chigozie said Abdulsalam passed away Tuesday morning. TheInfoStride gathered that the politician died in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. Former National Chairman, Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Peter Ameh, said he has lost a friend of several decades. “This is a great loss not only to opposition political parties but to Nigerian democracy as a whole. His progressive ideas will be surely missed”, he added. In its reaction, the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), said it received the news with…
A former Senate President, Senator David Mark, on Tuesday, stressed the need for inclusive governance targeted at the welfare of the governed for democratic government is to thrive in Nigeria. Mark stated this while flagging off three rural roads at Katanga Warji in Warji Local Government Area of Bauchi State and called on governments at all levels to open up rural communities through construction of accessible roads. According to the former Senate President, opening up rural areas would bring development closer to the people. While commending Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, for his administration’s efforts in construction of…
Minister of State for Power, Mr. Goddy Agba, has said that his appointment has specific roles assigned to him, one of which is the provision of electricity to urban and rural communities and not to give handouts in the form of bags of rice, cooking oil and wrappers to people. Agba, who spoke against the backdrop of demands by people asking for seasonal gifts, said he was working to actualise the policy thrust of the present administration to facilitate electricity across the states of the federation in order to create employment through increased electricity supply to artisans, small and medium…
The House of Representatives has refuted media reports that it had apologised to President Muhammadu Buhari or the Presidency for inviting him earlier in the month to brief it on the escalating insecurity situation in the country. It will be recalled that the House had on December 1, through a motion collectively sponsored by all the Borno State lawmakers on the heels of the massacre of over 43 rice farmers in Zarbamari village, passed a resolution inviting the President for the security briefing. It will also be recalled that the Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila later conveyed the resolution…
Three days after the Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Mathew Kukah, preached a sermon against nepotism to commemorate this year’s Christmas, the North has been divided by the homily, which also accused President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration of failing to provide security, among other lapses. Kukah had, in his 2020 Christmas message, titled, ‘A nation in search of vindication’, lamented that nepotism characterise the present administration. He noted that there could have been a coup or war in the country if a non-northern Muslim President did a fraction of what Buhari did. The cleric said under Buhari’s government, Nigeria appeared to…
Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello, has assured that the government was doing its best to forestall attacks by bandits. His comment was in reaction to the incidents at Maitumbi and Kuchi communities in Bosso and Munya Local Government Areas. No fewer than 20 people were allegedly abducted by dozens of assailants, and scores wounded. In a statement on Monday by his spokesperson, Mary Noel-Berje, Bello urged the people to support authorities’ efforts against the criminals. He told them to give security agencies information that would help arrest the perpetrators. Bello added that the recent meeting of the North Central State…
Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday, said Tunde Bakare, the overseer of Citadel Global Community Church should not be taken seriously for lying against the Holy Spirit. Omokri disclosed that Bakare lied against the Holy Spirit in a prophecy he issued on ex-President, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB, and Atiku Abubakar. He made the remark in response to Bakare’s attack on Yoruba leaders not comfortable with Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, running for president. The clergyman had said God does not need anyone’s permission to put Tinubu in the hall…
The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has described Nigeria’s presidential system of government as “totally useless,” and expressed its readiness to engage other parts of the country in a debate on Nigeria’s future, saying it was ready for the restructuring of the country. Convener of the Forum, Professor Ango Abdullahi, stated this in a telephone interview with Vanguard, weekend. Abdullahi, who expressed the preference of the North for a return to the parliamentary system of government, said the current presidential system had caused more division than uniting the country. Abdullahi said: “Today, we may appear to have a federal system of…
Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Deputy Governor of the state, Rt. Hon Philip Shaibu has engaged in a war of words over a pre-election matter in the court as Shiabu alleged that the former National Chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole had recently said that the Supreme Court would give his party victory like the case of Imo state. But in a statement yesterday by the State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Chris Azebanmwan, the allegation which he described as weighty was false and that Shaibu was engaging in a smear campaign against…
The Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN), on Monday, said it stood by Bishop Matthew Kukah’s Christmas Day message wherein he claimed that Nigeria was on the verge of becoming a failed state. In a press release made available to journalists in Abuja, the National Director of CSN’s Social Communication, Fr. Mike Umoh, raised the alarm over the incessant attacks on the Bishop by those alleging he sought to instigate violence and hinder national integration with his message. Umoh, however, maintained that with the prolonged security and economic challenges facing the country, the Catholic Church in Nigeria stood by Kukah’s position…
Nasarawa House of Assembly Speaker, Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi said on Monday that the State and Toto LGA remained the dependable home of APC as a party to beat in 2023. Speaking at an extraordinary APC stakeholder meeting in Toto LGA, the speaker said the efforts of Governor Abdullahi Sule as an APC leader has dared the party into the heart of other party and called on the people to give the ruling party and governor all the needed support to succeed. The Speaker informed the major stakeholders across the Twelve(12) electoral wards in Toto LGA the passion, concerns, and love…
The Council of Ogbos, in charge of the organisational structures of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), Worldwide, has announced the removal of the acting Chairman of the council’s Eastern Zone, James Tobin, following his push for the immediate removal of the Sole Administrator, of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Effiong Akwa. The Ogbos, known as the Council of Organisational Leaders (COOL), averred that Tobin had no authority to issue statements using IYC since his leadership had been dissolved in a stakeholders’ meeting. The Leader of COOL, John Amos Benjamin, described the publication that called for the removal of Akwa…
Members of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly have explained that the loans so far approved for Governor Douye Diri were legitimate and tied to specific items on project interventions and development of the state. Bayelsa people had criticised and lampooned the state’s lawmakers for their swift approval of loan requests from the governor, which have so far amounted to N21b in the last 10 months. Speaking after the last plenary for 2020, the House led by its Speaker, Abraham Ingobere, through its Chairman, Committee on Information, Tari Pori (Ekeremor 1) dismissed the claims of unnecessary loan approvals to Governor…