The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), has bashed political parties for financial inducements on delegates against the choice of the people. The group also chided the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for extending the deadline for the conduct of primary elections and submission of the list of nominated candidates for the 2023 general elections, from 4th to 9th of June 2022. This is contained in a statement by the chairman of the group, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani made available to ASHENEWS on Friday. He said that at a time when Nigerians were beginning to have confidence in the electoral umpire, some powerful…
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has adjusted its special convention for presidential primary earlier scheduled for May 29-30 to June 6-8. Mr Felix Morka, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, announced this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. “This follows the Independent National Electoral Commission’s extension of deadline for the submission of list of candidates by political parties. “The APC hereby postpones its Special Convention for Presidential Primary from May 29 to 30 to Monday, June 6 to Wednesday June 8, 2022,” he said. Political parties had earlier requested INEC to review the timelines for political party primaries provided in…
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has urged the Federal Government to take drastic action against activities of the proscribed Indegenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the North East. A chieftain of the forum and leader of Arewa community South-South and South East, Musa Saidu said this in a statement on Friday. According to him, government must find lasting solutions to the nefarious activities of the group. “The federal government must take necessary action against IPOB, the situation is getting out of hand, many innocent people are being attacked daily by the group in South East “In fact we have documentary…
The Former Minister of Finance, Chief Olu Falae has faulted the calls that the presidency should be zoned to a particular region, saying there is no provision for zoning in the Nigerian Constitution. Falae, a former National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), stated this during a visit by the executives of the Ondo state chapter of the party in Akure. The newly-elected executives was led on the visit by its chairman, Mr Dele Thomas. Falae, while speaking on the contentious issue of zoning, said it was not part of the conditions for Nigeria’s presidency. “Politicians should stop deceiving…
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal by Rotimi Amaechi, former minister of transportation, seeking to stop his probe in an alleged N96 billion fraud. Justice Adamu Jauro who led the seven member panel of justices while delivering judgment, dismissed the appeal for lacking in merit. The apex court affirmed the judgments of the High Court of Rivers and that of the Court of Appeal which had earlier dismissed same suit for want of substance and merit. The court also asked the former minister to pay the respondents N1 million. Amaechi had approached the Supreme Court praying for an…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has granted political parties’ request for extension of deadline for the conduct of primaries by six days for the 2023 general elections. The notice to this effect is contained in a statement by Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner, and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, after its meeting with the leadership of political parties in Abuja, earlier on Friday. The commission recalled that the political parties at the meeting had again requested the Commission to review the timelines for primaries provided in the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the conduct of the 2023…
British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has been accused of changing the ministerial code to help “save his skin” ahead of a new Partygate inquiry that could publish more photos and subject him to a public grilling by MPs. The prime minister faced a barrage of criticism after he amended the rules on Friday to make clear that ministers will not always be expected to resign for breaching the code of conduct. Under new sanctions, they could apologise or temporarily lose their pay instead. Johnson also blocked his independent ethics chief, Christopher Geidt, from gaining the power to launch his own…
China’s years-long lending spree in poorer countries, particularly in Africa, poses a “serious danger” that could plunge the world into the next financial crisis, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned Friday. “There is a really serious danger that the next major debt crisis in the global south will stem from loans that China has granted worldwide and doesn’t have a full overview of because there are so many players involved,” Scholz said. “That would then plunge both China and the global south into a major economic and financial crisis and, incidentally, would not leave the rest of the world unaffected, to…
By Fadhlillah Abdallah The Senate Majority leader, Senator Abdullahi Yahaya at the just concluded All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election in Kebbi state, polled zero vote and lost to the National President of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) and Deputy Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Dr Nasir Idris. Of the total of 1,090 delegates that caste their votes, Idris polled 1,055 votes to defeat the first runner-up, Abubakar Gari Malam, who polled 35 votes and emerged the APC flag bearer. The chairman of Kebbi governorship primaries, who came from the APC National Headquarters, Abuja, Idris Yahuza Ya’akub declared…
By Justina Auta AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), an NGO, has urged government and stakeholders to provide adequate sanitary facilities and free menstrual products to promote menstrual hygiene in the country. The group’s Marketing Manager in Nigeria, Mr Steve Aborisade, made the call in a statement on Friday in Abuja, ahead of the 2022 Menstrual Hygiene Day (MH Day), annually celebrated on May 28 in many countries around the globe. Menstruation is the monthly shedding of the lining of a woman’s uterus, commonly known as the womb. Also known as menses, menstrual period, cycle or period, the menstrual blood, which is…