Democracy
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Lord Mann, an independent peer who advises the government on antisemitism, has said political leaders need to “train up” parliamentary candidates on how antisemitism manifests in the UK. He says: “My advice to the Labour Party, what I think they should do immediately, is get all their candidates trained up on antisemitism… and explain in…
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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., sharply scolded the Senate for abandoning border security provisions after it passed a $95 billion foreign aid bill Tuesday. In a statement posted after a 70-29 vote following an all-night session — with 22 Republicans joining all but three members of the Democrat caucus — Manchin demanded action on the border. “While I’m pleased the Senate came…
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Stakeholders have described as disturbing the recent withdrawal of Mali, Niger Republic and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, saying it raises serious concerns about Nigeria’s security. The development comes amid alleged infiltration and inferences from Western powers, especially the United States of America, USA, and Russia, with a huge…
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A Russian-British dissident who apparently vanished from the Siberian penal colony where he was being held has been transferred to another site in region, according to a report. Vladimir Kara-Murza had been in solitary confinement in a maximum-security penal colony in Omsk for the past four months, but his wife said yesterday that he had…
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Local vigilante operatives attached to Anambra State Commissioner for Homeland Security, Hon Chikodi Anarah, have brutalized a commercial tricycle (Keke) operator in Awka. Colleagues of the victim, who protested in Awka, said the tricyclist was beaten mercilessly. According to them, the windshield of his Keke was shattered by the security operatives, who also punctured the…
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The announcement yesterday that Russia’s presidential election would take place on 17 March next year has prompted a flurry of activity among opposition figures. Perhaps the most prominent is jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, whose group, The Anti-Corruption Foundation, have placed billboards in Russian cities with QR codes leading to the website of their campaign.…
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Good morning from MEZIESBLOG! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Former Minister for Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Chief Nduese Essien, on Sunday, asked former President Olusegun Obasanjo not to blame Western democracy for Nigeria’s leadership woe. Speaking in Uyo, Akwa Ibom capital, Essien said the seeming failure is because democracy is not practised…
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The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State has rejected the Appeal Court judgment on the state’s governorship election. The party said it would challenge the judgement at the apex court. The APC said in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Barrister Valentine Onojeghuo that it was confident that the mandate given to it by…
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The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Umar Damagum, has alleged that a cabal in the Presidency was planning to overthrow the democratic rights of Nigerians. Damagum, who spoke at a media briefing at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Thursday, said the cabal was determined to overturn the will of Nigerians…
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The Osun State Government has sacked the state’s Chief Judge, CJ, Justice Adepele Ojo. In her place, Justice Olayinka David Afolabi was appointed as the Acting Chief Judge. This was disclosed in a statement by Governor Ademola Adeleke’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, on Thursday. According to the statement, the appointment of Justice Afolabi as Acting CJ…
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After days of tense debate and protests, Spain’s parliament on Thursday re-elected Pedro Sanchez as prime minister, allowing him to form a functioning government. The Socialist politician will head a progressive coalition government alongside the leftist Sumar party, a partnership that has led Spain since January 2020. Of the 350 members of Spain’s parliament, 179…
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A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Dele Momodu has reacted to the crisis in the Rivers State House of Assembly. Recall that political developments in the state took a dangerous turn on Monday morning with the sack of Edison Ehie, the majority leader of the State House of Assembly and the commencement of impeachment proceedings against Governor Siminilayi…
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The owner of London Line Automobile Workshop, Emmanuel Viashima on Monday, withdrew a suit he filed against the Benue Government over infringement of his fundamental rights to acquire and own a movable property. Viashima had dragged the State Government and four others to court seeking the enforcement of his fundamental rights pursuant to Order 1…
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The spokesperson of the Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign council, Kenneth Okonkwo has submitted that the verdict of the Supreme Court on the 2023 presidential election, only gave the government of President Bola Tinubu constitutionality and not democracy. According to him, democracy derives its powers from the people but in the case of the Tinubu presidency, it…
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• Fear rises over selloff of assets linked to African countries• Protecting democracy in Africa paramount priority, Canadian PM tells Tinubu• Tinubu: Rule of law, electoral dispute resolution must not perish in Africa• Gabon coup underscores slippery France’s influence in African – Expert• ECOWAS urged to initiate new economic roadmap on poverty, insecurity, youth unemployment…
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