Showing posts with label Opposition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Opposition. Show all posts
Monday, June 30, 2014
Video: Founder of Boko Haram is a member of the opposition - FFK
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Saturday, February 22, 2014
'On Sanusi, the Opposition and Fifth Columnists' - By Reno Omokri
Article written by Reno Omokri, Special Assistant to President Jonathan on New Media. Find below
The recent suspension of the erstwhile Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria has ignited a debate on Social Media and as has become typical with many pundits, the discourse has been dominated by sentiments rather than facts.
As Sanusi has indicated that he will be challenging his suspension in court, I will not make this piece about him and recent events surrounding him. Yes, I will cite some examples of double standards as regards the approach taken by some analysts, but in my view, the matter is now best left to the courts.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Ukraine's president & opposition agree to truce
Opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk stated that the truce has been reached during negotiations between Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and the opposition. It was decided to begin negotiations for the stabilization, according to the Batkivshchyna press office.
"There is positive news, the assault and clearance of the Independence Square that was planned before is cancelled. Now the truce and the beginning of the negotiation process in order to stabilize the situation has begun," said Yatsenyuk.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
LIVE UPDATES: Kiev fierce clashes: govt and opposition talks fail, new wave of unrest in Ukraine.
Twenty-five
people have been killed in clashes between rioters and police in Kiev
by 6 am local time on Wednesday, the Ukrainian press office said.
"Twenty-five people have died: eight of them after hospitalization in
city healthcare institutions, four at an Interior Ministry hospital, 13
dead were delivered to the Kiev city clinical bureau of forensic
medicine," a spokesperson said. A total of 351 people who were injured
during clashes in the city center sought medical assistance, according
to Kiev paramedic brigades and healthcare institutions.
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"Border guards have been trying to divert transport vehicles to other checkpoints," the spokesperson said.
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Ukraine's opposition asks for truce till morning
Opposition leader Arseny Yatsenyuk asked Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich for a truce till morning.
The leader of the Ukrainian Batkivshchyna (Fatherland)
opposition party, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, has asked President Viktor
Yanukovich for a truce until morning.
Yatsenyuk appealed to Yanukovich while speaking from a stage on Maidan amid a standoff between armed protesters and police.
Thursday, August 8, 2013
GBAM: Any party that fields Jonathan’ll lose —APC **Opposition confused, desperate power mongers, says PDP
The All Progressives Congress on Wednesday continued its war of words with the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party over the suitability of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan for the presidential election.
Any party that fields Jonathan’ll lose —APC **Opposition confused, desperate power mongers, says PDP
While the APC believes that fielding Jonathan as a candidate would be suicidal for any party, the Presidency and the PDP argued that he remains the best to contest and win a presidential poll in the country at present.
The latest war of attrition was spurred by Tuesday’s invitation to the President by the APC Interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, to join the newly formed political party if he was fed up with the crises in the PDP.
Akande had said, “We (the APC) don’t even close our door to the PDP. If Jonathan is tired of the crises in the PDP, he is welcome in the APC.”
The Presidency however reacted immediately to the invitation, saying it was an acknowledgment by the APC of Jonathan’s sterling leadership qualities.
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
22 million sign anti-Morsi petition - Egypt opposition
More than 22 million people have signed a petition in Egypt demanding the departure of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi and a snap election, the opposition Tamarod (Arabic for rebellion) group said on Saturday.
"Our petition has gathered 22,134,465 signatures," Tamarod spokesman Mahmud Badr told journalists on the eve of Sunday's first anniversary of Morsi's inauguration when it has called for nationwide protests.
This figure is higher than the number of people who voted for Morsi in last year's presidential election -- 13.23 million, or 51.7 percent of the ballots cast.
Previously, Tamarod said 15 million people in Egypt had signed the petition demanding that the president step aside.
Friday, June 28, 2013
Lawlessness: Provision of weapons to Syrian opposition by West contradicts Geneva 2 policies - Lavrov
The Western activities aimed at providing weapons to the Syrian opposition means that the West supports opposition activists' condition that the balance of power should be restored in the world before Geneva 2 is held.
"The activities aimed at providing weapons to the opposition, which have recently intensified, only means that the precondition [set by the opposition to restore the balance of power on the battle ground] is supported by the West and other countries which are going to supply such weapons, this contradicting the very concept of the conference, which is to begin without any preconditions," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a press conference following his negotiations with his Moroccan counterpart.
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"The activities aimed at providing weapons to the opposition, which have recently intensified, only means that the precondition [set by the opposition to restore the balance of power on the battle ground] is supported by the West and other countries which are going to supply such weapons, this contradicting the very concept of the conference, which is to begin without any preconditions," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a press conference following his negotiations with his Moroccan counterpart.
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Thursday, May 30, 2013
Full Update: Delivery of S-300 hampers Syrian opposition’s victory
The delivery of S-300 air defence systems to Syria will make the opposition’s victory more shadowy, editor-in-chief of the “Voenno-Promyshlenny Kurer” magazine Mikhail Khodarenok said in an interview with the Voice of Russia. According to him, even a supply of weapons to militants by the European Union will not help them.
It will be impossible to defeat the Bashar al-Assad regime without air support.
According to the expert, the supply of S-300 air defence systems under a contract signed earlier will cool those who demand for establishing a no-fly zone over Syria.
The expert believes that the supply of air defence systems to Syria is an obstacle for foreign interference in the Syrian conflict.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Opposition misinforming Nigerians on Jonathan’s performance – FG
The Federal Government has accused opposition parties of deliberately misinforming Nigerians about the performance of President Goodluck Jonathan.
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, who made the allegation on Tuesday, however said Jonathan was determined to pursue and actualise his administration’s transformation agenda in spite of the tendency of the opposition to feed the public with wrong information.
Anyim said this in an address he sent to the opening of a one-day workshop on Effective Information Management and Public Communication as a Key Component of the Transformation Agenda.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Bombs explode in northeastern Nigeria city during meeting of political opposition parties
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Witnesses say several bombs have exploded in a northeastern Nigeria city which is hosting a meeting of opposition political parties. The blasts happened Thursday afternoon in the city of Maiduguri, long under assault by a radical Islamic sect known as Boko Haram. A security official said he believed some soldiers were killed in the blasts, but did not have any other information. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to journalists. The All Progressives Congress, a recently announced amalgam of opposition parties in Nigeria, was holding a meeting Thursday in the city that had drawn powerful politicians. Meanwhile, police in the eastern state of Taraba said foreigners working for a construction company escaped a kidnapping attempt Wednesday night that killed two police officers.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Opposition: We Demand Real Democracy and an End to Tyranny/ Where is The Media?
The Western media isn't covering Bahrain or Egypt. Just checked CNN, MSBC, FOX. They have the fight in Syria and the Pope retiring. Also, they are not covering the wars in Libya, Algeria, Mali, or the drone bombing in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.
Protesters Flood Streets for Real Democracy in Bahrain
The supreme organizing committee for today's massive march announced that huge numbers of people participated in the massive pro-democracy march "Call of the Homeland", refusing decades of dictatorship and tyranny. The supreme committee estimates the total number of today's protesters with more than 280,000 Bahraini citizens.
All religious, political and different ethnics took part in today's huge march over its route of four kilometers long; which started from Shakhoora Roundabout to Duraz Roundabout, at the west of the Bahraini capital, Manama.
Protesters raised many banners with pro-democracy and counter dictatorship slogans, demanding a serious democratic transition in Bahrain.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
PDP crisis: Obasanjo’s men may back opposition in 2015
Culled From Punch Nigeria
The crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party is set to take a turn for the worse as party stalwarts loyal to former President Olusegun Obasanjo have decided to have a showdown with the supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan.
The latest development follows the party’s decision to sack senior party officials known to be loyal to the former President from its National Working Committee.
Investigations showed that the removal, announced on Friday, shocked the former President and his group.
The leadership of the PDP had on Friday sacked loyalists of Obasanjo in the National Working Committee. The Bamangar Tukur-led leadership is known to be loyal to President Jonathan.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
2015: Opposition Coalition Floats New Party, All Progressive Congress (APC)
The Four major opposition political parties, ACN, CPC, ANPP and APGA after a meeting in Abuja some few hours ago, announced the emergence of a new political party - the All Progressive Congress (APC).The chairman of ACN merger committee and the spokesman of the coalition told journalists that with the formation of the new party, the opposition parties would commence the processes of registering it with INEC.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Opposition as Reps move to abridge CBN autonomy
CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi| credits: File copy
Stakeholders in the financial sector, including a former Minister of Finance, Mr. Adamu Ciroma, and an ex-Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Chief Joseph Sanusi, on Monday, opposed the bid by the House of Representatives to tamper
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