Day: January 24, 2014

Ondo Assembly Pardons Alleged Fetish Member

The Ondo State House of Assembly has pardoned a female lawmaker, Fola Olasehinde-Vincent, suspended in 2013 for allegedly being in possession of some fetish substances. Addressing newsmen on Thursday in Akure, the state capital, the Deputy Speaker of the House, Dare Emiola, revealed that the Olasehinde-Vincent was recalled to the Assembly on December 31, 2013.…

CHAN: Eagles Get N165m Boost To Beat Morroco

The home based Super Eagles presently playing at the CHAN competition in South Africa will be $100,000 (N165 million) richer if the defeat Morocco on Saturday to qualify for the semi-final of the tourney. The National Sports Commission, NSC, Sports Minister, Bolaji Abdullahi, disclosed this in a statement. Abdullahi expressed optimism that the cash reward…

South Sudan Signs Truce Deal With Rebels

South Sudan’s government and rebels have signed a ceasefire deal that many hopes will put a pause to five weeks of fighting that has killed thousands of soldiers and civilians in the world’s newest country. The peace deal, signed in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday by representatives of President Salva Kiir and Riek…

NEMA Describes NSCDC Disaster Management Institute As Africa’s Best

Director General of National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Alhaji Muhammad Sani Sidi, has described the disaster management institute operated by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Katsina as the best in Africa. The Corps runs the Institute of Peace and Disaster Management, IPDM. The NEMA boss asserted that with the level of…

Our Daily Manna Publisher, Bishop Kwakpovwe, Escapes Assassination Attempt

  **Plots To Blackmail Him Thickens **Set For World Anointing Crusade The publisher of well known daily devotional booklet, Our Daily Manna, ODM, Bishop (Dr) Chris Kwakpovwe, penultimate Friday, escaped an assassination attempt when some gunmen stormed his church auditorium during a vigil. It was gathered by Aproko247 that the suspects, numbering about five, damaged…

APC Moves To Crash Jonathan’s Govt

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has taken a new step to bring down the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. At the end of a meeting of its interim National Executive Council, NEC, held in Abuja on Thursday, the opposition party ordered its members at the National Assembly to henceforth snub all executive bills, including the…

2015: SSS Invites El-Rufai To Clarify Comment

The State Security Service, SSS, has summoned former FCT Minister, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, to its headquarters in Abuja to clarify a statement attributed to him on Thursday in two national newspapers; ThisDay and Punch. The security outfit asked El-Rufai, who is the Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to appear before it…