Month: April 2014

Nigeria’s ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has slammed the country’s main opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the massive incidences of violence recorded during its ward congresses across the country over the weekend. In a statement signed on Monday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, the PDP described the…

Plateau APC Holds Ward Congresses Tuesday

The Plateau State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has shelved its ward congresses to Tuesday. This information was disclosed in Jos on Monday by a senior party official in the state. The ward congress was earlier scheduled for Saturday, but could not hold due to late arrival of materials and officials of the…

Appeal Court Sacks Kogi Minority Leader

Justice Amiru Sanusi of an Appeal Court sitting in Abuja has sacked the Minority Leader of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Solomon Afolabi Oluyori. The judge upturned an earlier judgement delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Lokoja, Kogi State. The lawmaker was dragged to court by one Yakubu Kayode,…

A commercial $ex worker has reportedly murd@red a middle aged man in Asaba, the Delta State capital. The ugly incident took place on Saturday morning at Jarret area of the state capital. It was gathered by Aproko247 that the woman allegedly st@bbed the deceased, a farmer by profession, with a sharp object during an argument.…

No fewer than 45 drug suspects have been apprehended by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in Gombe State. The alleged criminals were arrested by the agency between January and March 2014. The Gombe State Commander of the NDLEA, Aliyu Adole, disclosed last Friday that his men also seized 20kg of cannabis from the suspects…

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has approved the immediate employment of 5000 teachers into public secondary schools in the state. The governor disclosed this last Thursday during a courtesy visit to his office in Uyo by the National President of Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Michael Alogbe Olukoya. Akpabio emphasised that this gesture…