Former Barcelona shot-stopper, Victor Valdes, has met with Manchester United coach, Louis van Gaal, over a possible move to the club. The Spanish goalkeeper hopes to team up with his countryman, David De Gea, who is United’s first choice goalkeeper. Valdes played about 535 games for Barca over a period of 12 years and failed…
Day: October 23, 2014
We Banned Hijab In Schools To Foster Unity–Ipaye
Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of Lagos State, Ade Ipaye, has explained that the decision to ban the use of veil worn by female Muslims in Lagos State public primary and secondary schools was to promote orderliness and peace in the state. Ipaye also commended the recent judgment of an Ikeja High Court to…
Ekiti PDP Publicity Secretary, Kola Oluwawole, Resigns
Aproko247 has confirmed that the Publicity Secretary of Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Kola Oluwawole, has resigned from office. Oluwawole resigned on Thursday to enable him take part in the Ekiti State House of Assembly election holding in February 2015, we learnt. A statement issued on Thursday by the Chief Press…
Gunmen Kidnap Diezani Madueke's Sister
Report just reaching us reveals that the younger sister of Nigeria’s Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke has been kidnapped. The lady, Osio Agama, was seized by some unknown gunmen in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Details of the abduction is still sketchy and Aproko247 cannot confirm yet if the kidnappers have established a contact with family of…
Court Sacks New NFF Board, FIFA May Ban Nigeria
Nigeria is again at the risk of being banned by FIFA as a court in Plateau State has nullified the elections held in Warri, Delta State, that produced Amaju Pinnick as President of the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, on September 30, 2014. On Thursday, Justice Ambrose Allagoa of a Federal High Court in Jos, Plateau…
Court Sacks New NFF Board, FIFA May Ban Nigeria
Nigeria is again at the risk of being banned by FIFA as a court in Plateau State has nullified the elections held in Warri, Delta State, that produced Amaju Pinnick as President of the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, on September 30, 2014. On Thursday, Justice Ambrose Allagoa of a Federal High Court in Jos, Plateau…
Court Sacks New NFF Board, FIFA May Ban Nigeria
Nigeria is again at the risk of being banned by FIFA as a court in Plateau State has nullified the elections held in Warri, Delta State, that produced Amaju Pinnick as President of the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, on September 30, 2014. On Thursday, Justice Ambrose Allagoa of a Federal High Court in Jos, Plateau…
Court Sacks New NFF Board, FIFA May Ban Nigeria
Nigeria is again at the risk of being banned by FIFA as a court in Plateau State has nullified the elections held in Warri, Delta State, that produced Amaju Pinnick as President of the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, on September 30, 2014. On Thursday, Justice Ambrose Allagoa of a Federal High Court in Jos, Plateau…
Court Sacks New NFF Board, FIFA May Ban Nigeria
Nigeria is again at the risk of being banned by FIFA as a court in Plateau State has nullified the elections held in Warri, Delta State, that produced Amaju Pinnick as President of the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, on September 30, 2014. On Thursday, Justice Ambrose Allagoa of a Federal High Court in Jos, Plateau…
Jonathan To Pick PDP Presidential Nomination Form
Following a directive by the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, to its members willing to contest in the 2015 general elections to get their nomination forms before deadline, President Goodluck Jonathan has finally informed his party leaders of his intention to buy the presidential nomination form of the party. Punch reports that the President told his…