*Gets Olympic Sports Personality Award Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has said the country needs to look towards having a long term planning system for the development of sports. Uduaghan made this observation while declaring the Annual General Meeting of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, open in Asaba, Delta State capital, on Thursday. The…
Aproko247 has learnt that pandemonium has been let loose in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, as some police officers and suspected thugs of the All Progressives Congress, APC, engaged in a free-for-all. It was reliably gathered that some members of the party had converged at the Abiola Ajimobi Vocational Centre in Oke Ado, Ibadan for…
Members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, in Rivers State staged a protest on Friday morning, demanding for the payment of their allowances. The aggrieved Corpers, at the orientation camp in Nonwa Gbam Tai area of the state, claimed the government has refused to pay them their allowances. The protesting Corps members barricaded the…
A military helicopter belonging to the Nigerian Air Force has crashed in Yola, Adamawa State, reports reaching us say. This is the third jet belonging to the Nigerian Air Force that have crashed within a month. The latest crash occurred in Damare, near the Federal University of Technology in Yola. Aproko247 is yet to get…
A Supreme Court judgement delivered by Justice Sylvester Ngwuta has removed the acting governor of Taraba State, Garba Umar, from office. The court order the immediate swearing-in of a former deputy governor of the state, Abubakar Danladi, as the new acting governor. Danladi contested the governorship election as running mate to ailing Dantata Suntai, who…
Niger State governor, Babaginda Aliyu, has noted that Abdullahi Degechi Usman Cheche, a members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, from the state in the House of Representatives will be disciplined for his alleged attack on Senate President, David Mark, on Thursday inside the green chamber. Mark had gone to the lower chamber to have…
Following the removal of Adewale Omirin as Speaker of Ekiti House of Assembly by few members of the Assembly on Thursday, the Police and Department of State Security have withdrawn their personnel from the security teams of the embattled Speaker. Seven members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, out of the 26 members of the…
An initiative to raise close to N7 billion to fund the campaign of Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential ambition has started. The amount is to be raised from an estimated 70 million party supporters and admirers. They will be expected to donate a minimum amount of N100 each towards the actualisation of the dream. Buhari is a…
45 Killed In Fresh Boko Haram Attack In Borno No fewer than 45 souls were lost in a new attack on a Borno village on Wednesday. Suspected members of Boko Haram struck the village in the state. The insurgents invaded Azaya Kura community at about 12 noon on Wednesday, reports said. Azaya Kura village is…
Senate President, David Mark, on Thursday, announced the closure of the National Assembly with immediate effect. This followed the crisis that broke out at the Assembly on Thursday morning when the Speaker of House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, and some other lawmakers were denied access into the Assembly complex. Mark is the Chairman of the…