A former Chairman of Ikeduru local government area of Imo State, Brendan Oguine, has been assassinated by some gunmen. The late council boss was gruesomely murdered in his house on Saturday, January 18, 2014. A source in Owerri told Aproko247 that the gunmen requested for some documents from the deceased, who declined, and was subsequently…
RAUF Aregbesola, the Governor of Osun State, appears impervious to moderation in matters religious. His latest misadventure is to purchase a piece of land to build a church as part of his queer concept of “development.” But building a church, by whatever name, should not be the responsibility of a government in a secular or…
The Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima, has reduced the dusk-to-dawn curfew earlier imposed on Maiduguri, the state capital, in December 2013. In a statement issued on Tuesday in Maiduguri, by his Special Adviser on Media and Communications, Isa Gusau, the governor said that the curfew would now be observed between 9pm and 6am daily. “Gov…
Aproko247 has confirmed the death of a veteran Nigerian actor. The deceased, Chief Francis Daramola, was known in the Yoruba theatre and film industry as Egbeji. Late Daramola was the husband of late Ramota Daramola, the first popular Orisabunmi in the Yoruba movie industry. The late veteran actor was famous for his role in ‘Iku…
Striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, will get the sum of N20.4 billion from the Federal Government as salary arrears in the new CONTISS salary structure. This was approved by the FG after the union met with the government on Tuesday in Abuja. The Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, who…
Some gunmen believed to be members of the insurgents called Boko Haram have killed a primary school headmaster in Wulgo village in Borno State. The head teacher was reportedly shot dead by the invaders on Monday night, injuring his house mate, who’s a cook in another school. Wulgo is a border village with the Chad.…
Following his inability to work towards the implementation of the Federal Government programme in the power sector, the Managing Director of the National Rural Electrification Agency, NREA, Kenneth Achugbu, has been suspended from office. Achugbu was axed on Tuesday after the board of the agency ended a three-hour-meeting. His suspension was announced by the board…
A former commandant of the Swiss Guard, Elmar Maeder, has claimed that a ‘secret geiy society’ in the Vatican is threatening the security and safety of Pope Francis. Maeder told Swiss Weekly, Scweiz Am Sonntag, that due to the special bond and loyalty among hom0$exuals, they tend to show more solidarity to themselves than to…
Following public outcry over the torture of two women in Ejigbo, Lagos, by some suspected members of the Odua Peoples’ Congress, OPC, in February 2013, which became known to the public some months ago, the Inspector General of Police, MD Abubakar, “has ordered an immediate takeover of the case, suspect(s) and all exhibits related to…
President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed Bamanga Tukur as the Chairman of the Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC. The former National Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, was appointed on Tuesday by the President. Tukur was forced to resign as the PDP boss last week after the party suffered from series of crisis, which disintegrated and…