Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has asked the Federal Government and the National Assembly to put an end to emergency rule imposed on three states in the northern part of Nigeria. ACF, a pan-northern socio-political organisation, said the state of emergency imposed on Adamawa, Borno and Yobe by the FG in May 2013, should not be…
Year: 2014
Elechi Swears-In 2 Commissioners
Two new Commissioners have been sworn-in by the governor of Ebonyi State, Martin Elechi. At a ceremony held on Friday in Abakaliki, the state capital, the governor charged the new Commissioners to diligently serve the state. Elechi sworn-in David Egbu and Mrs Mary-Joy Umoke as Commissioners for Environment and Women Affairs Social Development respectively. The…
All Nigerian Stations To Show FIFA World Cup Matches
The Broadcasting Organization of Nigeria, BON, has said that all stations under the organisation are free to show the FIFA World Cup matches without any restriction. Executive Secretary of BON, Olusegun Olaleye, told NAN that all Nigerian television stations wishing to air the 64 matches are free to do so. He, however, noted that Optima…
Call Amaechi To Order–Rivers PDP Begs Monarch
Paramount ruler of Rumueme kingdom, His Highness, Nyeweli Omunakwe Nsirim, has been urged to call Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State to order. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state made the passionate appeal to the monarch on allegation that the governor was using the state resources to pursue his personal agenda. Speaking on…
PDP Suggests Abdication Of Oba Of Lagos
Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the reported public endorsement of Akinwunmi Ambode as the befitting next governor of the state by Rilwan Akiolu, the Oba of Lagos, as “undemocratic”. The party, in a statement signed on Thursday by its Publicity Secretary, Taofik Gani, said the monarch’s action is an…
Oba Of Lagos Publicly Endorses Akin Ambode As Next Gov
The Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, has disclosed that elders in the state, including him, have thrown their full weights behind Akin Ambode to become the next governor of the state in 2015. The respected monarch, speaking on Thursday at a public presentation of a book on Ambode, held at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island,…
Jonathan Cancels Visit to Chibok, Heads To France
President Goodluck Jonathan will no longer be visiting Chibok town in Borno State, where over 200 girls were kidnapped in a secondary school in the town more than a month ago by Boko Haram members, Aproko247 has learnt. This news may come as a surprise to many Nigerians and the international communities as well because…
Gunmen Set 2 Bauchi Schools Ablaze
Two schools were burnt on Wednesday night in Bauchi, a state in the northern part of Nigeria where some insurgents have kicked against Western education. A terrorist group in the north called Boko Haram, which literally means ‘Western education is a taboo’, has continued to attack schools in the region, the Chibok school in Borno…
First Bank To Refund N4.5m Fraudulently Withdrawn From Customer's Acct
Several times, customers of banks in Nigeria have bitterly complained of how their hard-earned money are being fraudulently withdrawn from their accounts by custodians of their funds. Accounts of deceased customers are also not spared by these financial institutions as they even prefer their nefarious activities on this set of customers, knowing that it takes…
Femi Otedola To Shut Down Lagos For Dad's May 30 Burial
Nigerian billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, according to information relayed to Aproko247 by a perching bird, is doing everything within his power to throw a superlative burial ceremony for his late father, Sir Michael Otedola, who once ruled Lagos State as governor. On Tuesday, May 6, 2014, the former governor breathed his last at the age…