Chairman of the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission, KANSIEC, Sani Malumfashi, has disclosed that the Commission has concluded plans to successfully hold local government elections in the state on Saturday. Our reporter gathered that election materials are already in place for tomorrow’s polls in the state. Also, the Kano Police Command Commissioner, Aderenle Shinaba, told…
Former Governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, has described the bombing of his private residence in Owerri, the state capital, by some suspected bombers on Thursday, as unfortunate. Ohakim also advised politicians in Imo State not to resort to violence in playing the game of politics, urging further that the polity should not be overheated.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…