Partner of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa, WBFA, PharmAccess Foundation, has been commended for the 2016 Financial Times/International Finance Corporation Transformational Business Award for Achievement in Sustainable Development: Maternal & Infant Health. PharmAccess Foundation works in a public-private partnership with the Kwara State Health Insurance Program; the private insurer, Hygeia Community Health Care; and the Health…
Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, has instructed her lawyers to file a suit against the governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose. Last month, the governor claimed Aisha Buhari was the person implicated in the Halliburton corruption scandal, but the President’s wife denied being the one. She thereafter demanded an apology from Fayose or be…
Former Deputy Speaker of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Sace A Dumba, was on Wednesday grilled by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Aproko247 gathered that the former deputy Speaker was questioned at the Gombe zonal office of the Commission over his alleged role in the sharing of N500 million to…
An alleged supplier of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, to the terrorists group called Boko Haram has been apprehended by operatives of the Quick Reinforcement Force, QRF, of 251 Battalion, 7 Div Gar on routine checks. The gallant soldiers stopped a truck loaded with 25 jerry cans of petrol and other goods cleverly covered and concealed…
Speaker of the Zamfara State House of Assembly, Sanusi Garba Rikiji, has been arrested by officials of the Department of State Service, DSS, in the state. Also apprehended by the secret police were the deputy speaker of the Assembly, Muhammad Abubakar Gumi; the majority leader, Isah Abdulmumini and the chief whip, Abdullahi Dansadau. It was…
The Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, recently inspected some project being carried out by his administration in the state. Aregbesola, according to information made available to us, was at the East Bypass road to see the progress of the on-going construction there. He also visited the site of the construction of the Osogbo High School.…
Some students of the Niger Delta University students recently took to the streets to demonstrate the closure of their school. Students of the institution in Bayelsa State blocked some roads in their area to kick against the strike embark upon by their lecturers. Lecturers of the school stayed away from work after government failed to…
Reports reaching us indicate that a tanker loaded with Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise known as petrol, has been gutted by fire. According to an official of the FRSC, who made this known, the tanker burst into flames in the process of trans-loading into another tanker at the Ogere, Ogun State end of the Lagos-Ibadan…
A suspected supplier of logistics to the Niger Delta Avengers’ militant group has been apprehended, the Nigerian Navy has claimed. The suspect, according to a statement signed the Navy’s Director of Information, Commodore Christian Ezekobe, was apprehended on July 11, 2016, at about 11am. In the statement made available to newsmen in Abuja, it was…
A new Commandant for the Nigeria Army School of Infantry, NASI, has been appointed. It was disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari approved Brig Gen A. O. Folorunsho for the position. He is to take over affairs of the military school.