Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and former secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, Tope Aluko, have finally settled their differences, a video received by Aproko247 suggests. It was learnt that the two politicians, who have recently been at loggerheads, met at a place in Lagos on Sunday. An aide…
Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu, has directed his men to commence a 24-hour surveillance of filling stations across the country. Muhammadu gave this order after he had a meeting with the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu at NNPC tower Abuja last week. He…
The Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit says it will enforce the Lagos State Road Traffic Laws of 2012 around all filling stations across state. This was disclosed on Sunday by Chairman of the agency, Olayinka Egbeyemi, during an exercise to clear traffic around petrol stations in some parts of the state. Egbeyemi…
The army officer implicated in the 2014 Ekiti State governorship election scandal, Brigadier General Aliyu Momoh, has been retired from service by authorities of the Nigerian Army. General Momoh had led a contingent of soldiers and other security agencies to Ekiti for the gubernatorial poll, in which the incumbent governor, Kayode Fayemi of the All…
Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Monday Igbuya, has joined in mourning the passing of Shedrack Amagada, father of the member representing Isoko South Constituency 1, Hon Orezi Esievo. Amagada died on Monday, March 28, 2016. He was 80. The Speaker in a condolence message described Amagada as “a cherished character, widely admired…
According to reports, former Commissioner for Lands and Housing in Ondo State, Abbas Aidi, on Sunday slumped and died at a cyber cafe in the state capital, Akure. It was said that the man gave up the ghost after receiving an important letter that he had been expecting for a long time. However, it the…
Former governor of Ogun State, Olusegun Osoba, on Sunday made a return to the party he left almost two years ago. Osoba left the APC for the Social Democratic Party, SDP, when the state governor, Ibikunle Amosun failed to handover the party’s structure to him. The loggerheads between the two leaders of the ruling party…
**Apologises To LMC For Violent Conduct Proprietor of Ifeanyi Ubah FC, Ifeanyi Ubah, has apologised to the League Management Company, LMC, over his conduct at the end of a match between his club and Heartland FC of Owerri, Imo State. The oil and gas baron was caught on camera slapping goalkeeper of Heartland FC, Ebele…
Nigeria’s Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung, says he is not on the same page with president of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Amaju Pinnick, on the appointment of a foreign coach for the country’s senior national football team called the Super Eagles. Dalung, who spoke with journalists in Abuja, said Nigerian coaches should be given…
Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has reacted to controversies generated by his bill seeking to regulate religious activities in the state. The former Minister of FCT spoke with selected journalists in an interview recently, where spoke on the controversial proposed religious preaching bill, his face-off with trade unions, among others. How has it…