President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki on Sunday urged Muslim faithful across the country to use the period of this year’s Ramadan to pray for peace, security and God’s intervention in tackling the myriad socio–economic challenges confronting the nation. In a statement to mark the commencement of this year’s Ramadan fasting season signed by his…
A foremost Igbo umbrella of religious leaders, the General Assembly of all Igbo Christian Organizations and Ministers, GAAICOM, has appealed to all “Igbo Hebrews to return home to observe what it called a ‘3 Day Walk into the Presence of God’. According to the group in a statement made available to Aproko247, the 3-day exercise…
President Muhammadu Buhari has described as sad and regrettable the developments that led to the killing of Mrs Bridget Agbahime, an Igbo market woman in Kano by some Muslim extremists for alleged blasphemy against Prophet Mohammed. Buhari, in a statement issued by one of his spokesmen, Femi Adesina, condoled with the husband of the deceased,…
Benin Electricity Distribution Plc. (BEDC) has attributed the degenerating level of electricity supply to its customers in its operational areas of Edo, Delta, Ondo and Ekiti States to low power generation received from the national grid occasioned by gas shortage due to pipeline vandalism. This was disclosed last Friday by the company’s chief head, Edo…
According to Premium Times, President Muhammadu Buhari has fallen ill and this is why he has not been able to make his local trips lately. The President was supposed to be in Lagos some days ago, but he cancelled it at the late hour. Last Thursday, he was also scheduled to flag off the Ogoni…
The Federal Government has released an interim report on the assets and funds recovered from looters since the inception of the present President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. In a statement issued on Saturday in Lagos by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, the FG explained that it made “cash recoveries totalling N78,325,354,631.82 (Seventy eight…
Bukola Saraki Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has reacted to the recent beheading of a Christian woman in Kano by some Islamic fundamentalists. Few days ago, some youths in Kano killed a woman and cut off her head, parading it on the streets of the ancient city. The victim was alleged to have blasphemed Prophet Mohammed,…
Justice B. T. Ebuta of the High Court of Justice in Cross River State has been disciplined by the National Judicial Council, NJC. Justice Ebuta’s suspension was announced on Friday in a statement signed by the Acting Director of Information at the NJC, Soji Oye. He was asked to remain at home pending when the…
Financial institutions in Nigeria have been ordered to put a halt to the mass retrenchment exercise embarked upon by some of them lately. A statement issued on Friday by Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, disclosed that this decision is coming due to issues in the industry. “Following spate of petitions and complaints from…
Immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday night had a closed-door with President Muhammadu Buhari. The meeting took place at the Presidential Villa, but details of it were not disclosed at anxious State House Correspondents. However, there are speculations that both men discussed the renewed attacks in the Niger Delta region by the Niger Delta…