Governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo state, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, was arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes, EFCC. Ize-Iyamu was apprehended on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, over allegations of financial impropriety. It was gathered that the man hoping to take over the Edo Government House from…
A prosecution witness, Wakili Dauda, in the ongoing trial of a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi, and six others, has told a Lagos State High Court how the agency paid him the sum of N96, 764, 689.00million( Nine-six Million Seven Hundred and Sixty-four Thousand Six Hundred and Eighty-Nine…
A former Minister of Mines and Steel, Arch. Musa Muhammad Sada, has told the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, his involvement in the alleged N23.29bn poll bribery scandal. Sada is one of the former ministers in the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan who are being investigated by the anti-graft agency. During investigation, Sada…
The EFCC, on Wednesday, May 11, 2016, arraigned the duo of Air Vice Marshal Saliu Atawodi (rtd), a former chairman, Presidential Implementation Committee on Maritime Safety, PICOMSS, one Rabiu Hassan and his company, Hypertech Nigeria Limited, before Justice U. P. Kekemeke of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, on a three-…
An ex-Chief of Air Staff is presently battling with an alleged fraud to the tune of N9.7 billion. He is trying hard to clear his name of the fraud accusation. Aproko247 gathered that the suspect, Air Marshal Mohammed Dikko Umar (rtd), was brought before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja…
The pump price of Premium Motor Spirit commonly called petrol has now been increased from the official N86 per litre. The product will henceforth now go for N145 per litre, Aproko247 has learnt. This is because the Federal Government has finally put an end to the fuel subsidy regime. It would be recalled that last…
Delta State House of Assembly Speaker, Monday Igbuya on Tuesday described the elected chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Delta State Chapter as “a man of huge ability and a politician of conviction and integrity.” Speaking with journalists after the party’s congress in Asaba, Igbuya praised Barrister Kingsley Esiso for his “intelligence, hard work,…
Many Niger Delta militants were killed on Tuesday during an exchange of gunfire with soldiers in Bayelsa state, spokesman of Operation Pulo Shield, the joint force in the region, Isa Ado, has disclosed. Ado stated that a combined team of suspected militants and sea pirates, attacked his men in Foropa, a community in Southern Ijaw…
The state congresses of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, held in Ekiti, Ogun and Anambra all ended in confusion on Tuesday. In Ogun, three chairmen emerged from the Kashamu Buruji, Ladi Adebutu and Dimeji Bankole factions. While the Kashamu-led group held its congress at the party secretariat, the Adebutu group held theirs inside the amphitheatre…
Niger Delta militants have vowed to go on with their attacks on oil facilities in their region despite an order by President Muhammadu Buhari to the military to clamp down on the new faceless Avengers’ group. On Tuesday, the Niger Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, declared that the bombing of pipelines in the Niger Delta would…