National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has kicked against remarks made by Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, on the lingering petrol scarcity in the country. Kachikwu had said last week that Nigerians may have to bear the hardship for two more months because he was not a magician that can…
The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, has described the purported new video released by leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau as fake. In a statement issued on Thursday, the DHQ urged Nigerians not to believe the video clips because it “could be another ploy or antics of the terrorists to keep our innocent citizen off their current…
In furtherance of efforts to make the North East safe and secure from the nefarious and criminal activities of the remnants of Boko Haram terrorists, troops of newly inducted 3 Battalion, 22 Brigade, in conjunction with Army Headquarters Strike Group (AHQ SG) and the Armed Forces Special Forces (AFSF), carried out a spectacular clearance…
No fewer than 180 persons held hostage by the Boko Haram terrorists group have been rescued alive by the Nigerian Army, Aproko247 has learnt. A statement by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman disclosed on Thursday that the hostages were freed from the insurgents’ den during military operations. This is in…
Caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senators in the present National Assembly have called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to immediately release the outstanding results in the Rivers State re-run elections particularly results that were collated from polling units, wards, Local Government Areas in their possession. This was part of the resolutions…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has assured Nigerians that the lingering petrol scarcity would soon be a thing of the past. The Corporation made this assurance via a statement released on its verified Twitter and Facebook pages on Thursday morning. NNPC said it is working tirelessly to take the queues off the petrol stations…
Nigerians may have to suffer a little bit longer if comments by the Federal Government on the lingering fuel scarcity are anything to take serious. This is because the government has categorically emphasised that Nigerians may continue in the anguish of petrol dearth at least for the next two months. Minister of State for Petroleum,…
More than 70 outdoor advertising companies contracted to handle the Ambode/Buhari campaign billboards in Lagos are still waiting to get paid their dues from the All Progressives Congress, APC, with practitioners revealing that they are enduring a choking debt burden. “The companies that ensured that Buhari and Ambode billboards took over 95% of the available…
The Nigerian Senate has eventually approved the 2016 budget after several weeks of postponement, Aproko247 has confirmed. The 2016 Appropriation Bill was passed on Wednesday by the lawmakers of the upper chamber of the National Assembly. Reports of the N6.07 trillion budget was supposed to be deliberated on yesterday by the Senate but it was…
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday adjourned till Wednesday deliberations on report of the 2016 Appropriations Bill presented today on the floor of the Senate by Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senator Danjuma Goje. The red chamber of the National Assembly majorly postponed the plenary to honour late Hon Musa Baba Onwana of Nasarawa/Toto…