Top officials of the Federal Government have been forbidden from flying first class whenever they are on official trips both within and outside the country. This, according to the FG, is to reduce the amount being spent on overhead expenditure. A statement issued on Wednesday night in Abuja by the Media Adviser to the Finance…
The trial of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, has been postponed to Monday, April 18, 2016. Chairman of the tribunal, Danladi Umar, was forced to adjourn sitting at the resumption of the trial on Wednesday due to power failure. There was a blackout on Wednesday while the proceedings…
One of the labour unions in Nigeria has concluded plans to hold a one-day protect over the lingering fuel scarcity and poor electricity supply in the country, especially the hike in the tariffs recently. The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, said the situations in the country are biting hard on the citizens and said the demonstration…
In preparation for its national convention, overall rebuilding and repositioning of the party for 2019, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has announced the inauguration of four committees. In a statement signed by National Organising Secretary, Abubakar Mustapha, the PDP said it will do everything possible to give the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, a run…
The government of Bayelsa State has disclosed that the remains of its former governor, Diepreye Solomon Alamieyeseigha, would be laid to rest on Saturday, April 9, 2016, at Amassoma. In a statement issued in Yenagoa, the state capital, activities lined up to give the respected late Ijaw leader a befitting burial were revealed. According to…
Troops of 152 Task Force Battalion in conjunction with troops of Sector 1 of Multinational Joint Task Force on Sunday, April 4, 2016, has rescued more than 270 persons held hostage by the Boko Haram terrorists, the Defence Headquarters has disclosed. One of the rescued persons gave birth to baby boy shortly after their liberation.…
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 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…
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…