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…
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…
***Retains Pump Price Payment of subsidy on premium motor spirit, PMS, also known as petrol has been returned by the Federal Government. It was gathered that the FG on Saturday recommenced the payment of subsidy on fuel, which was earlier stopped in January 2016. Aproko247 learnt the commodity is subsidised by N5.84 per litre consumed…
The Nigerian Army has reacted to what it called “a deliberate and calculated campaign of calumny aimed at misleading the public and cause disaffection among troops” being promoted on social media by a group called ‘Eastern Radio’. In a statement issued on Sunday by Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, the army…
By Nwaorgu Faustinus The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State said after a careful study of the facts on ground, it has come out to declare that what took place in the State on March 19 was not the expected rerun State and National Assembly elections but the mere allocation of votes to the…
The Department of Petroleum Resources has sealed off four filling stations in Akwa Ibom State for selling premium motor spirit (PMS) above the federal government approved price of N86.50. DPR has also fined Jobina filling station located in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital the sum of N1 million for selling petroleum product after DPR…
The Katsina State field office of Department for Petroleum Resources, DPR, on Friday disclosed that about 450,000 litres of fuel supplied to the state were diverted insisting that diversion of the product remained the major challenge. Addressing newsmen during the routine monitoring exercise, the DPR operations controller for Katsina Field Office, Mohammed Aminu Sani said…
The Nigerian Army says troops of 155 Task Force Battalion, 21 Brigade, Nigerian Army on Thursday, March 31, 2016, during clearance operations, gunned down nine suspected members of Boko Haram sect in Wulwuta village in Bama local government area of Borno State. A statement issued Saturday by Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday had talks with Nigerians who have distinguished themselves in various professions in the United States of America, USA. The President, at a meeting with them in Washington DC, promised to move Nigeria forward as quickly as possible. Buhari further disclosed to them that his administration is fully committed to correcting…