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…
The newly installed Olubadan of Ibadanland, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Saliu Olasupo Adetunji, Aje Ogungunniso 1, has vehemently kicked against the recent alleged attack on officials of the National Population Commission, NPC, by some thugs at the Ibadan North West LGA of Oyo State. Speaking on Monday after the monthly meeting of the Olubadan-in-Council held…
A Boko Haram leader in Borno State has been killed by the Nigerian military. It was learnt that troops of 22 Brigade Garrison carried out a clearing operation at Dalore camp on Sunday in which not less than 19 members of the Boko Haram terrorists group were feared dead. A statement on Monday by Colonel…
**Calls Critics “Stupid” **Jonathan Abused, Misused His Opportunity Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has slammed those criticising him for not accounting for the recovered loot of late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, describing them as stupid. Speaking in an interview over the weekend, OBJ, as he is fondly called, explained that it was not his…
Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, says it has issued 21 licences to investors to establish new refineries in Nigeria. The agency, in a statement at the weekend, disclosed that 25 private refinery licences were granted to companies with 21 in the Licence to Establish, LTE, category, while four are in the Approval to Construct, ATC,…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced the suspension of all the election in all constituencies in Rivers State held on Saturday, March 19, 2016. However, INEC clarified that the suspension does not affect constituencies where polls had been completed and the results declared by the returning officers. The electoral body, in a statement…
Governor Nyesom Wike has accused his opponent in the Rivers State governorship election in April 2015, Dakuku Peterside of killing an aide to his (Wike) Chief of Staff, Chukwuemeka Woke. Wike, while addressing journalist on Sunday, said Dakuku, who is the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, used his security…
….As he escapes assassination attempt Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dakuku Peterside, says the governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike is after his life. In a statement issued Sunday night by his Special Assistant on Media, Sylvester Asoya, the NIMASA boss said the attempt on his life “not only terrifying, but also…
Chief of Staff to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Chukwuemeka Woke, has been arrested by officials of the Department of State Security, DSS, in the state. Woke was apprehended on Sunday over an alleged assassination attempt on the life of Peterside Dakuku, the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, in…