In a bid to bring sanity into blogging in Nigeria, a group of professionals in the business have floated the Nigeria Bloggers Union. According to a statement issued the Interim National Publicity Secretary of the group, Ayobami Ladipo, Publisher of Porsche Classy, the need to help build and coordinate the activities of bloggers across the…
There was pandemonium on Tuesday, November 10, 2015, in the hallowed chambers of the House of Representatives when two of its members exchanged resounding slaps. Crisis erupted between the lawmakers over the composition of the standing and special committees by the Speaker of House, Yakubu Dogara. It was gathered that Honourable Hermans Hembe and Aliyu…
Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, are presently holding a demonstration in Onitsha, Anambra State. According to what our correspondent gathered, the protesters are kicking against the detention of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu has been in the custody of the Nigerian authorities after he was arrested in Lagos few weeks ago. The…
Spokesman of the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, Opunabo Inko Tariah, has reportedly withdrawn his duties for his principal. Reports reaching us from Port Harcourt, the state capital, disclosed that Tariah, who worked with the governor as his Media and Publicity adviser, reportedly claimed his boss did not heed to some professional advice given to…
The Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has ordered an investigation over claims of torture by a Lagos-based journalist last Friday, which was published by Punch on Monday. Aproko247 reproduced the said report on Monday and from what we learnt, authorities of the Nigeria Police have contacted the journalist to apologise for the treatment meted…
A closed-door meeting was held between President Muhammadu Buhari and his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday afternoon. The consultation, which was held without any journalist present to cover it, was held at the Banquest Hall inside the Presidential Villa in Abuja. It was gathered that the meeting lasted about 10 minutes and both of them…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has charged its members and supporters to be on the alert and be ready to defend their votes in forthcoming elections, especially in the November 21 and December 5, 2015, governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states respectively. The party, in a statement issued on Monday by its National Publicity…
President Muhammadu Buhari, has promised not to hide the truth from citizens of the country, stating further that he will not “follow in the footsteps of the ousted PDP Administration and its discredited officials who shamelessly lied to Nigerians and the world about the buoyancy and vibrancy of an economy they had bled dry for…
According to a report by Punch, some men of the Nigeria Police recently made life frustrating for a journalist because he dared go to a club to have fun. It was said that policemen attached to the State Department of Criminal Investigation in the Yaba area of Lagos arrested on Femi Owolabi on Friday night…
National Publicity of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Lai Mohammed, has been described as too troublesome by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The country’s main opposition party said this in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja by its spokesman, Olisa Metuh. PDP further said Mohammed, who was recently confirmed as Minister by the Senate,…