The Deputy Governor of Borno State, Zannah Umar Mustapha, has died, Aproko247 has learnt. Mustapha was said to have passed on in Yola in his sleep in the early hours of Saturday, August 15, 2015. He was reportedly sleeping inside a guest room in the Government House in Adamawa, where he had gone to represent…
The immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, has been named as the new Pro Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of the Plateau State University. His appointment was announced on Friday by the Plateau State Government via a statement issued in Jos, the state capital, by the…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State has expelled its Secretary, Dr Tope Aluko and three other members of the State Working Committee over alleged anti-party activities. In a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti by the State Chairman, Idowu Faleye and the outgoing Organising Secretary, Lateef Agbaje, the SEC affirmed its support and recognition of…
The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, has been suspended by the Anambra State chapter of the party. Metuh was asked to stay away from the party’s activities over his alleged involvement in a fraud related issue. A statement signed by the Publicity Secretary Kenneth Arinze and Victor Osy Ezenwa,…
A minor trouble was recorded at the burial ceremony for the late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade, on Friday in Ile-Ife, Osun State. Trouble started when protocol officers attached to the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, clashed with organisers of the Inter-Religious Farewell Service in honour of the late first class monarch over allocation of…
Admits paying N78m for website Former governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, has reacted to allegations levelled against him by a civil organisation that he looted Lagos State funds while in office. He also reacted to the paternity mess he was accused of shortly after he left office. In a statement he issued on the…
President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the newly decorated Service Chiefs to ensure the terrorist group called Boko Haram is defeated within three months. The President decorated the military officers on Thursday in Abuja and challenged them to crush the insurgents. The Senate confirmed the appointment of General Abayomi Gabriel Olonishakin, Chief of Defence Staff; Lieutenant…
President Muhammadu Buhari has terminated the appointment of the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Sanusi Ado Bayero, who was appointed by the immediate past president, Goodluck Jonathan, in April 2015. Bayero was removed from office by the President on Thursday with immediate effect, a statement by Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, disclosed. Jonathan…
On Thursday, the Nigerian Senate approved the request of President Muhammadu Buhari for a $75m World Bank loan for Edo State. Majority of the lawmakers in the upper chamber of the National Assembly gave their nods to the President’s request despite opposition from some quarters against granting the state governor, Adams Oshiomhole, the authority to…
According to a report reaching our news room, a small plane has crashed into a lagoon in Lagos. The helicopter, we learnt, crashed into a lagoon behind a police station at Oworosoki. However, spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, in South-West, Ibrahim Farinloye, who confirmed the incident, could not ascertain if the jet…