Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is already in Abidjan, the Ivorian capital, leading the Federal Government delegates for the swearing-in ceremony of the immediate past Minister of Agriculture, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, as President of the African Development Bank Group, AFDB. Adesina contested for the position on May 28, 2015 and was elected in the keenly contested…
Former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki, has been granted bail by the court. His plea for bail was okayed by the court on Tuesday based on self recognition after he pleaded not guilty to the charges levelled against him by the Department of State Security, DSS. Dasuki was charged for illegal possession of firearms…
A top member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Senator Magnus Abe has sent a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari in response to a petition to the President alleging that the APC is planning to use security apparatuses in the state to scuffle outcome of the election tribunal in Rivers State. In…
Henry Ebi Former governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called on the former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, to run for the December 5, 2015 governorship election in the state. Tinubu also charged Bayelsans to ensure Sylva becomes the next governor of the…
Some workers on the Ekiti State payroll, on Monday, August 31, 2015, were caught unawares, and when they sensed troubled, they quickly threw away shame to save their jobs. Aproko247 learnt that the state governor, Ayodele Fayose, paid an unscheduled visit to the State Secretariat in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, on Monday morning and…
Ten members of Nigeria-based Islamist group called Boko Haram were killed on Saturday by the Chadian authorities. The convicts were executed by firing squad in the country’s capital, N’Djamena. They were found guilty of a double suicide that left 38 persons dead in N’Djamena. It was said that the insurgents were sentenced to death on…
Former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, on Saturday morning, stormed Port Harcourt, the state capital amid rumour that he angrily jetted out of Nigeria to London on Friday after President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Engr Babachir David Lawal and Abba Kyari as his Secretary to the Federal Government and Chief Of Staff respectively. Before the…
The President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC, has left the Nigerian economy in a “shambolic state” since “it took office at the centre three months ago,” the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has claimed. The opposition party made this allegation Saturday via a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh. PDP said “the…
The appointment of Col Hameed Ibrahim Ali (rtd) by President Muhammadu Buhari as the new Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service has been kicked against by the League of Maritime Editors. The group, in a statement issued Friday by its president, Ovie Edomi, urged the President to reconsider the matter and appoint a serving Customs…
Facts are beginning to emerge at the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by the Rivers State Government to probe the sale of valued assets of the state by the immediate past government of Rotimi Amaechi. At the sitting on Friday, the Managing Director of Arcus Gibbs Nig Ltd, the technical consultant to the state…