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…
A small plane belonging to the Nigerian Air Force has reportedly crashed in Kaduna. According to preliminary reports reaching us, the helicopter crashed at the site of the old National Defence Academy in Kaduna. Seven persons were said to be onboard of the copter and from reports, none of them survived. At them moment, rescue…
The Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has named Acting ACP Olabisi Alofe Kolawole as the new Force Public Relations Officer, FPRO. Kolawole’s appointment was announced Friday in Abuja via a press statement issued by Deputy Force spokesman, CSP Abayomi Shogunle. She is taking over from Emmanuel Ojukwu, who is now the Commissioner of Police,…
The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has annulled the suspension of the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, by the Anambra State chapter of the party. In a statement released on Thursday in Abuja by National Legal Adviser of the PDP, Victor Kwon, it was maintained that the party at the…
President Muhammadu Buhari has announced the appointments of Secretary to the Federal Government, SFG, and his Chief of Staff. While Engr Babachir David Lawal was named the SFG, Abba Kyari was announced as the Chief Of Staff. This brings to end speculations linking one of the former governors of Rivers and Lagos States; Rotimi Amaechi…