Former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, has been vindicated in the corruption allegation levelled against him by his successor, Nyesom Wike, the State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, said on Sunday. Rivers APC made this known in a statement signed by its Chairman, Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, in Port Harcourt. The party said…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has condoled with the government and people of Borno State over the death of their deputy governor, Zannah Umar Mustapha, on Saturday morning in Yola, the Adamawa State capital. In a statement issued on Saturday night in Abuja by its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, the Acting National Chairman of…
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…