Veteran Nigerian actor, Richard Mofe Damifo, better known as RMD, has dispelled reports making the rounds that he has left the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to join the All Progressives Congress, APC. RMD was rumoured to have quit the PDP and even endorsed candidate of the APC in the Saturday’s governorship election in Delta State,…
An aide to President Goodluck Jonathan, Oronto Douglas, is dead. Douglas was reported dead in the early hours of Thursday at the State House Clinic in Abuja. He was said to have been ill for some time now and was going to the hospital to get himself treatment until his death on Thursday morning. According…
Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its gubernatorial candidate, Nyesome Wike, will be mercilessly crushed in the April 11 governorship election, the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has declared. “Wike and PDP are doomed, as they cannot stand the combined might of Governor Chibuike Amaechi and our gubernatorial…
Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Dr Ade Abolurin, has started preparations for the Saturday, April 11, 2015 governoship and state houses of assembly elections across the country. Abolurin ordered his men to restratigise towards the Saturday’s polls, urging the electorates to be vigilant in order to fish out those…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has stressed that it will used the card reading machines for the April 11 governorship elections. The same devices were used for the March 28 presidential election, which was won by candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari. In a statement issued by Secretary to the…
Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State has stressed that Muhammadu Buhari will not allow illegality in his government when he is eventually sworn in as President of Nigeria on May 29, 2015. The governor expressed optimism in Buhari to respect the rule of law and not allow his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, push…
Aproko247 has learnt that the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Kano State, Mikaila Abdulahi, has died in a mysterious inferno that occurred in the wee hours of Friday. However, how the fire started or what prompted it still remains unknown to residents of the area, where the late…
Former militant leader, Asari Dokubo, has said the last presidential election in Nigeria held on Saturday is an indication that the country is not united. The poll was won by candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari and after the election, Buhari’s contender, President Goodluck Jonathan, after conceding defeat, called the president-elect to…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari, as the winner of the presidential election of Saturday, March 28, 2015. Chairman of INEC, Attahiru Jega, declared Buhari Nigeria’s president-elect at about 3:48am on Wednesday, April 1, 2015 in Abuja at the International Conference Centre, venue of…
Former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, has apologised to Nigerians, especially the youths, for his actions at the INEC collation centre in Abuja on Tuesday morning. Orubebe had disrupted proceedings at the International Conference Centre on Tuesday when he accused INEC Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega of being partisan and favouring the All…