Category: National/Politics

Buhari Vows Issue-Based Campaign

Electioneering in Nigeria is one that is filled with intrigues. Parties try to discredit one another. Propaganda mode is fully activated and the general public and the electorates are fed with the wrong information all in the name of canvassing votes for their respective candidates at the polls. But the campaign organisation of the presidential…

Yobo Endorses Jonathan For Second Term

A former Nigerian international and captain of the Super Eagles, Joseph Yobo, has thrown his weight behind President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term in office in 2015. The former Everton FC of England defender told State House correspondents on Friday after a closed-door meeting with the President that due to the “good work” Jonathan has begun,…

Wike’s Governorship Gamble Is A Doomed Venture—Rivers APC

The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has predicted that immediate past Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, is unlikely to get up to 10 percent of the votes to be cast during the 2015 governorship election in the state, not minding the pledges and support by Dame Patience Jonathan, Nigeria’s…

I Won’t Return To PDP—Princewill Vows

**Picks Labour Party’s Guber Ticket Following the decision of the leaders of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, to give their support to former Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike for the party’s slot for the 2015 governorship election in Rivers State, Tonye Princewill has decided to seek his ambition with the Labour Party. Princewill, in a…

Buhari’s Emergence: A Quit Notice To Jonathan, PDP—Rivers APC

By Nwaorgu Faustinus The emergence of General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) as the presidential flag-bearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the 2015 general elections has been described as an unmistakable quit notice to President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Congratulating Buhari, who picked the APC ticket on Thursday at the APC…

Contrary to rumour making the rounds that prominent Nigerian Islamic preacher, Dahiru Bauchi is dead, he is alive, Aproko247 has authoritatively learnt. One of the members of his family, Sanusi Bauchi, addressing newsmen on Saturday in Bauchi on the death rumour, also pointed out that the renowned cleric is in good health. Sanusi emphasised that…

Justice Gabriel Kolawole of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed the suit filed against four ‘rebel’ governors by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, seeking to declare their seats vacant. The party ran to the court to remove the governors, who defected from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2013.…

Many Feared Dead In Kano Market Explosion

Reports reaching Aproko247 confirms that several people have been killed in a multiple explosion near a market in the ancient city of Kano. The latest incident is happening barely two weeks after two suicide bombers attacked a mosque at the Emir of Kano palace, which left hundreds of worshippers dead. Terrorists have recently carried out…