No fewer than 4000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Sokoto State left the party to join the All Progressives Congress, APC. The defecting members were received in Isa local government area of the state on Sunday by the state governor, Aliyu Wamakko, who was represented by the Commissioner for Agriculture, Arzika Tureta.…
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…
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,…
The Defence Headquarters has disclosed that it would look into the reported abduction of some villagers in Gamsuri in Borno State last weekend. The military high command also revealed that it has started searching for terrorists “who were said to have attacked the community last weekend.” The Defence Headquarters stated on its blog that, “Although…
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…
The crisis brewing in the Lagos chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may take a dangerous turn if urgent steps are not taken by the party leadership to wade into the matter. It is no news that a new comer into the party, Jimi Agbaje was announced winner of the governorship primary of the…
**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…
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.…