The Nigeria Police has given reason for withdrawing security personnel attached to Speaker of House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, who defected from the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, on Tuesday to the All Progressives Congress, APC, a major opposition party in Nigeria. Barely 48 hours after Tambuwal’s defection, his security aides were redeployed by the Federal…
President Goodluck Jonathan has held a closed-door meeting with the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. The secret meeting took place at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday. Both parties are meeting again for the second time after President Jonathan suspended Sanusi as Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in February 2014. They…
On Thursday, October 30, 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan purchased his presidential nomination form ahead of the 2015 general election in Nigeria. Jonathan obtained the form at the Wadata Plaza Secretariat of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, in Abuja, after he had told his party that he would be contesting in the polls. His formal declaration…
Security details attached to Speaker of House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, have been withdrawn. This is coming barely 48 hours after the Speaker formally announced his defection from the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, to the opposition, the All Progressives Congress, APC. This is also coming barely 24 hours after his former party asked him to…
After speculations of him pitching tenth with the opposition party, the Speaker of House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, has finally left his party and has joined the opposition. The number four citizen of Nigeria, on Tuesday, declared his support for the All Progressives Congress, APC, leaving the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, a platform he got…
Ben Murray-Bruce, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Silverbird Group, has declared his intention to contest for the Senate in 2015. Murray-Bruce, addressing his people in Brass local government area of Bayelsa State on Monday, lamented the level of neglect in the area by the government. The former Director General of the Nigeria Television Authority,…
On Friday, October 24, 2014, Akinwunmi Ambode formally declared his intention to contest in the 2015 gubernatorial election in Lagos State under the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC. At a colourful declaration ceremony held at the Onikan Stadium, Lagos, the former Lagos civil servant said he is offering himself to the service of Lagos…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Annie Okonkwo, has quit the party and has rejoined the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. Okonkwo was formerly the deputy National Chairman (South) of APC. He alleged that APC was not observing internal democracy, which influenced his decision to leave the party. Okonkwo was elected a Senator…
The trial of Senator Mohammed Ndume, an alleged sponsor of Boko Haram, will now be conducted in the secret, an Abuja court has directed. The lawmaker was accused of having links with the Islamic sect, which has carried out deadly attacks in some parts of northern Nigeria. The Federal Government moved to have Ndume tried…
Report just reaching us reveals that the younger sister of Nigeria’s Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke has been kidnapped. The lady, Osio Agama, was seized by some unknown gunmen in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Details of the abduction is still sketchy and Aproko247 cannot confirm yet if the kidnappers have established a contact with family of…