A former Minister of Petroleum, Rilwanu Lukman, has passed on. The trained Engineer died on Monday morning in faraway Austria. The deceased held several political positions before his demise on Monday. Late Lukman was born in Zaria, Kaduna State on August 26, 1938 and studied Mining Engineering at the College of Arts, Science, and Technology,…
Report reaching Aproko247 indicates that Speaker of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Chukwuma Nwazunku, has been impeached. Nwazunku was booted out by his colleagues on Monday morning. It was disclosed to Aproko247 by a reliable source in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, about 20 lawmakers in the House moved for the Speaker’s removal. They…
An Assistant-Inspector in the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Lasisi Kabir Iyanda, is presently cooling off in police custody over the death of a 32-year-old teacher in Osun State. The victim, Kamaldeen Muritala, teaches Islamic Religious Knowledge, IRK, at Titilope Islamic Comprehensive High School, Ejigbo, Osun State. He was allegedly murdered by the…
Story by Nwaorgu Faustinus Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, says it has uncovered a noxious, criminal and satanic scheme by the Grassroot Development Initiative, GDI, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to rig the 2015 general elections in Rivers State. The party in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Chris…
A village in Borno State was on Friday morning invaded by hoodlums believed to be members of Boko Haram sect. The gunmen, at about 5am on Friday, stormed Damboa community, killing several residents of the area and also burning down many houses. It was learnt that security officials were not on ground to repel the…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Joe Igbokwe, has warned that Nigeria’s democracy is on the brick of collapse if necessary steps are not urgently taken. Igbokwe, addressing a news conference in Ikeja, Lagos, on Wednesday, July 16, 2014, also expressed fears that President Goodluck Jonathan’s alleged ambition to contest in the 2015…
President Goodluck Jonathan has written to the National Assembly requesting the approval of about $1 billion external loan to tackle the mounting security issues in the country. In a letter sent to both the Senate and the House of Representatives titled ‘Tackling Ongoing Security Challenges For Urgent Action’, the President explained that the money will…
Embattled governor of Nasarawa State, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, has gone to Abuja to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan, over move by the State House of Assembly to remove him from office, Leadership Newspaper reports. Al-Mukura was served an impeachment notice by the Assembly, which is bent on impeaching him, just like his counterpart in Adamawa…
Ejected governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, has reacted to his removal from office by the State House of Assembly on Tuesday afternoon. Nyako, in a press statement issued by his Director of Press and Public Affairs, Ahmad Sajoh, disclosed that “in the eyes of the law, the deputy governor (Bala James Ngilari) has not…
The Federal Government has vowed to offer scholarship to the secondary schoolgirls abducted by members of Boko Haram on April 15, 2014 in Borno State. The young girls were kidnapped at the dormitory in Government Girls Secondary School. GGSS, Chibok, Borno and have been in captivity since then. However, some of them escaped shortly after…