The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has disclosed that it is yet to ask the recently dropped Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, to appear at its office to explain her role in the controversial procurement of two bulletproof BMW cars by a parastatal in the aviation ministry. Addressing newsmen on Friday at the Commission’s…
Reports reaching us confirms that major streets in the city of Kano have been taken over by combined team of the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Police and men of the State Security Service, SSS, ahead of the visit of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. The Nigerian troops, looking battle-ready, are seen manning streets in the commercial and…
On Monday, February 17, 2014, the Northern State Governors’ Forum, NSGF, will storm the city of Kaduna to deliberate on the proposed national conference set up by the Federal Government. The Governor of Niger State and Chairman of the Forum, Babangida Aliyu, disclosed on Friday that the governors will be meeting to also extensively review…
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, on Friday, February 14, 2014, was “discharged and acquitted” by a Federal High Court siting in Abuja of any complicity in all corruption charges brought against by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. An emotional Bankole burst into tears after the judgement was read by…
Some workers at the Lagos and Abuja airports could not hide their excitements on Wednesday over the sack of embattled Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, after several months of pressures mounted on him by Nigerians to send Oduah packing. Aviation sources informed Aproko247 that the ‘happy workers’ expressed satisfaction over…
Wife of former National Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Bamanga Tukur, Hajiya Asiya Mohammed Bello, has dumped the ruling party, which also her husband’s party, to join the opposition, the All Progressives Congress, APC. Hajiya Bello, on Thursday, registered with the APC at Gabasawa Ward in Unguwan Rimi, Kaduna North local government area…
Chairman of Daar Communications Limited, High Chief Raymond Alegho Dokpesi, has berated vocal Ijaw leader, Edwin Clark for criticising his (Dokpesi) rumoured choice as President Goodluck Jonathan’s Chief of Staff. Few days ago, the elder statesman addressed a news conference in Bayelsa, stating that it would be a wrong choice for Jonathan to appoint the…
Nigeria’s former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has stated that he is not planning to join the opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, as some may have been thinking. He categorically noted that he’s still a card-carrying member of the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. Obasanjo, while addressing newsmen in London on Wednesday, maintained that he…
Candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the 2011 Kwara State governorship election, Mohammed Dele Belgore, has decamped to the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. Belgore announced his defection on Wednesday in Ilorin, the state capital. He stated that he was leaving the All Progressives Congress, APC, because of an alleged injustice meted…
No fewer than eight persons were feared dead at the Benin, Edo Sate end of the notorious Benin-Ore Expressway on Wednesday. The road accident involved two vehicles. Information released by the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, confirms that two adult males, five adult females and one female child all perished in the auto crash. The…