Nigeria’s Vice-President, Namadi Sambo, has strongly criticized the killing of prominent Islamic scholar, Sheikh Muhammad Auwal Adam Albani, also known as Albani Zaria, by some gunmen in Zaria, Kaduna State, last week. The vocal cleric was assassinated on Saturday night along with his wife while returning from a religious function in the ancient city. In…
News report reaching us from Kano confirms that 26 lawmakers of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, in the Kano State House of Assembly, have decamped to the All Progressives Congress, APC. The legislators joined the APC on Monday. The move came barely 24 hours after former Nigeria’s Vice President, Atiku Abubakar formally defected from PDP…
Police Corporal Aniyem Chiyem, who was videotaped asking for dollar bribe from a motorist in Lagos, has been arrested, a police source in Lagos has informed Aproko247. The cop was picked up on Monday after the police authorities directed that the erring officer be arrested and disciplined for putting the Force into shame. His act…
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Davies Ikanya, has disclosed that nine state governors elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will join its fold before the end of March 2014. He stated further that more Senators would also defect to the opposition party along with the governors.…
Former Nigeria’s Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has formally announced his defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. The Adamawa State-born politician announced this on Sunday via a press statement personally signed by him. The Turaki Adamawa disclosed in the statement that he was resigning from the PDP to…
Federal University of Technology Minna, FUT Minna, has taken a step beyond the reach of other Nigerian higher education institutions by putting its academic services and on-campus on the electronic devices of members of staff and students through a new innovation software called Phinnx. FUTMinna adopted the Phinnx web system, which is targeted at computerizing…
Oyo State governor, Abiola Ajimobi, has promised to break the jinx of second term in the state. For a long time, no governor has served the state more than once. Ajimobi, while addressing some motor dealers in the state, boasted that his performance in office would end the myth in the state. He noted that…
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has disclosed that the 2015 general elections in Nigeria is not a do-or-die affair, as some politicians in the country are presently making it to look like. Ekweremadu made this declaration over the weekend at the Chinua Achebe Memorial Conference which took place at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu…
Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, has directed authorities of the Yola International Airport to commence full flight operations at the facility with the use of the newly-built terminal. She gave the order on Friday in Yola while inspecting the upgraded facilities at the airport. Oduah expressed satisfaction at the level of rehabilitation carried out at…
Mrs Dupe Onitiri-Abiola, one of the wives of late MKO Abiola, has officially declared her intention to contest in the governorship election in Lagos State under Accord Party come 2015. Onitiri-Abiola, few days ago, expressed her desire to occupy the Lagos Government seat of power in 2015. She had then said she was consulting with…