Premium Times reports that the Presidency has mounted pressure on the Senate to stop the probe of missing N8 trillion oil funds leaked to the public recently. The report is reproduced below; The Nigerian Senate has come under intense pressure from the presidency, the petroleum ministry and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to abandon…
The ‘political porting’ happening in Nigeria has still not stopped as 16 local council chairmen in Kwara State announced their defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, on Friday. They were also followed to their new party by their 194 Councillors. The decampees, under the Association of Local Governments…
**5-Month-Old Toddler Shot Dead During Breastfeeding Some unknown gunmen in Kaduna, on Friday, stormed the home of a 47-year-old security guard in the state and cleared all his family members, including him. The invaders, numbering about 20, unleashed terror on one Sunday Abin, who works with Robber Research Department of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture,…
In the build up to the 2015 general elections in Nigeria, the National Association of Mbaise Students, NAMS, has endorsed the Chairman, Governing Board, Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority, Chris Asoluka, as the preferred candidate for Imo East Owerri Senatorial zone. The group, in a press release jointly signed by the National President, Stanley…
Kano-based Abdulkadir Mohammed has been convicted and sentenced to nine years imprisonment for attempting to defraud a retired army General, Garba Ali, of the sum of N14 million in land deal. Mohammed was sentenced by Justice Fatu Riman of the Federal High Court Kano, Wednesday, January 29, 2014. He was sentenced with an option of…
As part of his efforts to mend the leakages in the ‘torn umbrella’ of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, the newly appointed National Chairman of the ruling party, Adamu Mu’azu, held a closed-door meeting with former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, in Minna, Niger State. The meeting was held on Friday afternoon at the gap-toothed…
Aproko247 has confirmed that the officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSDDC, involved in the alleged assault of a journalist some days ago have been queried by the Corps. This was confirmed to us on Friday by the NSCDC following an enquiry made by this magazine on the issue. “A disciplinary panel…
A bill to punish those involved in cyber bullying is presently before the House of Representatives. If passed, offenders might spend up to five years in jail or pay a fine of N15 million or both. The bill also seeks a death penalty for cyber crime offenders. According to a report by Punch, for using…
The Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, has commended the Senate for confirming the appointments of the new service chiefs on Thursday. The ruling party, in a press statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, on Thursday, described the move as a triumph of nationalism. PDP hailed the legislators for “going ahead to thoroughly screen…
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has sentenced a former Commissioner of the National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, Okechikwu Chukwulozie, to 15 years imprisonment. The convict is to spend his jail term in Kuje Prisons in Abuja. Chukwulozie was jailed by the court over a N10.4 million fraud he was found guilty of. A statement signed…