The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has released the timetable for the 2015 general elections. This was made known in Abuja on Friday by the Commission. The Commission also released the dates for the Ekiti and Osun States governorship polls holding the respective states in 2014. INEC disclosed further that the Presidential and National Assembly…
The Lagos State House of Assembly has asked the management of the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, to re-open its registration portal to some students who have not yet registered. This followed the closure of the school on Thursday by the school authorities after some aggrieved students staged a violent protest in the school. The…
The Supreme Court, on Friday, affirmed the election of Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State. The governor had filed an appeal challenging the decision of an Appeal Court in Owerri, the state capital, which granted a joinder to his predecessor, Ikedi Ohakim, in an appeal instituted by a candidate of the defunct Action Congress of…
Director General of National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Alhaji Muhammad Sani Sidi, has described the disaster management institute operated by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Katsina as the best in Africa. The Corps runs the Institute of Peace and Disaster Management, IPDM. The NEMA boss asserted that with the level of…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has taken a new step to bring down the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. At the end of a meeting of its interim National Executive Council, NEC, held in Abuja on Thursday, the opposition party ordered its members at the National Assembly to henceforth snub all executive bills, including the…
The State Security Service, SSS, has summoned former FCT Minister, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, to its headquarters in Abuja to clarify a statement attributed to him on Thursday in two national newspapers; ThisDay and Punch. The security outfit asked El-Rufai, who is the Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to appear before it…
Premium Times investigative reporter, Tobore Ovuorie, was motivated by years of research into the plight of trafficked women in the country, as well as the loss of a friend, to go undercover in a multi-billion dollar criminal enterprise. She emerged, bruised and beaten but thankfully alive, after witnessing orgies, big money deals in jute bags,…
Report reaching Aproko247 indicates that some thugs, on Thursday, invaded the Senatorial Office of Senator Akin Odunsi in Ota, Ogun State, unleashing terror on some of his members of staff and others within the vicinity. A source, who witnessed the incident, informed this magazine that the hoodlums stormed the premises on Thursday morning, destroying properties…
Some angry mobs, mostly youths, took laws into their hands on Wednesday in Bauchi State when they protested outside a Sharia Court in the state. The demonstrators, numbering over one thousand, threw stones into the court’s building demanding the speedy conviction of seven men arrested last week for belonging to gay organizations. The seven gay…
**Whistleblower Rewarded One of the three victims of the Ejigbo pepper torture of February 2013 identified as Nike, has advocated death penalty for those behind the jungle justice meted out on her and two others. Twelve-year-old Nike, speaking at the public hearing ordered by the Lagos State House of Assembly to investigate the ugly incident,…