Category: National/Politics

INEC Releases Timetable For 2015 General Polls

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…

NEMA Describes NSCDC Disaster Management Institute As Africa’s Best

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…

APC Moves To Crash Jonathan’s Govt

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…

2015: SSS Invites El-Rufai To Clarify Comment

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…

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…

**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,…