Striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, will get the sum of N20.4 billion from the Federal Government as salary arrears in the new CONTISS salary structure. This was approved by the FG after the union met with the government on Tuesday in Abuja. The Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, who…
Following his inability to work towards the implementation of the Federal Government programme in the power sector, the Managing Director of the National Rural Electrification Agency, NREA, Kenneth Achugbu, has been suspended from office. Achugbu was axed on Tuesday after the board of the agency ended a three-hour-meeting. His suspension was announced by the board…
Following public outcry over the torture of two women in Ejigbo, Lagos, by some suspected members of the Odua Peoples’ Congress, OPC, in February 2013, which became known to the public some months ago, the Inspector General of Police, MD Abubakar, “has ordered an immediate takeover of the case, suspect(s) and all exhibits related to…
President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed Bamanga Tukur as the Chairman of the Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC. The former National Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, was appointed on Tuesday by the President. Tukur was forced to resign as the PDP boss last week after the party suffered from series of crisis, which disintegrated and…
Story by Nwaorgu Faustinus **Condemns Mbu, Calls For His Redeployment The All Progressives Congress, APC, Rivers State Chapter, says it is saddened by the repeat violence at the rally organised on Sunday, January 19, 2014 by the Save Rivers Movement, SRM. The party in a statement on Tuesday by its spokesman, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, said,…
A rowdy House on Tuesday Members of the House of Representatives have again thrown decorum in the air as they engaged themselves in a free-for-all-fight on the floor of the Assembly on Tuesday, Aproko247 can authoritatively report. The ugly incident, which is live on a national television, was caused by an Abuja Federal High Court…
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Andrew Yakubu, has disclosed that the controversial missing $10.8 billion was spent by Nigerians. He said this on Monday while defending what went wrong with the alleged ‘missing’ amount. Yakubu stated that if truly the money was missing, then it must have ended up…
Report just reaching Aproko247 reveals that President Goodluck Jonathan has submitted his Ministerial list to the Senate for confirmation. A source in Abuja informed this magazine that the President submitted the list to the red chamber of the National Assembly before jetting out of the country for a meeting in Switzerland. He’s expected to return…
The former governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala, has revealed that he would soon decide on his 2015 ambition. The former police chief and Ogbomosho politician further disclosed that he was still consulting with some stakeholders. In his words, “I am still consulting. When you want to make such decisions, you must consult and after…
Justice Adeniyi Ademola of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has stopped the House of Representatives from changing its leadership. This followed a suit filed by the headship of the beleaguered Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which approached the court to block the move by the opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, APC. In his…