Late Senator Isaiah Balat would be buried next week Thursday, Aproko247 has learnt. The former Minister of Works died on Tuesday at the National Hospital in Abuja after a brief illness. It was gathered that the late lawmaker will be buried at his hometown in Zango Kataf local government area of Kaduna State. He was…
Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos State has signed into the ‘No Smoking in Public Places Bill’ earlier passed by the State House of Assembly. The Governor stated that the law would further complement his administration’s effort towards protecting the lives of residents of the ‘aquatic state’, as Lagos is also called. The law stipulates…
The Kogi State government has said that it would soon sack about 520 teachers in its workforce. Chairman of the Kogi State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Uman Jibrin, made this disclosure while defending the 2014 budget at the State House of Assembly complex in Lokoja, the state capital. Jibrin noted that the affected teachers…
Students of the Lagos State University, LASU, will return to classes from Monday, February 24, 2014, a memo by its Senate has said. The Senate of the institution met on Friday last week to deliberate on the issue. The school was shut by its management on Thursday, January 23, 2014 after some students staged a…
A police corporal attached to the Kwara State Police Command, Yunus Muideen, has allegedly killed a former local government chairmanship aspirant of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, Femi Awoyale. The cop, who was allegedly drunk, was said to have accidentally murdered the politician at a Valentine event held at a hotel in…
Story by Nwaorgu Faustinus Members of the Rivers State House of Assembly have been hailed by the Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for passing the Rivers State Reserve Fund Law Amendment Bill 2014 to enable the state government withdraw the sum of N30 billion from the N53 billion in the fund.…
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has suspended one of his commissioners with immediate effect. The affected member of his cabinet, Mrs Nma Onyechere, is the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development in the state. Mrs Onyechere was accused of assaulting a serving Commissioner in the Local Government Service Commission, Chief Emeka Okoronkwo. The…
Barely 48 hours after members of the outlawed terrorist group called Boko Haram attacked Konduga village in Borno State, the community, which is some kilometres away from Maiduguri, the state capital, is again under siege. On Thursday, the Boko Haram insurgents invaded Konduga village, terrorising its inhabitants. Several gunshots were heard in Konduga village as…
Residents of Iraye Community area of Ogun State behind Mosinmi Depot have appealed to Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State and his counterpart in Lagos, Governor Babatunde Fashola, to save them from the hands of hoodlums who invaded their community, harassed and forcefully sent them out of their lands. Speaking with newsmen recently, the head…
A Benniose woman was on Friday raped and slaughtered in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital by some suspected thugs. It was learnt that the woman, 50, simply identified as Mama Friday, was gang-raped by the suspected rapists in her bedroom and later killed. Narrating the incident, an eye witness told Vanguard that the suspected thugs…