Report reaching us indicates that some members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, presently serving in Kogi State have found themselves in a big trouble. It was learnt that the Corpers, serving at Victory Model College, Efodo, Okpo in Olamaboro local government area of Kogi State, are being threatened by some aggrieved students of…
Reprieve may have come the way of some former office holders in Local Government/Local Council Development Areas (LGA/LCDAs) of the state, as the Lagos House of Assembly has directed that their backlog of salary arrears, tenure allowances and severance package be paid. The former officer holders are chairmen and councilors that had served in…
A bill to protect consumers’ rights in Lagos was last week passed into law by the state House of Assembly at plenary. The bill was passed into law after members took the third reading of the bill. It is to be sent to Governor Babatunde Fashola for assent. The bill which is a private member…
The Vice chairman of Etsako Central local government area of Edo State, Charles Eshiesimua, on Friday, slumped and died while waiting to see a doctor at the Irrua Specialist Hospital, also in Edo State. Late Eshiesimua had gone to the hospital for a medical check-up when the sad incident occurred. His demise took those at…
Information reaching Aproko247 confirms that a Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP, Anthony Jeaga, who hails from Edo State, was on Monday killed by some unknown gunmen in Delta State. Until his demise, late Jeaga was the Divisional Traffic Officer in charge of Agbor Divisional Police Headquarters, where he was transferred to few months ago from…
Twenty four years old undergraduate of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Bello Godwin Onimisi, has been convicted and sentenced to three months imprisonment. Onimisi, a student of Industrial Engineering of the university, was jailed for impersonating the Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, Alhaji Dikko Inde Abdullahi. Onimisi, a native of Igarra, Akoko…
The Lagos State government, on Thursday, expressed dismay over the continuous failure of traders at the popular Ladipo Auto Spare Parts Market in Mushin area of the state to keep to environmental laws in the market. This followed an on-the-spot assessment carried out by the state Commissioner of Environment, Tunji Bello, at the market on…
President of the Student Union Government of the Lagos State University, Ojo, Mojirade Hassan, revealed on Friday that the violent protest that marred the school’s examination on Thursday was hijacked by some thugs. Mojirade made this revelation at the public hearing held at the Lagos State House of Assembly to look into the crisis with…
The Ondo State House of Assembly has pardoned a female lawmaker, Fola Olasehinde-Vincent, suspended in 2013 for allegedly being in possession of some fetish substances. Addressing newsmen on Thursday in Akure, the state capital, the Deputy Speaker of the House, Dare Emiola, revealed that the Olasehinde-Vincent was recalled to the Assembly on December 31, 2013.…
Luck ran out of an alleged laptop thief in Calabar, Cross Rivers State, on Tuesday, when some angry mob descended on him and inflicted some deep machete cuts on some parts of his body. The suspect, identified as Ime, was alleged to have used a master key to burgle into one of the apartments occupied…