The Divisional Police Officer in charge of the Ijede Police Station, Nwaoha Uzoma, has died. It was learnt that Uzoma’s corpse was found in his office on Thursday, a day after he entered and locked himself in. Reports said when his mobile phone was called, he did not pick his calls, which made anxious relatives…
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State presented a budget proposal of N327.68 billion to the State House of Assembly on Wednesday for the 2015 financial year. The governor, addressing the state lawmakers at their hollowed chamber in Asaba, the state capital, explained that the budget is made up of N161.6 billion as recurrent expenditure and…
Danlandi eader of the All Progressive Congress APC in Taraba and Senator representing Taraba North at the National Assembly, Aisha Jummai Alhassan has forced the new acting governor, Alhaji Sani Abubakar Danlandi to sign an agreement that he will deliver Taraba state to the All Progressive Congress APC. Senator Aisha a close ally of APC…
There was the disruption of peace in Lekki area of Lagos State on Friday morning when some commercial motorcyclists, hoodlums and policemen tested their strengths. The clash, Aproko247 gathered, was as a result of the ban of motorcycles, popularly known as Okada, within the Lekki Phase 1 estate. Eyewitnesses claimed some suspected thugs from the…
Ex-governor of Ekiti State, Segun Oni can now enjoy the benefits of a former number one citizen of the state courtesy the incumbent helmsman of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose. In a statement issued on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, CPS, Idowu Adelusi, Fayose expressed appreciation to the contributions…
Aproko247 has learnt that pandemonium has been let loose in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, as some police officers and suspected thugs of the All Progressives Congress, APC, engaged in a free-for-all. It was reliably gathered that some members of the party had converged at the Abiola Ajimobi Vocational Centre in Oke Ado, Ibadan for…
Members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, in Rivers State staged a protest on Friday morning, demanding for the payment of their allowances. The aggrieved Corpers, at the orientation camp in Nonwa Gbam Tai area of the state, claimed the government has refused to pay them their allowances. The protesting Corps members barricaded the…
Following the removal of Adewale Omirin as Speaker of Ekiti House of Assembly by few members of the Assembly on Thursday, the Police and Department of State Security have withdrawn their personnel from the security teams of the embattled Speaker. Seven members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, out of the 26 members of the…
A five-man panel, on Wednesday, drilled Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State for the Delta South Senatorial Primary of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. The screening took place at the PDP Secretariat in Asaba and was headed by Mohammed Babaginda. Other members of the panel were Frank Okafor, Mike Ewausia, Rev Yakubu Abudullahi and Kabi…
The atmosphere in the Ekiti political arena is tensed and the reason is not far-fetched. The man at the helm of affairs of the state, Ayo Fayose, has relieved the duties of all political office holders attached to Speaker of the Ekiti House of Assembly, Adewale Omirin. The governor also sacked the aides attached to…