***Retains Pump Price Payment of subsidy on premium motor spirit, PMS, also known as petrol has been returned by the Federal Government. It was gathered that the FG on Saturday recommenced the payment of subsidy on fuel, which was earlier stopped in January 2016. Aproko247 learnt the commodity is subsidised by N5.84 per litre consumed…
Federal Government has intervened in the crisis rocking the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, met with aggrieved members and factions of the union in Abuja on Thursday and sued for peace. At the end of the meeting, all parties agreed to work together as one…
Nigerians have been apologised to for the hardship being experience because of drop in the supply of electricity to their homes and offices. The Federal Government blamed this on gas failure as well as sabotage and the works of vandals of power infrastructure. The FG said efforts are being made to rectify the issues and…
Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the last governorship election in Rivers State in 2015, Peterside Adol Dakuku, has been appointed as Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA. Dakuku was appointed on Thursday by the Federal Government to take charge of the agency. A statement signed by the…
Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court in Lagos has barred MTN Nigeria Communications Limited from moving any of its funds from all commercial banks in Nigeria abroad pending hearing of its suit challenging the N1.4trillion fine imposed on it by the Nigerian Communication Commission, NCC. The Federal Government, through the NCC, initially imposed…
**Bans Use Of Phones Henceforth, prison officials and inmates would not be allowed to make use of mobile phones, the Federal Government has directed. This directive was given by the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, when some top shots in the Nigeria Prison Service, NPS, visited him in Abuja on Saturday. Moro also frowned at…
**Bans Use Of Phones Henceforth, prison officials and inmates would not be allowed to make use of mobile phones, the Federal Government has directed. This directive was given by the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, when some top shots in the Nigeria Prison Service, NPS, visited him in Abuja on Saturday. Moro also frowned at…
Former Nigeria’s Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, has welcomed the announcement of a ceasefire between the Federal Government and the Boko Haram Islamic sect. News of the agreement was widely reported in the Nigerian media, including Aproko247, though a known contact with the group, Ahmad Salkida, doubted the credibility of the development. Atiku took to his Twitter…