A video has been released online showing President Goodluck Jonathan emerging from a meeting with some Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, governors at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, on Monday night (yesterday). The video link was sent to Aproko247 by one of our ardent followers. In the video, Governor Rabio Kwankwaso of Kano State was seen…
Day: September 3, 2013
Us Congress Leaders Back Obama On Syria
US President Barack Obama won his first major victories on securing Congress support for strikes on Syria, with senior members on both sides of the House of Representatives saying they would back him. The House speaker and top Republican in Congress, John Boehner, said on Tuesday that he would support the president’s motion for strikes…
Diamond Bank In Another Scam As TruContact Ltd Set To Drag Bank To Court
While some business oriented banks are declaring midyear profit others are swimming in tales of alleged mega fraud. Recent findings by theoctopusnews.com has revealed Diamond Bank is in big trouble, as it is about to be dragged to court for breach of contract. Digs by our reporter revealed that the bank earlier in the year…
Startimes Boosts NBMA With Free Decoders
The annual and prestigious Nigerian Broadcasters Merit Awards, NBMA, recently got a boost from Nigeria’s leading digital pay-channels provider, Startimes Nigeria Ltd, when the company supported the event with free decoders. The organisers of the awards ceremony, led by its executive producer, Kazeem Popoola, on Tuesday, August 20, 2013, paid a courtesy visit to the…
PDP Orders Taraba Dep Gov To Take Instructions From Ailing Gov
The Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, has ordered the deputy governor of Taraba State, Garba Umar, to henceforth take instructions from the ailing governor of the state, Danbaba Suntai. This decision was reached on Tuesday afternoon after the committee headed by Senator Hope Uzodinma, met with the governor and his deputy in Jalingo. Uzodinma was mandated…
Ex-Militants Talk Tough: Give GEJ One Month To Pay Allowance Or…
If the threat given to the Presidency by a faction of some ex-militants in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria is anything to go by, then trouble looms in the region as there might be a resumption of the activities of the group in the region. This is because the group has handed a one-month…
Osun PDP Disowns Oyinlola, Throws Weight Behind Tukur
The Osun State chapter of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, has disowned the former governor of the state, who doubles as the factional PDP National Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola. In a communique released on Monday after the chapter held an emergency meeting to deliberate on the walk out of some party’s delegates on Saturday in…
Monalisa Chinda, Ngozi Nwosu, Others Set For Classic Mag Awards
One of the Lagos based softsell magazines, Classic International, will on Sunday, September 8, 2013, hold its awards ceremony tagged ‘Classic Africa Merit Awards, CAMA, in Lagos. The glamorous ceremony will hold at 10 Degrees Event Centre, Billingsway, Oregun, Ikeja. Some top Nigerian stars like Monalisa Chinda, Iyabo Ojo, Pawpaw, Emeka Ike, Ngozi Nwosu, Saka,…
Fashola Charges BRT Operators On Commuters' Feelings
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has urged operators of the Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, buses in the state to show more sensitivity to the feelings of commuters. The governor recently made this plea during a meeting with the management and staff of the state’s Mass Transit Bus Systems at the LASTMA yard in Oshodi.…
Hon Rotimi Makinde Broke After Lavish Wedding To 1st Daughter's Age Mate, Creditors Knock At His Door
Recently, Yoruba movie actor turned politician, Hon Rotimi Makinde, married his beau and it was well publicised. Days after, there are reports that he is allegedly broke having spent all his fortunes to stage a classy wedding ceremony. A report by a gossip website, Nigeriafilms.com, is presented below; There is a saying that ‘cut your…