The police authorities have eventually bowed to pressure and have redeployed the controversial Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Mbu Joseph Mbu to the Abuja Police Command. His redeployment came weeks after leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, ordered their members at the National Assembly to block all Executive Bills pending when the Federal…
Report reaching this office confirms that the State Security Service, SSS, has held the duo of Moji Danisa and Ogbeni Olawale Dawodu, publishers of wave making weekly political tabloid, Paparazzi, after they showed up at the office of the security agency office in Abuja on Thursday morning for questioning. The SSS, through one of its…
It has been a bloody 48 hours in the northern part of the country. No fewer than 82 people were killed in three attacks on Monday and Tuesday in Plateau, Kaduna and Yobe States. Twenty people, including a policeman, were killed by bandits in Yobe State; 32 were killed by gunmen in Plateau and 30…
The Federal Government, through the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, disclosed that traders, farmers and other artisans in the country depend on the passage of the 2014 Appropriation Bill to survive. Addressing State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Maku said the directive by leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to its members…
Going by a report recently published by National Daily newspaper, the controversial Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has been fingered in a money laundering fraud. The amount involved in the scam is said to be $8 billion. MTN and Stanbic IBTC bank were also implicated in the scam. Read the…
The State Security Service, SSS, has invited the Publishers of Paparazzi Magazine to its headquarters in Abuja for questioning. The magazine is managed by the duo of Moji Danisa and Ogbeni Olawale Dawodu. The Publishers of the softsell magazine were asked to appear for the drilling on Thursday, February 6, 2014 by 10am. Though the…
Publisher of The Guardian Newspaper, Maiden Ibru, went emotional on Tuesday, February 2014, at an event held in Lagos when she wept while speaking at the occasion. The wife of the late Minister of Internal Affairs, Alex Ibru, was recounting how her husband died some years ago due to cancer. She was a guest at…
Serial fraud kingpin, Fred Ajudua has been remanded in Kirikiri Prison for allegedly defrauding former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi (retd.), of about $8.395m (about N1.3 billion). Justice Oluwatoyin Ipayeordered on Wednesday that he should be remanded in prisons custody following a fresh 13-count charge of fraud brought against him by the Economic…
The death of a presenter with 99.9 Kiss FM Abuja, Daniel Jibrin, also known as Dadasour, has been confirmed Aproko247. In a press statement made available to our reporter on Wednesday afternoon, it was stated that the late broadcaster died on Tuesday night. Below is the press statement made available to our reporter; PRESS STATEMENT…
Nigerian movie maker, Obi Emelonye, has apologised for comments attributed to him over the weekend describing Genevieve Nnaji and Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde as presently being jobless because of their high price tag, which producers find difficult to pay. Obi Emelonye reportedly told an online media platform in a chat that, “Genevieve and Omotola are the two…