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A rowdy House on Tuesday Members of the House of Representatives have again thrown decorum in the air as they engaged themselves in a free-for-all-fight on the floor of the Assembly on Tuesday, Aproko247 can authoritatively report. The ugly incident, which is live on a national television, was caused by an Abuja Federal High Court…
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Andrew Yakubu, has disclosed that the controversial missing $10.8 billion was spent by Nigerians. He said this on Monday while defending what went wrong with the alleged ‘missing’ amount. Yakubu stated that if truly the money was missing, then it must have ended up…
The Lagos State House of Assembly has passed a bill for a law to ban smoking in public places. The bill was passed on Monday by the House, after it passed the third reading on the floor and was sent to the state governor, Babatunde Fashola for his ascent. If the bill is finally signed…
Report just reaching Aproko247 reveals that President Goodluck Jonathan has submitted his Ministerial list to the Senate for confirmation. A source in Abuja informed this magazine that the President submitted the list to the red chamber of the National Assembly before jetting out of the country for a meeting in Switzerland. He’s expected to return…
Wonders they say, will never end. A former pastor of The Apostolic Church, TAC, Oke Afata, Gbongan in Osun State, simply identified as Pastor Adepoju, has stabbed his fellow man of God, Pastor Julius Olusoji Oguntoye, to death. The accused committed the crime on Wednesday night at the official residence of the deceased in Okeola,…
The former governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala, has revealed that he would soon decide on his 2015 ambition. The former police chief and Ogbomosho politician further disclosed that he was still consulting with some stakeholders. In his words, “I am still consulting. When you want to make such decisions, you must consult and after…
A former follower of Olumba Olumba brotherhood has disclosed that the man claiming to be God has been dead a long ago, but that his death has been kept secret by some top members of the faith group. The whistle blower, Lovina Amangala Iburene, who is now a Pastor of The Truth Ministry/The True Lovers…
Justice Adeniyi Ademola of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has stopped the House of Representatives from changing its leadership. This followed a suit filed by the headship of the beleaguered Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which approached the court to block the move by the opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, APC. In his…
The Canadian government has vehemently denied cancelling a planned visit of President Goodluck Jonathan to the country. This was made known by the Canadian Counsellor in Abuja, Ms Alexandra Mackenzie, in an interview with Punch. Mackenzie revealed that there was never a scheduled visit of Jonathan to the country in the first place. She however…