Tragedy struck in Ikot Omin area of Calabar, the Cross River State capital, on Sunday night when a young couple died after being suffocated by generator fumes. The husband and wife died along with the wife’s teenage sister, who lived with them. The couple recently moved into their yet-to-be completed house. On the fateful day,…
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Offa Re-Run: PDP Candidate Rejects Victory, Says APC Won
A councillorship candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Afolabi Olawole, at last Saturday’s re-run election in Offa, Kwara State, has rejected his victory at the poll as announced by the Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission, KWASIEC. Speaking on Wednesday in the state, Olawole noted that he was rejecting the result based on his religious…
VIDEONEWS: Jonathan, Governors After Meeting Over PDP Faction
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…
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,…