The Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) has doled out a whooping N4.2billion as part of its unconditional Micro Grant Programme for empowering women in the rural areas across the country. Speaking at the flag-off of its one-off unconditional Micro-grants Programme Tuesday in Bauchi, Chairman of the Aliko Dangote Foundation empowered twenty thousand vulnerable women across the…
The governor of Bauchi State, Mohammed Abubakar, has denied being one of those behind fuelling the budget padding allegations rocking the House of Representatives at the moment. In a statement issued by his Press Secretary, Abubakar al-Sadique, the governor urged members of the House of Representatives facing allegations of having padded the 2016 budget to…
Governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar of Bauchi State on Tuesday, July 19, 2016, swore-in the newly appointed permanent secretaries in the state civil service. The governor said this was in line with his administration’s on-going reforms to reposition the Bauchi State Civil Service. During the ceremony which was held at the State House, the governor charged…
Chief Whip of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Doguwa, has stressed that there is no need to remove President Muhammadu Buhari from office. The All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain, who spoke on Sunday in Bauchi, disclosed that the House had no single evidence of impeachable offence against the President. Addressing journalists in Bauchi, Doguwa, representing…
Contrary to rumour making the rounds that prominent Nigerian Islamic preacher, Dahiru Bauchi is dead, he is alive, Aproko247 has authoritatively learnt. One of the members of his family, Sanusi Bauchi, addressing newsmen on Saturday in Bauchi on the death rumour, also pointed out that the renowned cleric is in good health. Sanusi emphasised that…
Aproko247 has learnt that another explosion has occurred in Azare area of Bauchi State after a bomb went off in the same area on Friday. The incident precisely took place at a phone market in Azare, near the stadium. A governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bauchi, Yusuf Tuggar, took to his…
Some unknown gunmen have abducted an employee of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, Sanusi Garba Noma. He was abducted on Thursday morning in Bauchi by the kidnappers. It was learnt that the hoodlums stormed a mosque Sanusi, 33, went to observe the early morning Islamic prayers, when he was kidnapped. The mosque is located…