The Nigeria Police has given reason for withdrawing security personnel attached to Speaker of House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, who defected from the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, on Tuesday to the All Progressives Congress, APC, a major opposition party in Nigeria. Barely 48 hours after Tambuwal’s defection, his security aides were redeployed by the Federal…
President Goodluck Jonathan has held a closed-door meeting with the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. The secret meeting took place at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday. Both parties are meeting again for the second time after President Jonathan suspended Sanusi as Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in February 2014. They…
On Thursday, October 30, 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan purchased his presidential nomination form ahead of the 2015 general election in Nigeria. Jonathan obtained the form at the Wadata Plaza Secretariat of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, in Abuja, after he had told his party that he would be contesting in the polls. His formal declaration…
Group Managing Director, GMD, of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Andrew Yakubu, has been removed from office, Aproko247 has confirmed. Yakubu, appointed in 2012 by President Goodluck Jonathan, was sacked on Friday by the President. A statement issued by Jonathan’s spokesman, Reuben Abati, on Friday evening, did not give any reasons for Jonathan’s action. Abati…
President Goodluck Jonathan has finally filled the vacuum left with the exit of Ahmed Gulak as his aide on Political Matters. The President appointed Professor Rufa’i Alkali as his new Special Adviser on Political Affairs, a position formerly held by Gulak before his removal few months ago. Jonathan’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Reuben…
The recent happenings in the country has invariably placed most, if not every Nigerians, on the brink or seat of commentaries. Like a people, we are so used to passive comments without minding how the receiver will feel or whose horse will be gored at the end of the day, a lot of us take…