President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has appealed to herdsmen and farmers across the country to maintain peace as the National Assembly is ready to proffer lasting solution to the perennial clashes over grazing by cattle. Saraki was speaking on Wednesday when a group of herdsmen from Kautal Hore Socio-Cultural Association Jigawa state branch visited…
The Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME, conducted by higher institutions in Nigeria for candidates seeking admission into their schools has been scrapped. The cancellation of the exams, commonly called post-JAMB, was announced by the Federal Government on Thursday in Abuja during the 2016 Combined Policy Meeting on Admissions to Universities, Polytechnics and other higher institutions…
A militant group in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria has ordered the Nigerian military out of the zone in the next 48 hours. This directive was given by the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force, on Thursday in a statement issued by its leaders. Aproko247 gathered that the group told soldiers in the Niger Delta…
Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has departed Ogoni land in Rivers State after performing the flag off exercise of the region’s cleanup. Osinbajo travelled to Rivers State for the programme to represent his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari, who was supposed to kick off the exercise. Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, was on ground to…
A militant group called the Niger Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, has threatened to wage war against the Nigerian military, saying it will test run its missiles in June 2016. According to the group, it is affiliated to the recently floated Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, which has carried out several attacks on oil installations in the…
Aproko247 has learnt that the absence of the judge handling the trial of alleged abductor of 14-year-old Ese Oruru, Yunusa Dahiru, also known as Yellow, stalled it on Thursday, June 2, 2016. The matter is presently before Justice Aliya Nganjiwa of the Federal High Court in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. Ese was allegedly kidnapped by Yunusa…
Reports reaching us confirm that Nigeria’s nominee for the post of secretary general of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, Mohammed Barkindo, has been given the plum job. Aproko247 gathered that OPEC approved the appointment of Barkindo as the new secretary-general of the international body. Barkindo’s appointment was rectified at a meeting of the…
Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday, June 2, 2016, flagged off the much-awaited cleanup of Ogoni land in Rivers State. President Muhammadu Buhari was earlier scheduled to kick off the exercise, but he cancelled the trip to Ogoni at the last minute. News went viral on Thursday morning that the President would no longer…
President Muhammadu Buhari has shelved his much-publicised trip to Ogoni land for the anticipated flag off of the cleanup exercise. Reports say the President decided to cancel the trip based on intelligence information. The Niger Delta Avengers had warned the President to travel for the function to Ogoni land at his own risk. The group…
Reports say former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, purchased Port Harcourt’s Le Meridien Hotel using a First Bank of Nigeria Executive Director named Dauda Lawal. The Capital reports that this revelation comes as the federal government of Nigeria this week struggles to release the list of the nation’s looters and saboteurs of the economy,…