A suspected financial of the Boko Haram sect has been arrested by troops fighting the terrorist organisation in Bama, Bama Local Government Area of Borno State. The Defence Headquarters disclosed on Tuesday that the suspect, Mohammed Maina, who doubles as a stimulant dealer for the insurgents, was intercepted and arrested by the troops. Maina is…
Justice Danladi Yakubu Umar of the Code of Conduct Tribunal has ruled that the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase must produce Senate President, Bukola Saraki at the Tribunal on Tuesday, September 22, 2015 to answer allegations levelled against him. The Judge ruled after resuming from a short adjournment on Monday, September 21, 2015 that…
Another employee of Arik Air has been apprehended by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, for drug trafficking. On Monday, August 24, 2015, one Chika Egwu was arrested at the London Heathrow Airport with about 20kg of substance believed to be cocaine. The latest arrest is of a catering loader with the…
Reports reaching us show that an employee of Arik Air was recently arrested at the Heathrow Airport in London, England by the United Kingdom Border Force for being in possession of items suspected to be banned substance. Aproko247 learnt that the employee of the airline, a male cabin crew member, was apprehended on Monday night…
There is anxiety in some quarters over rumours making the rounds that the former Chief Security Officer, CSO, to ex-president, Goodluck Jonathan, Gordon Obuah, has died in the custody of the Department of State Security, DSS. Obuah was detained after he honoured an invitation from the country’s secret police last week. However, days after he…
Contrary to reports that Victor Essiet of the Mandators fame was kidnapped over the weekend, Aproko247 has reliably learnt that the musician, who was very popular in the 90s, was actually arrested by the police. Our reporter gathered that Victor was apprehended over his failure to honour an agreement he signed in 2014 to pay…
Popular Abuja socialite, Dumebi Kachukwu, has been nabbed by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Kachukwu, a former son-in-law to ex-Minister of Aviation, Kema Chikwe, was arrested on Friday evening when he turned himself in to EFCC office in Abuja. Before then, the Commission had stormed his residence at 27, Gana Street,…
A famous rapper in Nigeria, William Orioha, better known as 2Shotz, got a dose of what some Nigerians suffer in the hands of members of the Nigeria Police over the weekend when he was locked up at a police station in Lagos. Aproko247 gathered the rapper was put behind bars at the police station in…
Some residents of ancient city of Kano have expressed their anger over the recently apprehended aircraft belonging to Russia, which was allegedly carrying military hardware. The plane was Chad-bound when it was seized by the Nigerian government. At a protest on Monday, the demonstrators, who stormed the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, asked the…
Following reports that the Inspector General Police, Suleiman Abba, has ordered his arrest, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, has disclosed that he will be willing to present himself to the security agency. In a statement issued on Friday by his media aide, Imam Imam, the Speaker noted that as “a law abiding…