As part of its corporate social responsibility, the management of Huawei Technologies in partnership with the Special Intervention Program on Communal and Societal Development (SIPCOD), a Non-profit organisation has upgraded and equipped an e-learning center with 58 state-of-the-art computers among others at the Sardauna Memorial College, Kaduna. The gesture was to support the students with…
The Kaduna State Government has appointed Justice Ishaq Bello, a retired chief judge of the high court of the federal capital territory (FCT) to lead an Inquiry into the NLC warning strike of 16th to 19th May 2021, and the actions and events associated with it. A statement issued by the Special Adviser on Media…
On Friday, June 24, 2016, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, summoned top commanders of the service to the Army headquarters for an emergency security meeting. This, Aproko247 gathered, was due to the recent allegation that some top officers of the military was planning to overthrow the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.…
Nigerian Air Force, NAF, Regiment personnel have commenced Rappelling Refresher Exercise on Friday in Kaduna. The 8-day exercise is code-named ‘Exercise Rockfall’ and the objective is to sharpen the professional skills of rappellers in the NAF for operational efficiency through training and retraining. A total of 31 airmen and an officer are participating in the…
No fewer than six medical doctors have lost their lives in a fatal auto accident that took place some kilometres to Kaduna. It was gathered that late medical practitioners were among the delegates from Ekiti State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, going for the association’s 56th annual general conference and delegates meeting in…
Aproko247 has learnt that an early morning bomb attack on Tuesday killed many civil servants undergoing their biometric exercise in Sabon Gari area of Zaria in Kaduna State. The workers were directed to undergo the screening by the government and while it was going on this morning, a suicide bomber stormed the centre and detonated…
A traditional ruler in Kaduna State has been murdered by some unknown gunmen. The monarch was shot dead at close range on Friday by the hoodlums. The deceased, who is the traditional ruler of Zangang in Attakad chiefdom in Kaura local government area of Kaduna State, Yohanna Shinkut, was killed while returning to his palace…
Chairman of Kauru local government area of Kaduna State, Usman Shehu; his deputy, Paul Yerima; and the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Chairman in the council, Timothy Chindo, were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, November 27, 2014. The accused persons were dragged to the Kaduna State High Court on a…
Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nasir El-Rufai, has obtained his nomination form of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the Kaduna State governorship election in 2015. He will be hoping to emerge the candidate of APC at the poll. El-Rufai, a Deputy National Secretary of APC, picked his form on Friday at…