Officials of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, in Yola, Adamawa State showed their good sides to Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the state. The rescue officials were at the Federal Medical Centre in Yola, where they donated their blood to IDPs admitted at the hospital. The gesture was welcomed by the beneficiary as they…
The Deputy Governor of Borno State, Zannah Umar Mustapha, has died, Aproko247 has learnt. Mustapha was said to have passed on in Yola in his sleep in the early hours of Saturday, August 15, 2015. He was reportedly sleeping inside a guest room in the Government House in Adamawa, where he had gone to represent…
The ‘operation take over north eastern Nigeria’ campaign embarked on by members of the noxious Boko Haram group seems to be gaining grounds by the day. For some months now, the terrorists’ group have invaded some communities in the northern region of Nigeria, taking full control of day to day activities of the seized towns.…
The Defence Headquarters has confirmed that three persons were killed in the military helicopter that crashed on Thursday in Yola. On Thursday night, at about 10pm, a small plane belonging to the Nigerian Air Force crash-landed near the scene of a similar incident on Monday. The Monday’s incident happened in Girei in Adamawa State. It…
Few days after a military jet forcefully went down in Yola, Adamawa State, another helicopter belonging to the military has crashed-landed in the same city. On Monday, a small plane believed to belong to the Nigerian Air Force on surveillance crashed in Damare in Girei local government area of the state. It was conveying military…
Some unknown gunmen have abducted the younger brother of former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Chairman, Nuhu Ribadu. The victim, Sani Ribadu, was seized by the kidnappers in Adamawa on Sunday evening. Aproko247 learnt that Sani was at his farm in Yola, the state capital, when his abductors took him away at about 5pm…