Three pregnant women were on Saturday killed in Benin City, Edo State in a stampede that occurred during the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, recruitment exercise which held at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium. Over 20,000 applicants stormed the stadium to write an aptitude test put together by the immigration authorities. Trouble reportedly started at the stadium…

Reports reaching Aproko247 indicates that no fewer than 12 persons have been feared dead in a stampede that occurred at the National Stadium in Abuja on Saturday morning. The deceased and several others had gone to the stadium to write an aptitude test organised by the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, for those seeking employment into…

The Northern Elders’ Forum, NEF, has urged the National Assembly to look into the alleged insubordination by the nation’s Service Chiefs to the Minister of Defence, General Aliyu Gusau, earlier this week. The appeal was made by the group’s Deputy Leader, Paul Unongo, while addressing newsmen in Abuja on Friday. NEF noted that the purported…

Report reaching us from Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, has it that thousands of youths are presently at the National Stadium for the aptitude test organised by the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, which holds today, Saturday, March 15, 2014. According to information relayed to us, most of the applicants are devising several ways of gaining entry…

Members of the dreaded Boko Haram group have again launched an attack on Giwa Military Barracks in Maiduguri, Borno State, barely 24 hours it first carried out a failed invasion on the army settlement. The latest attack is happening despite the 24-hour curfew imposed on Maiduguri and its environs following a deadly clash between the…