The Senate Committee on Police Affairs, on Tuesday, visited the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mbu, over the latest crisis that occurred in the state on Sunday, in which a member of the Senate, Magnus Abe, was allegedly shot by the police. Speaking with journalists at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the Committee…
Information reaching Aproko247 from the city of Onitsha, Anambra State indicates that there was pandemonium in the area on Wednesday morning. Some residents of the commercial city confirmed to this magazine that some members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, unleashed terror on some Northerners in the area.…
The official photographer of President Goodluck Jonathan, Callistus Ewelike, has been shot by some unknown gunmen in Abuja. Ewelike was attacked in front of his house in Nyanya, an Abuja suburb, on Monday night. He was about getting down from his car when one of the two gunmen, who came on a motorcycle, shot him…
Italian football club, AC Milan, has named its former player, Clarence Seedorf, as coach. The former Dutch midfielder is to replace the recently sacked Massimo Allegri. Milan’s immediate boss was shown the way out of the club after a poor run of results, which left the prestigious club 30 points behind table toppers, Juventus. Seedorf,…
No fewer than nine persons were killed in Maiduguri, Borno State when a car bomb has exploded in front of state television offices in the ancient city. Aproko247 gathered that the incident occurred at about 1pm outside the state television offices. People splattered with blood tried to flee as a second car was ignited by…
A group called Delateur Foundation has written a petition against DSTV Nigeria for allegedly defrauding Nigerians through its bad services. The group, in a letter dated Monday, January 13, 2014, signed by its Chairman, ‘Yemi Adeyemi-Enilari, and addressed to President Goodluck Jonathan, lamented the way the pay TV outfit has allegedly been robbing Nigerians.…
A former Commissioner in Ondo State, Ranti Akerele, has died. Late Akerele was the ex-Commissioner for Information in the state. The veteran broadcaster gave up the ghost on Tuesday morning. Late Akerele was the first Commissioner of Information under the current administration of governor Olusegun Mimiko. Until his death, the broadcaster was a Pastor at…
Over 4000 Community Development Associations in Osun State have endorsed the state governor, Rauf Aregbesola, for a second term in office. The CDAs, numbering about 4,350, at an event held recently in the state, expressed their support for the governor and promised to massively vote for him in the gubernatorial election holding in the state…
Spokesman of the House of Representatives, Zakari Mohammed, has disclosed that the ‘green chamber’ may have to revisit the issue of state police, which has been clamoured for by some Nigerians. Zakari made this known to newsmen while addressing them on the recent crisis in Rivers State. According to him, most developed countries in the…
Thousands of revellers had horrific experience making their way into the clear space for the Lagos Countdown 2013, making the event dubbed as ‘Africa’s biggest New Year eve party’, a major letdown. The countdown into the New Year was marred by very poor organization, barring a lot of revellers from enjoying the night as unannounced…