The Nigerian Police said it disabled three explosives at the scene of the bomb blast in Nyanya, Abuja on May 1, 2014. Addressing newsmen in Abuja on Friday, the police spokesman, Frank Mba, said officials of the Force were able to successfully detonate three Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, at site of the unfortunate incident. “Investigations…
Aproko247 has learnt that following another bomb blast in Nyanya, Abuja on Thursday night, President Goodluck Jonathan has again summoned another security meeting. The President directed the security chiefs to a special meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Friday. The gathering is to discuss the Thursday’s incident, which has claimed the lives of…
Babatunde Ogunleye, sometimes ago, vied for the chairmanship position in a local council election in Osun State under the then Action Congress (now the All Progressive Congress, APC), but suffered defeat. Oguleye had attempted life, lived for spectacle, dash and flash. However, the owner of Babog Investment International Limited, a phony investment company that, in…
The younger brother of Africa’s wealthiest woman, Folorunso Alakija, Hakeem, on Sunday April 6, 2014, made a move that has been eliciting side talks from people within the society. He took a second wife, amidst a modest Nikkai-cum-introduction ceremony, which was attended by his family members and close friends. His second wife is Folakemi Aladeniyi,…
As the 2015 elections are fast approaching, not a few political gladiators in the centre of excellence are making final moves to take over from Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos State under the All Progressives Congress, APC. Sources revealed that a National Leader of the party, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has expressly made it clear…
Nigeria’s First Lady, Patience Jonathan, has called for support for her husband, Goodluck Jonathan, in jointly fighting terrorism in the country. The President’s wife made the passionate appeal to Nigerians at a function in Lagos on Thursday. She urged citizens of the country join hands with the federal, state and local governments to tackle insecurity…
Security operatives in Borno State have disclosed that more than 270 girls are still missing and are not yet accounted for. The Police in the state, as well as the State Security Service, SSS, said the number of students of the Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok in Borno State still not found are 276,…
Normally, a bank is meant to be the safest place for people to keep their hard-earned money, but when such institution is corrupt and fraudulent, it calls for concerns and it also means all is not well with the sweats of customers of such bank. Information getting to us indicates that one of the financial…
Adam Attah, first civilian governor of Kwara State, has died. Attah passed away on Thursday at his residence along Airport Road in Abuja. The deceased was a lawyer by profession and was a former Federal Permanent Secretary. Late Attah was buried this evening according to Islamic rites at his Kuroko residence in Okene, Kogi State.…
Aproko247 has confirmed that the explosion heard near the Nyanya Motor Park in Abuja on Thursday evening was from a bomb. A resident of the FCT, Abuja informed this magazine that bodies of people killed by the blast littered the ground near the bus station, where over 15 people were slain in a similar incident…