No fewer than 2000 officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, have been deployed to venue of the ongoing National Conference holding in Abuja. The conference was declared opened by President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday and the venue and its environs was also declared as a no-go-area for criminal, hoodlums or any…
Information reaching Aproko247 from Delta State has it that Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Victor Ochei, has resigned. “The Speaker (Delta State House of Assembly) has resigned from office and has handed over to his Deputy (Hon Okonta),” a source in the state government informed our reporter on Sunday evening. Our source also…
Nigeria’s Interior Minister, Abba Moro, on Saturday, said that those who died in Saturday’s stampede across the country during the Nigeria Immigration Service aptitude test should be blamed for their untimely death because of their “impatience”. Moro made this disclosure in Jos, Plateau State, while reacting to the unfortunate incident, which claimed the lives of…
Suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has reacted to allegations of financial recklessness levied against him by the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, FRCN, which led to his removal from office in February 2014 by President Goodluck Jonathan. In a lengthy letter made available to the media, Sanusi carefully…
The Nigerian Army said that it has captured a large collection of arms and ammunition as well as some money from the camps of Boko Haram group after the military engaged the terrorists in gun battles on Friday night. This information was contained in a statement signed on Saturday in Abuja by the Director of…
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…