A group of militants known as the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force, JNDLF, on Monday threatened to attack Nigeria’s seat of power, Aso Rock, to show to the world how powerful they are. The militants said that they would still launch six missiles they promised earlier last week for Tuesday (tomorrow). According to a statement…
A petition filed by James Faleke against the governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, at the state’s election tribunal, has been thrown out. While delivering the judgment on Monday, June 6, 2016, the tribunal held that Falake has no locus stand to file any petition against the election of Bello as governor and therefore dismissed…
Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has maintained that his boss is not ill as being reported in the media. Adesina, while speaking on Political Platform on RayPower FM on Monday, June 6, 2016, explained that going abroad to treat an ear infection does not mean the President is…
buhari plane President Muhammadu Buhari will be travelling to London on Monday, June 6, 2016, to treat an ear infection, Aproko247 has learnt. He is also expected to leave the country to embark on a 10-day vacation in the Queensland. A statement issued on Sunday night by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi…
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki on Sunday urged Muslim faithful across the country to use the period of this year’s Ramadan to pray for peace, security and God’s intervention in tackling the myriad socio–economic challenges confronting the nation. In a statement to mark the commencement of this year’s Ramadan fasting season signed by his…
A foremost Igbo umbrella of religious leaders, the General Assembly of all Igbo Christian Organizations and Ministers, GAAICOM, has appealed to all “Igbo Hebrews to return home to observe what it called a ‘3 Day Walk into the Presence of God’. According to the group in a statement made available to Aproko247, the 3-day exercise…
President Muhammadu Buhari has described as sad and regrettable the developments that led to the killing of Mrs Bridget Agbahime, an Igbo market woman in Kano by some Muslim extremists for alleged blasphemy against Prophet Mohammed. Buhari, in a statement issued by one of his spokesmen, Femi Adesina, condoled with the husband of the deceased,…
Benin Electricity Distribution Plc. (BEDC) has attributed the degenerating level of electricity supply to its customers in its operational areas of Edo, Delta, Ondo and Ekiti States to low power generation received from the national grid occasioned by gas shortage due to pipeline vandalism. This was disclosed last Friday by the company’s chief head, Edo…
According to Premium Times, President Muhammadu Buhari has fallen ill and this is why he has not been able to make his local trips lately. The President was supposed to be in Lagos some days ago, but he cancelled it at the late hour. Last Thursday, he was also scheduled to flag off the Ogoni…
The Federal Government has released an interim report on the assets and funds recovered from looters since the inception of the present President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. In a statement issued on Saturday in Lagos by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, the FG explained that it made “cash recoveries totalling N78,325,354,631.82 (Seventy eight…