Aproko247 has been informed that about 161 students from 141 Nigerian universities will be hosted next week by the House of Representatives. According to information made available to our reporter, the student will have a 2-day interactive forum with the lawmakers on May 9 and 10, 2016 at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja. The…
It is no longer business as usual for those who find pleasure in seizing others in exchange for money as the Senate has agreed to begin a process for the enactment of a law that would prescribe capital punishment for them. This was reached on Wednesday during plenary. The lawmakers also asked state governments to…
Former governor of Oyo State, Rashidi Ladoja, has been taken back into the political party he dumped years ago, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. This was disclosed in a communiqué released on Wednesday after a meeting of the party in South West, which took place in Ondo State. “That we welcome Governor Adewolu Rashidi Ladoja…
What’s suspected to be a bomb went off in the early hours of Wednesday in the commercial nerve centre of Onitsha, Anambra State. The incident reportedly injured some traders at a market, where the explosion took place. As at the time of filing this report, Aproko247 could not confirm if anyone was killed in the…
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has presented assorted relief materials to Nimbo community, in Uzo-Uwani council area of Enugu State recently attacked by the suspected herdsmen. Presenting the relief materials to the affected community, the Director- General, Mohammad Sani Sidi, who sympathised with the people, said the Federal Government shares in their grief and…
Some suspected members of Boko Haram members who belong to logistics team were intercepted on Wednesday morning by the Nigerian forces. It was gathered that troops of 120 Task Force Battalion, 27 Task Force Brigade, in conjunction with vigilantes while on patrol, intercepted five terrorists logistics team at Gotumba area trying to move items to…
***Warns Cops Against Harassment, Extortion Deadline for the revalidation of the tinted glass permit for vehicles in Nigeria has been extended by the Nigeria Police Force. This was disclosed on Wednesday in a statement issued by the Force spokesperson, Olabisi Kolawole in Abuja. Kolawole said the new deadline for the revalidation of tinted glass permit…
Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State has commended President Muhammadu Buhari and security agencies for the rescue of former Minister, Iyabo Anisulowo. Amosun received Anisulowo on Tuesday night at the Government House in Ibara, Abeokuta, shortly after she was rescued from her abductors. The governor thanked the President for his support and also appreciated security…
The Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, has warned armed herdsmen carrying out deadly attacks in across the country to desists or meet their waterloo in Ekiti State. Fayose, while speaking at a function in Ibadan, Oyo State on Tuesday, said he has informed his people to poison water cattle belonging to the rampaging herdsmen. The…
Special Assistant on Media to the Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, Anietie Ekong, says the former governor of Akwa Ibom State has no hand in his purported posters campaigning for presidency in 2016. Ekong, in a press release, also disclosed that Akpabio has no intention to contest in the Aso Rock job in about three…