Nigeria’s outgoing President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has urged the international communities to support the incoming administration of Muhammadu Buhari. Jonathan, speaking separately on Thursday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja when he received the new ambassadors of Ethiopia, France and Senegal, said just as the world leaders threw their weights behind his government, he expects…
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Police Arrest Maid Who Kidnapped Oyekoya Kids
The Lagos State Police Command has finally arrested the maid who allegedly abducted the three Oyekoya children some days ago. A mother of four and also a banker named Bisi Oyekoya had entrusted her children with a maid she only employed barely 24 hours on an online classifieds platform. But the maid left with three…
Rivers Election Tribunal Moves To Abuja
It has been disclosed that the Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal has been relocated to Abuja. The tribunal gave security as its reason for the action. In a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Wednesday in Abuja, by the tribunal’s Secretary, Mrs Deborah Musa, the decision to move sittings to…
No Foreigners Died Of Ebola Here–LUTH
Following rumours on social media over the weekend that two foreigners taken to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba, died of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, the management of the hospital has come out to debunk such, claiming nothing near to that happened at the hospital. Briefing newsmen on Monday, the Acting Chief…
Kwara PDP Gov Candidate Congratulates Ahmed
Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Kwara State governorship election, Senator Simeon Ajibola, has conceded defeated. Ajibola, after the announcement of the election result, called winner and governor-elect, Abdulfatah Ahmed at about 10.30pm to congratulate him. The governor-elect was the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the gubernatorial poll in…
Policeman Killed In Port Harcourt
Aproko247 has learnt that a police officer attached to the Rivers State Police Command has been killed by some unsuspected persons. The lifeless body of the officer, a mobile police, was found on Rex Lawanson Street in Borokini, Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on Saturday morning. Some security officials have taken the corpse to…
Sports Minister, Danagogo Attacks Kalabari Residents
Some inhabitants of Akuku Toru local government area of Rivers State have come under severe attacks from a band of vicious soldiers working for Nigeria’s Minister of Sports, Tammy Danagogo, a moment ago, the Rivers State Commissioner for Information, Ibim Semenitari, has alleged. Semenitari, also the Director of Communications, Greater Together Campaign Organisation, claimed that…
Vote El-Rufai, Tambuwal, APC Candidates In North–Ohanaeze Begs Igbos
By Obinna Akukwe Ohanaeze Ndigbo in the 19 Northern States of Nigeria have declared support for some candidates of APC in the North including Aminu Tambuwal, El-Rufai, Samuel Ortom, Abubakar Bello, and Mohammed Abubakar among others. Speaking with the Director General of Igbo Mandate Congress, IMC, a cleric and Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in…
I'm Still In PDP–RMD
Veteran Nigerian actor, Richard Mofe Damifo, better known as RMD, has dispelled reports making the rounds that he has left the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to join the All Progressives Congress, APC. RMD was rumoured to have quit the PDP and even endorsed candidate of the APC in the Saturday’s governorship election in Delta State,…
Jonathan's Aide, Oronto Douglas Dies Of Cancer
An aide to President Goodluck Jonathan, Oronto Douglas, is dead. Douglas was reported dead in the early hours of Thursday at the State House Clinic in Abuja. He was said to have been ill for some time now and was going to the hospital to get himself treatment until his death on Thursday morning. According…