A Federal High Court sitting in Benin, Edo State, on Friday, reserved ruling in the N25 billion money laundering and abuse of office charge brought against Micheal Igbinedion and Charles Eboigbodin by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for January 30, 2015. Justice J. Liman on Friday November 14, 2014, fixed the January 30…
The Defence Headquarters has confirmed that three persons were killed in the military helicopter that crashed on Thursday in Yola. On Thursday night, at about 10pm, a small plane belonging to the Nigerian Air Force crash-landed near the scene of a similar incident on Monday. The Monday’s incident happened in Girei in Adamawa State. It…
At least six persons were gruesomely killed in the late Friday evening bomb explosion that happened in Kano. A suicide bomber was among those that died in the attack. The incident, which occurred near an NNPC filling station in Hetoro area of Kano, caused pandemonium in the area. Several persons in the vicinity panicked and…
Oil and gas big boy, Prince Tonye Princewill, has expressed doubts in the highly publicised fight between Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Nyesom Wike. It is no news that Amaechi and his former Chief of Staff, Wike, who later became a Minister, have been at loggerheads. The two former friends have traded words…
boko haram According to BBC Hausa Service, members of the dreadful Boko Haram group have attacked Chibok town in Borno State again after they first attacked the quiet town in April 2014. At the April 15 invasion of the town, the insurgents kidnapped over 200 students of the Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok, Borno…
An explosive device has gone off in Kano, SaharaReporters reports. The bomb blast happened near a filling station in Kano, the online news medium added. It occurred on Friday evening just when some residents of the city were returning from the day’s activities. It was gathered that the incident took place along Maiduguri road, opposite…
The Nigeria Police has said henceforth, vigilante groups in the country would be screened and their activities monitored. This information was contained in a press statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by the Force spokesman, Emmanuel Ojukwu. The police image-maker disclosed that the Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, directed that an officer be appointed…
The United States government has reacted to allegation made by its Nigerian counterpart that it refused to help fight the scourge of terrorism in the country (Nigeria). Since 2009, a terrorist group called Boko Haram has unleashed terror on communities in the north eastern region of Nigeria. Their deadly attacks were intensified in 2011 after…
Few days after a military jet forcefully went down in Yola, Adamawa State, another helicopter belonging to the military has crashed-landed in the same city. On Monday, a small plane believed to belong to the Nigerian Air Force on surveillance crashed in Damare in Girei local government area of the state. It was conveying military…
The biggest town under the control of militant Islamist group called Boko Haram, Mubi in Adamawa State, has been recaptured and now in control of the Nigerian government, Aproko247 has learnt. In October 2014, the Islamic group captured Mubi, the second largest town in Adamawa, and declared it a caliphate, chasing Nigerian security forces out…