The Federal Government and Boko Haram are negotiating the release of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped over six months ago in Borno State by the group. The female students were abducted by the insurgents at their dormitories at Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok, Borno State on April 14, 2014. They were seized during their…
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Buhari To Tackle Corruption If Elected President
Former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, has announced his desire to run in the 2015 Presidential election in Nigeria. The politician declared his ambition at an event held in that respect at the Eagles Square, Abuja, on Wednesday. The occasion attracted mammoth crowd at the venue and was also attended by four governors of…
Badeh Meets Cameroonian Service Chief Over Terrorism
Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, held a meeting with his Cameroonian counterpart, Lieutenant General Meka Rene Claude, on Wednesday to discuss ways of tackling terrorism at the borders of the two West African neighbour-countries. The meeting was held at the Defence Headquarters in Abuja. Ideas and modalities on areas of…
Prince Tonye Princewill Declares Rivers Guber Ambition
Ahead of the 2015 governorship election in Rivers State, prominent indigene of the state, Prince Tonye Princewill, has declared his intention to contest as governor of the state in the 2015 polls. The politician made known his desire for the elated position on Wednesday. In a statement made available to Aproko247 by his media team,…
Obanikoro, Maku, Others Leave Jonathan’s Cabinet
Following a directive by President Goodluck Jonathan that any member of his administration nursing a political ambition ahead of the 2015 general elections in Nigeria should resign from office on or before Monday, October 20, 2014, seven members of his cabinet have quit office. On Wednesday, seven Ministers in Jonathan’s cabinet resigned their appointments to…
Chibok Girls: Don’t Put Us Under Pressure—FG
In spite of calls by some pressure groups, individuals and the international community on the rescue of the over 200 secondary schoolgirls abducted in April 2014 by some terrorists in Borno, the Federal Government has categorically stated that it will not disclose its strategies on the issue. At a press briefing held in Abuja on…
2015: Utomi May Contest Again
Professor Pat Utomi has stated that he may run in the 2015 presidential polls if asked to do. Speaking in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, the scholar disclosed that if his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the people give him the privilege to contest in the elections in 2015,…
Rivers To Mark Amaechi’s Supreme Court Victory Anniversary
On October 25, 2005, a Supreme Court judgement sacked Celestine Omehia as Governor of Rivers State and installed Rotimi Amaechi as the duly elected Governor of the State. Ironically, both Omehia and Amaechi are cousins and then members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. Seven years down the line, the state government has disclosed that…
Court Installs Ngilari As Adamawa Gov, Sacks Fintiri
A Federal High Court in Abuja has directed Speaker of the Adamawa State House of Assembly, Umar Fintiri, who has been acting as governor of the state, following the impeachment of Murtala Nyako in July 2014, to vacate the position. Justice Ademola Adeniyi, presiding over the matter, asked the former deputy governor of the state,…
Army Orders Detention Of ‘Timid’ General
Following an alleged show of fear displayed by a Brigadier-General attached to the 3rd Division of the Nigerian Army recently on a battle field, authorities of the Army have ordered the arrest and detention of the senior officer. It was learnt that the officer’s action led to the easy capture of a community in Borno…