Authorities of the Nigerian Army have confirmed that its men who fled to Cameroon during a gun duel with members of the terrorists group, Boko Haram on Monday, have returned to the country. The Army, embarrassed by media reports that the insurgents chased the Nigerian troops to Cameroon, claimed that military officers took a “tactical…
Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, on Tuesday directed all schools in the country to remain closed due to the outbreak of Ebola in Nigeria. Addressing newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday after a meeting with Commissioners of Education, Shekarau said both public and private primary and secondary schools in Nigeria will not resume until Monday,…
The Federal Government said on Tuesday that the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, has now been brought under control in Nigeria. The Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, disclosed at a press briefing that only one Ebola patient is now left in the isolation centre in Lagos out of the 13 earlier confirmed cases. He further said…
A former general in the Nigerian Army has said that only miracle could take the over 200 schoolgirls in the den of Boko Haram group. Brigadier-General Idriss Bello Dambazau, a retired army officer and one time Chief of Army Staff, speaking in interview with Freedom Radio in Kano, said he is fully convinced that the…
Aproko247 can confirm that a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Tom Ikimi, has eventually left the opposition party. The Edo State-born politician was among the aspirants for the National Chairmanship post of APC, but lost out to his kinsman, John Oyegun. A top source in the APC informed our reporter on Tuesday afternoon…
The Enugu State House of Assembly has impeached the deputy governor of the state, Sunday Onyebuchi. The embattled Onyebuchi was removed from office on Tuesday morning by majority of the lawmakers. His removal was as a result of the adoption of the report of the seven-man panel instituted to probe allegations of gross misconduct levelled…
Reports reaching Aproko247 indicates that former Lagos State governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has travelled abroad to seek medical attention. It was disclosed to this office by a top member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, that the National Leader of the APC left the shores of the country few days ago to get himself treated.…
The immediate past governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, has said he will return to the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, where he hopes to re-contest the Plateau Central Senatorial zone in 2015. Dariye, addressing newsmen over the weekend in Jos, the state capital, also pointed out that he is not making the shock return to…
Following a claim by the leader of Boko Haram Islamic sect, Abubakar Shekau, that the town of Gwoza in Borno State is now in its control, the Nigerian Army has disclosed otherwise, boasting that it (Army)is still in control of the area and every other parts of the country. The military, via its Twitter handle,…
Barely 24 hours after leader of the terrorist group called Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, released a video disclosing his control of Gwoza town in Borno State, members of the group have taken over another town in Borno State near the Cameroonian border. The latest takeover occurred on Monday morning in Gamboru-Ngala without much resistance, Aproko247…