President Goodluck Jonathan has disclosed that the “country would have been in turmoil” if the plans of some “sons of the devil” had materialised. Jonathan, speaking in Abuja on Sunday when the Vice President, Namadi Sambo, led a delegation of the Muslim community to his official residence to pay him Sallah homage, condemned the attacks…
Investigation into the attempted assassination of former military ruler, Muhammadu Buhari, has been requested by the All Progressives Congress, APC. On Wednesday, a suicide bomber attempted to kill the National Leader of the APC, but Buhari escaped unhurt, injuring three of his aides and killing some passers-by. Speaking via a statement issued on Sunday in…
“All vehicular movement within the Maiduguri city is banned from Monday, 28th to Wednesday, 30th July, 2014,” the Nigerian Army in Borno has declared. This came after the military claimed it had an intelligent report that members of Boko Haram sect have planned to attack worshippers during the end of Ramadan celebration. “The report at…
A gun duel between men of the Nigerian Military and the Shiite Muslims on Friday has left no fewer than four persons dead in Zaria, Kaduna State. The clash was as a result of protest staged by the Islamic group over the ongoing war between Israeli soldiers and the Palestinian militant group in Gaza called…
The Nigerian government has informed the Liberian Embassy that its citizen believed to be suffering from the deadly Ebola virus has died in Lagos. The message was relayed to the Liberian government on Friday morning by the Nigerian Embassy. The victim, Patrick Sawyer, a WASH consultant at the Ministry of Finance, was quarantined on Sunday…
Nigeria’s former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, has claimed that the bombers that attacked him on Wednesday in Kuwa area of Kaduna wanted to assassinate him. The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, narrowly escaped death in the bomb explosion, which occurred some minutes after a first bomb went off in Kaduna. In…
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has expressed gratitude to God for sparing the life of former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, in one of the two blasts that happened in Kaduna on Wednesday. Jonathan, in a statement issued on Wednesday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati, also extended the same gratitude to…
Former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and current Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, on Wednesday, paid a courtesy visit to President Goodluck Jonathan for the first time since his ascension to the exalted Kano throne. The monarch was at the Presidential Villa in Aso Rock, Abuja, for the breaking of Ramadan fast with…
The number of casualties recorded in the twin explosions that occurred in Kaduna on Wednesday afternoon has increased. Aproko247 had earlier reported 22 persons dead in the first attack, but our correspondent has learnt that more than 60 lives have been lost in the two explosions. The two blasts occurred at few minutes interval. Rescue…
Report reaching us indicates that former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, escaped death by whiskers on Wednesday when he survived a bomb attack in Kaduna State. Aproko247 gathered that though the National Leader of the opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, survived the blast, his car was unlucky as it was destroyed in the…