Veteran Nigerian actor, Jibola Dabo, has promised to ensure unemployed youths in Owo/Ose communities in Ondo State are gainfully employed when he is elected into the House of Representatives in 2015. Dabo, through his publicist, Bisola Iyasara, noted that he has advanced dialogue with a notable financial institution in Nigeria, as well as a telecommunication…
picture from the blast We have reports of a bomb explosion in a popular shopping mall in Nigeria’s seat of power, Abuja. The bomb went off on Wednesday afternoon at Banex Plaza in Wuse II, Abuja, a terrified eyewitness informed Aproko247 via our BlackBerry platform. We were also told that gunshots were heard in the…
According to information reaching our news desk, an explosion believed to be caused by a detonated bomb has occurred in Adamawa State. The incident happened on Wednesday afternoon at the Kasuwan Kuturu market in Mubi, Adamawa State. The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that the Commissioner of Police in Adamawa claimed the the bomb…
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, MD Abubakar, has decorated some newly promoted police officers. The ceremony was held in Abuja and was attended by some high ranking officers. Among the decorated senior police officers were an Assistant Inspector General, Grace Chita Okudo; two Commissioners of Police, Elias Okafor Wayemeru and Henry Adebayo Fadairo; and two…
Following recent harassment on the governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, by some federal agents, a member of the House of Representatives, Andrew Uchendu, has raised an alarm on the safety of the state governor. Uchendu, representing Ikerre/Emohua Federal Constituency of Rivers State, at a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday, urged Nigerians to kick…
Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, Ibrahim Abdulsalam, on Tuesday, disclosed that the small aircraft alleged to be missing is not in the Nigerian airspace. Abdulsalam, addressing aviation correspondents in Lagos, said the four-seater light aircraft had been handed over to the Cameroon airspace authority before the incident. He stressed that the…
About three villages in Sanga local government area of Kaduna State were invaded in the early hours of Tuesday by unknown hoodlums, who unleashed terror on inhabitants of the communities. The incident occurred in Southern Kaduna, which is predominantly occupied by Christians. Several persons were killed by the gunmen and some houses also touched by…
Just when the ‘world’ is yet to locate the missing Malaysian plane, a four-seater plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon enroute Cameroon is reportedly missing. It was said that the search and rescue operations led by Cameroon’s civil aviation authorities have not yielded any positive results at the moment. The small aircraft, owned by a…
According to AIT, a veteran journalist, Helen Eguabor, has died. The woman, a political writer, died in a South African hospital. It was reported that the deceased that gone to a hospital in Kempton Park, Johannesburg South Africa for a medical check-up. Helen, 46, is said to be a devout catholic and a member of…
A community in Borno State has been attacked by gunmen believed to be members of the dreaded Islamic sect called Boko Haram. It was gathered that the incident occurred in Kummabza village under Damboa local government area of Borno State, where insurgency has been on the rise for a while despite a state of emergency…