President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has maintained that his administration will ensure that credible, free and fair general elections are held in 2015 despite the enormous security challenges facing the country. Jonathan made this assurance on Sunday at the 2014 Democracy Day Inter-denominational Church Service in Abuja. He noted that the 2015 general elections would be…
Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, has urged Nigerians to keep praying for peace to reign in the country. Maku, speaking in Abuja on Sunday at the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries Church in Utako, noted that prophetic prayers can stop terrorism in Nigeria. He further urged citizens of the country to join hands…
The Presidency has reacted to a media report that Nigerian leader, Goodluck Jonathan was booed in South Africa on Saturday during the inauguration of President Jacob Zuma for a second term at the Union Buildings, Pretoria. Jonathan, speaking through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati, on Saturday night in Abuja, berated the…
No fewer than 19 persons were feared dead in two communities in Adamawa State on Sunday morning by some suspected Boko Haram members, Aproko247 has reliably learnt. The attacks came barely 24 hours after a bomb went off at a football viewing centre in Jos, Plateau State during a Champions League final match between Real…
The city of Jos, capital of Plateau State, was again bombed by some suspected terrorists on Saturday. The latest explosion is the third in less than a week. Barely four days ago, two bombs exploded within the pace of 30 minutes in Jos Terminus Market, a very busy area in the cold city, killing more…
The Nigerian Army has reacted to an online report that soldiers in Maimalari Barracks, Maiduguri, Borno State, manhandled their new GOC posted to them after the former senior officer was shot by some angry officers. In a statement released on Friday by Director, Defence Information in the Army, Maj-Gen Chris Olukolade, the Army stated that…
A bomb attack was on Friday foiled by the police in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. It was believed that suspected Boko Haram members planned to blow up the area until the men of the Anti Bomb Squad, ABS, of the Nigeria Police stopped it. It was learnt that a Golf car filled with…
Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, shocked the #BringBackOurGirls demonstrators who protested the abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, over a month ago by the terrorist group called Boko Haram. At the protest on Thursday, the Minister of State, FCT, Mrs Olajumoke Akinjide, who conveyed Jonathan’s speech to the demonstrators, urged them to…
Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members attacked Gamboru community in Borno State for the second time in three weeks. In early May, some terrorists invaded the village, leaving over 250 dead in the attack. Several houses were razed by the insurgents without the military stopping them despite holding the village under siege for many…
The governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, according to an exclusive report by Premium Times, has asked the State House of Assembly to pass a bill allowing him get jumbo pay after his tenure must have expired in May 2015. Here is the full report; Barely a year to his exit from office, Governor…