All seats in the Saturday’s local government election held in Kano State were won by candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission, KANSIEC, Chairman, Dr Sani Malumfashi, announced on Sunday in Kano. He said in a statement that the party swept all the chairmanship and councillorship seats in the…
Report just reaching Aproko247 has it that a terrible explosion has occurred in Sabogari area of Kano. According to an eyewitness in Kano, the incident happened at a drinking joint in the area. It is not yet clear if members of the terrorist group called Boko Haram carried out this latest attack. The violent Islamic…
According to an exclusive report by Telegraph (UK), the Boko Haram group has agreed to release half of the schoolgirls abducted on April 15, 2014 in Chibok, Borno State. Below is the full report; Boko Haram abandons demands for its top commanders to be released in negotiations with the Nigerian government that could see “gradual”…
President of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has disclosed that his presence in Chibok, where some secondary school girls were abducted on April 15 in Borno State by terrorists, will not ensure their freedom from captivity. Jonathan, while answering questions from newsmen in Paris, France, where he attended a security summit in the French capital on…
On Saturday, May 17, 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan travelled to Paris, France, to attend a summit on the security situation in Nigeria and other neighbouring countries. The meeting was hosted by French President, François Hollande, and the Nigerian leader revealed that about 20,000 troops have been deployed to the North eastern region of the country…
Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan, has said that about 20,000 troops have been deployed to search and rescue the abducted students of the Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok, Borno State. The schoolgirls were kidnapped in their school over a month ago by members of Boko Haram. Jonathan, speaking in Paris, France, at a meeting hosted…
A representative of the immediate past Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, has vehemently debunked rumours that the woman is dead. The media aide to Akunyili, Isaac Umunna, disclosed in a statement that the reports were not only “baseless, but also the height of wickedness.” Umunna stated that the former Director General of…
Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has asked the Federal Government and the National Assembly to put an end to emergency rule imposed on three states in the northern part of Nigeria. ACF, a pan-northern socio-political organisation, said the state of emergency imposed on Adamawa, Borno and Yobe by the FG in May 2013, should not be…
Paramount ruler of Rumueme kingdom, His Highness, Nyeweli Omunakwe Nsirim, has been urged to call Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State to order. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state made the passionate appeal to the monarch on allegation that the governor was using the state resources to pursue his personal agenda. Speaking on…
Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the reported public endorsement of Akinwunmi Ambode as the befitting next governor of the state by Rilwan Akiolu, the Oba of Lagos, as “undemocratic”. The party, in a statement signed on Thursday by its Publicity Secretary, Taofik Gani, said the monarch’s action is an…