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…
The Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, has disclosed that elders in the state, including him, have thrown their full weights behind Akin Ambode to become the next governor of the state in 2015. The respected monarch, speaking on Thursday at a public presentation of a book on Ambode, held at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island,…
President Goodluck Jonathan will no longer be visiting Chibok town in Borno State, where over 200 girls were kidnapped in a secondary school in the town more than a month ago by Boko Haram members, Aproko247 has learnt. This news may come as a surprise to many Nigerians and the international communities as well because…
Director General of the National Orientation Agency, NOA, Mike Omeri, has disclosed that the Federal Government will not negotiate with the Boko Haram sect for the release of the missing schoolgirls. He also disclosed that men of the Nigerian Army are already closing in on Sambisa Forest, where the missing girls are believed to be…
President Goodluck Jonathan will eventually visit Chibok, Borno State, where over 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped by members of Boko Haram sect a month ago. Since the incident occurred, the Nigerian leader has failed to pay a visit to the town, casting doubts on his sympathy for the victims and their parents. From information reaching Aproko247,…