Twenty four years old undergraduate of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Bello Godwin Onimisi, has been convicted and sentenced to three months imprisonment. Onimisi, a student of Industrial Engineering of the university, was jailed for impersonating the Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, Alhaji Dikko Inde Abdullahi. Onimisi, a native of Igarra, Akoko…
The Lagos State government, on Thursday, expressed dismay over the continuous failure of traders at the popular Ladipo Auto Spare Parts Market in Mushin area of the state to keep to environmental laws in the market. This followed an on-the-spot assessment carried out by the state Commissioner of Environment, Tunji Bello, at the market on…
President of the Student Union Government of the Lagos State University, Ojo, Mojirade Hassan, revealed on Friday that the violent protest that marred the school’s examination on Thursday was hijacked by some thugs. Mojirade made this revelation at the public hearing held at the Lagos State House of Assembly to look into the crisis with…
The Ondo State House of Assembly has pardoned a female lawmaker, Fola Olasehinde-Vincent, suspended in 2013 for allegedly being in possession of some fetish substances. Addressing newsmen on Thursday in Akure, the state capital, the Deputy Speaker of the House, Dare Emiola, revealed that the Olasehinde-Vincent was recalled to the Assembly on December 31, 2013.…
Luck ran out of an alleged laptop thief in Calabar, Cross Rivers State, on Tuesday, when some angry mob descended on him and inflicted some deep machete cuts on some parts of his body. The suspect, identified as Ime, was alleged to have used a master key to burgle into one of the apartments occupied…
An official of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, has shot dead a mobile police officer attached to an anti-robbery outfit in Bayelsa State. The Civil Defense officer and the late policeman were both attached to the state owned security outfit called ‘Operation Door Akpor’. The cop was mistakenly shot by the NSCDC…
A former Chairman of Ikeduru local government area of Imo State, Brendan Oguine, has been assassinated by some gunmen. The late council boss was gruesomely murdered in his house on Saturday, January 18, 2014. A source in Owerri told Aproko247 that the gunmen requested for some documents from the deceased, who declined, and was subsequently…
The Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima, has reduced the dusk-to-dawn curfew earlier imposed on Maiduguri, the state capital, in December 2013. In a statement issued on Tuesday in Maiduguri, by his Special Adviser on Media and Communications, Isa Gusau, the governor said that the curfew would now be observed between 9pm and 6am daily. “Gov…
Some gunmen believed to be members of the insurgents called Boko Haram have killed a primary school headmaster in Wulgo village in Borno State. The head teacher was reportedly shot dead by the invaders on Monday night, injuring his house mate, who’s a cook in another school. Wulgo is a border village with the Chad.…
The Lagos State House of Assembly has passed a bill for a law to ban smoking in public places. The bill was passed on Monday by the House, after it passed the third reading on the floor and was sent to the state governor, Babatunde Fashola for his ascent. If the bill is finally signed…