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…
Some gunmen numbering about six, according to an eyewitness, shot dead a community leader in Bayelsa State at the early hours of Monday. The victim, Morris Jonathan, 34, was a former Chairman of Peremabiri Community Development Committee, CDC, where he hails from. He was assassinated at his residence in Akenpaiarea in Yenagoa, the state capital.…
Exactly a week after a rally of the Save Rivers Movement was disrupted in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, the group has again been attacked by some hoodlums in the state. On Sunday, the planned rally at Khana local government area of Rivers State was marred by violence when hundreds of suspected thugs unleashed terror…
An alleged admission scammer, Obinna Okoro, has been arrested by officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The suspect was nabbed in Owerri, Imo State by the anti-graft body for allegedly obtaining money from his victim under false pretence. He was accused of duping one Dr Essien Edet of € 5,000, 00 under…
Barely five days after a former Commissioner for Information in Ondo State, Ranti Akerele, died in the state, another Commissioner has kicked the bucket. This time, it is the former Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Akerele Adu. He served under the administration of former Governor Adebayo Adefarati, who died in 2007. Adu died at…
Aproko247 can authoritatively report that the Permanent Secretary of Lagos State Television, LTV 8, Ikeja, Lekan Ogunbanwo, has left the organisation in that capacity. Information available at our disposal confirms that the astute broadcaster has now been redeployed to the Parastatal Ministry Office, PMO, also in Alausa, Ikeja. The redeployment was approved by the state…