Former Nigeria’s Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, has welcomed the announcement of a ceasefire between the Federal Government and the Boko Haram Islamic sect. News of the agreement was widely reported in the Nigerian media, including Aproko247, though a known contact with the group, Ahmad Salkida, doubted the credibility of the development. Atiku took to his Twitter…
The Federal Government and Boko Haram are negotiating the release of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped over six months ago in Borno State by the group. The female students were abducted by the insurgents at their dormitories at Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok, Borno State on April 14, 2014. They were seized during their…
Members of the terrorist group, Boko Haram, have kidnapped about 100 young men in a village in Borno State. The latest development is happening more than four months after the insurgents carried out a similar attack in Borno, where no fewer than 250 schoolgirls in a Chibok secondary school were abducted. It was learnt that…
The rocky border town of Gwoza in Borno State has been taken over by members of the terrorists group called Boko Haram, Aproko247 has learnt. In the early hours of Wednesday, the insurgents stormed the town, dislodging some military officers guarding the community, before attacking residents of the community, who later flee to safety on…
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has formally rejoined the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, after he left the All Progressives Congress, APC, few months ago. At the PDP Osun mega rally held in Oshogbo on Saturday, August 2, 2014, the lawyer turned politician was presented by the Osun State chapter of the PDP to the…
Security operatives, on Wednesday in Katsina, apprehended three bombers suspected to be members of Boko Haram. They were nabbed with explosives, Coordinator of National Information Centre, Mike Omeri, disclosed. Omeri said one of the three suspects was a 10-year-old girl, who was found strapped with an explosive belt tied round her waist. He further said one…
Report reaching Aproko247 confirms that a bomb was been detonated at the Kano State Polytechnic on Wednesday afternoon. The latest attack was reportedly carried out by a teenage female suicide bomber while some of the students were checking their results. A source informed this magazine that the incident occurred at the Administration Department of the…
Report reaching us indicates that former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, escaped death by whiskers on Wednesday when he survived a bomb attack in Kaduna State. Aproko247 gathered that though the National Leader of the opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, survived the blast, his car was unlucky as it was destroyed in the…
No fewer than 22 persons were feared killed on Wednesday afternoon in an explosion that rocked the city of Kaduna. The blast occurred along Isa Kaita Road, which leads to the popular Murtala Square in Central Kaduna. It is believed that a convoy of an Islamic leader called Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi was the main target…
A village in Borno State was on Friday morning invaded by hoodlums believed to be members of Boko Haram sect. The gunmen, at about 5am on Friday, stormed Damboa community, killing several residents of the area and also burning down many houses. It was learnt that security officials were not on ground to repel the…