Top Lagos socialite, Erelu Abiola Dosunmu, has died at the age of 79. The shrewd businesswoman died on Wednesday, January 1, 2014. It was reliably learnt that the late Lagos Chief was the Erelu Iledi Osugbo of Lagos. She was installed as Erelu in 1984 by late Oba Adeyinka Oyekan, after holding the same position…
Aproko247 can authoritatively report that 27 out of the 30 legislators in the Sokoto State House of Assembly have defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. The affected lawmakers joined the APC from the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, which has been battling with a major turbulence since 2013. The 27 defecting members of the State…
The judge in the trial of Egypt’s ousted president has ordered the hearings adjourned until February 1 after bad weather prevented bringing Mohamed Morsi to court, according to state media. State media reported that the helicopter that was to fly Morsi from a prison near the Mediterranean city of Alexandria to the court in Cairo…
South Africa and Mozambique will kick-off the 2014 African Nations Championship when they clash in the Group A opener at Cape Town Stadium on Saturday, 18h00 CAT. The host nation’s team has not had ideal preparation according to coach Gordon Igesund, who has had to wrangle over the availability of players from domestic clubs and…
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) announced December 31, 2013, that Forte Oil plc (formerly AP plc), Nigeria’s foremost indigenous major marketer of refined petroleum products, and Transnational Corporation of Nigeria plc have been enlisted into the NSE 30 Index, a league of the Exchange’s most capitalised stocks, thereby commencing the new year as one of…
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association, PENGASSAN, have cancelled their proposed joint strike actions. This decision was reached on Tuesday night in Abuja after a meeting with the Federal Government. The oil and gas unions entered into a six-hour meeting with representatives…
“There will be nothing like automatic tickets for anyone; incumbents and challengers seeking the PDP ticket must go through the normal process to secure it,” the Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Zone 3 of Kaduna State, Joseph Gumbari, has declared. Recently, there have been reports that some members of the PDP have insisted…
The Plateau State governor, Jonah Jang, has condemned Monday’s attack in Shonong in Riyom local government area of the state by some gunmen. The incident left over 30 persons dead, mainly children, women and old men. In a statement released on Tuesday by the state Commissioner for Information and Communication, Yiljap Abraham, the governor described…
Story by Nwaorgu Faustinus The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, has strongly condemned the alleged use of violence against the judiciary in the state by members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. This is coming barely a day after a Court in Rivers State was bombed by some thugs in the state. The…
Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State has denied reports that a woman slumped and died in his office on Monday after being delayed for a long time. Refuting the story on Tuesday, while inaugurating the Niger State Geographic Information System, NIGIS, board, the governor explained that the woman in question died of ill health at…