The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has shifted its Board of Trustees, BoT, and National Executive Committee, NEC, meetings earlier scheduled for January 7 and 8, 2014 respectively to January 15 and 16. The postponement, according to information scooped, is to enable the party’s leadership to prepare well enough for the two crucial meetings. However, no…
Our attention has been drawn to a calculated attempt to smear the image of CMB Building Maintenance & Investment Company Limited and some of its hard working staff via a reckless message purportedly concocted by a somnambulist. Ordinarily, we wouldn’t have joined issues with the baseless and laughable text message aimed at misleading the general…
The governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime, has declared his total support for President Goodluck Jonathan for a second term in Aso Rock in 2015. Speaking on Saturday during the inauguration/swearing in ceremony of 17 local government chairmen in the state at the Michael Okpara Square, Enugu, Chime informed the gathering that he is fully…
The fight between Association of Igbo Youths, AIYO, and the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has taken a new twist with the youth group giving an ultimatum to the Ralph Uwazurike-led MASSOB to evacuate and bury the corpses of slain members abandoned in mortuaries between 2003 and 2013. In…
The 4th of January of every year is not just a day on the calendar but a very important day for one of Nigeria’s brightest stars. Prince Tonye TJT Princewill, the son of the Amanyanabo of Kalabari Kingdom, King (Prof) TJT Princewill, CFR, Amachree XI, is that bright star. Prince Tonye Princewill was born on…
Aproko247 can authoritatively report that a notorious oil pipeline vandal that operates in Lagos and Ogun States, Dayo Okiki, has been arrested by officials of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC. Okiki was apprehended on Saturday morning in Lagos, following an intelligent information gathered by the Civil Defence. The security agency got information…
The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has urged residents of the state to continue to support the administration of the state governor, Rotimi Amaechi “for the many giant and generational projects and programmes being undertaken by the state government under his able leadership to uplift the living standard of our people,…
‘African Queen’ crooner, 2Face Idibia, and his wife, Annie Macaulay, have welcomed the arrival of their second child together. The couple got the newest child in the United States of America, USA, on Friday, January 3, 2014. The mother of the child, Annie, was delivered of the baby in an Atlanta hospital, where she was…
The remains of Iyetade, daughter of Professor Wole Soyinka, would be laid to rest in Ibadan, Oyo State on Friday, January 10, 2014. The “cherished” daughter of the renowned writer and author died on Saturday, December 28, 2013 at the University Teaching Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, after a brief illness. A statement released by the family…
The news of Nigeria’s music producer, OJB Jezreel’s kidney predicament drew public sympathy and attention to the extent that few hours after the news broke that he needed a matching kidney donor, phone buzzed and enquiries were made to some media people who reported the news that some people were willing to donate kidney to…