Former Nigeria’s Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has formally announced his defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. The Adamawa State-born politician announced this on Sunday via a press statement personally signed by him. The Turaki Adamawa disclosed in the statement that he was resigning from the PDP to…
Some unknown gunmen, on Saturday night, shot dead a radical Islamic scholar in the ancient city of Zaria in Kaduna State. Sheikh Muhamman Awwal ‘Albani Zaria’ was assassinated on his way home from an event he attended in Zaria. One of his wives, who was with him at the time of the incident, was also…
Following numerous online media reports on Saturday claiming newly-wed Tiwa Savage was pregnant, the singer has come out to debunk the reports. She categorically disclosed that she isn’t pregnant as widely reported. The pregnancy rumour emanated from a post Tiwa put on her Instagram page on Saturday stating that, “on a date with my boyfriend…
Federal University of Technology Minna, FUT Minna, has taken a step beyond the reach of other Nigerian higher education institutions by putting its academic services and on-campus on the electronic devices of members of staff and students through a new innovation software called Phinnx. FUTMinna adopted the Phinnx web system, which is targeted at computerizing…
Major Hamza Al-Mustapha was in Bauchi, the Bauchi State capital penultimate Friday in continuation of his peace and unity advocacy tour of the country. He was taken up in an interview session with a group of journalists. Tribune’s Assistant Editor, Saliu Gbadamisi, was there. Excerpts: Since your recent discharge and acquittal, you have been going…
Not less than 5000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Imo State joined the All Progressives Congress, APC. The PDP members were welcomed into their new party at an event held for Senator Osita Izunaso by the Orlu senatorial zone at the Orlu Township Stadium in Orlu local government area of the state.…
Oyo State governor, Abiola Ajimobi, has promised to break the jinx of second term in the state. For a long time, no governor has served the state more than once. Ajimobi, while addressing some motor dealers in the state, boasted that his performance in office would end the myth in the state. He noted that…
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has disclosed that the 2015 general elections in Nigeria is not a do-or-die affair, as some politicians in the country are presently making it to look like. Ekweremadu made this declaration over the weekend at the Chinua Achebe Memorial Conference which took place at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu…
Libya defeated Ghana on Saturday at the African Nations Championship to win the competition. Both teams played a barren draw in game which stretched into extra time. After sweating it out for 120 minutes, the match was decided through the spot kicks. The two goalkeepers saved two penalties each in the shoot-out before Ghana’s Joshua…
Former Presidential candidate of the defunct Nigerian Advanced Party, NAP, Tunji Braithwaite, is suffering from cancer, Aproko247 can authoritatively report. It was learnt that the father of three is battling with a cancer of the liver also called ‘hepatic cancer’. Information scooped by this magazine revealed that the founder of NAP is not happy with…