Students in state tertiary institutions have been protesting the huge hike in tuition fees at their various institutions of learning since last year. Some students have been made to drop out from school because of their inability to afford the over 200% hike in fees. Many also forced to repeat a session for failing to…
Report reaching us says police in Kano State have stopped a plan by some terrorists to blow up a mosque in the ancient northern city. The incident, according to preliminary report reaching us, we learnt, caused a stare among worshippers who trooped out to observe the Friday Jumat service in the mosque. We are still…
Aproko247 has confirmed that the rumour making the round that a bomb explosion has occurred in Utako Market in Abuja is not true. It was disclosed to us that nothing of such happened in the market as traders and visitors to the market are going about their businesses. A photograph taken from the market and…
Senator Oluremi Tinubu, wife of former Lagos governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will be questioned by her colleagues in the red chamber over comments attributed to her, attacking the leadership of the upper chamber of the National Assembly. At the plenary on Thursday, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who presided over the session, directed the Committee…
The name, Tony Usidamen, is synonymous with class and expertise. No wonder this suave and upwardly mobile man was able to record groundbreaking successes when he was the Head of Corporate Communications at Dana Group. And like the Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Usidamen has decided to climb to the next level in the pyramid. …
Saturday, June 28, 2014, the organisers of the prestigious Miss Global Nigeria, MGN, with the signature, ‘the nation’s most fairest pageant’, will be in Port-Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, for the much awaited screening of contestants of the glamorous beauty contest. It was learnt by Aproko247 that the exercise would hold at the Rumuekini Town…
Charles Oputa, better known as Charly Boy, is a man of many personalities. To some, he is eccentric, while others believe he is just a blunt person. Area Fada, as he is also fondly called by his fans, held a lying-in-state ceremony for his late father, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, in Owerri, Imo State, on Wednesday,…
The national leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has disclosed that it would challenge the use of military in the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti State. At the poll, candidate of the APC, who is also the incumbent governor of the state, Kayode Fayemi, was ousted from office by the Peoples’ Democratic Party,…
It has been whispered to Aproko247 that two Nollywood mums; Omotola Jolade-Ekeinde and Dakore Egbuson-Akande are set to be unveiled as brand ambassador for Pampers. The duo did some photoshoots for the brand some days ago, which would be used to promote the product. “Omotola and Dakore had a photo session some days ago. Kelechi…