Brand ambassador for Heritage Bank, Zuriel Oduwole, has wrapped up her tour of six nations. Zuriel has been on the road for the Girl-Child education via her #followTheBallForEducation campaign, which has largely been successful. The tour was brought to an end on Thursday, July 31, 2014, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. She visited the USA,…
The gubernatorial election that took in Ekiti State on June 21, 2014, shocked many political observers because the incumbent governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Kayode Fayemi, was defeated by the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Ayo Fayose, who once ruled the state. On August 9, 2014, it would be the turn…
President Goodluck Jonathan has been advised to resign from office due to an assassination attempt on former Military Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, in a bomb attack in Kaduna some days ago. Wife of Buhari, Hajiya Asiya, in a statement on Thursday, frowned at the incident, which almost claimed the live of her husband, and…
Pix from CNN One of the American health workers who contracted the deadly Ebola Virus while treating patients infected with disease in Liberia, Dr Kent Brantly, has arrived the United States of America, USA, to receive treatment. Dr Brantly was transported via a medical plane from Liberia and landed at the Dobbins Air Reserve Base…
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…
Additional 3,379 voting points have been created in Osun State by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, ahead of the gubernatorial election holding in the state on August 9, 2014. This was disclosed on Friday at a press briefing in Oshogbo by the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in the state, Olusegun Agbaje, who said the…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has disclosed that the opposition party, All Progressives Congress, APC, can chase the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, out of Aso Rock in 2015 if some certain things are done. The former PDP chieftain, speaking in an interview with Voice of America, VOA, on Friday, said Nigerians are hungry for…
Group Managing Director, GMD, of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Andrew Yakubu, has been removed from office, Aproko247 has confirmed. Yakubu, appointed in 2012 by President Goodluck Jonathan, was sacked on Friday by the President. A statement issued by Jonathan’s spokesman, Reuben Abati, on Friday evening, did not give any reasons for Jonathan’s action. Abati…
Contrary to rumours that there are new cases of the deadly Ebola Virus in Nigeria, the Federal Government come out to dispel such speculations. The government assured Nigerians that no new case of Ebola has been recorded. The FG, at a press briefing in Abuja on Friday, said those who had contact with the Liberian…
Popular lyricist, Olanrewaju Ogunmefun famously known as Vector Tha Viper, has finally apologised to his former music label, YSG Entertainment, which brought him to limelight. In a letter of apology addressed to his fans and the media, the artiste blamed the press for blowing his misunderstanding with the label out of proportion. Vector, as he…