A 36-year-old rock climber, Brad Parker, has died from a fall in Yosemite National Park few hours after he proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Jainee Dial. Parker is a veteran rock climber who lives in Sebastopol. He had completed a climb to the summit of Cathedral Peak, where he asked Dial to marry him, which…
Samsung Mobile has unveiled fast-rising Nigerian rapper, Remilekun Kalid Shafaru, better known as Reminisce, as ambassador for its brand of mobile phones. The deal was sealed a moment ago, and the rapper will ensure he promotes the brands range of mobile phones through various platforms. The deal, Aproko247 learnt, runs into millions of naira, but…
Financial institutions are meant to be a place where monies belonging to their customers are kept, but with the rate of frauds being perpetrated by employees of these institutions, some bank customers have continued to sleep with their eyes wide opened. One of such banks that fraudulent activities go on is First Bank Plc. Aproko247…
Three new cases of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, have been discovered in Lagos and Kaduna, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Jide Idris, has revealed. The Commissioner, while addressing newsmen on Monday in the state, said four persons infected with the disease have been discharged after they responded positively to treatment. He added that the…
A legislator from Lagos State has said that the epileptic power supply in Nigeria is the main cause of the recent mass failure recorded in the 2014 West African Secondary School Certificate, WASSCE, which held few months ago. In the released results, only 31.28 percent of candidates who sat for the examination obtained credits in…
Few years ago, controversial Nigeria actress, Tonto Dikeh, styled the Toyin Lawani’s ‘Tiannah Styling’ fashion brand. Her then Tiger-inspired dresses for the fashion brand made several headlines, which also launched the stylist and made her a talk of the town. Both parties enjoyed a smooth relationship, but alas!, that cordial bond between them may have…
A young man believed to be in his late teens or early 20s has been apprehended in Lagos with some explosives. The boy, suspected to be a member of the dreadful Boko Haram sect, was caught at the Lagos office of the National Airspace Management Agency located inside the Lagos Airport. As at the time…
Aproko247 can authoritatively report that veteran Yoruba actor, Pa Adebayo Faleti is not dead as being speculated in some sections of the Nigerian media. News went viral on Monday morning that the renowned actor was dead, but a top member of the Association of Nigeria Theatre Arts Practitioners, ANTP, who asked not to be named,…
There was a mild drama at the Glass House secretariat of the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, on Monday as the impeached president of the country’s highest football body, Aminu Maigari, resumed office. Before his arrival to the secretariat on Monday, Maigairi’s former vice-president, Mike Umeh, who has taken his ex-boss’ place in an acting capacity,…
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has said that the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, is worse than fatal Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, which is giving most countries of the world sleepless nights. The governor made this disclosure over the weekend at an occasion in the state. Okorocha, who was present at the 2014 New Yam…