Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience, has reportedly been flown abroad again for treatment. She was said to have been secretly flown to Germany, where she had earlier received medial attention in 2013, for another round of treatment. A source in Abuja reportedly informed SaharaReporters that the First Lady was secretly flown out of…
Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero, on Saturday reiterated the need for peace and unity in Nigeria, which he said are the major ingredients for a better nation. The respected monarch urged Nigerians to put all hands on deck to move the country to a better place. He disclosed this during a courtesy visit to his…
A police corporal attached to the Kwara State Police Command, Yunus Muideen, has allegedly killed a former local government chairmanship aspirant of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, Femi Awoyale. The cop, who was allegedly drunk, was said to have accidentally murdered the politician at a Valentine event held at a hotel in…
Governors under the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, are scheduled to converge in Abuja on Saturday night. The meeting is billed to commence at about 9pm, Aproko247 has learnt. Already, state governors of the APC, the country’s main opposition party, are on their way to the nation’s capital city for the meeting. Governor Rochas…
A moment ago, we broke the story of President Jonathan’s visit to Ibadan, the Oyo State capital for an undisclosed mission. The President arrived the city from Kano, where he visited on Saturday morning. A source in the know of the visit, informed Aproko247 that at least one person was feared dead during a stampede…
News report just reaching our desk shows that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has just arrived the ancient city of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The President was in Kano on Saturday morning for a visit and then attended a religious gathering in the ancient Northern commercial city of Kano before leaving for Ibadan on Saturday…
According to a report by ThisDay, leading pay television provider, DSTV, which operates under the stable of MultiChoice, is presently swimming in the muddy water of a scandalous Grammy Awards promo mess. The company ran a promo in 2013 for its numerous subscribers, promising to take the winner to the United States of America, USA,…
Aproko247 can authoritatively report that the stepmother to Kunle Afolayan, a prolific Nigerian filmmaker, Mrs Oyenike Afolayan, has died. The widow of Ade Love, a veteran theatre practitioner, who died about 30 years ago, breathed her last some days ago in her sleep. This magazine learnt that the woman returned from her shop the previous…
Fuji maestro, Saheed Osupa, has ended his over two-year rift with one of his drummers, Sunday Balogun, otherwise known as Oluperi. The two parted ways over monetary issues. Oluperi, who has now worked with the Fuji star for 14 years, accused Osupa of surcharging him after shows and decided to leave the band. Some months…
Story by Nwaorgu Faustinus Members of the Rivers State House of Assembly have been hailed by the Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for passing the Rivers State Reserve Fund Law Amendment Bill 2014 to enable the state government withdraw the sum of N30 billion from the N53 billion in the fund.…