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…
Aproko247 has confirmed the death of a Nollywood actress, Ijeoma Okori. Until her sudden death, she was member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN, Rivers State chapter. Information confirmed to this magazine has it that Ijeoma died during child delivery. We were further informed that the woman died alongside her twin baby. There have…
Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, has directed authorities of the Yola International Airport to commence full flight operations at the facility with the use of the newly-built terminal. She gave the order on Friday in Yola while inspecting the upgraded facilities at the airport. Oduah expressed satisfaction at the level of rehabilitation carried out at…
No fewer than four persons were feared dead on Saturday morning when the convoy of the deputy governor of Ondo State, Ali Olanusi, was involved in a fatal car crash. The deputy governor was said to have been on his way to a social function in Akure when the unfortunate incident happened along the Aponmu-Owena…
Mrs Dupe Onitiri-Abiola, one of the wives of late MKO Abiola, has officially declared her intention to contest in the governorship election in Lagos State under Accord Party come 2015. Onitiri-Abiola, few days ago, expressed her desire to occupy the Lagos Government seat of power in 2015. She had then said she was consulting with…
Premium Times reports that the Presidency has mounted pressure on the Senate to stop the probe of missing N8 trillion oil funds leaked to the public recently. The report is reproduced below; The Nigerian Senate has come under intense pressure from the presidency, the petroleum ministry and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to abandon…
One of the old generation banks in Nigeria, Wema Bank, is presently in a mess and the reason is not far-fetched. Workers of the bank at Iponri, Lagos branch are still finding it difficult to understand how the sum of N6.5 million belonging to the Lagos State government suddenly developed wings and flew away from…
Deposed Egyptian leader Mohamed Morsi is due in court on charges of murder, days after he insisted he was the legitimate president at a separate hearing related to a prison break. According to state media, Morsi arrived at the police academy in Cairo on Saturday to face charges of inciting the killing of protesters near…
The ‘political porting’ happening in Nigeria has still not stopped as 16 local council chairmen in Kwara State announced their defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, on Friday. They were also followed to their new party by their 194 Councillors. The decampees, under the Association of Local Governments…
Things are definitely not going well with popular actor, Emeka Ike and his wife, going by the latest information about them. In 2008, the couple established as secondary school in Magodo, Lagos called St Nicolas College. The institution has recently been marred with crisis over unpaid teachers’ salaries and withdrawal of some students from the…