Month: July 2015

Nollywood Actor Plans September Wedding

An actor Nigeria, Okey Jazzy, has concluded arrangements to hold his wedding in September 2015, Aproko247 has learnt. Over the weekend, the actor travelled to Akabor-village, Ojoto in Anambra State to pay the bride price of his long-time lover, Annie Anaedum Ogochukwu, as tradition demands. He went along with few of his family members, friends…

PDP Becoming Useless—APC

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has reacted to the press conference organised by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Sunday in Abuja, where it said the ruling party is losing direction and has become a “bad change”. PDP’s spokesman, Olisa Metuh, had addressed journalists on Sunday and said President Muhammadu Buhari disgraced Nigeria during his…

APC Backs DSS Probe Of Rivers REC

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has thrown its weight behind the current probe of the State Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Mrs Gesila Khan, by the Department of State Security, DSS. The party in a statement by the state Chairman, Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, berated the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for seeking to…

The Phones No Longer Ring, By Reuben Abati

As spokesman to President Goodluck Jonathan, my phones rang endlessly and became more than personal navigators within the social space. They defined my entire life; dusk to dawn, all year-round. The phones buzzed non-stop, my email was permanently active; my twitter account received tons of messages per second. The worst moments were those days when…

APC Government Is “Bad Change”—PDP

Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as a “bad change” to the country. Addressing newsmen on Sunday at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, also said the APC-led Federal Government has no direction. Metuh said…

Dogara, Gbajabiamila Finally Reach Truce

The crisis rocking the House of Representatives seems to be finally over going by the latest development reaching us. During a press conference held on Saturday in Abuja, spokesman of the camp loyal to Speaker of the House, Yakub Dogara, Abdulmumin Jibrin, disclosed that the two gladiators in the crisis, the Speaker and Femi Gbajabiamila,…

7 Die In Jos Explosion

No fewer than seven persons were killed in a chemical explosion at the Laminga Water Treatment Plant in Jos, Plateau State. According to the state’s Police Command spokesman, Emmanuel Abu, the victims died after an explosion at the Plateau Water Board treatment plant near the British America junction in the state capital on Saturday morning.…

President Barak Obama of the United States, on Friday, met again with his family in Kenya, a East African country. The US President is in the country of his father’s birth on a two-day visit. He arrived Nairobi, the Kenyan capital on Friday, where he was welcomed by the Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta. He was…

Hanks Anuku Arrested In Ghana

Foremost Nigerian actor, Hanks Anuku, who lost her sister recently to cancer, was apprehended by police in Ghana on Thursday. Hanks was arrested with about 10 others during a movie shoot for allegedly causing fear in a public place. They were shooting of a television series on the Spintex Road in Accra, Ghana, when they…