Delta Air Lines and New York-based designer, Zac Posen are coming together to bring high fashion and function to a different kind of runway as part of Delta’s new uniform program. Delta is creating a program for nearly all of its uniformed employees. Through the partnership, Zac Posen will design a uniform collection for Delta’s…
The Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Equalisation Fund, PEF, Mrs Sharon Adefunke Kasali, has been axed by President Goodluck Jonathan. Her sack was announced on Tuesday in a statement by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati. Kasali has been the Executive Secretary of PEF since 2007. Abati disclosed that Kasali has…
By Nwaorgu Faustinus Outgoing President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has been accused of setting traps for the incoming government of Muhammadu Buhari by embarking on unnecessary last-minute appointments as well as the removal and immediate replacement of heads of strategic government parastatals. The allegation was contained in a statement issued on Tuesday in Port Harcourt by…
If reports reaching our newsroom are anything to go by, then residents of Lagos State may soon heave a sigh of relief. This is because the daily traffic gridlocks commuters go through may soon become a thing of the past. Aproko247 learnt that there are serious plans by the state government to ensure the rail…
Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, the Abia State governor-elect, has urged his supporters to shelve any planned courtesy visits to his residence or campaign office for now. Ikpeazu explained in a statement he personally signed that he is taking this step so as to have time to map out strategies on how to govern the state effectively…
The Enugu State House of Assembly, on Monday, started proceedings to impeach the state governor, Sullivan Chime. The lawmakers accused Chime of forging the N12 billion 2012 Supplementary Budget. Fourteen members of the House, including the Speaker, Eugene Odo, signed the impeachment notice at the plenary held in the early hours of Monday and directed…
The ravaging scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, commonly known as petrol, may likely end today, Thursday, April 30, 2015, going by the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. She said that the Federal Government will pay about N156 billion to the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN, on Thursday in other to end the…
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has withdrawn a case he instituted against the 19 lawmakers of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Ekiti State House of Assembly. The matter was taken away from court on Wednesday. Fayose had run to court to stop the congressmen from impeaching him as Ekiti governor as well…
The Federal Government has asked the Indonesian government to repatriate the corpses of the four Nigerians executed this week in the Asian country for drug-related offences. In a statement issued on Wednesday night from the Public Communications Division of Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja, the Nigerian government condemned the execution of the Nigerians despite…
If an employee of MTN Nigeria had known that a post by his friend he shared on Facebook would land him in a big mess, maybe he would have had a rethink. As you read this, one of the brilliant members staff of the telecoms giant, Emeka Eze (not real names), has been told to…