It was a show of shame some days ago, when those who should be role models to the women folks in the society, especially in Anambra State, where their husbands govern, engaged in a public bust up. According to reports, the Anambra State First Lady, Ebele Obiano, who has been in the news lately for…
police# The Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has ordered the arrest of Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, Aproko247 has learnt. This followed the unrest that erupted at the National Assembly complex on Thursday morning, when the police prevented some lawmakers from gaining access into the parliament. Due to the blockade, some…
The atmosphere was lively and smiles were seen on the faces of operators, customers and well-wishers of Delta Air Lines and they marked the seventh year anniversary since the start of its daily nonstop service between Lagos Murtala Muhammed International Airport and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. For the time they have been in operation in…
The events of the present days are devastatingly becoming unusual for some big wigs in the political circle of the country. Unlike in the past, when nobody dared query the decisions of senior party members or top political godfathers, politicians are now challenging their leaders and taking them to task over issues bothering on election…
A Nigerian businessman and influential politician who was governor of Anambra State between 1979 to 1983 during the Nigerian Second Republic and was Senator for Enugu East in Enugu State from 1999 to 2003, Senator Jim Nwobodo, has lost his son, Ifeanyichukwu to cancer. Nwobodo junior reportedly died at a private hospital in Enugu on…
Names of some customers with bad loans with Unity Bank Plc have been released, Aproko247 has learnt. The Bank explained that this step was taken after the affected persons, 111 in numbers, failed to meet up with the grace given to them by the financial institution to pay up. In a statement issued by the…
*Gets Olympic Sports Personality Award Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has said the country needs to look towards having a long term planning system for the development of sports. Uduaghan made this observation while declaring the Annual General Meeting of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, open in Asaba, Delta State capital, on Thursday. The…
Aproko247 has learnt that pandemonium has been let loose in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, as some police officers and suspected thugs of the All Progressives Congress, APC, engaged in a free-for-all. It was reliably gathered that some members of the party had converged at the Abiola Ajimobi Vocational Centre in Oke Ado, Ibadan for…
Members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, in Rivers State staged a protest on Friday morning, demanding for the payment of their allowances. The aggrieved Corpers, at the orientation camp in Nonwa Gbam Tai area of the state, claimed the government has refused to pay them their allowances. The protesting Corps members barricaded the…
A military helicopter belonging to the Nigerian Air Force has crashed in Yola, Adamawa State, reports reaching us say. This is the third jet belonging to the Nigerian Air Force that have crashed within a month. The latest crash occurred in Damare, near the Federal University of Technology in Yola. Aproko247 is yet to get…