Husband of Nigerian Ambassador to the United Nations, Prof Joy Ogwu, Dr Aloysius Ogwu, has died, Aproko247 has learnt. The man gave up the ghost on Monday in New York, USA, a statement issued on Thursday by the Permanent Mission of Nigeria disclosed. Joy Ogwu is Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the world body. Her husband…
The Nigeria Police has given reason for withdrawing security personnel attached to Speaker of House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, who defected from the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, on Tuesday to the All Progressives Congress, APC, a major opposition party in Nigeria. Barely 48 hours after Tambuwal’s defection, his security aides were redeployed by the Federal…
President Goodluck Jonathan has held a closed-door meeting with the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. The secret meeting took place at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday. Both parties are meeting again for the second time after President Jonathan suspended Sanusi as Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in February 2014. They…
Managing Director of Guinness Nigeria Plc, Seni Adetu, has been asked to step down from his exalted office at the end of October 2014. He will formalise his exit at the next Board meeting of the company in November, Punch reports. Adetu is leaving as MD of Guinness Nigeria following decline in the profit of…
On Thursday, October 30, 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan purchased his presidential nomination form ahead of the 2015 general election in Nigeria. Jonathan obtained the form at the Wadata Plaza Secretariat of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, in Abuja, after he had told his party that he would be contesting in the polls. His formal declaration…
Security details attached to Speaker of House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, have been withdrawn. This is coming barely 48 hours after the Speaker formally announced his defection from the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, to the opposition, the All Progressives Congress, APC. This is also coming barely 24 hours after his former party asked him to…
After speculations of him pitching tenth with the opposition party, the Speaker of House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, has finally left his party and has joined the opposition. The number four citizen of Nigeria, on Tuesday, declared his support for the All Progressives Congress, APC, leaving the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, a platform he got…
Ben Murray-Bruce, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Silverbird Group, has declared his intention to contest for the Senate in 2015. Murray-Bruce, addressing his people in Brass local government area of Bayelsa State on Monday, lamented the level of neglect in the area by the government. The former Director General of the Nigeria Television Authority,…
Super Falcons of Nigeria, on Saturday, defeated their Cameroonian counterpart to lift the 2014 African Women Championship cup for the 7th time since the competition’s inception in 1998. The Nigerian team had beaten South Africa by 2-1 in the semi-finals of the tournament hosted by Namibia to book a place in the final with Cameroon.…
The Sudan Ambassador to Nigeria, Tagelsir Ali, has died, Aproko247 has learnt. Ali’s death was confirmed by Sudanese Embassy in Abuja on Friday. Ali died at the National Hospital in Abuja at about 1am on Friday. He was deployed to Nigeria in February 2012. The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that the deceased, aged…