The remains of Iyetade, daughter of Professor Wole Soyinka, would be laid to rest in Ibadan, Oyo State on Friday, January 10, 2014. The “cherished” daughter of the renowned writer and author died on Saturday, December 28, 2013 at the University Teaching Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, after a brief illness. A statement released by the family…
The news of Nigeria’s music producer, OJB Jezreel’s kidney predicament drew public sympathy and attention to the extent that few hours after the news broke that he needed a matching kidney donor, phone buzzed and enquiries were made to some media people who reported the news that some people were willing to donate kidney to…
The popular saying that thunder doesn’t strike twice in the same place does not seem to apply to the crisis which is rocking Diamond Bank presently. Because in the case of this bank, thunder can struck more than three times. Weeks back, when Mi5 reported a fraud in the bank, which took place in Osogbo,…
When you listen to radio or watch television these days, you are sure to see the new Globacom Telecommunications advert which moved from using “Rule Your World” as their pay off line to using “Glo Unlimited”. But the one million dollar question here is: Is Glo Truly Unlimited? If it is, how unlimited it is?…
Naijahottestgist has reported that some angry youths in Lagos gave a member of the House of Representatives, Yomi Ogunusi, the beating of his life on Wednesday after the lawmaker only returned to his constituency for the first time since he won at the election in 2011. Ogunusi would have died from the assault if not…
Unknown to many people, the former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-kayode and former beauty queen, Mrs Bianca Onoh were heading for the altar in the late 80’s, but the wheels of their love life was clogged by a sudden event that eventually created a gulf between the two lovebirds. Yemojanews gathered that Bianca Odinaka…
Aproko247 can report with authority that Nigeria’s Petroleum Minister, Diezani Allison Madueke, has started a test run of her newly floated newspaper, ‘The Union’. The voluminous paper has an all-gloss pull-outs for its Entertainment, Sports, Fashion and Style sections. A source in the organisation confirmed to Aproko247 that the management of the publication hopes to…
Having children outside wedlock is not what is new to Nigerian celebrities who many young ones look up to as role models. Such scenarios are usually kept as secrets from members of the press most of the times. Only recently, there were reports alleging that D’Banj and Wande Coal had children outside wedlock, which sources…
Authority sources within the government circle in Ilorin, Kwara State have revealed that the executive Governor of the State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed is once again a darling father of a baby boy, courtesy of his pretty mistress, Yinka Olanrewaju. Our impeccable sources confirmed that the boy, who is said to be a split image of…
In the last 10 days, two deaths have already been recorded in the Yoruba movie industry. First, it was the death of a 32-year-old Jane Atayero-Oluseye that shocked many, before veteran actor, Pa Ola Ogungbe died. Just as the industry was still mourning the two deaths, another practitioner has again passed away. This time, death…