After 17 years of promoting designers from Nigeria and Africa in the world’s fashion capital, Paris and other parts of the world, African Fashion Ambassador, Lexy Mojo-Eyes recently met the French President in Paris, France. It was at the French National Day VIP cocktail in Paris also known as the Bastille Day. This is the…
Fast-rising Yoruba actress, Tola Ayeni, is a year older today, Tuesday, July 26, 2016, and she is marking the day with some dazzling photographs. Tola, who has produced some flicks including the earth-shaking ‘Agbelebu Mi’, is very excited witnessing another year added to her age. She has planned out series of activities to make this…
A top actor in the Nigerian movie industry, Richard Mofe Damijo, popularly known as RMD, has instructed his lawyer, Mena Ajakpovi of Messrs Abraham & Co to file a lawsuit against Nigeria’s top e-commerce company, Jumia. RMD is claiming that Jumia used his image on its platform without authorisation. The former Delta State Commissioner pointed…
One of the comedians making waves at the moment in Nigeria, Don Nice, is now set for his first ever United Kingdom tour, which kicks off next month. Aproko247 learnt that the fast-rising comedian will have some of his colleagues in the rib-cracking business on the tour. Few of them include Imeh ‘Okon’ Bishop, Gandoki,…
Two persons were on Monday brought before Justice O.A Ipaye of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on allegation bordering on forgery. The suspects, Animashaun Sadiq Abimbola and Adeniji Olamide Modupeoluwa were accused by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of conspiring to commit forgery. According to the EFCC, the alleged offence…
The EFCC on Monday, July 25, 2016 arraigned one Samuel Sunday Ovute, a business man and owner of Obuegu & Sons Enterprises, on a two count charge bothering on issuance of dud cheques and obtaining by false pretence, the sum of One Million, Six Hundred and Sixty Two Thousand, Four Hundred Naira (N1, 662,400.00), before…
Five students of the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA and Adekunle Ajashin University, Akungba, AAUA, have been apprehended by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Four of the undergraduates are from FUTA, while the other one from AAUA. They were nabbed over an alleged N16 million internet fraud by officials of…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said his administration is working assiduously to ameliorate the challenges faced by the Nigerian economy within a short period by understudying the experiences of countries like Iran who thrived in adversity. Receiving a Special Envoy from the President of Islamic Republic of Iran at the State House, Mohammad Javad Zarif,…
The battle for the 2016 Wura 1 crown of Goldberg Fuji t’o Bam took a more dramatic and entertaining turn in the city of Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Friday July 22, 2016, as six of the 20 semi-finalists, emerged for the final scheduled for Ibadan on July 29, 2016. The six finalists: Shina Akanni;…
Last Friday, the Ewi of Ado-Ekiti, Alayeluwa Oba (Dr.) Rufus Adeyemo Adejugbe Aladesanmi III, received officials and crew of Goldberg Fuji T’o Bam at his palace. At the palace were Goldberg Area Sales Manager, Ado-Ekiti, Prince Adegboyega Omotoyinbo; General Manager, Ofage Enterprises; Emmanuel Agu, Portfolio Manager, Regional Mainstream Brands, Nigerian Breweries Plc; Tayo Adelaja, Public…