Senator Ahmed Yerima has divorced his 17 years old Egyptian wife, Marian, three years after the marriage was consummated, City People magazine reports. The former Governor of Zamfara State was criticised few years ago when he married the teenager, who is believed to be the daughter of his driver. As the magazine reported, Yerima and…

Former spokesman to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Femi Fani-Kayode, has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to forget about his speculated 2015 presidential ambition in order to allow peace return to the troubled Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. Fani-Kayode also asked Jonathan to listen to his piece of advice, swallow his pride and beg Obasanjo help him solve the…

Some security operatives, on Saturday afternoon, stormed the secretariat of the Atiku Abubukar led faction of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, formed some days ago. The heavily armed and battle-ready policemen sealed off the office of the faction of the ruling party located at Plot 320, off Onyi River Crescent, in Maitama area of the…

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, has thrown his full weight behind the new Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, formed by former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. This was made known by the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon Zakari Mohammed, while addressing some journalists in Abuja. The…

The Chairman, Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Tony Anenih, has now come under attack for supporting the governors under the new PDP led by Atiku Abubakar. Anenih had stated on Tuesday that some of the grievances of the governors under the new party’s faction against Bamanga Tukur and President Jonathan…

Controversial former spokesman of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Femi Fani-Kayode, has withdrawn his ‘indiscreet’ statement on Bianca Ojukwu claiming that he had an intimate relationship with her many years ago. In his write-up titled ‘Neither a Tribalist Nor a Hater,’ published in the Leadership Newspaper of August 16, 2013, to defend himself over his earlier article…

The PDP under the leadership of Abubakar Baraje has said it has asked its lawyers to press a contempt charge against Bamanga Tukur for flouting the orders of a Lagos High Court which asked both sides to maintain the status quo pending the resolution of the case before it on who should lead the party.…

The Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Ibim Semenitari, has disclosed that the life of her boss, Governor Rotimi Amaechi, is under threat. In a statement signed by the Commissioner on Thursday in Port Harcourt, Semenitari alleged that the Commissioner of Police in the state, Joseph Mbu, redeployed the governor’s Escort Commander, in charge…

A video has been released online showing President Goodluck Jonathan emerging from a meeting with some Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, governors at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, on Monday night (yesterday). The video link was sent to Aproko247 by one of our ardent followers. In the video, Governor Rabio Kwankwaso of Kano State was seen…