***Rolls Out More Rewards To Customers First City Monument Bank, FCMB, has extended its 30th anniversary promo as a way of making more customers enjoy its bounties. The Bank took this gesture due to the huge success the first phase of the promo recorded. The anniversary promo had ended on Wednesday, April 30, 2014, but…
Omoniyi Makun, better known as Yomi Casual, who is the younger of ace Nigerian comedian, AY, has moved into his newly acquired house in Lekki, Lagos. The celebrity fashion designer threw a party to celebrate his latest gift. Aproko247 gathered that the property, a four-bedroom duplex, was tastefully furnished with expensive interiors. According to those…
A N50-million reward has been announced by the Nigeria Police for anyone with useful information that could lead to the rescue of the over 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the Boko Haram group three weeks ago in Chibok, Borno State. The reward was disclosed on Wednesday by the police spokesman, Frank Mba. Mba also urged members…
A suspected kidnapper ran out of luck on Tuesday in Lagos when she was apprehended by some people and set ablaze after she could not explain how she came in custody of three children she was with. The incident, which occurred at Ekoro Road in Abule-Egba, Lagos, at about 7am, resulted in a traffic logjam…
Veteran Nigerian singer, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, has lost his father to death. The musician’s dad, Justice Chukwudifo Oputa, breathed his last on Sunday, May 4, 2014 after a brief illness. Late Oputa was a former Justice of the Supreme Court in Nigeria. He headed the popular Justice Oputa Panel under administration…
President Goodluck Jonathan has disclosed he is not happy with the present situation in the country, especially with terrorism. Jonathan, speaking at a media chat on Sunday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, noted that the death of a Nigerian hurts him a lot, contrary to believe that he is never moved by the activities…
The Lagos State Government has warned that it would punish those who store or use banned chemicals in the state. This stern warning was given by the Director General of the Lagos State Safety Commission, LSSC, Mrs Dominga Odebunmi, while briefing newsmen at her office recently on activities mapped out by the state government to…
***Presidential Election May Not Hold In 2015 Many will unarguably agree that while the North eastern region of Nigeria is battling with the issue of Boko Haram, the North central is dealing with attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen on farmers in the region. The Boko Haram terrorist group has been described as deadly but for…
The use of commercial motorcycles popular called ‘achaba’ in the northern part of Nigeria, is to be prohibited in some areas in Kaduna State. The State House of Assembly recently passed a bill to that effect and proscribed jail term or fine or both for violators when the bill is signed into law. The bill…
The Nigerian Army has debunked reports that some terrorists attacked the capital city of Borno State, Maiduguri, in the early hours of Saturday. In a statement signed on Saturday by the Army’s spokesman, Maj Gen Chris Olukolade, it was stated that “there was no fighting or attack around the University or any barrack in Maiduguri…