The Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has called on relevant security agencies in Nigeria to investigate the introduction of violence into the politics of Rivers State by alleged prominent Ogboni member and governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, Nyesom Ezebunwo Wike. The party in a statement signed…
…says he’s in the race to serve The governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in Lagos State, Akinwumi Ambode, has explained why he is interested in becoming the governor of the state. The renowned Accountant, speaking over the weekend at an event held at the MUSON Centre in Onikan, Lagos, stressed that his…
According to reports reaching us, President Goodluck Jonathan is holding a closed-door meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The meeting is currently holding at the ex-President’s residence in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, we learnt. This is one of such meetings Jonathan has held with the elder statesman in recent times. It would also be…
Portuguese striker, Christiano Ronaldo, has been announced as winner of the 2014 FIFA World Footballer of Year. The Real Madrid player picked the coveted individual award in football on Monday night at a ceremony held in Zurich, Switzerland. He beat Barcelona and Argentine player, Lionel Messi, and Manuel Neuer, a Bayern Munich and German goalkeeper,…
Report reaching us has it that some unknown gunmen raided the residence of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, John Oyegun, in the early hours of Monday. The hoodlums, we learnt, went straight to the bedroom of Oyegun, but met his wife. Our correspondent gathered that the opposition party boss was not…
An early morning inferno on Monday destroyed properties at the popular Balogun Market in Lagos Island of Lagos State. The fire, which started around 4:3am, according to the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, consumed properties worth millions of Naira. No human casualty has been confirmed as at the time of filing this report. The inferno…
Some unknown arsonists, on Sunday, brought down the office of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State. The incident occurred around 3am at the party’s secretariat in Abam Ama, Okrika local government area of the state. It was said that the arsonists threw some explosives into the three-storey building, which brought it down. Police…
Popular Abuja socialite, Dumebi Kachukwu, has been nabbed by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Kachukwu, a former son-in-law to ex-Minister of Aviation, Kema Chikwe, was arrested on Friday evening when he turned himself in to EFCC office in Abuja. Before then, the Commission had stormed his residence at 27, Gana Street,…
A famous rapper in Nigeria, William Orioha, better known as 2Shotz, got a dose of what some Nigerians suffer in the hands of members of the Nigeria Police over the weekend when he was locked up at a police station in Lagos. Aproko247 gathered the rapper was put behind bars at the police station in…