Wednesday, 8 April 2015

NigerianEye: “Fayose races to court to stop impeachment, judge turns down request” plus 29 more

NigerianEye: “Fayose races to court to stop impeachment, judge turns down request” plus 29 more

Fayose races to court to stop impeachment, judge turns down request

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:34 PM PDT

Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose and his deputy, Kolapo Olusola, have raced to a Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the 19 All Progressives Congress members of the state House of Assembly from...

House-maid absconds with three kids one day after employment

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:34 PM PDT

The Orekoya family on Lawanson Road, Surulere, Lagos State says, presently, it has no reason to be happy. This is because an house-help employed on March 7 by the household disappeared with three...

Patience Jonathan surfaces in Okrika

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:35 PM PDT

First Lady Patience Jonathan received tumultuous welcome from her kinsmen on arrival in Okrika, Rivers State, on Wednesday. Mrs. Jonathan has not been seen in public since the release of the...

Fashola's Letter to Lagosians ahead of Saturday's Elections

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:35 PM PDT

Dear Lagosians, First let me thank you all for turning out to vote on the 28th March 2015 and for doing so peacefully to make history by electing the All Progressives Congress candidates in the...

Ojukwu would’ve saved Nigeria civil war bloodshed if he had behaved like Jonathan – Danjuma

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:42 PM PDT

A former Minister of Defence and Chairman of Victim Support Fund, Theophilus Danjuma, has blamed the leader of the defunct Biafra, the late Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, for the civil war, which resulted in...

WATCH VIDEO: Obanikoro bombs Bode George

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:42 PM PDT

Video Credits: TVC

Nigeria shuts borders ahead of governorship elections

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:39 PM PDT

The Federal Government has directed that all land borders be closed from midnight of Thursday to midnight of Sunday for the success of the governorship election. Declaring the closure, the Interior...

Impeachment notice on Fayose valid before the law – Falana warns

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:36 PM PDT

A Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has advised the Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose, to take the impeachment notice served on him by the 19 All Progressives Congress members of the state...

Defend your votes, they want to rig out Jimi Agbaje, PDP urges Lagos voters

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:32 PM PDT

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged that the ruling party in Lagos state, All Progressives Congress, APC, want to rig out its governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje in the Saturday...

Relative peace returns to Ekiti State

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:28 PM PDT

Relative peace returned to Ekiti State on Wednesday after two days of chaos over the impeachment notice served by the 19 All Progressives Congress lawmakers on Governor Ayodele Fayose. Commercial...

PDP queries Buhari’s ‘indifference’ to burning national issues

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:26 PM PDT

The Peoples Democratic Party has expressed deep concerns over the "apparent indifference" of the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to what it described as burning national issues...

'Buhari set to unfold job creation strategy May 29'

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:43 PM PDT

President-elect Muhammadu Buhari will unfold APCs master-plan on job creation and social security on May 29, Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State says. Mr. Wamakko disclosed this on Wednesday...

Nigeria’ll become one-party state under APC – Balarabe Musa

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:17 PM PDT

Second Republic governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has predicted that the current mass defection of politicians from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress will...

Warri billionaire Ayiri Emami dumps PDP for APC

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:14 PM PDT

Warri billionaire Ayiri Emami, who was spotted with the national leader of APC, Bola Tinubu recently, has dumped PDP for APC. The former staunch PDP member, who campaigned tirelessly for the party...

Obasanjo, Elechi meet over Ebonyi gov election

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:12 PM PDT

A former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, and Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State met for over two hours on Wednesday on issues bordering on Saturday's governorship and state House...

Stay off polling centres, IG warns police escorts

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:09 PM PDT

The Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has advised policemen attached to politicians not to follow them to polling centres on election days. He warned that any policeman found in company...

We are taking appropriate action on Oba Akiolu – DSS

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 09:59 PM PDT

The Department of State Services has said that it is taking appropriate action over the alleged threat of Ndigbo in Lagos by Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu. Answering questions at the National...

Obanikoro attacks Oba Akiolu over 'Anti-Igbo' comment

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:36 PM PDT

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Senator Musiliu Obanikro, has berated the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, over the monarch's comment on the Igbo living in Lagos. A statement by Obanikoro, on...

Video of Uti Nwachukwu endorsing Akinwunmi Ambode

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:37 PM PDT

The Nollywood Actor and winner of Big Brother Africa All Stars endorses Akinwunmi Ambode for Governor of Lagos state

I’ll resign from politics than join APC – Governor Aliyu

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:23 AM PDT

The Governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, on Wednesday said he would rather resign from politics instead of defecting from Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress. He described...

Jonathan visits Danjuma

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:17 AM PDT

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday paid a private visit to a former Minister of Defence, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma, inside his Asokoro, Abuja residence. Jonathan visited Danjuma, who is the...

AFCON: Super Eagles face Egypt, Chad in Gabon 2017 qualifiers

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:09 AM PDT

Nigeria's Super Eagles will battle the Pharaoh of Egypt as well as Tanzania and Chad in Group G in their bid to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations, holding in Gabon in 2017.

CAF picks Gabon to host 2017 AFCON

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:01 AM PDT

Confederation of African Football on Wednesday named Gabon as hosts of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. The Central African nation beat Ghana and Algeria to pick the hosting rights of the 31st...

Jonathan congratulates Mark at 67

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 09:54 AM PDT

President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated the President of the Senate, Mr. David Mark, on his 67th birthday. According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben...

Ndigbo are not your enemies, Umeh tells Buhari

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 09:52 AM PDT

The National Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, Chief Victor Umeh, has appealed to the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), not to vilify Ndigbo for not voting massively for...

Former Abia Governor, Orji Kalu Set To Join APC

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 05:27 AM PDT

Any moment from now, former governor of Abia State, Uzor Orji Kalu, would join the All Progressives Congress, APC. As a prelude to his defection from the little known Progressives Peoples Alliance,...

Photo of the day: Wife of Oyo state PDP Gubernatorial candidate campaigns with a commercial motorcycle

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 05:20 AM PDT

Mrs Simbiat Angela Folarin, wife of the PDP governorship candidate in Oyo state, Teslim Folarin, enjoyed a bike ride with some motorcycle riders to campaign for her husband in Ibadan

Man using earphone killed by train in Lagos

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 05:07 AM PDT

An unidentified young man with earphone on, was on Wednesday killed by a passenger train at Cappa area of Oshodi, Lagos. A correspondent of NAN who was inside the train reports that the man was...

I will never leave PDP, even if I am the last man standing - David Mark

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 04:59 AM PDT

The Senate President, David Mark, on Wednesday said he would not defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC, in order to return as Senate President. He said he would rather remain a member of the...

Court clears Ambode for Lagos gov race

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 04:49 AM PDT

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday dismissed a suit seeking to stop the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress in Lagos, Akinwunmi Ambode, from contesting the April 11...
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