Tuesday, 18 August 2015

NigerianEye: “Buhari orders probe into how wanted Lebanese ISIS terrorist got Nigerian visa” plus 29 more

NigerianEye: “Buhari orders probe into how wanted Lebanese ISIS terrorist got Nigerian visa” plus 29 more


Buhari orders probe into how wanted Lebanese ISIS terrorist got Nigerian visa

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 11:12 PM PDT

The Federal Government has ordered a full investigation into how a wanted terrorist was granted Nigerian visa in Lebanon to visit the country. An official of the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs...

WATCH VIDEO: Nigeria Air Force bombs Boko Haram's bunkers

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 11:13 PM PDT

The mission is being executed by the recent deployments of fighter jets and attack helicopters in the North-East In the continued onslaught against terrorism in the North East, Nigerian Air Force...

Over 2000 Anambra prostitutes go on strike

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 11:12 PM PDT

About 2,000 commercial sex workers in Awka, the Anambra State capital, have concluded arrangements to go on strike on Wednesday, following the demolition of their "settlement" beside the cattle...

Buhari sacks AMCON boss, names replacement

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 11:28 PM PDT

Press statement from the presidency... President Buhari has approved the dissolution of the Executive Management Team of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). President Buhari has...

Adesina to Oshimhole 'You goofed on Jonathan’s agricultural programme'

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 11:00 PM PDT

Immediate past Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has slammed Edo State Governor, Adams Oshimhole, for describing the Agricultural Programme of former president...

Former Akwa Ibom Governor, Godswill Akpabio denies turning state house into a brothel

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 04:09 PM PDT

Former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio has denied reports that he turned the state government house into a brothel during his administration that expired on May 29, 2015. The allegation...

TB Joshua donates N10 million to IDPs

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 04:01 PM PDT

Prophet TB Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, yesterday donated N10 million to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Kuchingoro Camp, Abuja. Joshua who lamented the condition in which...

God, Buhari will judge you, Rivers APC tells Wike

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 11:05 PM PDT

Read press release from the Rivers APC below... The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has told the 'caretaker Governor' of the State, Chief NyesomWike, that he will not...

OPC accuses Tinubu of plans to oust Gani Adams

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 10:28 AM PDT

The leadership of the Oodua People's Congress, OPC, has accused a former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of being behind plans to oust Otunba Gani Adams as National Coordinator of...

Pandemonium as Boko Haram gunmen invade Yobe village, shoot, drown over 150 people

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 09:36 AM PDT

Residents of Kukuwa-Gari village in Yobe state were on Thursday last Week thrown into pandemonium as gangs of militants arrived on motorcycles and a car and opened fire of them. "They opened fire...

My husband sleeps with church members – Pastor's wife cries out

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 09:41 AM PDT

A 42-year-old housewife, Mrs Doris Oseni, has told a Customary Court in Ondo town that she caught her husband of 12 years, Prophet Femi Oseni, on the floor of the church office, having sex with...

Robbers break ATM machine in Ebonyi State University, steal millions of Naira

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 09:52 AM PDT

Robbers on Tuesday invaded an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) belonging to an old generation bank in the College of Agricultural Science, CAS, of the Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki. Sources said...

Aregbesola’s aide arrested over girlfriend’s death

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 11:17 AM PDT

A Special Adviser to Osun State Governor, Mr Bode Olugbore, has been arrested by the police over the death of his girlfriend, Miss Kemi Arobieke. It was gathered that Kemi, a graduate of the Lagos...

Oliseh defends Ighalo’s omission from Eagles squad

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 09:34 AM PDT

Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh, has insisted he cannot call up all the country's top stars at once and asked Watford striker Odion Ighalo to wait for his turn in the team. Ighalo was a major...

Buhari revisits NITEL, MTEL liquidation

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 09:29 AM PDT

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday expressed his desire to revisit the recent liquidation of the Nigerian Telecommunications Limited and its subsidiary, Mobile Telecommunications Limited. The...

Veteran comedian, Baba Sala responding to treatment after health scare

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 09:24 AM PDT

Veteran comedian, Moses Olaiya, popularly known as Baba Sala, who was rushed to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, on Monday night is now responding to treatment after initial scare over...

When Cometh Our Deliverer in Nigeria?, By Femi Fani-Kayode

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 09:16 AM PDT

On April 20th, 1653 Oliver Cromwell, who was the Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland and the greatest statesman and revolutionary that England ever knew, stormed the English "Rump...

Call Oshiomhole to order, Rep tells Buhari

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 09:12 AM PDT

The lawmaker member representing Ohaozara/Onicha/Ivo Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Linus Okorie, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to quickly call Governor Adams...

Coup within Boko Haram’s ranks “plausible”

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 08:35 AM PDT

Claims that Nigeria's Boko Haram has been "decapitated" have been spectacularly rebuffed by the jihadists' leader, yet his first broadcast in months may not see off an impending mutiny, say...

No ghost corps member in NYSC – DG

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 08:21 AM PDT

The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig-Gen. Johnson Olawumi, Sunday, debunked a medial report in one of the national dailies that there were ghost corps members,...

'Ekiti is working, Ekiti people are happy '..Says Governor Fayose, shares pictures

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 08:18 AM PDT

Often criticized for showing off stomach infrastructure,  Ekiti governor, Ayo Fayose has gone ahead to flaunt some of the major construction work ongoing in the state. Fayose shared photos of...

10.5m children out of school in Nigeria – UNICEF

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 08:01 AM PDT

Jean Gough, Country Director, United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said that no fewer than 10.5 million Nigerian children are out of school. Gough stated this on Tuesday in...

‘Batman’ killed after his Batmobile broke down

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 07:59 AM PDT

A man known for dressing up in a Batman superhero costume to cheer up sick children in hospital was struck and killed on a US highway after his "Batmobile" broke down, reports said. Lenny Robinson,...

India’s first lady is dead

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 07:57 AM PDT

India President Pranab Mukherjee's wife Suvra Mukherjee, who has been ailing for some time, passed away on Tuesday. Suvra, an accomplished singer, was 74. The First Lady, who remained hospitalised...

Mandela grandson charged with rape

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 07:46 AM PDT

A grandson of the late Nelson Mandela appeared briefly in the Johannesburg Magistrates' Court on Monday on a charge of rape. "He made a brief appearance on a charge of the rape of a 15-year-old...

Police summon, detain ‘abusive parrot’

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 07:44 AM PDT

Indian police said on Tuesday in New Delhi that a parrot accused of hurling abuses at an elderly woman has been summoned. Local Police Chief, P.S. Dongre, confirmed that the parrot was summoned by...

Security guard arraigned for defiling nine-year-old girl

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 07:42 AM PDT

A security guard, Mohammed Ismaila, appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, for allegedly defiling a nine-year-old minor. Ismaila, 27, who lives at 23, Araromi Street, Itire...

Nigerian politicians highly irresponsible – Na’Abba

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 07:41 AM PDT

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Ghali Na'abba, says many Nigerian politicians are "highly irresponsible''. Na'Abba said this at the National Security Conference on Community...

Sponsorship drive: NFF plans to restructure its marketing department

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 07:39 AM PDT

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) said on Monday it had taken steps to restructure its marketing department to meet the vision of the current leadership of the football house. The NFF had...

Physically challenged appeal for inclusion in Buhari’s cabinet

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 07:37 AM PDT

The Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD) on Tuesday appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to consider their members for cabinet appointment. Mr Dauda Sale, the National...

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