Friday, 11 September 2015

NigerianEye: “Asset Deceleration: APC governors refuse to follow Buhari example” plus 29 more

NigerianEye: “Asset Deceleration: APC governors refuse to follow Buhari example” plus 29 more


Asset Deceleration: APC governors refuse to follow Buhari example

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:31 PM PDT

Following the Buhari and Osinbajo public asset deceleration made last week, governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress have said they will not follow the example laid by...

Obasanjo gets scared when he sees me, i will soon expose him - Alamieyeseigha

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:56 PM PDT

It's about 10 since the impeachment and subsequent imprisonment of former Bayelsa State Governor, Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha by former President Olusegun Obasanjo's administration, but the...

Ex-militants to Buhari - 'Develop Niger Delta or there won’t be peace'

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:36 PM PDT

Ex-Militants in the Niger Delta under the Third Phase Group has called on the Federal Government to aggressively pursue development of the Niger Delta to forestall another crisis in the...

Rivers governorship election, a sham, mockery of democracy – INEC

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:36 PM PDT

The Rivers State governorship election held on April 11, 2015 was a sham and mockery of democracy, the Independent National Electoral Commission told the Rivers State Governorship Election Petition...

Abandoned projects, reason for N30bn loan – Wike

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:52 PM PDT

The Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has said that he decided to take loans after he assumed office in order to pay backlog of salaries owed workers and complete some abandoned projects in...

Senate president, Bukola Saraki donates pension to law graduates

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:49 PM PDT

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Friday donated his pension as a former Governor of Kwara State to two best graduating students of the Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin, for the...

REVEALED: 50 countries share Nigerians’ $1bn medical tourism spending

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:39 PM PDT

About 50 countries benefited from the $1bn spent by 30,000 Nigerians on medical tourism in 2014, an Internet portal, Gapdoc.com, has revealed. Forty per cent of the amount, according to the portal,...

FG awaits full report on senator detained in Saudi Arabia

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:23 PM PDT

The Federal Government has said it is waiting for a full report on the circumstances that led to the detention of a former Chairman, Senate Committee on Culture and Tourism, Senator Hassan Barata, in...

President Buhari condemns bomb attack at Malkohi IDP, orders tighter security

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 03:59 PM PDT

President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the bomb attack at Malkohi Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Yola, describing it as a heinous and cowardly act. The president, who spoke through a...

Young American arrested for alleged plan to bomb 9/11 memorial event

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 04:00 PM PDT

A young American who assumed the online identity of an Australian jihadist has been arrested for an alleged plan to bomb a September 11 memorial event, authorities said. Joshua Ryne Goldberg, who...

Many dead after crane crashes in Mecca Grand Mosque

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 04:01 PM PDT

At least 65 people have been killed after a crane collapsed in Mecca's Grand Mosque on Friday, Saudi Arabia's civil defence authority says. It said 154 people were injured as well.  Al...

7 dead as bomb hits Nigeria’s largest Internally Displaced Camp in Adamawa

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:13 AM PDT

Suspected Boko Haram terrorists on Friday detonated a bomb at Maikohi Camp – Nigeria's largest Internally Displaced Camps (IDPs) – located in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State. The attack killed...

Army Chief hoists Nigerian flag in Gamboru, warns troops against complacency

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:13 AM PDT

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has warned troops involved in the offensive against Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East against being complacent in the tasks assigned to...

Davido set to join November NYSC batch

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:13 AM PDT

Fresh reports reaching NE has it that the HKN Boss, Davido is set to join the November batch of the compulsory National Youth Service. Many fans would have thought the music crooner would opt out...

APC Vice Chairman resigns

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:14 AM PDT

Malam Musa Adamu, the Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bauchi State, has resigned. Adamu, who is the zonal vice chairman of APC for Bauchi South Senatorial District, announced...

Stowaway in Medview aircraft charged with attempted suicide

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:10 AM PDT

A 24-year-old man, Festus Chikeluba, alleged to have hidden inside an aircraft tyre compartment, on Friday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates' Court charged with attempted suicide. Chikeluba,...

Obasanjo’s library a product fraud, extortion and corruption - Soyinka

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:09 AM PDT

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has categorically stated that the library of former president of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is a product of fraud, extortion and corruption. Soyinka...

All African Games: Nigeria hits quarterfinal in table tennis

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:04 AM PDT

Nigeria men and women teams did not drop a match at the ongoing 2015 African Games to qualify for the quarterfinal round of the team event in table tennis. From the start, the male team took every...

Flood kill scores in Taraba

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:03 AM PDT

Taraba state has gotten its share of flood disaster this year. Scores of people and domestic animals have reportedly feared killed in a fierce havoc wreaked by the flood. The most affected local...

UNICAL appoints Akpagu as new VC

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:02 AM PDT

The Governing Council of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) has announced Professor Zana Itiunbe Akpagu, the current Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration) as the new and 10th Vice Chancellor of the...

NDLEA nabs drug baron with cocaine

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:01 AM PDT

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a suspected drug baron, Chief Odugwe Joseph Azubuike over unlawful importation of 1.025kg of cocaine. Odugwe who is currently on bail...

Building collapse: Synagogue holds memorial service for victims

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:00 AM PDT

The Synagogue, Church of All Nations will on Saturday hold a memorial service for the victims of the September 12, 2014 building collapse in the Ikotun, Lagos, premises of the church as part of...

Police, Herdsmen battle in Anambra

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 09:59 AM PDT

The Anambra state police command and the herdsmen are in fierce battle following the decision of the former to ban the later from operating in the state in the day time. The state police...

Toyota donates Hilux trucks to military

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 09:55 AM PDT

Toyota Nigeria Limited has donated five Hilux trucks to the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in Maiduguri, Borno State, to aid the ongoing counter insurgency campaign in the Northeast. The...

Fans compare Micheal Jackson to Chris Brown

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 09:50 AM PDT

Who do you think is better? or do you think there is any room for comparison at all? [View the story "What fans are saying" on Storify]

Messi welcomes new baby

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 09:46 AM PDT

Argentine football star Lionel Messi has added two-time dad to his long list of honors, after his girlfriend gave birth to a son, relatives announced. Mateo Messi was born Friday in Barcelona, the...

‘Gynaecologist’ accused of raping Unconscious patients

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 09:41 AM PDT

A Kenyan, Mr. Mugo wa Wairimu, who poses as a Gynaecologist at Clinics and rapes unconscious patients on sick beds was, on Thursday arrested at a hotel outside Nairobi after members of the public...

Pastor arraigned over defilement of teenager

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 09:40 AM PDT

A 40-year-old Pastor, Abraham Akpan, was arraigned in an Ikeja Magistrates' Court on Friday over the defilement of a teenager. Akpan of No. 39, Hassan Ogunmola St., Ijaiye, a suburb of Lagos, is...

Burkina Faso bars ex-ministers from presidential poll

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 09:39 AM PDT

Burkina Faso has barred its former Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Sport from contesting next month's presidential election. It banned the ministers because they had backed ex-President Blaise...

Eagles target 13 points for AFCON ticket

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 09:34 AM PDT

Super Eagles is targeting 13 points to qualify for the 2017 African Nations Cup in Gabon, a team official has said. Egypt currently leads Group G with six points from two matches and a massive +7...

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