Tuesday, 1 September 2015

NigerianEye: “Nigerians have no business being classified as poor - Buhari” plus 29 more

NigerianEye: “Nigerians have no business being classified as poor - Buhari” plus 29 more


Nigerians have no business being classified as poor - Buhari

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:37 PM PDT

President Muhammadu Buhari has said Nigerians have no business with poverty given the enormous resources the country has. To this end, he has promised to take appropriate measures to stamp out...

Governor Akpabio flown abroad for medical attention after car crash

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:32 PM PDT

A former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio, was on Tuesday afternoon flown out of Nigeria to receive medical attention abroad. It was learnt that the senator, in company with...

Driver strips naked to resist FRSC arrest

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 11:00 PM PDT

In a display of absurd mannerism, an unidentified commercial vehicle driver on Tuesday removed his cloths and started behaving strangely when officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps stopped his...

Fresh crisis hits PDP over chairmanship position

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:59 PM PDT

The Peoples Democratic Party is embroiled in a fresh crisis over who leads the former ruling party. The PDP, after 16 years in power, lost the 2015 general elections amid internal crisis, at the...

Three Nigerians arrested for fraud in India

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:57 PM PDT

The Central Crime Station, India, has arrested three Nigerians for allegedly swindling two Indian citizens under the guise of offering them investment opportunities in hotel business. The suspects,...

100 days: Buhari didn’t make specific promises – Presidency

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:54 PM PDT

Presidency yesterday stated that President Mohammdu Buhari during his campaign never made specific promises of what to achieve within his first 100 days in office. It also denied circulating...

Africans should be bold to rethink economic ideas, says VP Osinbajo at ADB President's inauguration

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:52 PM PDT

PRESS RELEASE Time has come for Africans to re-think some of the time-worn economic ideas and myths that have held its people and policy makers bound to only a few options, according to Vice...

Ooni succession: Prince alleges threat to life

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:47 PM PDT

The contest for the Ooni stool has taken a dangerous dimension as a prominent figure of the Giesi ruling house, Prince Adekanye Aderibigbe, yesterday alleged threat to his life over his insistence...

Death toll in Borno attacks hits 80

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:45 PM PDT

The death toll in the attack unleashed on three Borno State villages by Boko Haram fighters has risen to 80. Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on horseback had shot dead scores of people in separate...

Segun Odegbami joins race to replace Blatter as FIFA president

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:43 PM PDT

Ex-Nigerian footballer, chief Segun Odegbami is set to announce that he will stand in next year's election to replace Joseph Sepp Blatter as President of World soccer-governing body, FIFA. Odegbami...

40-year-old man rapes 4-yr-old girl to death in Bayelsa

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:41 PM PDT

Officials of United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, and other stakeholders in the protection of the rights of the child were shocked, yesterday, to hear of the case of a 40-year-old man that raped a...

'Oyinlola needs to be cautioned' - Soyinka tells Buhari

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:34 PM PDT

The controversy that surrounded the birth of the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding, Osogbo, Osun State, in 2008 erupted again on Tuesday when the Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole...

I will not spare any corrupt person - Buhari

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:33 AM PDT

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday vowed to strengthen his anti corruption campaign in the country noting that his administration would not spare anyone found guilty of corrupt practices. He...

Nigerian troops recapture Gomboru Ngala from Boko Haram

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:58 AM PDT

The Nigerian Army has said soldiers have retaken Gomboru Ngala in Borno State from terrorists, who had recaptured the town from the military after the community was initially liberated by...

$700m second Niger Bridge money missing, Oshiomhole insists

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:38 AM PDT

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has called on a former minister of work, Mike Onolememen, to explain to Nigerians the whereabouts of $700 million (N140 billion) released for the unexecuted...

Shehu Sani blasts Governor Fayose over his criticism of President Buhari’s appointments

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:46 AM PDT

A Lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Sen. Shehu Sani has condemned Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, over his Monday's criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari's...

`Fayose’s punishment of workers, is torture, torment, intimidation’

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:34 AM PDT

Mr Augustine Ojekudo, former Chairman, Human Rights Committee, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Port Harcourt branch, on Tuesday decried Ekiti Gov. Ayo Fayose's punishment to workers that reported...

‘Madman’ invades kogi bank

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:30 AM PDT

An unidentified young man who was declared insane stormed a first generation bank located along Ganaja road, in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, damaging two Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). The...

Dangote meets Mugabe on investment approval

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:17 AM PDT

Nigeria's billionaire, Alhaj iAliko Dangote has met with the Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on the need to speed up the necessary approval for his investment in power, mining and cement...

50 people quarantined after new Ebola death in Sierra Leone

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:10 AM PDT

Fifty people have been placed in quarantine in northern Sierra Leone after the death of a middle-aged woman from the Ebola virus, medical officials said Tuesday, in a setback for the country's bid to...

U.S. supports IDPs in Adamawa with $801,000

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:03 AM PDT

The U.S. has signed a grant agreement of 801,000 dollars with the American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, to improve access to education services for internally displaced persons in Adamawa. Ms...

Lawyer sues Buhari over appointments

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 09:51 AM PDT

A lawyer, Marcel Dim-Udebuani, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to nullify all the the 25 major appointments made so far by President Muhammadu Buhari for allegedly being in breach of...

Buratai pledges improved logistics for troops

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 09:43 AM PDT

As part of efforts to route out Boko Haram terrorists completely from Nigeria by December, 2015, the Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Turkur Buratai, has said he will continue to generate modern...

Manchester United sign Anthony Martial from Monaco for £36m

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 09:37 AM PDT

Manchester United have announced the signing of Anthony Martial from Monaco. The 19-year-old was linked with Tottenham earlier this summer before penning a new contract at Stade Louis II but now...

Real Madrid pin blame on Man Utd for De Gea deal collapse

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 06:41 AM PDT

Real Madrid have blamed Manchester United for the collapse of goalkeeper David de Gea's move to the Spanish giants, claiming the English side sent the documents needed to complete the deal after the...

Chelsea sign Papy Djilobodji

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 06:30 AM PDT

Chelsea have signed Papy Djilobodji from Nantes on a four-year contract. Djilobodji, who was in the final year of his Nantes contract, can play at centre-back or in a defensive midfield role and...

WATCH VIDEO: Jackie Chan speaks pidgin, Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo on his movie in Nigeria

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 06:02 AM PDT

Growing up, famous Hong Kong actor and stunt artist, Jackie Chan was the super hero everybody wanted to be like. Many years on, Jackie Chan has made a shout out to Nigerians promotion of for his...

Former NSA, Sambo Dasuki gets bail on self-recognition

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 04:36 AM PDT

The Federal Government on Tuesday arraigned a former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), before a Federal High Court in Abuja on one count of possession of firearms without...

Nigerian striker, Victor Moses completes season-long loan move to West Ham

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 04:52 AM PDT

Nigerian forward, Victor Moses has signed a new four-year contract with Premier League champions Chelsea before completing a season-long loan move to West Ham. Moses was deemed surplus to...

PICTURES: Osinbajo arrives Abidjan for inauguration of former Agriculture minister as new AfDB boss

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 04:36 AM PDT

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, arrived Abidjan yesterday night to represent President Buhari at the swearing-in ceremony of Nigeria's immediate past Agriculture Minister, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina as the...

No comments:

Post a Comment