Tuesday, 15 September 2015

NigerianEye: “We are currently negotiating with Boko Haram - Buhari” plus 29 more

NigerianEye: “We are currently negotiating with Boko Haram - Buhari” plus 29 more


We are currently negotiating with Boko Haram - Buhari

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 10:34 PM PDT

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said that the Federal Government had begun negotiations with members of the Boko Haram sect to secure the release of the Chibok girls. The President disclosed...

Troubled Times Ahead for the APC Coalition, By Femi Aribisala

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 10:35 PM PDT

After a short interlude from its near implosion over the choice of its legislative leadership, the APC should be back on its road to disintegration this month with the choice of Buhari's ministers....

Buhari appoints Dominic Ojiabor as CEO of the Environmental Health Officers Registration Council of Nigeria

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 10:36 PM PDT

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr. Dominic Ojiabor Abonyi as Registrar/Chief Executive Officer of the Environmental Health Officers Registration Council of Nigeria. A...

Reasons why Nigeria is already destined to fail – Fani-Kayode

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 10:36 PM PDT

A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, says Nigeria has been destined to fail since its creation by the British in 1914. He said the British created Nigeria such that the 'poor North'...

Northern leaders reject Jonathan’s confab report

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 10:38 PM PDT

Some Northern leaders, Tuesday, rejected the implementation of the 2014 report of the National Conference convoked by former President Goodluck Jonathan, saying that it did not address the key issues...

Why i ignored Oliseh's offer to play for Super Eagles - Ibe

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 10:44 PM PDT

Liverpool winger Jordon Ibe confirmed on Tuesday he had decided to play football for England rather than Nigeria. The 19-year-old, who was approached by Nigeria coach Sunday Oliseh to switch his...

Do not accept Governor Fayose's food, rams - Imams tell Ekiti muslims

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 10:53 PM PDT

The League of Imams and Alfas in Ekiti has ordered Muslims in the state not to collect rams and other food items for Sallah celebration, if presented to them in any form by the state government. The...

VIDEO: Fire guts shopping plaza in Lagos Island

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 10:58 PM PDT

A big shopping plaza in Broad Street, Lagos Island was yesterday razed by fire, textile materials and fashion accessories estimated at millions of naira were destroyed. You can click on the link...

IN PICTURES: Troops clear Boko Haram camps, rescue children, women

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 10:44 PM PDT

The Nigerian Army said on Tuesday that scores of women and children held captive by Boko Haram insurgents have been rescued by troops along Banki, Kumashe and Bama axis in Borno State. The acting...

Mugabe delivers wrong speech in Zimbabwe parliament

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 10:21 PM PDT

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has delivered the wrong speech at the opening of a new session of parliament, repeating an address he gave to the legislature last month. The 91-year-old leader...

The 9th Earl of Bathurst and the Nigerian state by Femi Fani-Kayode

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 10:39 PM PDT

Allen Christopher Bertram Bathurst, the 9th Earl of Bathurst is a British peer whose other title is Lord Apsley. He and I were colleagues at Harrow School, the best private school in the United...

Buffon shows his class as Juventus dumps Man City

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 04:13 PM PDT

Italian champions Juventus cast their early-season woes aside by beating in-form Manchester City 2-1 in their opening Champions League Group D fixture at the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday. Last...

PSV 2-1 Manchester United: Shaw suffers horror injury as Red Devils lose out

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 04:04 PM PDT

Manchester United endured a nightmare return to the Champions League as they lost 2-1 at PSV in a match marred by Luke Shaw sustaining a suspected broken leg. Luciano Narsingh grabbed the crucial...

'Use Google and stop asking stupid questions' - Mourinho tells BBC reporter

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 11:55 AM PDT

Ahead of Chelsea's 2015/2016 UEFA Champions League opener against against Maccabi Tel Aviv, Chelsea manager, José Mourinho has told a press conference that he has nothing to prove to anyone after his...

ICPC returns N924 Million stolen funds to ministry of environment

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 11:16 AM PDT

The anti-corruption fight under President Muhammadu Buhari received a major boast this week as The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Monday returned the...

We did not abandon woman who gave Buhari N1m savings – APC

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 11:15 AM PDT

The All Progressives Congress has denied reports in a section of the media that Haj. Maitalle Tara Koko, the 92-year-old woman who is an ardent Muhammadu Buhari supporter, has been abandoned, saying...

​PDP is distracting us – APC

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 11:18 AM PDT

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has described the PDP's "rambling" statement on the nation's economy as part of the opposition's ploy to distract the Buhari Administration from its task of...

Man commits suicide in Aba

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 11:10 AM PDT

A young man in his late twenty living at Umuobe village, Ovom 1 and a graduate of Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself with a rope in his family...

ALL AFRICAN GAMES: Nigerian Power lifter set new World Record in Congo

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 11:12 AM PDT

Nigeria's power lifter, Yakubu Adesokan has set a new World Record in the game of Power lifting at the ongoing African Games holding in Congo. He lifted a massive 182.5kg to win another gold medal...

DSS’ plans to upturn Akwa Ibom poll – PDP

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 10:56 AM PDT

The Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, on Tuesday said the party is aware of the plans by officials of the Department of State Security (DSS) to...

IN PICTURES: Buhari meets French businessmen in Paris

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 10:51 AM PDT

Buhari talks, French businessmen listen attentively   President Buhari participated at the High Level Business Breakfast Session with French and Nigerian CEOs at MEDEF Headquarters in Paris on...

Gunmen kidnap UNIPORT VC’s son

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 10:26 AM PDT

Gunmen on Monday night kidnapped Ejire Lale, the son of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt, in Agbeta Ebubu, Eleme Local Government Area of the state. Lale was said to be...

Ojuelegba tragedy: Truck owner remanded in prison

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 10:24 AM PDT

An Ebute-Metta Chief Magistrates' Court has remanded Adeyanju Kilani, the owner of the articulated vehicle which fell of the bridge on Sept. 2, in prison custody. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...

PICTURE OF THE DAY: The deplorable state of a General hospital in Yobe state

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 10:14 AM PDT

According to Babangida Ruma who shared this photo on Facebook, this is the deplorable state of the General hospital in Jakusko Local government area in Yobe state.

Maid jailed for stealing employer’s underwear

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 10:10 AM PDT

For stealing the under garment of her employer, a housemaid, Vivian Simon-Micheal, was on Tuesday sentenced to two- month in prison without an option of fine. The 20 – year-old domestic servant was...

APC governors shun Progressive Governors Forum

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 09:36 AM PDT

Governors elected under the All Progressives Congress have shunned a planned meeting of the Progressive Governors Forum in Katsina, forcing the organisers to cancel the event. The News Agency of...

Ayew Named African Player of the Month

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 09:34 AM PDT

Ghana's Andre Ayew, who plays for Swansea City FC, has been named African Player of the Month of August in the English Premier League. He beat off competition from the other shortlisted players –...

Treasury Single Account deadline: Lawmakers laud Buhari’s political will

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 09:31 AM PDT

As the deadline for compliance with the Treasury Single Account for Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) ends on Tuesday, some members of the National Assembly have lauded President Muhammadu...

France pledges equipment, intelligence support for terror fight in Nigeria

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 09:29 AM PDT

French President François Hollande has pledged to assist the Multinational Joint Task Force with intelligence gathering and equipment to fight terrorism in Nigeria and the African...

Deadly epidemics, lack of food threaten Nigerian refugees in Cameroon

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 09:23 AM PDT

Toby Lanzer, UN Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for Africa's Sahel region, said Nigerian refugees in Cameroon, where they have sought refuge, are now under threat for lack of food, water and...

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