Friday, 27 November 2015

NigerianEye: “DSS warns Nigerians - 'Boko Haram plans to use girls to attack churches, mosques, markets'” plus 29 more

NigerianEye: “DSS warns Nigerians - 'Boko Haram plans to use girls to attack churches, mosques, markets'” plus 29 more

DSS warns Nigerians - 'Boko Haram plans to use girls to attack churches, mosques, markets'

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:18 PM PST

The Department of State Services, DSS, has alerted Abuja residents over plots by Boko Haram to attack churches, mosques and markets, using girls to bomb those places. A memo by the Director of...

KOGI ELECTION - ' It’s Abubakar Audu’s son or nobody'

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:20 PM PST

The constitutional crisis trailing the Kogi State governorship election took a new twist, yesterday, with All Progressives Congress, APC members of the Kogi State House of Assembly insisting that...

We can't give a specific figure to the amount of looted funds returned yet - Adeosun

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:19 PM PST

The Federal Government is yet to put a specific figure to the amount of money so far returned by those who looted the treasury, as disclosed by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Minister of Finance, ...

REVEALED: How suicide bomber disguised as Shi’ite Muslim and killed 21 in Kano Muslims’ procession

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:19 PM PST

The Kano commander of Shia movement in Nigeria, Muhammad Mahmud Turi, Friday, said 21 members of the sect lost their lives while 45 others were injured when a suicide bomber struck the procession at...

IN PICTURES: Governor Ambode presents helicopters, gunboats, vehicles to Police

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:19 PM PST

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, Friday, handed over series of security equipment and vehicles to the State Police Command and the Rapid Response Squad (RRS). Among the items commissioned...

IK Ogbonna’s wife and son robbed in Lagos traffic

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:32 PM PST

Nollywood actor IK Ogbonna shared on social media that his wife Sonia and 5-month old son Ace were robbed in traffic yesterday.) The married father said the culprits smashed the car window, not even...

Ondo council of Obas condemns Eze Ndigbo title in South-West

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:18 PM PST

The Council of Obas in Ondo State has said that the title of Eze Ndigbo in the South-West is a calculated attempt to embarrass the Yoruba traditional rulers and desecrate their traditional...

Jonathan didn’t spend N64 Billion on Independence celebrations – FG

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:11 PM PST

The Federal Government has clarified the amount spent for independence anniversary celebrations between 2010 and 2015. Information obtained from the Office of the Secretary General of the...

Nigeria can’t sustain generator-based economy – SSANU

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:08 PM PST

The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU), yesterday, said that mass unemployment looms in the country following epileptic power supply that is hampering the operations of...

Group demands Nnamdi Kanu’s unconditional release

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:06 PM PST

The South East Revival Group (SERG) has urged the Federal Government to tread cautiously in handling the current clamour for self-determination, by a cross section of people of the South-East,...

Navy arrest boat with 400 truckload of stolen crude oil

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:01 PM PST

The Nigerian Navy in the Delta state has arrested a self propelled barge loaded with estimated 4000metric tonnes, equivalent of 400 truck load of suspected crude oil in what the Central Naval...

I’m determined to fight corruption in tertiary institutions - Buhari

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 08:48 PM PST

President Muhamadu Buhari has assured that the problems being encountered in the tertiary education sub-sector as regards the implementation of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) will soon be...

Many feared dead as blast hits Shi’ite procession in Kano

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:17 AM PST

Many were feared dead at Dakasoye village, Garun Mallam local goverment area of Kano Friday when a suicide bomber blew himself up among the Shia procession on there way to Zaria witness says. The...

Fuel tanker explodes in Minna

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 10:48 AM PST

A tanker carrying petroleum products exploded in Minna, Niger, on Friday. The tanker was owned by a major oil marketer, Conoil Plc and the incident occurred along Tunga town, Minna. Fire fighters...

I’m distracted by my mom’s abduction - Siasia laments

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:11 AM PST

Chief Coach of Nigeria's U-23 Dream Team, Samson Siasia has cried out to Nigerians that the abduction of his aged mother, Mrs Ogere Siasia, is distracting his attention as the country begins its...

Boko Haram: Buhari’s December deadline not feasible – CCC

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:09 AM PST

The Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC) has observed that the December 2015 deadline for the defeat of the insurgents by President Muhammadu Buhari is not feasible notwithstanding the great strides...

NYSC urges banks to grant corps members loan

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:07 AM PST

The National Youth Service Corps has urged banks and other corporate entities and individuals to emulate the Bank of Industry which provided N2bn loan to finance corps members with good business...

Boko Haram insurgents kill cleric, 17 others in Niger

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:04 AM PST

Nigerien authorities said Boko Haram militants killed 18 people, including a local religious leader, in an attack on a village in the nation's southern border area of Diffa. Justice Minister, Marou...

Governor Ambode charges Nigerian Police - 'Lagosians will no longer accept excuses'

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:01 AM PST

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, Friday, handed over series of security equipment and vehicles to the State Police Command and the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), just as he charged them to...

50 people for execution in Saudi

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 08:39 AM PST

The family of a Shiite activist sentenced to death after protesting in Saudi Arabia has voiced concerns for his fate as a rights group warned of his imminent execution. The sentence against Ali...

18-yr-old Samuel Nder emerges best candidate in the May/June WASSCE

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 08:37 AM PST

Eighteen-year-old former student of Vaatia College, Makurdi, Benue State, Master Samuel Nder was on Thursday, November 26, honoured as the best candidate in the May/June West African Senior...

Pirates kidnap five Polish sailors off Nigeria

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 08:31 AM PST

Gunmen have kidnapped five Polish sailors from a cargo ship off southern Nigeria, in the latest incident in a region known as a piracy hotspot, Poland's government said Friday. "The attack occurred...

Questions over Boko Haram attacks despite military claims of success

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:33 PM PST

Nigeria repeatedly claims to have severely weakened Boko Haram and is eyeing an end to the conflict by year-end, yet the Islamists still show a capacity to launch deadly attacks. Most of the nearly...

Lai Mohammed tasks media on terrorism, national unity

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 06:47 AM PST

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has urged the media to galvanize support among the populace for the war on terrorism, which he described as a major challenge facing the...

9 professors shortlisted for LASU VC contest

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 06:44 AM PST

Nine out of 14 professors have been shortlisted to contest for the post ‎of the Vice-Chancellor at the Lagos State University (LASU). A competent source, who pleaded anonymity at the University's...

PICTURES: Buhari and other world leaders at CHOGM in Malta

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 04:44 AM PST

President Buhari pictured with other Heads of Government at the opening of the Commonwaelth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta. The meeting is chaired by Queen Elizabeth II.    ...

APC national youth leader laments - 'Buhari has failed Nigerian youths'

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 04:42 AM PST

National Youth Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Ibrahim Dasuki Jalo, yesterday declared that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to carry the Nigerian youth...

Tech company reveal way to bring humans back after death

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 04:41 AM PST

A technology company says it's working on a project which would allow a human's consciousness to be transferred to an artificial body after their death. In what sounds like a plot from a science...

Audu’s inconclusive death, Mugabe’s wheelchair by Reuben Abati

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 04:43 AM PST

"You look sleepy" "My brother, let's just say I slept at a fuel station, looking for fuel." "For which of the women in your life, because I hear these days, to please a woman in Nigeria, you must...

Governor Ambode launches three helicopters, two gun boats to fight crime in Lagos

Posted: 27 Nov 2015 04:41 AM PST

Lagos state Governor Akinwumi Ambode on Friday repositions RRS to combat crime and robbery in the state. Ambode unveiled three patrol helicopters, two gun boats, Armoured Personnel Carriers...
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