Tuesday, 19 January 2016

NigerianEye: “REVEALED: How Olisa Metuh secured N400 million bail” plus 29 more

NigerianEye: “REVEALED: How Olisa Metuh secured N400 million bail” plus 29 more


REVEALED: How Olisa Metuh secured N400 million bail

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 09:42 PM PST

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, granted bail to the embattled National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Olisa Metuh, to the tune of N400...

Metuh’s handcuff meant to subdue opposition − PDP

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 09:43 PM PST

The National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh when he appeared in court on Tuesday. The party said that the development betrayed an extra-judicial, top political witch-hunt policy of the All...

Senate accepts Buhari’s ‘corrected budget’, begins bill debate

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 09:31 PM PST

The Senate on Tuesday adopted President Muhammadu Buhari's request asking it to discard the original budget proposals he presented to the Joint Session of the National Assembly on December 22, 2015...

N2.6 Billion fraud: How ‘Fashion designer got N546 million from NIMASA’

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 09:33 PM PST

The trial of an ex-Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Patrick Akpobolokemi, and five others continued before a Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday with a...

Nigeria confirms 212 cases of Lassa Fever in 17 states

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 09:34 PM PST

The Federal Government has confirmed 212 suspected cases of Lassa Fever in 64 Local government areas across 17 states in the country, even as it warned against a conspiracy of silence among the...

Lassa fever patient flees hospital in Ebonyi State

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 09:35 PM PST

Minister of Health Prof. Isaac Adewole yesterday announced the escape of a Lassa fever patient from hospital in Ebonyi State. The patient, whose identity was not made public, escaped from the health...

Olubadan of Ibadan dies at 101

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 09:14 PM PST

The Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade 1, is dead, sources said last night. The monarch was 101. He would have been 102 in April. The Olubadan lost consciousness before he eventually...

Women show their buttocks during protest in South Africa

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 09:08 PM PST

A group of about 16 women bared their buttocks and stormed into the offices of the ANC in Tshwane on Monday morning. Workers who were on duty, security personnel and passers-by looked on in...

Referendum: EU High Representative replies Biafra, OEAS

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 09:32 PM PST

Federica Mogherini, European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security has replied Biafra agitators and the Organization of Emerging African States (OEAS) over their call for a...

NEW VIDEO: Burna Boy – Jealousy

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 09:34 PM PST

Straight outta his latest album "On a Spaceship", Burna Boy dishes out the visual to one of the tracks, Jealousy, making waves at the moment and it sure is a great way to kick-start the...

Shine A Light On The Gaps By Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala & Janeen Madan

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 09:01 PM PST

This essay is part of a special edition being published in partnership with Foreign Affairs, titled "African Farmers in the Digital Age." This anthology explores the future of African food systems...

Ndigbo should forget 2019 presidency — Nathan Uzorma

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 08:59 PM PST

A social critic and chieftain of the United Progressives Party, UPP, Professor Protus Nathan Uzorma, has advised the agitators for a president of Igbo extraction in 2019, to discard the idea, as it...

How we’ll fight poverty, illiteracy with 6 social protection programmes —Osinbajo

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 08:57 PM PST

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo,yesterday, in Abuja revealed that 2016 budget contained six well articulated social welfare programmes and packages that would tackle poverty, illiteracy and health...

Naira remains stable at N295 per dollar

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 08:52 PM PST

The Naira remained stable at N295 per dollar in the parallel market, yesterday, as Bureau de Change, BDC, operators await the release of modalities on how to source dollars from autonomous...

CBN blames declining non-oil revenue on low export loans

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 08:49 PM PST

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has blamed the country's low revenue from non-oil export on stumpy loans to that sector. Governor of the apex bank, Mr Godwin Emefiele made this known at the...

Tension heightens in Imo over plans to sack 3,000 civil servants

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 08:45 PM PST

Tension has engulfed Imo state over the plan to sack over 3,000 civil servants by Imo State Government. . The activities in some of the affected parastatals, agencies and departments yesterday were...

PDP responsible for tension in the Niger-Delta - Oshiomhole

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 08:41 PM PST

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, regretted that the current tension in the Niger Delta was created by the immediate past Peoples Democratic Party, PDP-led administration through the...

'The army acted within law' - Buratai justifies Shi’ites’ killing

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 08:38 PM PST

The Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Tuesday spoke for the first time on the bloody clash between soldiers in his convoy and members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (also known as...

Crime has reduced by 65% in Lagos ─ Ambode

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 08:33 PM PST

The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Tuesday said crime had reduced in the state. Ambode, who spoke during the second 'Quarterly Town Hall Meeting' at the City Hall, explained that...

Mayflower school is 60

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 08:31 PM PST

The Mayflower Old Students Association is set to immortalise the late Tai Solarin, founder of the Mayflower School, Ikenne, Ogun State, by constructing a school hall in his honour. The Chairman,...

We won’t disobey court orders – EFCC

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 08:23 PM PST

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said that it will obey court orders in the ongoing prosecution of corrupt public office holders. The Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, told...

Corrupt judges will be prosecuted, asked to forfeit assets – FG

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 08:22 PM PST

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said the present administration will not spare judges who are found to be corrupt. Malami said unlike...

PDP should blame itself for current woes – APC

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 02:26 PM PST

The All Progressives Congress on Tuesday said the opposition Peoples Democratic Party has no one to blame but itself for its current woes. The governing party said it was surprised that the PDP...

I didn’t collect money from Dasuki - PDP chairman

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 08:19 PM PST

The Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus, has said that he didn't collect a dime from the former National Security Adviser, Lt.Col. Sambo Dasuki...

Olisa Metuh secures N400m bail

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 08:17 PM PST

The Federal High Court sitting Abuja has granted bail to the embattled National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Olisa Metuh, to the tune of N400million. Metuh...

2015 witnessed highest number of annulled elections – INEC

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 03:45 PM PST

The Independent National Electoral Commission has said the 2015 general elections witnessed The highest number of annulled elections since the return of democracy in 1999. Chairman of the...

Buhari vows to deal with pipeline bombers, oil thieves

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 03:43 PM PST

President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that his administration will effectively deal decisively with the seeming resurgence of oil theft, pipelines vandalism and insecurity in the Niger Delta. Niger...

FG threatens to scrap NIMASA over massive fraud

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 03:41 PM PST

The Federal Government on Tuesday said it might approach the National Assembly, to repeal the Act setting up the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, if its management failed to...

Corruption: Nigeria signs bilateral agreements with UAE on recovery of stolen funds

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 03:40 PM PST

Determined to recover Nigeria's stolen funds stashed in foreign banks, President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal government, on Tuesday, signed different bilateral agreements with the United Arab...

N224m NUPENG claim: We can’t make unverified payment – Lagos State Government

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 03:40 PM PST

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it would not succumb to the attempt by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) to blackmail it into paying a questionable...

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