Thursday, 25 February 2016

NigerianEye: “Economic Challenges: Buhari takes Wole Soyinka’s advice, convenes national economic conference” plus 29 more

NigerianEye: “Economic Challenges: Buhari takes Wole Soyinka’s advice, convenes national economic conference” plus 29 more


Economic Challenges: Buhari takes Wole Soyinka’s advice, convenes national economic conference

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 05:34 PM PST

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the convocation of a national economic conference aimed at rallying the country together to offer solutions to the current economic challenges facing...

Diezani’s cousin arrested for ‘illegal’ crude oil deals

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 05:34 PM PST

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is detaining Mr. Donald Chidi Amamgbo. A cousin of the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, for allegedly...

Reps ask FRSC to stop the compulsory use of speed limiters by motorists in Nigeria

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 05:35 PM PST

The House of Representatives on Thursday asked the Federal Road Safety Corps to stop the compulsory use of speed limiters by motorists in the country. Lawmakers said besides the technology being...

PICTURES: Buhari, Sanusi ,Aregbesola, Amosun at Lesser Hajj... praying for Nigeria

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 05:35 PM PST

President Muhammadu Buhari, who is currently in Saudi Arabia, visited Mecca in Saudi Arabia for Umrah, lesser Hajj (or the lesser pilgrimage).  Medina is the capital city of Al-Madinah Region...

Buhari excited by Islamic bank’s offer to Nigeria

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 05:35 PM PST

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday welcomed an offer by the Islamic Development Bank to organise a financing round-table in Abuja to mobilise more funds for investment and development of...

IN PICTURES: Fayose rides Okada as he inspects water fetching points in a community in Ekiti

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 05:39 PM PST

Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose pictured riding on a motorcycle (Okada) round Aramoko Ekiti in Ekiti West LGA of Ekiti State today to inspect some of the water fetching points in the community as...

$2.1bn arms probe: Olisa Metuh knows fate March 9

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 05:30 PM PST

Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has slated March 9 to determine whether or not the National Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, has...

23 Boko Haram insurgents killed by the military

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 05:26 PM PST

No fewer than 23 Boko Haram insurgents were killed and more than 150 Nigerian hostages freed, after joint attacks against the sect's fighters by Nigerian and Cameroonian troops in a border town. The...

Pastor arrested for ‘impregnating’ two sisters

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 05:23 PM PST

General Overseer of the Victorious Sacred Solemn Healing and Deliverance Ministry, Prophet Oluwaseyi Idowu has been arrested for allegedly impregnating two sisters. The pastor, it was gathered,...

Senate uncovers N5 Billion shortfall in education ministry budget

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 05:20 PM PST

The Senate Committee on Basic and Secondary Education on Thursday said it had uncovered N5bn shortfall in the amount provided for meal subsidy for the unity schools across the country and the...

EFCC set to invite Mu’azu, Obanikoro

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 05:16 PM PST

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set to invite the immediate past Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu'azu; and a former Minister of State for Defence, Senator...

2016 budget will be ready March ending – Dogara

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 02:10 PM PST

Nigerians will get an "implementable" 2016 budget by March ending, the Speaker of House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, said on Thursday. The Speaker gave the assurance when he received the...

Buhari on the right path, say Osinbajo, Oshiomhole

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 02:08 PM PST

Vice President Yemi Osibanjo and Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, said on Thursday that Nigeria's journey towards industrialization required an enabling environment that can only be forged...

BRT Crushes Motorcyclist at Ikorodu

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 02:00 PM PST

A ghastly motor accident has just occurred at Agric on the Ikorodu road as a Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) vehicle just ran over a commercial motorcyclist (Okada). According to eye witness account, the...

PDP chairman, Ali Modu-Sheriff gets media aide

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 01:58 PM PST

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has approved the appointment of Hon. Inuwa Bwala as the Special Assistant (Media) to the National Chairman of the party, Senator Ali...

Oliseh rejects 'job offer from ‘Top African nation'

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 05:50 PM PST

Super Eagles head coach Sunday Oliseh has claimed that he was approached by an unnamed top African nation last year but turned down their offer. Oliseh, 41, revealed at one of the sessions of the...

None BVN accounts would remain dormant – CBN

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 01:42 PM PST

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Thursday, said that bank accounts without the Biometrics Verification Number (BVN) would be operated as "No Customer Initiated Debit". The apex bank said this in a...

Adeosun, Emefiele should have resigned over forex crisis - Ifeanyi Ubah

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 01:40 PM PST

The Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas, Ifeanyi Ubah, on Thursday, said that government officials saddled with fiscal responsibilities should have resigned their appointments amid the current...

Jonathan’s ex-ADC in our detention on Army’s directive – EFCC

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 01:37 PM PST

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said the continued detention of a former Aide de Camp to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Col. Ojogbane Adegbe, was on the directive by the Nigerian...

Ekiti APC asks IG of police to prosecute Fayose

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 10:12 AM PST

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has asked the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, to prosecute Governor Ayodele Fayose; former Ekiti State Mopol Commander, Gabriel Selekere; and...

PDP Reps demand release of Secondus

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 09:57 AM PST

The caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party at the House of Representatives on Thursday demanded the release of the Deputy National Chairman of the party, Mr. Uche Secondus. The caucus claimed that...

Judiciary workers threaten strike over judges’ unpaid salaries

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 09:55 AM PST

The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria on Thursday threatened to embark on an industrial action over unpaid salaries of judges in the federal judiciary. Justices of the Supreme Court and the Court of...

Benue killings out of control - Governor

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 09:54 AM PST

Benue State Governor, Mr. Samuel Ortom, on Thursday lamented that the killings currently going on in Agatu Local Government Area of his state is getting out of hand. He said the situation which had...

More troubles for Olisa Metuh as EFCC is set to arraign him for obstruction of operatives

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 09:50 AM PST

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has amended the charges of destruction of evidence filed before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Maitama, Abuja, against the National...

WATCH VIDEO: Bomb blast in Yola

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 08:01 AM PST

About four senior police officers, among whom was the Commander of the Anti-bomb squad of the Adamawa police command, were killed on Thursday in a bomb explosion, which occurred at the Jimeta...

Four killed as bomb blast rocks Adamawa

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 08:03 AM PST

our senior police officers, among whom was the Commander of the Anti-bomb squad of the Adamawa police command, were killed on Thursday in a bomb explosion, which occurred at the Jimeta Divisional...

Alleged fraud: Senate orders arrest of ex-EFCC boss

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 07:32 AM PST

The stage may be set for the arrest of immediate past Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde over alleged financial crime and corruption. The Senate...

INEC releases dates for Edo, Ondo governorship elections

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 07:24 AM PST

The Independent National Electoral Commission has released dates for the conduct of governorship elections in both Edo and Ondo States. The commission said that while governorship election would...

Messi sends autographed jerseys to five-year-old Afghan fan

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 07:22 AM PST

Argentine football star Lionel Messi has sent not one, but two jerseys to the five-year-old Afghan boy who became an Internet sensation last month when he was pictured wearing a plastic bag with...

Egypt jails Christian teens five years for disrespecting Islam

Posted: 25 Feb 2016 07:08 AM PST

An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced three Coptic Christian teenagers to five years in jail for contempt of Islam after they were seen in a video mocking Muslim prayers. A judge in the central...

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