Sunday, 6 March 2016

NigerianEye: “Nigeria's Labour minister, Ocholi dies in car crash” plus 29 more

NigerianEye: “Nigeria's Labour minister, Ocholi dies in car crash” plus 29 more

Nigeria's Labour minister, Ocholi dies in car crash

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 09:33 PM PST

The Minister of State for Labour, James Ocholi, has died in a road crash along Abuja-Kaduna Expressway. The accident in which Ocholi's wife, Blessing and son, Aaron also died, occurred at Rijana,...

VIDEO: Watch Al-jazeera Interview With President Buhari

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 08:37 PM PST

Play Video below.... Nine months after he came to power, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari received an official welcome from Qatar's Emir on Buhari's latest trip of many to boost Nigeria's...

BIAFRA: IPOB replies Buhari, says ‘we would also not tolerate Nigeria’

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 08:33 PM PST

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday welcomed the statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari to the effect that Nigeria would not tolerate Biafra, pointing out that Biafra would...

EFCC seizes $1million cash from Badeh’s house

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 08:34 PM PST

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has found $1million cash in a mansion belonging to a former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (retd.). The cash is believed by...

Key facts about the late Minister of State for Labour and Productivity, Mr. James Ocholi

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 08:33 PM PST

Enojo James Ocholi, Senior Advocate Of Nigeria(SAN) was born on 26th November 1960.  He hails from Dekina Local Government area of Kogi State.  He attended Ochaja Secondary School.  He...

How we kidnapped Lagos school girls - Suspects

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 08:33 PM PST

The prime suspect in the abduction of three school girls in Lagos, Emmanuel Arigidi has revealed that twelve people were involved in the operation. Speaking to journalists on Sunday after they were...

DIASPORA VOTING: 11,000 vote in Benin Republic’s Presidential poll in Lagos

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 08:19 PM PST

About 11,000 Benin Republic nationals yesterday converged at the Republic of Benin's Consulate-General's premises in Lagos to vote in their country's presidential election.  Most of the...

Fayose bars Ekiti monarch from wearing crown

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 08:06 PM PST

Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has barred the Olukere of Ikere-Ekiti, Oba Ganiyu Obasoyin, from wearing a crown. Fayose accused the media of complicity in the supremacy battle between the...

Patriotic Nigerians must fight evil - Osinbajo

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 08:03 PM PST

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has urged Nigerians who believe in pursuing the good of the nation to support President Muhammadu Buhari's administration's fight against evil. He spoke at the weekend...

Don’t mix criminality with religion, say Soyinka, Falana

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 08:00 PM PST

Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka and activist-lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) yesterday condemned the Federal Government's failure to prosecute Senator Ahmed Yerima who allegedly married an Egyptian girl of...

How Nigerian minister, son, wife died – FRSC

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 07:52 PM PST

The minister of state for Labour and Productivity, Mr. James Ocholi, his wife and eldest son died 57 kilometres from Kaduna, the Federal Road Safety Commission has said. While the minister and his...

Cameroon takes 16 Akwa Ibom communities

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 07:49 PM PST

Cameroon has annexed 16 mangrove island villages of Effiat clan in Mbo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Mbo mangrove island is a fishing settlement, which lies west of the Rio Del Ray...

Hunger biting harder in Nigeria - Reps

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 07:47 PM PST

The House of Representatives has acknowledged what it termed as "excruciating hunger" in the country, including "the depreciating welfare of the Nigerian masses". It called on the Federal Government...

Nigerian girls under threat - Osinbajo’s wife

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 07:45 PM PST

Dolapo, wife of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, on Sunday lamented the various abuses women and girls are being subjected to in Nigeria. Mrs. Osinbajo, who spoke at a service to mark this year's...

Nigerian troops raid Boko Haram hideouts, kill five

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 07:43 PM PST

Nigerian troops have killed a total five terrorists and captured one, Musa Abdulahi, after raiding Boko Haram's hideouts in different parts of Borno State. The Acting Director, Army Public...

Buhari expresses shock and sadness over the death of Minister of State for Labour, Barrister James Ocholi

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 11:20 AM PST

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed shock and sadness over the death of the Minister of State for Labour, Barrister James Ocholi ,SAN, on sunday.  Ocholi died alongside his wife and son in...

Buhari registers Nigeria in Islamic Coalition against terrorism

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 11:38 AM PST

President Buhari has confirmed the membership of Nigeria in the Islamic Coalition against terrorism formed last year by majorly Islamic countries at the instance of Saudi Arabia to fight...

Ikorodu United 0-0 MFM FC Report: Lagos derby ends in stalemate

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 11:19 AM PST

MFM FC missed out on the chance to climb to the top of the Nigeria Professional Football League log as they played out a surprisingly low-key 0-0 draw against local rivals at Onikan Stadium. The...

Ogoni people protest military invasion

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 11:14 AM PST

Several Ogoni people took to the streets on Saturday to protest the military invasion of Gokana and Khana Local Government Areas of Rivers State. The protesters, who carried white mock caskets,...

Ocholi: We Are In Shock – APC

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 11:02 AM PST

The National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has received news of the death of the Minister for Labour (State), James Ocholi (SAN) and his son with great shock and sadness. The...

Ex-US first lady Nancy Reagan is dead

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 10:58 AM PST

Nancy Reagan, devoted wife and trusted confidant of late president Ronald Reagan, died Sunday at age 94 at her home in Los Angeles, a spokeswoman said.  "The cause of death was congestive heart...

'Fayose is a dictator'

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 10:55 AM PST

A former Special Assistant on Youths under ex-governor Segun Oni-Peoples Democratic Party's administration in Ekiti State, Pastor Yemi Olayinka, has alleged that Governor Ayodele Fayose's dictatorial...

No ransom paid to free abducted Lagos school girls – Police

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 10:51 AM PST

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, has said that no ransom was paid to secure the release of the three kidnapped girls of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary, (BMJS),...

I can’t be intimidated by Buhari’s DSS – Fayose

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 10:44 AM PST

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, has declared that even if the State was invaded by one million armed men of the Department of State Services (DSS) on the order of President Muhammadu Buhari,...

Nigeria’s economic woes basically our own fault – Buhari

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 10:39 AM PST

Nigeria only has itself to blame for its current economic troubles, President Muhammadu Buhari said in an interview broadcast on Saturday, criticising previous governments for an over-reliance on...

Naira depreciation: Nigerians should look inwards – experts

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 10:28 AM PST

Some experts have advised Nigerians to look inwards and develop areas of the country's comparative advantage to reduce demand for foreign exchange. They made the suggestion in separate interviews...

Iran billionaire sentenced to death for corruption

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 10:21 AM PST

Iran has sentenced billionaire tycoon Babak Zanjani, reportedly one of the country's richest men, to death, convicting him of corruption after a long trial on accusations he fraudulently pocketed...

Gunmen murder family of APC chief in Rivers

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 05:07 AM PST

A group of unknown gunmen have murdered a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Omoku, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State. It was gathered that the APC chieftain...

Ambode salutes Police for rescuing Lagos school girls

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 02:50 AM PST

The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has commended the Police Force, over what he described as their courage in ensuring that the three female students of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary...

Three kidnapped Lagos school girls rescued

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 02:41 AM PST

Three students of the Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary School, Ikorodu kidnapped last week have been rescued. Sources in the office of the state's Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, told...
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