Wednesday, 2 March 2016

NigerianEye: “'We must stop paying dowries in dollars and pounds' - Dino Melaye blasts Oshiomhole for marrying foreign wife” plus 29 more

NigerianEye: “'We must stop paying dowries in dollars and pounds' - Dino Melaye blasts Oshiomhole for marrying foreign wife” plus 29 more


'We must stop paying dowries in dollars and pounds' - Dino Melaye blasts Oshiomhole for marrying foreign wife

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 09:28 PM PST

A Federal Capital Territory, Senator Dino Melaye, mocked the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on Wednesday, while contributing to a motion seeking the need to patronise products made in...

Badeh received NAF’s N3.9 Billion in 12 months – EFCC

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 09:30 PM PST

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed 10 counts of money laundering against the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh (retd.), accusing him of removing a...

Inmates of Kuje prison surprised to see former Minister of Interior, Abba Moro is now one of them

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 09:29 PM PST

Inmates at the Kuje prison are in shock that the former Minister of Interior, Abba Moro is now one of them. Many of them were excited and curious to know what led to his detention. According to a...

Lagos Schoolgirls Kidnap: Abductors demand N20 million per student

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 09:29 PM PST

There were indications on Wednesday, that the kidnappers who stormed Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary, Ikorodu, Lagos, Monday night, abducting three Senior Secondary School female students have...

Ben Murray Bruce writes open letter to Nigerian youths

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 09:39 PM PST

The senator and media mogul wrote an open letter to the youths of Nigeria. Read below.. Youths of Nigeria, I want to communicate with you today. I noticed that there are too many divisions amongst...

David Mark sworn in as Senator for the sixth time

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 09:36 PM PST

The Senator representing Benue South, Senator David Mark was today, March 2, sworn-in into the Senate for a record 6th time. The Appeal Court sitting in Markurdi annulled the election of the former...

Ekiti to build N200m artisans’ village — Fayose

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 09:35 PM PST

Ekiti State Government in conjunction with some banks, will build an artisans' village along Ikere Road, Ado-Ekiti. Governor Ayodele Fayose, made the disclosure yesterday in Ado-Ekiti while meeting...

Buhari meets Turkish president at Aso Villa

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 09:27 PM PST

President Mohammadu Buhari on Wednesday held bilateral talks with the visiting Turkish President, Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at the State House, Abuja. On arrival at the Presidential Villa at...

EFCC releases Secondus on bail

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 09:21 PM PST

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) last night released the Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party( PDP), Prince Uche Secondus. Apart from seizing his passport, he...

Abba Moro returns to prison as court rules on bail today

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 09:20 PM PST

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday sent a former Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, and a deputy director in the ministry, F. O Alayebami, back to prison till today when a ruling on their...

Leader of Ombatse cult dies

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 09:18 PM PST

After three years of communal clashes that engulfed Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, Governor Tanko Al-Makura on Wednesday confirmed the death of the spiritual head of Eggon nationality, Baba...

$24bn contracts: Diezani shuns Reps panel

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 09:17 PM PST

The immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, on Wednesday failed to appear before the ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives investigating the crude oil...

EFCC accuses another SAN of bribing judge

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 09:15 PM PST

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday alleged that another Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Joseph Nwobike, transferred a sum of N750,000 to Justice Mohammed Yunusa of the...

Army commutes Ransome-Kuti’s dismissal sentence to demotion

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 09:07 PM PST

The Nigerian Army has approved the dismissal of a former Commander of the Multi National Joint Task Force, Enitan Ransome-Kuti, by a Special Court Martial on October 15, 2015 to...

Kaduna finance ministry’s Director kidnapped

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 03:30 PM PST

A senior Director in the Kaduna State Ministry of Finance, Alhaji Aminu Sambo has been reportedly kidnapped by unknown gunmen. The Nation gathered in Kaduna Wednesday that, Sambo was abducted by...

Reps raise 10-member panel over Lagos schoolgirls’ abduction

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 03:27 PM PST

The House of Representatives on Wednesday asked the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, to urgently deploy his men to rescue the three girls, who were abducted from the Babington Macaulay...

Ese Oruru arrives Bayelsa

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 03:26 PM PST

Ese Oruru and her mother, Rose, have arrived finally at Bayelsa State from where she was abducted eight months ago. They had flown from Abuja to Port Harcourt from where they were driven in a...

ESE SAGA: My son was Oruru’s domestic help for 10 years – Yunusa’s father

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 03:23 PM PST

Fresh revelations have emerged on the alleged abduction of Ese Oruru, the 14-year-old from her parents' home in Bayelsa.  Yunusa Yellow's father, Dahiru Bala, on Wednesday, said his son was an...

Nigerian children are special - Iara Oshiomhole

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 03:19 PM PST

Mrs. Iara Oshiomhole, wife of Edo State Governor has described Nigerian children as special, saying the children are always happy and full of joy, no matter the circumstance. She gave her assessment...

Ciara rocks her dancing steps on the streets of Lagos

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 03:16 PM PST

In what can be clearly perceived as a welcome diversion from the gory stories and pictures of ritual killing, kidnapping and Boko Haram insurgency characterising Nigeria, American superstar Ciara got...

Zuma begins two-day state visit to Nigeria March 8

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 03:04 PM PST

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma will begin a two-day state visit to Nigeria on March 8, the Presidency has announced. In a statement on Wednesday, the Presidency said Zuma was travelling to...

Why we collected N50 billion from MTN — Nigeria

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 02:46 PM PST

The Minister of Communications, Barr. Adebayo Shittu, has cleared the air over the controversy trailing the role of the Ministry in the out-of-court settlement by MTN Nigeria, and its payment of N50...

Adam Johnson guilty of under-age sex charge

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 02:44 PM PST

Former England winger Adam Johnson was found guilty of one count of sexual activity with a child at a court in northern England on Wednesday. The 28-year-old had previously admitted to grooming a...

Liverpool 3-0 Manchester City: Pellegrini's title hopes left in tatters

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 02:13 PM PST

Liverpool exacted revenge for their League Cup final defeat with an emphatic 3-0 victory over Manchester City, leaving Manuel Pellegrini's Premier League title hopes in tatters. Adam Lallana opened...

West Ham 1-0 Tottenham: Antonio denies Spurs top spot

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 02:12 PM PST

Tottenham missed the chance to go top of the Premier League with a 1-0 defeat at West Ham as Michail Antonio continued his hot streak at Upton Park. Having come from behind to beat Swansea City 2-1...

EPL: Arsenal defeated yet again

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 02:10 PM PST

Arsenal have lost back-to-back league games for the first time this season and have suffered a third defeat in a row in all competitions following Ashley Williams's 74th-minute strike that gave...

Another 14-year-old Benue girl kidnapped in Sokoto

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 10:08 AM PST

Another missing 14 year old girl, Patience Paul, have alleged that the primary six student of Mohammed Zako Model Primary school, Sokoto may have been abducted and housed at the palace of the Sultan...

Ese Oruru reportedly pregnant

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 10:08 AM PST

Reports reaching us has it that 14 year old Ese Rita Oruru, the Bayelsa born girl child who was abducted by Yunusa Dahiru, alias Yellow but rescued by the Police in Kano, has been discovered to be...

LAGOS: We’ll ensure safe return of school girls - Ambode

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 09:39 AM PST

The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has said the state government will make all efforts to ensure the three female students abducted from Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary are...

President of Turkey, Tayyip Erdoghan in a closed door meeting with Buhari in Aso Villa

Posted: 02 Mar 2016 04:46 AM PST

The Turkish President, Recef Tayyip Erdoghan, is currently in a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Erdoghan arrived the forecourt of the...

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