Saturday, 16 July 2016

NigerianEye: “EFCC grills Obanikoro’s daughter” plus 29 more

NigerianEye: “EFCC grills Obanikoro’s daughter” plus 29 more

EFCC grills Obanikoro’s daughter

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 11:48 PM PDT

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday grilled Shalewa Obanikoro, the daughter of a former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, over a transaction of N800m...

Fashola gives conditions for stable power supply in Nigeria

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 11:48 PM PDT

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has stated the conditions that must be met for Nigerians to enjoy uninterrupted electricity supply. The minister, who spoke to...

N6.4 Billion monthly fraud uncovered on FG payroll

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 11:49 PM PDT

The Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit found discrepancies in the payroll of the Federal Government's Ministries, Agencies and Departments to the tune of N6.4 billion monthly, the Head of...

I suffered immeasurably but I’m not broken — Fani-Kayode says after release from EFCC

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 11:37 PM PDT

Chief Femi Fani-Kayode who has been in detention since May 9, 2016, was released today, Friday, July 15, 2016, after fulfilling his bail conditions. In a statement released by the former Minister...

Rio Olympics 2016: Nigeria targets 10 medals

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 11:35 PM PDT

The biggest sporting show-piece on earth is less than 20 days away from rolling off in a grand-style with the world's best set to dig in for precious medals and mount the medal podium as nations...

France extends state of emergency, death toll set to rise

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 11:29 PM PDT

President Francois Hollande has announced a further three months of national emergency following the Bastille Day attacks in Nice, according to Euronews. Speaking at a press conference in Paris, the...

Buhari commends Dantata over gifts to hospital

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 11:23 PM PDT

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday commended a Kano-based businessman, Alhaji Aminu Dantata, for his numerous philanthropic gestures. He lauded Dantata for his gifts of the lying-in-ward,...

Two sisters arrested for selling their babies

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 11:19 PM PDT

The Cross River State Police Command has arrested two sisters, Gift Etim Ikono and her sister, Esther Ikono and one woman, Florence Victor Ekpo, for child trafficking. Commissioner of Police, Jimoh...

France’s truck terrorist identified

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 11:17 PM PDT

The truck driver who crushed at least 84 people to death along Nice's beachfront in France on Thursday night was yesterday identified as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian living in...

EFCC interrogates Doyin Okupe over N162m ‘illicit payment’

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 11:15 PM PDT

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday confirmed a fresh grilling of Dr. Doyin Okupe, who was a former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. Okupe was...

Osinbajo leads Nigeria’s delegation to AU summit in Rwanda

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 11:49 PM PDT

President Muhammadu Buhari will be represented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, at the African Union Summit formally opening tomorrow in Kigali, Rwanda. The 27th Ordinary Session of the...

Military coup in Turkey, power seized from president....massive protests, chaos follow

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 11:47 PM PDT

There has been a military coup in Turkey. The country's Prime Minister, Binali Yildirim, announced that some senior soldiers engaged in a "coup attempt." And on this video some people are on the tank...

Femi Fani-Kayode freed finally

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 12:45 PM PDT

Ex-Spokesperson to the ex- President Goodluck Jonathan's Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani- Kayode, has regained his freedom after spending over 65 days in detention for allegedly laundering of...

P.SQUARE WAR: Peter Okoye threatens to sue twin brother, Paul Okoye

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 12:48 PM PDT

Trouble seems to be brewing yet again in the P-square household as Peter Okoye, now known as Mr P, took to his Instagram page to disassociate himself from a concert that was held in Congo...

EFCC engaging in media trial – Fayose

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 12:45 PM PDT

Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of resorting to media trial to portray him in bad light before members of the public. Fayose said he...

Obanikoro blasts EFCC - 'Release my wife now'

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 12:44 PM PDT

The Former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, on Friday told the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to resist the temptation of "persecuting" his wife, Moroophat, who...

SHOCKING: Man’s spirit ‘photographed leaving his body’ after accident

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 12:41 PM PDT

Some proves of the afterlife were recently captured in photographs at the scene of a fatal road accident involving a motorcycle and a vehicle on Tuesday in Kentucky, United States of America. The...

Dasukigate: Court okays EFCC’s detention of Omisore

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 12:37 PM PDT

Detained former Osun State Deputy Governor, Iyiola Omisore failed Friday in his quest for freedom as a High Court in Abuja dismissed his bail application. Omisore was arrested by the Economic and...

Why there are fuel queues in Abuja — NNPC

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 12:36 PM PDT

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday explained that the queues that resurfaced at Abuja petrol stations were the ripple effects of the strike that oil workers under the...

NiMet predicts cloudy, rainy weather for Saturday

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 12:31 PM PDT

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted cloudy weather conditions over the Central States on Saturday with rains over Abuja, Jos, Kaduna, Minna and Bida in the morning. The...

Super Eagles Defender Echiejile Mourns Victims Of Nice Terrorist Attacks

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 10:04 AM PDT

Nigeria and AS Monaco defender Elderson Echiejile has sent condolences to victims of the Nice attack in France last night and also condemns terrorism in all forms. The attack was the second in...

APC Rally: Osinbajo, Governors storm Benin on Saturday for kick-off of APC guber campaign

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 09:41 AM PDT

The Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo and governors elected under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, are expected to storm Benin, the Edo state capital, tomorrow for the official...

NERC insists on electricity tariff hike, appeals court ruling

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 11:50 PM PDT

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has insisted it would retain its planned 45 per cent increase in electricity tariff as it said it would file an appeal against the court ruling that...

Divorce Case: My child was named by my wife’s lover - Man tells court

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 09:31 AM PDT

"My wife's lover, Temitope, gave my child his name on the day of christening,'' a divorce seeker, Mr Femi Ojikutu, told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Friday. He said although the lover was...

OFFICIAL: Medhi Benatia Signs For Juventus

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 09:41 AM PDT

Italian champions Juventus have signed Medhi Benatia on loan from Bayern Munich with the option of making the deal permanent in 2017. The Italian champions said on their website that they have an...

Etcetera blasts Osinbajo: "Any fool can be a pastor"

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 09:06 AM PDT

Nigerian Controversial singer and writer, Etcetera, has in a new article slammed Vice President, Prof. (Pastor) Yemi Osinbanjo, and the President Buhari-led administration, owing to the present...

Barca move made me cry - Umtiti

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 08:55 AM PDT

Samuel Umtiti has admitted that he was reduced to tears when it became clear he would have the opportunity to join Barcelona. The France international, who played in his country's run to finish...

Man stabs friend to death for destroying his winning ticket

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 08:40 AM PDT

A man has been arrested after he stabbed a friend to death for destroying his winning ticket, worth 2million naira in Centra Area, Gboko town in Benue state. It was gathered that the suspect...

France Attack: ‘Many foreigners and children’ among Nice dead and injured

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 08:19 AM PDT

French President Francois Hollande said Friday that "many foreigners and young children" were among those killed or injured after the truck attack on a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, with...

''I am very much pro- Biafra'' - Wole Soyinka

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 08:05 AM PDT

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has explained why he's in support of the agitation for Biafra. Speaking on Aljazeera on Thursday, Soyinka said, ''I am very much pro- Biafra because I recognise that...
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