Sunday, 21 August 2016

NigerianEye: “President Buhari's has a new plan to boast the Nigerian economy” plus 29 more

NigerianEye: “President Buhari's has a new plan to boast the Nigerian economy” plus 29 more

President Buhari's has a new plan to boast the Nigerian economy

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 08:11 PM PDT

President Muhammadu Buhari will be seeking emergency powers from the National Assembly to push his planned stimulus for the economy. The objectives of the action-plan on the economy, which is in...

Father Mbaka 'uncovers' fresh plan to kill President Buhari

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 08:12 PM PDT

Popular Nigerian Catholic priest, Ejike Mbaka, has said that plans are being hatched to murder President Muhammadu Buhari over his uncompromising stand on corruption. In a video message obtained by...

FOREX: Nigerians will continue to suffer – Kachikwu says

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 08:13 PM PDT

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, yesterday, blamed the continued fall in the value of the naira against other major currencies on the huge demand for foreign exchange...

Reasons why we announced ceasefire – Niger Delta Avengers

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 08:14 PM PDT

The Niger Delta Avengers has announced a conditional ceasefire and agreed to hold talks with the federal government following months of attacks on key oil and gas facilities that have hammered the...

Makarfi PDP’s faction holds primary today

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 08:15 PM PDT

The Ahmed Makarfi faction of Ondo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will today hold its governorship primary election, ahead of the November 26 poll. The venue of the factional primary is the...

50-year-old woman stabbed dead in her apartment

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 08:06 PM PDT

Fear gripped residents of Close 9, Victoria Garden City, Ajah, weekend, following the discovery of the lifeless body of a 50-year-old woman in her apartment. The deceased, identified as Mabel...

Policemen arrested for mounting roadblocks

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 07:56 PM PDT

The Bayelsa State Police Commissioner, Mr. Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi, has ordered the arrest of two policemen for allegedly flouting the directive of the police headquarters against mounting of...

IBB must face probe over $12.4bn oil windfall - SERAP

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 07:48 PM PDT

A rights advocacy group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has called on the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), to reopen the...

Man kills spouse, pastor’s wife, daughter in Sokoto

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 07:47 PM PDT

A 43-year-old man, Taiwo Adio, has clubbed his wife, Yemisi, and three other persons to death with a pestle in Sokoto, Sokoto State. Adio on Saturday night at the Old Airport area of the Sokoto...

NLC rejects Governor Okorocha’s two-day farming policy for workers

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 07:46 PM PDT

The Nigeria Labour Congress has condemned the Imo State government's three-day work and two-day farming for workers, as recently introduced by Governor Rochas Okorocha. NLC President, Ayuba Wabba,...

Thirty Days of the Dogara-gate Scandal, By Abdulmumin Jibrin

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 07:29 PM PDT

Today marks one month since we commenced the struggle to expose budget fraud and wipe out corruption in the House of Representatives. It has been a month of startling revelations; thirty days of...

Nigeria set to train 500 ex-Niger Delta militants in farming

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 07:27 PM PDT

The Federal Government will train 500 ex-militants in agriculture and aquaculture under its amnesty programme, an official has said. The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Paul Boro,...

Oba of Lagos hails Nigerian Air Force for dislodging militants

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 07:25 PM PDT

Oba of Lagos Rilwan Akiolu has hailed the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) for leading the offensive against militants, who held Lagos and Ogun communities hostage. Oba of Lagos Rilwan Akiolu Akiolu...

HAJJ: 6,000 pilgrims leave from Sokoto

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 07:14 PM PDT

Sokoto, Northern Nigeria Six thousand pilgrims were at the weekend transported to Saudi Arabia from Sokoto International Airport. Zonal Coordinator Alhaji Abubakar Kaoje spoke during an interview...

'We’ve not given up on Chibok girls' - Chief of Air Staff

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 07:08 PM PDT

Chief of Air Staff (CAS) Air Marshal Sadique Baba Abubakar  Chief of Air Staff (CAS) Air Marshal Sadique Baba Abubakar yesterday described as "technically deficient" the Boko Haram video showing...

Boko Haram kills 10, abducts 13 near Chibok

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 12:48 PM PDT

Boko Haram Islamists have killed 10 people and abducted 13 others in a raid on a village near the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok where the militants kidnapped over 200 schoolgirls in 2014, locals...

Donald Trump soft-pedals on immigration laws

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 02:45 PM PDT

Donald Trump's vow to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants if elected president appeared to be undergoing a shift Sunday as the struggling Republican candidate reaches out to minorities...

SSANU to Buhari - 'Help, our Universities stinks of corruption'

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 12:14 PM PDT

The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) has accused Pro-Chancellors and Vice Chancellors of Nigerian universities of corruption and running the nation's ivory tower aground...

Budget Padding: Again, Jibrin asks Dogara to step aside

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 12:10 PM PDT

Yet again, former Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmunin Jibrin has asked Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara to step aside for investigations to commence over...

MEND blasts Edwin Clark

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 12:06 PM PDT

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, on Sunday, slammed Ijaw National leader, Chief Edwin Clark for his position on the restructuring and ongoing militancy, saying that the elder...

Scare in Singapore as Prime Minister faints in televised speech

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 12:05 PM PDT

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong caused a scare when he fainted briefly while delivering a long televised speech on Sunday, but he resumed speaking after resting.Lee Hsien Loong  The...

Lou Pearlman, Backstreet Boys founder, dies in prison

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 12:01 PM PDT

Lou Pearlman, the producer who launched the hit 1990s boy band groups Backstreet Boys and NSYNC, has died in prison while serving a 25-year sentence for bilking investors of $300 million. The...

I left JAMB better than I met it — Ojerinde

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 11:57 AM PDT

A former Registrar/Chief Executive of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. 'Dibu Ojerinde, has said that he was leaving JAMB better than he met it after nine years in charge. He...

NLC to FG - 'Review budgeting system'

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 11:55 AM PDT

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President, Ayuba Wabba, on Sunday in Abuja called for total review of budgeting system in the country, saying that the current process was outdated. Wabba made...

Cancer Patient Mayowa Ahmed Is Dead

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 08:29 AM PDT

Female cancer patient Mayowa Ahmed has passed on today. Mayowa, a graduate of University of Lagos and an HB SS patient was diagnosed with bilateral Ovarian Mass Carcinoma, as stated in a diagnosis...

Group Cry out For Release of Chibok Girls, Begs Salkida, BBOG

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 08:13 AM PDT

By Jerry Emmanson, Abuja Apparently worried by the endless wait for the release of the Chibok girls by its abductors, the Coalition Against Terrorism and Extremism (CATE) has appealed to the trio of...

Jigawa Govt. releases N280m for 2016 hajj operation

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 08:10 AM PDT

The Jigawa State Governor, Muhammad Badaru, on Saturday, said he had released the sum of N280 million for the 2016 hajj operation. Mr. Badaru made this disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria...

Kogi politicians take over houses meant for flood victims

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 08:08 AM PDT

The 235 housing units constructed for victims of the 2012 flood disaster in Kogi are being occupied by politicians and other unintended beneficiaries, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The houses,...

Ondo 2016: Agunloye emerges SDP governorship candidate

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 08:07 AM PDT

Former Minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye, was on Saturday in Akure, unanimously voted as candidate of the Social Democratic Party for the forthcoming Ondo State governorship election. The...

Nigerians displaced by 2012 flood still live in camps

Posted: 21 Aug 2016 08:05 AM PDT

Four years after the 2012 flood disaster in parts of Edo, many displaced person are still staying in public buildings in the affected local government areas, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. Five...
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