Wednesday, 4 July 2018

NigerianEye: “Policeman kills female NYSC member one day to passing out parade” plus 29 more

NigerianEye: “Policeman kills female NYSC member one day to passing out parade” plus 29 more


Policeman kills female NYSC member one day to passing out parade

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 05:14 PM PDT

A policeman has allegedly shot dead a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member serving in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The deceased, Linda Angela Igwetu, was billed to pass out of...

Giving Fulani herdsmen land for ranching better than death – Presidency

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 05:00 PM PDT

The Presidency, yesterday, charged those against the administration's ranching and colony programmes for herdsmen to rethink, noting that they are better off living with the ranches and colonies than...

My successors dare not return stolen assets to looters – President Buhari

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 05:15 PM PDT

President Muhammadu Buhari said on Wednesday the world would see if his successors would return the loots and assets recovered by his administration from those who looted the nation's treasury. He...

APC DIVIDED: Saraki, Dogara, Kwankwaso faction form R-APC

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 07:26 PM PDT

Aggrieved members of the newPeoples Democratic Party in the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday made good their threat to factionalise the party, with the emergence of the Reformed-All...

Lagos Tanker Explosion: Senate demands probe

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 04:49 PM PDT

The Senate on Wednesday called on the Nigeria Police Force and the Federal Road Safety Corps to investigate the circumstances surrounding the explosion of a tanker-laden with premium motor spirit...

Oyo State: Why I want to be governor again - Alao-Akala

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 04:22 PM PDT

A former Oyo State Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala has declared his intention to contest the governorship seat in 2019. Alao-Akala said he was bowing to intense pressure from his admirers. The former...

I’m not impotent, I impregnated three ladies, man counters wife in court

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 04:14 PM PDT

A trader, Beauty Odinye, on Wednesday urged a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve her 12-year marriage to her husband, Nathaniel Odinye, over his alleged 'impotence and irresponsibility.' The...

Court orders National Assembly to begin Buhari’s impeachment

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 07:19 PM PDT

A Federal High Court, sitting in Osogbo has ordered the National Assembly to immediately commence impeachment process against President Muhammadu Buhari. Justice Maurine Adaobi Onyetenu Wednesday...

One night in Mandela’s prison cell, all yours for $300,000

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 11:38 AM PDT

For rich corporate executives, fine food, expensive wine and five-star hotels come as standard. But one discerning top boss with a spare $300,000 (260,000 euros) will give up creature comforts for...

WAEC releases 2018 WASSCE results as 50% pass Math, English

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 07:20 PM PDT

West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has released results of West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, yesterday, in Lagos with 49.98 per cent obtained five credits in English...

Nigerian herbalist dies as client tests bullet-repelling charms on him

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 11:22 AM PDT

A 26-year-old native doctor, Chinaka Adoezuwe, reportedly died as one of his clients, Chukwudi Ijezie, attempted to test the bullet-repelling charms Adoezuwe had allegedly prepared for him. The...

School sacks five teachers for impregnating SS3 student

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 11:16 AM PDT

Five teachers of the Polytechnic Academic Staff Secondary School Birnin Kebbi, have been sacked for impregnating an SS3 student of the school. It was learnt on Wednesday that the girl was also...

Buhari holds bilateral talks with Namibian leader, Hage Geingob, at Aso Rock

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 09:54 AM PDT

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday held bilateral talks with the President of Namibia, Mr Hage Geingob, at the presidential villa, Abuja. The Namibian leader, who is visiting Nigeria for the...

FG’s inaction responsible for endless crises in Nigeria - ASUU

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 09:52 AM PDT

 The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has alleged that the federal government's inaction was responsible for the lingering crises arising from disagreements between pastoralists and...

Ekiti guber : Why I rejected APC leaders’ plan to make me trade away Olusola – Fayose

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 09:51 AM PDT

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has revealed that pressure was mounted on him by chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to trade away the ticket given to the Peoples Democratic Party...

Change of counsel stalls Evans’ alleged possession of firearms trial

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 09:47 AM PDT

The trial of abduction kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans for alleged illegal possession of firearms was stalled at an Ikeja High Court on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports...

Tragedy averted as tanker spills petrol on another road in Lagos

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 09:17 AM PDT

Less than one week after a fuel laden tanker was involved in an accident on Otedeola bridge in the Berger area of Lagos state, another tanker spilled its content at Moshalashi bus stop in Iyana...

You are destroying yourself by hyping Buhari – Reno Omokri tells Adesina, Shehu

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 09:05 AM PDT

Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has attacked the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, and Buhari's Special Adviser...

Buhari can’t fix Nigeria in three years – Oshiomhole

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 09:05 AM PDT

Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has admitted that the APC-led Federal Government can't fix Nigeria's problems in three years. The former Edo State...

FG may lose over N1bn in alleged Amnesty fraud

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 08:35 AM PDT

The Federal government is set to lose N1, 053,270,000.00 annually due to deployment of 747 non-beneficiaries of the presidential amnesty programme, an anti-corruption watch group, Critical Coalition...

Falana files N200m suit against DSS for journalist’s two-year-old detention

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 08:34 AM PDT

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has filed a fundamental human rights enforcement suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja on behalf of a journalist, Jones Abiri, who has been held in the custody...

Saraki, Dogara, Kwankwaso, others form ‘new APC’, set to join PDP

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 08:03 AM PDT

Baring last minute change, the former new PDP bloc of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will announce their exit from the mainstream of the party in preparation to joining the Peoples Democratic...

Ex governor, Alao Akala declares to run for governor of Oyo state

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 08:03 AM PDT

Otunba Adebayo Christopher Alao-Akaka, a former governor of Oyo State, has declared his intention to contest the state governorship election under the flagship of the All Progressives Congress,...

Soyinka reveals Obasanjo’s alleged misdeeds, says there is deep soakaway pond in ex-president

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 07:36 AM PDT

Iconic playwright, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has kept to his promise of exposing former President, Olusegun Obasanjo. Soyinka had made the promise of exposing the former President's "evil deeds" while...

What Suswam told me in DSS custody -Abaribe

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 07:34 AM PDT

Enyinnaya Abaribe, senator representing Abia south, says he met Gabriel Suswam, former governor of Benue state, while in custody of the Department of State Services (DSS). Abaribe said this on the...

Immigration nab truckload of Nigerien mercenaries heading to Ekiti

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 07:34 AM PDT

No few than 200 foreigners were arrested by the Nigeria Immigration Service, Kogi State Command in Lokoja on Wednesday.  The foreigners, believed to be from Niger Republic, said they were...

BREAKING: Reps move to probe all recovered Abacha loot from 1998 till date

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 06:49 AM PDT

Memebers of the House of Representatives on Wednesday resolved to set up an ad-hoc committee to investigate the recovered Gen Sani Abacha loot from 1998 till date. To this end, the adhoc committee...

FG still trying to find out Nigeria’s actual PMS consumption – NNPC

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 06:46 AM PDT

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Wednesday, disclosed that Nigeria does not know its actual fuel consumption and has recently put machinery in motion to determine the actual volume...

Otedola bridge tanker fire: Senate demands probe, to meet NNPC, FRSC

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 06:41 AM PDT

The Senate has called on the Nigeria Police and the Federal Road Safety Corps to investigate the circumstances surrounding the explosion of a tanker laden with premium motor spirit (petrol) in Lagos...

Reactions trail presidency’s disclosure that Nigeria has more electricity that cannot be consumed

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 05:08 AM PDT

Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, has come under attack over his statement that Nigerians now have more electricity than they can consume. ...

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