Saturday 29 September 2018

NigerianEye: “APC, PDP set to pick governorship candidates” plus 29 more

NigerianEye: “APC, PDP set to pick governorship candidates” plus 29 more


APC, PDP set to pick governorship candidates

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 11:34 PM PDT

Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will, tomorrow, pick the governorship candidates of the two parties for next year's elections. The primaries...

Nigerian pilot dies as two Air Force planes crash in Abuja

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 11:30 PM PDT

A Nigerian Air Force pilot yesterday died after two planes crashed in Abuja during a rehearsal ahead of the 58th Independence Day celebration on Monday. Involved in the crash were F-7Ni...

Controversy trails alleged resignation of Women Affairs minister

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 11:24 PM PDT

There are strong indications that the Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Aisha Alhassan, may dump the ruling All Progressives Congress to the United Democratic Party. An aide to Mrs....

Nigeria must do more to fight poverty – Pastor Adeboye

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 11:21 PM PDT

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said the recent report that Nigeria is the poorest in the world is the hypocrisy of the West against...

Governorship Ticket: Why APC disqualified Shittu, Al-Hassan – Oshiomhole

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 11:19 PM PDT

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, on Friday said the party had to disqualify the Minister of Communication, Adebayo Shittu and his Women Affairs counterpart,...

Osun Election: PDP attacks Buhari for celebrating ‘stolen mandate’

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 11:16 PM PDT

The Peoples Democratic Party on Friday said that it was wrong for President Muhammadu Buhari to have congratulated the All Progressives Congress candidate in the Osun State governorship election,...

We have stepped up efforts to end strike – Presidency

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 02:35 PM PDT

The Presidency on Friday said it has stepped up efforts to convince labour unions in the country to call off their ongoing strike following the earlier meeting at which the government accepted their...

House of Reps member, Funke Adedoyin dies

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 12:45 PM PDT

A member of the House of Representatives representing Irepodun Isin/ Ekiti /Oke Ero Federal Constituency of Kwara State, Ms. Funke Adedoyin, is dead. It was gathered that she died in a hospital in...

Democracy is now dead in Nigeria – Fayose

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 01:07 PM PDT

Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State has condemned the conduct of the Osun State governorship rerun election, describing it as a 'show of shame.' Fayose, in a statement issued on Friday by his Chief...

Osun Election: Our deal with Omisore, by Oshiomhole

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 01:25 PM PDT

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has said that the party did not offer Senator Iyiola Omisore any financial inducement to gain his support during...

Osun rerun, embarrassment to Nigeria’s democracy – Saraki

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 01:12 PM PDT

President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has reiterated that the recently conducted supplementary election in Osun State was a charade and an embarrassment to Nigeria's democracy. In a statement...

Osun Election: INEC not independent, says Adegboruwa

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 01:00 PM PDT

Activist lawyer, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission was sympathetic to the ruling All Progressives Congress rather than being neutral in the Osun...

Abuja plane crash: Nigerian Air Force confirms death of jet pilot + watch Video of how the crash happened

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 09:00 AM PDT

The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, has disclosed that a pilot died in the crash involving two of its jets earlier on Friday. Recall that two NAF jets rehearsing for the Independence Day celebration had...

Tinubu vs Ambode: APC leader reportedly maintains opposition to Lagos governor’s second term bid

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 09:53 AM PDT

There are indications pointing to the fact that the fate of the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Tinubu may have been sealed by a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu. On...

Nigerian pastor, Ebelenna turns water to wine in Anambra State

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 09:53 AM PDT

Popular Onitsha prophet Ebelenna Chukwu of 'Jehovah the mightier than all deliverance ministry in Anambra' popularly known as "Excess power" supposedly turned water to wine in his church. Watch...

President Buhari mourns dead Air Force officer

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 09:42 AM PDT

President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the family of the Air Force officer that died at the final rehearsal for the 58th Independence Anniversary. The President who said that he was...

FIBA World Cup: USA beat Nigeria’s D’Tigress 71-40

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 09:41 AM PDT

Nigeria's D'Tigress have crashed out of the FIBA Women's World Cup holding in Spain, after the USA team beat them 71-40. According to the FIBA Liveblog, D'Tigress started the game on a winning note...

David Mark promises to tackle security challenges if elected president

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 09:40 AM PDT

Sen. David Mark, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, on Friday promised to tackle the security challenges facing the country, if he emerge as the PDP candidate and wins the 2019...

PDP to hold convention in Port Harcourt

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 09:36 AM PDT

The National Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has resolved to hold its National Convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The decision was taken at the NEC meeting which just...

New minimum wage: Banks join NLC strike, shutdown operations

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 09:24 AM PDT

Some commercial banks in Abuja have joined in the ongoing warning strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC. Recalls that the organised labour had said that the declaration of the warning strike...

Osun election: IGP Idris reacts to ‘arrest, harassment of observers, voters, journalists’ by police

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 09:21 AM PDT

The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris on Friday refuted claims that security agencies harassed and arrested election observers and journalists in the just concluded governorship election in...

Mourinho warns Pogba no one is bigger than Man Utd

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:30 AM PDT

Jose Mourinho warned Paul Pogba that no player is bigger than Manchester United, but praised the Frenchman's attitude in training during another week in which tensions escalated between the...

APC presidential primary: Buhari will win 2019 election - Gov. Bindow

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:26 AM PDT

Gov. Mohammed Bindow of Adamawa on Friday said that President Muhammadu Buhari stood a good chance to win the 2019 Presidential Election. Bindow expressed his opinion after casting his vote in the...

Pregnant women will leave labour room to vote for me, Buhari boasts

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:24 AM PDT

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his election victory in 2015 was made possible by the ordinary people in the society and boasted that even pregnant women in labour will deliver and still...

2019: "SDP will accommodate Ambode if denied APC’s ticket"

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:21 AM PDT

Dr Adetokunbo Pearse, Chairman, Strategy and Mobilisation, Social Democratic Party (SP), South-West Zone, on Friday said that the party would accommodate Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State in 2019...

Osun election: East to boycott 2019 presidential elections

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:20 AM PDT

The Eastern Consultative Assembly, ECA, has condemned what it described as the brazen rigging of the governorship election in Osun State, saying that the region will not vote in the 2019 presidential...

How APC members embarrass me – Uduaghan

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:14 AM PDT

A former governor of Delta State, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has cautioned members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, against abusing themselves in the media. Uduaghan said he is embarrassed when...

They call me ‘baba-go-slow,’ but watched PDP misrule for 16 years – Buhari fires at critics

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:10 AM PDT

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he had been called "Baba go slow" meanwhile Nigerians elites never spoke of the misrule of the country by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for 16...

‘How God saved our lives’ — residents who witnessed crash of air force jets speak

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:09 AM PDT

Residents of an Abuja estate close to the hill where two jets belonging to the Nigeria air force crashed on Friday morning, have narrated their experience. The pilots of the jets were rehearsing...

Osun Governor-elect, Oyetola reveals plans for state (Full acceptance speech)

Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:15 AM PDT

Governor-elect of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola, has thanked the people of the state for supporting him to victory in the just concluded governorship election. Oyetola had on Thursday won the rerun...

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