Thursday, 11 April 2019

NigerianEye: “Anambra Assembly passes bill to stop expensive funerals” plus 28 more

NigerianEye: “Anambra Assembly passes bill to stop expensive funerals” plus 28 more


Anambra Assembly passes bill to stop expensive funerals

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 10:08 PM PDT

The Anambra State House of Assembly on Wednesday passed a bill to stop expensive funerals in the state. The bill, which was sponsored by the representative of Anaocha II Constituency, Charles...

NLC urges Buhari to sign minimum wage bill immediately

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 10:12 PM PDT

The Nigeria Labour Congress on Wednesday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the new minimum wage bill. The NLC said since the National Assembly approved the new minimum wage of N30,000 and...

PDP backs Tinubu over no VAT increment

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 10:04 PM PDT

The Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday aligned itself with the call by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on the Federal Government not to increase the Value...

UEFA Champions League -Manchester United 0-1 Barcelona (As it happened)

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 03:10 PM PDT

Luke Shaw's first-half own goal handed Barcelona the advantage as Manchester United suffered a frustrating 1-0 defeat in their Champions League quarter-final first leg at Old Trafford. The United...

Ronaldo scores as Juventus held to a draw at Ajax

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 03:19 PM PDT

Cristiano Ronaldo produced yet another quality goal to add to his collection and help Juventus to a 1-1 draw at Ajax Amsterdam in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie on...

PDP abusing freedom of speech -AGF Malami

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 01:49 PM PDT

Abubakar Malami, attorney general of the federation (AGF) and minister of justice, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of "taking the freedom of speech too far". Malami was reacting to the...

Policeman who destroyed student’s phone for being "too expensive” arrested

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 01:32 PM PDT

Earlier today, a video had gone viral across social media. In the video the Police officer could be seen challenging the student traveling in a bus with his colleagues and asking him why he was...

IMF warns Nigeria - 'Stop taking loans from China'

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 01:18 PM PDT

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned Nigeria and other emerging market countries taking excessive loans from China to consider the terms of such facilities, especially, their compliance...

33 people killed in Buhari's home state, Katsina

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 01:02 PM PDT

Thirty-three persons have been reported killed in three Local Government Areas of Katsina State. Eleven out of the thirty-three killed were armed bandits killed by villagers. Information gathered...

Don’t let social media fool you – Yvonne Nelson says

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 12:22 PM PDT

Popular Ghanaian actress, Yvonne Nelson has advised young people looking up to her not to be fooled by the lifestyle they see celebrities put up on social media. According to the mother of one, such...

‘APC fabricated it’ — Atiku denies hiring US lobbyist for $30,000

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 10:17 AM PDT

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has denied hiring a US lobbyist firm to advance in his bid to take over power from President Muhammadu Buhari. In a...

Be glad you’re not yet in jail – Presidency threatens Atiku

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 10:16 AM PDT

Lauretta Onochie, a special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Media has declared that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar should be glad...

Over 30 APC senators are ‘backing Ndume’ for senate presidency

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 10:16 AM PDT

At least 36 senators of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are backing Ali Ndume, senator representing Borno south, for the position of senate president, a senator-elect who did not want to be...

Forget 2023 Presidency, Okorocha tells South East

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 10:16 AM PDT

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has advised the South East to shelve its 2023 presidential dream, saying the race for the nation's number one seat would directly be between the North and the...

VIDEO: Policeman destroys DELSU student’s phone for being too “expensive”

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 10:15 AM PDT

There was confusion, yesterday, in Okpe, Delta State, as an aggrieved policeman destroyed the phone of a Delta State University student, for being too expensive for his level. The bus conveying the...

Drogba, Eto'o to play at Governor Ambode’s farewell football match

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 11:53 AM PDT

The organising committee for the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode farewell football match has confirmed May 18, 2019 for the high-profile game. The epoch match, according to the organisers, would see...

Two arrested for abducting Lagos fire service boss

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 10:32 AM PDT

Detectives attached to Lagos State Police Command have arrested two persons; Blessing Bayo, 29 and Smart Alfred, 32, for their alleged involvement in the abduction of Lagos Fire Service boss, Rasaki...

One dead, four injured as Abuja indigenes, soldiers clash

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 11:08 AM PDT

One person has been confirmed dead and four others injured in a fresh clash between some indigenes of Abuja and soldiers over land at Tungan-Maje, an outskirt town in the Federal Capital Territory...

Judge withdraws from Okorocha’s certificate of return suit against INEC

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 10:13 AM PDT

A judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja, Justice Taiwo Taiwo has withdrawn from a suit filed by Imo Governor Rochas Okorocha with which he sought to compel the Independent National Electoral...

Graduate jailed for impersonation in Ogun

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 10:04 AM PDT

A Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta on Wednesday jailed a graduate of Economics from a public university in Southwest Nigeria, Fredrick Shuaibu for four months, having been found guilty of...

Imo civil servants give ultimatum, threaten strike over unpaid salary

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 09:42 AM PDT

Civil servants in Imo State have threatened to embark on industrial action if the state government fails to pay them their month of March salaries within seven days. Leaders of the workers' unions,...

NAF destroys bandit hideouts in Zamfara

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 09:15 AM PDT

The Nigerian Air Force says its Air Task Force on Operation DIRAN MIKIYA has recorded successes in a renewed air offensive against bandits in Zamfara State and its environs. NAF Spokesman, Air...

Ambode would have surpassed Tinubu, Fashola’s achievements but he ‘got carried away by power’

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 09:06 AM PDT

Wale Ogunade, a political analyst, says Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of Lagos state, would have surpassed the achievements of his predecessors if he had not ignored the political structure that brought...

IMF ranks Nigeria second worst in the world in use of sovereign wealth fund

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 10:05 AM PDT

The International Monetary Fund has ranked Nigeria as the second worst country in the world in the use of sovereign wealth funds. According to the Fiscal Monitor report released on Wednesday, Qatar...

Senate moves to override Buhari on constitution alteration, income tax relief bills

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 08:56 AM PDT

The Senate, Wednesday resolved to override President Muhammadu Buhari's veto on the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (fourth Alteration, No.28) Bill, 2018 and Industrial...

Atiku reacts to fresh posters in Abuja

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 08:57 AM PDT

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has dissociated himself from campaign poster that was seen in Abuja and its environs.  We had reported...

Activist demands laws against second tenure

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 08:34 AM PDT

A Benin-based activist, Comrade Samson Osiomwanta, has called on the state houses of assembly to come up with a law banning governors in their first tenure from seeking re-election. Osiomwanta made...

Kane could be out for rest of season – Pochettino

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 08:20 AM PDT

Tottenham striker Harry Kane could miss the rest of the season with an ankle injury, says manager Mauricio Pochettino. Kane, 25, will have an MRI scan on Wednesday after hobbling off during...

Courts have legitimised vote buying, Falana cries out

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 07:42 AM PDT

Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, says the courts have legitimised vote buying. Speaking on Wednesday at the ninth forum of the anti-corruption situation room in Abuja, Falana said since 1999, the...

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