Thursday, 14 November 2019

NigerianEye: “No going back on social media regulation - Lai Mohammed vows” plus 29 more

NigerianEye: “No going back on social media regulation - Lai Mohammed vows” plus 29 more

No going back on social media regulation - Lai Mohammed vows

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 09:55 PM PST

The Federal Government says it will not rescind its decision to regulate social media. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said this on Thursday during a courtesy call on him by...

Bayelsa/Kogi Election: No card reader, no voting — INEC

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 09:55 PM PST

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says no voter will be allowed to vote without voter card recognised by the Smart Card Reader in the Nov. 16 elections in Bayelsa and Kogi. Prof....

DSS has brought shame to Nigeria — Sowore’s lawyer

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 09:50 PM PST

Mr Stanley Imhanruor, a lawyer in the defence team of the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr Omoyele Sowore, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare, on Thursday took a swipe at the Department of...

Compulsory genotype test for intending couples in Nigeria

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 10:07 PM PST

The House of Representatives has okayed compulsory genotype tests for intending couples as part of measures to prevent sickle cell disease. The House charged government registries, churches and...

Governorship Election: Signals from Kogi, Bayelsa disturbing – Jonathan

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 09:45 PM PST

Ex-president Goodluck Jonathan has described the signals from Bayelsa and Kogi states as worrisome, saying that only electronic voting process could stop thuggery, violence during elections in...

Unknown gunmen abduct NTA worker, demand N15 million

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 09:41 PM PST

A group of gunmen have abducted a worker with the Nigerian Television Authority, Abiodun Adenuga, in his Aiyepe residence in the Odogbolu Local Government Area of Ogun State. A family source...

EFCC now a big monster - Ex-Lagos Commissioner of Police

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 04:42 PM PST

A former Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Fatai Owoseni, said on Thursday that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has become a monster. Owoseni, while describing Nigeria as a banana...

How Nigerian Police killed our members - Shi’ites

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 04:38 PM PST

President, Media Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibrahim Musa, claimed that one of their members was killed by the police in Zaria, Kaduna State. He said the IMN, also known as Shi'ites,...

PDP reacts to photos of Governor El-Rufai kneeling to beg Kogi residents to vote for Yahaya Bello

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 01:13 PM PST

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the public apology and kneeling by the Chairman of the APC Kogi state campaign council and Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, confirms that even the APC...

This place will break you- Lady narrates how she was allegedly beaten up, stripped in public by a Keke driver

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 01:10 PM PST

A young Nigerian woman, Toluwalope took to Facebook to share her alleged ordeal in the hands of a Keke driver recently. Posting photos of herself after the alleged attack, she wrote;"For the very...

Sowore speaks from custody, says Buhari out to destroy civic space

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 12:46 PM PST

Detained social activist, publisher and politician, Omoyele Sowore, has spoken out from the custody of the State Security Service. Sowore revealed that he is being held as part of a grand scheme by...

Count us out of call for Oshiomhole’s resignation – APC Governors

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 12:28 PM PST

Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday denounced purported call by the Director General of Progressive Governors' Forum, Saliu Lukman on Wednesday asking the National Chairman...

Don’t panic, I am still contesting for Bayelsa governorship poll – APC Candidate, Lyon

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 12:12 PM PST

The All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Bayelsa State, Chief David Lyon says he is still contesting the gubernatorial poll on Saturday, calling on his supporters not to panic. A...

Xenophobia: AKA tells Burna Boy to apologize

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 09:28 AM PST

South African rapper, AKA, has demanded an apology from Burna Boy, ahead of a scheduled performance in South Africa. Recall that Burna Boy had on September 4 in the heat of renewed xenophobic...

I’ll appeal court judgement against Biodun Fatoyinbo — Busola Dakolo vows

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 08:44 AM PST

Wife to popular singer Timi Dakolo, Busola on Thursday said she would appeal the ruling of Justice O. A. Musa of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja against Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of...

Biodun Fatoyinbo’s allies, Tonto Dike and WaleJana gloats as Busola loses in court

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 09:08 AM PST

Adewale Aladejana, popular Nigerian Entrepreneur and close associate of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, COZA, Pastor, Biodun Fatoyinbo and actress, Tonto Dikeh have reacted to the court ruling in...

Why I flew 15 hours just to visit Nigeria - Jack Ma

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 09:06 AM PST

Jack Ma, co-founder of Alibaba, Chinese e-commerce company, led a team of investors from his country to Nigeria on Thursday. Speaking when he met with Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the...

You started hate speech in Nigeria- PDP youths tell President Buhari

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 08:52 AM PST

The Youth Wing of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South-East zone on Thursday threatened to resist the proposed Hate Speech Bill. The Youths alleged that the bill was a ploy by the All...

Kogi election might be bloody -CDD warns

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 08:44 AM PST

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) says the incidents of violence can affect voters turnout during the governorship election in Kogi state. In a statement jointly signed by Adele Jinadu,...

Border closure: FG, Niger, Benin in crucial meeting

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 08:31 AM PST

The Federal Government is presently meeting with delegations from Niger and Republic of Benin over the closure of land borders by Nigeria since August. The Tripartite Committee Meeting by the...

Your N1.3 trn budget is out of place, Rep tells CBN

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 08:26 AM PST

Hon Gudaji Kazaure, a member representing Jigawa State  on Thursday told the Central Bank of Nigeria , CBN that its budget estimates was out if place for presenting an over bloated 2020 budget...

Planting trees can curb conflicts -President Buahri

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 07:57 AM PST

President Muhammadu Buhari has written an opinion article in Scientific American – in which more than 150 Nobel laureates have been published – that the Nigerian government is taking action against...

JUST IN: VIDEO: Fire Breaks Out At Tejuosho Market, Yaba, Lagos

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 07:37 AM PST

Barely a week after popular Balogun Market on Lagos Island was razed by fire, Tejuosho market, Yaba, Lagos State is on fire The cause of the fire is unknown at the moment Details later.. View...

House of reps backtracks, endorses military’s ‘operation positive ID’

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 07:27 AM PST

The house of representatives has endorsed the military's operation positive identification, after calling for its suspension. The lower legislative chamber approved the exercise on Thursday as...

Busola Dakolo lost rape case against Pastor Fatoyinbo 'because it happened a long time ago' -Segalink

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 07:03 AM PST

Segun Awosanya a.k.a Segalink who was one of those that stood up for Busola Dakolo following the controversy her rape allegation against Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo ignited, has confirmed that she lost...

Minority Leadership Crisis: Battle shifts to Ethics C’ttee

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 06:58 AM PST

The minority leadership crisis rocking the House of Representatives battle that has silenced opposition will next week Wednesday shift to the Committee on Ethics and Privileges turf. Recall that Hon...

BREAKING: VIDEO: Two feared dead as robbers attack a bank in Lagos

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 07:20 AM PST

A policeman and a bike man were today killed during a robbery operation at a bank around Falomo roundabout, Awolowo road, Ikoyi, LagosState. It was gathered that the robbers came and escaped on a...

Number of female senators rises to 8 as Lawan swears in Olujimi

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 06:48 AM PST

Abiodun Olujimi, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been sworn in as the senator representing Ekiti south, by Senate President Ahmad Lawan. She replaces Dayo Adeyeye who was sacked...

‘They threatened to bury us alive’ — immigration official abducted in Rivers narrates ordeal

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 06:36 AM PST

Samson Raphael, an official of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has lauded the Nigerian Navy for rescuing him and three of his colleagues from kidnappers in Rivers state. Raphael, a senior...

Buhari makes demand for exemplary conduct and fairness in Bayelsa, Kogi polls

Posted: 14 Nov 2019 06:24 AM PST

President Muhammadu Buhari has made a strong demand for exemplary conduct of non-partisanship on the part of election and law enforcement officials in Kogi and Bayelsa states, where governorship...
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