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Saturday, August 17, 2013

NigerianEye: “Jonathan creates new army division, sends 8,000 troops after Boko Haram” plus 28 more

NigerianEye: “Jonathan creates new army division, sends 8,000 troops after Boko Haram” plus 28 more


Jonathan creates new army division, sends 8,000 troops after Boko Haram

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:45 PM PDT

President Goodluck Jonathan appears set to boost the strength of the military in the insurgency infested North-east after indications emerged that about 8,000 troops are being sent there. The...

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Help! My husband sleeps with maids

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:46 PM PDT

As Alice drove to her friend's place, she rehearsed what to tell her. How would she tell her friend that Mike, her husband, had impregnated Peace, her maid again? This was the third time she would...

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Jonathan, others seal Turkur’s fate at secret Abuja meeting

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:47 PM PDT

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday night held an emergency meeting with some of his close allies over the continued call for the sack of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party,...

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Women now chase me around like Usain Bolt — Former hermaphrodite

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:48 PM PDT

Former Super Falcons forward, Iyabo Abade, is the most celebrated high-profile case of a hermaphrodite in women's football, who subsequently had surgery in 2004 and is now living as a man, with a...

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Before Femi-Fani Kayode dies of Igbophobia

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:55 PM PDT

I had the ugly experience of reading the infantile postulations of a former minister of aviation, Mr. Femi Fani –Kayode, headlined, 'The bitter truth about the Igbo'. I wept for Nigeria as I...

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Four Thais released after Rivers kidnap ordeal

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:50 PM PDT

Four Thais held in an apparent ransom kidnapping in Rivers State have been freed unharmed, a spokesman for the kingdom's foreign ministry in Bangkok said yesterday. A gang of armed kidnappers...

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YCE to build Yoruba Village in London

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:44 PM PDT

The Yoruba Council of Elders has unfolded  a plan to build a community centre in London, with the name Yoruba Village. The president of the YCE UK, Bolaji Falase, who made this known at a...

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The story of Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:38 PM PDT

This is the story of how former President Matthew Okikiolakan Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo and former Vice President, Turaki Atiku Abubakar, first met, and how their relationship blossomed before...

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Civil War Killings: Igbo demand reparation from Nigeria

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:34 PM PDT

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday, set up a committee to look into the issue of reparation and royalties due to Ndigbo since after the civil war. The...

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Inside the presidential fight

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:33 PM PDT

Opponents – within and outside the ruling party – are undercutting President Jonathan's authority as he prepares for the 2015 elections Two factors – rampant factionalism in the governing...

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Nigerians decry president’s mother’s gift to varsity

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:30 PM PDT

There has been outrage on social media over the donation of 20 en-suite flats to the Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, by the mother of President Goodluck Jonathan. The President's...

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NUC misapplied universities’ money, bungled courses accreditation – ASUU President

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:28 PM PDT

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) President, Dr. Nasir Fagge, in this interview, blames government for the dwindling fortunes of education and the National Universities Commission (NUC)...

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We’ll hunt down Boko Haram leaders –FG

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:25 PM PDT

The Presidency on Friday said the government and security agencies would hunt down the leaders of the violent sect, Boko Harram. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben...

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El-Rufai in pain because he’s not in govt — Presidency

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:23 PM PDT

The Presidency on Saturday said 70 per cent of members of the newly registered All Progressives Congress were those the Peoples Democratic Party had rejected. The, APC, it added  was destined...

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Mourinho’s not worth it – Ronaldo

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:21 PM PDT

Cristiano Ronaldo has refused to speak about Jose Mourinho following recent comments in the press from the former Real Madrid boss, suggesting that his compatriot is "not worth it". The new...

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How Nigeria can move forward, by Ribadu

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:16 PM PDT

Former Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, yesterday, said Nigeria needed strong institutions to move forward as a nation from its present decadence. He also...

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Is Gov. Fashola different from Gov. Peter Obi?

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:14 PM PDT

I admire Governor Fashola of Lagos State a lot and would have volunteered to be part of his campaign team if he were to contest the 2015 Presidential elections.  Recently however, one of...

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Fashola denies presidential ambition

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 02:15 PM PDT

Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola has dissociated himself from an advertisement published in Nigeria's newspapers, rallying support fro the governor in the 2105 presidential elecetion. A statement...

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Wenger apologises to Arsenal fans after shocking defeat to Aston Villa

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 02:16 PM PDT

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger apologised to the fans after his side slumped to a shock 3-1 defeat against Aston Villa on the opening day of the Premier League season.  Jeers echoed around the...

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Family demands justice at burial of lynched youth, as community offers cash settlement

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 02:15 PM PDT

Tears flowed freely as the remains of a 25-year-old undergraduate of Delta State University, Ifechukwude Nwainokpor, was laid to rest at the Badagry Cemetery in Lagos yesterday.  The...

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‘My Wife Sleeps With Our Neighbours When I ‘m On Night Duty’

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 02:13 PM PDT

A 48-year-old man, Gbenga Awoyode, yesterday stunned an Alagbado Grade A Customary Court when he said night duties he does at Yaba College of Technology, Lagos provided his wife ample opportunity...

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Woman barred from office for being too beautiful

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 02:08 PM PDT

An Iranian woman has been barred from office – apparently because religious conservatives deemed her "too attractive".  Nina Siahkali Moradi took more than 100,000 votes in Qazvin city's ...

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Popular man of God, Prophet Obadare buried amidst tributes

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 01:50 PM PDT

As the remains of the evangelist and founder of World Soul Winning Evangelistic Ministry, Prophet Timothy Oluwole Obadare were  interred on Saturday, the Osun State governor, Ogbeni Rauf...

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World's Fastest Man, Usain Bolt wins third 200m title

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 01:44 PM PDT

MOSCOW (AFP) – Usain Bolt underlined his amazing sprinting prowess on Saturday by powering to a third successive world 200m title at the World Athletics Championships for his seventh world gold...

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India arrests 7 Nigerians for bank fraud, lottery scams

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 01:16 PM PDT

Eleven persons, including seven Nigerians, have been arrested in India's capital of New Delhi for involvement in net-banking fraud and fake lottery scams, according to Deccan Herald online. In ...

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Ogun state plans Africa’s tallest building

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 01:13 PM PDT

The Ogun State Government, western Nigeria, on Friday demolished its old Secretariat at Oke-Ilewo in Abeokuta, the capital. Mr Mohammed Affez, Lead Urban Designer and Project Director of Abeokuta ...

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Fani-Kayode: A bigot in search of redemption

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 01:05 PM PDT

One lesson I learnt over the years is to ignore rabble rousers no matter the degree of their provocation. The recurrent decimal that defines political failures is their unalloyed penchant at...

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Gunbattle at Cairo mosque as security surrounds Islamists

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 01:01 PM PDT

Egyptian police exchanged gunfire Saturday with Islamist supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi holed up inside a Cairo mosque, an AFP correspondent reported. The clashes came on the fourth...

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6 killed, 21 injured in Ogun multiple crash

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 12:54 PM PDT

Six unidentified people have been confirmed dead, while 21 others were critically injured in a multiple accident that occurred on the Abeokuta-Lagos Expressway on Friday. The Itori Unit...

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