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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

NigerianEye: “Police prevent jungle justice, as mysterious bird turns into old woman in Lagos” plus 27 more

NigerianEye: “Police prevent jungle justice, as mysterious bird turns into old woman in Lagos” plus 27 more


Police prevent jungle justice, as mysterious bird turns into old woman in Lagos

Posted: 21 May 2014 10:10 PM PDT

An elderly woman escaped lynching on Wednesday after being accused of being a bird and witch in the Ajegunle area of Lagos State. According to residents of Ojo Road, where the purported...

IN PICTURES: Nigerian troops searching for Chibok girls

Posted: 21 May 2014 10:11 PM PDT

  Boko Haram tents burnt down Troops torch Boko Haram camp near Konduga during operations. Rescue efforts in progress to #BringBackOurGirls by the Nigerian Military. Photo Credits: ...

#BringBackOurGirls: Father of abducted girls dies of High Blood Pressure

Posted: 21 May 2014 10:43 PM PDT

A father of 8 children and two wives whose two daughters were among the over 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Mr. Mutai Hona aged 56 died as a result of High Blood Pressure (BP) he...

U.S deploy troops to help search for abducted Chibok girls

Posted: 21 May 2014 10:29 PM PDT

The United States of America, USA, has deployed 80 military personnel to Chad to help regional efforts to rescue the more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls, President Barack Obama said yesterday. In a...

We’ll arrest Jos bombers – IG

Posted: 21 May 2014 11:01 PM PDT

The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has said that the police will do everything possible to unmask the perpetrators of the Tuesday blasts that killed more than 150 people in Jos,...

Eto’o hits at ‘puppet’ Mourinho again

Posted: 21 May 2014 10:57 PM PDT

Samuel Eto'o has again hit out at his detractors – notably the Chelsea manager José Mourinho – over his age. In an interview with the Confederation of African Football website, the 33-year-old...

APC blasts PDP at Ekiti rally

Posted: 21 May 2014 10:50 PM PDT

Chieftains of the All Progressives Congress on Wednesday in Ado-Ekiti blamed the Peoples Democratic Party's 15 years of misrule for the poverty and insecurity in Nigeria. They spoke at the official...

Army recruits to beef up fight against insurgency

Posted: 21 May 2014 10:47 PM PDT

The Nigerian Army (NA) on Wednesday said it had commenced recruitment of qualified able men into the service to beef up its strength in the ongoing war against insurgency. The Director of Army...

Take tougher steps against corruption, US tells FG

Posted: 21 May 2014 10:39 PM PDT

The United States has said that high profile corruption in government and business circles are major impediments to inflows of American investments into Nigeria. Noting that the US is the largest...

UN Security Council votes on B’Haram status

Posted: 21 May 2014 10:22 PM PDT

The United Nations Security Council al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee will on Thursday (today) vote on the status of the Boko Haram Islamic sect. The Coordinator of the National Information Centre and...

Controversy trails approval of Ijebu State by confab delegates

Posted: 21 May 2014 10:16 PM PDT

Fresh disagreements have arisen among some prominent Yorubas over state creation in the South West. Delegates at the on-going national conference from the zone were said to have endorsed the...

9 Fulani herdsmen gang-rape 15-yr-old girl, 2 housewives

Posted: 21 May 2014 10:14 PM PDT

No fewer than nine suspected Fulani herdsmen, yesterday, allegedly gang-raped a 15-year-old girl and two housewives (names withheld) at gunpoint, in Tse Ikyuer, Yandev, Mbagwen in Guma Local...

Two Boko Haram attacks near Chibok kill 48

Posted: 21 May 2014 10:11 PM PDT

Two attacks by Boko Haram gunmen killed 30 people near Chibok, the town where the Islamists kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls last month, witnesses said yesterday. The first attack on Monday...

AFTERMATH OF JOS BOMB BLAST: Corpses litter hospital floor, morgue overfilled

Posted: 21 May 2014 09:51 AM PDT

Corpses, including those of seven pregnant women and children, laid on the floor at the Plateau Specialist Hospital, Jos, on Wednesday while officials battled to put the bodies in large polyethylene...

PICTURES: Life In Chibok As Captured By A Photo Journalist

Posted: 21 May 2014 09:54 AM PDT

Nigerian photo journalist, Tife Owolabi, visiting the rusty village where Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, kidnapped 276 girls on April 14 2014 captures the lives of people there as they await...

Jos Explosion: Another bomb scare as banks, schools are shut

Posted: 21 May 2014 09:54 AM PDT

A day after twin bomb explosions killed about 200 people at its main market; there was bomb scare in two different parts of Jos, Plateau State, on Wednesday. The bomb scares occurred in Bukuru, Jos...

Again, Boko Haram kills 17 in Borno

Posted: 21 May 2014 09:55 AM PDT

The Islamist group Boko Haram has been accused of killing 17 people in an attack on Alagarno, a village in Borno State, close to Chibok, where hundreds of schoolgirls were seized on Apr 14, BBC...

We lack financial capacity to fight Boko Haram - Nigerian Army

Posted: 21 May 2014 09:48 AM PDT

The Nigerian Army said in Kaduna Wednesday that it lacks the financial capacity to cope with the challenges posed by Boko Haram and others in the country. Chief of Accounts of the Nigerian Army,...

Northern Governors not doing enough to stop Boko Haram – Maku

Posted: 21 May 2014 09:40 AM PDT

Following the recent bomb blasts in some states across the Northern Nigeria, the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, has said the governors of the 19 northern states, are not doing enough to win...

JOS BLASTS: Police lying on casualty figure - Hospitals

Posted: 21 May 2014 09:31 AM PDT

A pathologist at the Chemistry Department of Plateau Specialist Hospital, who spoke on condition of anonymity, because he was not authorised to speak, said security agencies are being economical with...

CHIBOK GIRLS: Nigeria Union of Teachers orders closure of schools nationwide

Posted: 21 May 2014 09:26 AM PDT

The Nigeria Union of Teachers has ordered the closure of all schools nationwide in protest against the abduction of the over 200 female students of Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno Sate...

My people have suffered - Borno Governor laments

Posted: 21 May 2014 09:22 AM PDT

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has lamented the havoc being wrecked on the state by members of the Boko Haram sect, saying the people of the state have suffered. Shettima spoke while...

Chibok schoolgirls: Patience Jonathan asks Nigerian women to pray more

Posted: 21 May 2014 09:19 AM PDT

The Nigerian first lady, Patience Jonathan, on Tuesday encouraged women to continue praying for the rescue of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls. The girls were kidnapped by the Boko Haram from the...

FG to celebrate Democracy Day despite bombings

Posted: 21 May 2014 09:15 AM PDT

The Federal Government on Wednesday said despite the prevailing state of insecurity in parts of the country, it would go ahead to celebrate the Democracy Day on May 29 in a big way. Minister of...

Sponsors of bomb attacks enemies of humanity, democracy – Jang

Posted: 21 May 2014 08:42 AM PDT

Plateau Governor Jonah Jang, has described sponsors of bomb attacks in the country as "enemies of humanity and democracy." "The sponsors of these attacks on humanity stand condemned now and in the...

Jos blasts: PDP postpones Ekiti governorship campaign

Posted: 21 May 2014 08:39 AM PDT

The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has postponed, by one week, the presidential flag-off of Ekiti State governorship campaign slated for Thursday. This is contained a...

Egypt’s Mubarak jailed for embezzlement

Posted: 21 May 2014 08:30 AM PDT

A court in Egypt has sentenced former President Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison after finding him guilty of embezzling public funds. His two sons, Alaa and Gamal, were also convicted and...

Pakistan fighter planes bomb Taliban hideouts

Posted: 21 May 2014 08:27 AM PDT

At least 32 fighters dead, with reports of some civilian casualities, as army targets commanders in North Waziristan. Pakistani fighter planes have bombed suspected Taliban hideouts in the tribal...

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