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Thursday, March 27, 2014

NigerianEye: “BREAKING: Confusion, panic as explosions rock Abuja shopping plaza” plus 24 more

NigerianEye: “BREAKING: Confusion, panic as explosions rock Abuja shopping plaza” plus 24 more


BREAKING: Confusion, panic as explosions rock Abuja shopping plaza

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 01:19 PM PDT

Confusion enveloped the Shagari Plaza on Moshood Abiola Way, Garki-Area one, Abuja, on Thursday over successive explosions in the shopping complex. Customers and residents of the area fled the...

Policeman kills himself, wife, and four other people in Ogun

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 01:43 PM PDT

Tragedy struck Ogun state Police Command as one its officer, Corporal Sunkanmi Ogunbiyi, ran amok, shot dead his wife, Corporal Oluwatosin Faremi, killed four other persons and injuring three gravely...

NIS TRAGEDY: I take responsibility for the tragic death of 16 job applicants - Abba Moro

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 12:51 PM PDT

The Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro Thursday claimed responsibility of the tragic death of about 16 applicants including four pregnant women that died in the recent recruitment exercise by the...

NIS tragedy: We obeyed ministers’ order, says Comptroller

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 01:33 PM PDT

Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), David Parrandang, Thursday told the Senate that he simply obeyed the last order in the ill fated NIS recruitment exercise. Parradang...

Toll collection on Lekki-Ikoyi bridge illegal - Federal High Court

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 01:43 PM PDT

Justice Saliu Saidu of Federal High Court in Lagos has ruled that the collection of toll on the Lekki-Ikoyi new bridge is illegal and a nullity. Delivering judgement in a suit filed against the...

Nigeria backs UN, says Russian annexation of Crimea illegal

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 01:05 PM PDT

Nigeria on Thursday in New York backed a UN General Assembly resolution which declared Russian annexation of Crimea illegal and affirmed Ukraine's territorial integrity. The resolution, in the...

Gunmen kill tricycle rider in Aba

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 12:58 PM PDT

The Abia Police Command on Thursday confirmed the killing of a tricycle rider identified as Chidera Agu in Aba by unknown gunmen. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Ibrahim Adamu, told...

My best friend hypnotised, snatched my wife of 15 years— man tells court

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 12:47 PM PDT

A herdsman, Jibril Adamu, 32, has told a Grade 1 Upper Area Court in Mararaba that his best friend, Halilu Lawal, 35, hypnotised and snatched his wife, Aisha, from him. Adamu, who resides in Gurku...

Man jailed for 10 months for stealing wine and biscuits

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 12:29 PM PDT

A Grade 1 Area Court, Karu, FCT, on Thursday sentenced Ola Omo, of Asokoro, Abuja, to 10 months imprisonment for stealing wine and biscuits. The Presiding Officer, Mr Hassan Ishaq, however, gave...

Number plate: FRSC to appeal judgment

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 11:39 AM PDT

The Federal Road Safety Commission in Abuja on Thursday, said it would appeal against the verdict of the Federal High Court in Lagos, that the new number plates introduced by the commission were...

US mayor accused of corruption, resigns

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 11:07 AM PDT

The mayor of the largest city in the US state of North Carolina has resigned, hours after he was arrested by the FBI on corruption charges. Newly elected Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon, 47, is...

Obiano vows to chase criminals out of Anambra

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 10:19 AM PDT

Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano Thursday said that his administration will not rest until criminals in the state are chased away. The criminal elements according to him had changed the...

MEND attacks Shell Forcados’ pipeline, claims responsibility

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 10:11 AM PDT

Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has said it attacked Shell Forcados Sub-C pipeline located in the Western Delta. The militant group in a statement signed by its Spokesman,...

Court acquits Chidi Lloyd of attempted murder

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 10:06 AM PDT

Mr. Chidi Lloyd, Majority Leader of the Rivers House of Assembly, was on Thursday discharged and acquitted by a High Court in Port Harcourt over a charge of attempted murder. Justice Ledan Nyordee,...

FG set to evolve world class transport system

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 10:04 AM PDT

The Federal Government is set to evolve a world class transportation system that will position the country as a hub in the West and Central Africa. Speaking at the 12th Intermodal Africa 2014...

Accountant Dupes 92 Students In Lagos School

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 10:02 AM PDT

The Chief Accountant of Home Science Association School, Ikoyi, Lagos, western Nigeria, Adetoye Adegoke, 50, has been arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate's Court for allegedly defrauding 92...

LASTMA Boss Arraigned Over Sale Of Seized Van

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 09:57 AM PDT

Ejigbo sectional head of the Lagos State Transportation Management Authority, LASTMA, Mr. Adeoti Bamidele Wasiu, has been arraigned, before the Ijeshatedo Magistrates' Court, Lagos, southwest...

Turkey bans YouTube, Twitter

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 09:12 AM PDT

Turkey on Thursday banned video-sharing website YouTube, a week after blocking access to Twitter, after both were used to spread audio recordings implicating the prime minister in corruption, local...

Search for Malaysian plane suspended

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 09:06 AM PDT

The search in the southern Indian Ocean for signs of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was suspended on Thursday due to bad weather. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said that...

Bayelsa Gov Sacks Seven Commissioners

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 09:01 AM PDT

Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, on Thursday tinkered with his cabinet and sacked seven commissioners. The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Francis Egele; Trade and...

National Conference: Nigerians blast sleeping delegates

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 04:41 AM PDT

Yesterday more pictures of some delegates sleeping during the ongoing national conference circulated online. The pictures, which have since become Internet sensation, further attracted public...

REVEALED: How Jonathan stopped NNPC from buying new aircraft

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 03:34 AM PDT

Government officials have cited President Goodluck Jonathan's reluctance to approve the purchase of a new jet for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC for the continued hiring of a...

National Conference: 'Confab unfair to muslims' - Sultan leads protest team to Jonathan

Posted: 26 Mar 2014 11:12 PM PDT

Even outside the massive air conditioned hall where its session take place, the National Conference keeps living up to its billing as a contentious enterprises. The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Saad...

Police stop Ibadan forest demolition

Posted: 26 Mar 2014 11:32 PM PDT

Walls came crashing down and roofing sheets got crumpling as bulldozer rumbled in the Ibadan "forest of horror" yesterday. But the police moved in to stop the demolition of structures at the Soka,...

Lagos expects 263 days of heavy rainfall this year

Posted: 26 Mar 2014 11:03 PM PDT

Lagos State government, yesterday, declared that the state is expecting 263 days of rainfall this year and this may be accompanied with strong winds, lightning and thunderstorms. It added that...

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