Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has directed its members not to come to school on Thursday to protest the abduction of over 200 girls of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno.

The kwara State government said it has sourced for N210m to assist the local governments across the state meet their primary obligations in view of the continued shortfall in the federal monthly allocations to the state.

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 sustained during the incident.

An Abule Egba Senior Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday in Lagos, sentenced a beggar, Aminu Hamisu, 38, to seven years imprisonment without an option of fine, for attempting to steal a five-year-old child.

Minister of Information, Labaran Maku Wednesday lambasted the Governors of the 19 northern states, saying that the insurgency in the zone has continued to fester because “they are not doing enough to win the war against terror”

Two attacks by Boko Haram gunmen killed 30 people near Chibok, the northeast Nigerian town where the Islamists kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls last month, witnesses said on Wednesday.

The majority Muslim island nation of the Comoros has banned a march over the kidnapping of over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by Islamic extremists, amid accusations the government wants to dodge religiously sensitive issues.

Golden Eaglets goalkeepers’ training on Wednesday became a theatre of fun as two dummies that appeared like masquerades were introduced by Coach Emeka Amadi.

The United States on Wednesday condemned the “vicious” bombing of Nigeria’s central city of Jos, as well as a series of “terrorist acts” on defenseless civilians.

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday said that it had commenced pilot teaching and learning of Chinese (Mandarin) Language in five schools in the state.