Following reports, Wednesday, that one of the 276 Chibok School girls abducted on April 14, 2014 by the Islamist group, Boko Haram has been found, controversy however emanated as to the real name of the girl. While the activist who found the girl gave her name as Amina Ali, the Nigerian army, in a confirmatory statement issued on Wednesday gave her name as Falmata Mbalala.

Nigeria’s army on Wednesday confirmed that a girl rescued in a Boko Haram enclave in the northeast is one of 219 abducted from their school in Chibok more than two years ago. “This is to confirm that one of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls… was among rescued persons by our troops,” army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman said in a statement.

THE Nigeria National Summit Group, NNSG, has criticised the announced increase in the price of petroleum pump price by the Federal Government from N86 per litre to N145. Rising from an emergency meeting in Lagos, the group called on the federal government to revert to the old price.

Here is a snapshot of key events since the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls from the remote town of Chibok in northeastern Nigeria two years ago.

A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress(APC), in Delta State and National Organising Secretary for Grassroot Mobilisers for Buhari, High Chief Igho Osiebe, Wednesday, adjudged President Muhammadu Buhari, the best President in the history of Nigeria, saying Nigerians should be grateful to God who through the forces of change and accelerated development thrust up the Daura-born retired General and politician.

THE industrial action called by the factional President of the Nigerian Labour Congress ,NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba yesterday failed as workers in the public and private sector disobeyed the sit-at-home order and showed up to perform their duties.

Tragedy struck yesterday at Okpoko Junction, near Upper Iweka area of Onitsha, Anambra state, when a hit-and-run driver knocked down a yet to be identified pregnant woman, who died instantly.

The Nasarawa State Government has reversed its decision to cut salaries of the state civil servants by 35 per cent.

SENIOR Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU yesterday joined in the nation-wide strike organised by the Ayuba Wabba-led faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC.

The nation wide strike embarked on by the Nigerian Labour Congress NLC gained success in Taraba state as all ministries in the state and public schools were closed down.