Governor Wille Obiano of Anambra State yesterday pledged to offset the hospital bills of some Biafra agitators injured during the celebration to mark the 49th anniversary of declaration of Biafra nation and Biafra day.

Within a space of one week, five Nigerians were gruesomely murdered by mobs protesting what they called “blasphemy” offences.

Contrary to some newspaper reports yesterday alleging that Fulani herdsmen are back to Nimbo in Uzo-Uwani local government area of Enugu state and that five of their women have been raped, the traditional ruler of the community which was attacked on April 25, 2016, Igwe John Akor and Enugu state Police Command said in Enugu that herdsmen are not back to the community.

The Federal Government has said it would issue $1 billion Eurobond in the third quarter of this year towards its securing of $3 billion loan from the World Bank and African Development Bank.

FORMER Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, NUC, Professor Peter Okebukola has said that Nigerian universities deviated from the initial agreement NUC had with Vice-Chancellors in 2004 when it introduced post-UTME to screen candidates via oral interview and written essay. Just as the Deputy Director, Distance Learning Centre, University of Ibadan, UI, Professor Oyesoji Akanmi also stated that scrapping post-UTME is against the university autonomy, saying, ‘’ The development will place admission burden on the 40 federal universities.”