NIGERIA’S lone boxer to the Rio Olympics, Efe Ajagba who brought down bulky Nigel Paul from Trinidad & Tobago has said he was surprised that his opponent could fall in the first round, an action that caused the erupt in ecstasy.

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) said on Sunday that it is examining the latest video from Boko Haram group purporting to show some of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls.

Mr. Chuks Iloegbunam, a commentator on national affairs, wrote from Lagos.

I READ an interesting Facebook broadcast by a friend of mine, Ray Morphy Ugba, the morning just before coming to the office to write this article. Ray is a journalist, politician, blogger and (from what I saw after the broadcast) also a musician. He hails from Cross River State, though he seems quite proud of the fact that his mother is an Igbo woman, which is why he calls Igbos “my mother’s people”.

As part of measures to address the rising trend of unclaimed dividends in the nation’s capital market, which has hit the N80 billion mark, banks and registrars have been mandated by both the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN and the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC to set up e-dividend champions in their respective institutions.