United States President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday that Brexit would turn out to be a great thing and other countries would follow Britain out of the European Union.

Teachers in public primary and secondary schools in Abia have embarked on strike to protest alleged government’s failure to pay their salaries.

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed that it is looking into the petition requesting the anticorruption body to “urgently begin a thorough, transparent and effective investigation into allegation that N500 million Safe School funds for Chibok girls, commissioned by former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to rebuild the Government Girls School in Chibok, is missing and cannot be accounted for.”

Heritage Bank has embarked on mass retrenchment of its workers with 400 staff sacked in December.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has expressed shock over the early morning bomb blast at the University of Maiduguri Mosque.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday night listed “thick skin” and “stamina” as important qualities for the top person in the White House to have success, in an ironic reference to his successor Donald Trump who will be sworn in on Friday. He however said that, notwithstanding, Trump is able to tap into people’s grievances.

Many Nigerians are still in limbo about the prevailing peace and the end signals of anti-terrorism campaigns, which Nigerian troops have spiritedly battled in the last one year to extract from Luciferic terrorists. But it is time to wake up to the piercing lights of reality.

President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the terrorist attack at a mosque in the University of Maiduguri which happened at the wee hours of Monday morning, killing scores of persons.

Dr Abudu Kunle of the Department of Histopathology, University of Uyo, Akwa-Ibom, has urged pregnant women to donate their placenta for biomedical research.

A Federal High Court on Monday in Lagos granted the Federal Government’s application to amend processes in its suit against Total Nigeria Plc over alleged under-declaration of crude oil exports.

The Commissioner of Police in Imo, Mr Taiwo Lakanu, has assured the residents and the state government of a possible apprehension of the murderers of U.S-based Imo indigene, Mr Chuks Okebata.

Swiss 17-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer won his first match at the Australian Open Monday after coming off a injury-blighted 2016.

Sheikh Muhammad Bashir, the Deputy Chief Imam of Area 10 Abuja Mosque, has advised the Federal Government to prohibit people from indecent dressing in public places to curtail incidence of rape in the country.

Burundi on Monday began the process of withdrawing its troops from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) due to a dispute with the EU over the payment of wages.

Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Sunday inaugurated the remodelled Guards Brigade cemetery located off Murtala Mohammed Way, Abuja.