Video: The soldiers have seized four of our women, tore our clothes – Biafra women protest
Some Biafran women under the banner, Great Women of Biafra, have alleged that some soldiers seized four of their members and used the nozzles of their guns to tear their clothes, rendering them naked when they gathered to pray and hold their meetings. The women who were drawn from Akwa/Ibom, Cross rivers, Imo, Enugu, Anambra and other south-south and south-east states protested topless to the palace of the Igwe, complaining that the soldiers disrupted their peaceful assembly.
Ex-students are stakeholders – NUC
Management of educational institutions should see alumni associations as important stakeholders in order to benefit from the goodwill of considerable number of prominent ex-students.
French researchers find way to unlock “WannaCry” without ransom
French researchers said on Friday they had found a last-chance way for technicians to save Windows files encrypted by “WannaCry”, racing against a deadline as the ransomware threatens to start locking up victims’ computers first infected a week ago.
FBN Holdings shareholders approve N7.18bn dividend for 2016
FBN Holdings shareholders on Friday approved dividend of N7.18 billion declared by the company for the financial year ended Dec. 31, 2016.
Horrible lives of Nigerian girls trafficked into Italy
Disheveled, barefoot and bleary-eyed, the Nigerian girls are some of the first to walk off the boats. A dream realised; they arrive in Europe — though the scene is anything but romantic.
Jonathan, Dickson relationship cordial –Dickson’s aide
Mr Kenedy Tonjo-West, Senior Special Assistant to Bayelsa Governor, Seriake Dickson on Niger Delta Youth Matters, has described the relationship between former President Goodluck Jonathan and the governor as cordial.
Nigerians like sharing fake and bad news – Rotimi Amaechi
The Minister for Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has said that Nigerians attach keen interest in purveying fake and bad news to the public that thus denigrates and reduces the state of the nation to naught internationally. I don’t no why Nigerians like sharing fake and bad news, he quizzed.
Video: This Ag President thing is lip service, not working out – Aisha Yesufu
Aisha Yesufu Co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group, has said that ‘We have Acting President who is taking the Acting literally and behaving as if he is in a film instead of getting to work forming a team’
Rape charges dropped but Assange faces arrest in Britain
It is not yet freedom for WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. Although, Swedish prosecutors said Friday they had dropped an investigation over a rape allegation, British police said he would be arrested if he left the Ecuadorean embassy in London where he has been holed up since 2012.
Presidential assent possible in three days if…, says Ita Enang
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday formally received the 2017 budget passed by the National Assembly last week.
Apapa Port access roads project an FG priority – Fashola
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has said that the rehabilitation of access roads at Apapa Port in Lagos State was a priority project of the Federal Government.
