President Muhammadu Buhari in Niamey, Niger Republic, signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, making Nigeria the 53rd state on the continent to append its signature to the document.

Leaders  of the Niger Delta under the aegis of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, were, yesterday, joined by  ethnic leaders from the South-West, South-East and the Middle-Belt of the country at a mega rally held in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State to  renew their call for the restructuring of the Nigerian federation in the interest of justice and equity. But for the host governor, Hon Seriake Dickson, who was physically present at the event held at the Grand Pavillion of the Oxbowl Lake,his colleagues  from the South-South were absent at the rally which attracted prominent personalities from the zone, the South-West, South-East and Middle-Belt.

It’s like a tale from fish-wifery told by moonlight: how Boko Haram entered a Nigerian town as villains, kidnapped dozens of schoolgirls, and 32 days later returned them to the same town as heroes with flags

One of the  students of Government Girls Technical Science College, Dapchi, Yobe State, identified as Fasima, said yesterday that some of their colleagues died of exhaustion on the day of the attack by Boko Haram, following the manner they were crammed into the vehicles that took them away.

The Nigerian Army on Wednesday formally handed 106 released girls from Boko Haram captivity to Federal Government.

The group of good governance advocates led by maverick entertainer, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly boy, Wednesday night, expressed its dissatisfaction with the way in which the federal government handled the abduction and release of the Dapchi school girls in Dapchi, Yobe state.

The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) says it is on standby to provide emergency reproductive healthcare and psycho-social counselling and support to the released Dapchi school girls abducted by Boko Haram.

Boko Haram Islamists who kidnapped 110 schoolgirls in Dapchi, northeast Nigeria, just over a month ago have so far returned 101 of the students to the town, the government said on Wednesday.

Excited by the release of the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls in Yobe State, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara has however said that the incident shouldn’t have been allowed to happen in the first place.