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The schoolgirls kidnapped by the Boko Haram jihadist group in Dapchi, northeastern Nigeria, were reunited with their families on Sunday after spending nearly five weeks in captivity. The 105 girls, covered head to toe in burkas, arrived aboard five buses in the town of Dapchi, in Yobe state, where they were greeted by their parents at the boarding school where they were snatched on February 19. After their release on Wednesday they had spent three days in the national capital Abuja where they were greeted by President Muhammadu Buhari. Kachalla Bukar, the father of one of the girls who is…

The Nigerian government has confirmed that it is engaging in permanent cessation of hostilities talk with Islamist sect, Boko Haram. Addressing the media in Lagos on Sunday, Information Minister, Lai Mohammed explained that Boko Haram were able to return 107 of the 113 abducted Dapchi schoolgirls and a boy because both parties reached an agreement. “As I have said at many fora, we neither paid ransom nor swapped any Boko Haram member to secure the release of the girls. This is a fact, irrespective of how a section of the press has tried to spin the story. “The insurgents brought…

National light welterweight champion, Rilwan “Baby Face” Babatunde, has vowed to add the West African Boxing Union (WABU) welterweight title to his laurels when he takes on Djossou “Agoy” Basile of the Republic of Benin at GOtv Boxing Night 14. The event, slated to hold at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium in Lagos, will feature seven fights across weight divisions. Speaking while training in Lagos on Sunday, Baby Face said he is sure of seeing off his opponent’s challenge with minimal fuss. “Basile will not last more than four rounds. I am doing everything to ensure that…

Civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to “drop the proposed policy to grant amnesty to members of the Boko Haram terrorist group in the interests of justice, as any amnesty programme for the group would be counter-productive, and constitute impunity for their members, which can only continue to undermine peace and stability in the country.” The organization said the government should instead “prioritise justice for the victims of Boko Haram and help them to rebuild and get on with their lives rather than pushing to remove…

About 24 hours after he was declared missing, the Kaduna State Police command on Sunday said that Danladi Wada, factional Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna, has been found. The APC had declared Wada missing after he left his home to pray at a nearby mosque. The Commissioner of police, Austin Iwar, confirmed this in a text message to the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna on Sunday. Iwar said, “Yes he has reported to the police and we are investigating.” NAN reports that the factional APC spokesman Murtala Abubakar, had said that Wada was expected to report…

*Says Buhari will not relent in the prosecution of the cases in court *Plan in place to invigorate prosecution of corruption cases with top lawyers Nigerians have not forgotten the severe damage caused the economy by the rampant abuse of public trust and grand larceny that characterized the past administration according to Mr. Laolu Akande, a Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity to the President. Akande who interacted with the press over the weekend noted that those who are asking “our people to simply forget the blatant violation of public trust and the pillaging of the nation’s commonwealth witnessed…

The Nigerian government has mocked the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for hacking the Facebook page of All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari. The Presidency advised the leadership of the PDP to stop raising false alarms in order to gain public sympathy and divert attention from its abysmal past record and failures. “They should, instead, address the concerns raised about their role in the mass data harvesting at the heart of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, following the revelation that they hacked into Muhammadu Buhari’s personal data in the run up to the 2015 general…

A groundbreaking research has churned out a biodegradable gel that has the capacity to kill cancer tumours. Created by scientists at the Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA, the gel was designed to deliver immunotherapy directly to the area from which a cancerous has been surgically removed. Senior study author Michael Goldberg and colleagues recently reported their results in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Upon testing the gel on mice during the surgical removal of breast cancer tumours, the scientists found that it not only helped to prevent tumour recurrence at the primary site,…

President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Saturday condoled with former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the death of his father in-law, Dr. Christopher Abebe. Abebe who was the first indigenous Chairman and Managing Director of United Africa Company (UAC), is the father of Obasanjo’s late wife, Stella. Saraki in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, in Abuja urged the ex-President, the Abebe family and the Government and people of Edo to take solace in the fact that Abebe lived a life worthy of emulation. He described the late elder statesman as a board…

By Adefemiwa Oluwole The Nigerian government needs to draw the line on persons like Reno Omokri who thinks every happening in Nigeria is an opportunity to divide the country along religious lines and probably start a war while he watches from California. Omokri’s latest attempt to stir religious unrest was via a tweet on Friday. He said, “Vice President @ProfOsinbajo, a Pastor, is quick to publicly speak lies against @GEJonathan and others. Yet this same man has not thought it wise to even say one word of comfort to the parents of Leah Sharibu and the Christian community who are…