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A United Nations human rights committee called on the Nigerian government on Monday to step up efforts to rescue all women and girls abducted by Boko Haram and to ensure they return to school without stigma. Roughly 100 of the 270 girls abducted by the Islamist militants at their secondary school in Chibok in northeast Nigeria in April 2014 have been released and another 60 have escaped, but about 100 are still believed to be in captivity. Nigeria was one of eight countries whose records were examined by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women at a…

Nigerian pasta maker Dufil Prima Food plans to raise 40 billion naira ($131 million) from the local debt market to broaden its funding base, it said on Monday. Dufil Prima Food are best known for their noodles, Indomie. The company also produces Power Pasta (spaghetti); Power Oil (Vegetable Oil); Minimie Chin Chin and Minimie noodles. The privately held company, set up over two decades ago, has grown to become the largest pasta maker in West Africa, it said. It competes with listed rival such as Dangote Flourmill, Flour Mills of Nigeria and Honeywell Flour Mills. Dufil also makes cooking oil.…

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will tell a Senate panel later that neither he nor any member of the Trump campaign team colluded with Russian officials over the US election. He will say he had no improper contacts and had not relied on Russian funds to finance his business activities. Mr Kushner released his opening statement ahead of the panel meeting. The Senate, along with the House and a special counsel, are all investigating Russian interference in the election. Mr Jared Kushner, 36, is a senior adviser to the president and was in charge of the Trump campaign’s digital…

Handed over by her mother to an agent at the age of 10, Titi was crammed into a truck in the tiny West African nation of Benin and driven across the border into southwest Nigeria. Titi feared the worst. She recalled how a previous employer in Nigeria had welcomed her with a thin mat and a leather whip. “Sometimes, she beat us,” said Titi, recounting the businesswoman who had flogged the girls for the smallest mishaps, such as breaking a plate. Bed had been the floor. “Sometimes, she didn’t give us breakfast till after 1 p.m.,” Titi, now 14, told…

Five people have been injured, two seriously, in an attack by a man armed with a chainsaw in the Swiss town of Schaffhausen, police say. Central parts of the town on the German border have been sealed off, as police are searching for the attacker. Police and ambulances are on the scene and rescue helicopters are circling overhead, police spokeswoman Cindy Beer is quoted as saying by Swissinfo. The police say the attack is not related to terrorism. Police have released a picture of the alleged suspect, who is still on the run, but have not named him. They have…

Benjamin Mendy has completed his £52m transfer from Monaco to Manchester City to become the world’s most expensive defender. The 23-year-old France left-back has signed a five-year deal with the club. Mendy is City’s fifth major signing of the summer and takes their spending to more than £200m. "It's a dream to play in the @PremierLeague". WATCH ▶️ https://t.co/f92qwihOtu #BlueMendy pic.twitter.com/kdmH5ESYio— Manchester City (@ManCity) July 24, 2017 “I am absolutely delighted to be joining Manchester City,” Mendy said. “They are one of Europe’s leading Clubs and in Pep Guardiola they have a manager committed to playing attacking football. “I am…

Benjamin Mendy has completed his £52m transfer from Monaco to Manchester City to become the world’s most expensive defender. The 23-year-old France left-back has signed a five-year deal with the club. Mendy is City’s fifth major signing of the summer and takes their spending to more than £200m. “He is undoubtedly one of the world’s best full-backs, our number one target in this position,” said director of football Txiki Begiristain. Mendy played 34 times for Monaco last season and helped them to their first Ligue 1 title in 17 years after joining them from Marseille last summer. He is the…

Indonesia’s President, Joko Widodo, on Monday instructed law enforcement officers to shoot drug traffickers to deal with a narcotics emergency facing the country. “Be firm, especially to foreign drug dealers who enter the country and resist arrest. “Shoot them because we indeed are in a narcotics emergency position now,’’ Widodo said in a speech delivered at an event held by one of Indonesia’s political groups. His remarks have drawn comparison to that of Philippine’s President, Rodrigo Duterte, who launched a brutal anti-drug crackdown about a year ago that saw many alleged drug dealers killed. The bloody campaign in the Philippines…

Nigerian international Henry Onyekuru says he is on top of the world after champions Anderlecht fought back to beat cup holders Zulte-Waregem 2-1 to win the Belgian Super Cup winners’ medal. The competition served as season curtain raiser in Belgium. Onyekuru, who is on a season-long loan at Anderlecht from Premier League club Everton, revealed it was an exciting moment for him to clinch his first major trophy as a professional and has dedicated the feat to God. “I feel very happy and excited with the victory. This is my first professional trophy, it means a lot to me, it’s…

The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence, Hon. Sani Jaji, has said the committee has a mandate to establish the owners of the apartment and the $43 million recently found in an Osborne estate apartment in Ikoyi notwithstanding claims by the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA) that it owned both. He told journalists that the committee was making progress in its probe, adding that the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, would have to appear before the committee this week as his submissions would be crucial to the investigation. He said…