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The leader of Chibok Community in Abuja, Tsambido Abana, has expressed doubts about Federal Government’s commitment to rescue the over 200 school girls abducted by the Boko Haram terrorist group. Abana, stated that the lack of feedback from the government and the continuous attacks on communities around Chibok town, Borno State, indicated that the FG was not doing anything about the security situation in the area. The community leader said this in a telephone interview in Abuja on Sunday. He explained that attacks by Boko Haram, were still being carried out against communities around Chibok town. According to him, there has also not been any information on the efforts to secure release of the school girls to their parents or community. Abana said, “Government is not doing anything to bring back the girls because we have not heard anything or feedback from them. Even communities around Chibok are being attacked by Boko Haram, there is no security in that place and yet the government cla...

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No fewer than 89 students will be ushered into the Nigerian labour market by the University of Lagos (UNILAG) at is convocation institution next week. Thefirst classgraduates are part of the total of9,729 graduateswho will be awarded their certificates at the 2012/2013 convocation of the institution scheduled for Wednesday June 11 To Thursday June 12, 2014. Speaking withnewsmenin Lagos, the Vice-Chancellor of UNILAG,Prof. Rahamon Bello,said there would be an award of first and higher degrees, diploma, certificates as well as prize giving at the ceremony. Prof. Bello’s breakdown shows that 482 students would graduate from the Faculty of Arts, 535 from Business Administration, 246 from Environmental Sciences, 209 from the Faculty of Law, 141 from the Faculty of Pharmacy, 420 from the Faculty of Education, 344 from the Faculty of Engineering, 655 from the Faculty of Social Sciences and 493 from the Faculty of Sciences. The College of Medicine, which comprises the Faculties of Basic Medica...

The famous Mountain of Fire Churchhas justbarred women wearing trousersfrom coming and/or passing through their church premises. According toPunch, women in trousers will not be granted entrance into The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries Camp ground at Magboro, Lagos-Ibandan Expressway, Ogun State. Security Head of the church,Mr. Lanre,told the newspaper that the road in question was not an access route for the public, adding that security challenges informed the barricade. “The so-called access road is illegal. It is part of the church property. If we decided to block it, I don’t think that is business of anybody. Can you claim what does not belong to you? They (communities) even went ahead to stage an informal protest. Attacks on public places in the country have made it mandatory for organizations to beef up their security.” As for the women in trousers ban, Mr. Lanre revealed that the dress was contradictory with the doctrine of the church, adding that, “Such women will be b...

21-year-old Farooq Shahhas been found guilty of m****r after he stabbed and killed Romanian mother-of-oneMariana Popaon the street in U.K. It is likelyMariana’slife ended just because she was being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Shah is said to have robbed a man just before the m****r and police say he had the intention of harming someone with the knife he was carrying that night. The Mirror reports: Emergency services were called to the area shortly after midnight to reports of an injured woman, who was found with stab wounds to the chest. She was identified as Romanian Ms Popa, 24 – a s*x worker who was in the early stages of pregnancy when she died, and also had a six-year-old daughter. DI Richards said: “(Shah) killed Mariana because she was there, because he thought he could get away with it. In doing so, he has deprived a young daughter of her mother.” Investigating the m****r, officers reviewed hundreds of hours ofCCTV footage, some of which captured the m****r taking pla...

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Rahamon Bello, has explained why the ratings of Nigerian universities are low, especially in Africa. Bello spoke on Wednesday in Lagos while unveiling the UNILAG’s 2013 convocation programmes. He identified inadequate funding, security challenges, infrastructure deficiency and the poor patronage from foreign students as some of the reasons why Nigerian universities receive poor recognition among their peers on the continent. He noted, for instance, that UNILAG at present spends 95 per cent of its monthly allocation on the payment of staff salaries and emolument and about two per cent on overhead cost. According to him, the university spends about N40m monthly on such social facilities as payment of electricity bills and another N11m on overhead cost. He said, “With these challenges, no Nigerian university will be ranked number one in Africa. Nigerian universities need financial autonomy for them to compete favourably with others fro...

The Federal Capital Territory Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mbu, on Monday banned all protests over the 234 abducted Chibok school girls in the territory with immediate effect. Mbu, who announced the ban at a news conference in Abuja, said that the trend of the protest in the FCT was posing a serious security threat. “Accordingly, protests on the Chibok girls are hereby banned with immediate effect. As the FCT police boss, I cannot fold my hands and watch this lawlessness (protests). Information reaching us is that too soon, dangerous elements will join groups under the guise of protest and detonate explosives aimed at embarrassing the government,” he said. He said that after a group under the aegis of “#Bring Back Our Girls’’ protested on April 28, another group “Release Our Girls” emerged. Mbu, the former Rivers State Police Commissioner, said that information at the disposal of the command indicated that “dangerous elements” were about to hijack the protest hence the ban. Mbu s...

The All Progressives Congress has condemned the killing of the Emir of Gwoza, Alhaji Idrissa Timta, by suspected Boko Haram gunmen, saying it confirms the terror group as the enemy of the whole of Nigeria, rather than a group set up by some imaginary opposition political party or elites to bring down the Jonathan Administration. In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the atrocious killing of the Emir is the clearest indication yet that the Jonathan administration has misdiagnosed the Boko Haram menace from the onset. It recalled that when the indiscriminate activities of Boko Haram are placed side by side with others facts: that the group started in 2002 when Obasanjo was President and flared in 2009 when Yar’Adua was President, one would realize how deceitful and diversionary it is for anyone to portray is as an attempt to make Nigeria ungovernable under Jonathan. ”Boko Haram is not a northern response ...

The son of legend footballer,Pele, Edinho, 43, has been sentenced to 33 years imprisonment for laundering drug money. He admitted to being a drug addict but protested saying he was innocent of other charges. Edinho who played for Santos two decades ago is a goalkeeping coach at Santos and has served time in jail for drug trafficking before now.

A 40-year old housewife, Shola Afolayan, has been sent to Kirikiri Prisons in Lagos State after her husband absconded with a loan of N1.5million. PMNews reports that the mother of five kids stood as guarantor for her husband who borrowed N1.5 million from Mrs Chioma Ohaegbu to set up a business and promised to pay at a fixed date. But according to Shola, immediately her husband collected the loan, he abandoned her and their children and fled with the money. Narrating what happened, Chioma said Mr. Afolayan came to her house at 12, Oludegun Street, Ire Akari Estate, Isolo in Lagos and solicited for financial assistance. Ohaegbu said before she gave him the money, Afolayan took her to his house at Isheri-Oshun in Lagos and introduced her to his wife and children, assuring her that he would not disappoint her if given the loan. Then, he asked his wife to sign as his guarantor that he would pay the loan at a fixed date, which she did.. Ohaegbu said when Afolayan did not pay back the loan ...