Two graduating students of the University of Lagos have recorded 5.00 Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) in 2015/2016 academic session, just like Ayodele Dada recorded same feat in the previous year. Prof. Rahamon Bello, the Vice-Chancellor (V-C) of the institution, who gave the hint during the 2016/2017 matriculation on Friday, named the two students as: Miss Taiwo Bankole and Miss Ajoke Omotuyi. The V-C had, during the 2014/2015 convocation, had described 5.00 CGPA as ‘a perfect score’. According to Bello, both students are from the Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science and the Department of Systems Engineering,…

Three suicide bombers exploded at a checkpoint where scores of people were being searched for a bustling weekly market Friday in Nigeria's northeastern town of Madagali, witnesses said. The blasts killed two self-defense fighters who wanted to search them. Their challenge likely saved many lives. In December, two women suicide bombers killed 57 people and wounded 177, including 120 children, at Madagali market. Last week, three girl suicide bombers were killed on the outskirts of the same town. Residents blamed Boko Haram Islamic extremists for the attacks. Madagali is about 150 kilometers (90 miles) southeast of Maiduguri, the largest city…

Growing concerns about intolerance of dissent and a heavy-handed response to protests dominated Nigeria’s human rights landscape in 2016, Human Rights Watch said Thursday in releasing its World Report 2017. Government rhetoric about security sector reform and improving accountability for rights abuses has yet to translate into concrete action, Human Rights Watch said a statement. In the southeast, police killed at least 40 pro-Biafra members of the separatist Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) during protests and processions in February and May 2016. No security agent has been prosecuted for the killings. In December 2015, soldiers killed 347 members of a…

President Muhammadu Buhari has reconstituted the Executive Management Boards of River Basin Development Authorities (RBDA). RBDAs are under the Federal Ministry of Water Resources. The appointments take immediate effect. They are as follows: ANAMBRA-IMO RIVER BASIN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (AIRBDA): Michael Nwabufo — Managing Director Michael C. Nwachukwu–Executive Director, Engineering Nweze B. Obasi — Executive Director, Agricultural Services Benjamin Aneke — Executive Director, Planning and Design Ngozi C. Uche –Executive Director, Finance and BENIN-OWENA RIVER BASIN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (BORBDA): Saliu O. Ahmed — Managing Director Modupe V. Olalemi – Executive Director, Engineering Agbetuyi O. Bamidele — Executive Director, Agricultural Services Olumese…