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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday in Abuja, received in closed doors Pakistani rights activist for girl-child education and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Malala Yousafzai, in the Presidential Villa. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the 20-year-old Malala, who was accompanied by her father, Yousafzai and other members of the Malala Foundation, arrived at the presidential villa at about 5.30 p.m. The young female activist survived gunshots on her head by the Taliban for campaigning for girl-child education in Pakistan. She had visited Nigeria in July, 2014 where she campaigned for the release of Chibok schoolgirls who were abducted by Boko Haram insurgents. During the visit then, Malala met then President Goodluck Jonathan and parents of the more than 230 captured Chibok schoolgirls. (NAN)

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council has met with the northern coalition with a view to charting a common course for peaceful co-existence of various groups in all parts of the country. The meeting which was held Saturday evening in Abuja lasted several hours‎. Speaking with newsmen shortly after the meeting in Abuja, Chairman of the Coalition of Northern Youths, Yerima Shettima, who commended the move, said the peace meeting between the two groups however led to the formation of a six-member committee which will facilitate another meeting in the South-east. On the Kaduna declaration of the coalition, Shettima said; “Leaving Nnamdi Kanu to go unpunished is totally unacceptable to us because he has so far done much damage on our psyche and our nation. While commending the Ohanaeze Youth Council for a fruitful discussion, Shettima said: “I thank God we are talking with a recognized body of entire youths organisation in the South-east called Ohanaeze Youth...

The West African Examination Council, WAEC, has released its May/June 2017 secondary school certificate examination results. The council said on its Twitter account on Monday that the results of 94.36 per cent of the 1,471,151 candidates that sat for the examination were released. Of that number, 923,486 candidates, representing 59.22 per cent, obtained minimum of number of credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics. The examination started on February 20 and ended on May 15. The examination’s pass rate in 2016 stood at 52.97 per cent. According to the council, candidates who sat for the examination in 2017 will be able to check their results via waecdirect.org. It advised the candidates to use the result checker PIN and Serial Number on the CIVAMPENS Card issued to them WAEC said 1,567,016 candidates registered for the examination, out of which 1,559,162 sat for it. “Out of the total number of candid...

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, has inaugurated his presidential campaign. The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors Forum had launched his presidential campaign on his Facebook page. Fayose had on several occasions declared that he would run for the Presidency in 2019. Just last week, the governor declared that he would take over power from the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government in 2019. The governor had initially said he would approach the Supreme Court to determine his eligibility to contest for the state governorship election due to his inability to complete his first term in office. This follows court’s ruling dismissing his impeachment. Source: News Track Nigeria