The Presidency Monday debunked claims by former National Security Adviser, NSA, to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Colonel Sambo Dasuki that the Jonathan administration cleared the Northeast of Boko Haram terrorists to make elections possible in 2015. The presidency described Dasuki’s claim as not only faulty but laughable as some local government areas in the North East were under the control of Boko Haram before the President Muhammadu Buhari government came to dismantle all the areas of control by the Islamic sect. A statement issued by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu in Abuja…

West African Examination Council says the performance of candidates in its 2017 May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination is an improvement over the ones recorded in the recent past. The council’s Head of National Office, Mr. Olu Adenipekun, said this in Lagos on Monday, at a news conference to announce results of the May/June diet of the examination. He said that 923,486 of the 1,559,162 candidates that sat for the examination, representing 59.22 per cent, obtained a minimum of credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics. Adenipekun said the percentage of candidates in this category…

Somalia has restored its internet connection after repairing a severed undersea cable, a telecoms official said on Monday, after an outage that the government said had cost the economy millions of dollars a day. However, a police officer said attacks by Islamist militants had dropped during the outage that lasted more than three weeks. "The internet is now back and clients are using it," said Adnan Ali, media director for Hormuud Telecom, the country's top operator. Businesses had to close or improvise to remain open during the shutdown and the telecoms minister told state radio it cost the equivalent of…

National vice president of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), South-South zone, Eddie Bekom, died on Sunday at Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, where he was receiving medical attention following injuries he sustained in a domestic gas explosion. His wife and one of their sons also died from injuries they also sustained in the explosion. Mr. Bekom was a staff of Cross River Broadcasting Service, Ikom. The gas explosion occurred at the home of his neighbour in Ikom some weeks ago and affected his entire household and a neighbour. The family members had been under intensive care at the hospital, with…