Suspected militants stormed a college in north-eastern Nigeria and shot dead around 40 male students, some of them while they slept early on Sunday, witnesses said. The gunmen, thought to be members of rebel sect Boko Haram, attacked one hostel, took some students outside before killing them and shot others trying to flee.
MTN Nigeria has taken a big hit by recording
49 per cent of the overall subscribers that have switched service
providers under the recently introduced Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
scheme, according to figures released this week by the Nigerian
Communications Commission (NCC).