African businesses are gearing up for the opening of the 1.2 billion people market, amid challenges on tariff concessions, rules of origin and trade in services.
Some gunmen were said to have invaded Gora Gan community in the Zango-Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State and killed seven locals among them a 70-year-old man and a six-year-old girl.
Exhausted and disheveled, several hundred Nigerian schoolboys were reunited with their parents on Friday — experiencing their first full day of freedom after being seized nearly a week ago in a mass abduction claimed by Boko Haram.
A total of 10 schools were closed on Tuesday in Nigeria's northwestern state of Zamfara, which shares borders with Katsina where over 300 students were declared missing after a recent attack on their school by gunmen.
