TELEPHONE CONVERSATION: PRESIDENT BUHARI CONDOLES ADAMU FIKA OVER WIFE'S DEATH Says Garba

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his sadness over the death of Hajiya Tasallah Fika, the wife of former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Adamu Fika, Wazirin Fika.

In a telephone call from London to the bereaved Wazirin, the President said the loss of such a devoted wife of many years was particularly a painful and challenging moment in the life of any husband.

President Buhari explained that as a family man himself, he understood the depth of pain Dr. Fika was going through at this time "having lost a great and invaluable companion of many years and that the deceased was one of the most devoted wives who was the pride of the nuclear family."

Abducted girls must be found, Jonathan gives Shettima marching order

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has been giving a marching order that abducted girls must be found. 

President Goodluck Jonathan gave this mandate to the governor during an all night meeting that ended in the early hours of Sunday.

The meeting had in attendance the President, Vice president, Senate President, Secretary to the Government and Service Chiefs and many others.

The meeting began at 9.00pm Saturday when President Goodluck Jonathan arrived.

Shettima arrived in company of the Borno State Commissioner of Education, the principal of the Government Secondary School, Chibok and some parents of the abducted girls.