Playboy has decided to suspend all activity on Facebook in response to the data sharing scandal engulfing the social media giant. According to CNBC, the adult publication said Wednesday that it would be exiting the social network and deactivating each of its accounts. Cooper Hefner, Playboy's chief creative officer and son of the late Hugh Hefner, called Facebook "sexually repressive" on Twitter, and said its content and policy guidelines "continue contradicting our values."

The Nigerian Military has said it lacks the manpower to guarantee the safety of all school in Nigeria, in the wake of recent mass abduction of schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe state. The Defence Spokesman, Brig. Gen. John Agim stated this on Friday when he appeared on Sunrise Daily. He lamented that due to the land mass, it was difficult to deploy military personnel to all schools in the North East.

The European Union on Friday commended President Muhammadu Buhari for the release of the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls.

The EU in a statement by its Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ray, expressed relief over the release.

The union therefore called for the liberation of other girls in the custody of the Boko Haram

The Nigeria military on Friday said it doesn’t have enough workforce to have a huge security presence in all Nigerian schools to avoid terrorist’s invasion or abduction of pupils.

Defence Spokesperson, Brigadier General John Agim, who was a guest on Channels Television Breakfast Programme, Sunrise Daily said due to the huge land mass, especially in the Northern East which is volatile to attacks, it is difficult to deploy troops to schools.

“The military doesn’t have the manpower to deploy (troops) to all the schools. It is not possible.

The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has suspended by one month, the withdrawal of policemen attached to VIPs across the country.

The suspension of the order, which was billed to be immediate, when announced on Monday, followed Idris’ meeting with the Commanders of Police Mobile Force (PMF), Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) and Special Protection Unit (SPU).

The meeting was held on 20 March. But a day before the earlier announcement, Idris also had met with state police commissioners and assistant inspectors-general at the Force Headquarters in Abuja.

The United Nations (UN) has noted that Boko Haram fighters have stepped up the use of women and girls for suicide bombings.

Noting a progress in the war against the jihadist by the four countries of Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon, the UN said while children were deployed in 135 such attacks in 2017 – a five-fold increase over the previous year.

Therefore, UN Deputy Secretary-General, Ms Amina Mohammed, said it was critical to shore up areas of Lake Chad Basin that have been freed from the grip of Boko Haram terrorists.