President Jonathan paid a visit to Yola, the Adamwaawa state capital earlier today where he had a stakeholders meeting with members of his party, the PDP. See more photos after the cut...

The award winning writer talks about her journey as a writer, her devotion to feminism and more... An interesting excerpt below

The oppression of women, she says, "Makes me angry.  I can't not be angry. I don't know how you can just be calm. My family says to me, 'Oh, you're such a man!' - you know, very lovingly… But of course I'm not, I just don't see why I shouldn't speak my mind." She got into trouble for speaking her mind in Nigeria: when an interviewer addressed her as Mrs Chimamanda Adichie, she corrected him, saying she wished to be known as "Ms", which the journalist reported as "Miss".
Her insistence on her own family name was all over the news here last spring. She should be happy to be addressed as "Mrs", she was told, since she was, after all, married. She laughs now, but it's clear the story still disturbs her. "It was the lack of gratitude on my part for having a husband. And yet I didn't want to proclaim it: I wanted to claim my own name."