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Incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan and President-elect General Muhammadu Buhari look like a good 'team' in these photos taken after their closed-door meeting today, April 24, 2015.

The two leaders have kicked off the handing over process, with both parties' inauguration teams already working to together to ensure a smooth transition of government on May 29, 2015.

Jonathan was quoted to have referred to Buhari after the meeting as 'President.'

"We will take a date when the president will come and I will show him round the State House but today is not for that. Today is to continue with our conversation. We don’t need to worry the President,” Jonathan reportedly told State House correspondents.

The man, who vowed to trek from Lagos to Abuja if General Muhammadu Buhari wins the March 28 Presidential election to celebrate his victory, has finally met the President-elect.

The Ibadan-based man, Suleiman Hashimu, met Buhari in Abuja on Friday, April 24, 2015.

Hashimu spent 18 days trekking from Lagos to Abuja.

He narrates his experience; "I made a promise because of the love I have for Mr. President that if Buhari should win the 2015 elections, I will trek from Lagos to Abuja which I have done. I thank God that I made a promise and I fulfilled the promise. I passed through Kwara and Niger states to Abuja. I was trekking from 6.00am to 6.00pm and anywhere I find myself when it is 6.00pm, I pass the night there.I spent 18 days from Lagos to Abuja.

“Once I found myself inside the bush by 6.00pm and I managed to continue the trek till 9.00pm to a nearby village. I made this promise two years ago. I am based in Ibadan and I started my journey from Lagos because Lagos is the most popular city in Nigeria and I started from Berger junction in Lagos. I am not bothered about what people think. It is a promise between me and my God. I don’t want anybody to believe me. I left Lagos because I made a promise. Right from Kwara state, I never walked alone for five kilometres. People always walk with me to the next village. I work with a construction company based in Ibadan.” he said.

The Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department (NCID), in Malaysia has revealed that nine Nigerian drug kingpins who used foreigners as drug mules were arrested in a major drug bust, resulting in RM2.5mil (S$933,000) worth of contraband substance seized, reports Asian One.

The multiple raids conducted in several parts of the country like Seri Kembangan, Cyberjaya, Bandar Sri Damansara and Shah Alam, show that the Nigerians had a well organized syndicate that uses other foreigners to bring in the drugs in canvass shoes from China.

The director of the NCID, Datuk Haris Wong Abdullah, said the drug lords ran separate syndicates which received their drug supplies via courier.

"The Nigerians are no longer depending on smuggled drugs from their home country. They are now getting their supply from China.

It is definitely a worrying trend as their source of supply is closer now. They were using Caucasians from South Africa and Australia as their mules.

They assumed the police would be less suspicious of Caucasians as drug mules compared to Asians, including Malaysians and Vietnamese they previously used.

However, we discovered that they recently smuggled drugs to Australia and even Israel.

They are becoming more brazen and were planning to expand their operations but we managed to put a stop to that."

Members of the Boko Haram sect are regrouping in Sambisa Forest, according to reports.

The terrorists have gathered in large numbers in the notorious stronghold forcing Nigerian soldiers to retreat, AFP reports.

“Boko Haram are in large numbers in Sambisa. All their fighters who were pushed out of Bama, Dikwa, Gwoza and Damboa (in Borno state) all moved to Boko Haram camps in Sambisa,” a member of the local vigilante, who chose to remain anonymous, said.

“Boko Haram have buried landmines all over the routes leading to their camps in the forest, which is no doubt a huge obstacle retarding the military offensive against them,” he added.

A major military operation to secure the forest started this week but was stalled by the deaths of one soldier and three vigilante members from landmine explosions.

National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki had earlier said that the troops would recapture the forest before May 29, 2015, when the government of President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari will be sworn in.

Parents of some of the abducted Chibok schoolchildren have accused the girls’ Vice Principal of being complicit in their abduction.

The girls were kidnapped from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok on April 14, 2014.

According to Sahara Reporters, the parents claimed that the Vice Principal, Yerima Banjiri had insisted that the girls remain in the school compound the night they were abducted.

Banjiri also allegedly threatened to expel any student who disobeyed the order.

 “A week before their abductions, Malam Yerima threatened the students not to leave for their various homes. He said that whoever went home should forget she was ever a student at the school,” one of the girls’ mothers, Mariam Abubakar told Sahara Reporters.

“He told the girls that none of them should go home, that they must sleep in the school. However, none of the teachers’ daughters or even the daughters of the management staff was among those kidnapped. Only the children of we poor people were asked to sleep in the school. The [teachers and administrators] had kept their children in safer places before Boko Haram arrived,” she added.

“Our concern is that since the day of [the girls’] abduction, we have never set our eyes on Malam Yerima. He is on run,” she said further.

Meanwhile, #BringBackOurGirls campaigner, Oby Ezekwesili has urged US President, Barack Obama to do more to rescue the missing girls.