The naira suffered a severe depreciation in the interbank market, yesterday, losing 226k to the dollar following an upsurge in demand for foreign exchange prompted by the removal of limit on banks’ foreign exchange sale to Bureaux de Change,BDCs.

ELDER statesman and Second Republic senator, Senator Francis Okpozo, has urged the Chief Justice of the Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, to proceed on retirement to save the judiciary from further ridicule.

THE security situation in Ughelli, Delta State, heightened last Sunday, following the kidnap of a Grade One Chief Magistrate, Mr. Obomejero Aforkeya, at Iwhrekpokpor in Ughelli metropolis.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State, yesterday, said the immediate past Governor of the state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, is no longer a member of the party under which platform he was elected Governor in 2003 and governed the state for eight years.

FIFTY houses in the six areas of Ibadan North West Local Government Area in Oyo State, where an outbreak of cholera claimed four lives, while 16 others are receiving treatment have no toilets, even as the state government says it has risen to curtail the epidemic.