The House of Representatives on Tuesday summoned the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, to explain the recent policy directing commercial banks to reject foreign currency deposits. This followed the unanimous adoption of a motion under Matters of Urgent Public Importance sponsored by Rep. Emmanuel Ekon (Akwa-Ibom, PDP).

The Borno Police Command on Tuesday said that a handful of people were killed after a suspected male suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the Sabon Gari market in Damboa, headquarters of Damboa Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. Mr Aderemi Opadokun, the Commissioner of Police in the state, stated this while speaking with newsmen in Maiduguri.

Majority leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, Wednesday, said he wished the former Speaker and Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal well in his future ‘political’ undertakings.

ONE of the most difficult but commendable decisions the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon. Dogara Yakubu has taken of late is the announcement of Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, from South West as the Leader of the 8th House of Representatives, along with other leaders.

The Ikeja Local Government Council, has issued a 60-day ultimatum to traders of the controversial Alade Market to vacate the market, to allow the commencement of re-development of the market.

AS lobby for who becomes the substantive Director General/Chief Executive of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, hots up, maritime stakeholders are calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to look inwards in picking a candidate rather than going for an outsider, who would spend months and years learning the rope.

If feelers’ coming from the weightlifting camp of the Nigeria team preparing for the All Africa Games is anything to go by, then Nigeria may be heading for a poor outing at the Games as the athletes seem not to be in a happy mood.

Barely two weeks after his appointment as the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brig.Gen. Paul Boroh (rtd) has begun the overhauling of the office with a view to making it more proactive and beneficial.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has ordered the Mike Okiro-led Police Service Commission to refund to the government treasury the sum of N133.4 million out of the N350 million it received from the Federal Government for the monitoring of the conduct of the 2015 elections.

LAGOS — The Department of State Services, DSS, is set to take over investigations into the affairs of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, under its immediate past Director-General, Dr. Patrick Akpobokemi, from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Controversy is  trailing the reported rape of a 30-year-old woman in Lagos by four members of Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, last week, at Alapere area of Lagos State.
While sources close to the victim said she was gang-raped by four OPC members, police have denied receiving such report at Alapere division.

Nigeria Football Federation president, Amaju Pinnick affirmed yesterday that the appointment of former Super Eagles captain Sunday Oliseh was not a mistake. He added that the NFF has full confidence Oliseh will deliver results.

An elder statesman and former Nigeria’s permanent representative at the United Nations, UN, Alhaji Maitama Sule has asked Nigerians to give support to the government of President Mohammadu Buhari and his vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.

Former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba, in this interview deflates claims by Former President Olusegun Obasanjo in his recent book that the Yoruba never had a leader. He argues that the former president is distorting history. Osoba also spoke on other issues.

BENIN—A police corporal, Mr. Ali Christopher, who was alleged to have accidentally killed two nursing mothers at a funeral in Fugar, headquarters of Etsako Central Local Government Area of Edo State last June, has been dismissed from the force.