MOST people are fascinated with twins and other multiple births and when they arrive, everyone around is overwhelmed with joy.

A renewed pressure on exchange rate surged, yesterday, at the parallel market segment, even as the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, window remained stable.

Delta State Government has foiled an attempt by some persons to defraud it of over N7 billion meant for January salaries of civil servants in the state.

The embattled Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State, Dr Tope Aluko, has gone to Court to seek the vacation of the Warrant of Arrest issued against him by a Chief Magistrate Court in Ado Ekiti last week.

I ARRIVED Yola on Monday this week, for my first visit since 2013. But the prelude to this trip came four days before the gubernatorial election last year. As is my wont, I had written my column in the early hours of the Wednesday before the election, during which I endorsed a couple of candidates: Kashim Shettima in Borno; Nasir El-Rufai in Kaduna; Aminu Tambuwal in Sokoto; Umar Al-Makura in Nasarawa; Aminu Bello Masari in Katsina and Umar Jibrilla Bindow in Adamawa.

The trial of the 17 students of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, involved in the violent protest that rocked the institution on Sunday night was, yesterday, adjourned till tomorrow for further hearing by an Ado Ekiti Chief Magistrate’s Court.

The Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta, code named Operation Pulo Shield, yesterday, said that its operatives have arrested the alleged mastermind of the attack on Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, manifold in Gbobokiri, Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

The Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, said yesterday that the Army cannot probe ex-service chiefs involved in procurement of weapons for the fight against Boko Haram because they had retired.

Two female bombers attacked an Internally-Displaced Persons, IDP, camp in Dikwa Local Government Area, Borno State, at about 6:30a.m. yesterday, and detonated their Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDS, killing about 58 persons.

BARELY five months to the 2016 Rio Olympics, Chief Coach of the National U-23 team, the Dream Team VI, Samson Siasia says he is waiting for the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and the Ministry of Youth and Sports to conclude arrangements for the team to begin camping.

THE installation of a new Olubadan of Ibadanland after the interment of late Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade tomorrow may suffer a hitch following a fresh litigation filed against Governor Abiola Ajimobi and the nine-member Olubadan-in-Council.

The Ovie of Idjere, Ethiope West Local Government Area, Delta State, HRM Erhiekevwe I, has ordered all Fulani herdsmen operating in his domain to vacate within nine days or face the wrath of his people.

As schools reopen for another term, Stanbic IBTC Bank, a member of Stanbic IBTC Holdings, has again reassured parents and guardians of the bank’s readiness to help offset the financial burden of paying their children/wards fees through its school fees payment solutions.

Lagos State Government yesterday sealed buildings in Richmond Estate and a shopping mall in Lekki axis of the state, for contravening the State construction law.

lagos—The Court of Appeal sitting Lagos, yesterday, adjourned till February 22, 2016 to hear a cross appeal by Ecobank Nigeria Ltd against Honeywell Flour Mils Plc, over alleged N3.5 billion unpaid loan.