Early this week, just the second week in the life of the flexible foreign exchange regime, the policy has slid into revisionism, rejigs and reforms.

A popular musician in North-East, Ado Dahiru Daukaka, who was kidnapped days after releasing a scathing anti-graft song, was freed yesterday. He went missing last Friday in Yola, Adamawa State capital, after he left his house to offer dawn prayers at a mosque.

The Leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Diaspora has felicitated with the Chairman, APC Scandinavia, Ayoola Lawal as his wife delivers a baby boy in the early hours of Wednesday in Sweden.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice has adjourned sine die (indefinitely) judgment in the case of former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) against the Federal Government in which he challenged his unlawful detention by government since December 2015 in the custody of the Department of the State Security Service (DSS).

ON Monday, June 27, 2016, the country was again thrown into some shock with the news of the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja, sacking the Governor of Abia State, Mr. Okezie Ikpeazu. From the reports, it was said that Governor Ikpeazu does not possess the requisite qualification to contest the election as governor, in that he did not furnish credible evidence of payment of tax, to the Abia State Government. Accordingly, the court directed the Independent National Electoral Commission to issue a certificate of return to Mr. John Ogah, the candidate who came second in the Peoples’ Democratic Party’s governorship primary.

VICE President, Professor Yemi Osinbanjo, SAN, has urged businessmen in Nigeria to embrace commercial arbitration for the desired speed in dispute resolution to attract international investors. Professor Osinbajo, said that with the robust dispute resolution mechanism like Arbitration in place, the country will actualise her vision of becoming the next major destination for foreign investment.

GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, has said the impact of the renewed destruction of oil assets in the state producing environment has gone so bad that the state is now unable to pay salaries regularly anymore.

Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo of Ikeja High Court, yesterday, sentenced three persons, Wasiu Arepo, an aluminum products manufacturer; Oluwaseun Idowu, a driver, and Ganiyu Hassan, a student and commercial motorcycle rider, to death by hanging.

Hope for Niger Delta Campaign, HNDC, a non-governmental organisation based in The Netherlands, has said that the current attack on oil installations in the Niger Delta region by Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, was not in the interest of the region.

President of God’s Fountain of Life Bible Mission, International Incorporated, Bishop Sam Oyede, has said that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, stepped beyond its bounds in freezing the personal bank account of Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State.

The Nigerian Stock market yesterday rebounded to a positive position after a three day consecutive downturn as investors recovered N81.63 billion from their investment in shares traded on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE.

Following the close of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, camps yesterday across the nation, corps members spoke to Vanguard Learning, during the orientation, about the deplorable living conditions on camps, particularly temporary camps, and the lean food rations in both temporary and permanent camps. These camps accommodate, at each orientation, between 2,500 to 3,000 graduates.

RIVERS State House of Assembly has passed the Port Harcourt Polytechnic bill into law, thus making the former Rivers State College of Arts and Science, Rumuola now Port Harcourt Polytechnic.

The Catholic Church yesterday described Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State as a major pillar of support of the church, just as the church said it does not promote or support violence of any form.

Organised labour has commended the Federal Government through the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, for the intervention and planned stakeholders’ summit on the mass sack in the financial sector, saying the dialogue is aimed at ensuring job retention in the banking sector.