YENAGOA—A group, Bayelsa Renaissance Movement, BRM, has commended the Department of State Services, DSS, over the arrest of the traditional ruler of Agrisaba community, Bayelsa State, King Walter Agri. Agri was picked up by operatives of the DSS in Yenagoa and taken to the command headquarters, where he has been undergoing interrogation.

YENAGOA—A peaceful protest by the National Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, and Medical and Health Workers Union, MHWUN, Bayelsa State chapters, yesterday, turned violent as thugs manhandled the protesting workers, including journalists, who covered the protest at the Yenagoa Local Government Council Secretariat of the state.

Governorship candidate of the APC in Edo state, Mr Godwin Obaseki, yesterday, described the allegation by the chairman of the PDP in Edo state, Chief Dan Orbih that he did not tender his credentials to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC as mischievous and diversionary.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has raised the amount of foreign exchange that Bureaux de Change (BDCs) can access from banks to $50, 000, per week. It was pegged at $30, 000,penultimate week. The decision to raise the bar was reached at the Bankers’ Committee Meeting in Abuja, yesterday.

Atlanta ’96 Gold-winning captain Nwankwo Kanu has called on Nigerians to rally behind the team when they face Germany in today’s Rio Olympics semi-final on their way to going all the way again.

Lagos—The police, yesterday, charged a fairly-used clothes dealer, Sharon Okafor, 22, before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court, Igbosere, for allegedly assaulting and cutting a salesgirl in the face with ceramic plates.

Yenagoa—Concerned indigenes of the Niger Delta, under the aegis of Coalition of Niger Deltans for Justice and Development, CNDJD, yesterday, described as “an orchestrated lie,” the accusation levelled against former President Goodluck Jonathan that he is a sponsor of the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA.

ONITSHA—All is not well with members of Okudo family of Nkwelle village, Ogidi, in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State as they are now bogged down with so many pains, including hospital bills, arising from a major attack.

Lagos—A 50-year-old Muslim cleric, Mohammed Yusuf, and his daughter, Salamat, 18, were yesterday charged before a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court in Lagos, for attempted murder. They allegedly inserted needles in the Akaras (bean cakes) they distributed to beggars.

Nizamiye Hospital, Abuja, has successfully carried out an open heart surgery.

WARRI—FIVE Itsekiri groups, yesterday, handed Chevron Nigeria Limited, a seven-day ultimatum to negotiate with Ugborodo community according to the truce reached at the palace of His Majesty, Ogiame Ikenwoli I, Olu of Warri, on Monday or they would shut down the company’s operations in Itsekiriland.

Even the most implacable critic of President Buhari would have to concede that Boko Haram’s capacity to “shoot, slaughter and kill”—as its avowed means of establishing Allah’s loving and peaceful caliphate in North-east Nigeria—has been significantly degraded.

Having braved all the odds to reach the semi-final of the Rio 2016 Olympics event, there is only one way up for the Nigerian U-23 team and that is winning the gold medal.

ABEOKUTA—Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has cautioned media organisations against fanning the embers of disunity through their reports and editorials.

In light of the increase in cybercrime attacks against Nigerian enterprises, MainOne, Nigeria’s premier connectivity and data center solutions provider, has in partnership with Radware, a global leader in cyber-security, launched its Managed Security (DDoS Protection Service).