The devaluation of the naira is the talk of the town. It is on everyone’s lips. From 200 to the dollar, the naira dropped as low as 400, and then rallied again to 310. Although the government has refused to devalue the currency officially, Nigerians know it has already been devalued unofficially.

There are emerging indications that the Abia North Senatorial District re-run election, might be declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

South-East Based Coalition of Human Rights Organizations, SBCHROs, has accused security forces of killing 80 members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and their supporters between August 30, 2015 and February 9, 2016.

The story of 37 – year – old Funmilola (Lola) Oniyelu, who alleged she was mismanaged by doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, made headlines, last week. While Lola claimed she was down with end stage renal disorder following a surgery at the hospital, LUTH management says her claim is false.

Mr Adetokunbo Mumuni, is a long standing legal practitioner, notary public and an executive director of Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP. In this encounter, he sheds more light on the recent court judgment in favor of his group against the federal government. He concludes that all Nigerians must rise to the occasion and save the country from imminent collapse due to corruption and impunity. He also speaks on some other national issues.

Ike was feeling damned pleased with himself. As he parked the car, he whistled a cheerful tune, gathered the ’treat’ he’d bought for his family and trotted to his flat. Amidst squeals of welcome from his kids, he dolled out his presents; meat pies and doughnuts for the .kids”, a peppered quarter chicken for his wife, Remi and of course, the same piece of chicken for himself too. Remi sighed. She knew what would follow. She would be expected to fry chips to go along with the ’treats’ so that she would spend less time on the family dinner.

In 2014, Nigeria’s Senate did the unthinkable. The Senator Sani Yerima-propelled shooting down of an amendment to parts of Section 29 of the 1999 Constitution, regarding renunciation of citizenship, sent a dangerous signal which suggested that some members of the Senate want to further endanger the girl-child in an environment that had been made unsafe by socio-economic and security challenges.

The details are still frankly, quite murky. But the general outline is this: round about August 2015, a young underage girl, Ese Rita Oruru, was abducted by Yinusa Yellow a 25-year Muslim resident of Yenegoa, and taken to Kano, where Yinusa was originally born, and from where he came to live in Bayelsa, where he made home, and a living hawking water.

THE Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, yesterday concluded activities marking the 74th birthday anniversary of the church’s General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye and the 30th anniversary of the Special Holy Ghost Service—a divine vision given to the former Mathematics lecturer at the University of Lagos to mark his 44th birthday-30 years ago.

IRKED by the spate of kidnappings in his domain, the Ovie of Oghara Kingdom, Orefe III, has threatened to deal with anyone found culpable in any form of criminality under any guise in the community.