BREAKING: Supreme Court Sacks Bayelsa Governor-Elect, Lyon

Former Presidential aide and author, Reno Omokri has disagreed with the belief that children need to be beaten to be properly disciplined. In a post shared on his IG page, Reno opined that beating a child has never led to discipline, rather it instils fear in the child. He added that if beatings truly worked…

The Police Command in Osun says the autopsy on the slain postgraduate student of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke, is delayed because his family’s insisted on being part of the process. The Police Public Relation Officer in the state, SP Yemisi Opalola, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on…

Rauf Aregbesola, Minister of the Interior, has urged the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to address the challenges Nigerians encounter in obtaining passports. President Muhammadu Buhari is concerned about the difficulties Nigerians in diaspora face in obtaining Nigerian passports, according to Aregbesola, who made the appeal while conferring the rank of Comptroller General on the acting…

On Tuesday, the naira appreciated against the dollar, exchanging at N757.51 at the Investors and Exporters window.   The naira gained by 2.23 per cent when compared with N774.78, which it exchanged for the dollar on Monday. The open indicative rate closed at N782.59 to the dollar on Tuesday. A spot exchange rate of N799.90…

On Saturday, the Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other Matters suspended its sitting indefinitely. The Chairperson of the panel, Justice Doris Okuwobi (retd), announced the suspension, saying that the break is needed to “evaluate, collate and make findings” on the Lekki shootings. The panel was set up…