CBN announces Devaluation of Naira, introduces New ‘Flexible’ Forex Regime

The value of the Nigerian currency was today devalued to the dollar as the Central Bank of Nigeria announced a flexible foreign exchange regime that would see the country abolishing the dual exchange rate regime.

Under the new plan, the official exchange rate of the naira will exist in a "single flexible window," which will likely be determined by market forces.

President Muhammadu Buhari, who is currently on medical vacation in the United Kingdom, had

Obama slams Trump’s ‘loose talk and sloppiness’ over Muslims

President Barack Obama on Tuesday charged that “loose talk” about Muslims by presidential hopeful Donald Trump and other Republicans was betraying American values and harming the fight against extremism.

“We’re starting to see where this kind of rhetoric and loose talk and sloppiness about who exactly we’re fighting, where this can lead us,” Obama told a news conference, two days after the Orlando

List of Compulsory Retired Nigeria Army Officers inaccurate – Army

According to the Nigerian Army-; "The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to speculations and rumours regarding the number and names of the senior Army officers affected in the recent retirement exercise. This is worrisome as some individuals and media houses went to the ridiculous extent of publishing outrageous figures and names of serving officers as being retired. This is unethical and unfair.

It is therefore necessary to inform the public to please disregard such inaccurate lists.

Orlando Gay Club shooter, Omar Mateen worked for Global Security Firm

The (gentle and harmless looking) man behind the worst mass shooting in U.S. history worked since 2007 as a security officer at one of the world's largest private security companies, which said Sunday it was "deeply shocked" by the news.

"We are cooperating fully with all law enforcement authorities, including the FBI, as they conduct

Photos of Orlando Gay Nightclub shooter’s apartment

These are photos of the apartment where the man ,Omar Mateen, responsible for the gay Orlando nightclub shootings had been living and plotting out his horrific attack.  He had been living in Apartment 107 at the Woodland Condominium in Fort Pierce since he was divorced from wife Sitora Yusufiy in 2011. He was living there with the woman believed to be his current wife and mother of their three-year-old son, Noor Zahi Salman. Daily Mail has obtained photographs inside the killer's apartment, where investigators did a sweep on Sunday. See more photos below....

Gay nightclub Shooter,in Picture with Wife & Son

Omar Mateen, the Orlando, Florida gay nightclub shooter, reportedly transformed from a friendly high school football player to a quiet father who carried out America's deadliest mass shooting, leaving old friends and family members in shock.

The photo of Mateen, wife, Noor Zahi Salman and son has made its way online.  The two lived at the same St Lucie County address in 2012, according to records seen by DailyMail.com.

Salman was listed as his wife on a September 2013 mortgage filed in the county, according to Buzzfeed, after Mateen divorced his first wife, Sitora Yusufiy, in 2011. But it is unclear whether

65 year old man says pressure from an 11 year old girl made him turn her into his sex slave in Ibadan (PHOTO)

65 year old, Akinlolu Ogunlade, pictured above, says the pressure from an 11 year old girl made him turn her into his sex slave for four days. According to Vanguard, Ogunlade whose wife is dead and has only one child, said this while being paraded at the Oyo state police command last Friday June 10 

“I am 65 yrs old and I work as a plumber. I was arrested at Akobo area. The little girl came over to me and started disturbing me to have sex with her and I told her that she was too small. I told her she could not do something of such but she replied by telling me that she could do it. I thereafter had sex with her two times and kept her in my custody just for four days.". 

CAN President Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor gives wife a surprise birthday celebration (PHOTOS)

Mama Helen Oritsejafor, wife of the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria CAN, Ayo Oritsejafor, turned a year older on Thursday June 9th. She got a surprise birthday celebration panned by her husband and members of their church today June 11th. See more pictures below....

Butcher’s Iron Hook pierces Boy’s eyes to his Brain (

An iron hook used by butchers has hooked the eyes of 12-year-old, Md Baba Qureshi, from Hyderabad, India.  The boy was miraculously saved by Doctors was playing at a butchery when the hook - used to hang up mutton in traditional Indian meat stores suddenly pierced his left eye and entered his brain.

The thick rod had entered his orbit cavity but his eyeball remained intact. It had also penetrated 15cm deep into his brain. He remained conscious throughout but his eye was bleeding profusely and he was crying in pain.

While his family quickly rushed him to Osmania General Hospital, in Hyderabad, there was a risk he

Names of officers sent on Compulsory Retirement

Here are the names of some of the officers compulsorily retired on Friday.

Remembering MKO and June 12 - By Reuben Abati

This day, June 12 will always be remembered by those who have defied the culture of silence and conspiracy against a significant moment in Nigerian history, to remind us of how today, 23 years ago, the battle against the exit of the military from power was fought at the ballot by a determined Nigerian people. It is indeed sad that apart from the Southwest states of Oyo, Ogun, Lagos and Osun, which have doggedly continued to celebrate the hero, and later martyr of that battle, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola, there has been studied indifference to the June 12 phenomenon by the Federal Government and remarkably, the rest of Nigeria.


This is sadder still because MKO Abiola was not an ethnic champion: he was a man of pan-Nigerian vision and ambition, who went into politics to give the people hope, to unite them and lead them out of poverty. His campaign manifesto was instructively titled “Hope 93 — Farewell to Poverty: How to

20 dead, 42 injured in Orlando bar attack

An estimated 20 people were killed at a gay nightclub after a heavily armed gunman seized hostages early Sunday, prompting a police SWAT team to storm the venue, officials said.

“Unfortunately there are people who died from gunshot wounds, maybe around 20, inside the night club,” FBI special agent Ron Harper told a media briefing.

Mourners visit Muhammad Ali’s graveside (PHOTOS)

Muhammad Ali’s burial place, the historic Cave Hill Cemetery on the outskirts of Louisville, Kentucky, was opened to the public on Saturday as visitors came from near and far to visit Ali's grave. Visitors were allowed to kneel, pray beside the grave and kiss it.  Ali joins other household names buried in the historic Cemetery, including KFC founder Colonel Harlan Sanders, and Patty Hill, the primary school teacher who co-wrote with her sister Mildred the tune to ‘Happy Birthday’. Continue to see more photos below....

Oshiomhole Mourns as Amodu is buried amid tears

Okpella community in Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State was thrown into mourning, yesterday evening, when the remains of the former Super Eagles and one of the most successful indigenous coaches, Amodu Shuaibu was laid to rest amid tears and wailing.

The body of late Amodu had earlier arrived Okpella from Stella Obasanjo Hospital in Benin, at about12: 30p.m. and was brought out of the inner chambers of his house for internment at about 5:07 pm.Family members and neighbours could not hold their emotions as they cried and wailed uncontrollably.

Amodu’s mother who had earlier been taken to the palace of Okuokpellagbe of Okpella, Alhaji AYE Dirisu was brought to Amodu’s compound, where she also lives after being briefed of her son’s