The naira, yesterday, depreciated again at the official and interbank foreign exchange markets as the Central Bank of Nigeria,CBN, failed to meet demand

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan in an Eid-el-Fitri message, yesterday reassured all citizens and foreigners resident in the country that his administration is taking every necessary action to enhance national security.

The Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, has deployed 285 personnel on a 24-hour special patrol to ensure accident-free Eid-el-Fitri celebration in Abuja, Mr. Funmbi Olawoyin, the FCT Sector Commander, said.

NATIONAL Union of Electricity Employees, yesterday petitioned the Presidency accusing the Minister of Power of secretly compiling names of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, workers to be sacked and threatened to shut down the sector should the minister fail to jettison the plan.

THE European Union, EU, and the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, are to partner Anambra State for the provision of one hundred percent access to sanitation, hygiene and improved water supply to selected communities in Ogbaru local government area of the state. Ogbaru is one of the six local governments in the state designated for fighting abject poverty and improving infrastructure.

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has condemned the suicide bomb attack on the UN building in Abuja.

Reacting to the latest bomb incident in the nation’s capital in a statement, the former Vice-President noted that indiscriminate violence against the innocent could not solve any problem in any society.

GOVERNOR Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State and his predecessor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, have enjoined Muslim faithful in the country to imbibe the lessons of Ramadan and not to return to the ways of life they avoided during the fasting period.

Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has said that the collapse of flourishing industries in the South Eastern part of the country over the years was largely attributable to the lack of access to funds, mismanagement and other ancillary support necessary for their growth and stability.