Foreign currency sale by Addax Petroleum and increased patronage of Federal Government of Nigeria bonds by foreign investors, yesterday, accounted for an improvement in the value of the naira in the interbank foreign exchange market.

FOR Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and reality of tomorrow. Many years ago, Dickson suffered from bad governance and lamented in particular, the underdevelopment of Bayelsans and the Ijaw nation as a whole.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday inaugurated a 150-bed China-Aided Federal Staff Hospital at Jabi, Abuja, with a pledge to provide world-class health facilities to Nigerians.

Some participants at the Canadian Education fair in Abuja on Monday advised parents to allow their children to mature before sending them to the university.

Determined to ensure early completion of ongoing housing projects in Lagos State, Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, last week undertook an inspection tour of some housing projects sited in different parts of the state.

EVERY time Obasanjo says something, he reminds me of the American comedy series “Kids Say the Darndest Things,” hosted by Bill Cosby. In the show, Bill Cosby asks the kids questions, hoping that they will give unexpected and bizarre answers. Just like any of these kids, Obasanjo’s utterances are sometimes downright bizarre and eccentric.

A welcomed innovation in the entertainment industry is here, as Nollywood movies will now be available on major cable television networks in the U.S. courtesy of Brandcast Media, Inc. Nollywood, the leader in the African movie industry, is currently the third-largest producer of feature films in the world, ranking only behind Hollywood in the United States and India’s Bollywood as number two.

THE fragile peace in Uzere community, Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, was, Sunday, shattered, following the kidnap of the Chairman, Governing Council, of the state Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, Professor Abednego Ekoko, by gunmen.

THE Jama’atul Ahalis Sunna Lida’awati Wal Jihad, a.k.a Boko Haram Islamic sect which has been terrorizing some states in the North, particularly Borno, Monday agreed to cease fire/lay down their arms for peace to prevail.

Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, spilled in excess of 26,411 barrels of oil in 13 month period, January 2012 to January 2013.

The Nigerian Broadcast Commission, NBC, and National Films and Video Censors Board, NFVCB, on Monday denied banning the broadcast of some musical videos by Nigerian artistes.

An Abuja court Monday afternoon, sentenced former police pension boss, Yakubu Yusuf to Two years in prison for embezzling N23bn.

Fisheries Society of Nigeria in collaboration with Winrock International, facilitators of the Farmer to Farmer (FtF) program, has concluded plans for developing Nigeria’s shrimp production potentials.

There was pandemonium this morning at Mando Afaka area of Kaduna State when the body of a middle-aged man was found dangling on a mango tree.

Grand Cereal Nig. Ltd, a Jos-based producer of poultry feeds, has promised to mop up excess eggs in Plateau between February and March.