The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, yesterday, described as untrue, the insinuation that it was not pragmatic enough in responding to issues that concern Christians in the country.

Following the growing incidence of renewed attacks by the displaced Boko Haram terrorists, a former Director in the Department of State Services, DSS, Mr. Mike Ejiofor, has charged Nigerians to brace up for more of such attacks.

As part of the efforts to reduce the high rate of unemployment in the country, the National Assembly has begun plans that would encourage technology transfer from China to Nigeria.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has denied allegations of irregularities in the foreign exchange, forex, transactions among Deposit Money Banks, DMBs and insisted that process remains transparent.

MY people say: “whenever a person wakes up is his morning”. Let me say “Happy New Year” to you on the first outing of this column in 2017. May it be well with all of us throughout this year and beyond. Whether we are friends or foes, we are all Nigerians. Even those agitating for Biafra are still Nigerians until their dream or aspiration comes true.

LAGOS—Medview Airline, yesterday, said it will be “Listed by Introduction” on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, tomorrow.

As Nigeria joined the rest of the World to mark 2017 World Leprosy Day, the World Health Organisation’s Global Health Observatory Data repository has ranked Nigeria as one of the countries in Africa with the highest burden of leprosy even as it recorded 2,892 new cases in 2015.

AN expert has said that employing scientific models in investigating occurrences is key and useful in making safety recommendations intended to prevent accident, thereby securing investment and resources.

NEVER have I come across an institution that has fought so hard to be born, like the Nigerian Maritime University, NMU, Okerenkoko. It was conceived by the Jonathan administration along with eight other universities. But while others like the Federal Universities in Oye Ekiti, Dutse, Otuoke, Lokoja, Wukari, Dutsin-Ma, Kasere and Ndufu-Alike were born, learnt how to crawl, stand and run, the NMU’s delivery has been delayed.

BEFORE Governor Henry Seriake Dickson was born some 51 years ago, Sarki, a Kano-born itinerant Trado- Medicine Practitioner had foretold the greatness of this emerging statesman and consummate master strategist. But Sarki didn’t imagine that the boy who was eventually named after him would be Governor. But by dint of hard work, support of Bayelsans and God’s grace, he would later surmount the challenges of life to be overwhelmingly elected Governor of Bayelsa State for two consecutive terms.