THE Odion/Alders town community in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, has declared Westminister Dredging and Marine Company operating on their land a persona non grata, over alleged environment hazards and deliberate neglect spanning over 10 years.

ACCESS to requisite information by medical health practitioners has been identified as a vital ingredient towards advancement of the Nigerian health sector.

IN the spirit of demystifying the spectre of the HIV & AIDS epidemic, the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, UDUTH and the Institute of Human Virology of Nigeria, IHVN have enrolled up to 519 people and tested a total of 2, 977 people.

Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) in Lagos have been advised to adhere strictly by rules and regulations guiding their practice if they are to make any meaningful impact on infant and maternal mortality in the State.

AFTER several years of residing in the United States of America, Dr. Isioma Okobah, medical practitioner, philanthropist, and humanist, a woman of many parts.returned to her homeland, to attend to pressing pre-occupations bordering on the health of the people.

Polio, a highly infectious viral disease mainly affects young children under the age five. Transmitted through contaminated food and water, it multiples in the intestine then invade the nervous system. Many infected people have no symptoms but excrete the virus in faeces hence transmitting infection to others.

To avoid imminent total collapse of Federal highways in the country, the House of Representatives Sub-Committee on Federal Road Maintenance Agency, FERMA, has asked the Federal Government to inject over N500billion as an intervention fund to rescue the sector from the current deteriorating status.

MOTORISTS who have gone through hell plying the Ikotun-Idimu road may soon heave a sigh of relief. This is because Messrs Plycon Nigeria Limited, the construction handling the project has pledged to complete work on the road in February 2011. Speaking at a town hall meeting in Idimu, the company said the project is progressing satisfactorily.

THE Infrastructure Concession Regulation Commission (ICRC), has blamed the Ministry of Works for not doing a thorough job before signing the concession agreement for the N89 billion reconstruction work on the Lagos_Ibadan expressway. The road project was concessioned to Messrs. Bi_Courtney Highway Services.

The Federal Ministry of Works has embarked on the installation of weigh bridges on highways across the country. Minister of Works, Senator Sanusi Daggash who disclosed this in his seasonal message to Nigerians, re-iterated the “need for all haulage operators to exercise restraint from over-loading their trucks and trailers as these inimical actions remain the major cause of rapid road failure”.

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has vowed to head to the tribunal to challenge the victory won by the PDP in last week’s by-election in the Ikorodu II Constituency in Lagos, after accusing the PDP of rigging the election with the apparent backing of President Goodluck Jonathan.

After 20 years of being managed by HFP Engineering, the Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (NIS) last week formally took over the seven-storey NIS Building beside Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) Building on Engineering Close, Victoria Island, Lagos. Messrs HFP Engineering Nigeria Limited are the developers of the building and had an agreement with the surveyors to manage it for that period to recoup the money spent on its construction.

As a result of the botched meeting last week, the National Working Committee to broker peace in the lingering crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Oyo State has again summoned another meeting today where a decisive action on the crisis will be taken

FOR Tim Akano, Vice Chairman of Greenworldwater Africa, an indigenous firm with international affiliations concerned with investments in the power sector, the power situation in the country is a national embarrassment that Government alone can not resolve. This is borne out of his believe that investors and businessmen in the country should divest to the moribund sector in order to bring about the much needed change.

WORKERS of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) have implored the management to expedite action on the implementation of the outstanding 137 percent increase in the salary and other negotiated agreements to avoid industrial unrest.