The Management Board and Board of Trustees of the Network of People of Living with HIV & AIDS in Nigeria (NEPWHAN) has passed a vote of no confidence on the FCT Coordinator of the Network, Mr Peter Ikiti, as a result of his actions said to be capable of causing disunity and disharmony between the Network and its stakeholders.

Worried about the state of data collection on health in the country, Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu has challenged development partners about the need to collaborate with the Federal government on production of accurate and acceptable data that will clearly spell out the progress in the health sector.

COMMISSIONER of Police in Lagos state, Mr. Yakub Alkali on Wednesday disclosed that the state police command has impounded 607 motorcycles and arrested 447 deviant riders who violated the state traffic rules and regulations in the last one week.

The Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, has denied selling the Federal Government’s five per cent shares in Eleme Petrochemical Company Limited, EPCL, Port Harcourt, Rivers State to the Indorama Group for N4.375 billion illegally.

Nigeria, according to report by the Water and Sanitation Program, WSP, loses an estimated N455b ($3b) annually to poor sanitation. WSP is a multi donor partnership administered by the World Bank.

THe electoral successes of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Sokoto state has further been strengthened by the party’s sweeping victory at the Saturday, July 23 2011 local government council elections, which took place in the 23 local government areas of the state.

The Nigerian Air Force headquar-ters, yesterday, denied the involvement of its men in the killing of a baker in the Swali suburb of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, while responding to a distress call over armed robbery attack.

A decline was recorded in trading in the Over-the-Counter, OTC, market for Federal Government of Nigeria, FGN Bonds, as turnover dipped by 35.48 per cent.

A judge of the National Industrial Court, NIC, Justice Benedict Kanyip, yesterday, decried the unethical labour practices in which young ladies are engaged by banks to source for money and laid off if they could not meet the bank’s target.

Disturbed by the rising incidents of collapsed buildings in the country, the National Publicity Secretary of the Nigerian Institute of Building, NIOB, Mr. Kunle Awobodu has called on the Federal Government to establish an agency with specific responsibility to monitor building materials used in building constructions.

The Mayor of Green-wich and the Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom are among 500 persons taking part in the 8-kilometre charity walk tagged “Walk4Wish” billed to hold Saturday August 20, 2011, in the South East area of London in the United Kingdom.

The Association of Radiographers of Nigeria, (ARN) Lagos State Branch, has picked holes in the constitution of the National Health Bill and appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan not to append his signature on it until all the grey areas are amicably resolved and corrected with the input of interest groups.

Managing Director, EasyFuel Limited, Mr. Tayo Olajide, as re-assured Nigerians that the proposed cash withdrawal limit recently announced by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will be successful.

Exporters of all regulated products in the country have been directed by the the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control(NAFDAC) to get the Agengy’s certification for all export products.

Kia Motor Corporation posted a 15 per cent global sales growth last month with total sale of 208,704 vehicles.

During the period Kia posted year-on-year sales increases in all of its overseas regions – 45.2% in China (34,419 units sold), 26.6% in Europe* (40,840 units sold), 26.3% in North America (51,887 units sold), and 3.7% in general markets* (40,222 units sold), while sales in the home market of Korea declined by 9.7% (40,706 units sold).