IN partnership with the Lagos State AIDS Control Agency, LSACA, UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) and Friends Africa, Stanbic IBTC Bank has launched a mobile HIV counseling and testing campaign across Ikeja, Ikorodu, Ajeromi Ifelodun and Ibeju Lekki Local Government Areas of the state.

MANAGING Director of Environ-Green, Mr. Olusanmi Abejide has disclosed that his firm has introduced a Totally Degradable Plastic Additives, TDPA, to solve the problem of plastic waste in Nigeria.

Anambra State branch of All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, has sacked the state chairman, Chief Patrick Orjiakor, and named Mr. Bogzy Uzochi to act in his place.

Worried by the spate of buildings collapse which many have attributed to poor planning, the Lagos State Government has announced its intention to commence the implementation of the Urban and Regional Planning and Development Law of 2010 next year.

The Lagos State Government has said that the Alausa Power Project will be completed next year, according to the State Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Mr. Taofiq Ajibade Tijani.

Benin City-based non-governmental organisation, NGO, Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has called on President Gooddluck Jonathan, to release the audit report on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC without any further delay.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has said the state will partner its Ogun counterpart and other states to embark on cross- border polio eradication campaign initiative.

Transporters in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and its environs continue to face a hard time as many filling stations in the city refuse to open for business.

The Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, last week in Benin expressed unflinching support for the proposed privatisation of power assets in the country.

A week after an explosion killed seven people leaving six injured in Kaduna, the city witnessed another bomb explosion yesterday triggering a pandemonium that sent hundreds of residents scampering to the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Barracks about two kilometres away.

President Goodluck Jonathan said, yesterday, at the Presidential Villa that the Federal Government was taking action to ensure that the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs and the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, were better focused on their assignments.

The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure, NASENI, has gotten the Federal Government’s approval to commence the deployment of locally produced solar panels in the Niger Delta.

TOYOTA Nigeria Limited, last Thursday proved its supremacy in Nigeria when it dominated the Nigerian Auto Journalist Awards (NAJA) held at the Sheraton Hotels Lagos. Toyota picked three awards at the event, the highest by any company at the annual award by Nigerian Auto Journalists.

MINISTER of Finance and coordinating minister for economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday, said Nigeria was not going to implement any programme initiated by the International Monetary Fund, IMF, even as the Senate President David Mark urged the Fund to make its economic and financial policies friendly to Africa if the desired results must be achieved.

Renowned environmentalist, Dr. Woyinkuro Adaga has warned that with the constant rise in the global sea level, Bayelsa State with the longest coastline among the littoral states in Nigeria stand the risk of being lost to the surging sea