Lafarge Africa Plc, leading building solutions provider in Nigeria, recently launched the Cement Professionals Training Programme CPTP, for youths from the areas where its cement manufacturing plants are located as beneficiaries.

THE Medical Rehabilitation Therapists Board of Nigeria, MRTB, has called for the establishment of a one – stop National Medical Rehabilitation Centre in the six- geopolitical zones of the country that would bring all professionals involved in rehabilitation of disabilities together to ensure prompt access to health and guarantee better outcomes for persons with disability.

To facilitate safe and confidential reporting of sexual violence incidents and provide access to available comprehensive support service and relevant information, experts in the area of sexual violence prevention have launched a web-based platform known as ‘Salvus’.

A 57-year-old man, Sunday Adetolaju, who allegedly was  parading himself as Obaru Adimula of Irorin Quarters in Ilawe, was yesterday arraigned before an  Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrate’s Court by the Police for illegally installing himself a monarch.

The naira, yesterday, depreciated against the dollar in the parallel market as well as in the Investors and Exporters (I&E) window, even as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) injected $250 million into the interbank foreign exchange market.

Ifeanyi Dike, the suspected ritualist that escaped from Police custody and was re-arrested in Plateau State, yesterday, narrated how power outage aided his escape.

THE Oyo State Police Command has arrested a 32-year-old man, Olalekan, allegedly caught with a human head.

A sales representative with an Information Technology Company, Blue Print Tech-nology, Ronke Adeyemi, 33, was yesterday docked before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing a nail solution Varisi, from Prince Ebano Supermarket, valued at N10,000.

Despite the call for the development of alternative energy resources, oil and gas that Nigeria depends on for foreign exchange generation would continue to dominate the world’s energy mix by 2035.

THE Federal Government, yesterday, told states and local governments that the days of coming to Abuja to share money were over, following dwindling allocations from the federation account.

The Federal government has been tasked to prioritise the Nigerian pharmaceutical sector  because the  straddles both healthcare and manufacturing industry.

The need for best practices in corporate governance in health sector institutions, particularly among the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) has been stressed.

GOVERNOR Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has challenged Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, to sensitise youths on the dangers of pipeline vandalism, drug abuse, cultism and other related vices.

IGARRA—IT was like a carnival recently as thousands of indigenes of Igarra Kingdom in Akoko Edo Local Government Area of Edo State, both at home and in the Diaspora, converged on their ancestral land to celebrate the stanzas of the 228-year-old Aba drum, one of the unique events that mark the Irepo festival.

IKOT UDO ABIA- FOLLOWING the shocking killings of over 30 persons, including traditional leaders and prominent politicians in several villages in Ukanafun Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, in the last one year, Police authorities in the state have deployed a new security outfit, “Operation Purge” to raid notorious flash points in Ukanafun and Etim Ekpo council areas and fish out the gangsters behind the assassinations.