THE Federal Government, Asset Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON and Crusader Nigeria Plc, will redeem bonds valued at N3.142 trillion to investors this year.

LAGOS — FORMER Nigeria’s high Commissioner to Ghana, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, Monday, described as cheap and miscalculated, some fake campaign posters that flooded certain parts of Lagos State, weekend, purportedly presenting him as running for the governorship of the state in 2015.

SUPPOSED soccer minnows, Ethiopia stunned the world Monday when they held defending African champions, Zambia to a thrilling 1-1 draw in a Group C match at the Mbombela Stadium.

THREE members of a notorious robbery gang who allegedly took part in the killing of five policemen and two civilians in separate robbery operations in Ajah and Oyingbo areas of the Lagos State earlier in the month have been shot dead.

I WAS in Asaba sometime in August last year to get an impression of the city and the state.

LAGOS —No fewer than three persons were, Monday, feared dead, while others were injured, following a violent clash between social miscreants and Policemen at Ikotun area of Lagos.

ACTIVITES at Lagos Island Local Government and the Governor’s office, Alausa, Ikeja, were paralysed, yesterday, as hundreds of Lagos Island Fashion Dealers Association members, protested over the continued closure of Breadfruit Street by Governor Babatunde Fashola.

No fewer than three persons were, Monday, feared dead, while others were injured, following a violent clash between social miscreants and Policemen at Ikotun area of Lagos.

But a Police source told Vanguard that only one person died.

UYO—THE Ikot Akpan Udo community, Monday, urged the Akwa Ibom State Government to delineate boundary between Ikot Abasi and Eastern Obolo Local Government areas using the Akpan Udo River which rises at Ikot Ekpang in Mkpatenin Local Government Area and empties into the Atlantic Ocean, to avoid future bloodbaths in the area.

Bauchi—A 25-year-old man whose name was given as James Ishaku, has reportedly committed suicide in Bauchi.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, said that Saturday’s attack on the convoy of the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, had exposed the lie in the claim by the Federal Government that its security agencies had been able to curtail activities of violent extremists.

FORMER presidential candidate of African Democratic Party, Professor Pat Utomi and Senator Solomon Ewuga representing Nasarawa North, yesterday, maintained that if opposition parties in Nigeria closed ranks and presented a viable alternative they could defeat the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) come 2015.

AHEAD of 2015 Presidential election and the planned merger of opposition political parties to wrestle power from the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, the Presidency has set in motion ways of wooing two former governors of Zamfara and Borno states, Senators Ahmad Sani Yerima and Modu Sheriff respectively into the PDP.

The performance of Ethiopia against defending champions, Zambia, was talk of the day even after the Nigeria-Burkina Faso match Monday.

CHAIRMAN, Governors Forum, NGF and Rivers State Governor, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, yesterday, said the Minister of Niger Delta, Elder Godsday Orubebe, had failed the region and should honourably resign.