Fight broke out, yesterday, between motor park touts, otherwise known as agbero, and Hausa commercial motorcyclists, in Ejigbo area of Lagos, leaving several persons severely injured

ABUJA- THE Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society, NMGS, has expressed readiness to be part of the effective development of the nation’s mineral resources as the incoming government takes over leadership of the country soon. This was made known by President, NMGS, Prof. Olugbenga Okunlola, at a press conference held in Abuja. Okunlola said with the society’s membership of over 6,000, this enormous human resource will add value in the harnessing of the abundant mineral resources in the oil and gas, solid minerals, metallurgical, geotechnical, water and environmental sectors of the economy.

SEVEN persons, including two women, were on Sunday confirmed dead as the commercial vehicle they were travelling in rammed into a faulty lorry parked along the East-West Road, killing seven of the nine passengers in the car.

Against the spirit of local content initiative, Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOs) have denied indigenous pre-paid meter manufacturers patronage. Managing Director of the Bank of Industry, Mr. Rasheed Olaoluwa at the workshop for Business Editors and Industry Correspondents in Lagos yesterday titled, ‘BoI impacting on the Nigerian Industrial Sector’, lamented on the quantum of denial by disco companies to patronize locally made prepaid meters, which he affirmed are of international standard.

The battle for the chairmanship of Enugu State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is already hotting up and throwing up interesting permutations, even though the outgoing executive committee is yet to be formally dissolved.