Scores of protesters, Monday morning, grounded commercial activities at the market branch of ECOBANK, Ughelli, Delta State, over payment of compensation on their shops which were engulfed by fire from the generating set of the bank on March 3.

Barcelona secured their place in the Champions League final on Tuesday, beating Bayern Munich 5-3 on aggregate in their semi-final despite losing 3-2 on the night to the Germans at the Allianz Arena.

Mamman, son of former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ahmadu Ali, and two others were re-arraigned before a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, for alleged complicity in N4.5 billion fuel subsidy fraud, yesterday.

NTUFAM John Okon, Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River State, yesterday, berated the Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, alleging that he is a bad loser, who has refused to take his loss of the senatorial primaries of the party in good faith.

WARRI—IJALA community in Delta State has appealed to the state government to pay damages to villagers, whose homes were among the 82 buildings demolished at the Warri Royal Cemetery ground by government in June 2014, to give them a new lease of life.

BENIN—THE Resident Electoral Commissioner in Edo State, Mr Mike Igini, yesterday, described as shocking and untrue, claims by some protesting ad hoc staff of the commission in the just concluded 2015 general elections, that they were short changed in the payment of their allowances.

Rivers PDP in a statement by its Chairman, said “We consider our position vindicated with the latest seizure of a Toyota Camry Car with Registration Number: KRK 340 AA, which was used in escorting a Mercedes Benz truck with Registration Number: LA 086 MA, carrying several items from the Rivers State Government House, Port Harcourt, on May 10, 2015.”

Chairman of Bi-Courtney Ltd, Dr. Wale Babalakin SAN, has sued the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, accusing them of making desperate efforts to prosecute him maliciously.

In a bid to clamp down on racketeers of driving license, the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Aba unit command, has set up surveillance teams around its office in Aba South Local Government Area of Abia State.

Taiwo Awoniyi scored a second half hat-trick as the Flying Eagles thrashed Hoffenheim’s U23s 5-2 in their first friendly game in preparation for the Under-20 World Youth Championship.