Flying Eagles assistant coach Nduka Ugbade has reacted angrily to the side’s disturbing 4-2 defeat to five-time champions Brazil.

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, said yesterday, said it had directed its members to commence 24 hours sale of petrol nationwide to help ease the current fuel scarcity.

Dubai property prices fell in April as a property index in the emirate turned negative for the first time in four years. The residential prices index started declining from the second quarter of last year – in line with the fall in oil and gold prices, according to Reidin, a property information company. The index dropped about 3 per cent in April from the same period last year, Reidin said.

Environment stakeholders have called on all industrial concerns, business prompters and governments across the world to embark on sustainable use of earth resources for the betterment of mankind. The call was made during a one-day programme organised by SMEFUNDS, Carbon Credit Network in partnership with the World Bank and United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP to commemorate this year’s Earth Day.

Immediate past Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Mrs Akon Eyakenyi took a critical look at her one-year stewardship and posited that she had laid an enduring foundation for her successors to build upon. Eyakenyi who was emotional when she received board members of the parastatals in the ministry who came to bid her farewell, noted that although she came from outside the built environment, she was embraced and supported by all.

The Lagos state government has built the first ever Material Recovering Facility, MRF in the country. The MRF is a project undertaken by West Africa Energy Group in collaboration with the Lagos State Government aimed at ensuring environmental sustainability in the state through waste recycling and creation of small scale entrepreneurial schemes in the catchment area.

Members-elect into the next Ekiti State House of Assembly have rebuffed insinuations of Governor Ayodele Fayose being a violent man even as they have pledged not to be his rubber stamp.

THE Lagos State House of Assembly has passed into law the road traffic regulations on taxi operations in the state.

The Governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abdul Aziz Yari has said that his government had paid N23 billion out of the N47 billion it inherited from the government of Mahmuda Shinkafi in 2011.

Barely 24 hours after last Sunday’s ill-fated fuel tanker fire that killed 69 persons inside the Asaba Motor Park at the popular Upper Iweka axis in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State, rescue operations yesterday continued in earnest at the accident scene, while a mammoth crowd thronged various major hospitals in the city to see if they could identify the victims.