President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has revealed that there are cliques in the Super Eagles, adding that the players were not friends and they lacked discipline.

PANDEMONIUM broke out yesterday in three local government areas of Ogun State as hoodlums suspected to be agents of the Ogun State government unleashed terror on some truck drivers while attempting to enforce the collection of “BOT charges” in the affected areas.

Last week, Tuesday June 16-Friday June 19, 2015, the Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) in the 36 states of the federation including Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), converged at the Le Meridien Hotel, Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State for a retreat to enable them to reflect on the March 28 Presidential/National Assembly Elections as well as the April 11, 2015 Governorship/House of Assembly Elections with a view to identifying areas of conflict and to ventilate on how to improve on those vexed areas in subsequent elections.

Barely two weeks after a mob set ablaze two armed robbers at New Tyres Market, Nkpor, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, for snatching huge sums of money from a trader, two other armed robbers were, yesterday, burnt to ashes along Limca Road in the same area.

Three suspected members of a notorious robbery gang terrorising residents of densely populated Ajegunle area and its environs in Lagos State are currently cooling their heels at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, following their arrest last weekend.

Human Rights Watch said it found out that the World Bank and IFC have failed to take adequate steps to help create a safe environment in which people can express concern or criticism about projects funded by the Bank Group without risk of reprisal,. “The World Bank has long said that public participation and accountability are key to the success of the development efforts it funds,” said Jessica Evans, senior international financial institutions advocate at Human Rights Watch.

Persons living with disabilities have called on the Federal Government on the provision of national disability legislation that would guarantee the rights of the estimated 22 million Nigerians with various disabilities.

Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, refused an application for stay of proceedings in the committal application by the Senator representing Ogun East, Ogun State in the Senate, Prince Buruji Kashamu, against the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF and the Chairman of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Ahmadu Giade.

“This has made us focus on three priority areas which are; minimise carbon footprint, carbon offsetting, conservation and preservation of wildlife and biodiversity,” he said. He explained that FirsBank’s partnership with the NCF is strategic because NCF’s leadership role in promoting environmental conservation and sustainable development in Nigeria which ties in with the bank’s desire to see the environment sustained because it is a socially responsible entity.

In a bid to encourage increased access to the National Housing Fund, NHF, the Managing Director of Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria FMBN, Alhaji Gimba Ya’u Kumo has unveiled an initiative to better lots of existing and prospective house owners. The initiative christened FMBN Home Renovation Loan, FHRL is part of deliberate measures put together by the bank not only to increase the housing stock, but also to assist individuals who need funds to renovate their homes.