Nigeria loses about N10.5 billion annually to environmental challenges such as deforestation, drought and desertification, the Director General, National Agency for the Great Green Wall Program, Goni Ahmed has said.

ABUJA — An international governance watchdog, the Natural Resource Governance Institute, NRGI, yesterday, accused the NNPC of failing to remit $12.3 billion (about N2.46 trillion) into the Federation Account, being proceeds of sales of one of Nigeria’s crude oil grade over the last 10 years.

THE victim of a July 13 bullion van accident, Mrs. Onome Akporode, is demanding N500 million from the management of a bank (name withheld) for its culpability in the crash.

Lagos—Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State yesterday retired 15 Permanent Secretaries in the state civil service. Nineteen others were also appointed.

Among Yoruba people of South West Nigeria, even those in diaspora, kings don’t die, they join their ancestors.

Kenneth Imasuagbon who hails from Ewohimi, Edo Central, is a lawyer, educationist, administrator and politician. In this interview, Imasuagbon who recently dumped the the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the All Progressives Congress, APC, bares his mind on a lot of issues ranging from how he stepped down for Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Edo politics and the 2016 governorship elections in the state among others.

BENIN CITY— FORMER Vice chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, Mr Paschal Ugbome, has said that majority of members of the party have resolved to return Chief Dan Orbih as chairman of the party in the forthcoming congresses of the state due to the confidence they have in him to return the party back to the Government House come 2016.

Irate villagers at Issele-Uku in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State almost lynched a 26-year-old man from Atuma, Onuwa, who stole two children, aged four and three years, respectively, at the weekend.

The National Mobile Health Insurance Programme, NMHIP, launched last year under the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, is being undermined by series of bureaucratic bottlenecks and disagreements between identity managers over exorbitant administrative charges demanded and Mobile Network Operators.

The Akwa Ibom state chapter of the All Progressives Congress APC is locked in another leadership crisis following the recent suspension of 41 officers and party elders.

The Abia State House of Assembly may be heading for a major crisis as some lawmakers elected on the platform of the opposition All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, have accused the Speaker, Martin Azubuike, of deceiving them over the N30bn loan recently approved for the state government.

BENIN—An operator of a filling station located on Ring Road, Benin, Edo State, Mr. Pius Okan has accused the governor of the state of personally carrying out illegal demolition of his filling station.

DEAR YINKA,I will institute the concluding part of this discourse by differing to agree on some of your earlier positions. If we agreed all the time, it will indeed be a boring exchange and it is not be in my DNA to let a good opportunity go to waste.

A former coach of the Super Falcons, James Peters has blamed the Nigeria Football Federation for the failure of the team to qualify for the next round of the 2016 Olympic qualifying series.

ABEOKUTA—The campaign Organisation of Ogun State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Prince Gboyega Isiaka has raised the alarm that some people believed to be members of All Progressives Congress, APC, have allegedly begun thumb printing of ballot papers in the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Abeokuta.