There was a mild drama in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital yesterday, when lawmakers of state House of Assembly hold a plenary session right in the middle of highway, in protest against the freezing of the account of Governor Ayodele Fayose at the Zenith by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).

ABUJA—The Minister of Transport, Mr Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, yesterday disclosed that General Electric, GE, would invest $2 billion in the country’s rail projects.

SUPER Eagles target, Paul Le Guen would be paid a massive monthly salary of N16.2m, the equivalent of €44,000 by the Nigeria Football Federation.

THE Arewa Lawyers Forum, ALF, has explained the circumstances in which Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, presidential candidate Chief Joe-Kyari Gadzama, SAN, was adopted. In a letter to NBA president, Mr Augustine Alegeh, SAN, which was copied the regional fora, ALF denied a letter purportedly written by its Secretary, Sani Garun-Gabas, dissociating the forum from adopting Gadzama. The forum, in the June 27 letter copied the Coordinator, Southwest Bar Forum, the Eastern Bar Forum, said that the letter purportedly written by Garun-Gabas on June 14 was on a letter headed paper that did not have the names of ALF’s exco members.

Nigerian sports minister has raised concerns over the country’s football squad for the Rio Olympics after more than half of the team who qualified the team to the games were left out by coach Samson Siasia.