LAGOS—Rampaging commercial bus drivers and motor park touts, yesterday, attacked officials of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Task Force, who stormed Oshodi market to impound buses obstructing other motorists plying the route.

THE residence of the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar was weekend allegedly turned into a boxing ring as two top chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, engaged in fisticuffs.

LAGOS — THE Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, yesterday, in Abuja disclosed that the Federal Government had a balance of N2.2 trillion in the Single Treasury Account on a daily basis.

Two trains collided in southern Germany on Tuesday, killing “several” people and injuring around 100, police said.

THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has set aside over N1 trillion to promote lending to the real sector of the economy with a view to stimulating economic activities in the country. The Governor of the CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this at the 21st Seminar for Finance Correspondents and Business Editors in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, yesterday.

A High Altitude Athletics Training Center is to be established in Jos Plateau State.

This is contained in an agreement signed in Lagos at the weekend by the Federal government of Nigeria represented by the Minister for Youth and Sports Barrister Solomon Dalung and the President of the Confederation of African Athletics Hamad Kalkaba Malboum as well as the Athletics Federation of Nigeria’s President, Dr Solomon Ogba.

Slum2School organised a health and education drive for the community on 15 August, and received support from GE colleagues including Dozie.

Slum2School organised a health and education drive for the community on 15 August, and received support from GE colleagues including Dozie.

The Palace of the Oba of Benin has stoked controversy over the supremacy of Obas in the South West, saying it was not true that the Benin monarch was the third in the ranking of kings in the region as declared by the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo.

THE nationwide protest by organised labour and its civil society allies yesterday, against the hike in electricity tariff, got the backing of the SenatePresident, Bukola Saraki, and other members, saying the 8th National Assembly would not support any anti-people policy.

WARRI—THE Ajuwaoyiboyami of Warri Kingdom, Delta State and business tycoon, Chief Ayiri Emami, aka Akulagba, has opened up on the reason for his disagreement with ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and former General Officer Commanding, GOC, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo.

Former governor of Rivers State and Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has described the statement credited to Governor Nyesom Wike that he spent $150 million during the general election as an imaginary tale, a bogus and fallacious concoction.

STAKEHOLDERS in the forest sector, have urged governments at all levels to invest heavily in the sector because of its huge potential in addressing the nation’s emerging environmental, social and economic challenges.

IN fulfilment of its promise to de-liver 10,000 units of affordable and quality homes for middle-income Nigerians by 2020, Alpha Mead Development Company (AMDC), last week, unveiled the completed Show House at its 112-unit Lekki Pearl Estate.

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State, yesterday dismissed media report credited to Senator Kaka Bashir Garbai that three local government areas of Abadam, Mobbar and Kala Balge, were fully under the control of Boko Haram insurgents, insisting that none of the councils in the state was being occupied by the insurgents.