“ My father used to refer to these ideals as the three “Rs.” The base of self-respect is mutual respect. Also, I reasonably believe that self-respect precludes an individual from engaging in disrespectful comments or jokes about others, especially our elders. “With a sense of modesty, I daresay that my background brought about my intervention to stop the Chairman’s from belittling the honourable minister in public glare.

’To me, President Buhari’s administration has not done well at all. People are hungry for goodness sake,” said Timmy this Monday morning in the Apapa-bound bus.

Coach Samson Siasia has attributed his team’s defeat in the opening game of the 4 –Nation Suwon Invitational Tournament in South Korea to fatigue. Siasia said so at the post match press conference following his team’s 0-1 defeat by the host nation at the Suwon World Cup Stadium.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) yesterday called for countries with tight currency exchange rate controls including Venezuela and Nigeria to release $5 billion worth of local ticket sales revenues owed to foreign airlines, or risk losing their services. Two airlines, Lufthansa and LATAM Airlines, said this week they were halting flights to Venezuela, with the German carrier saying the South American country owed it more than $100 million in local ticket sales.

THE absence of Justice Aliya Nganjiwa of a Federal Court in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, yesterday, stalled the trial of Yunusa Dahiru, who is standing trial on a five-count charge of abduction, sexual exploitation and having unlawful carnal knowledge of a minor, Miss Ese Oruru.