Serena Williams is enthusiastic about her high-profile mixed doubles partnership with Andy Murray but she is not so sure about their name.

The U.S. has introduced preliminary anti-subsidy duties on fabricated structural steel from China and Mexico.

A 14-year-old boy was arrested on Monday in connection with the rape of a young woman in Germany.

Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra State on Monday urged the Federal Government to investigate the alleged murder of Mrs Obianuju Ndubuisi-Chukwu’s in Johannesburg.

THE entry into force of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA, Agreement on the May 30, 2019, is indeed a historic event in the long march for economic integration in Africa. The AfCFTA seeks to create a single unified market, thereby boosting Intra-African trade from 17 per cent to 52 per cent by 2022, and increasing the gross domestic product of the African continent from USD2.5trillion to USD25trillion by 2050.

PORT HARCOURT— TWO councillors of Akuru-Tolu Local Government Area, Rivers State, Nelson Whoknows and Victor Sam, aka Flenjo, have accused an indigenous oil company of sponsoring militants from neighbouring states to attack assets of rival oil firms at Oil Mining Lease, OML, 25.

ENUGU—ONE hundred and twenty-three officers of the Nigeria Prisons Service, Enugu State Command, who went through the 2018 promotion exercise, were yesterday decorated with different ranks.

ABUJA—No fewer than 20 governorship aspirants of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kogi State, yesterday, rejected the decision of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party to use indirect method for its governorship primary election ahead of the November gubernatorial polls.

Osogbo—A member of the National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, in Osogbo Local Government Area of Osun State, simply identified as Ayomikun, died Sunday afternoon after applying sniper on her hair to kill lice.

The governorship candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Zamfara State,  Alhaji  Sani Shinkafi, has threatened court action to obtain an order of mandamus to compel the acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, and the commission to commence an investigation into alleged wanton looting by the former administration of the state to tune of over N251 billion.

CALABAR—MOTORISTS in Calabar, Cross River State, have expressed concern over the worsening condition of Calabar-Odukpani Road occasioned by the rainy season.

IN his famous work titled“The Politics”, Aristotle, one of the often cited and quoted Philosophers, emphasized the place and import of the concept of Separation of powers as one of the strong pillars of democracy with emphasis on the independence of the Judiciary. And that was some 300 years before Christ.As it were, the independence of the Judiciary as enshrined in the principle of separation of powers implies that the Judiciary should be independent of the two other Arms of Government i.e. the Executive and the Legislature.

Majority Leader of Abia State House of Assembly, Chief Solomon Akpulonu, has said the committees set up by the House to investigate some government parastatals, agencies and abandoned housing estate projects in the state are not meant to witch-hunt anyone.

BENIN—THREE policemen in Edo State Command, Sergeant Uzor Emmanuel, Corporal Michael Akharamen and Constable Jimoh Aliu, are currently in detention over missing two service AK-47 rifles.

LAGOS—death toll from the Ijegun pipeline explosion in Alimosho Local Government, Lagos State has increased to 12 persons, while 12 others admitted in three hospitals are in critical conditions.