THESE have not been the best of times for Senator Elisha Cliff Abbo (Adamawa South), an otherwise sedate but highly fecund personality, who has been in the eye of the storm since a video in which he was seen slapping a woman attendant in a shop in Abuja went viral, sparking countrywide contempt. The incident, which purportedly happened many months before the inauguration of the ninth Senate of which he is a first-time member, has become a cause of action in a Magistrate Court, Zuba, where he was charged with assault by the Police but granted N5 million bail and two sureties in like sum, consequent upon his not-guilty plea.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, solicited the support of the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, as it begins the disposal of 244 truckloads of petroleum products seized from individuals and companies convicted of illegal dealing in petroleum products.

NBA number one draft pick Zion Williamson has inked a multiyear shoe deal with Nike affiliated Jordan Brand, the emerging star and the company said Tuesday.

Kano State Government has settled over N2 billion outstanding fees of its students in El-Razi University in Sudan,

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Tuesday mourned the death of a corps member attached to the Channels Television, Precious Owolabi, during the Shi’ites’ protest in Abuja on Monday.

YENAGOA—Several houses were reportedly razed yesterday, as troops in search of suspected militants that killed two soldiers in the creeks of Azagbene in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, invaded the riverside town.

Body odour is not great, but it happens. Luckily, you can do a few things to make body odour go away.  Sweat often causes body odour.

AWKA- AFTER two months of staying away from their duty posts to drive home their demand for improved working conditions, Resident Doctors at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, COOUTH, Awka, have returned to work. At some point during the strike, consultants in the hospital also joined, thereby grounding all activities in the tertiary health institution. Even medical students taking their examinations were affected as the consultants, many of who also doubled as lecturers, cared less. 

THE Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Federal Operations Unit, Zone C, Owerri, made 192 seizures with a total Duty Paid Value of over N2billion in the first half of this year, H1’19.

Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino heaped praise Wednesday on Son Heung-min and said he regarded the South Korean superstar as Asia’s answer to David Beckham.

The city of Berkeley, long a bastion of liberal ideas, voted this week to purge gender from its law books. Manhole will be replaced with maintenance hole. Sisters and brothers will be replaced with siblings. And he or she will be banished in favour of them, even if referring to one person. The City Council’s […]

According to a family representative who confirmed his death, the legendary actor who portrayed CIA agent, Felix Leiter alongside Roger Moore in the 1973 action movie, ‘Live and Let Die’ and in 1989 with Timothy Dalton in ‘Licence to kill’, both 007 movie installments, passed away last Thursday, in the presence of his daughters Alexandra and Serena.

ABUJA—Nigerian Air Force, NAF, has lost two of its personnel, an officer and an aircraftman, in an ambush laid against troops of 271 Detachment, Birnin Gwari, by armed bandits.

Emmanuel Anikwe, the 27-year-old lover of Alexia Thomas, a 47-year-old United Kingdom-based professor, was yesterday, brought before an Ogba Chief Magistrate’s Court, Ikeja, for allegedly poisoning the professor.

Abakaliki – Several days after a section of a popular hotel in Abakaliki, Metro-View Hotel, collapsed to the shock of both customers and passersby within the metropolis, the management of the hotel is still trying to come to terms with the development.