ADAMAWA North Senatorial District's lawmaker Senator Elisha Abbo has been fined N50m ($131,174) by an Abuja high court for assaulting a female member of staff at a sex toy shop in May last year.

IGBO indigenes living in Kano State will not be allowed to celebrate the New Yam Festival this year after a high court issued an ex parte motion stopping all activities until the hearing of a substantive motion before it.

AUSTRIAN authorities have revealed that they may allow as many as 10,000 fans to attend the Super Eagles' friendly games taking place on October 9 and 13 at the Jacques Lemans Arena in the southern town of Sankt Veit an der Glan in Carinthia State.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Last week, Julius Berger announced that it will be diversifying into the agriculture and food business. For me, this is a welcome development as the bane of the Nigerian economy is that we lack productive conglomerates who can mass produce goods

NIGERIA'S Super Eagles will now play African champions Algeria in a friendly on October 9 after their original opponents Ivory Coast pulled out citing logistical challenges as the Elephants already have two games lined up during the window.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) A a Yaoundé-Douala-Calabar-Ikom line that will transport Cameroonian cocoa to the processing plant at Ikom in Cross River State

(2) A Lomé-Cotonou-Badagry-Apapa-Warri-Port Harcourt line that will link up West Africa’s coastal ports

(3) An Abuja-Niamey-Ouagadougou-Bamako-Conakry-Dakar line that will open up the Ecowas region to finished Nigerian goods

JAMES Ibori's lawyer Bhadresh Gohil looks set to forfeit $39m to the UK authorities after he appeared in a London high court confiscation heating where he was described as the architect of the former governor's corruption scam.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As we stand, the whole world is moving away from fossil fuels. By 2050, our crude oil will be useless as no one will want it. I can even see the UN introducing new environmental; regulations that may limit its use. Our first priority must be to get all new industrial concerns to generate their own power. Nowhere in the world today are industrial start-ups dependent on the national grid for their power supply

POLICE in Vietnam have confiscated an estimated 345,000 used condoms which had been cleaned and resold as new to unsuspecting customers with a high risk of passing on venereal diseases to them.

MALI'S new government has been sworn-in in the capital Bamako today after the interim president Bah Ndaw named the members of his cabinet who will govern the country for the next 18 months.