INNOVATION:Smart Cups Detect Date Rape Drugs

 Smart cups will change colour when a date rape drug is poured into it.

Drink Savvy, a Boston-based company, has created a material that changes colour when it comes in contact with a drug-spiked drink.
Founder Mike Abramson said he plans to use the discovery to create a set of products, including cups, glassware, stirrers and straws, that he hopes will be used to help reduce date rape, reports ABC News.
"Within the past three years, three of my very close friends and myself have been the unwitting victims of being drugged," Abramson said in a fundraising video.

FEATUTRES: The City of Art and Culture at Christmas

With more than fifty artists exhibiting their works at the ongoing Calabar Christmas festival, Cross River is rightly regarded as artistic and cultural state in Nigeria, reports Jude Okwe

Christmas festivities may be on in different parts of the world but Calabar remains the preferred destination. Why? There is no dull moment for the 32 days of the festival. Everyday is full of activities that engage fun lovers, arrest the attention of lovers of culture and keep music lovers on their toes. Now art exhibition has entered the programme to stimulate the interest of members of the public in the creative industry.

Inside the Creeks, Hell and Heaven Side By Side

After spending three days in the creeks of the Niger Delta communities of Ogbia, Nembe and Okoroba in Bayelsa State, Adeola Akinremi reports that not all is gloomy in the creeks

Ozigbo Wemi, 60, wears his life jacket in front of his house in Nembe and then heads to work. He struts into the street corner leading to the community health centre and finally arrives at the Nembe mainland jetty. This is yet another promising day. “Important people are coming to the creek today. It will be a good business, I can tell you there will be traffic on the waterways,” he says.

Army Promotes 150 Senior Officers

Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen. Azuibe Ihejirika

The Nigerian Army Council in one of its first major decisions since the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen. Azuibe Ihejirika was reappointed early October, has approved the promotion of about 150 senior officers including 22 of them elevated to the rank of Major General.

Navy Arrests Oil Bunkerers in Kogi

The Nigeria Navy, NNS Luguard, Lokoja Command, has arrested four suspected crude oil bunkerers along the river waters in Kogi State.

Navy Commander, Innocent Yinfaowei , who disclosed this to journalists during the flag off of the command's security patrol on the water line along the River Niger, said that the suspects were arrested with crude oil.

According to him the chief of Naval staff had flagged off security patrol on the coastal lines to ensure safety on water ways adding that he equally directed all commands across the country to initiate their patrols.