Delta Government has approved the development of the Asaba waterfront project with the construction of a six-lane road along the waterfront.

The Government also earmarked about N1.1 billion as compensation.

The State Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, disclosed in a chat with newsmen on some of the decisions taken at the State Executive Council meeting held in Government House Asaba, the state’s capital.

A rock pooler has found a rare sea slug while searching around the coast of south Cornwall.

Vicky Barlow was poking around the pools of Falmouth when she found the rainbow sea slug, usually found in warmer waters.

According to experts there have been only three previous sightings of the creature in the UK and this was the first in a rockpool.

The first sighting is thought to have been in 2022 off the Isles of Scilly.

“There have been a handful of sightings by divers and snorkelers since but, as far as we can tell, this is the first time this species has been found by a rock pooler in the UK,” said marine biologist Dr Ben Holt of the Rock Pool Project.

The rainbow sea slug, or Babakina anadoni, is a member of the aeolid nudibranch family, which are characterised by their bright colours and unusual shapes, he said.

It is usually found in warm sea waters off the west coast of Spain, Portugal and France.

Spotting the sea slug was part of a pattern of “massive changes” in sealife seen around the South West over the last five years, said Dr Holt.

“It’s an amazing find and I expect we will see more of them,” he said.

“It is also quite remarkable because rock pools are quite a harsh environment with the tide going in and out.”

The first of Liverpool City Region’s hydrogen buses have started running for passengers.

The publicly-owned zero emission vehicles operate on the 10A route between St Helens, Knowsley and Liverpool city centre.

There are 20 buses which will be “brilliant for those congested routes where air quality is a real problem,” Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram said.

The buses are part of a plan for Liverpool City Region to become net zero carbon by 2040.

Palácio da Pena, or as it is in English Pena Palace, is a castle and also one of the most important, as well as finest tourist attractions located in the municipality of Sintra in the Portuguese Republic.

As it stands on top of a hil surrounded with forested park, the castle represents the Romanesque Revival architectural style, where on a clear day it can be easily spotted from the capital city of Portugal, Lisbon.

This hedonistic mix of vividly painted terraces, decorative battlements and mythological statues, all of which stand at stark contrast to the lush greens of the forests that encircle Pena, is also a national monument and part of the Seven Wonders of Portugal.

Even though the construction began in the Middle Ages, it was completed some time in 1854 according to the design of Baron Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege.

However, the biggest credit most likely is to be given to the King Ferdinand II, whereas the castle was meant to be a summer home for the Portuguese royals.

Nonetheless, the styles which are mixed perfectly have some interesting eclecticism that includes the Neo-Gothic, Neo-Manueline, Neo-Islamic and Neo-Renaissance styles.

The whole structure stands atop the rock of the Sintra Mountains, and it can be divided in four different sections.

Beginning with the two gateways together with the enveloping walls and the foundation making the first section, continuing with the restored structure of the old convent, and the clock tower as second.

The Arches Yard in front of the chapel, with its wall of Moorish arches are representing the third section and finishes with the palatial zone and its cylindrical bastion, with interiors decorated in the cathédrale style.

Still, the interior of the Pena Palace is fascinating as the exterior is, yet, being restored to reflect the decor, it was abandoned in 1910 when the Portuguese nobility fled to Brazil to escape the revolution, and today it gives the sense to every visitor of a certain time from the past.

With its amazing stuccoes, painted walls in trompe-l’oeil and in various revetments in tile from the 19th century, the Pena Palace nowadays is classified as an important UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Yet, it is seen as one of the grandest instances of Romantic architecture with its colorful ‘towers’, and most likely one of the most visited places in the country where many people do enjoy in its beauty.

The Swiss Alpine community of Brienz turned into a ghost village as authorities started the last day of evacuations of residents threatened by the increasing risk of rockslides from a nearby mountain.

Brienz’s fewer than 100 villagers were given just 48 hours to pack what they could and abandon their homes.

Even the dairy cows were loaded up for departure after geologists warned a rockfall was imminent.

Two million cubic metres of rock is coming loose from the mountain above, and a rockslide could obliterate the village.

The village has been judged a geological risk for some time and is built on land that is subsiding down towards the valley, causing the church spire to lean and large cracks to appear in buildings.