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Newspaper columnist and broadcaster Rod Liddle has died aged 66 after a short illness. Liddle’s children paid tribute to their father, who they described as their guide “on how to live an extraordinary life”, while CEO of News UK, Rebekah Brooks, called him “an inimitable journalistic force.”Brooks added that “he challenged conventional thinking and left an indelible mark on British journalism.”Liddle, a columnist for the Sun and the Sunday Times, died at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough on Sunday evening.A former editor of BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today programme, he was a columnist on the Sunday Times and…

Armed bandits have killed one resident, injured at least seven and abducted 32 others during an attack on the Shuwaki community in the Bakori Local Government Area of Katsina State on Saturday. The attackers later released an indisposed woman who could not continue the forced journey, leaving 31 people in captivity, most of them women, according to a former chairman of the local government area. The raid was the latest in neighbouring communities in Bakori, some of which have forced residents to flee their homes and raised concerns about farming and other economic activities in the area. Mahadi Guga, a…

A legal practitioner and human rights advocate, Hamza D. Dantani, Esq., has called on security agencies across the country to emulate the Department of State Services (DSS) by compensating innocent Nigerians who are wrongly arrested, unlawfully detained or harmed during security operations.Dantani made the call while commending the Director-General of the DSS, Mr Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi, for what he described as a bold and unprecedented decision to compensate victims of wrongful arrests and operational errors.He said the initiative demonstrated that while security agencies have a constitutional responsibility to safeguard the country, they also have a moral and legal obligation to…

Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche has formally withdrawn President Donald Trump’s plan for a fund that could have been used to compensate people prosecuted over the US Capitol riot by Trump’s supporters in 2021.The move clears the way for Blanche to be confirmed by US senators to his job on a permanent basis. Trump’s Republican Party previously lacked the votes for this to happen because a pair of senators were not sufficiently satisfied by verbal assurances from Blanche that the planned fund was dead.In a post on X late on Sunday, external, Blanche said he had “met with committee…

Personnel of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the Nigeria Police Force have undergone specialised training in quick response, rescue operations and emergency management as part of efforts to strengthen operational capacity and improve responses to Nigeria’s evolving security challenges. The two-day training, organised in Abuja by Edgard Consulting Limited under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative, equipped officers with practical skills in rapid emergency response, tactical movement, casualty evacuation, first responder actions, weapon handling, anti-hostage operations and operational preparedness for high-risk situations. The initiative comes amid growing calls for continuous capacity building for security agencies as Nigeria grapples with…

Lenovo is expected to release some of the first Googlebook models later this year, and leaked images have now given us a good idea of what they might look like. Leaked press images shared by Digital Citizen and Android Headlines include a laptop and a 2-in-1 tablet, all of which feature Googlebook branding on the keyboard.This is the best look we’ve had at Google’s Chromebook successor since the Android-based Googlebook platform was announced in May. Details about the initiative remain sparse, but we know that Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo are lined up to release the first models sometime…

Senate’s amendment of the Federal Road Safety Corps Act has triggered nationwide debate, with controversy centring on claims that it seeks to ban street preaching. While lawmakers insist the legislation merely retains an existing provision and strengthens road safety enforcement, the episode highlights broader questions about legislative communication, proportionality of penalties and effective traffic governance. Sunday Aborisade reports. The controversy that greeted the Senate’s consideration of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) (Amendment) Bill, 2026, illustrates how public perception can sometimes overtake legislative reality. Within hours of reports that the National Assembly had approved stiffer sanctions for traffic offences, social…

For tens of millions of people across Nigeria, digital finance has changed everyday life. Paying bills, sending money, saving, and running businesses have become faster and easier than ever before. But alongside this progress comes one question that many people still ask: “Can I really trust digital finance?” It is a fair question. Over the years, stories of fraud, misinformation, online scams, and false claims have made many people more careful about where they keep their money and who they trust with it. As digital finance continues to grow across Nigeria, trust has become just as important as innovation. People…

Team Europe captain Anna Nordqvist will name her four captain’s picks from 3pm, live on Sky Sports News and Sky Sports Golf; Lottie Woad and Charley Hull among Europe’s eight automatic qualifiers to face Team USA, confirmed after the AIG Women’s Open

London will be seeing a lot more of Paavo Järvi when the Estonian conductor takes the reins at the London Philharmonic in 2028. Here, on the podium with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, he proved a model of calm, control and clarity as well as the most sensitive of accompanists, shepherding a breathtaking account of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto by Leonidas Kavakos.The Russian composer struggled for three years to find a soloist brave enough to take on the work’s premiere, yet Kavakos was clearly undaunted. The Greek violinist’s exceptional dexterity and pinpoint intonation at the very top of the range made light…