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By Ebunoluwa Sessou Two politicians who were aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the Lagos State House of Assembly have defected to the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, following changes to the APC’s candidate list for the Agege constituencies I and II. The affected politicians are former Agege Local Government Chairman, Kola Egunjobi, who is seeking the Agege Constituency I seat, and Azeez Yusuf, popularly known as Ninolowo, who is contesting for Agege Constituency II. Vanguard gathered that the two had picked the APM tickets to continue their bids for the Lagos State House of Assembly…

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02897-4The trait could explain why symptoms vary in severity between people with similar brain pathology.

.Targets more global jobs and investment for Nigerians.Deji Elumoye in Abuja President Bola Tinubu has moved Nigeria’s Digital Free Zones initiative to its next phase, as the Renewed Hope administration seeks to make it easier for Nigerian technology and service companies to raise global capital, employ Nigerians and build for international markets without moving their businesses and intellectual property abroad. The President, according to a release issued on Thursday by his Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said the initiative will also create opportunities for more young Nigerians to work for global companies from Nigeria and expand the domestic…

Recurring floods disrupt daily life in Tunis, raising questions about drainage, transport and flood preparedness.Published On 18 Sep 202618 Sep 2026Tunis, Tunisia – Heavy rain brought parts of Tunisia’s capital to a standstill on Thursday, flooding roads and homes, trapping people in cars and disrupting electricity and internet services.Home to nearly three million people, the Greater Tunis region has faced repeated flooding in recent years. Thursday’s flooding came only months after severe January rains caused widespread disruption across the capital and other parts of the country, leaving several people dead and causing significant damage.Weather warnings had been issued in advance,…

Peter Obi, the 2027 presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, has encouraged Nigerians to invest in the ongoing Initial Public Offering of Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals. Obi made the call in a statement posted on his X handle on Wednesday. He said Nigerians at home and in the diaspora had asked him to give his opinion on the N2.15tn IPO. “In the course of my engagements with Nigerians at home and in the diaspora, many of them have sought my opinion on investing in the ongoing Dangote Petroleum Refinery Initial Public Offering,” Obi said. “While encouraging them to…

Data center developer Crusoe said Thursday it raised $3.9 billion in a Series F round that pushes its valuation to $30.9 billion. The massive round was co-led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital, and Valor Equity Partners. Founders Fund, GIC, Nvidia, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Radical Ventures, and TPG also participated, according to Crusoe. Crusoe also announced three new board members, including Cloudflare CFO Thomas Seifert; Bill Stein, partner and CIO at Primary Digital Infrastructure; and Redwood Materials founder and CEO JB Straubel, who also sits on Tesla’s board. Straubel already has ties to Crusoe; he personally invested in the company…

Shabana Mahmood has described the anti-asylum activist Daniel Thomas as “a far-right and outright racist” who will feel “the full force of the law” if his organisation commits crimes near contested asylum sites such as Piddington.In an interview with the Guardian, the home secretary also “wanted to reassure” concerned villagers that asylum seekers due to move in to a neighbouring former defence site would not “put pressure” on local resources because they would be given “self-contained facilities”.Her intervention came after Thomas, a convicted criminal known as “Danny Tommo” and the co-founder of the Patriot Platform, said thousands of his masked…

‘Welcome to middle age.” This is what my GP said to me 10 years ago when I asked her why I needed this pill or that. Being then just shy of 50, that hit home. Now being just shy of 60, I mutter those words to myself at least once a day. There’s a long list of aches, pains and assorted maladies about which to mutter. High up on that list are my shoulders. Bloody agony, both of them. Picking something off a high shelf or fishing for something on the back seat of the car have had to become…

Tunji Wusu “Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek For those who are familiar with the Total Fuel Station opposite Police Headquarters and pass through the area in the evenings, one familiar sight has always stood out over the years, the crowd of men and women gathered outside the station after office hours. To the ordinary passerby, it may appear like people waiting to buy fuel or commuters trying to find their way home after work. But a closer look reveals that many of them are police…

At least 48 people have died and about 100 others are receiving treatment in southern Nigeria after consuming a locally brewed alcoholic concoction suspected to contain methanol, officials said on Thursday.Banji Ajaka, Ondo state’s commissioner for health, said the cases had been reported in the Odigbo and Irele local government areas. A total of 182 people are believed to have been affected and some are being treated in the hospital, he said.“I took like two shots and I went out on Friday. On Saturday, I noticed that I could not see,” 32-year-old Sola Adebayo told the local TVC News channel…