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Chiemelie Ezeobi In recognition of her humanitarian service and dedication to the welfare of police officers’ families across Nigeria, the National President of the Police Officers’ Wives Association (POWA), Chief Mrs. Mutiat Olufunmilola Disu, was weekend, conferred with the prestigious traditional title of Jauharar Minna Emirate (Precious Daughter of the Minna Emirate).  The honour was bestowed during a courtesy visit to the palace of the Emir of Minna on Saturday, July 25, 2026, where the traditional institution acknowledged her outstanding contributions to improving the lives of police families through various welfare initiatives championed under her leadership of POWA. While conferring…

NewsFeedFormer Acting Chief of Staff at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Deborah Fleischaker, says a rush to hire officers and a focus on detention numbers is causing fatal mistakes in the field. She was speaking two weeks after a 26-year-old Colombian national was shot dead in Maine.Published On 28 Jul 202628 Jul 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Toronto police said they were investigating the latest attack with the help of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and international law enforcement partners.Supt Jonathan Ko with the RCMP called it “another troubling incident”, while the city’s mayor, Olivia Chow, called the attack “brazen”. “I want to say to the person or persons responsible: We will get you,” Chow added.The shooting occurred around 04:45 local time (09:45 BST). Officers said they recovered one shell casing at the scene and damage to the building’s facade. At least two individuals were inside the consulate at the time, Toronto Police Deputy Chief Frank…

Four members of phone stealing syndicate in Asaba, arrested by the  operatives of the Delta Police Command, have confessed to the crime even as nine brand new android phones were recovered from their hideouts. The suspects who were arrested when the operatives raided their criminal hideouts along St Brigid’s Road, Asaba, include three males namely Johna Omarocha, Kelvin Onogho Ufuoma Joshua and  Nkechi Nnaji, a female. Yemi Onyeniyi, Delta State Commissioner of Police who made the disclosure on Sunday in a statement by Bright Edafe, spokesman of the  Command. said the raid followed a series of reported stealing of mobile…

On Sunday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella doubled down on the shocking warning he issued earlier this month to businesses that use AI, taking it a step further this time. Companies that rely wholly on the proprietary AI labs for their AI needs ultimately won’t survive, he predicts. That’s what he said on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.” When Zakaria asked Nadella to explain what constitutes a company sharing too much with an AI model provider, Nadella said businesses need to be wary of everything they hand over, from their data to their prompts. Nadella called for a setup where “every time…

Settlement resolves thousands of US lawsuits, with a record UK case against the company under way.Published On 28 Jul 202628 Jul 2026Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has agreed to pay $5.5bn to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits in the United States that allege its discontinued talc-based baby powder caused ovarian cancer.The pharmaceutical giant made the announcement on Monday, saying it covers about 69,000 cases in US federal and state courts, accounting for 99.75 percent of outstanding talc-related cases in the country.Recommended Stories list of 2 itemsend of listThe settlement will only be final once it is accepted by 95 percent…

When Akaninyene Akpan’s wife was wheeled into surgery in Abuja, another man stood beside her. It was not because Mr Akpan had abandoned his family. It was because he was hundreds of kilometres away in Lagos, unable to obtain paternity leave from his employer. His wife had developed complications during labour and eventually delivered through a caesarean section. While her uncle accompanied her to the hospital, Mr Akpan, a teacher and football coach, could only send money from afar. “People would think he was the husband, while all I could do was send money. My child was first held by…

Jodrell Bank Observatory, the hub of a world-leading network of radio telescopes, is facing closure after government funding for the facility was slashed.The deep space observatory includes the Grade I-listed Lovell telescope and is prized by astronomers who study galaxies, black holes, star formation, planets beyond the solar system and the afterglow of the big bang.The observatory’s funder, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), said on Monday it would withdraw funding for the e-Merlin network, the UK’s national radio astronomy facility at Jodrell Bank, when the current agreement ends in March 2028.Scientists said the decision was a blow to UK astronomy,…

Team Nigeria continued its impressive run at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Monday as weightlifter Onome Omolola Didih won the country’s fifth gold medal with a record-breaking performance in the women’s 53kg event. Didih dominated the competition from start to finish, rewriting the record books with three Commonwealth Games records on her way to the top of the podium. The Nigerian lifter opened with 93kg in the snatch to set a new Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth record. She followed it up with 113kg in the clean and jerk, another Games and Commonwealth record, before finishing with a total…

Boy George has released a new song entitled We Will Dance Again, which voices support for Israel’s military action in Palestine.Posted on X and Instagram with the Hebrew title עוד נרקוד alongside its English translation, the song features a pop-reggae backing. The opening lyrics are: “You say genocide, I say war / When you’re attacked, that’s what the army’s for / Does it get ugly? You bet it does / When I know you wanna kill every last one of us.”Boy George cites the attack by Hamas at the Nova music festival in October 2023, saying the civilians killed there…