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Mr Tinubu is seeking a second term on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), with Vice President Kashim Shettima remaining his running mate. He is expected to face familiar rivals, including Peter Obi of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) and Atiku Abubakar of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), in the 2027 presidential election. Mrs Tinubu remarked on Tuesday during her first official visit to the Akwete Weaving Cooperative Village in Abia State, where she unveiled a ₦2 billion intervention to revive the community’s traditional weaving industry. Akwete Akwete is a handwoven textile indigenous to Akwete in Abia State.…

Chiemelie Ezeobi in The Gambia African leaders and security chiefs have called for stronger regional cooperation, intelligence sharing and community engagement to tackle the continent’s growing security challenges, warning that terrorism, organised crime, cybercrime and violent extremism can no longer be addressed by individual countries acting alone. The Gambian President, Adama Barrow;  Nigerian Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu; the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olatunji Rilwan Disu; Prof Thean Potgieter of the Centre of Military Studies, Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and others, made this call yesterday in The Gambia.  The call was made at…

Why Vanderbilt baseball was a winner in 2026 MLB DraftVanderbilt baseball won big in the MLB draft after getting a few contributors back and brining in a top freshman class: a video analysis.A recent U.S. News & World Report study ranked the best colleges in Tennessee for 2026.Vanderbilt University was named the top school in the state and ranked 17th nationally.The University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Belmont University secured the second and third spots, respectively.For a long time, Tennessee has proudly boasted a wide variety of higher educational opportunities within its borders, and a recent study has ranked the…

OpenAI has revealed that two of its most advanced artificial intelligence models breached a controlled testing environment and autonomously hacked another AI company, Hugging Face, describing the incident as an “unprecedented cyber incident.” The company said the incident occurred during an internal test designed to assess its AI models’ advanced hacking capabilities, with the usual safeguards against high-risk cyber activity temporarily turned off for the evaluation. According to OpenAI, the models involved included GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable pre-release model with reduced cyber refusals. “We consider this incident to be an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities, and…

Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has called for stronger collaboration with the media to enhance public trust, promote transparency, and support ongoing reforms aimed at boosting trade facilitation, border security and national economic development. The Service made the call yesterday at a press conference held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, ahead of its 2026 Public Relations Week with the theme: ‘Realigning Corporate Communication as a Strategic Driver of Institutional Effectiveness and Public Trust’. Speaking at the event, the National Public Relations Officer of the NCS, Deputy Comptroller of Customs, Abdullahi Maiwada, said trust remains the foundation…

The national average cost of preparing a pot of jollof rice in Nigeria rose from N25,798 in July 2025 to N29,578 in June 2026, an increase of 14.6 per cent, according to a new survey. This was disclosed in the SBM Intelligence Jollof Index Q2 2026 report, titled: “Rebasing, Redefining, and the Weather’s Toll on the Pot”. SBM Intelligence, a data analytics and research firm, stated that it rebased the index in the July edition to a higher standard as of July 2025 and introduced re-standardised ingredient measures. According to the report, the index now more accurately captures how households…

Glow, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Meta and Snowflake executives, emerged from stealth as a unicorn, betting that artificial intelligence is reshaping how enterprises secure employee devices. The Palo Alto-headquartered startup on Wednesday said it raised $180 million in an all-equity Series A funding round that valued it at $1.2 billion, with backing from Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, and Redpoint Ventures, alongside participation from Index Ventures, Swish Ventures, Lux Capital, Operator Collective, and Holly Ventures. The investment made Glow one of the latest cybersecurity startups to achieve unicorn status before publicly disclosing revenue metrics. As more enterprises deploy AI…

NewsFeedUkrainian drones have hit two more warehouses belonging to Russia’s biggest online retailer Wildberries, injuring 10 people, according to Russian officials. Ukraine has carried out several attacks on Wildberries and says its buildings are being used to supply military components.Published On 22 Jul 202622 Jul 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

The Federal Government has received the final report of the National Technical Working Group on the World Bank-supported $500 million Sustainable Agricultural Value Chains for Growth Programme (AGROW). This was disclosed by Vice President Kashim Shettima at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday. Mr Shettima noted that the receipt of the final report marks the conclusion of the programme’s design phase and its transition to implementation. He said the government, through the AGROW programme, is bridging the gap between farmers and national planning and policy-making decisions at the centre. The VP noted that while the challenge in the agricultural sector…

Southampton head coach Tonda Eckert has been charged with misconduct by the Football Association for his role in the Spygate scandal.Saints were kicked out of the Championship play-offs in May after admitting they spied on three clubs during the campaign.An independent disciplinary commission ruled at the time that the espionage was authorised by Eckert and was a “contrived and determined plan from the top down”.Since then the club has been the subject of an investigation by the FA, looking into who participated in the spying and assessing the culpability of those who knew it was happening.The FA said Eckert “has…