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Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been arrested in the US after British authorities issued 38 new charges against the pair.The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Andrew was being charged with seven further counts of rape, as well as charges relating to sex trafficking and indecent images of a child.Tristan’s charges include two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation.The total number of charges against the brothers is now 59, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire police said.The alleged offending is said to have taken place between July 2010 and August 2017.…

F/m Investments’ Washington, D.C., office is just a short drive from the Federal Reserve’s headquarters. But under the central bank’s new leadership, CEO Alexander Morris has found the distance feeling far greater.Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh embarked on an overhaul of the central bank’s forward-looking communication since taking the post in May. That move sounded the alarm for market participants like Morris, whose investing theses rely in part on predicting what the Fed will do with interest rates.”We’ve made a pretty good business out of decoding Fedspeak,” said Morris, referring to the jargon-heavy communication preferred by central bank leaders. “And he…

You have had an X account for years, since it was known as Twitter. When an email arrives about a new login from a location nowhere near where you live, alarm bells begin to ring.“We noticed a login to your account from a new device. Was this you?” the email asks.The location is Arizona, but you live in London. The device is “Firefox Desktop on Mac”.“If this wasn’t you,” the email continues, “complete these steps now to protect your account.”The steps include clicking a link to change your password, which will end up with you “logged out of all your…

With Nigeria’s membership of the United Nations, Ejiofor Alike reports that Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State’s suggestion for the global body to probe the abduction of the recently released pupils and teachers in his state should not be dismissed as such action could bring solutions to the unending incidents of school abductions, which have ridiculed Nigeria The agents of the Nigerian state’s growing penchant for rejecting any suggestion of foreign intervention in the insecurity plaguing the country is becoming increasingly worrisome. No country in Africa that is not fighting civil war is experiencing the level of insecurity being experienced by Nigerians. …

…Nigeria has made very significant progress in financial inclusion. Formal financial inclusion in Nigeria grew from 36 per cent in 2010 to 64 per cent in 2023. Access to digital payments more than doubled from 22 per cent in 2010 to 52 per cent in 2023, according to EFINA Access to Finance data. I will like to share ten lessons from financial inclusion that can be applied to scaling health solutions for systems impact and tackling Nigeria’s health equity challenges successfully. There are huge correlations between financial exclusion and health exclusion in Nigeria. Financial exclusion is highest in North-West and…

Josh Kerr says breaking the men’s mile world record is an “an awesome achievement” but hints he could attempt to set a new mark.Kerr, 28, beat Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj’s 1999 time, crossing the line in three minutes 42.66 seconds.The Scot became the seventh British athlete to claim the mile record and first since Steve Cram in 1985. Kerr’s previous best personal best over the mile was a British record of 3:45.34.”The biggest goal that I had [this year] was going after the world record in the mile,” Kerr told BBC Breakfast. “It was a perfect year for it.”With the…

By Ayo Onikoyi Burna Boy has made history again as he is set to perform at the first-ever FIFA World Cup final halftime show tonight set to take place at the New York New Jersey Stadium before the second half of the 2026 World Cup final. The African Giant will share the stage with global stars including Madonna, Shakira, BTS, Justin Bieber, renowned Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the celebrated PS22 Chorus in a performance expected to be watched by billions of viewers across the world The Grammy Award-winning Nigerian music superstar Burna Boy has described his inclusion in the…

Ukraine is particularly vulnerable to ballistic missile attacks due to a shortage of Patriot air defence munitions.Published On 19 Jul 202619 Jul 2026Russia has unleashed another night of powerful air attacks on Kyiv, firing its largest number of ballistic missiles since the start of the war, according to Ukraine’s foreign minister.The hours-long attacks on Kyiv early on Sunday killed one person and injured at least 15, according to local officials. They spanned six districts of the city, Ukraine’s national police said.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe latest bombardment highlights mounting challenges for Ukraine in its fifth year of…

The US on Saturday night continued its strikes on Iran, hours after confirming the death of two American soldiers in Iranian strikes on a US base in Jordan. The strikes on Saturday night marked the eighth consecutive night of American strikes on Iran, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said. CENTCOM announced on X that the strikes were “designed to degrade further Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.” It later announced that the strikes targeted “Iranian military coastal surveillance and air defense facilities, maritime capabilities, and missile and drone storage sites.” Al Jazeera quotes Iranian media…

The Nigerian stock market added N622 billion to investors’ wealth during the week, as market capitalisation rose by 0.39 per cent to close at N157.057 trillion. This is in spite of a 0.14 per cent decline in the Nigerian Exchange Ltd. (NGX) All-Share Index to 243,462.13 points. The market opened the week with a capitalisation of N156.445 trillion and an All-Share Index of 243,798.76 points. Sectoral performance was largely positive, with all other indices closing higher except the NGX Main Board, NGX Consumer Goods, NGX Oil and Gas, NGX Lotus II, NGX Industrial Goods, NGX Growth and NGX Sovereign Bond…