Author: damazah@gmail.com

The Lagos State Government has approved and released the 2026/2027 Harmonised Academic Calendar for public and private primary and secondary schools. The calendar fixes September 14, 2026, as the resumption date for the new session. The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Jamiu Alli-Balogun, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. He noted that the document followed consultations with education stakeholders facilitated by the Office of Education Quality Assurance. The statement read, “According to the Commissioner, the calendar was finalised after two stakeholders’ meetings where participants reviewed and agreed on key dates for the new academic session.” According to the…

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) is rolling out V-Pass, a biometric identity verification system designed to make domestic air travel faster, safer and more seamless. Developed in partnership with M/S Verxid Technologies Limited, the system will let passengers confirm their identities through facial recognition, reducing the need to rely on physical ID documents at airports. The rollout was reviewed during a strategic meeting between FAAN and Verxid Technologies Limited, where both sides discussed deployment plans, security measures and ways to improve the passenger experience. FAAN said the initiative shows its commitment to using technology to improve passenger facilitation…

New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she’s not against using the technology herself. During an interview with Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast, Hochul said that her team is using “AI to analyze every single rule, regulation, [and] policy” to check for outdated legislation.Some of the antiquated laws mentioned by Hochul in the interview include a $25 fee required to take a dog hunting, or a stipulation that pregnant people need a permit to work after midnight. Hochul added that it “probably would have taken five years at…

NewsFeedThe World Health Organization warns the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is spreading faster than any previous outbreak. More than 2,000 cases and 796 deaths have been confirmed in just two months, making it the third-largest Ebola outbreak on record.Published On 16 Jul 202616 Jul 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Credit: bpawesome/GettyThe replication of experimental results is important for building credible science, but replication studies are often difficult to find. A team of researchers wants to change that. They have started putting replication studies on the post-publication peer-review platform PubPeer, together with links to the original studies.There have been numerous attempts to replicate scientific experiments over the past decade or so, and many of these have not been able to reproduce the original results. But the inability to find these replication studies easily wastes research time and resources. If scientists aren’t aware of a replication study, particularly one that was…

England midfielder Jude Bellingham has played down his heated exchange with Lionel Messi during the first half of England’s World Cup semi-final defeat to Argentina, saying the incident was simply a disagreement over a foul. The two players were seen confronting each other during the match, prompting speculation among fans about the nature of the exchange. However, Bellingham insisted there was no animosity between them and explained that the discussion was sparked by a foul awarded in Argentina’s favour. “We were discussing a foul actually, it was nothing bad. I’m sure everyone will do their thing and make it a…

In 2002, a new-to-Nashville Eric Church sat down to play a few songs at his first publishing meeting in town. And the executive there to listen hated every last one of them. Church, who had recently moved from his home state of North Carolina, had started compiling the tracks that would become his 2006 debut, Sinners Like Me. The 25-year-old was writing about pregnancy (“Two Pink Lines”), Merle Haggard (“Pledge Allegiance to the Hag”), and the death penalty (“Lightning”). No love songs, unless you count ones about unprotected teenage horniness. No bacchanalian bottomless party tunes, unless you count ones about…

The family of Mary Habila, the physiotherapist who died at the Uburu residence of the Minister of Works, David Umahi, has explained why they rejected a post-mortem examination on the deceased. PREMIUM TIMES previously reported that Ms Habila, who was attached to Mr Umahi, was pronounced dead upon arrival at the David Umahi Federal University Teaching Hospital, Uburu, Ebonyi State, on 27 June. Following public outcry, Mr Umahi requested that the police conduct a post-mortem on the deceased. However, her family rejected the request and proceeded to fix the burial arrangements. Why we rejected the autopsy request Tanko Habila, the father of…

Alex Enumah in Abuja The Chief of Staff to the President, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has filed a N15 billion defamation suit against Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew. The suit filed at a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, borders around the demand of 48 per cent kickback from a N27.3 billion take-off grant approved for a federal agency. Recall that Justice Mohammed Umar of a Federal High Court in Abuja had on Tuesday ordered the arrest of Matthew, who claims to be the Director-General of the controversial Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC). Justice Umar had made…

The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has warned that rising food prices remain the biggest challenge to Nigeria’s inflation outlook despite the slight decline in the country’s headline inflation rate in June. In a policy brief released on Thursday, the private sector advocacy group said the latest inflation figures suggest that while macroeconomic conditions are gradually stabilising, persistent structural problems continue to fuel food inflation and the cost-of-living crisis. The CPPE’s position comes a day after the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported that Nigeria’s headline inflation eased marginally to 15.91 per cent in June, from 15.93…