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The way that Thomas Tuchel remembers it, he was the only choice for the award. He had led Chelsea to Champions League glory in 2020-21 so when the German publication Sport Bild named its coach of the season, it had to give it to him. “Yeah, there was no way out,” the England head coach says, with a smile. “Because if Jürgen Klopp won at the same time the Charity Shield they give it to him …”The line is delivered in trademark style: deadpan, apart from the twinkle in his eye and it is especially funny to imagine Klopp’s reaction…

On 16 June 1963, a mechanic from Albuquerque named Paul Villa was allegedly invited – via telepathic messages from an alien crew – to photograph their spaceship. The result was an image of the flying object in the sky. Villa’s account is similar to that of a Swiss man, Billy Meier, who saw his first flying saucer aged five, and has taken more than 1,400 photographs of them since. One of Meier’s flying saucer photographs features in the famous poster that hangs in Fox Mulder’s office in the X-Files. Added to Meier’s image are the words: I Want to Believe.We…

In today’s digital economy, where brands, governments and executives compete relentlessly for attention, visibility has become easier to achieve than credibility. For Israel Fagbemigun, chief executive officer of ISFAG Communications Limited, that distinction is at the heart of effective communication. In this interview with Adedayo Adejobi, he shares the business principles that have shaped his career and explains why communication has become a strategic asset for institutions seeking lasting public confidence Israel Fagbemigun did not set out to become a communications strategist. He entered Obafemi Awolowo University to study microbiology, but student union politics and campus journalism redirected his career. “I…

Once a symbol of hope for children with hearing impairments, the Imo State Secondary School for the Deaf has fallen into ruin, becoming a monument to years of neglect. In this report, UCHE OKERE exposes the decay, insecurity and abandonment confronting vulnerable students who continue to cling to education as their only lifeline to a better future despite overwhelming odds Motorists speeding along the ever-busy Owerri-Orlu Road could easily miss the faded signpost announcing the Imo State Secondary School for the Deaf, Ofekata Orodo, in Mbaitoli Local Government Area. Like the institution it points to, the signpost has faded into…

Dike Onwuamaeze The newly elected Chairman of the Port Harcourt branch of the Chartered Institute of Directors of Nigeria (CIoD), Dr. Chamberlain S. Peterside, has declared that his tenure in office would be characterised by increasing the visibility of CIoD, widening its membership and mentoring the next generation of corporate leaders. Peterside made this declaration on Thursday in Port Harcourt during his investiture as the 5th chairman of the executive committee of the Port Harcourt branch of the CIoD Nigeria. He said, “I am proud to accept this leadership role and the challenges that come with it. “I am committed…

By Peter Egwuatu  & Yinka Kolawole Nigeria’s capital market has received a significant boost after S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) placed the country on its 2027 Country Classification Watchlist for potential reclassification from a Standalone Market to a Frontier Market, citing improvements in the country’s regulatory environment and market integrity. This is even as Bloomberg ranked Nigerian stock market as the world’ best performing stocks, overtaking that of South Korea. The decision, announced in S&P DJI’s annual Country Classification Watchlist, positions Nigeria among markets under formal review for a possible change in classification next year. While the announcement does not constitute…

Meta has abruptly taken down a new feature that allowed people to use its artificial intelligence (AI) tool to make fake images from user content on Instagram. The feature was part of a broad rollout of Muse Image, a new AI image generation tool Instagram’s parent company released on Tuesday.It allowed users of the Meta AI chatbot to tag public-facing accounts on Instagram and quickly use content on those accounts to create AI-generated or altered content and images. The feature quickly sparked blowback due to privacy concerns, leading Meta to admit it had “missed the mark” so it was “no…

Gbenga Sodeinde in Ado-Ekiti Governor Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji’s tourism investment drive has begun attracting foreign investors’ interest to Ekiti State. The founder and President of La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort, Ambassador Olawanle Akinboboye, recently led a 14-member delegation of local and international investors, including intercontinental aviation investor, Mr. Mohammed Fazzani, on a strategic investment and destination assessment tour of the state. The high-powered delegation, comprising tourism consultants, economists, technical experts and media professionals, visited Ekiti to assess its tourism assets, investment opportunities and critical infrastructure, in what observers described as another significant endorsement of the Oyebanji administration’s deliberate efforts to position…

Anthropic released Claude Science in June. It joins a host of other artificial-intelligence tools for researchers.Credit: Blossom Stock Studio/ShutterstockIn 2010, Euan Ashley, a geneticist and cardiologist at Stanford University in California, led the first clinical analysis of a human genome, which took his team of 31 scientists nine months to complete1.This week, while unpacking after a holiday, Ashley asked the AI tool Claude, developed by Anthropic in San Francisco, California, to examine his own genome to the same standard.The analysis took 30 minutes and correctly identified an Alzheimer’s disease risk allele and gene variants affecting drug metabolism (Ashley had analysed…