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Femi Ogbonnikan Monday, August 10 marks the 57th birthday of Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, popularly known across political circles and grassroots communities as Yayi, representing Ogun West Senatorial District in the National Assembly. It is a day of immense gratitude, joy, and victory, for attaining this milestone, not by human power or political manoeuvrings, but by grace—the divine grace to navigate the complex trials, fierce storms, and shifting tides of time while many along the way have faltered or fallen. In a country ranked among those with low average life expectancy globally, reaching the age of 57 in good health,…

US Department of Homeland Security is expected to buy up to $20m in gloves amid criticism of the president’s immigration crackdown.Published On 12 Aug 202612 Aug 2026The administration of United States President Donald Trump is planning to spend tens of millions of dollars to equip federal immigration agents with gloves capable of delivering electric shocks.According to a notice posted on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security has estimated it will invest between $10m and $20m in such gloves by the end of March 2027.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe devices are known as the CT-G5 G.L.O.V.E., an acronym…

Anthropic recently made the decision to watermark Claude’s outputs — inserting invisible code into the chatbot’s editorial text that marks it as AI-generated. Anthropic rolled out this new policy to satisfy the EU AI Act’s Transparency Code, which now requires tech companies to label content that has been AI-generated or edited in a manner identifiable to computer systems. Yet while European regulators may be happy, some AI users are decidedly not. One need look no further than Reddit to find evidence of brewing discontent, though other posters on the site are not in agreement. One of the more histrionic posts…

Across Scotland, lucky skygazers have caught glimpses of the eclipse – despite cloud covering much of the view. The Sun disappeared almost entirely behind the Moon, in what was the most dramatic solar eclipse visible from the UK since August 1999.The spectacle started just after 18:00 on Wednesday evening, and lasted about two hours, with the Sun setting about 21:00. At the beginning of the eclipse, heavy cloud cover across much of Scotland left visibility poor. But as the phenomenon progressed, cloud in some areas cleared at least partially, offering glimpses of the rare celestial event. Parts of Spain and…

The Buss family’s stewardship of the Los Angeles Lakers spanned 11 championships. Mark Walter’s stewardship of the Lakers barely lasted 11 months. His initial agreement to buy majority control of the team came on June 18, 2025. His decision to sell that majority stake came less than 14 months later, with news arriving on Wednesday that Walter would sell his shares in the team to Bob Iger and Josh Kushner at a $12.5 billion valuation.Walter’s sale is perhaps the most stunning change of ownership in NBA history. The Lakers have been a franchise in transition over the past year. They…

Nigerian TikToker Habeeb “Peller” Hamzat has expressed frustration over his family’s growing presence on social media, days after his wedding to fellow content creator Amadou “Jarvis” Aminata. Speaking during a livestream on Tuesday night, the 21-year-old complained about his parents’ conduct at his white wedding and also reacted to a viral video purportedly showing his father sharing a hotel bed with another man. Peller said the attention surrounding his family had become overwhelming, claiming that his parents and siblings had suddenly become active subjects in social media conversations. “I don’t know what’s wrong; all my family members are now on…

Michael Olugbode in Abuja Golearn, a financial education and empowerment organisation, has intensified its drive to equip young people with the knowledge, skills and opportunities to make better financial decisions, drawing between 2,000 and 2,500 participants to the fourth edition of its Lagos Finance Conference. The gathering brought together young people, entrepreneurs, thought leaders and industry experts for practical conversations on money management, personal growth, entrepreneurship and wealth creation. The latest edition further underscored Golearn’s expanding footprint in financial education, with the organisation disclosing that it has already upskilled more than 4,000 people while building a community of about 20,000…

By Tunji Olaopa It was Mahatma Gandhi that once said, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” And Gandhi was eminently qualified to know this. He was the embodiment of the struggle to restore the dignity and the progress of India from colonial dehumanization. Indeed, he gave himself to the service of Bharat Mata, or Mother India. The same can be said of the late octogenarian Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji—gentleman, diplomat, public servant, technocrat, expert, patriot, and elder statesman. To characterize Triple A, as he was fondly called, as a career civil servant…

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a press briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, July 16, 2026.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesWhite House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave that post by the end of August, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday.Leavitt’s departure was announced less than a month after she returned to the White House after having been on maternity leave for the birth of her daughter on May 1.Leavitt, 28, is resigning “so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family, a decision I totally…

For years now, executives at companies that are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars a year into developing various artificial intelligence tools have insisted that the technology will ultimately mean people will spend less of their time working.An engineering director at Google said four years ago that AI would deliver a four-day work week by 2025, external.Earlier this year, and just one year after that engineering director’s prediction, OpenAI took up the challenge, in a manner of speaking. It formally urged companies to start testing out a four-day work week (with no change in pay), claiming that AI will soon…