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Enola stays with her so much that Brown’s husband, Jake Bongiovi, who also worked on the film, says she sometimes takes the character home with her.Brown agrees that Enola definitely stays with her and jokes that the teen detective’s high standards can also follow her home.”Enola is high maintenance and sometimes I go home and I’m like, ‘Why does the bed look like that?’ Then I’m like, Millie, chill, you do not need to speak like that.”What she is most protective of, she says, is Enola’s intelligence.Partridge remembers filming once stopping “for five hours” because Brown felt Enola would have…

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The leadership of the Nigeria Democratic Congress has wrapped up marathon strategy meetings involving its presidential candidate, Peter Obi; national leader, Seriake Dickson; National Working Committee members and other key stakeholders ahead of Monday’s (today) appeal against the court ruling that nullified its registration. The development comes barely 48 hours after the Federal High Court in Lokoja, Kogi State, set aside its earlier judgment directing the Independent National Electoral Commission to register the NDC. The ruling has intensified political tensions and drawn condemnation from opposition leaders who insist the decision is aimed at weakening opposition forces ahead of the 2027…

–          Customs backs subnational trade diplomacy, says reforms will position country as regional commerce hub Michael Olugbode in Abuja Nigeria is gradually returning to an era of stronger regional economies and greater state autonomy, creating unprecedented opportunities for direct foreign investment and economic partnerships with subnational governments, Founder of Global AfriDiplomats, Deji Ajomale-McWord, declared at the weekend. He said recent reforms in electricity, taxation and local government finances are reversing decades of over-centralisation and empowering states to emerge as independent engines of economic growth, industrialisation and international commerce. Speaking at the Trade Commissioners’ Summit attended by diplomats, development partners, state officials…

In this interview, the Chief Innovation & Commercialisation Officer at Matna Foods Limited, a Cavista Holding Company, Dr. Tony Bello, argues that as the world’s largest producer of cassava, Nigeria possesses a strategic opportunity to transform agricultural production into industrial value creation and export competitiveness. Raheem Akingbolu brings the excerpts. Nigeria is seeing renewed attention on agriculture as a driver of jobs, food security, and industrial growth. What is driving this shift, and how can it be sustained beyond rhetoric? Several global and domestic developments have converged to place agriculture back at the center of economic and national policy discussions. The COVID-19…

The real issue is whether publishers of scientific journals should retroactively apply contemporary standards regarding duplicate publication or self-plagiarism to historical papers. The journal publishing norms in the early 20th century were substantially different. The emphasis was on achieving the widest dissemination of knowledge across a fragmented scientific community separated by language and geographical distance, publishing in many different journals. As a result, the boundaries were heavily blurred between lectures, conference proceedings, booklets, collected essays, published journal articles and so forth. The scientific enterprise has since evolved to the point where it is dominated by large commercial publishing groups that…

In the last week, a group of bowlers had a lucky escape when a tree crashed down onto a green. A few days later, an MP in the House of Commons revealed a mature tree had fallen on her house. So could this be linked to the recent soaring temperatures?Trees can really suffer during a heatwave and the heat stress can show in lots of different ways. It can affect processes on a molecular level, right up to the biology of the whole tree itself.A three-day heatwave has been shown to be more than enough time to cause real damage…

Nigeria’s world record holder, Tobi Amusan, continued her remarkable run of form on Sunday, winning the women’s 100-metre hurdles at the Paris Diamond League with an outstanding time of 12.28 seconds. The victory marks Amusan’s second Diamond League win of the 2026 season, and the third time this year she has clocked 12.28 seconds, underlining her consistency at the highest level of world athletics. The Nigerian hurdler pulled away from the field in the closing stages to finish comfortably ahead of American Grace Stark, who placed second in 12.38 seconds, whilst Alaysha Johnson finished third in 12.39 seconds. For Amusan,…

Jesse Eisenberg opened up to Variety about what it was like turning down the opportunity to return as Facebook mastermind Mark Zuckerberg in Aaron Sorkin’s “The Social Network” sequel, “The Social Reckoning.” “It’s an honor to speak to Aaron in any capacity, because he’s so articulate and charming and so bright,” Eisenberg told Variety at Sunday’s Los Angeles premiere of “Minions & Monsters.” “We talked about doing the movie for several days. The way Aaron speaks, he speaks so wonderfully, as he writes that, in a way, if you’re not going to do something with him, it feels almost like…

Baobab Microfinance Bank has successfully concluded the first phase of its Menstrual Hygiene Awareness Project in Ilorin, Kwara State, reaffirming its commitment to improving the well-being of communities through impactful social interventions. As part of the initiative, the bank distributed 500 reusable sanitary pads to schoolgirls at a carefully selected beneficiary school in Ilorin. The project was implemented in partnership with Sisters of Jannah (SOJ), a trusted grassroots organization, whose local knowledge and community presence played a critical role in identifying the school with the greatest need. Menstrual hygiene remains one of the most overlooked challenges affecting young girls in…