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The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has cautioned against the Senate’s resolution calling for a ban on textile fabric imports, warning that the proposed restriction could hurt the Nigerian economy, disrupt supply chains, and threaten millions of jobs. In a statement signed by the CPPE’s Chief Executive Officer, Muda Yusuf, on Sunday, the think tank stated that although reviving Nigeria’s textile industry is a legitimate objective, banning textile imports would not address the sector’s underlying problems. On 9 June, the Senate called for a total ban on the importation of textile products into the country as part…

VK Group, the developers of VKontakte and related services, issued its own statement complaining that “Apple has removed VK apps from the App Store without warning or explanation… VK has never been subject to sanctions nor included on sanctions lists, a fact confirmed by numerous legal opinions from international and US counsel. Apple has long been in possession of these official legal opinions and all relevant information. Nevertheless, Apple unilaterally removed VK apps without prior notice… We consider these actions by Apple regarding Russian users to be unjustified and unacceptable.” (Translation from Russian through Google Translate.) VK Group also stressed…

Jubril Abdullah History often moves in paradoxes. The ideas that first provoke resistance frequently become the principles that later command consensus. The voices once dismissed as inconvenient or premature often return as prophetic echoes when reality catches up with vision. Across democracies and through the long arc of institutional evolution, transformative reforms have rarely emerged from convenience; they have emerged from persistence. Nigeria now stands at such a moment. A profound political and constitutional threshold is being crossed. A longstanding jinx is being broken. Nigeria appears finally on the verge of embracing state policing and decentralising a security structure that…

Quantris is a quantum spin on a classic gameQuantum Native The blocks keep falling. A pale yellow square awkwardly lands on a green block shaped like the letter “z”. Next to them stands a pillar made of smaller turquoise blocks. We’ve all seen Tetris, you can probably picture it. But there is a strange block nearby, its white border seemingly confining only empty space. From the game’s instructions I know this shape is in a quantum state of superposition, an odd mix of existing and not existing in the world on my computer screen. Can this help me? To figure…

Ian Dennis, BBC Radio 5 LiveFrance. I’ve seen all of their group games and they’ve made it three wins from three for the first time since they won the World Cup in 1998. They’re still not perfect, so room to improve as they get stronger under a manager who has the experience to draw on, as Didier Deschamps seeks a third successive World Cup final.Phil McNulty, BBC Sport’s chief football writerFrance. Just looking at their attack with Kylian Mbappe, Michael Olise and Ousmane Dembele and what it can do when it clicks – and the strength of Didier Deschamps’ squad…

For Colombian rising animation talent María Cristina Pérez, whose experimental short “Once in a Body” (“Una vez en un Cuerpo”) competed in the Annecy Animation Festival’s Perspectives sidebar, human connection is the overriding theme in her growing body of work. This is her fourth short, which she dedicates to her sister. “The story portrayed in the short film, about the protagonist as a child and her sister as a teen, is entirely fictional,” she stresses. “It brings together a number of anecdotes and experiences – some of my own, others from people close to me who have gone through similar…

There is so much the Nigerian judiciary and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) can learn from the recent trial and acquittal of former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, by London’s Southwark Crown Court. Alison-Madueke served as minister from 2010 to 2015. Following the defeat of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration by Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 presidential election, allegations of corruption were levelled against her, and she subsequently relocated to the United Kingdom. She was first arrested in London in October 2015 but was granted bail while the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) carried out extensive investigations into…

On the night of 13 March, under dim lights and the sound of worship songs, a crowd gathered at a crusade ground in Onyadama community, Obubra Local Government Area of Cross River State, in the south-southern part of Nigeria. What followed, according to video evidence and witness accounts obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, was not deliverance but a sustained mob assault. The victim of the attack was Grace Ekoi, a woman who appeared to be in her 50s. She survived. But another person, according to community sources, died. Several weeks later, no one has been arrested for the assault. There is…

Austria’s 3-3 draw with Algeria ultimately decides Iran’s fate as Team Melli crash out of the 2026 World Cup.Published On 28 Jun 202628 Jun 2026Iran’s ‌hopes of reaching the World Cup knockout phase for the first time came to ⁠an agonising end after Austria’s last-gasp equaliser against Algeria left them outside the tournament’s eight best third-placed teams.Amir Ghalenoei’s side completed their Group G campaign on Friday with a ⁠1-1 draw against Egypt, leaving them waiting to discover on ⁠Saturday whether three points would be enough to earn a spot in the round of 32.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of…

People can use general-purpose AI (GPAI) for mental health advice, but there are better options via using purpose-built AI (PBAI).gettyIn today’s column, I examine an important tug-of-war that is rapidly emerging between people using general-purpose AI (GPAI) for mental health guidance and those same people leaning into purpose-built AI (PBAI) that avidly specializes in providing mental health guidance.Here’s the backstory. Hundreds of millions of people are currently using general-purpose AI such as ChatGPT, GPT-5, Claude, Grok, CoPilot, Gemini, etc., as their go-to for getting mental health advice. This makes sense since they are already using that same AI for answering…