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By Peter Egwuatu The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has granted fresh approvals to three companies within the BGL Group, authorising them to resume operations across key segments of the Nigerian capital market. The approvals, contained in separate letters issued by the Commission, covering  BGL Securities Limited, BGL Capital Limited and BGL Asset Management Limited, allows the firms to operate respectively as Broker/Dealer, Issuing House, and Fund/Portfolio Manager. In a letter signed by Mrs. Hafsat O. Rufai, Director, Registration, Exchanges and Market Infrastructure Department, SEC approved the registration of BGL Securities Limited as a Broker/Dealer, with effect from April 17, 2025.…

The Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams is suing the tech company over its efforts to “silence” her.A 57-page complaint filed to a US district court in California on Thursday argues that an interim arbitration ruling sought by Meta preventing Wynn-Williams from publicising her memoir, Careless People, was “improper and unlawful” and a “blatant violation of the first amendment”. It also accuses the company of “coercive surveillance”.Wynn-Williams, who between 2011 and 2017 served as director of global public policy at Facebook, published her memoir of her time at the company in March 2025. The book contained allegations of a toxic internal culture,…

While Londoners scurried from building to building seeking shade on another baking hot day this week, one man paused in the shadow of the Royal Courts of Justice.The leader of Oxfordshire county council, Tim Bearder, was not only happy in the shade of the court’s gothic towers. He had just won a landmark legal victory.On the face of it, the case was an argument about local council permissions. But such is the febrile nature of British politics, the proceedings took on a whole new importance – one which strikes to the heart of raging debate in England over its most…

A supernova threatens a civilisation in Claire North’s Slow GodsShutterstock/Martin Capek When I decided to write a space opera, I wanted to start with a supernova. There is no force in the universe like it, either in scale or destructive power – but though it is irrefutably dramatic, it’s also something you can see coming. As a writer, I find this fascinating. What does it mean to look into the heavens and know the exact date when a star will die and with it, your world? What choices do you make, and what price would you pay to save yourself…

New finalists from Katsina, Ekiti and Taraba have emerged as the biggest talking points ahead of the 26th edition of the Nestlé MILO Secondary School Basketball Championship, underlining the growing reach of one of Nigeria’s longest-running grassroots sports development platforms. Twelve teams — six boys’ sides and six girls’ sides — from across the country’s four regional conferences will converge on Lagos from Friday for the national finals, with defending champions Father O’Connell Science College of Niger State leading the field in the boys’ category. However, the emergence of states making their first appearances at the national finals has added…

Playing a small role in the finale of BBC comedy Gavin & Stacey has been a high point in an award-winning career that spans stage and screen, according to Welsh actor Rakie Ayola.She said playing the registrar who married TV fans’ favourites Nessa and Smithy, played by show writers Ruth Jones and James Corden, was a pivotal moment.”Standing between Ruth and James, it suddenly occurred to me that this was the picture,” said Ayola.”I thought, ‘wow, look at me, so this is the most important and influential minute of my career’.”The Bafta Cymru award-winning actor has appeared in TV dramas…

Former Super Eagles coach and former Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Technical Director Adegboye Onigbinde has been buried amid glowing tributes. The octogenarian was buried on Friday in Modakeke, Osun State, with leading figures from Nigerian football, government and traditional institutions paying tribute to one of the country’s most influential indigenous coaches. The funeral service, held at Saint Stephen’s Cathedral, Modakeke, attracted former international players, football administrators, traditional rulers, political leaders and members of the local community. Mr Onigbinde, who died in March at the age of 88, remains one of the most important figures in Nigerian coaching history. He became…

Higher education can incorporate some elements from music education to make learning more effective. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockPhoto Every serious music student has spent time in a practice room that felt less like a room and more like a mirror. A phrase is played, it falls short, and it is played again. The teacher stops the student mid-bar, not to discourage, but because the error has a name and naming it is the first act of repair.This exchange has been quietly repeated across music classrooms for centuries, holding a lesson that higher education is still in the process of…

Structure crumbled minutes after I left, killed my apprentice — Nwabueze Nwabueze Kenneth Nwabueze, who narrowly escaped death in the three-storey building that collapsed at Alakija, Oriade Local Council Development Area, on Thursday, tells CHIJIOKE IREMEKA how his apprentice died and the cost of ignoring warning signs of distressed structures How does it feel to have escaped the disaster that rocked Alakija on Thursday? Nobody is happy about what happened here because many lives were lost. The lives lost cannot be brought back, but the money and businesses that are gone can be replaced. It feels good to be alive…

There is a shift happening, and it is a good one, one that is set to help Nigeria achieve its industrial and $1 trillion ambition. Around the world, energy systems are being redesigned at extraordinary speed. Renewable power capacity is expanding faster than at any point in history, with solar leading the charge. Demand is also changing. The drivers of power consumption are no longer just households and traditional industries, but now include electric mobility, cloud computing, data centers and manufacturers. The world is not just watching, it is putting its money where attention is deserved. There is a growing…