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Kayode Tokede The Nigerian stock market, yesterday staged a rebound with volume rising by 161.79 per cent to 1.4 billion shares as market capitalisation closed higher by N100.5 billion amid demand for Seplat Energy Plc, 22 others. As  the stock price of Seplat Energy  gained 10 per cent,  the Nigerian Exchange Limited All-Share Index (NGX ASI) gained 155.03 basis points or 0.06 per cent to close at 242,378.13basis points. Similarly, the overall market capitalisation value rose by N100.5 billion to close at N157.150 trillion. Sectoral performance was mixed as the Oil & Gas (+0.8per cent) and Banking (+0.7per cent) indices…

Barack Obama urged Democrats to prioritize a “public conversation” about AI management and safety in a closed-door Manhattan fundraiser last week.The comments by the former US president reportedly urged the party to create a sweeping framework for everything from a safety “slow-down” to domestic job losses and children’s wellbeing.Obama’s comments follow a summer in which a band of rogue OpenAI chatbots hacked the company Hugging Face, towns across the country opposed datacenters and an AI researcher resigned in a viral social media post warning: “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of…

Anthony Kila A nation that cannot agree on what happened yesterday will struggle to determine what it should learn tomorrow. There are moments in a nation’s life when history ceases to be merely about the past. It becomes a question of national character. June 12 is one of those moments. The question is not simply who won an election, who annulled it, who went to prison, who negotiated, who resisted, or who died. The deeper question is whether, nearly three decades later, we are still capable of establishing what happened, while resisting the temptation to mould the past to the…

Barcelona’s Spanish forward #10 Lamine Yamal celebrates with Barcelona’s Brazilian forward #11 Raphinha and Barcelona’s Spanish midfielder #16 Rodrigo scoring his team’s third goal from the penalty spot during the Spanish league football match between Levante UD and FC Barcelona at Ciutat de Valencia Stadium in Valencia on September 13, 2026. (Photo by JOSE JORDAN / AFP) Lamine Yamal struck twice to help Barcelona to an exciting 4-2 win at Levante on Sunday in La Liga, extending the Catalans’ perfect start to the season. Hansi Flick’s side reestablished their three point lead over Real Madrid at the top of the…

Burning Man, the infamous arts festival in the Nevada desert, turned 40 this year, and it’s showing some distinct signs of middle age.It’s not just the tech billionaires who show up to party, the chartered flights straight to the desert or the HBO documentary about behind-the-scenes power struggles. The tens of thousands of people who assemble each year to create a tent city in the wilderness appear to be growing older, and it doesn’t seem that they’re being replaced by as many younger “burners”, as festival participants are called.People in their 20s used to make up nearly a third of…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized large quantities of cannabis and other illicit drugs in separate operations across seven states, the agency said on Sunday. The NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, explained in a statement shared with PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday that the operations took place in Kano, Plateau, Edo, Ondo, Kaduna, Bayelsa and Delta states. In Edo, the agency noted that its operatives destroyed 4,832.56kg of cannabis, also known as skunk, found on farms in Usen, Igwe-Oke and Ogboha forests. The farms were in Ovia South West, Owan East and Owan West Local…

Ethan Mbappe redeemed himself after his Champions League red card by scoring a late goal in a 2-0 win over Troyes on Sunday that sent Lille top of Ligue 1. Mbappe, the younger brother of France and Real Madrid star Kylian, was sent off in Wednesday’s 3-2 home loss to Real Betis in Europe for elbowing an opponent. The 19-year-old put that incident behind him though as he came off the bench against Troyes to seal victory in stoppage time, after the hosts had taken a first-half lead through Portuguese full-back Tiago Santos. Mbappe celebrated his first goal since December…

Francis Sardauna in Katsina  The Katsina State Governor, Dikko Umaru Radda, has pledged to embark on a door-to-door campaign across the state to mobilise support for President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2027 general election. Radda made the pledge on Sunday at an endorsement rally organised in honour of him and President Tinubu by a coalition of 4,000 political groups and associations at the People’s Square in Katsina. He said the campaign would roll-out what he termed the unprecedented achievements of President Tinubu and that of his administration directly to the people at the grassroots to galvanize support for the…

The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has cautioned against restoring the petrol subsidy, describing the policy as fiscally unsustainable despite the severe economic pressures caused by rising petrol prices. The private-sector advocacy group, in a policy brief signed by its Chief Executive Officer, Muda Yusuf, on Sunday, said the recent escalation in petrol prices had increased transportation, logistics and production costs, weakening consumers’ purchasing power. It added that the recent increase in fuel prices also worsened the competitiveness challenges confronting businesses, particularly micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). CPPE’s position comes amid renewed calls for a return…

If a user faces a novel problem with how a machine works, it would still take time for that issue to get back to John Deere, which would verify it, then issue a PIP in Pro Service. In the meantime, the person dealing with the broken tractor won’t have the needed information to figure out exactly what is going on. Ideally, many of them would like to be able to troubleshoot the problem themselves, without having to use the company’s proprietary software. “They’re still not giving us access to that next level that we have to have for some of…