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For many footballers, retirement comes with a difficult question: what next? For Ben Iroha, that question had an answer long before he played his last professional game. The former Super Eagles defender already knew where he wanted to live, what business he wanted to pursue and how he wanted life to look after football. His answer was Dallas, Texas. “I planned my future already before the end,” Iroha told PREMIUM TIMES during a recent reunion of members of Nigeria’s celebrated 1994 and 1996 football generations. “I knew I’m gonna live in Texas.” It was not a decision he made after…

Commercial motorcyclists in Bwari Area Council, FCT, have decried rising cases of motorcycle theft in communities across the area. The motorcyclists expressed their concerns in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Bwari, Abuja. The riders called on security agencies to implement stronger security measures to curb the menace. They also decried the frequent seizure of motorcycles by government officials over alleged revenue defaults and parking violations. The riders said the situation was adversely affecting their livelihoods, especially those who depend on commercial motorcycle operations as their major source of income. One of the riders, Mallam…

For over a decade, the narrative surrounding African wealth and global mobility followed a predictable path. High-net-worth individuals across the continent routinely redirected private capital abroad, purchasing foreign residency and citizenship in the Caribbean, Europe, and the Middle East. Today, that dynamic is quietly reversing. Facing widening foreign direct investment (FDI) deficits and fiscal pressures on traditional revenue sources like commodities and foreign aid, a growing number of African governments, from Mauritius to Botswana and Ethiopia are entering the investment migration market as hosts rather than mere sources of export capital. This shift is a pragmatic recognition of changing economic…

The idea that autonomous, thinking machines may one day destroy property, hierarchy and inequality is as old as western political thought. In Aristotle’s Politics, the philosopher cites a fantasy from the Iliad, in which machines begin to act independently of human direction, concluding: “If every tool could perform its own work when ordered, or by seeing what to do in advance … if thus shuttles wove and quills played harps of themselves, master-craftsmen would have no need of assistants and masters no need of slaves.”The dream that automation could inaugurate a classless society is also present in the writings of…

Fighting has intensified on several fronts in Yemen as the government forces have carried out air attacks on Houthi positions in attempts to retake Mocha, days after the Iran-backed group captured the strategic port city, tightening its grip on the Red Sea – a vital shipping lane.The Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah (supporters of God), have accused Saudi Arabia of launching more than 100 air attacks on Yemen within the past 48 hours.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listSaudi Arabia backs the internationally recognised government, which has described the latest fighting as a “battle for survival”.The fighting has…

Week 1 of the 2026 NFL season is officially here, and what better way to begin this season than by having football played on four different days? We had a Super Bowl rematch on Wednesday, Australia football on Thursday and then get a full slate to digest on Sunday, plus “Monday Night Football.” As we do every week, we’ve collected all of the best picks and gambling content from CBSSports.com and SportsLine and put them in one place, so you can get sports betting picks against the spread from our CBS Sports experts as well as additional feature content for each game, including…

International sales company Parallax Films has boarded “Aman,” writer-director Rahul Roye’s short film about a trans man who discovers he is pregnant on the eve of his gender-affirming surgery, for worldwide sales. The announcement comes ahead of the film’s world premiere in the Short Cuts competition at the Toronto Film Festival, after which it travels to the BFI London Film Festival for its European premiere in that festival’s competition section, which selects 10 shorts from across the world. Parallax Films is an international sales agent rooted in Sinophone cinema with teams based in Asia and Europe, focused on bringing high-quality…

By Luminous Jannamike ABUJA — The Adewole Adebayo-Bugaje Presidential Campaign Council weekend declared that four years is enough to rescue Nigeria from corruption, insecurity, poverty and bad governance, insisting that its candidate, Prince Adewole Adebayo, offers the most credible alternative ahead of the 2027 presidential election. The campaign argued that Nigerians have heard enough promises from the established political class and should instead judge presidential contenders by the quality of their ideas, preparedness, integrity and ability to deliver measurable results within a single term. Speaking at a press conference in Abuja, Chief Communications Adviser to the campaign, Comrade Mark Adebayo,…

Six people have died and 107 have been rescued from a stricken Indonesian passenger ferry in the Java Sea, Indonesia’s search and rescue agency has said.A search and rescue operation was launched after contact was lost with the Virgo Transport 8 ship, which was carrying 243 people, as it encountered bad weather, Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said. The search for the remaining passengers is ongoing.The ferry was travelling from Surabaya to the South Kalimantan city of Banjarmasin and was last reported to be about 150km (93 miles) south of Banjarmasin around 02:00 local time on Sunday (18:00 GMT on…

Entrepreneur and creative executive, Mofoluwato Anidugbe, has ventured into agriculture with the launch of Daily Food Farms, a managed agricultural platform aimed at making land ownership and food production more accessible to professionals and individuals. Anidugbe, who serves as Vice President and A&R at the music label where he works alongside his brother, singer Kizz Daniel, said his experience in entertainment, fashion and hospitality has shaped his approach to building businesses and creating systems that can grow beyond him. He said his interest in agriculture developed from a simple concern about the rising cost of food and the question of…