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Colombia’s newly inaugurated president, Abelardo De La Espriella announced the suspension of his schedule to lead emergency rescue efforts in Bogota’s earthquake-struck areas. At least 111 people have been killed in the powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake.Published On 10 Aug 202610 Aug 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Former Vice-President and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, on Monday appealed to the electorate in Osun State to support the party in the 15 August governorship election. Atiku made the appeal while speaking at the ADC campaign grand rally in Osogbo, the state capital. He said the ADC represented the interests of Nigerians, recalling his long-standing political relationship with the people of the state. Atiku said he had previously campaigned in Osun for Governor Ademola Adeleke and for his presidential bid, adding that the people had supported him on both occasions. “This is the fourth…

The Naira on Monday appreciated at the official market, trading at N1,360.14 to a dollar. Data from the official website of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) revealed that the Naira gained N5.54. This represented a 0.4 per cent gain when compared to Friday, when it traded at N1,365.68 per dollar. The gain is coming after four consecutive days of losses recorded the previous week. (NAN)

In healthcare, there’s growing concern over doctors becoming less clinically adept as they increasingly rely on AI tools. But what about the trainees – medical students, residents and fellows – who are using these tools before they have built their own clinical judgment? The idea of deskilling implies that someone possessed an ability and then lost it. Here, the danger is not just deskilling but never-skilling. Although a doctor who has forgotten how to reason is recoverable, one who never learned how may not be.OpenEvidence, essentially an AI chatbot for clinicians, has given this concern its most concrete form. About…

New vape shops will require planning permission and councils will get more powers to stop betting shops, under government plans aimed at improving high streets.Prime Minister Andy Burnham said town centres had been “hollowed out” by decades of decline and “for many people, the high streets they grew up with have become unrecognisable”.BBC News has exposed organised crime on high streets across the country, revealing shops selling illegal cigarettes and vapes, selling cannabis and cocaine, enabling illegal working and suspected money-laundering.The Conservatives and Reform said the proposals would lead to “more empty” shops, without tax relief for other small businesses.Burnham…

Nigeria’s healthcare sector needs more than additional funding to expand. It needs businesses capable of attracting capital, deploying it effectively and building institutions that can grow sustainably, healthcare stakeholders have said. That challenge was at the centre of the inaugural First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Healthcare Summit in Lagos, where the bank unveiled a N20 billion Healthcare Fund to support private healthcare businesses. The fund will provide financing to hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centres, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, maternity homes and other businesses across the healthcare value chain. The summit, themed “Financing Growth: Unlocking Opportunity, Building the Future of Healthcare,” brought together…

The rapid spread of generative AI tools has exposed deep vulnerabilities in conventional methods of academic assessment. This challenge came into sharp focus for me when I found evidence of widespread unauthorized use of artificial intelligence in an examination for my course on welfare economics and social-choice theory at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, last semester.Some students were reluctant to return to the classroom after a campus shooting earlier in the academic year, so I administered the midterm test as a take-home exam for the first time in nearly two decades of teaching the course. Although it was more…

The signs have been there since last year, when the collective strength of the players, not any masterplan from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), dragged the team to a 10th WAFCON title in Rabat. With twelve months to restrategise and rebuild a squad capable of surviving an increasingly competitive women’s football landscape, the Falcons, led by coach Justin Madugu, and the NFF instead stood still. So, there was no real surprise on Sunday when a 19th-minute free-kick from Cameroon’s Myriam Nyadjou was enough to end Nigeria’s title defence at the quarter-final stage in Casablanca, the earliest continental exit for the…

Academy Award nominee Jacob Elordi is in talks to star in Ari Aster‘s next film, A24’s “Scapegoat,” which already boasts fellow Oscar nominee Scarlett Johansson leading the cast. The logline for the film is being kept under wraps, but there’s been plenty of early speculation about the plot. Some say the thriller is about a doctor who operates on an internet-famous person; others say it’s a sci-fi romance; and still others have described it as more of a traditional drama for Aster. Aster wrote and will direct the film, with Lars Knudsen producing for their Square Peg banner. News of…

The Nigerian Law School has confirmed the death of a student who fell from the rooftop of a hostel at its Lagos Campus. The student, who was from the Enugu Campus, was in Lagos for the school’s externship programme and was temporarily accommodated at the Lagos Campus hostel. The school, in a statement shared on its Facebook on Monday by the Secretary to the Council and Director of Administration, Aderonke Osho, said the incident occurred at about 4 a.m. on Friday, 7 August. “Preliminary information indicates that, at about 4:00am on Friday, 7 August 2026, the student fell from the…