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By Adegboyega Adeleye A chieftain of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Senator Victor Umeh, has clarified that the party is not planning a parallel result collation system for the 2027 general elections. Umeh said the NDC would instead have agents at polling units who would collate results declared at the units and transmit them to the party’s situation room for independent collation. He spoke on Channels Television’s Politics on Friday while reacting to the debate over the NDC’s proposed system for monitoring and transmitting polling-unit results. On whether the arrangement amounted to a parallel result system, Umeh said: “No, it…

Rearing the snails – as well as other critically endangered invertebrates such as scarlet malachite beetles, ladybird spiders and tadpole shrimp – has become a family affair.Ian’s wife Kerry and their sons Jake, George and Ben, are also fully invested.”You’ve got to have a certain mindset to walk out into a freezing cold lake in the middle of January,” Ben, 27, explained.”But knowing that you’re helping is more than enough to make it all worth it.”Every little thing has its place in the ecosystem and if you take a tiny little cog out of any machine it’s going to stop…

Key eventsShelton is attempting to become the youngest American man to reach a US Open final since Andy Roddick won the title here at 21 in 2003. The 23-year-old has been remarkably efficient when reaching the business end of tournaments this season: he has made four previous semi-finals – Dallas, Munich, Stuttgart and Montreal – and won the title every time. Those trophies also made him the first American man since Sam Querrey in 2010 to win tour titles on hard, clay and grass in the same season. Tonight he will go for five finals from five semi-final appearances.ShareIf tonight’s…

Corporations are already selling off mining rights to asteroids. These massive balls of rock and ore and minerals and ice up in space, far out of the reach of humanity, and mostly named after ancient Greek or Roman goddesses, are being traded like real estate by greedy suits with telescopes.There are half a dozen asteroids in American sculptor Liz Larner’s exhibition at Camden Art Centre, her first institutional exhibition in the UK, plonked on the floor like they’ve just burned through the atmosphere on their way in from space. Each one is based on a Nasa scan of a real…

Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, has fulfilled her ₦10 million education pledge to 12-year-old Ogun State artist, Master Morenikeji Ebunoluwa Joshua, less than a month after being impressed by his artistic talent. The ₦10 million Education Development Trust Fund, presented to Joshua through the Ogun State Government, is to support his education through the tertiary level. The First Lady had announced the pledge on August 18 after spotting Joshua displaying a portrait he had painted of her at the launch of the South-West Zonal National Food Bank Programme at the Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta. Impressed by the quality of his…

Ndubuisi Francis in Abuja  The Federal Government has announced the commencement of payment of N18 billion, being outstanding severance benefits to 2,700 ex-workers of the defunct national air carrier, Nigeria Airways. The airline was liquidated in 2005 by the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo contrary to the recommendation of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, for a privatisation option. The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele, who briefed journalists in Abuja, Friday, disclosed that 2,100 former employees had been paid. Another 600 beneficiaries in batches eight…

Federal prosecutors have reached a tentative plea agreement with a former CIA officer accused of stealing hundreds of gold bars worth more than $40m from the US spy agency and hiding them in his basement, court records show.David Rush and federal justice department prosecutors have a “plea agreement in principle”, the parties said in a Friday court filing. The parties also asked a judge to extend the 17 September deadline for three weeks through 8 October to allow them time to “resolve the matter prior to an indictment”.“The parties need additional time to prepare the paperwork, including an agreed upon…

A visitor pauses at one of the reflecting pools at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at ground zero on the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Sept. 11, 2026.Jeenah Moon | Getty ImagesOn Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists backed by al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger airliners. They flew two planes into the twin skyscrapers of the World Trade Center in New York, the first at 8:46 a.m. and the second at 9:03 a.m., and both towers collapsed later that morning. A third plane crashed into the Pentagon, in Arlington County, Virginia, while a fourth — believed to have…

inDrive, a global mobility and delivery services platform, is gaining traction among Nigerian consumers as the country’s ride-hailing market continues to evolve, recording a 96 per cent increase in app installs and emerging as the number one ride-hailing app in Nigeria by installs. According to independent third-party data from Sensor Tower, inDrive has continued to grow its active user base, further strengthening its position in Nigeria’s evolving ride-hailing market, as consumers increasingly turn to mobility options that offer affordability, flexibility, and greater control over their rides. inDrive currently operates in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Benin City, Ibadan, Owerri, and Enugu,…

On Tuesday morning, 12-year-old Sundus al-Hamamdeh left her home in the Masafer Yatta village of Khirbet al-Fakhit, and went to school.It was the third day of the new school year in the occupied West Bank.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listBut when the sixth-grade student at al-Fakhit Secondary School returned from her classes, the house she had left behind was gone.Israeli forces had carried out a large-scale demolition operation in Khirbet al-Fakhit, destroying homes, livestock shelters, water infrastructure, and solar-power installations.For al-Hamamdeh, her house was more than four walls and a roof. It was her safe space, the place…