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Five people were killed and 40 others injured when a coach carrying Dutch tourists in eastern Switzerland crashed this week, police said on Friday. The accident happened at 4:45 pm (1445 GMT) Thursday between the communes of Susch and Zernez in the far-eastern canton of Graubunden. The coach “veered off the road in a construction zone and overturned”, Graubunden police said in a statement, adding that “of the 45 adults on board, five died”. Three people had also been seriously hurt, while 37 others had suffered moderate or minor injuries, police said, adding that an investigation had been opened into…

Gbenga Sodeinde in Ado Ekiti What was expected to be a last-ditch effort to reconcile a troubled marriage reportedly ended in tragedy on Wednesday when a 25-year-old woman, Kehinde Onizeokaraga, was allegedly hacked to death by her husband during a peace meeting in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. The deceased’s husband, Ibrahim Sodiq, popularly known as Alfa Eleran and said to be a meat seller, allegedly attacked her with a machete after a disagreement escalated at the residence of a family acquaintance in the Dallimore area of the town. The couple, who are natives of Kogi State, had reportedly been battling…

By ObasEsiedesa, Abuja The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has commenced engagements with key stakeholders as part of plans to attract increased Chinese investment into Nigeria’s oil and gas sector and boost revenue accruing to the Federation Account. The Commission, in a statement by Head, Information and Public Relations Unit, Maryam Yusuf, said it is planning an Oil and Gas Investment Summit in China, tentatively scheduled for the end of November 2026, to showcase investment opportunities in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry to potential investors. Speaking during a stakeholder engagement in Abuja, Chairman of RMAFC’s Investment Monitoring Committee…

For the people behind the attacks, ClickFix now makes their job much easier. Prior to ClickFix, they would have needed to install the malware (tracked as Lorem Ipsum, security firm BlueVoyant said recently) using resource-intensive infrastructure, including SEO-manipulated and malvertised download portals, Microsoft-trusted signing certificates, and continuously rotated domains for delivering Microsoft Installer packages. “The pivot to ClickFix in late May 2026 eliminates the code-signing requirement entirely, substituting the legitimacy of a validly signed installer with a different form of legitimacy: a user voluntarily executing the malicious command in their own terminal,” BlueVoyant said. “[T]he ClickFix model broadens the victim pool…

The deputy chief vet added: “Private vets are well placed to recognise signs of the diseases, and this change will mean farmers can get a diagnosis more quickly.”Vaccination is the best tool available to help protect susceptible livestock, so I absolutely continue to urge farmers to speak to their vet about vaccinating their herd or flock.”The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said it had set up a new online system allowing vets to report confirmed cases.It said the changes would “mean fewer straightforward cases need to wait for laboratory results, giving farmers an answer sooner and helping…

The first known series of footprints from an adult Tyrannosaurus rex has been found in North Dakota by a team of scientists.The 23ft-long trackway – consisting of four three-toed footprints, two left and two right – was first identified in the south-west of the state, in the dinosaur fossil area known as Hell Creek Formation, last year by researchers from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Colorado and Liverpool John Moores University in the UK.The findings, which have now been published in a scientific journal, date from 66.5m years ago and are the first of their kind to…

Manchester City have been “the Kings of Manchester”.That coronation came from City’s £116m summer signing Elliot Anderson – and has been hotly debated in the build-up to the Manchester derby Super Sunday showdown at Old Trafford, which you can watch live on Sky Sports. Is Anderson right? Does City’s huge recent success mean they rule the roost? Or are Manchester United still No 1? Monterosa This content is provided by Monterosa, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the buttons below to amend your…

A painting by one of Britain’s leading 20th Century artists must stay in the country in the hope that one of its galleries or institutions will buy it, the government said.Sir Stanley Spencer, who was born and spent most of his life in Cookham, Berkshire, is probably best known for the series of artworks he created on the theme of resurrection.The Resurrection of the Good and the Bad, finished in 1915, is the first piece exploring that topic and is an “immensely valuable” piece to use in the study of his work, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport…

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka (NAU) Chapter, have suspended the indefinite strike at the university. NAU, a federal university in Anambra State, is popularly known as UNIZIK. PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that the ASUU-UNIZIK declared an indefinite strike at the university on Monday. The lecturers had stressed that the “sole reason” for their industrial action at the university was the “non-payment of the complete salary of August 2026.” They maintained that the industrial action would continue until the payment was fully paid by the university authorities. Suspension of industrial action The ASUU-UNIZIK…

Members of Nigeria’s National Assembly have resolved to suspend official visits to South Africa and boycott legislative seminars, conferences and other activities organised or hosted by the South African parliament. Clerk to the National Assembly, Kamoru Ogunlana, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. Mr Ogunlana, a lawyer, said the decision was prompted by the continuous xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and their businesses in South Africa, which have resulted in the deaths and injuries of several Nigerian citizens. He said the attacks had continued despite interventions by the Nigerian government and resolutions by the National Assembly. “The Leadership is particularly…