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JOSHUA J. OMOJUWA argues that Peter Obi’s visit to Benue was ill-timed When the news broke that Peter Obi’s convoy had been stopped in Benue, my first reaction was the one most Nigerians had. Another round of killings. Another set of families burying people they should not be burying. And on top of it, a presidential candidate prevented from performing the ordinary human act of turning up. Two things then became clearer. The first is that the blockade was indefensible. On Tuesday 8 September, less than two kilometres from Makurdi airport, along the Gboko Road near the Air Force Base,…

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here.A swirling vortex — involved in the solution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem.Credit: OpenAIOpenAI says that it has shown that the Navier–Stokes equations — which describe the motion of fluids — can break down. Whether or not this could happen is considered one of the trickiest problems in mathematics, and it was on a list of ‘Millennium Prize’ challenges. The US artificial-intelligence company published a preprint that describes a spinning fluid system that ramps up to infinite speeds in a…

Aryna Sabalenka’s grip on the US Open showed no sign of weakening on Thursday night as the two-time defending champion swept past Jessica Pegula 7-5, 6-2 to move one win from a third straight title.The top-seeded Belarusian star finished with 29 winners to Pegula’s 12, her relentless aggression turning what had been a 50-50 fight deep into the opening set into a one-sided affair that marked her 19th consecutive victory at Flushing Meadows.“I don’t know who pissed her off today,” the third-seeded Pegula said. “Hopefully it wasn’t me totally, but might have been. I don’t know. She played insane. She…

Stephen King has weighed in on Mike Flanagan‘s adaptation of Carrie, and he has a positive review. The supernatural horror miniseries premieres on October 7 on Prime Video with Summer H. Howell in the title role. Ahead of its release, the author of the 1974 novel the series is based on shared his take on the remake. “Mike Flanagan’s version of CARRIE is brilliant,” King wrote on Threads. “What it has to say about social media is shocking and true.” Carrie follows misfit high‑schooler Carrie White (Howell) after having spent her life hidden away inside the walls of her home…

Nyesom Wike, the former Rivers Governor and current FCT Minister, has become the most visible, voluble and overbearing individual on the Nigerian political stage. He is more assertive and aggressive than his boss, Mr President. He hosts more pro-government media interactions, grants more interviews and issues more statements than the Minister of Information and presidential spokesmen. He is far, far louder than any other member of Tinubu’s cabinet. He boasts that APC would have won the recent Osun gubernatorial election if he had been in charge. He has positioned himself as the numero uno defender of the commander-in-chief and implies…

New Apple CEO John Ternus holds the new foldable iPhone Duo during Apple’s event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, U.S. Sept. 9, 2026. Carlos Barria | ReutersApple’s first folding phone is getting a tepid response Chinese consumers that are focused more on how much it costs versus existing foldables from domestic rivals.”I won’t buy it this year. I’ll buy the second-generation foldable next year,” one user on social media platform WeChat said, according to CNBC’s translation, after Apple announced the iPhone Duo at an event on Wednesday. It’s priced at 15,999 yuan ($2,230) in China.U.S. consumers “earn…

Fears that modern electronic devices may harm children are nothing new. Gadgets with screens of any size have long been allegedly melting, rotting, and/or corrupting the brains of youths for decades. However, a medical case report published this week offers a new and alarming way our digital doodads may cause physical harm. In BMJ Case Reports, two UK doctors, Mara Znagoveanu and Edward Artley, report the case of a boy who came to an emergency department with alarming marks on his abdomen. The marks were described as being in a patch about 15 centimeters (six inches) wide, made of flat,…

A clear generational divide between younger and older republicans is forming at the RNC Midterm Convention and it all surrounds one key question: should the US be at war with Iran? Al Jazeera’s Emma Withrow is there.Published On 11 Sep 202611 Sep 2026Share Young republicans break with Trump over Iran war on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Oyo State has recorded 131 suspected Lassa fever cases from January to 10 September 2026, with six confirmed cases and one death. The state Commissioner for Health, Oluwaserimi Ajetunmobi, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan on Thursday. Ms Ajetunmobi clarified that the figures did not indicate an ongoing Lassa fever outbreak in the state. She said that Lassa fever was endemic in some parts of the state, adding that a single confirmed case was technically regarded as an outbreak. “But such suspected cases could not be classified as confirmed until laboratory tests…

BBC Weather Presenter Simon King explains the figures.