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Funmi Ogundare  As social media, employee commentary and instant public reactions increasingly shape corporate narratives, Director, Business Transformation and Strategy, SKOT Communications, Edafe Onoriode, has called on organisations to develop coherent messaging frameworks to protect their reputation and maintain stakeholder trust. He said the speed at which corporate decisions can trigger public reactions, particularly in Nigeria, has made it increasingly difficult for organisations to rely on traditional communication channels such as press releases, scripted interviews and annual reports. Onoriode made this known in a statement titled, ‘The Architecture of Messaging: Designing Narratives That Speak to Your Market’, which examined how…

Head gardener Simon Tetlow said: “For 24 years, our orchards have provided the centrepiece for a fantastic tasting day to celebrate the start of autumn, but this year a combination of prolonged drought and unprecedented pest pressures [from the Apple Capsid bug] has left us without enough fruit to share with visitors.”He said the gardening team was already adapting what crops were grown, where they were planted and cultivation methods to improve resilience in future seasons.Organisers said they hoped Apple Day would return in 2027.

Felix Omoh-Asun in Benin City  Edo Refinery and Petrochemical Ltd has said it decided to intervene in some failed portions of the Benin-Sapele-Warri highway with palliative as part of its corporate and social responsibility (CSR) The management of the refinery disclosed this while rounding off the repairs. The refinery that it was concerned about stories of fallen trucks on the highway.  It said the company decided to intervene to prevent trucks and heavy duty vehicles from suffering further breakdown and loss of goods.  The palliative work was done at various sections of the road. These include Iyanomo, Ekosa, Obayantor, Ologbo…

Youth group threatens return to mass protests, sets deadline for Gyanesh Kumar to quit due to reports of meddling with voter lists.By Al Jazeera Staff and ReutersPublished On 25 Sep 202625 Sep 2026India’s ‘cockroach’ party youth movement has threatened to launch nationwide protests unless the country’s chief election officer does not resign by Saturday.Founder of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), Abhijeet Dipke, announced on Friday that protests would begin in Mumbai on October 2 – if Gyanesh Kumar does not step down.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe CJP, a satirical outfit born on Instagram in May after India’s…

US platform iLands allows users to easily create agents using plain language instructions. Credit: Michael Szebor/NatureLast month, Adrian Barnett, a statistician at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, received an e-mail request to share his data on potentially fraudulent research papers. The sender wanted to use the data for their own project. But they weren’t a fellow academic — or even a fellow human. The request came from an artificial-intelligence agent.Barnett is one of many researchers who have been contacted by AI agents wanting to collaborate or offering services for money, from developing research reports and fact-checking to writing…

At the heart of the just concluded Conference and Retreat for Senior Police Officers (CARSPO 2026) in Owerri was the Nigeria Police Force’s preparation for the 2027 General Elections, with IGP Olatunji Rilwan Disu setting out a six-pillar election-security roadmap anchored on intelligence, training, inter-agency coordination, technology, community partnership and absolute neutrality. and resolutions into practical action across Commands and Formations. Chiemelie Ezeobi writes that it afforded the police opportunity not just to map out its priorities for managing security but to challenge senior officers to turn those priorities into practical action across the country For Inspector-General of Police, IGP…

Tigray was cutoff from the world during the 2020-2022 civil war, which killed around 600,000 people.Published On 25 Sep 202625 Sep 2026Fears of a communications blackout in northern Ethiopia have increased as fighting flares between the federal military and forces from the Tigray region and ⁠their allies.Telecom and internet networks were reported to have stopped working on Friday as the conflict threatened to develop across the country into a full-scale war.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe interruptions have provoked fears of a repeat of the communications blackout and supplies blockade during the 2020-2022 civil war in ⁠northern Ethiopia,…

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The Charles Kene Ojukwu Initiative (CKOi) Okunenyeife Foundation has donated N5 million to Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, for the reconstruction of the walkway pavilion linking the old Medical Centre with the newly constructed University Medical Centre building. The donation was presented at the office of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ugochukwu Bond Stanley Anyaehie, ahead of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) accreditation exercise. The Manager of the CKOi Okunenyeife Foundation, Mr Sylvester Ojiugo, and a lecturer at the university, Dr Chibuike Abunike, presented the donation on behalf of the foundation’s founder, Dr Charles Kenechukwu Ojukwu. Abunike said the…

Andy Burnham has navigated his way through a first high-stakes meeting with Donald Trump at the UN general assembly in New York. The prime minister’s aides were delighted with how the meeting went, as Trump praised the US-UK relationship and described Burnham as a ‘natural businessman’. The anticipated sticking points – the Chagos Islands, West Bank settlement sanctions and Ireland – appear not to have derailed the talks nor cast a shadow over the future relationship. Lucy Hough speaks to policy editor Kiran Stacey – watch on YouTube