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Nigerian singer Innocent “2Baba” Idibia and his estranged wife, actress Annie Macaulay, have followed each other again on Instagram, fuelling reactions amid reports of tension between the singer and his partner, Natasha Osawaru, a member of the Edo State House of Assembly. PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that 2Baba and Annie unfollowed each other on social media days after the “African Queen” hitmaker announced their separation in January 2025. In July, rumours that the former couple had reconciled trended on social media after a video purportedly showing them together surfaced online. They, however, dismissed the speculation, saying the footage was old.…

Netanyahu rejects US Gaza plan, vows no pullout until Hamas disarmsIsraeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a Gaza plan hailed by US president Donald Trump, vowing no military pullout of Gaza until Hamas is “genuinely” disarmed.“Israel rejects the 15-point document,” Netanyahu said, referring to a plan endorsed in late July by Hamas.The Israeli military “will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is genuinely disarmed and will continue to thwart threats against our forces and our citizens,” Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting, Reuters reports.The document, the latest stage in a US-led ceasefire announced in October that has reduced…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has resolved more than 5,000 pending candidate complaints within five days, following an intervention by Segun Aina, the registrar. Fabian Benjamin, the acting director of public affairs and protocol at JAMB, made this known in a statement, explaining that the newly appointed registrar had to relocate his seat to the board’s SERVICOM unit to oversee the process directly. Besides, Benjamin emphasised that the registrar directed the Service Compact with all Nigerians (SERVICOM) unit to treat candidates’ grievances comprehensively and without delay. The statement explained that the initiative forms part of Aina’s broader effort…

What every U.K. AI startup wants to know these days is, how can I get office space in King’s Cross?   The area is so hot that a VC firm allegedly recently won a deal by promising a founder office space in the neighborhood. “We stop at nothing to win deals [for] and to support” founders, “including helping them source office space when needed,” the firm told me when asked about the rumor, declining to confirm or deny any details.  The neighborhood’s popularity began back in 2016 when DeepMind — then newly acquired by Google — moved in. Soon after,…

The Keminaissance will be delayed. For nearly a year, Conservative optimists and a clutch of supportive pundits have been forecasting an upturn in the fortunes of Kemi Badenoch, confident that her party will emerge from the crater it fell into in 2024, overtake Reform UK to become once again the main party of the right and, who knows, maybe, with a following wind, even push Labour aside and return to government. Every sign of strength from the Tory leader – a robust conference speech here, a viral clip on social media there – has been hailed as evidence of the…

As someone born on the cusp of the gen X-millennial divide, I am the perfect target for today’s 90s nostalgia. I played my modest, teenage part in the Battle of Britpop (verbal skirmisher, Blur division); I fervently sang – and, God help me, believed – that Things Can Only Get Better. Super Furry Animals were a band I knew only distantly, via the transgressive thrill of that song they had with all the swearing in. And yet the news they’ll be shirt sponsor for a Welsh football club this season has managed to whisk me straight back to a time…

James Gray continued his festival tour with Paper Tiger this weekend setting down in the Locarno Film Festival to receive an honorary award ahead of the film’s Swiss premiere on its landmark Piazza Grande. Meeting the press ahead of the screening on Sunday evening, Gray gave an insight into his vision for cinema and how that in turn shapes his filmmaking. “To me, movies are the most beautiful art form because it’s the closest thing we have to a dream… ? Your REM sleep is one and a half to two hours per night, if you’re lucky,” he said. He…

Some residents of Lekki Phase 1 have decried the prolonged power outage that has crippled activities in parts of the neighbourhood for almost two weeks following a transformer fault. The residents also condemned what they described as negligence, poor communication and indifference on the part of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company during the blackout. They expressed their displeasure in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday, saying the prolonged outage had imposed significant financial burdens on residents. According to them, the blackout had resulted in spoiled food items, while residents who depended on private generators had been…

And this was half-bad, half-good news for early humans living in Africa. Mild disaster “Sulfate aerosols in the stratosphere are more effectively transported to the hemisphere that is experiencing winter,” Park says. For our ancestors, this meant the Toba’s sulfate veil drifted northwards and thinned over their heads slightly sooner than it would if the eruption happened in the northern summer. On the other hand, the Northern Hemisphere has far more land, which cools down faster and further than the ocean, so a northern-winter eruption must have cooled the globe a bit more than the same eruption in July. But…

The prime minister is set to announce “a series of measures to make life easier” for those struggling with the cost of living in the coming days, Downing Street says.No 10 says Andy Burnham’s plans are to “give people some room to breathe”. He will also focus on ways of “improving high streets” as he embarks on a tour of the UK.But the government is facing continued pressure over its early release scheme for prisoners in England and Wales – with criticism of the fact that two of PC Andrew Harper’s killers will be eligible from next year.Burnham is also…