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Manchester United’s English head coach Michael Carrick (C) takes a team training session at their Carrington Training Complex in Manchester, northwest England on September 9, 2026 on the eve of their UEFA Champions League football match against Sabah. (Photo by Darren Staples / AFP) Michael Carrick believes Manchester United are strong enough to compete with Europe’s best on their return to the Champions League for the first time in three years. Carrick earned his position as permanent United boss after leading the Red Devils to third place in the Premier League in his interim spell last season. Having secured a…

In August 2009, at the very first Gamescom expo, I sat in a small meeting room in Germany and played Mario Kart and World of Warcraft on a laptop, via technology that was then completely new: cloud gaming. It was a demonstration for a yet-to-be-launched service called Gaikai that promised to let you play any game in a browser window, without a console. (Here is an ancient video of that demonstration, featuring a very young Keza.) With a single click I could launch into any game, hosted on servers hundreds of miles away. It really did look like the future.Since…

Kuni Tyessi in Abuja The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, has warned heads of tertiary institutions against compromising the integrity of accreditation exercises, saying officials who manipulate the process risk losing their jobs while private institutions could have their licences revoked. Alausa issued the warning on Wednesday in Abuja at the inauguration of the Ministerial Committee on Strengthening the Accreditation and Quality Assurance System for Tertiary Institutions. He said the government would no longer tolerate institutions that present inflated or misleading records of their academic capacity during accreditation exercises, stressing that the quality of graduates produced by Nigerian tertiary…

British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has said the United Kingdom will sanction illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, describing the move as “overdue” and necessary to “salvage” a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.He made the comments on Tuesday as 11 nations joined the UK in supporting or ⁠considering curbs on trade in goods with settlements that are a barrier to a future Palestinian state.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listBut analysts say the step is far from enough to drive momentum for Palestinian statehood, threatened by ever-expanding settlements in the West Bank and an increasingly hostile…

Kayode Tokede   Nigerian Breweries Plc,has reported a strengthened financial position in the first  half (H1) of 2026, emerging debt-free with improved cash generation, positive retained earnings, and a stronger balance sheet. This achievement follows a significant recovery from the challenges faced in previous financial years.  The Finance Director, Maria Karaseva, disclosed this during her presentation at the company’s investor call.  According to Karaseva, the company recorded net revenue of over  N1 trillion. It maintained an asset base of approximately N1 trillion over the last six months,  reflecting continued business recovery and stronger financial resilience. She noted that the company increased…

Using employees’ AI abilities as a measure of whether they should get a bonus, promoted – or even sacked – is fast becoming more common.Accenture CEO Julie Sweet told the Rapid Response podcast in March: “Today, AI at Accenture is how we do work. So if you want to get promoted, you’ve got to do the things that we do in order to operate at Accenture.”And big names like Disney, Meta, JP Morgan and KPMG have introduced “AI leaderboards” to track and rank employees’ usage of the array of LLMs and platforms at their disposal, according to media reports, external.…

Rufai Oseni God forbid that Nigerian television lacks interviewers with knowledge and courage, but a journalist must resist the temptation to complete the argument for the guest or force personal opinions down the throats of his viewers. When a journalist crosses that thin line, he risks creating the impression of partisanship, even though he is not necessarily partisan. After reading my intervention on last week’s incident on Arise Television’s “Morning Show,” a friend, who is one of the leaders of public relations practice in Nigeria sent me a message. “What’s your professional view about Rufai Oseni?” I replied as follows:…

Nigeria’s Falconets will be under pressure to respond when they face China in their second Group F fixture at the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, following their disappointing 2-0 defeat to Spain in the opening game. Moses Aduku’s side arrived in Poland with high expectations, backed by Nigeria’s impressive history at the U-20 Women’s World Cup. However, the Falconets struggled to find their rhythm against the 2022 champions and were punished by a Spanish side that showed greater composure and efficiency in the decisive moments. The defeat has left Nigeria with little room for another below-par performance against China,…

Nostalgia. What a kick. And what a commercial boon for the music industry. Love the sound of 60s pop and 70s disco? You need the original synths if you’re a composer or producer. You listen to music on digital streams? Loser! Join the retro-future of vinyl enthusiasm, and feel the grooves under your fingers like your parents or grandparents used to. Or you can even make music physical again through the horrible medium of cassettes: all that plastic, all those tiny liner notes, all that high-speed dubbing.Retro-futurists cherish what they claim is the extra warmth and sonic richness of vinyl,…

Welcome to the ConversationA good sex life is key to a good life. Want to know how to improve yours, whether that’s practical advice on how to broach the subject of trying something new (and what to do if your partner reacts poorly); how to become more confident at talking dirty or giving constructive in-the-sack feedback; or even how to be intimate with your partner when you’re just plain knackered?No question is too niche or too embarrassing, too mild or too wild – from how to give great massages and tried-and-tested toys to spend your money on; to how to…