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One of my favourite summer memories is making collares de moras as a child in Extremadura, which involved threading wild blackberries on to a piece of straw to make little necklaces. We’d always eat some too, of course, as well as wearing them, and we’d always come home with stained hands and big smiles. At the time, I never imagined that one day I’d be cooking sardines and pairing them with those same wild berries, but that’s the magic of food. The ingredients that filled my childhood with such simple joy have become part of the dishes I love creating…

By Kayode Ajulo There are moments when an apparently modest decision carries a meaning far greater than its immediate subject. The United Nations’ recent move towards a more equitable representation of the world on maps is one such moment. To the casual observer, it may seem merely a technical question of cartography, of projections, proportions and geography. Yet beneath the geometry lies a profound human question: how do we represent one another, and what happens when representation itself becomes a form of inequality? For Africa, this question is not academic. For centuries, the continent has been described and interpreted largely…

The bankruptcy filing was made in the federal district court of New Jersey, where LIV Golf set up a subsidiary earlier in the summer.Chapter 11 protection postpones a US company’s obligations to its creditors, giving it time to reorganise its debts or sell parts of the business.PIF is providing a bankruptcy loan of $49.6m (£36.6m) – called ‘debtor in possession’ (DIP) financing – to help fund the process.When announcing its decision to withdraw funding, PIF said the “substantial investment required by LIV Golf over a longer term” was “no longer consistent” with its strategy.Despite its decision to stop bankrolling LIV…

Nigeria’s largest educational publisher, Learn Africa Plc, has announced the resignation of Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, a Non-Executive Director, from its Board of Directors, effective 7 September. The publisher disclosed this in a regulatory filing signed by DCSL Corporate Services Limited, the Company Secretary, on Tuesday. The company extolled Mr Aboyeji’s dedicated service and strategic guidance to the educational publisher in the previous years. Mr Aboyeji has been instrumental in the company’s growth in the educational technology space, Learn Africa added. “The Board expresses its sincere gratitude for his dedicated service and strategic guidance, which have been instrumental to the Company’s growth…

On August 4, Grant de Swardt, an independent AI consultant in East Sussex, UK, noticed something strange going on with his Claude Max 20x account. He hadn’t been working that day, yet his token usage was climbing. The next day, he disabled everything he had attached to Claude and did not work with it. Token consumption again increased. “In the clearest controlled interval, it increased from 45% to 55% while I performed no work, scheduled Cowork tasks were paused or completed, Dispatch/cloud execution was disabled, and there was no corresponding active local Claude Code task,” de Swardt told TechCrunch. What…

A human rights activist, Inibehe Effiong, has urged the 2027 presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi, to stop his cautionary and diplomatic approach to issues and politics to exert his constitutional rights as a Nigerian. Mr Effiong made the remarks in a post on his verified X handle on Tuesday. The human rights lawyer was responding to a report that suspected political thugs disrupted Mr Obi’s visit to Benue State on Tuesday after they blocked his convoy from gaining access into the north-central state. Tuesday’s incident was the second time Mr Obi’s visit to Benue State would be disrupted, following Governor…

Erling Haaland’s double earned Manchester City a 2-0 win at FC Porto – but it was another game where Enzo Maresca’s side won but failed to convince.City’s main man up front was surprisingly wasteful in the first half, seeing two glorious chances in the area saved by Diogo Costa as well as heading another good chance over the bar. Porto’s goalkeeper was in inspired form in the opening 45 minutes, also saving well from Rayan Cherki from the rebound of one of Haaland’s chances. But Haaland took just two minutes of the second period to make amends, barging Jakub Kiwior…

Nollywood actress and filmmaker Ruth Kadiri has debunked reports claiming that she died, assuring fans that she is alive, safe and was not involved in any accident. Kadiri addressed the rumour on Sunday after false reports circulated across social media, causing concern among her followers. In a video shared on her Instagram page, the actress urged members of the public to disregard the reports and report social media pages spreading the false information. “Please note that I am alive. I did not have any accident, and I am safe,” she said. Kadiri said she was particularly concerned by the number…

By Peter Duru, Makurdi The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Benue State, Chief Michael Aondoakaa, SAN, has condemned the alleged attack on the Presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Peter Obi, in Makurdi, describing the incident as a “disgraceful assault on democracy.” Aondoakaa, a former Attorney General of the Federation, alleged that the attack was carried out by thugs led by the Senior Special Assistant to the Benue State Governor on Youths, during Obi’s visit to the state. Obi had reportedly travelled to Benue to engage with NDC stakeholders and visit survivors of the June…

Erik and Lyle Menendez will be before a parole board again in March, about 17 months earlier than expected.The brothers were originally sentenced in 1996 to life in prison for the 1989 fatal shootings of their father, Jose Menendez, and mother, Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills mansion. A Los Angeles judge reduced their sentences to 50 years to life in May 2025, making them eligible for parole because they were under age 26 when they committed their crimes.They were denied parole in August 2025, with the California parole board saying Lyle Menendez still displayed “anti-social personality traits like deception”…