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In May 2026, Yusuf Buhari won the APC primary for the Sandamu/Daura/Mai’Adua Federal Constituency by 17,342 votes to 480. The margin left little room for interpretation. For those that barely recognise the name, Yusuf is the son of the late former President Muhammadu Buhari, and Daura, which sits at the heart of this constituency, is where his father was born and buried. The emotional and political weight of that geography is not incidental to his campaign but central to it. Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State is backing him, with the APC machinery in the area aligned. For the 2027…

The bioluminescent beams of “fairy folk” are shining again from a nature reserve in North Yorkshire for the first time in a century after the successful reintroduction of endangered glowworms.Female glowworms were spotted over multiple weeks at Nosterfield nature reserve this summer following a no-frills, almost zero-budget reintroduction of the much-loved invertebrates, which have vanished from the British countryside in recent decades and are notoriously difficult to re-establish.The reintroduction by volunteer “glow-getters” and the independent ecologist Pete Cooper involved the authorised collecting of a small number of glowworms from a local donor site, breeding them in captivity and rearing hundreds…

Nigeria’s Falconets will launch their 2026 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup campaign on Monday when they face former champions Spain in a high-profile Group F encounter at the Stadion Sosnowiec. The match, scheduled for 4p.m. Nigerian time, presents Nigeria with an immediate test of their ambitions at the tournament and an opportunity to give Africa its first victory at Poland 2026. The seven-time African champions arrived in Poland following an extensive period of preparation and will now face one of the strongest teams in the competition in their opening fixture. With Ghana already beaten 3-0 by Ecuador and Tanzania suffering…

Hirokazu Koreeda is not the world’s most prolific director or even Japan’s (that honor goes to Takashi Miike, who passed the 100-film milestone years ago). But he is certainly one of the most versatile and unpredictable; there are few directors who could follow the heart-wrenching poignancy of Still Walking (2008), a film about a family grieving for the death of a son, with Air Doll (2009), in which a wide-eyed inflatable sex doll comes magically to life. Koreeda is frequently compared to Yasujirō Ozu, who still casts a long shadow over world cinema even though he died in 1963, aged…

ABUJA — The Managing Director of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND, Akintunde Sawyerr, has said research showed that the student loan scheme reduced the tertiary education dropout rate by 20 per cent in 2025. Sawyerr disclosed this on Sunday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, saying available research indicated that the scheme had helped beneficiaries remain in tertiary institutions and complete their studies. “There is some other evidence from the research that has been done that shows that we reduced by 20 per cent the dropout rate last year. There is clear evidence that this is working,”…

Renowned business executive and entrepreneur, Lawal Garba, has returned to his alma mater, Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Zaria, with a message to students that integrity, excellence and resilience remain critical ingredients for lasting success. Garba, Chairman/CEO of Trobell International Nigeria Ltd, spoke at the weekend during the second edition of ABU’s “Lunch with the Vice-Chancellor” programme at the Yusufu Bala Usman Hall, Main Campus, Samaru. The programme was introduced last year to provide a relaxed platform for interaction between the Vice-Chancellor, students and accomplished personalities who can share experiences capable of shaping their academic and professional development. Delivering the keynote…

LAHINCH, IRELAND – SEPTEMBER 06: Players and captain of Team GB&I pose with the Walker Cup following their victory on day two of the Walker Cup at Lahinch Golf Club on September 06, 2026 in Lahinch, County Clare. (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)Getty ImagesAfter a dominant morning foursomes session that saw the United States sweep all four matches and extend its lead to 9½-6½, the outlook appeared bleak for GB&I. But the afternoon singles matches quickly changed the complexion of the competition.GB&I came out firing, winning the first four singles matches to immediately cut into the American advantage and inject…

When Public Citizen pressed TeraWulf to commit to meeting publicly with the community around its Maryland facility, the company said it has no such obligation and declined. “We’ve got them on record saying FERC [Federal Energy Regulatory Commission] rules don’t obligate us to meet in person with the community, so we’re not going to,” said Slocum. This was the same attitude seen in Somerset, New York. And that difficulty with accountability operates at every level of the data center tech stack. Legislation In early June, the New York State Legislature passed the Responsible Data Center Development Act, an omnibus bill…

Politics has a way of turning yesterday’s friends into today’s fiercest critics. When power and interests collide, old alliances can quickly unravel, leaving behind accusations, bitter memories and a scramble to explain who caused the damage. That is the atmosphere surrounding the growing political tension in Kwara State, where FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has accused Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of creating the crisis now troubling the state’s political space. Wike’s message is blunt, as always: the fire in Kwara was not started by outsiders. According to him, it began within the governor’s own political house. For AbdulRazaq and his supporters, however,…

A decade ago in September 2016, Leicester City were getting ready to play in the Champions League. Now? They sit 17th in League One, the lowest position in the club’s history since they entered the Football League in 1894. Russell Martin has led the Foxes to just one win in their first five games, and on Saturday they were battered 4-0 at home by Oxford United.Leicester fans were chanting ‘you’re getting sacked in the morning’ at Martin at the King Power Stadium, who would have been desperate for a good start to turn his reputation around after a dismal end…