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Staying alive with kidney failure in Nigeria often means racing against cost and distance to find a dialysis machine. With most patients paying out of pocket and just over 200 centres clustered in big cities, access is still a luxury for many. For more than a decade, the Redeemed Christian Church of God, through its His Love Foundation, has quietly been closing that gap, installing dialysis centres, ICUs, and diagnostic units inside public hospitals across the country. On September 24, that effort grew again with the commissioning of the Enoch and Folu Adeboye Dialysis Centre at FMC Asaba – another faith-built lifeline for patients fighting to…

Google is reportedly nearing the launch of its long awaited Gemini 4 model, after dawdling behind rival developers on flagship AI releases. Speaking with The Information during his first media appearance as the leader of Google’s DeepMind division, Koray Kavukcuoglu said that Gemini 4 is currently in its refinement stage, and that the company is aiming to launch the model “much earlier” than the end of the year.“Our intention is to, like — as soon as possible — to release an early post-training output because we see the results and we are excited,” Kavukcuoglu told the publication, adding that Google…

Home Office orders review after two small boats reach Kent without being intercepted by Border ForceNot every migrant boat can be intercepted, a cabinet minister has suggested, after two uncontrolled landings from the Channel in two days. The Press Association says Lucy Powell, the education secretary, said “(you) can’t stop everything all of the time”, the day after 21 people were detained when a boat evaded Border Force to reach the beach of Samphire Hoe in Dover. PA reports: double quotation markIt was the second undetected landing in two days, following a dinghy making it to shore at Folkestone on…

Greater amounts of REM and deep sleep were associated with lower risks of dozens of diseases, and less than 5 hours of total sleep was associated with high risks of disease, according to a new study published September 17th in the open access journal PLOS Medicine by Shengzhi Sun of Capital Medical University, China, and colleagues. Sleep quantity and quality is a priority of China’s National Health Commission and a focus in China more broadly. The most recent 2026 China Sleep Health White Paper finds that while the average surveyed Chinese person sleeps 6.97 hours per night, 23 percent sleep…

To get the advisory changed, ShinyHunters told FBI director Kash Patel and the assistant director of the FBI Cyber Division, Brett Leatherman, that they had one week to comply with demands or presumably risk a breach of sensitive employee data. FBI warns employees to be safe Not many details have been released on how ShinyHunters got access to the data. ShinyHunters would only tell NYT that “it had weaponized a zero-day, or previously undiscovered, computer bug within the Oracle PeopleSoft software, an application that companies use for human resources and financial management.” So far, Oracle is silent on that bug,…

In Nigeria, one term in office is never enough for State Governors. They seek second term in office as an entitlement. But in this piece, Emmanuel Ugwu-Nwogo, writes that while such ambition is legitimate, governors should borrow a leaf from Governor Peter Mbah, who recently unveiled a compendium of his accomplishments in the last three years to back his quest for mandate renewal. Since the inception of the present democratic dispensation it has become the norm for governors to aspire for second term in office at the expiration of their first term. One can easily find a pin in a…

RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 23 September 2026 The plant Rhynchospora tenuis has no exchange of DNA between parental chromosomes during the production of male and female sex cells. Even so, it still transmits chromosomes and retains sexual reproduction. This unusual system restores parental genetic variants, leading to clonal-like inheritance across generations despite sex-cell production and fertilization.

Meta announced an advanced new set of virtual reality glasses and a collection of new smart glasses Wednesday, including an audio-only version without a camera.At the firm’s Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, California, executives said the new Ray-Ban Meta models set new standards for battery life and weight. They said the new glasses with screens in the lenses squeeze capabilities previously reserved for a full headset into a light set of spectacles that rest on a user’s ears.The new wearables come at a time of uncertainty for the smart glasses category, which is broadly facing a backlash from sceptics…

New analysis of school funding by the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies shows the budget per pupil is growing faster than expected, by 9% in real terms between 2025-26 and 2028-29. This is partly because of various government top-ups to the budget and falling pupil numbers in some areas. Economist Luke Sibieta said asking schools to offer more vocational routes would be a “big change” on top of the significant reforms to support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. He said there was a “big question mark” over whether there were enough people to teach technical and vocational…

Former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai on Wednesday addressed the public about his current predicament and the striking silence of several close associates, colleagues, and family members he had steadfastly supported in the past. The former governor, who is being detained by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over corruption allegations, issued a statement on Facebook titled “My Relationships and the Aftermath.” In the statement, Mr El-Rufai said he is at peace with his conscience, choosing magnanimity and faith over bitterness despite the perceived abandonment by political allies and personal friends during his trial. Acknowledging the…