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Nume Ekeghe External reserves have crossed the $54 billion mark, rising to $54.08 billion as of September 3, 2026, from $41.50 billion recorded on the same date in 2025, representing an increase of $12.58 billion, or 30.3 per cent, year-on-year.Data on the external reserves obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria’s website showed that the latest position represents a significant strengthening of external buffers over the past year, with reserves adding more than $12.5 billion between September 2025 and September 2026. The build-up has also been substantial since the beginning of the year. Reserves stood at $45.61 billion on January…

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY – SEPTEMBER 4: Andy Ruiz Jr. and Damian Knyba trade punches during their heavyweight bout at Prudential Center on September 4, 2026 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Ed Mulholland/Getty Images)Getty ImagesIt seemed possible as I broke down the fight earlier this week, and on Saturday night in New Jersey, it happened. Damian Knyba pulled off the upset, dropping Andy Ruiz Jr. and winning a unanimous decision. The 6-foot-7 Knyba used his length and jab to pepper Ruiz through the 12 rounds. Ruiz didn’t have the foot speed, length or activity to overcame Knyba’s gifts and a…

At least 14 people from across Serbian civil society were targeted with advanced spyware earlier this year in what the digital rights group Share Foundation said was the largest documented ​wave of such infection in Serbia to date.The wave of spyware infections was discovered in August after Apple notified people in 110 ⁠countries that they had probably been victims ⁠of mercenary spyware.The Citizen Lab, which carries out forensic analyses of spyware attacks, released an analysis on Wednesday showing that at least one of the Serbians had been targeted with the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, which would have given the attacker…

File image. By Juliet Umeh What happens after the votes have been counted and an election won? For Nigeria’s democracy, the answer may sometimes lie beyond the ballot box. That question has come into sharper focus following a revelation by Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, about what happened behind the scenes after Gov. Ademola Adeleke’s re-election in the August 15 Osun State governorship election. Read Also: 2027: Outrage trails Donald Duke’s human sacrifice revelation Wike disclosed that he personally instructed Adeleke to publicly reaffirm his support for President Bola Tinubu, thank the President for what he described…

Ten-year-old George was out on a walk at Portmuck Harbour with his parents when he spotted something unusual.”It was just the weird patterns on it,” he told BBC News NI. “The bits that stuck out, it just didn’t look like a rock. I thought it was a bone, but I just wasn’t too sure. So I asked my dad and he said it was definitely a fossil.”This fossilised hunk of whale bone has lain hidden in the earth on Portmuck Beach for possibly millennia.Only the back of the head was visible to George, invisible for centuries was the beak, which…

Alexia Putellas makes her London City Lionesses debut as the home side beat Manchester United 2-1 in the first game of the Women’s Super League season.

The late British stage and screen actor Ian Charleson, who died of AIDS-related causes in 1990 at age 40, is mostly remembered for his role in the 1981 Oscar winner Chariots of Fire. That inescapable attachment haunts Charleson, played with raw determination, grace and an almost overwhelming depth of feeling by Andrew Scott in Elsinore, a tremendously moving account of the final year in the Scottish actor’s life. When his agent reminds him that he starred in one of the most celebrated films of all time, Charleson shoots back: “And all anybody can remember about it is the theme music.”  Scott’s searing…

Nollywood star, Adunni Ade believes the industry must embrace growth without losing the authenticity that makes Nigerian stories unique. In this interview, she discusses her career, versatility, motherhood, family, work and finding greater contentment in life. Ferdinand Ekechukwu brings the excerpts: What’s been happening to Adunni lately? I’m doing really well. I’m in a very interesting season of my life right now. Motherhood, work, family, everything is happening at once. It can get a little crazy, but I’m genuinely grateful. I feel like I’m learning to enjoy life a little more and not put so much pressure on myself. How is Baby…

Our Correspondents With the Presidential and National Assembly elections scheduled for Saturday, January 16, 2027, and the Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections fixed for Saturday, February 6, 2027, political parties have begun positioning their candidates for what is expected to be one of Nigeria’s most keenly contested electoral cycles. In this first series, THISDAY presents a guide to the presidential and governorship candidates contained in the material published by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), providing voters with a state-by-state overview of the governorship contenders and the political parties under which they are seeking election.The presidential list contains…

Islamabad, Pakistan – Staff nurse Razia Noreen was at a medicine cupboard on the nursery ward of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad’s largest public-sector hospital. She was two doors from the babies in her care, preparing the morning’s injections.As she shut the cupboard door, she saw through the nursery’s glass panel a light too sharp and too red to be anything ordinary. She did not wait to understand what it was.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listIt was 6:38am on Wednesday, August 26. Elsewhere in the ward, her colleague, Sister Nasreen, was already running out, shouting for…