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NewsFeedUS President Donald Trump attacked Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, repeatedly calling him a ‘hater of Jews’ and ‘a hater of Israel.’ El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination on Tuesday, overcoming millions in campaign spending from pro-Israel lobbying groups.Published On 6 Aug 20266 Aug 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Gov. Oborevwori ..Transcorp, Manitoba, InfraCredit, CNG Initiative pledge investmentsBy Babajide Komolafe, Economy Editor & Egufe Yafugborhi, Ochuko AkuophaASABA—Delta State yesterday unveiled a roadmap to unlock its nearly 3,000 megawatts of installed electricity generation capacity, with plans to establish a Delta State Electricity Regulatory Commission and a Delta State Rural Electrification Agency, as major investors in the power sector pledged support for the state’s electricity market. Unveiling the roadmap at the Delta State Economic and Investment Summit, Mrs. Uche Okafor, Consultant to the Delta State Government on Electricity Market Development, said the state’s Electricity Sector Law had created the legal foundation…

Andre Lavoie joined SpaceX in 2009 as an engineer, designing the pressure tanks that help power its rocket. He was paid partly in stock – a common trade-off at start-ups as a hiring incentive.Some 17 years on, those 200,000 shares he was given are worth about $23m (£17m) – and the 63-year-old says he’s ready to start cashing them as soon as he can.”Every chance I get going forward, I’ll sell a little bit more,” he tells the BBC. “The shares have been going up so radically it keeps messing up my life plans – you really can’t know the…

‘To be honest with you, I thought you’d just believe me.” That was the breathtaking response of Prof Jason Arday when the Guardian interrogated the details he provided of an alleged racist campaign of intimidation against him, which involved a severed pig’s head, a masked man wielding a knife and bullets in the post. Arday had been unable to provide evidence, and when the Guardian contacted the relevant parties, including a south London butcher and the police, his claims were either refuted or could not be verified.Arday, whose appointment as professor of sociology of education at Cambridge became a widely…

RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 05 August 2026 Centromeres are regions of chromosomes that are required for cell division. Complete sequence characterization of centromeres from a diverse group of 65 individuals reveals dynamic and rapid patterns of mutational change, providing information about centromere evolution and function.

FIFA’s top leadership has reaffirmed its support for president Gianni Infantino following a meeting in Rabat, Morocco, where officials discussed the organisation’s governance, communication processes and the fallout from the withdrawn FIFA Forward Enterprise proposal. The meeting, held on Wednesday, was attended by Infantino, FIFA Secretary General Mattias Grafström and members of the FIFA Management Board. Here are five key takeaways from the meeting: 1. FIFA Management Board backs Infantino FIFA said its Secretary General and the Management Board members present reaffirmed their “full support” for Infantino, describing him as the only official elected by the organisation’s 211 Member Associations.…

In about two weeks, I will commence my fourth month in the MTN Media Innovation Programme (MIP) at Pan-Atlantic University’s School of Media and Communication. It is a six-week residential programme spread across six months for media practitioners in Nigeria. But in such a short time, my mind has been stretched, and I have been challenged not only to think outside the box but also to question the status quo, especially how journalism is practised in Nigeria. On 18 May, my journey back to the classroom began. It had been 13 years since I last walked out of a university…

By Esther Onyegbula LAGOS — THE ongoing face-off between social media personality, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, VDM and the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 2 Command, AIG Moshood Jimoh, has evolved beyond a social media dispute into a significant test of the Nigeria Police Force’s accountability mechanisms and the integrity of the country’s criminal justice system. Although public attention has largely centred on the exchanges between the activist and the senior police officer, the underlying issues extend far beyond the two personalities. Also Read: Why I ignored police invitation to Lagos — VeryDarkMan At the…

Facebook owner Meta says an issue during an evaluation by an independent testing company allowed one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models to connect to the internet and hack another organisation’s system.The announcement follows recent incidents across the AI industry, including breaches by OpenAI and Anthropic models, that have raised cyber-security concerns.A Meta spokesperson told the BBC that it was investigating the hack that was caused by a “misconfiguration”, which it described as similar to previously reported incidents at other firms.The incidents have prompted researchers and governments to call for tougher safeguards and more rigorous testing.Meta said the security trials…

ASUS, in partnership with Konga, has officially unveiled its first flagship experience store in West Africa, located in Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos. The state-of-the-art facility represents a major investment in customer experience, product accessibility, and digital innovation. The launch also reinforces Konga’s growing reputation as a preferred gateway for leading global technology brands into the Nigerian market. The landmark event attracted the Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Dr. Kingsley Tochukwu Udeh, (SAN), who officially launched the store. The ASUS team was led by EMEA General Manager, Aaron Tsai, alongside Business Development Manager, Sunnie Chen and others. The minister described…