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Algeria booked their place in the quarter-finals of the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations after a commanding 2-0 victory over Kenya on Monday, while hosts Morocco finished top of Group A following a goalless draw against Senegal. The North Africans delivered a clinical first-half performance against the Harambee Starlets, scoring twice inside the opening 23 minutes before comfortably seeing out the contest to finish second in the group with six points, one behind unbeaten Morocco. Captain Marine Dafeur handed Algeria the perfect start in the 14th minute with a stunning long-range free-kick that flew beyond Kenyan goalkeeper Lilian Awuor.…

By Enitan Abdultawab Big Brother has unveiled Aikou’s role as one of the Gambits of season 11, instructing the housemate to keep his true identity a closely guarded secret. During his diary session on Wednesday, Big Brother revealed to Aikou that he is one of two of the season’s gambits, reminding him that his assignment comes with strict conditions and also warning him against revealing his role to the other housemates. “Aikou, you are the Gambit. From this moment on, your identity as the Gambit must remain a secret,” Big Brother told him. A visibly stunned Aikou appeared taken aback…

The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Enugu State chapter, has commended the Federal Commissioner representing Enugu State at the Federal Character Commission (FCC), Hon. Peter Ogbonna Eze, popularly known as Eze Mbanabo, for what it described as his outstanding commitment to youth empowerment and human capital development. In a statement signed by the Chairman of the council, Comrade Barth Ebuka Okoh, the youth body lauded Hon. Eze for creating unprecedented opportunities for young people across Enugu State through his office at the FCC. According to the NYCN, many youths from the state have secured federal employment opportunities under Eze’s…

Dr Erica Schwartz was confirmed by the US Senate as director ‌of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a rare win for the Trump administration after a string of failed attempts to fill senior health posts.Schwartz was confirmed by a ⁠51-44 vote that broke largely along party lines, with Tim Kaine of Virginia the sole Democrat to support her nomination.Donald Trump’s third pick to run ​the CDC, Schwartz is set to take the reins of the agency after a tumultuous period of leadership turnover, and amid public concern over an outbreak of cyclosporiasis and Robert F Kennedy Jr’s…

.Directs security agencies, relevant stakeholders to immediately strengthen early warning systems Deji Elumoye in Abuja President Bola Tinubu has welcomed the successful rescue of 308 Nigerian citizens who were abducted in different attacks in Niger and Kwara states.One hundred and sixty-three of those rescued were abducted from Woro Community in Kaiama LGA, Kwara State, and 145 from Niger State.The victims were rescued from the Kainji Lake National Park Forest in New Bussa Local Government Area of Niger State following a coordinated, intelligence-driven operation by the National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC), involving personnel from the Armed Forces of Nigeria, the Department of…

By Peter Egwuatu Dangote Petroleum Refinery has announced a reduction in the ex-depot prices of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and Automotive Gas Oil (Diesel), effective Thursday 6th of August, thereby reaffirming its commitment to providing affordable, high-quality petroleum products to the Nigerian market. The company in a statement said, under the new pricing structure, the refinery has reduced the ex-depot price of PMS to N1,165 per litre, down from N1,215 per litre, representing a reduction of N50 per litre. Similarly, the ex-depot price of Diesel has been reduced to N1,570 per litre from N1,650 per litre, amounting to a decrease…

After first opening a pull request to merge the malicious code into the repository, Mythos created fake online “sock puppet” personas that claimed to have independently reviewed and verified the code as not containing malware. The AI agent also sent five emails to two human maintainers of the repository, including some emails containing malware and others attempting to persuade a maintainer to accept the pull request. Mythos even opened a GitHub Issue on a second repository—also owned by a maintainer of the first repository—that contained a prompt injection with malicious instructions targeting “issue-triage AI coding agents.” This line of attack…

•Says  they called me ‘The Spoiler’ because I refused to join corruption •Laments Nigeria ignored warnings that destroyed manufacturing •Believes Nigeria’s greatest problem is putting personal interest above national interest •Insists Nigeria ‘ll rise again •Adds at 80, my greatest achievement isn’t wealth, but my reputation By Victor Ahiuma-Young & Adefolarin Adegboye Few Nigerians have witnessed the country’s economic evolution as closely—or participated in it as actively—as Victor Eburajolo. For more than five decades, the industrial relations expert, corporate executive, manufacturing advocate and public servant occupied a front-row seat as Nigeria journeyed from an agrarian economy to industrial ambition, through…

The police in Delta State have foiled a planned kidnapping targeting a pastor and a retired school principal in the Ughelli area of the state. The police spokesman in Delta, Bright Edafe, disclosed this in a statement forwarded to PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday, saying the operations were part of the police’s sustained crackdown on violent crime. Kidnap plot foiled According to Mr Edafe, operatives of the ‘A’ Division, Ughelli, acted on credible intelligence on 31 July after receiving information that Jeremiah Kwane, 26, allegedly attempted to recruit another person into a kidnapping syndicate to abduct a pastor and a retired…

Gianni Infantino held talks about rebranding the ill-fated European breakaway competition the “Fifa Super League”, with negotiations going as far as the term sheet for an agreement that would have changed the face of European football.The term sheet, whose full contents can be revealed for the first time, is dated October 2020 and proposes renaming any new competition under Fifa’s branding. It outlines the extent to which Infantino’s administration were implicated in a scheme that caused widespread revulsion among fans and excluded clubs in April 2021. It also reveals that Fifa was prepared to sideline its member associations in pushing…