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The federal government has upgraded the Riyom General Hospital in Plateau State to a National Trauma Centre and deployed 15 ambulances to the state to strengthen emergency medical services. The hospital will operate as an outpost of the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), the government announced on Monday during the launch of the National Emergency Medical Services and Ambulance System (NEMSAS) in Riyom. The intervention comprises five conventional emergency ambulance buses and 10 tricycle ambulances for rural and hard-to-reach communities. Governor Caleb Mutfwang, represented at the event by his deputy, Josephine Piyo, described the development as a major investment in…

By Adegboyega Adeleye The transfer deadline day has delivered several major moves involving Europe’s leading clubs, with Manchester City, Newcastle United, Aston Villa, Barcelona and Juventus among those completing late business before the summer window closes. Here are some of the major deals already completed across Europe on deadline day, according to confirmed reports. 1. Matias Fernandez-Pardo — Lille to Newcastle United, £51m reported Newcastle United completed the signing of Belgium forward Matias Fernandez-Pardo from Lille on a long-term contract. The 21-year-old, who can operate on the wing or through the middle, becomes Newcastle’s eighth first-team arrival of the summer. Newcastle did…

Julianne Moore is set to be honored with the Golden Icon Award at the 22nd Zurich Film Festival. The U.S. actress will accept the accolade alongside Jesse Eisenberg, who directs her in his latest feature The Debut, a musical-comedy co-starring Paul Giamatti. Over a career now spanning more than three decades, Moore has worked with some of the most distinguished directors in contemporary cinema including Robert Altman (Short Cuts), Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia), brothers Joel and Ethan Coen (The Big Lebowski) and Todd Haynes (Safe, Far From Heaven, May December). At this year’s Zurich Film Fest, Moore will…

A two-storey residential building has collapsed in Anambra but no life was lost. The Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development in the state, Chijioke Ojukwu, confirmed the incident to reporters on Monday. Mr Ojukwu said the building, located at Inyaba-Umudim Nnewi, Nnewi North Local Government Area, collapsed on Sunday. The commissioner, who visited the scene for on-the-site assessment, described the incident as unfortunate. He, however, expressed joy that no fatality had been recorded in the incident. He said notice had been served on occupants of a nearby three-storey building for their safety and to make way for an integrity…

Why does his death heavily cast a pall on the Nigerian media industry? It is not only because Dotun’s journalism career took him in turns to Newswatch, The PUNCH, The Sun, The Nigerian Tribune and The Compass, after which he established The Eagle Online. The incontestable testimony is that as he crossed through these media organisations, he left indelible impressions in the minds of those he encountered along the way. Today is Tuesday, exactly one week that death, like a night thief, sneaked in and snatched away my friend, Dotun Samson Oladipo. One week after, I seem to have some…

When Jigawa State was created on 27 August 1991, it began its existence with the basic challenge of building a state almost from scratch. Dutse, its designated capital, was then a modest rural settlement, while the new administration had limited infrastructure, public utilities, and institutional structures. Thirty-five years later, that picture has changed dramatically. Jigawa now has an established public administration, 27 local government areas, universities, an international airport, an expanding road network, and a growing portfolio of healthcare and public institutions. That transformation did not belong to any single administration. It was built progressively by military administrators, successive civilian…

The US startup behind the Claude chatbot has admitted a series of hacking incidents involving its models reflected a “failure of operational security” and said it has tightened its testing procedures.Anthropic revealed in July that its models had accessed the open internet three times and gained unauthorised access to the systems of three organisations.In a new blogpost on the incidents, the company admitted its technology was “not perfectly aligned” with human values and goals.Anthropic said the models had been deliberately tested without cybersecurity safeguards, and that they had been able to reach the open internet – the AI testing equivalent…

Ebere Nwoji The Chairman of the Nigerian National Bureau, and Managing Director Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc, Dr. Lucas Durojaiye, recently paid a three-day working visit to the Permanent Secretariat of the ECOWAS Brown Card Insurance Scheme in Lomé Togo. The visit was targeted at providing an opportunity for high-level discussions on strengthening the Scheme and advancing its role in regional integration. The visit included a courtesy engagement with the Permanent Secretariat and constructive discussions on matters of mutual interest concerning the effective functioning, development and strengthening of the ECOWAS Brown Card Insurance Scheme. Key areas discussed during the visit included…

On 5 August, a piece of a derelict SpaceX rocket traveling at 5,400 miles an hour met with the moon and punched a fresh hole into it near Einstein Crater. Astronomers were thrilled. The European Southern Observatory caught sodium and lithium flaring in the debris plume and called it a bonus. The media called it a light show. Nobody was physically hurt, so nobody is responsible, and within a week the story was gone.I have spent 20 years tracking the junk humanity leaves behind in space for a living, and I want to tell you plainly what that crater actually…

NEW YORK — FIFA’s intended investment partner, Josh Kushner, said he regrets getting involved in Gianni Infantino’s failed World Cup sell-off plan that provoked a huge rift in global soccer and pulled him into legal action.In his first comments about the ongoing crisis for FIFA, Kushner acknowledged that “we failed to appreciate the political dynamics of global football.””Had we known what this would devolve into, we would not have gotten involved,” Kushner said in comments made Monday to Axios.- Why Infantino’s plans to sell off World Cup made no sense- UEFA set to end FIFA boycott over failed World Cup…