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Belgium winger Jeremy Doku has disclosed that he coughed blood and suffered severe chest pain during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, forcing him to seek emergency medical treatment before eventually leaving the national team camp for the birth of his first child. The Manchester City star shared the details in a video posted on his YouTube channel on Saturday, describing the period as one of the most difficult experiences of his career. Doku explained that the health problems began after Belgium’s match against Tunisia when he developed a persistent cough despite recovering from an earlier illness. “I started coughing every…

By Enitan Abdultawab BBNaija host Ebuka Obi-Uchendu delivered a blunt assessment of the housemates during Sunday night’s live show, criticising what he described as a lack of urgency and initiative in the house after the first week. Addressing the contestants, Ebuka said he initially gave them the benefit of the doubt, believing they were still settling into their new environment. However, he noted that the week’s events, including the wager task and the pool party, failed to meet expectations. “Too many of you were just not there. I thought it’s just day two and you all were trying to acclimatize.…

The disparity between investment and returns has led to frustrations for farmers, especially commercial ones in the North. The major cause of this disparity is the Fall Armyworms that usually ravage maize farms in the North. Dr Sina Behmanesh, the Chief Executive Officer of Informiton, a firm based in Virginia, United States of America, which is into agricultural and biometrical technology, said access to the latest technology, incentives, and infrastructure is the reason American farmers seem far ahead of their Nigerian counterparts. The reason Sentinel X, a new technology developed by his company, is the final solution to Fall Armyworms…

US President Trump says new talks with Iran will start Monday ‘in the form of a negotiation’ after calling off attack.

One Nation has named its first candidates for the upcoming Victorian state election, as leader Pauline Hanson has vowed to ban the ABC and the Guardian from attending her press conferences during the campaign.Guardian Australia understands an ABC reporter was refused entry to Hanson’s press conference on Monday, where she announced seven of the eight candidates who will lead One Nation’s upper house tickets. The ABC declined to comment.Reporters from the ABC, the Age and the Guardian were not told the time or location of the event in advance. One Nation has previously said the ABC and the Guardian were…

The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has opened applications for its $150 million Offshore Expansion Facility, a financing initiative designed to provide long-term capital for Nigerian businesses seeking to scale operations and acquire modern technology.   The facility, developed in partnership with German banking group ODDO BHF SE, was unveiled during the Infrastructure Conference (INFRACON) 2026 held at the AFREXIM Tower in Abuja.   Speaking at the launch, Jani Ibrahim, president, NACCIMA, said the initiative reflects the association’s commitment to expanding access to affordable financing for the organised private sector and supporting industrial growth.…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that it may be time to “pace the rate of AI development” so that society can “harden around some of these new capability levels.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed how Altman’s comments were probably prompted by a recent hack in which an OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face’s systems. Sean noted that while a hack performed by an AI agent is novel, the hack itself was not  “some new advanced thing.” “It was more like Nixon’s people breaking into Watergate than some real stealthy cyber-op,…

Andy Burnham has pledged his government will be “relentless” in curbing the number of people arriving in the UK on small boats.The prime minister said progress had been made and the government was “changing the whole approach”, with enforcement officers tackling people-smuggling gangs doubled on both sides of the Channel.”People want to see this issue addressed,” he said in Dover, adding: “We also need to build a system that offers safe routes for people as well, because that also takes away the selling point of the gangs.”The Conservatives said that Labour had not delivered on its promises on migration, while…

Esther Henseleit denied Chiara Tamburlini an automatic Solheim Cup pick for a Team Europe debut after an extraordinary finish to the AIG Women’s Open. The qualification campaign to feature in Anna Nordqvist’s team ended at Royal Lytham & St Annes on Sunday, with the top two players in the European Solheim Cup points list and the next six in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings securing their automatic spots. Tamburlini arrived with a slender 1.1-point advantage over Helen Briem in the European Solheim Cup points list, only to miss the cut and leave qualification hopes out of her hands. Please…

BBNaija Season 11 has unveiled Flora and Aikou as this season’s “Gambits”, introducing the first major twist of the reality show during Sunday’s live eviction show. The revelation means the duo are no longer eligible to compete for the show’s N160 million grand prize. Instead, they will remain in the house as Biggie’s agents, carrying out secret tasks and helping shape events behind the scenes. Host Ebuka Obi-Uchendu announced the twist during the live show after the results of the viewers’ vote were revealed. Although Flora and Aikou have been eliminated from the race for the grand prize, they will…