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Felix Omoh-Asun in Benin  The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Prof. Ida Ize-Iyamu, has said the Cancer Treatment Centre housed by the institution is now a world class facility operating at full capacity. Prof. Ize-Iyamu, who disclosed this in Benin on Monday during the inauguration of the state-of-the-art ambulance, said the centre is now 100 per cent operational and one of the biggest in the country. While appreciating President Bola Tinubu for allowing the centre to be sited at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Ize-Iyamu said the centre is one of three…

A jump in oil prices after renewed hostilities in the Iran war is pushing bond yields higher, and mortgage rates are following suit. The average rate on the 30-year fixed loan jumped 6 basis points on Monday to 6.87%, according to Mortgage News Daily. That is the highest level since June 2025. It’s now up 12 basis points since Thursday and up more than 30 basis points in the last two months. “While rates are technically at their highest level in more than a year, they haven’t exactly exploded with surprising, new momentum,” said Matthew Graham, chief operating officer at…

The standard explanation for why rain causes corrosion is that water carries dissolved salts and acids to a surface, constant drumming of raindrops abrades whatever protective coating is on it, and oxygen does the rest. Nearly all our tools to prevent this—paints, polymer films, or oxide layers—are built around this idea. But we’ve apparently been missing something important about the rain. A new study led by Zhongyuan Ni, Rüdiger Berger, and Hans-Jürgen Butt at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, has shown that water drops routinely arrive at a surface carrying an electrical charge large enough…

After a relatively cheery summer in which he announced a range of eye-catching cost of living policies, Andy Burnham may find his return to parliament this week to be a rude awakening.While the new prime minister has enjoyed some success in the polls, he is faced with many of the same problems that stymied Keir Starmer and has some difficult and unpopular choices to make.North Sea oil and gasThe Rosebank oilfield and the Jackdaw gasfield have been in limbo for a year after a court case ruled the consent given to drill by the previous Conservative government was unlawful. Now,…

The Federal Teaching Hospital (FTH) Katsina says its children’s ward is overwhelmed by an influx of suspected and confirmed diphtheria cases, while the number of infections and deaths from the disease in Katsina State remains unclear. The hospital said on Saturday that patients were being referred from health facilities across the state, resulting in severe overcrowding and pressure on available bed spaces. It did not disclose the number of children currently on admission, the number of laboratory-confirmed cases or deaths recorded so far. PREMIUM TIMES reported on Saturday that the federal government had activated an emergency multi-agency task force involving…

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has won all 21 chairmanship and 326 councillorship seats in the 29 August Local Government elections held in Anambra State. Declaring the results on Sunday, the Chairman of Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission (ANSIEC), Genevieve Osakwe, said the election was free, fair, and credible. She also said the election was conducted peacefully in accordance with the state electoral laws and guidelines. Mrs Osakwe said APGA fielded candidates for various positions across the 21 Local Government Areas (LGAs), while the Young Progressives Party (YPP) fielded a chairmanship candidate only in Anambra East. She said APGA…

MANCHESTER, England — Michael Carrick briefly looked exasperated in his weekly news conference Friday afternoon. “When Manchester United lose a game,” he said, “everything is wrong. I think it’s so easy to say, ‘This is wrong, that is wrong.'”It’s been a rough week for Carrick. The defeat at Hull City on the opening weekend of the season was probably his lowest moment as United head coach. Ahead of Ipswich Town’s visit to Old Trafford on Sunday, he would have known that the noise would crank up a notch had it not gone well.He was perhaps fearing the worst when Ipswich…

A Las Vegas court is hearing closing arguments in the trial of the South Side Compton Crips gang leader Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who is accused of ordering the murder of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur.Davis, 63, is accused of leading a group of men to kill Shakur in retaliation for the beating of his nephew, though not of pulling the trigger himself. Davis has pleaded not guilty.Police said they long suspected Davis, but did not have enough evidence to ​charge him until he went public with his ‌story in media appearances and a memoir he published in 2019. The book,…

Name: Teddy bears.Age: 124 years old.Appearance: Vastly out of your price range.Well, that can’t be. I just looked online, and you can pick up a teddy for a couple of quid. Get some sense, would you? I’m not talking about the flimsy bulk-produced abominations you let your kids play with. I’m talking about quality teddies.What’s the difference? First, these teddies don’t have eyes that will pop out and choke you. But in purely financial terms, the difference is about three and a half grand.For a toy? Oh yes. That’s what Louis Vuitton’s Doudou Vivienne XL retails for, anyway.Blooming expensive ……

House lawmakers return to Capitol Hill as Republicans hope to pass stopgap spending billThe US House is back after a five-week recess. And this week, Republicans are focused a key legislative agenda item: passing a stopgap spending bill to stave off a possible government shutdown.Currently, funding is guaranteed through 30 September, but after a year marked by record-breaking shutdowns, GOP House speaker Mike Johnson is hoping to advance a bill that would extend funding spending at its current levels until after the November midterms.Johnson is expected to put a vote on the House floor this week, using a fast-track procedure…