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For more than two decades, Dr LanreOlusola has worked at the intersection of human behaviour, leadership, and performance, helping individuals and organisations to understand a question often overlooked in the pursuit of results–what is happening beneath the behaviour that produces those results? Fondly referred to as ‘The Face of Coaching in Africa’, Olusola is the pioneer of the lifecoaching industry in Nigeria and the Founder and Chief Catalyst of OLCA Coaching Limited, West Africa’s first integrative coaching academy. He is also a Certified GE Executive Coaching Master Trainer and Regional Crotonville Executive Coaching faculty member, and has developed the Integrative and Transformative Catalysis (ITC) approach alongside his ESP and VSP performance models. In this interview with Sunday…

Raheem Akingbolu looks at a changing University of Abuja and its ambitions to place human-centred technology, innovation and knowledge at the centre of the capital’s economic and development agenda A country’s capital is often judged by the buildings that define its skyline, but its enduring influence is measured by the ideas it produces. Abuja was built as Nigeria’s political and administrative capital. It is now taking on another identity, as a place where knowledge, innovation, and enterprise are beginning to shape the city’s wider development story. At the centre of this evolution is the University of Abuja, now Yakubu Gowon…

Peter O’Brien, head of research for photonics packaging and systems integration at Ireland’s Tyndall Research Institute, said academics and commercial companies alike have been working with photonics for years, but the technology faced multiple manufacturing challenges.Now, O’Brien continues, the technology is ready to make the leap from the lab into widespread application.”What’s happening now with optics and photonics is there’s kind of a reset,” he says.It helps that AI chip giant Nvidia has thrown its weight behind the technology.But shifting to photonics is not a straightforward swap, as it brings together different engineering traditions and different supply chains.”We’ve really gotten…

US President Donald Trump has said Andy Burnham is a man he can do business with, after the two leaders met in person for the first time.Trump said UK-US relations are “more up now” that Burnham is in power, following their meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.Speaking to reporters, Burnham said he had “established a good connection” with Trump and they had “taken that further today” following discussions on issues such as trade and immigration.But the US president made clear his opposition to the UK’s “terrible” deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to…

Nigeria has recorded 259 deaths from Lassa fever since the beginning of 2026, with the case-fatality rate remaining significantly higher than it was during the same period last year. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) in its Lassa Fever Situation Report for epidemiological week 36, covering 31 August to 6 September, said the country had recorded 1,086 confirmed cases across 24 states and 118 Local Government Areas. The 259 deaths represent a case-fatality rate of 23.9 per cent, compared with 18.6 per cent recorded during the corresponding period in 2025. Although the number of newly confirmed cases…

Foremost among them is a shortage of grid capacity. The renewables’ build out has significantly outpaced transmission infrastructure, a point of major concern for policymakers.”In the first quarter of 2026, transmission constraints accounted for nearly two-thirds of all renewable energy curtailment at 300 gigawatt-hours (GWh),” according to Ember, a global energy think-tank.Put simply, that means a bulk of the clean energy that was produced in India was wasted because the country’s transmission lines have been dogged by missed targets, with one out of four inter-state projects facing delays of over a year.The difficulty lies in matching the speed of generation…

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Duro Ikhazuagbe  Only Maduka Okoye was missing as Super Eagles had their first training ahead of their 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Madagascar and Guinea-Bissau in the next one week. Captain Wilfred Ndidi,  winger Samuel Chukwueze and goalkeeper Stanley Nwabali were the last three players to arrive Eagles camp ahead of the first training session at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo at 6pm. According to Media Officer of the team, Promise Efoghe, the Udinese shot-stopper is not expected in camp until Thursday morning. In a reply to THISDAY enquiry on the whereabouts of Okoye, the Media Officer…

When Allan Marrero, an asylum seeker from the Cayman Islands, was released after five months in immigration detention, his family made sure to invite one journalist to his celebration: Eileen Grench, a reporter with the independent, non-profit news outlet Documented.Grench had previously reported on Marrero, who was detained after interviewing with federal officials for a marriage-based green card. But beyond covering his detention struggles, she humanized him, emphasizing his and his husband’s love story.“Most folks in these situations aren’t just victims; they’re fighting and being resilient and maintain the beautiful things about their life, too,” said Grench.The Marreros’ trust in…

blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Iranian media has reported the sound of an explosion near Iran’s Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, though the cause remains unclear.Published On 23 Sep 202623 Sep 2026Share Trump confirms ‘very good’ talks with Iranian delegation at UN on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo