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By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA: Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress ADC and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has fired back at former President Olusegun Obasanjo, insisting that his latest attack is rooted in lingering bitterness over the collapse of his third-term agenda years ago, and recalling how he helped the ex-president when he was still his lowest. In a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku said he watched Obasanjo’s recent interview with sadness rather than anger, describing it as another attempt by the former president to rewrite history and cloud the truth…

President Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed Nigeria’s commitment to strengthening immunisation and local vaccine production, describing the partnership with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, as critical to improving public health and expanding Africa’s vaccine manufacturing capacity. Mr Tinubu spoke on Friday while receiving a delegation from Gavi at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The president thanked Gavi for its continued support, saying the organisation had played a significant role in protecting lives and advancing healthcare in Nigeria and across the continent. “The commitment to humanity, the wonderful job of Gavi and the team is well appreciated, and the programme of acceleration for…

An international research team has found that primordial black holes may trigger white dwarf stars to explode as Type Ia supernovae. These unusual explosions could also help explain a chemical abundance pattern observed among stars in the Milky Way, according to a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal. Primordial black holes (PBH) are hypothetical remnants of the universe’s earliest moments. Scientists think they may have formed during cosmic inflation, when rapid expansion amplified small fluctuations in the distribution of matter. These black holes have been proposed as possible candidates for dark matter, the invisible material thought to account for…

Moving day at Royal Lytham – who’ll end it in pole position?

Day three of Lollapalooza has been delayed from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. CT. Most of the sets scheduled within that three-hour window have been canceled, with a few exceptions. K-pop group Cortis, who have been moved to later this afternoon, will be performing for 40 minutes rather than their previously scheduled 50. English band Wolf Alice, originally scheduled to take the Bud Light stage at 3 p.m., has been pushed to 4 p.m., with their hour-long set slashed to just 30 minutes. The delay comes following heavy rainfall overnight in Chicago. The poor weather is forecast to continue throughout…

Prince Adeyemi Adeniyi …the institutions we build today will determine whether future generations inherit a nation in which public trust is earned through competence, accountability and integrity — or one in which every scandal becomes another chapter in an endless cycle of blame. It is one conviction per person that builds a nation. This is why our character matters, because it takes a strong, constructive, and intentional characteristic to look at the indulgences that tempt us and still muster the morality to look away. A man got tired of his wife’s alleged belligerent behaviour. She was never “available” and whenever…

By Temitope Ajayi There is something fundamentally inappropriate about Cardinal John Onaiyekan granting a television interview to offer his own account and interpretation of what transpired during the private meeting between the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria and President Bola Tinubu. It is, in my view, an abuse of clerical privilege. The bishops requested an audience with the president. He granted the audience graciously. They presented, as was their right, a catalogue of the country’s economic, social, and security challenges as they saw them. Except for their grudging acknowledgement of the benefits of NELFUND, they were dismissive of the other…

Anthony Fakiyesi Cybersecurity in 2026 is no longer defined by breaches at the perimeter, it is defined by the collapse of trust within digital systems. The shift is unmistakable. Attackers are no longer forcing entry, they are operating through legitimate access, compromised identities, and trusted integrations. What organisations once considered secure pathways have become the primary vectors of compromise. In this environment, trust is no longer a safeguard; it is the new attack surface. The most consequential cyber incidents of 2026 are concentrated across telecommunications, SaaS platforms, financial services, and enterprise infrastructure sectors where identity, data, and access converge at…

One week ago, more than 200 miles above the Earth, a refrigerator-size satellite making its way toward an attempted rescue of NASA’s $500 million Swift gamma-ray observatory suddenly spun out of control. It didn’t look good. The spacecraft, named Link, was rotating on multiple axes, rendering it unable to maintain a reliable communications link with the ground and complicating efforts to arrest the spin. Two of the satellite’s three reaction wheels, used for pointing, also stopped working. Through sporadic radio contact, engineers discovered a problem with some of the spacecraft’s cold gas thrusters used for finer attitude control. The Link…

Seven Palestinians, including two children, have been detained by Israeli forces in overnight and predawn raids across the West Bank, according to Palestinian local sources.Israeli settlers separately assaulted a Palestinian man and his wife on their own farmland on Saturday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe couple was attacked in the al-Zarqa area of Beitillu, northwest of Ramallah, when a group of settlers stormed the farm where they were working, leaving both with injuries and bruising that required hospital treatment.The latest settler attacks and raids by Israeli forces are a single day’s snapshot of activity now unfolding “in every…