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By Luminous Jannamike When Senator Abdul’Aziz Yari returned to Abuja from an overseas trip and, barely 24 hours after his unveiling as Director-General of President Bola Tinubu’s Presidential Campaign Council, began talking about APC remaining in power beyond 2031, he was doing more than expressing confidence in his principal. Read Also: 2027 Campaign: What we want to hear from candidates – Stakeholders The former Zamfara governor was, perhaps inadvertently, opening an early front in the battle over who gets to define the political mood ahead of the 2027 elections. Ordinarily, a campaign official declaring that an incumbent will win re-election…

Shooting Stars head coach Salisu Yusuf believes his side will only get better after beginning their 2026/27 Nigeria Premier Football League campaign with a hard-fought 2-1 victory over newly promoted Inter Lagos at the Lekan Salami Stadium, Ibadan, on Friday. The Oluyole Warriors secured all three points in a lively opening fixture that produced three first-half goals and two penalties, before both sides struggled to create clear-cut opportunities after the interval. Shooting Stars made the brighter start and took the lead in the 11th minute through Lucky Emmanuel; the forward racing into the box to meet a flick-on from a…

Judge Jackie Glass, host of the syndicated legal television show Swift Justice, has died. She was 70. Glass’ daughter Rachel Wolfson announced her death on Facebook. She died Friday in Las Vegas, according to TMZ. “Rip my rock, I don’t know how I’ll do this life without you, I love you so much mommy Jackie Glass, I’ll see you again someday,” Wolfson wrote, while also sharing a follow-up post with a series of images alongside her mother. Glass, a previous long-standing Clark County judge, took over hosting Swift Justice in 2011, serving as the successor to Nancy Grace, who first led…

 Ferdinand Ekechukwu With reels of his memorable scenes in films still circulating online, Nigerians have continued to celebrate veteran actor, Taiwo Hassan, who died on Sunday, August 23, 2026, at the age of 66. His family had disclosed his health condition days before his demise and appealed for medical options, including traditional treatment, following an alleged refusal by a hospital to treat him. Worried by his health condition, a large number of his colleagues had intervened through prayers as they gathered in Lagos. The colleagues had days earlier appealed to people who had offered to treat Ògògó through traditional and…

Ugborodo Community Management Committee, UCMC, has urged the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, to urgently commence the execution of infrastructural projects earmarked for the Nigerian Navy Escravos Ship facility at Madangho in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State. UCMC also commended the member representing Warri Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Chief Thomas Ereyitomi, for strengthening the operational capacity of the Nigeria Police Force in the Escravos Division, Madangho. Ereyitomi donated a W19 fibre boat with a 200HP Yamaha engine, a generator, air conditioners, industrial and ceiling fans, a laptop, photocopier, scanner, printer, office furniture,…

The University of Exeter has approved plans for a “formal partnership” with Saudi Arabia to train senior military officers and government officials, despite long-held concerns about the Saudi government’s human rights record, the Guardian has learned.In a deal that could generate millions of pounds for the Russell Group university, Exeter academics will deliver an MA in applied security and strategy (also known as an MStrat) to a cohort at the National Defense University (NDU) in Riyadh.The MA will form the academic component of the NDU’s global strategy and strategic leadership programme, starting in 2026-27, and will be delivered to about…

“The Mandalorian and Grogu” key art.LUCASFILM LTD./DISNEYStar Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu, starring Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Weaver and the voice of Jeremy Allen White, will try to find a new audience on Disney+ this week after the film struggled at the box office.Directed by Jon Favreau, The Mandalorian and Grogu opened in theaters on May 22 before pivoted to digital streaming via premium video on demand on July 21. The Mandalorian & Grogu, of course, is based on the hit Disney+ series The Mandalorian, which ran for three seasons from 2019 to 2023.Forbes‘Dog Stars’ Rotten Tomatoes Reviews Say Ridley Scott…

The hype around humanoid robots isn’t particularly new. Thank Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his Optimus robot, as well as the myriad videos of Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot, for that. Behind that hype, though, there is real progress. The physical capabilities of robots continue to improve, and researchers now believe that the AI techniques behind large language models can make complex robots capable of learning nearly any task. Those tailwinds have encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And many of the latest entrants are Chinese automakers. Earlier this week, Xpeng’s…

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a groundbreaking new drug for the most common form of pancreatic cancer, offering US patients a more effective treatment against one of the deadliest types of the disease.FDA officials gave expedited approval to the first-of-a-kind pill, called daraxonrasib, that blocks a mutated protein which fuels tumor growth in more than 90% of pancreatic cancer cases. It’s an approach that has eluded drugmakers for decades.The daily pills will be sold by Revolution Medicines under the brand name Rasonque.Patients taking the drug nearly doubled their survival time, with fewer severe side effects, in a…

France’s Cassandre Beaugrand earned her fourth straight win in the World Triathlon Championship Series as Britain’s Beth Potter came second in Weihai.Olympic champion Beaugrand surged away in the final kilometre of the 10km run to finish in one minute 49.20 seconds and maintain her perfect record in this season’s Championship Series.Beaugrand’s victory in China followed a thrilling tussle up until the final stretch, as Olympic bronze medalist Potter finished six seconds behind the 29-year-old.Germany’s Lisa Tertsch was third, a further 18 seconds back.”This one was definitely not easy,” said Beaugrand. “I was feeling great on the swim, great on the…