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The Tampa Bay Rays have a deal in place for a new $2.3 billion stadium and surrounding development to be built in Tampa, ideally in time for the 2029 season. The agreement means that the Rays, barring the unforeseen, will remain in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area for at least decades to come. On Friday, Hillsborough County commissioners voted by a 5-2 count to approve a package of county funding. This comes the day after the Tampa City Council voted 4-3 to approve its share of funding for the project. In all, the city of Tampa is contributing roughly $80 million in…

Sunday Isuwa, Group News Editor of LEADERSHIP Newspaper, is set to launch a book examining the transformation of Nigeria’s newspaper industry in the digital era. The book, Digital Shift in Nigeria’s Newspaper Industry, will be launched on 29 October at the Conference Hall of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) headquarters in Jabi, Abuja. The event is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Mr Isuwa said the book examines how technological advances are changing journalism in Nigeria, from newsroom operations and reporting practices to business models and the ways news organisations engage their audiences. The publication comes at a…

Funmi Ogundare  The Citizenship and Leadership Training Centre (CLTC), in collaboration with Premiere Academy, Abuja, is set to organise a 10-day leadership training boot camp for final-year students of the school, as part of efforts to prepare them for life beyond secondary education. The programme, according to the Principal of the school, Chris Akinsowon, is designed to equip the students with practical leadership and life skills, including confidence, discipline, teamwork, effective communication and a strong sense of responsibility. “The boot camp is part of a series of pre-resumption activities planned by Premiere Academy to usher in the new academic session…

Why does sudden death sometimes appear to pick the good ones — even those, like Dotun, who had just observed the physical exercise recommended for medical fitness? Why would it take a patriotic journalist, a gentleman, and a friend, while bandit kingpins, terrorist commanders, and others who inflict misery on innocent citizens continue to roam? On the afternoon of Tuesday, 25 August, I exchanged messages with Dotun Oladipo — respected journalist, former president of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), and publisher of The Eagle Online. I sent him a report on the unfolding political rivalry in Katsina State…

*Ochogwu: Peace is foundation of devt Michael Olugbode in Abuja With Nigeria’s 2027 general elections approaching and political activity already beginning to generate heightened tensions, the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), the United Nations and the British High Commission have challenged Nigerian youths to become a frontline force against political violence, hate speech, misinformation and other triggers of conflict. The three institutions delivered a common message at a youth peacebuilding training programme in Abuja: Nigeria’s young people must move from being passive observers of conflict to active agents of prevention, while leaders must abandon quick-fix responses and build…

If Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh wanted to put the bond market on alert, he certainly got his wish Friday: odds of an interest-rate hike by the central bank in its September meeting jumped to nearly 60 percent after Warsh’s speech in Jackson Hole, compared to just 35 percent on Thursday, according to Fed funds futures odds tracked by CME Group.What may be a welcome surprise for the Fed: there are strong signs stock traders seem to be OK with it.The Cboe Volatility Index (VIX), which measures the price of 30-day options on the S&P 500 Index, fell to as…

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has revealed he will not vote on the assisted dying bill for England and Wales unlike his predecessor Sir Keir Starmer.MPs are likely to get the chance to debate and vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in two weeks’ time.The bill is identical to the one put to Parliament last year, where it passed in the House of Commons but stalled in the Lords after an unprecedented number of amendments meant it ran out of time.Burnham said he has his “own personal views on the issue” but it was “a matter for…

If there is a way out of the sentence we have written for ourselves, it will not come from the children we sent away, and it will not come from the country we abandoned in our hearts, even while our bodies remained in it. It will come only if those of us still standing in the marketplace choose, before it is too late, to act like elders again, to build the schools, the hospitals, the institutions, and the security that would give the next generation a reason to stay, or a reason to come home. Until we do, we will…

Michael Carrick said Carlos Baleba will be unable to make his Manchester United debut for around three weeks due to an ankle injury, but is excited by the Cameroonian’s “massive potential”. Baleba’s £70 million ($95 million) move from Brighton further bolstered Carrick’s midfield options after the arrivals of Andrey Santos and Youri Tielemans. But United could have to wait until October to see Baleba in action as he faces a race against time to return before a three-week international break next month. “He’s got a little ankle issue, so maybe a couple of weeks or so, maybe three weeks. We’ll…