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Kano State Multi-Agency Task Force on Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking says it has arrested more than 380 suspects and secured over 230 convictions since its inauguration on 22 July. The task force chairman, Muhuyi Rimin-Gado, disclosed this on Tuesday at a news conference in Kano, where he gave an account of the committee’s operations since its inauguration. Mr Rimin-Gado said the agency had conducted joint operations across the state, dismantling drug joints and criminal hideouts while recovering various illicit substances and dangerous weapons. He said the operations also led to the seizure of about 870,000 capsules of Pregabalin from…

How far would you go to secure an impressive marathon time, or a Hyrox personal best? Maybe you’d turn down a boozy night out in favour of eight hours’ kip the night before? Or perhaps you’d swap sugary treats for protein shakes, and commit to a gruelling training plan in the run-up? It’s not uncommon for athletes to want to give it their all come race day – but few of us would go as far as the Australian Hyrox competitor Joanna Wietrzyk, who continued to take part in the hybrid fitness event a little over a week ago, despite…

Learning Commons, a nonprofit backed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, launched an open platform for educators and edtech developers today, alongside six new partner organizations. The platform represents one of the most ambitious attempts by a single organization to solve a major edtech headache: easily accessing and incorporating state academic standards and proven teaching methods into edtech products and services. Developers and educators say incorporating evidence-based materials and data into edtech tools is time-consuming, costly and prone to error. By offering free datasets, curricula and evaluation tools from states and many respected industry providers, the initiative helps developers and K-12 schools create…

After nearly two decades of existence and eight years under the leadership of Wale Oladunjoye, the Nigeria Triathlon Union (NTU) is preparing for a leadership transition, with its elective congress scheduled for 30 September in Lagos. The congress, which will also serve as the union’s general assembly, will hold at the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) headquarters inside the National Stadium, Surulere, according to a statement issued by the union. Mr Oladunjoye, who has served as president since 2018, called for fresh elections, providing an opportunity for the union to usher in a new leadership and reflect on the direction of…

Her name was June. June would be the last month she ever knew.I remember the way her bed made her so small, swallowed her up in the middle of the room, turned as it was to face the window. With her liver failing, her skin was a ghostly apricot. June – I called her Nan – had been stalked by the king of terrors, the emperor of all maladies: cancer. That son of a bitch.The cancer was in her pancreas. Odds of survival? “Not good” – putting it lightly. The maths, putting it darkly: it’s the 12th most common cancer…

Laura Anne Jones has been elected Reform’s new deputy leader in Wales, the party has announced.The post was vacated after the previous deputy Helen Jenner took the party’s Senedd leadership on Tuesday. In a statement, Jones said: “We’ve made a fantastic start here in the Senedd, giving a voice to the voiceless and standing up for Wales’ left-behind communities.”Reform has not announced further details of the election, including other candidates, which they said took place on Monday morning.Jones was suspended from the Senedd in November 2025 after she used a racial slur to describe Chinese people in a Whatsapp chat.She…

The cells in Daolin Tang’s Petri dishes were dead. Signs of life had dropped off a cliff; they weren’t reproducing. They were goners.And that was good; the cell biologist had been looking for chemicals that would poison cancer cells.These secret battles between your body’s cells might just save your lifeBut Tang and his colleagues faced a post-mortem mystery: the precise cause of death. They investigated several ways in which cells can die, and none of them was guilty.Eventually, the researchers determined that the dying cells had an unusually high internal pH. They died because they were basic.The team named the…

Tom Daley OBE is a retired professional diver who has won five Olympic medals, including gold at Tokyo 2020. Since retiring from competitive diving, he has hosted Channel 4’s Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter, while continuing to share his passion for knitting and crafts through his Made With Love brand and YouTube channel. He is married to US screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, and the pair have two children.What’s the last treat you bought for yourself?Small treat: vanilla and chocolate soft-serve ice-cream swirl; slightly larger treat: a little getaway we just booked for Halloween with the kids and some friends.Where…

NewsVoirNew Delhi [India], September 22: ShikshaNext, the 3-year, INR 170-crore multi-donor initiative aimed at improving learning outcomes for children across India by leveraging EdTech and AI, today announced the next phase of its journey with the selection of 11 solutions across its EdTech ScaleX and EdTech Accelerator pillars.Also Read | Pune: Techie Slits Pregnant Wife’s Throat Over Dispute Over Land Purchase, Jumps From 2nd Floor in Suicide Bid.The announcement moves the ShikshaNext initiative from vision to execution, aiming to bring evidence-backed and emerging EdTech and AI solutions closer to classrooms and state government systems by 2029. ShikshaNext is anchored by…

Baptist Nursery and Primary School in Yawota, Oyo State, one of the schools attacked during the May abduction of pupils and teachers in Oriire Local Government Area, has remained closed despite the commencement of the new academic session in the state. The development emerged on Tuesday when the Oyo State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Olusegun Olayiwola, visited communities affected by the abduction to assess the state of education and efforts to return children to school. According to a statement signed by the Commissioner of Information, Dotun Oyelade, he stated that Mr Olayiwola, who led senior officials of the…