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President Bola Tinubu has stated that the creation of four additional divisions of the Nigerian Army to complement the existing eight was to ensure that the military responded swiftly to acts of insecurity wherever they happened. He added that the 12 divisions are now better motivated to tackle the insecurity in the country that has festered for long. The president stated this while receiving traditional rulers under the auspices of the Oyo State Council of Obas, led by the Olubadan of Ibadan, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja, Arusa 1, in the State House on Thursday. According to the…

Key eventsMore now on Iran’s military saying it launched drone strikes targeting US military facilities in Kuwait on Friday, as fighting between Washington and Tehran resumed after a nearly week-long lull.The army said it targeted “fighter aircraft shelters, satellite communications systems and equipment storage facilities at Ahmad al-Jaber air base in Kuwait”.There was no immediate comment from the US military’s Central Command.The Iranian army said in a statement the strikes came in response to US military’s recent aggression and “brutal attack” on a residential home on Qeshm Island, Agence France-Presse reports.Local media reported on Thursday that three members of a…

Wheelock PlaceHongkong LandHongkong Land, the property arm of the billionaire Keswick family’s Jardine Matheson, is acquiring Singapore’s Wheelock Place from Wharf Real Estate Investment Company for S$1.1 billion ($900 million).The company said on Thursday it has agreed to purchase the mixed-use development from Wharf, the Hong Kong-based firm controlled by billionaire Peter Woo, through its Singapore Central Private Real Estate Fund (SCPREF). Located on Singapore’s Orchard Road, a premier shopping boulevard, the 21-storey building has a total gross floor area of about 43,000 square meters comprising office space and a retail podium. The deal marks SCPREF’s first acquisition since Hongkong…

Anthropic ⁠said on Thursday its AI Claude model hacked ⁠systems of ⁠three ​organizations during testing, days after rival OpenAI ⁠revealed a rogue agent had gone on a days-long ⁠hacking spree at AI ​firm Hugging ‌Face.Claude gained ‌unauthorized access to the ‌systems during cybersecurity evaluations after a misconfiguration allowed the models to reach the internet from testing environments that ‌were supposed to be isolated, Anthropic said.The company said ​it identified the incidents after reviewing 141,006 cybersecurity evaluation runs, a process it ⁠launched following OpenAI’s disclosures.The ‌breaches signal that AI’s expanding capabilities are already fueling the security threat experts have long feared…

•SSG regains freedom, APC kicks •They plan to arrest me too — Osun speaker OSOGBO— FOLLOWING the detention of Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Mr Teslim Igbalaye, by operatives of the police command over alleged vote buying, Governor Ademola Adeleke, yesterday, declared that the people of the state will not succumb to any form of external interfereance or intimidation as the August 15 governorship election draws near. This came as the Police command confirmed the release of the SSG from its custody. Igbalaye was detained along with five others for allegedly committing vote-buying-related offences, as the police recovered Permanent…

Weather happens in the boundary layer, the atmosphere from ground level to a few thousand metres, but this can be difficult to study in detail: weather stations are too low, and aircraft are expensive. Instrumented weather balloons are the traditional solution, and thousands are released every day. But these are at the mercy of the wind and use irreplaceable helium.Drones offer an alternative and the US company Meteomatics has taken the idea further with Meteobase, a base station on the ground with a drone that can be launched and recovered automatically. It carries out a pre-programmed flight, gathering data at…

Fifa has responded to the threat of boycott from European nations with a statement saying that “nobody is selling football”, while blaming the media for disrupting its consultation process over controversial plans to sell chunks of the World Cup to US-based private investment.After an emergency meeting on Thursday, Uefa member associations agreed to boycott all Fifa tournaments, including World Cups, unless the proposal was abandoned entirely.Faced with an unprecedented mutiny, eclipsing the existential threat to the 1966 World Cup when African nations withdrew, Fifa issued a statement on Friday to acknowledge the fierce backlash. But it stopped short of withdrawing…

EXCLUSIVE: When it comes to breaking box office records this weekend, look out, because Spider-Man: Brand New Day will do whatever a spider can, starting with tonight as the Sony/Marvel Studios co-production is outstripping the Thursday night previews of the 2021 previous chapter Spider-Man: No Way Home, which did $50M. All of this makes sense given the $80M advance ticket sales figure we heard about for the Tom Holland and Zendaya $225M net production. No Way Home (which had previews begin at 3PM on its first Thursday) posted the third best previews ever behind 2019’s Avengers: Endgame‘s $60M (6PM start…

Communities thrive when development is driven not by individuals alone but by strong institutions built to endure. With the inauguration of the Olokoro Development Trust Fund (ODTF), stakeholders are laying the foundation for a governance-driven institution designed to promote sustainable development, preserve community assets and improve the quality of life for present and future generations. Guided by a clear strategic vision and anchored on transparency, accountability and long-term planning, the Trust Fund aims to become a catalyst for inclusive and intergenerational development in Olokoro. Chiemelie Ezeobi writes  Communities often grapple with the challenge of sustaining development beyond the tenure of individual leaders…

Since 2023, Mohammed Ma’aji, a Nigerian Army colonel and the alleged leader of a thwarted coup plot against President Bola Tinubu’s administration, had been seeking promotion to the rank of brigadier general. After missing out twice, he reasoned that if taking his deserved place in the military continued to prove impossible, he should aim at taking the whole country. Mr Ma’aji told investigators that he started rallying for the coup in 2023, toward the end of Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. The 50-year-old officer from Niger State mentioned his motives included insecurity and the deplorable conditions of serving and retired soldiers and…