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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…

•Yilwatda commends INEC, security agencies •APC’s votes spread in bye-elections significant for 2027 race – Keyamo By Jimitota Onoyume, Omeiza Ajayi, Ben Ngwakwe, Hadiza Yusuf & Christopher Ameh THE All Progressives Congress, APC, had the upper hand in Saturday’s bye-elections across four states of Delta, Kano, Bauchi and Gombe, winning four of the five slots contested. The Allied People’s Movement, APM, won one slot in Bauchi. Okolosi of APC wins Udu state assembly seat in Delta In Delta, Mr. Ator Okolosi of the APC emerged the winner of the House of Assembly bye-election for Udu state Constituency According to the…

The UK is thousands of miles from the tropical Pacific and so the effects of El Niño tend to be less clear-cut than in other regions.However, it does bring the increased chance of wet and stormy conditions across north-west Europe during the late autumn and early winter.A forecast released by the Met Office this autumn stated that there were already “signals for increased rainfall and storminess in autumn here in the UK”, especially into November and December.The winter of 2015 and 2016, which coincided with a very strong El Niño, brought a succession of major storms delivering what experts at…

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday fixed October 26 for ruling in a no-case submission filed by former Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State in the alleged phone-tapping filed against him by the Department of State Services (DSS). El-Rufai is being prosecuted on allegations bordering on breach of national security, following his alleged admission of wiretapping phone conversations of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Mr Nuhu Ribadu. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik fixed the date after the ex-governor’s lawyer, Akinyemi Aremu, and the DSS’ counsel, Oluwole Aladedoye (SAN), adopted their processes and presented their arguments for and against the no-case…

For decades, chipmakers have sought to make semiconductors faster by shrinking down silicon transistors and packing more of them on each chip. But shrinking transistors comes with its own problems: controlling electron flow becomes harder, which exacerbates problems such as leakage, power loss and heat. Nexstrom, a semiconductor startup incubated by Xora Innovation, thinks using two-dimensional (2D) materials instead of silicon is one viable way to solve that problem, especially as the global component shortage driven by demand for data centers shows no signs of letting up. The Singapore-based company is building equipment and processes that would let foundries manufacture…

Convener of the Alternative Movement, Segun Sowunmi, has described Peter Obi, the 2027 presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (ND), as a “master of empty campaign”, questioning the substance of some of the policies being canvassed by the opposition politician. Sowunmi made the remarks while discussing the 2027 presidential race on TVC’s Politics on Sunday, where he was asked whether the performance of the President Bola Tinubu administration had strengthened the campaigns of Obi and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar. He said Obi’s political appeal was largely connected to calls for equity for the South-East, which, he noted, had not…

Governor Umo Eno and other governorship candidates in Akwa Ibom State have indicated their willingness to participate in an election debate being organised by the state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) ahead of the 2027 governorship election. The debate has attracted the support of several media, civic, academic and development organisations, including the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID), University of Uyo, YIAGA Africa, Enough is Enough Nigeria, PIND Foundation, Clement Isong Foundation, Conference of Online Publishers in Akwa Ibom (COOPA), Akwa Ibom Decides and Governor Amunike (Kevin Black). The growing partnership is expected to provide…

I’m sitting in a small boat in Shark Bay, Australia, eavesdropping on a conversation between some of Earth’s most intelligent beings. The motor is off, the turquoise sea is glassy, and Stephanie King and I are motionless, transfixed by the whistles, clicks and squeezy, whirring noises made by the dolphins swimming below us.If anyone could tell me what these big-brained social mammals are saying, it would be her. Based at the University of Bristol, she co-leads Shark Bay Dolphin Research, one of the longest-running wild dolphin research projects in the world. She has spent thousands of hours watching and listening…

The Ondo State Government and state university unions have agreed to adopt the pay structure and allowances of federal universities. The agreement followed a series of meetings between officials of the state government, led by Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) and Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU). The latest agreement was disclosed in a statement on Monday by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Ebenezer Adeniyan. He stated that the development came after weeks of industrial action that disrupted academic and…

Ikemefuna Okeke, Karl Von Batten, Karl Marx, George Edward, Karl ME Okeke or whichever of your numerous names you choose to call yourself this week, consider the following. You said our President was SMUGGLING drugs into America: this is false. Prove it. You said our President was INDICTED for smuggling drugs in America: this is false. Prove it. You said our President was CONVICTED for drug smuggling in America: this is false. Prove it. In 2003 Michael H Bonner of the American Consulate in Nigeria wrote Inspector General of Police Tafa Balogun that an FBI NCIC check on Tinubu was…