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“It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week,” former president wrote Barack Obama has shared his annual summer playlist, which the former president started on a somber note by acknowledging the death of Glen Hansard. “Here are some of the songs I’ve been listening to this summer,” Obama wrote on social media Thursday. “It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Our hearts go out to his family.” Obama opened his playlist with Hansard’s “Song of…

ABUJA — National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, has said the administration of President Bola Tinubu is making strategic investments in infrastructure and human capital development to achieve its target of building a $1 trillion economy. Yilwatda stated this while receiving the Governing Council of the Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo, Benue State, led by its Pro-Chancellor, Prof. Muhammad Audu, at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja. According to a statement issued on Thursday by his Special Adviser on Media and Information Strategy, Abimbola Tooki, the APC chairman said ongoing investments in roads,…

NewsFeedA year after Awdeh al Hathaleen’s killing, rights group Al-Haq says video, forensic and geospatial analysis identify Israeli settler Yinon Levy as the shooter. The report concludes Hathaleen was unarmed and posed no threat when he was shot. Nida Ibrahim reports for Al Jazeera.Published On 30 Jul 202630 Jul 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

By Elizabeth Adegbesan The value of Automated Teller Machines (ATM) transactions grew sharply by 208.4 percent year-on-year (YoY) to N89.12 trillion in 2025 from N29.12 trillion in 2024. The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, disclosed this in its 2025 Annual Report noting that the increase in ATM transactions reflects user preferences, adoption of digital channels, growth in e-commerce, and infrastructure improvements. Analysing retail payments for the review period, CBN said that the volume of e-payments transactions increased by 2.62 per cent to 47.88 billion in 2025, compared with 46.65 billion in 2024. Likewise, the value of transactions also rose by…

Add another member to the fast-and-furious AI unicorn club: Simile. Just five months after emerging from stealth and announcing a $100 million Series A led by Index Ventures, it has closed a $200 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation, the startup says. The B round was led by Greenoaks with participation from Index, Hanabi, Bain Capital Ventures, A*, Factory, Definition, and CVS Health Ventures. CVS is also one of Simile’s marquee customers. The startup offers simulated users for areas like marketing and product research. It was founded by Stanford PhD graduate Joon Sung Park, whose dissertation involved a…

Omotayo “Iyan Aladuke” Sanusi, the former wife of actor and filmmaker Femi Adebayo, has denied claims that actress Toyin Abraham played a role in the collapse of their marriage, describing the allegations as false and misleading. Ms Sanusi issued the clarification in a statement shared on her Instagram page on Wednesday after a video by social media personality Mama Esabod reignited online discussions about the claims. According to her, the renewed discussions stemmed from allegations circulating on social media and previously reported by TVC News. She specifically denied claims that Abraham was responsible for the breakdown of her marriage or…

Brazil’s forward #22 Gabriel Martinelli (L) celebrates with teammates after scoring his team’s second goal during the 2026 World Cup round of 32 football match between Brazil and Japan at the Houston Stadium in Houston on June 29, 2026. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP) India will host five-time FIFA World Cup champions Brazil in a historic international friendly at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan in Kolkata on October 3, the All India Football Federation (AIFF) has announced. The encounter will mark the first-ever meeting between the two nations in men’s international football and is expected to be one of…

Tomi Adeyemi, the author of Children of Blood and Bone, has spoken further on the difficult process behind adapting her novel for this big screen, calling it “the worst thing I have ever had to live through”.In a five-minute video on TikTok, the author said she left the set of the Paramount production “hyperventilating and sobbing”, adding: “I never want to hear about this project again”.Adeyemi, who co-wrote the screenplay for the film, had previously spoken about her concerns surrounding the adaptation, saying that she wasn’t intending to watch the film.The video she posted on TikTok was intended, she said,…

Linus Aleke in Abuja Broadcast journalist, Olive Emodi, has launched the second season of ‘At His Right Hand,’ the faith-centred interview series she hosts and executive produces, with a preview screening held at the Segun Jade Theatre inside The Jewel Aeida Events Centre, Lekki, Lagos. The new season features conversations with Richard Mofe Damijo and other notable personalities, exploring themes of faith, grief, marriage, motherhood, mental health and personal reinvention. Hosted and produced by Emodi, At His Right Hand is a faith-centred interview series that brings together guests from the entertainment, business, ministry and public sectors for honest conversations about…

* Public Accounts Committee to probe 2021–2023 oil sector revenues, remittances and compliance Sunday Aborisade in Abuja  The Senate has fixed Monday, next week for the commencement of a sweeping investigation into Nigeria’s oil and gas sector. The red chamber has therefore summoned the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), major international and indigenous oil companies, regulators and several government agencies. The firms are expected to explain issues arising from the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) Oil and Gas Industry Audit Reports for 2021, 2022 and 2023. The investigation, to be conducted by…