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Chiemelie Ezeobi The General Officer Commanding (GOC), 81 Division Nigerian Army, Major General Adebayo Abdulrahman Babalola, has urged commanders at all levels to ensure they leave every place better than they met it through purposeful leadership and impactful initiatives. Babalola gave the charge on Tuesday while commissioning several educational and infrastructural projects at Command Day Secondary School, Oshodi, Lagos. The projects include a 300-seat Computer-Based Test (CBT) Centre, a Mathematics Laboratory, a remodelled conference room, repainting of the entire school, the refurbishment of a coaster bus, construction of students’ and staff furniture, and the procurement of 95 laptops, 55 ceiling…

American engineer and educator, Nathan Thomas broke a centuries-old record when he returned to his former college as a faculty member before his 19th birthday. When Nathan Thomas walked into a computer science classroom at Miami Dade College in August 2023, most of his students were roughly his own age. That wasn’t a coincidence — Thomas, born September 9, 2004, in the United States, was just 18 years and 346 days old, making him the youngest male professor in history. The milestone ended a run that had stood for more than three centuries. The previous record-holder, Scottish mathematician Colin Maclaurin,…

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has raised concern over the growing use of fake job offers and digital recruitment by criminal gangs to lure vulnerable people into human trafficking and online scam operations across West and Central Africa. The organisation said traffickers are increasingly adapting their methods, exploiting migration routes, labour markets and online platforms to recruit victims into forced labour, sexual exploitation and criminal activities, including internet scams. In a statement issued Tuesday in Dakar to commemorate the 2026 World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, themed “Trapped Behind the Scam,” IOM called for stronger regional cooperation and victim-centred…

Zack Polanski has refused three times to apologise to Nigel Farage for re-posting a photo of a man wearing a t-shirt with an image of a guillotine and the slogan “we’re only making plans for Nigel”.Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson, Zia Yusuf, said the image showed a “photo of man calling for the beheading of Nigel Farage”, which he said could be an “incitement to murder”.The Green Party of England and Wales leader was reported to the Met over the photo, which he then deleted, but told the BBC he had not been contacted by police.Speaking to BBC Newsnight, he…

The President of Senegal, Bassirou Faye, launched a new party on Monday, formalising his break from the former Prime Minister, Ousmane Sonko, and the PASTEF party. Mr Faye unveiled his party, Kiiraay, also known as the Republican Patriots party, at a gathering in the capital, Dakar, last week. Kiiraay means “shield” ​in the local Wolof language. At the gathering on Saturday, the president described the party as “the majority party in this country.” Mr Faye ​and Mr Sonko were once the twin faces of ‌Senegal’s anti-establishment movement. Mr Sonko also played a key role in Mr Faye’s election as president.…

Spain defender Marc Cucurella has kept his promise to get a tattoo of World Cup-winning coach Luis de la Fuente.Cucurella helped Spain win the World Cup this month as they beat Argentina 1-0 in the final.Cucurella, who joined Real Madrid from Chelsea for £52m in June, revealed the tattoo – a portrait of De la Fuente holding the World Cup in front of a number 26 – on social media., external”Promise kept,” Cucurella wrote alongside pictures and video of him having the tattoo done.After the final De la Fuente said he expected Cucurella to stick to his word.”I’ve already told…

The terrible sadness, tattiness and poisoned idealism of the old GDR is preserved as if in a time capsule in this East German film from 1980; it could be a kind of B-side to Bob Fosse’s Cabaret. The heroine, would-be solo pop singer Sunny, is told by her ungallant MC that she is no Liza Minnelli; Cabaret fans might well incidentally recognise here the brusque German word “bumsen”.Solo Sunny is the work of Konrad “Koni” Wolf, a director with an impressive and strange pedigree: he was a garlanded state-sanctioned artist in East Germany, much admired at the Berlin film festival,…

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The recent uprising of the youth in India might seem to have subsided after forcing Dharmendra Pradhan, the education minister of India, to resign. Still, he was never the true target of this historic youth revolt. The slogans, the placards, the irreverent digital art and the collective anger of the young were directed at one man alone: Narendra Modi.There exists a pervasive prejudice among the intelligentsia that young Indians today are politically indifferent, consumerist and unconcerned with politics or the erosion of democratic norms. The events at Jantar Mantar have laid bare the shallowness of this assumption. The young harboured…

Segun Awofadeji in Bauchi  A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has appealed to aggrieved aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bauchi State to set aside personal interests and unite behind the party ahead of forthcoming elections. Dogara made the appeal yesterday while leading a meeting of the APC State Reconciliation Committee with House of Representatives aspirants at the party’s secretariat in Bauchi. The former Speaker emphasised that reconciliation remained essential to building a stronger APC capable of winning future elections, urging members to support candidates who emerged through the party’s primary process. According…