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David-Chyddy Eleke, in this piece, projects what the outing of the candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, Peter Obi in the January, 2027 presidential election will look like as he commences campaigns. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) last week lifted ban on campaigns for the 2027 general elections and the candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Peter Obi held a world press conference to share what he feels should guide the election. In 2023, Obi ran for the president of Nigeria on the platform of the Labour Party (LP) and placed third behind President Bola Tinubu of…

Let us now be disappointed in total strangers. By that, we mean let us now, as the Major League Baseball calendar approaches September and we prepare to put full focus on the various and sundry playoff races, take time to talk about the most disappointing players of the 2026 season to date. These are, as you would expect, the notable players who have fallen short of reasonable expectations by the widest margins. Sure, an otherworldly final five weeks or so of regular season could lift them into adequacy, but thus far these seven players to come have been surprising flops this…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Marshall is rolling out the second part of its anniversary collaboration with Jimi Hendrix, featuring a pair of wireless headphones and a Bluetooth speaker. The collection marks 60 years “since Hendrix first plugged into a Marshall amplifier,” according to the brand, a relationship that came to define the history of the British amplifier brand in the United States. The collaboration is the second release in the collection, following the initial drop in May. While that drop featured a…

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of the Lapai branch of the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBU) in Niger State have begun an indefinite strike over the alleged non-implementation of key provisions of the 2025 federal government-ASUU agreement by the state government. The union announced the decision on Monday following an emergency congress and a press conference held at the university premises in Lapai. The ASUU-IBBU Chairman, Galadima Bala, said the industrial action became necessary after several engagements and appeals failed to resolve the issues surrounding the agreement’s implementation. Mr Bala said the agreement, reached with the…

Yusuf Ebiti A rights group, The Progressive Counsel (TPC), has decried  ongoing moves by the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress(ADC) and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to dig up “a non-existent case of drug conviction against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.” The group, mostly composed of human rights lawyers, forensic auditors and policy analysts, yesterday rose from a meeting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, challenging the former VP to first clear the citizenship question hanging over his head, before tackling Tinubu. In a statement titled, “Atiku Must Face the Constitutional Mirror,” signed by its Convener, Maiyegun G. Oloriegbe,…

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has ordered manufacturers of alcoholic beverages packaged in sachets and PET bottles below 200ml to recall the products nationwide. The agency also ordered the destruction of the recalled products under its supervision, saying manufacturers will bear the full cost of the exercise. In a statement issued on Monday by its Director General, Mojisola Adeyeye, NAFDAC said the directive followed the signing of an Irrevocable Enforcement Undertaking by the Distillers and Blenders Association of Nigeria (DIBAN), the Association of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Employers (AFBTE), and their member companies. Under…

The Court of Appeal, Benin Division, has overturned a Federal High Court decision that invalidated Presco Plc’s 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) and halted the company’s rights issue. The appellate court’s decision effectively restores the resolutions passed at the AGM and removes the restrictions previously placed on Presco’s corporate actions. The ruling followed an appeal by Presco in Appeal No. CA/B/220/2025 against a December 11, 2025 judgment of the Federal High Court in Benin. The lower court had nullified the company’s August 19, 2025 AGM and restrained it from proceeding with a rights issue based on resolutions passed at the…

Users of OpenAI’s software engineering tool Codex might know Thibault Sottiaux as the guy who resets their token limits whenever the product hits a growth milestone. Now, OpenAI is trying to bring that dopamine hit to the rest of us with ChatGPT Work, a platform for white collar workers to leverage AI agents. I spoke to Sottiaux for our feature on the product and its challenges, but we wanted to share more of that conversation with our readers. Here’s a lightly edited and condensed version of our interview about winning over skeptics, discovery as a product design philosophy, and the…

The US has sanctioned Chinese entities tied to Iran’s shadow networks but stopped short of hitting major banks or China broadly, warning Beijing over Iranian oil as both sides try to preserve trade ties ahead of a Trump–Xi meeting set for September 24. Al Jazeera’s Katrina Yu reports from Beijing.Published On 25 Aug 202625 Aug 2026Share How the US sanctions on Iran impact China on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Former Rivers State Governor and African Democratic Congress (ADC) vice-presidential candidate, Rotimi Amaechi, has admitted that efforts by opposition politicians to form a united coalition ahead of the 2027 general elections remain difficult due to the ambitions of individual political leaders. Mr Amaechi spoke on Monday during a panel discussion at the Nigerian Bar Association’s 2026 Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt, where he represented the ADC presidential candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. “Coalition as it is today is difficult to achieve. If it is possible, I am sure that Vice President Atiku Abubakar would be willing to participate,”…