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Goddy Egene Technology and partnerships are playing  a crucial role in ensuring effective and proactive protection of oil assets in today’s dynamic security landscape. Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited (TSSNL) is  combining both in ensuring that oil assets are efficiently protected and production quota met.  The company continues to partner with global players to enhance the company’s capacity to carry out its surveillance operations on Nigeria’s oil installations. This has led to oil production surge, increasing stability and peace in the Niger Delta region. Technology is at the centre of oil assets protection. That explains the continued reliance on technology…

Anthony Albanese will seek to use Wednesday’s high-stakes talks with premiers to quell growing unhappiness about national controls on datacentre developments, promising new approval laws will complement state rules.Faced with growing opposition from conservative governments in Queensland and the Northern Territory, Albanese will tell national cabinet he plans a major piece of legislation next year to ensure the economic benefits of AI are shared widely.With potential to be one of the major reforms of Labor’s second term, the new law will set tough copyright rules for AI businesses and impose standards for security, safety and skills development.The meeting on Wednesday…

By Bayo Wahab The Presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi, has disagreed with the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, over his proposed return of fuel subsidy if elected in 2027. Obi also accused the federal government of mismanaging the savings from the proceeds of fuel susidy removal. The ex-governor of Anambra State spoke on Monday at the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) conference in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, while reacting to the debate over whether fuel subsidy should be restored as proposed by Atiku. Atiku, who campaigned for the removal of fuel…

Backyard bird feeding is one of our country’s most popular pastimes. Research reveals about half of Australian households feed wild birds, with many people doing so daily. However, this practice could act as a superspreader event – where a disease infects an unusually high number of people or animals – of the H5N1 virus. This deadly strain of bird flu has already decimated wild bird and mammal populations worldwide. It is now spreading across Australia, most recently killing more than 1,000 crested terns and a long-nosed fur seal, the first detection in a mainland mammal. Although many Australians feed wild…

Xabi Alonso won his first game as Chelsea boss thanks to Morgan Rogers’s debut goal and Joao Pedro’s strike after just 31 seconds of a pulsating 3-2 victory against Fulham on Monday. Alonso has been hired to revive Chelsea after their dismal 10th place finish in the Premier League last season. The former Real Madrid boss has a point to prove after being sacked by the Spanish club following less than eight months in charge. Alonso’s side ensured he delivered a good first impression in a chaotic west London derby at Craven Cottage. Pedro’s opener inside the first minute was…

BBNaija Season 11 housemate, Chimsom Chuka, has emerged as the Head of House for the second time this season. Chimsom secured the position after emerging victorious in the latest Head of House challenge, earning the opportunity to lead the house for another week. His latest victory places him among the housemates who have claimed the coveted position twice in the ongoing season. Chimsom had previously won the Head of House title earlier in the season, establishing himself as one of the notable contenders in the competition. His return to the leadership position is expected to influence the dynamics within the…

Late in August, the New York Mets were coming to the end of yet another losing season. Even with the highest payroll in Major League Baseball, they were stuck in last place.That was more or less all right with A.M. Gittlitz, the author of the recently published “Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle and the People’s Team,” an idiosyncratic history of the team and its relationship to leftist and populist movements.He understands all too well that the Mets are the Mets — a ball club known as much for its tragicomic ineptitude as its occasional moments of glory.If the Mets…

* Says they undermine public confidence  Linus Aleke in Abuja  The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sunday Kelvin Aneke, has decried the menace of misinformation, disinformation and hostile narratives surrounding military operations, insisting that these digital vices undermine public confidence. Air Marshal Aneke made the condemnation on Monday while declaring open the 2026 Directorate of Public Relations and Information (DOPRI) Annual Media Workshop and Meeting with information officers at the Headquarters of the Nigerian Air Force, Abuja. The CAS, who was represented by the Chief of Policy and Plans (COPP), Nigerian Air Force, Air Vice Marshal Abubakar…

According to the leadership philosophy of Simon Sinek, “leadership is not about the next election, it’s about the next generation” This is exactly what we’re witnessing in Enugu under the intellectually guided administration of Dr Peter Ndubuisi Mbah, where genuine applause for his intentional, standard and verifiable massive development and economic indices transcend beyond the next election to the next generation. When Governor Mbah assumed office 29 May 2023, he inherited an Enugu with enormous economic potential and a proud developmental history, but also faced serious security and economic challenges that demanded decisive and innovative leadership systems confront. And because…

By Yinka Kolawole Bilateral trade between Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) rose by 66.7 percent to about $5 billion in 2025 from $3 billion in 2024, highlighting growing economic ties between both countries as they move towards formalising a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). The development was disclosed when the UAE Ambassador to Nigeria, Salem Saeed Alshamsi, paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja. In a statement issued by Kimiebi Imomotimi Ebienfa, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Alshamsi said the…