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Janie Bradford, the co-writer on Motown’s first hit “Money (That’s What I Want)” and other songs for the famed Detroit label, has died at the age of 87. Bradford’s family announced the songwriter’s death Saturday, adding she died August 21 at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Hospital following an extended illness. Motown founder Berry Gordy said in a statement Saturday, “I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Janie Bradford Hobbs. Janie was there with me from the very beginning, before there was even a Motown, and she will always hold a very special place in my heart and in the Motown…

There’s something delightfully retro about stuffed vegetables. They take me back to Delia Smith’s iconic Summer Collection cookbook, which blew my tiny mind when it came out in my early teens. Too sheltered to know about the e rage that had inspired Delia, I delved into my mother’s vegetable crisper with reverence, stuffing courgettes, tomatoes and aubergines with a zeal that had escaped me at school. How could the roasting, reducing and condensing of ingredients create such explosions of flavour? I was hooked. I have recently been returning to this technique with glee, a simple solution for turning seasonal vegetables…

Onuminya Innocent  The Shehu of Borno, His Eminence Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai Al-Amin Elkanemi, has announced plans to confer the prestigious traditional title of Zannan Borno on Kebbi State Governor, Dr. Nasir Idris, in a grand turbaning ceremony. This was contained in a statement issued by the Special Adviser on Communication and Strategy to Kebbi State Governor, Abdullahi Idris Sadaukin Zuru. The royal father made the disclosure when he received a delegation of the Kebbi State Governor’s Media Team on a nationwide advocacy tour at his palace in Maiduguri.  According to Shehu, who also serves as Deputy National Chairman…

Syria has condemned an Israeli attack on the village of Beit Jinn, southwest of the country’s capital Damascus, which officials said hit a civilian vehicle and left several people injured.The attack was the second known Israeli strike on Syria in the past week, with Syria branding it a “violation” of its sovereignty and international law.In a post on X, the Israeli military said it had targeted a “terrorist” in the “final stages” of preparing attacks which posed an immediate threat to soldiers.The latest incident comes days after reports emerged Israel had struck a military airbase close to the Turkish border,…

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St Helens built on a strong first half and relied on six different try-scorers to beat 10-man Castleford 36-12 at the Brewdog Stadium to keep their play-off hopes alive.It has been a dramatic week for Castleford, whose former head coach Ryan Carr announced he was leaving the club for “personal reasons” on Friday. Saints also announced a coaching change this week, with Kevin Walters due to join from next season. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Jackson Hastings was sent off for punching Tyler Dupree, then clashes continued off the pitch between St Helens and Castleford…

There are stories we tell because they are entertaining, and there are stories we tell because forgetting them carries a cost. The Man Died belongs firmly to the latter category. Directed by Awam Amkpa and produced by Femi Odugbemi for Zuri24 Media, the 2024 Nigerian historical drama premiered on Prime Video on 15 August 2026. The film stars Wale Ojo as Wole Soyinka, alongside Sam Dede, Norbert Young, Segilola Ogidan, Christinah Oshunniyi, Abraham Amkpa, Tmilolu Fosudo, Similoluwa Hassan and Ropo Ewenla. Inspired by Soyinka’s prison memoir, The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka, the film revisits one of the…

Linus Aleke in Abuja  The Nigerian military has said that troops of the Joint Task Force North-West, Operation Fansan Yamma, intercepted no fewer than 180 units of superpower explosives destined for terrorists in Katsina State. The military revealed that the explosives were detected and intercepted by troops along the Kaura-Zurmi Road in Zurmi Local Government Area (LGA) of Zamfara State during an intelligence-led clearance operation. Speaking during the weekly briefing on the operational activities of troops of the Armed Forces of Nigeria across the federation, the Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Michael Onoja, said that troops also apprehended…

Seal confirmed first mammal death from bird flu in AustraliaLisa CoxA long-nosed fur seal has died from H5 bird flu in South Australia, marking the first confirmed case in a mammal on the Australian mainland.The New Zealand fur seal was found dead at Beachport on Wednesday on the state’s Limestone Coast.It marks a fresh escalation in the spread of the virus days after the South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, announced three mass mortality events on offshore islands involving more than 1,000 greater crested terns.The highly pathogenic strain of bird flu has killed millions of birds globally and crossed over into…