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The senator representing Kwara Central Senatorial District, Saliu Mustapha, has expressed confidence that he would defeat Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, in the 2027 election for the district’s Senate seat. Mustapha made the assertion during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today, monitored by our correspondent on Friday, hours after the Senior Special Assistant on Communications to the Governor, Ibraheem Abdullateef, dismissed claims surrounding the political rift between the two men. Asked whether he could defeat the governor in the event of a contest for the Kwara Central senatorial seat, Mustapha said the outcome would be clear shortly after voting…

TikTok and the US government settled to resolve allegations that the app violated children’s online privacy laws.Published On 21 Aug 202621 Aug 2026The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a $400m settlement with the short-video app TikTok over concerns that the platform had violated children’s online privacy.The DOJ said on Friday it had entered into a settlement with TikTok, ByteDance and affiliated entities over concerns about compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which requires services aimed at children to obtain parental consent to collect personal information from users under age 13.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend…

Heineken is building on a decade-long partnership with Lagos Fashion Week as the annual fashion platform returns, using fashion, music and nightlife to deepen its engagement with Nigeria’s growing creative economy. The beer brand marked 10 years of its association with Lagos Fashion Week at the 2025 edition, a relationship that has coincided with the growth of Nigeria’s fashion industry and the emergence of Lagos as a major African creative hub. A major highlight of last year’s edition was Heineken’s “City of Cities” showcase, which positioned Lagos itself as the inspiration for a collection that brought together fashion, music, dance…

Last month, more than a thousand employees at frontier AI companies signed a letter asking the US government to find a way to “pace” AI development, citing the risk of the technology spiraling out of human control as it begins to build itself.They were right to be concerned: just days earlier, two AI models that OpenAI was testing internally escaped the test environment, then autonomously hacked the company Hugging Face and at least three other online services. A few days after that, Anthropic announced that some of their models had also broken out and hacked other companies during testing.Against that…

Karoline Leavitt, is the youngest person ever appointed as spokesperson of the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. Chido Nwangwu provides insight to Karoline’s brief tenure and the major reason for her resignation, effective end of August 2026. At 28, Karoline Leavitt, is the youngest person ever appointed to the important position, the podium of the presidency, the spokesperson of the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. She strongly believes that “The press does only want to make the president look bad. That’s it. That’s a fact.” She’s not alone in the American conservative movements and…

He said: “Simply refilling the pond, encouraging volunteers to help or asking people not to feed the ducks wouldn’t be sufficient to significantly improve the current issues with the pond following the long dry period we experienced.”The environment director noted that “ongoing pressure on States’ budgets” have sparked real term cuts to the budgets for Saumarez Park in recent years, including a “significant reduction” in 2026. He added: “A local firm has indicated that the restoration of the pond would cost over £100,000, which would include dredging a large amount of silt, improving the surrounding drainage and installing devices to…

Coventry City manager Frank Lampard shares his thoughts on his side’s 3-0 defeat by Arsenal in their first game back in the Premier League since 2001.

EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Swift went behind the scenes on working with The Eras Tour: The Final Show director Glenn Weiss to preserve the essence of the last stop on her recent historic, career-defining tour during an intimate event with Emmy voters recently. The music mogul made an appearance at the Ross House in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Deadline is told, in support of Weiss as well as sound designer John Ross on their Emmy nominations for the Disney+ special. Swift herself is also nominated as a producer and performer in the film. “One of the things that I was so impressed by,…

You could say it has become “kinda chic” to declare the death of the word chic.As the phrase has blanketed Instagram and TikTok, where people are declaring it “kinda chic” to drink matcha lattes, lift weights or tote books in their purses, critics have been griping that the true meaning of chic is now hopelessly lost.As annoying as this meme has become, all of this whingeing about it feels self-serious and a bit rude. It fails to see what’s funny about the deliberately lowbrow use of “kinda,” deployed to undercut the less attainable state known as “chic.”Chic is a high…

Transcorp Power Plc, one of the power subsidiaries of Africa’s leading listed conglomerate, Transnational Corporation Plc (“Transcorp Group”), has won the Power Generation Excellence Company of the Year award at the Business Times Awards 2026, in recognition of its operational excellence and measurable impact on Nigeria’s power generation. The company received the award at the Grand Gala Award Ceremony held on Thursday at the Lagos Oriental Hotel, where it was presented with a Golden Plaque and Award Certificate of Recognition. The Business Times Awards Editorial Board cited Transcorp Power’s exemplary leadership, excellence in innovation and significant impact in the power…