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Key events3.00 YORK RESULT: MALTESE STROLL IN THE VOLTIGEUR1. MALTESE CROSS 9-4, 2. Pierre Bonnard. 6 ran.ShareOff and running in the Great Voltigeur Stakes …A steady early pace after Antigua missed the kick but now he takes it up …Galiyan and Christmas Day dispute second, Maltese Cross and Pierre Bonnard close behind …They’re into the final mile, Antigua still clear, Christmas Day in second but the chasing pack closely bunched ..Into the straight, the pacemaker drops away, Christmas Day takes over but Maltese Cross is going really wellFour in a line two out, but Maltese Cross is going best, Pierre…

By Adewale Adesewa Former BBNaija Season 11 housemate Kamsy has opened up about her lively personality in the Big Brother Naija house, insisting that her fun-loving and party-driven side was not an act but a genuine part of who she is. Kamsy made the remarks during an interview with Cool FM, where she reflected on her experience in the house and explained why she wanted viewers to see more than just her glamorous side. According to her, she already knew she would embrace the party atmosphere before entering the reality show.“I’ve always known I was a party animal. You need…

Standards must be maintained, but not through public pursuit that destroys careers and lives, argues PAT ONUKWULI  There is scrutiny, and there is siege. There is accountability, and there is annihilation. Professor Jason Arday, Cambridge’s youngest Black professor, is dead at 41. For many people of colour in Britain, the question is not whether the allegations deserved investigation. They did. The question is whether one Black academic’s flaws became a pretext for something larger: a demolition staged against an aggressive war on diversity, equity and inclusion.  Arday’s story was extraordinary enough to invite both admiration and suspicion. Autistic and non-verbal until late…

President Bola Tinubu has joined a request by the US Department of Justice for a 10-day extension to respond to a court order over the release of records linking him to alleged drug trafficking. Von Batten-Montague-York, a Washington-based lobbying firm employed by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, disclosed this in a post on Tuesday. It stated that the US Justice Department “initiated action in federal court” requesting an additional 10 days. However, the US District Court in Columbia denied the request and granted the department only four additional days, noting that it must release records by 21 August. Hours later,…

Six tourists and a pilot have been killed after a helicopter crashed at Mount Ololokwe in central Kenya, air accident officials have told the BBC.The Aircraft Accident Investigation Department said the nationalities of the pilot and passengers were yet to be confirmed. The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) said the accident happened in Samburu county at approximately 09:13 local time (06:13 GMT).It said the helicopter was on a scenic flight from a wildlife conservancy in Loisaba to Ewaso Nyiro, a river that flows along several national reserves.An image shared online shows smoke at the crash site at Mount Ololokwe.The Kenya…

SOStainabilityWeekly Edited by Oke Epia, E-mail: sostainability01@gmail.com  | WhatsApp: +234 8034000706 Spotlight By Oke Epia    A delegation of assessors from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the world’s established extractive governance watchdog, visited Nigeria last week. The objective was to validate the country’s efforts in complying with global standards guiding the management of natural resources (oil, gas, and solid minerals) that lead to transparent and beneficial outcomes for stakeholders – companies, communities, countries, and the global energy landscape- including efforts to transition from fossil fuels. A statement from the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) – the country’s subset…

In July, the FCC demanded that the Houston-based KTRK station “produce all internal communications among The View’s booking staff, its segment producers, its Executive Producer, and its on-air co-hosts discussing any candidate over a two-year period, together with the messages that two named cohosts had sent to the program’s Executive Producer about a single booking decision,” the lawsuit said. The FCC letter of inquiry also “demanded that ABC disclose the political donations of individual employees and co-hosts,” the lawsuit said. Two weeks later, the FCC issued another letter making similar demands for Good Morning America, This Week with George Stephanopoulos,…

The relationship between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and ex-Ogun State Governor, Olusegun Osoba remains one of the most consequential variables in the Gateway State’s political equation. Will their political preferences converge or diverge? Jonathan Eze asks. In the history of Nigerian politics, few rivalries have been as enduring, complex and consequential as that between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former Ogun State Governor Olusegun Osoba. Unlike political feuds driven by personal insults or ideological extremism, the Obasanjo-Osoba rivalry has always been rooted in competing visions of political leadership, influence, and power within Ogun State and the wider Yoruba political establishment.…

A French researcher whose work was praised by Donald Trump and Dr Mehmet Oz during the Covid-19 pandemic published hundreds of papers with “substantial” ethical and legal concerns, according to a new analysis.An international team of scientists found concerns in 853 articles published by the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, or the IHU, hundreds more than previously flagged by past investigations into work at the large research hospital. Of those, institute founder Didier Raoult was listed as co-author on 758 of them, according to one of the researchers behind the new analysis.Raoult rocketed to the global stage in March 2020, when…

England underlined their credentials as potential Hockey World Cup winners by sealing top spot in Pool D with an 8-2 win over Wales.Sam Ward took just 73 seconds to open the scoring before Will Calnan deflected in a second.Some brilliant saves from Toby Reynolds-Cotterill kept Wales in the game, but Calnan added his second and Tom Sorsby smashed home a fourth to end the first half.Wales improved in the third, but England captain Zach Wallace scored a fifth from a rebound.Sam Hooper added a sixth through the legs of his Wimbledon Hockey Club team-mate in the fourth, with Henry Croft…