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Marketing takes time, and most small businesses don’t have much of it. Creating content, managing multiple tools, or hiring freelancers isn’t always practical. For many businesses across Africa, the challenge isn’t just finding time, it’s making the most of limited budgets while reaching customers where they are. Mobile-first marketing, WhatsApp, email, and social media often work together to drive sales and customer engagement. AI can help simplify these efforts by creating content faster, repurposing it across channels, and reducing the need for multiple expensive tools. Today, AI is changing that. Instead of replacing marketers, it is helping small business owners…

Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told.The Labour Party’s 2024 manifesto – which the new leader said he would follow – had pledged to not issue new licences but to honour existing ones.At the heart of the debate are two oil and gas fields in Scotland – Rosebank and Jackdaw – which regulators approved in 2022 and 2023 under the then Conservative government, but were overturned in 2025 after a legal challenge.The announcement will form part of a flurry of…

A major international clinical trial has found that finerenone can significantly slow the loss of kidney function in people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who do not have diabetes. The findings suggest the drug could become an important new treatment option for a large group of patients who have historically had limited therapies beyond standard care. The research was led by clinical pharmacologist Hiddo Lambers Heerspink of the University Medical Center Groningen and published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Large International Trial Evaluates Finerenone The FIND-CKD study enrolled 1,584 adults with chronic kidney disease and followed them for…

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James Cameron loves tough female characters. That seems like a given now, after three Avatars and two particularly muscular arms belonging to Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2. Even the lushly romantic Titanic is about a supportive, sweet-natured boyfriend lending his love the extra smidge of strength she needs to live a rich and iconoclastic life without him, until she’s freely chucking diamonds into the sea at 100 years of age. But in Cameron’s 1984 de facto feature debut The Terminator (after a Piranha sequel that he attempted to disown), T2’s Hamilton is stalked and appropriately terrified by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s slasher-like…

The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Public Communications, Daniel Bwala has confirmed that Nigerian troops have arrested foreign nationals suspected of links to insecurity in parts of the country. Bwala disclosed this while featuring on The Link Up Podcast, a panel discussion hosted by EchoRoom and published on Friday. He said interference by foreign governments in Nigeria’s internal affairs was tied to national security and economic interests, including the country’s oil resources and past policy decisions by the Federal Government. “If you remember, there was a decision the Federal Government of Nigeria made at that time,…

An Arizona fire department is formally honoring a 14-year-old boy who recently helped save an elderly woman with dementia after she wandered miles off course amid potentially lethal temperatures, saying the teenager demonstrated “heroism … quick thinking and compassion”.Royal Cothrun was riding his bicycle in June in the town of Gilbert when he encountered Theresa Morgan as she struggled to walk through 103F (39.4C) heat with a grocery bag dangling off one arm and a purse on the other, according to authorities as well as reporting by the local news outlet KNXV.Cothrun later told KNXV that he slowed down to…

Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor in “Disclosure Day.”Universal PicturesSteven Spielberg’s alien thriller Disclosure Day, starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor, is new on digital streaming this week as the film winds down its run at the domestic box office.Directed by Spielberg, Disclosure Day opened in theaters nationwide on June 12. The film follows cybersecurity expert Daniel Kellner (O’Connor), who is on the run from a non-governmental organization after he steals computer files that contain sensitive information about the existence of alien life on Earth.Forbes‘The Odyssey’: Early Weekend Projections Peg A $117 Million OpeningBy Tim LammersWhen Daniel establishes an otherworldly connection…

Namaste, Victoria from Techpoint here, Here’s what I’ve got for you today: Complaints against Kenya’s digital lenders soar CBN wants to track every retail dollar Prosus sells final Delivery Hero stake Complaints against Kenya’s digital lenders soar Central Bank of Kenya Complaints against Kenya’s digital lenders have exploded, showing that the country’s fast-growing loan app industry is still struggling to win consumers’ trust. Per the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK), complaints about digital lenders increased fivefold in the year ended June 2025, making the sector one of the biggest sources of consumer grievances. The regulator said most of the complaints…

By Adeola Akinremi “Democracy dies in darkness.” I thought about those words this week as I walked past The Washington Post headquarters on K Street in northwest downtown Washington, D, C. Some phrases become so familiar that they risk fading into the background. Then a particular moment restores their weight, reminding us that they were never merely a newspaper’s motto—they were a warning. Nigeria’s democracy is eroding. It is eroding quietly and gradually. Almost imperceptibly. Our democracy is eroding one frivolous lawsuit at a time.  Democracies rarely collapse in a single dramatic moment. It starts with obstructions to the execution of the…