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Dr Erica Schwartz was confirmed by the US Senate as director ‌of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a rare win for the Trump administration after a string of failed attempts to fill senior health posts.Schwartz was confirmed by a ⁠51-44 vote that broke largely along party lines, with Tim Kaine of Virginia the sole Democrat to support her nomination.Donald Trump’s third pick to run ​the CDC, Schwartz is set to take the reins of the agency after a tumultuous period of leadership turnover, and amid public concern over an outbreak of cyclosporiasis and Robert F Kennedy Jr’s…

.Directs security agencies, relevant stakeholders to immediately strengthen early warning systems Deji Elumoye in Abuja President Bola Tinubu has welcomed the successful rescue of 308 Nigerian citizens who were abducted in different attacks in Niger and Kwara states.One hundred and sixty-three of those rescued were abducted from Woro Community in Kaiama LGA, Kwara State, and 145 from Niger State.The victims were rescued from the Kainji Lake National Park Forest in New Bussa Local Government Area of Niger State following a coordinated, intelligence-driven operation by the National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC), involving personnel from the Armed Forces of Nigeria, the Department of…

By Peter Egwuatu Dangote Petroleum Refinery has announced a reduction in the ex-depot prices of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and Automotive Gas Oil (Diesel), effective Thursday 6th of August, thereby reaffirming its commitment to providing affordable, high-quality petroleum products to the Nigerian market. The company in a statement said, under the new pricing structure, the refinery has reduced the ex-depot price of PMS to N1,165 per litre, down from N1,215 per litre, representing a reduction of N50 per litre. Similarly, the ex-depot price of Diesel has been reduced to N1,570 per litre from N1,650 per litre, amounting to a decrease…

After first opening a pull request to merge the malicious code into the repository, Mythos created fake online “sock puppet” personas that claimed to have independently reviewed and verified the code as not containing malware. The AI agent also sent five emails to two human maintainers of the repository, including some emails containing malware and others attempting to persuade a maintainer to accept the pull request. Mythos even opened a GitHub Issue on a second repository—also owned by a maintainer of the first repository—that contained a prompt injection with malicious instructions targeting “issue-triage AI coding agents.” This line of attack…

•Says  they called me ‘The Spoiler’ because I refused to join corruption •Laments Nigeria ignored warnings that destroyed manufacturing •Believes Nigeria’s greatest problem is putting personal interest above national interest •Insists Nigeria ‘ll rise again •Adds at 80, my greatest achievement isn’t wealth, but my reputation By Victor Ahiuma-Young & Adefolarin Adegboye Few Nigerians have witnessed the country’s economic evolution as closely—or participated in it as actively—as Victor Eburajolo. For more than five decades, the industrial relations expert, corporate executive, manufacturing advocate and public servant occupied a front-row seat as Nigeria journeyed from an agrarian economy to industrial ambition, through…

The police in Delta State have foiled a planned kidnapping targeting a pastor and a retired school principal in the Ughelli area of the state. The police spokesman in Delta, Bright Edafe, disclosed this in a statement forwarded to PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday, saying the operations were part of the police’s sustained crackdown on violent crime. Kidnap plot foiled According to Mr Edafe, operatives of the ‘A’ Division, Ughelli, acted on credible intelligence on 31 July after receiving information that Jeremiah Kwane, 26, allegedly attempted to recruit another person into a kidnapping syndicate to abduct a pastor and a retired…

Gianni Infantino held talks about rebranding the ill-fated European breakaway competition the “Fifa Super League”, with negotiations going as far as the term sheet for an agreement that would have changed the face of European football.The term sheet, whose full contents can be revealed for the first time, is dated October 2020 and proposes renaming any new competition under Fifa’s branding. It outlines the extent to which Infantino’s administration were implicated in a scheme that caused widespread revulsion among fans and excluded clubs in April 2021. It also reveals that Fifa was prepared to sideline its member associations in pushing…

It’s somehow been 25 years since the first awful Super Troopers movie created by the comedy troupe Broken Lizard, which goes to show you that time flies when you’re having fun. And by fun, I mean not having to see any Super Troopers movies, with the exception of the similarly misbegotten Super Troopers 2 in 2018. The third installment has now arrived, presumably indicating that these films have their fans. But if you’re not one already, Super Troopers 3 is unlikely to bring you into the fold. Yes, it’s another moronic comedy best appreciated by stoners and others who find…

Many social media users have rallied behind Peter “Mr P” Okoye as his renewed public dispute with his twin brother, Paul “Rudeboy” Okoye, and their elder brother and former manager, Jude Okoye, continues to dominate online conversations. The growing support follows Mr P’s ongoing multi-part video series in which he recounts the events that led to P-Square’s repeated breakups and the family’s long-running financial dispute. In the videos, which have now reached Part Six, he accused Jude of claiming ownership of P-Square, withholding financial records, delaying access to the group’s backend catalogue and mishandling royalty payments. Jude has denied the…

First lady expected in Enugu for the event The National Coordinating Committee for the APC South-East Women Mega Rally & Empowerment 2026 has been formally inaugurated ahead of the landmark regional gathering scheduled for Tuesday, August 18 at Okpara Square, Enugu State. The inauguration and strategic media briefing, held in Abuja on Tuesday, officially commenced mobilisation across the five South-East states for what organisers describe as one of the largest gatherings of women in the region. Mary Ikoku, chairman, Media, Protocol & Publicity Committee of the APC South-East Women Mega Rally & Empowerment 2026, in a statement, said the event,…