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Former P-Square manager Jude Okoye has responded to fresh allegations made by his younger brother, Peter “Mr P” Okoye, insisting he never diverted the group’s earnings and challenging authorities to jail him if he is found guilty. Jude’s response comes days after Mr P released a four-part video series on social media detailing the long-running financial dispute within the defunct P-Square group. In the videos, Mr P accused his elder brother of withholding financial records, delaying access to the group’s backend catalogue and mismanaging royalty payments, reigniting public interest in the family’s prolonged feud. P-Square, comprising twin brothers Peter and…

A suitcase is like the portrait in the traveller’s attic, accumulating more than its fair share of knocks and scrapes while we refresh ourselves on the road. We trundle them over cobbles, see them tumble from luggage racks on the train – and if we choose to fly, there’s a fair chance they’ll be mishandled before we reunite at the carousel.The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.For our testing, we pushed 11 suitcases to the limit by dropping them on to a hard surface, as if they’d been…

Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has commended the Inspector General of Police, Tunji Disu, for the prompt deployment of an operational police aircraft to support ongoing security operations in the state. Governor Abiodun had requested the deployment of the aircraft as part of efforts to further strengthen the state’s security architecture and sustain the fight against criminality and banditry. The request was swiftly approved by the Inspector General of Police. Receiving the aircraft and its crew on behalf of the Ogun State Government, the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Tokunbo Talabi, expressed the Governor’s appreciation to the Inspector General…

Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has announced a 30 per cent reduction in gas imbalance on the country’s Western Network following the conclusion of the first half of 2026 Nigerian Gas Network Reconciliation (NGNR) Workshop. The biannual workshop brought together gas transporters, suppliers, shippers and off takers to reconcile gas volumes traded between January and June 2026 as part of efforts to improve transparency, accountability and operational efficiency in the domestic gas market. A major outcome of the exercise, a statement from the organisation said, was the introduction of a Network Entry…

SpaceX has ramped up purchases of Tesla Megapack, spending $295 million on the battery storage devices in the second quarter and $329 million so far this year, according to the company’s earnings report released on Tuesday. The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk’s universe of companies are. Musk, who is the CEO and largest shareholder of SpaceX, also runs Tesla. Musk’s artificial intelligence business xAI acquired his social media platform, X, in 2025. Earlier this year, SpaceX gobbled up xAI. The industrial-scale batteries are likely being deployed at the company’s xAI data centers. Before xAI merged with SpaceX, the…

A juvenile female of the mantid species Choeradodis rhomboidea was collected as part of an effort to catalog insects in the Amazon.Credit: Bernardo Ferraz/BioInsectaThe Amazon’s lush rainforest harbours a hidden world of tiny creatures, nearly all of them unknown to science. But now hundreds of scientists in Brazil are collaborating on a quest to count every species of insect in one expanse of the Amazon — the largest insect-biodiversity study to ever explore the forest from the ground to the canopy.Preliminary data suggest that the number of insect species could surpass 40,000, which is almost 0.7% of the widely accepted…

The pressure is growing on the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, with many countries withdrawing their support following the bungled World Cup sell-off. However, how key is Infantino’s relationship with each confederation and is it likely that an election contest will actually happen? We look at the key considerations, confederation by confederation.1) How does each confederation view Infantino’s re-election?Uefa (Europe) has firmly led the moves under way to achieve Infantino’s removal. The threat last week to boycott all Fifa competitions if the Fifa Forward Enterprise scheme was not scrapped contributed hugely to its failure. In a scathing statement on Saturday, Uefa…

The movie, which is newly retitled The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn and rated R, will be available to stream later this month Although The X-Files: I Want to Believe fared decently at the box office, critics attached the 2008 film as “baggy, draggy, oddly timed and strangely off the mark” (The New York Times), “basically TV writ large” (New York Post), and “in not knowing who it needs to please, I Want to Believe pleases no one” (Rolling Stone). What filmmaker Chris Carter believes (or wants to believe) is that concessions he had to make to…

The Chairman, Federal Civil Service Commission, Prof. Tunji Olaopa, has described urologists as mediators in a tribute to Prof. Olayiwola Shittu as he turns 70 on Wednesday August 5 and retires from the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan Shittu is a renowned consultant Urologist and Professor of Surgery at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. In a statement titled “Prof. Olayiwola Shittu: Celebrating the Urologist as a Mediator at 70”, Olaopa on Monday described Shittu as a brother and friend who is widely respected for his expertise in prostrate cancer, reconstructive urology, and surgical outcomes in resource-constrained environments, and…

For the first time since SpaceX went public, the world is getting a first-hand look into the trillion-dollar corporation’s financials. The Elon Musk-run business reported its second quarter earnings on Tuesday, saying that its revenue jumped 92% since June.SpaceX beat Wall Street’s expectations, reporting $7.81bn in revenue, versus analysts’ predictions of $6.93bn. It reported a loss of $541m.The positive numbers will likely quell some fears from nervous investors who have been waiting for more insight into the rocket ship company’s potential for profit.SpaceX had a blockbuster initial public offering in June with the largest-ever stock market debut in history. The…