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Rick Springfield had a harrowing experience that cost a man his life while touring with the troops during the Vietnam War. “The closest occidental country was Australia. So the G.I.s wanted to see girls that reminded them of home. So as long as we had a couple of girls in the band, they would hire you and you could tour Vietnam during the war zone,” the singer, 77, said during the Tuesday, September 8, episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast. “It was pretty insane. We were there for about four months.” Springfield explained that he performed in Vietnam around…

The United States has delivered some military equipment it sold to Nigeria as part of the two countries’ bilateral counterterrorism collaboration. The delivery, made over the weekend using the United States Air Force C-17 aircraft, was disclosed in an X post by US Africa Command (AFRICOM) on Thursday. The post did not detail the specific equipment delivered and its cost. “The equipment is part of a foreign military sales agreement that furthers the US-Nigerian partnership and will aid in Nigeria’s efforts to counter terrorism in the region,” the post read. It is not immediately clear if the sale was part…

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Students Engagement, Comrade Sunday Asefon, has said no Nigerian student should abandon tertiary education because of financial hardship, stressing that the federal government is creating opportunities to ease the burden on students. Asefon stated this on Thursday at the Renewed Hope Student Leaders Engagement and Digital Acceleration Programme for the North-East Zone, where he also announced the donation of 25 laptops to outstanding students studying Computer Science and Computer Engineering across tertiary institutions in the region. He said the laptop initiative was designed to reward academic excellence while giving deserving students access…

JAPANMetaplanet’s executive stock pool sparks shareholder backlashJapanese Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet’s executive stock pool continues to draw shareholder backlash over stock dilution concerns. Multiple shareholders objected across social media to Metaplanet’s 10th Series executive option pool, which was designed as 20% of fully diluted shares and automatically expanded as the company issued new shares to fund its Bitcoin (BTC) accumulation.Some shareholders are now asking Metaplanet to cancel the additional 273 million shares created from the changes and to provide more transparency on future decisions.Bitcoin Magazine CEO David Bailey defended Metaplanet and said that giving the team 20% of the cap table over five…

Aaron Rodgers is sharing new alleged details about his relationship with former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick, shedding light on their private life and how it all came to an end amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “I dated Danica and she had just retired,” Rodgers, 42, recalled on the Thursday, September 10 episode of Cam Heyward’s “Not Just Football” podcast. “She was depressed and not fun to be around. But I didn’t leave her because I was trying to be there and be a good partner.” He continued, “Then it was going a certain direction, obviously, there was no intimacy, there was…

The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) is planning a new framework for intelligence sharing collaboration, a move aimed at enhancing the integrity and resilence of the nation’s financial system. Representatives of finacial system actors and regulators met at a “high-level engagment” in Abuja on Wednesday to co-design the proposed Joint Financial Intelligence Collaboration (JFIC). The meeting organised by the NFIU under the auspices of the British High Commission in Nigeria and the Convention for Business Integrity (CBi), brought together representatives of regulators, banks, insurance companies, fintech companies, Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs), technology firms and other stakeholders to work out…

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has intensified surveillance, vaccination, and community engagement in Karshi following the confirmation of diphtheria cases there. The administration said the measures were aimed at detecting suspected cases early, monitoring close contacts and reaching children who had never received vaccines or were under-immunised. The Mandate Secretary, Health Services and Environment Secretariat, Adedolapo Fasawe, disclosed this on Thursday at a community engagement and vaccination campaign in Karshi, Abuja. Delivering her keynote address, Ms Fasawe noted that surveillance and vaccination teams had been deployed to priority settlements, including Angwan Kokosa and surrounding communities. She said the teams…

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria has urged its members nationwide to invest in the planned Initial Public Offering of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, as Financial Derivatives Company Chief Executive Officer, Bismarck Rewane, projected that Nigeria’s economy could expand to $600bn by 2030. IPMAN described the share sale as an opportunity for petroleum marketers to become equity owners in Nigeria’s refining industry, while Rewane said increased private-sector investment and the multiplier effects of large industrial projects such as the Dangote Petroleum Refinery could accelerate economic growth. In a statement signed by its National President, Abubakar Shettima, on Thursday, the…

TransparentBusiness Inc., which does business as Unicoin, sued Universal Navigation Inc., which does business as Uniswap Labs, in the Southern District of New York, seeking declarations that its UNICOIN mark does not infringe or dilute Uniswap’s claimed marks.TransparentBusiness argued in a complaint filed Tuesday that its UNICOIN mark does not infringe or dilute Uniswap’s claimed UNI, UNISWAP and UNICHAIN marks. It also asked the court to cancel US trademark registration for UNI.The complaint says Uniswap’s counsel sent three demand letters on June 3, July 17 and Aug. 14, accusing Unicoin of trademark infringement, dilution, cybersquatting and unfair competition, and threatening…

The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an apparent murder-suicide after a husband allegedly killed his estranged wife. Officials said in a press release that deputies were contacted around 9:45 a.m. on Monday, September 7, about a suspicious incident that took place at a home. A neighbor called for a welfare check on Yoon Jung Shin, who had not been seen for several days. Police noted that a car that belonged to Shin’s estranged husband, Donald Johnson, was parked in the driveway upon the officer’s arrival. Deputies were unable to make contact when they arrived at the home, so…