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Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Yemi Oyeniyi, has ordered massive deployment of personnel and operational assets across the state “as part of the Command’s efforts to ensure the protection of lives and property, maintain public order and guarantee a peaceful Democracy Day celebration”. This was contained in a statement issued by the police public relations officer for Delta state Command, SP Bright Edafe, in Warri on Friday. Edafe noted that the security arrangement included the deployment of conventional police personnel, tactical teams, intelligence operatives, and undercover officers to strategic locations, critical infrastructure, recreational centres, places of worship, major highways…

Former Lagos State Governor and ex-Minister of Works, Housing and Power, Babatunde Fashola, has urged Nigerians to view elections as inherently imperfect exercises and to focus on strengthening democratic institutions rather than continually disputing electoral outcomes. Speaking on Friday at The Platform, a public policy forum held in Lagos as part of activities marking Democracy Day, Fashola said the complexity of conducting nationwide elections makes absolute perfection difficult to attain, Vanguard reports. According to him, large-scale electoral exercises, particularly presidential elections, involve extensive logistical operations across the federation, creating challenges that no electoral body can entirely eliminate. “Elections are an…

French forward Ousmane Dembélé has described Lionel Messi as the best player he has ever seen, praising the Argentine superstar’s enduring quality despite approaching the latter stages of his career. Speaking to Marca on Friday, Dembélé highlighted Messi’s remarkable ability to remain decisive at the highest level of football, insisting that age has done little to diminish his impact on the game. “Lionel Messi is the best player I’ve ever seen,” Dembélé said. “He’s 38 but he’s still fantastic and dangerous. His quality never gets old,” he said. The Paris Saint-Germain winger, who spent several years alongside Messi at both…

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says his new AI startup will work toward developing an “artificial general engineer,” according to reports from The New York Times and CNBC. The startup, called Prometheus, aims to develop AI-powered engineering tools to aid in the design of physical products.The tools Prometheus intends to build could help develop physical products across several industries, including robotics, drug design, and manufacturing, the NYT reports. “Blue Origin is a perfect example of a company that could benefit from the tools that Prometheus is building,” Bezos tells the NYT. “Any company that is building sophisticated devices — like rocket…

Polish President Karol Nawrocki vetoed a cryptocurrency regulatory bill for the third time, which sought to implement Europe’s Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) in the country.Nawrocki said Thursday he supports regulating the cryptocurrency market but argued that the government incorporated only one of 16 key amendments proposed by his office. He said that the text was nearly identical to the previous two drafts he refused.The third veto of the bill delays Poland’s alignment with the EU-wide regulatory framework just weeks before the end of MiCA’s transitional period on July 1. Following the end of the grace period, crypto asset…

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Nigerian activist and politician, Aisha Yesufu, has criticised the National Leader of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Seriake Dickson, for suggesting that she did not play by the rules during the party’s senatorial primaries in Abuja. Ms Yesufu, a member of the NDC, disclosed this in a post on her verified X handle on Thursday. The activist turned politician was an aspirant for the FCT Senatorial primaries of the NDC, which she alleged were manipulated against her. PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that Mr Dickson, while speaking at the Arise TV programme on Wednesday night, suggested that Ms Yesufu “might not…

Nigeria’s postal revenue surged by 166.8 per cent to N8.1 billion in 2025 from N3.1 billion a year ago, official data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Thursday showed as the country’s postal network handled more than 18.2 million mail articles during the year. The statistics office published the details in its Postal Services Data for 2025, which also indicated that the total number of post offices and postal agencies remained unchanged at 2,048. The report revealed that the country operates 730 post offices or departments, 110 head post offices, 667 post shops, 201 postal agencies, 136…

Nigeria is intensifying efforts to expand access to Multiple Micronutrient Supplements (MMS) for pregnant women, with health authorities pushing for increased local production and sustainable financing to reduce dependence on donor support. The move was highlighted on Thursday in Abuja during a validation meeting on findings from the 2025 Market Landscaping and Segmentation Analysis. Speaking at the event, Olufunmilola Adegbite, Director and Head of the Nutrition Department at the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, said strengthening domestic manufacturing would be crucial to achieving the country’s maternal health targets. Director and Head of the Nutrition Department at the Federal…

The Borno State Government has reintegrated a total of 720 repentant insurgents who have completed their deradicalisation, rehabilitation and reintegration programme back into society. The latest batch, described as low-risk and minor clients, is part of Batch 9 under the state’s rehabilitation initiative and was sworn in using the Holy Quran before being released to return to their respective communities across the state. The Special Adviser on Security to Governor Babagana Zulum, Brigadier General Ishaq Abdullahi (retd.), disclosed this on Friday at an event held at the Hajj Camp in Maiduguri to mark the completion of their rehabilitation process. He…