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Stakeholders from Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State have appealed to the abductors of 42 schoolchildren to release them unconditionally, saying the victims are innocent children who should not be subjected to the trauma of captivity. The stakeholders, led by the Deputy Speaker of the Borno State House of Assembly, Abdullahi Askira, made the appeal in Maiduguri on Monday, expressing concern over the prolonged detention of the pupils and students who have remained in captivity for three weeks. According to Askira, the continued detention of the children has subjected their families and communities to deep anxiety and emotional distress.…

Suspected kidnappers invaded a residential area near the Quarry area of Arab Road in Kubwa, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, on Saturday, abducting one resident and shooting another. The attack occurred between 11pm on Saturday and midnight on Sunday, our correspondent gathered. Our correspondent on Monday gathered that the resident who was alleged to have been shot later died in the hospital on Sunday. Speaking in a telephone interview with PUNCH Metro on Monday, the secretary of the community, identified only as Dairo, said residents were alerted to the attack by the sound of gunfire as the assailants…

Terrorism, in Nigeria, has moved beyond an ordinary linguistic term to become a term that lies comfortably on the tongues of countless Nigerians. It is the very linguistic term that gains sudden usage and popularity, not only out of curiosity to learn or polish individual vocabulary, but also out of its quiet manifestation in every corner of Nigeria. Nigeria currently experiences not just the linguistic realisation of the term but its real-life confrontation. Movements in Nigeria have recently been regulated, and violence now gains widespread freedom. The Yoruba saying that wrongdoing can only be executed in the night, and not…

The Sahara Group Foundation has expanded its waste-to-wealth initiative to Northern Nigeria with the commissioning of a new Sahara Go Recycling Hub in Masaka, Nasarawa State. The foundation said in a statement on Sunday that the facility, delivered in partnership with the Nasarawa State Waste Management Authority, represented a major step in extending structured recycling access to communities in the northern part of the country while advancing sustainable waste management practices. According to the foundation, the Sahara Go Recycling Initiative converts waste management into opportunity by helping to divert recyclable materials from landfills, improve environmental awareness and create income opportunities…

StarTimes Nigeria has announced comprehensive live coverage of the FIFA World Cup 2026, bringing all 104 matches of football’s biggest tournament to viewers across the country from June 11 to July 19, 2026. Speaking on the initiative, StarTimes Nigeria Marketing Director, Oke Umurhohwo, said the company’s goal is to ensure that every Nigerian football fan can enjoy the tournament regardless of location or income level. “The FIFA World Cup is more than just football; it is a shared experience that unites families, friends, viewing centres, and communities,” Umurhohwo said. “At StarTimes, we are proud to broadcast all 104 matches live…

Stakeholders in Nigeria’s polytechnic education sector have decried what they described as persistent discriminatory admission policies and systemic neglect of polytechnics. For the 2026 admissions, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board sets the minimum baseline for university admissions at 150, while polytechnics and colleges of education are pegged lower, at 100. They warned that the trend is discouraging enrolment, depriving the country of critical technical manpower and undermining efforts to drive industrial development. The concerns were raised at the maiden International Conference of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti Chapter, held virtually. The event brought together academics,…

iOS 27 has only been out for a few hours, and I’ve been messing around with the developer beta on my iPhone 16 Pro. I was most interested in trying out the new Siri AI, but unfortunately, I’m still on Apple’s waitlist for that. In the meantime, I’ve been poking around a bunch of features that aren’t about AI and found a lot that I’m happy with — even though this doesn’t seem to be as big of an update as in previous years, the fit and finish throughout the operating system is already great to see.Here are a few…

ChatGPT creator OpenAI has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the US, becoming the third major AI company this year to set up plans for a Wall Street debut.OpenAI posted to X on Monday that it filed confidential paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, but had not decided when it would launch to the public.“We expect it to leak so we’re just announcing it,” the company wrote. “We have not decided on timing yet; it may be a while because there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company.”It comes…

After Karen Read was found not guilty of killing her boyfriend John O’Keefe in 2022, she filed a sweeping lawsuit against the Massachusetts State Police and Canton Police Department — and the court filing puts two former officers at the center of the story: Michael Proctor and Sean Goode. Read filed the suit in Bristol Superior Court on June 4, 2026, alleging that her trials exposed “an [embedded] culture of bigotry, misogyny, systemic failures, and institutional rot at the very core of both organizations.” While neither Proctor nor Goode is named as a defendant, dozens of their text messages are…

President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, swore in Joseph Tegbe as the new Minister of Power and Sola Enikanolaiye as the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. The short event took place at the Presidential Villa in the presence of the ministers’ spouses and senior government officials. Following the resignations of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, and the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, to further their political careers, the president nominated the two new ministers, who the Senate duly cleared on Wednesday, May 6, 2026. The new Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, born in Ibadan, Oyo State, is…