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A shooting on Monday at a mosque complex in southern California killed three people, with two suspected teenage gunmen later found dead in a car from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds, police said. Police said emergency response teams found the victims outside the sprawling Islamic Centre of San Diego, before later finding the shooters, aged 18 and 17, also dead. TV footage from a helicopter showed armed response teams gathered outside a building, with one unidentified person lying in a pool of blood. “We are actively investigating this as a hate crime,” San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl told reporters. “There…

Last week, the National Security Advisor, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, met with US Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a meeting that underscores the importance of the Nigerian/US security relationship. The meeting comes at an important time for Nigeria as it seeks to defeat terrorist groups that are seeking to undermine the government, destroying lives and livelihoods across the country. Security cooperation between the United States and Nigeria was central to these discussions. This comes against the backdrop of escalating terrorist activity in Nigeria. Two weeks ago, ISIS militants killed at least 29 people in an…

The All Progressives Congress has cleared several aspirants to contest its senatorial primaries in Cross River State following a screening exercise conducted by the party’s National Organising Secretary. Announcing the outcome in a statement made available to PUNCH Online on Monday, the National Organising Secretary said the exercise was carried out to ensure compliance with party guidelines and to allow only qualified aspirants to proceed to the primaries. “We have completed the screening of aspirants across the senatorial districts and only those who met the requirements have been cleared to participate in the primaries,” NOS said. In the Cross River…

Swedish club AIK do not intend to rush Zadok Yohanna back into their squad, casting a shadow over his availability for the Unity Cup, which will be held from May 26 to 30 in London, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. Yohanna suffered an injury during AIK’s 4-2 defeat to Djurgårdens IF in the Swedish Allsvenskan last Sunday, thereby missing Sunday’s league game against Västerås SK after beginning his rehabilitation. He had initially allayed fears about the extent of the injury, but the club are not willing to risk rushing him back into action, meaning he could miss this year’s Unity Cup…

The National Universities Commission has deployed 26 professionals in eight accreditation panels to assess postgraduate programmes at the Pan African University Life and Earth Sciences Institute, University of Ibadan. A Deputy Director at the NUC, Mrs Uchenna Obidiagbo, disclosed the eight panels constituted for the exercise, when the delegation of the commission visited the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Prof Kayode Adebowale, on Monday. Obidiagbo said the programmes slated for accreditation are Plant Breeding; Medicinal Plant Research and Drug Development; Petroleum Geoscience; Avian Medicine and Vaccine Production and Quality Control; Reproductive Health; Sports Management and Policy Development; Environmental…

Kasi Cloud has commissioned the first phase of its planned 100-megawatt AI-ready hyperscale data centre campus in Lekki, Lagos, marking one of Nigeria’s most ambitious investments yet in digital infrastructure and local compute capacity. The company said the facility is designed to support artificial intelligence workloads, cloud computing, enterprise storage and high-density digital services at a time when global demand for AI infrastructure is accelerating rapidly. The project, estimated to cost about $250m, broke ground in April 2022, while major construction work began in the second quarter of 2023. The commissioning marks the first operational deployment within the broader campus,…

Bitcoin Depot, one of the largest Bitcoin ATM operators in the US, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the company moved to wind down operations and sell its assets.In a Monday announcement, Atlanta-based Bitcoin Depot said it started voluntary Chapter 11 proceedings in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, citing mounting regulatory pressure and financial strain.CEO Alex Holmes said the company strengthened anti-fraud protections in recent years, including stricter identity checks and lower transaction limits, but argued that growing compliance demands and enforcement actions made the business model “unsustainable.”The filing marks one of the biggest…

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President Bola Tinubu is heading to the 2027 presidential election with the advantage of incumbency, a formidable political structure and his party’s control of several states, but the decision of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) to zone its presidential ticket to the South may have introduced a new layer of political uncertainty that could reshape calculations in the region. The South, comprising 17 states, is widely considered Mr Tinubu’s strong political base. For the first time since the 2023 election, a major opposition party in Nigeria appears to be reorganising around a southern candidate capable of directly confronting Mr Tinubu…

The Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, has announced that students are to resume academic activities on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. The announcement of the resumption is coming following the conclusion of a three-week mid-semester break. This was contained in an internal memorandum issued by I. B. Aronkola, the Principal Assistant Registrar, Senate Division, and addressed to all Deans of Faculties after a special Senate meeting held on Thursday, May 14, 2026. According to the memorandum, “Senate reviewed the circumstances surrounding the earlier suspension of academic activities, noting that the break was introduced to allow the university administration address concerns linked…