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Kwara State All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship flag bearer, Engineer Salihu Yakubu Danladi, on Friday pledged to build on Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq’s legacies to move the state forward if voted into power. He described his victory at the governorship primary election as a success for all other aspirants and members of the party in the state. “We need to thank God Almighty for where we are. In APC, we are all one. There is no winner, there is no loser. We are all winners. I need to thank Kwarans for standing by Kwara North,” the Speaker of the State House…

Troops of the 196 Amphibious Battalion under Operation HADIN KAI have arrested a suspected Boko Haram/ISWAP collaborator during a routine security operation in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State. The arrest was made on May 20 at about 8:00 a.m. at the C Company 7 Platoon checkpoint during a routine stop-and-search operation. According to a post shared on X on Friday by security analyst, Zagazola Makama, the suspect, identified as 50-year-old Mrs Kellu Alhaji Abba, was intercepted while allegedly transporting items believed to be supplies meant for suspected terrorists. She was said to be carrying the supplies to her…

England boss, Thomas Tuchel, has identified three outstanding players who prevented Chelsea’s Cole Palmer from making his team’s squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Recall that Tuchel recently named his squad for this year’s World Cup tournament starting next month. Palmer was among the players who did not make the Three Lions’ squad for the tournament. However, Tuchel has now suggested that the likes of Jude Bellingham, Eberechi Eze and Morgan Rogers had a better season ahead of Palmer, suggesting it blocked the 24-year-old’s chance of making the squad because they all compete in the same playing position. “Cole…

Lens won the French Cup for the first time in their history with a 3-1 victory over Nice in the final at the Stade de France on Friday. Florian Thauvin, a member of the France squad that won the World Cup in 2018, scored one goal and set up another for Odsonne Edouard as Lens found themselves 2-0 ahead late in the first half. Teenager Djibril Coulibaly pulled one back for Nice with his first senior goal just before the interval and they hit the woodwork twice in the second half. But Lens made sure of the win through substitute…

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Gombe State Command, has arrested five suspects linked to separate syndicates involved in the theft of motorcycles, mobile phones, and other electronic gadgets across the state. The Command disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Buhari Saad. According to the statement, one of the suspects, 19-year-old Haruna Hamman of Billiri Local Government Area, allegedly stole a Boxer motorcycle belonging to Adamu Buba of Lodongor on April 15, 2026. The motorcycle was reportedly taken from the residence of Jauro Buba in Billiri at about midnight before NSCDC…

Former Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, and two presidential aspirants of the Labour Party were on Friday screened and cleared ahead of the party’s May 30 primaries. The presidential hopefuls are former Director of Finance in the Obidient Movement, Peter Agada, and a London-based entrepreneur and oil mogul, Samuel Nwigwe. The screening exercise, which took place at the party headquarters in Abuja, attracted several other aspirants contesting various political offices. Speaking after the exercise, Nwigwe told journalists that his years living and working abroad convinced him that Nigeria can adopt successful governance models from London, Singapore, Toronto and Amsterdam. The…

In a move aimed at tackling clearance delays and improving passenger clearance compliance, the Nigeria Customs Service has officially launched the Simplified Customs Advanced Declaration System at the International Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The National Public Relations Officer of the Service, Abdullahi Maiwada, a Deputy Controller of Customs, announced this in a statement on Wednesday obtained by The PUNCH. Maiwada explained that the platform, designed to simplify baggage declaration for inbound international passengers, “is expected to reduce manual bottlenecks, improve transparency in revenue assessment and enhance operational efficiency at Nigeria’s international airports”. Speaking at the official…

Congo’s World Cup squad must isolate for 21 days before they will be allowed into the United States due to the African country’s deadly Ebola outbreak, authorities said Friday. Andrew Giuliani, the executive director of the White House Task Force for the World Cup, told ESPN that US officials had informed FIFA, the Congolese national team and the government in Kinshasa that the squad was to remain in a “bubble” in Belgium where players are currently in training. “We’ve been very clear to Congo that they should maintain the integrity of their bubble for 21 days before they can then…

Since 2012, the British literary magazine Granta has published the regional winners of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize. This year, however, there was something off about one of the selections for the prestigious award: It appears to have been written by AI.Jamir Nazir’s “The Serpent in the Grove” has many of the hallmarks of LLM-generated prose — mixed metaphors, anaphora, lists of threes. (I’m aware this, too, is a list of threes, and I promise I wrote this post myself, unassisted, as I write all things.) I’ll admit I was initially unconvinced by the allegation that Nazir’s story had…

Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings spent $4.3 million on personal security for CEO Fred Thiel in 2025, including $430,780 to armor a vehicle, as crypto companies respond to rising physical attacks on industry executives and investors.MARA, the seventh-largest Bitcoin mining company worth more than $5 billion, also spent about $58,810 on Thiel’s home security installations and reported additional expenses related to the security measures of other executives, according to its DEF 14A filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30.The filing shows that MARA spent a total of $4.3 million on Thiel’s security during fiscal year 2025, including…