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Four persons have been confirmed dead after a Golf Wagon vehicle plunged into Tomas Dam in Danbatta Local Government Area of Kano State on Tuesday evening. The Kano State Fire Service disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday by the Public Relations Officer of the agency, ACFO Saminu Abdullahi. According to the statement, the incident occurred at about 7:10 p.m. when the Danbatta Fire Service Division received a distress call from a resident identified as Suleman. Abdullahi said the vehicle, with an unknown registration number, was travelling from Kano to Roni in Jigawa State when it crashed into the…

Former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, paid a courtesy visit to former Kano State Governor, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, on Tuesday night. The two Nigerian Democratic Congress leaders met shortly after the party’s screening committee cleared Obi for its presidential primary ahead of the 2027 general elections. In a post on X on Wednesday, Kwankwaso confirmed the meeting at his Maitama residence in Abuja. He described Obi as “my brother” and expressed optimism about the party’s prospects. “Last night, I received a courtesy visit from my brother, His Excellency Peter Obi, shortly after his successful screening as the presidential aspirant of…

May 20, 2026 2:08 pm CBN Governor, Olayemi Cardoso. Photo: CBN / X The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria has retained the benchmark interest rate at 26.5 per cent. The CBN Governor, Olayemi Cardoso, announced the decision on Wednesday at the end of the committee’s 305th meeting in Abuja. Cardoso said, “The Committee’s decision is as follows: retain the monetary policy rate at 26.5 per cent.” The move follows the 50-basis-point cut announced in February 2026 and a hold at the MPC briefing in November 2025. The PUNCH observed that the MPC’s decision to retain rates…

The Anambra State Government, through the State Ministry of Health, will be offering free hypertension checks in primary healthcare centres and general hospitals across the state, as part of activities to commemorate the 2026 World Hypertension Day. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Afam Obidike, disclosed this during a press briefing held in Awka, on Tuesday. Obidike said the commemoration provides them with another opportunity to raise awareness about hypertension, which is one of the deadliest non-communicable diseases in the society. He spoke on the theme of this year’s event, tagged, ‘Controlling Hypertension together, check your blood pressure regularly and…

Head Coach Eric Chelle has named a 26-man squad for Nigeria’s participation in the upcoming Unity Cup, with Wrexham goalkeeper Arthur Okonkwo earning his first call-up after switching allegiance to the Super Eagles. The squad was unveiled on the team’s X (formerly Twitter) handle on Wednesday. Okonkwo is one of three goalkeepers invited as Nigeria prepares for the tournament in London. File photo: Wrexham goalkeeper Arthur Okonkwo. The Unity Cup is a four-nation international football invitational tournament held in London, England. The 2026 Unity Cup is scheduled to take place from May 26 to May 30, 2026, at The Valley…

Following the tragic killing of a schoolteacher abducted during the recent school raids in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nollywood actress Opeyemi Aiyeola has made an appeal to highly connected Nigerian celebrities, traditional rulers, and politicians to urgently use their access to power to save the masses. In a video posted to her Instagram page on Tuesday, the actress expressed anxiety over the encroaching insecurity in the Southwest, warning that the crisis is “knocking on our doors” and can no longer be ignored. Aiyeola’s outcry was triggered by the tragic death of the Oyo State teacher, Oyedukun, who was beheaded by bandits…

The Federal Government has commenced the disbursement of approved outstanding 2025 allowances to beneficiaries of the Bilateral Education Agreement Scholarship Programme studying in partner countries abroad. This was disclosed in a statement posted by the Federal Ministry of Education via X on Wednesday and signed by its Director of Press and Public Relations, Boriowo Folasade. According to the statement, “the Central Bank of Nigeria has successfully remitted the approved funds to Nigerian embassies and missions for immediate disbursement to eligible scholars.” The Minister of Education, Maruf Alausa, said the released funds represent 50 per cent of the approved outstanding obligations…

For years, tech companies have promised AI will give everyone a capable personal assistant but delivered something more like a clueless intern. Over the past six months, that has started to change, thanks largely to the viral open-source AI agent platform OpenClaw. And among the top AI labs now chasing similar success, one seems particularly well-poised to make agents succeed at a large scale: Google.At I/O 2026, Google announced new AI agents for gathering information, planning events, summarizing your inbox and calendar, and more. The agents can run continuously in the background, and the company claims they’ll seamlessly integrate into…

Bitcoin (BTC) is down roughly 40% from its October 2025 record high, but a long-term valuation model suggests the cryptocurrency could erase the entire decline and rally to as high as $255,000 by year-end.Key takeaways:Bitcoin Decay Channel puts BTC’s conservative year-end range at $90,000–$255,000, with its 2027 range extending to $128,000–$308,000.Bearish HODL Waves suggest a possible higher bottom in the $65,900–$70,500 range.Bitcoin model puts BTC’s year-end target in the $90,000–$255,000 range The Bitcoin Decay Channel is a logarithmic price model that tracks BTC’s long-term uptrend while adjusting for smaller gains in each new cycle.The cryptocurrency’s major tops in 2013, 2017…

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