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An All Progressives Congress, APC, support group, the North-West APC Youth Frontiers, has rejected allegations of anti-party activities levelled against a member of the House of Representatives, Sani Aminu Jaji. Jaji represents Kaura Namoda/Birnin Magaji Federal Constituency of Zamfara State on the platform of the APC. The group, in a statement issued on Tuesday in Sokoto by its coordinator, Danladi Cikaon, described the allegations as unfounded and aimed at discrediting the lawmaker. Cikaon said Jaji had remained loyal to the APC and played key roles in the party’s activities during the 2023 general elections in Zamfara State and at the…

Police operatives have rescued a 14-year-old student who was abducted in Nasarawa State and arrested one suspect linked to the incident.This  was disclosed in a post shared on X on Tuesday by security analyst, Zagazola Makama. According to the post, the student identified as Dauda Salisu, was abducted in Gitata community. He is a JSS2 student of Ube Gitata. The abduction reportedly took place on February 2, 2026, near a mosque in the area. Makama stated that security operatives acted swiftly after receiving information about the incident and tracked the suspect to the riverside in Gitata, where he was arrested.…

Barau FC head coach, Eugene Agagbe, has boasted about the team’s recent impressive performance in the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL. The Maliya Boys are currently on a five- game unbeaten run in the NPFL. Barau FC have moved out of the relegation zone following their recent impressive display in the league. Agagbe said the team’s focus is now on the remaining fixtures as they continue to push for a stronger finish to the season. “As I told you before, Barau FC will escape relegation within seven matches. Now we have just two match remaining from what I earlier stated,”…

The Nigerian Railway Corporation has accused a Local Government in Oyo State of overseeing the destruction of railway infrastructure worth several million naira in Ibadan, threatening that it would pursue all necessary security, administrative, and legal measures to protect its infrastructure and prevent future encroachments on railway corridors across the country. In a statement signed by the NRC’s Chief Public Relations Officer, Callistus Unyimadu, on Tuesday, the corporation described the development as a “worrisome report” detailing the destruction and removal of fixed railway assets along its right-of-way in Ibadan South-West Local Government Area of Oyo State. According to the NRC,…

An employee of an investment company in Lagos State, Bello Samuel, has been arraigned for allegedly diverting about N90m from the firm’s account for personal use. Samuel was arraigned by the Police Special Fraud Unit before the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on charges bordering on conspiracy and money laundering. In a statement on Tuesday, the spokesperson for the PSFU, Mr Ovie Ewhubare, said the suspect, who worked in the finance department of the company, allegedly carried out the fraud through an insider scheme. According to Ewhubare, the suspect was accused of fraudulently converting company funds for personal use.…

In an earlier article, ‘Lessons from Venezuela and Greenland’, I argued that American intervention in Venezuela might achieve immediate objectives while accelerating deeper changes that work against US interests. From Washington’s point of view, a change of power in Caracas reopens space for American and allied oil companies and helps pull Venezuelan exports back into dollar-based markets. In the short term, that looks like strategic success. The longer view is less comfortable. The signal that such intervention sends goes beyond Venezuela. It tells other countries that deviation from dollar dominance carries political risk. As I noted then, for many states,…

Cornerstone Insurance Plc has assured annuitants of its financial stability and long-term capacity to meet pension obligations, reaffirming its commitment to trust, accountability and consistent service delivery to retirees across the country. This reassurance was delivered during the recently held Annuity Forum in Lagos, where the company’s Chief Executive Officer/Group Managing Director, Mr Stephen Alangbo, engaged annuitants, regulators, industry stakeholders, and the media in an interactive setting. The forum, designed to strengthen relationships and encourage open dialogue, featured health screenings, entertainment, games, dance sessions, gift presentations, and light refreshments. Beyond the festivities, the gathering created an opportunity for meaningful conversations…

Foundation Cricket Club have climbed to the top of the Club Cricket Committee Lagos Premier League Division following an impressive showing last weekend, recording wins over Ibeju Lekki Cricket Club and Island Titans Cricket Club, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. In their fifth game of the round-robin phase on Saturday, January 31, FCC secured a dramatic four-run victory over Ibeju Lekki, clinching the match with a late dismissal five balls from the end. After FCC posted 91 runs all out, Ibeju Lekki were set a target of 92 to win. Their chase went down to the final over with nine wickets…

On Monday, Elon Musk announced that he was merging two of his companies, SpaceX and xAI, in a deal said to be worth $1.25 trillion. The reason, Musk said in an announcement, was that in order for AI to grow, it needed to go to space.AI relies on “large terrestrial data centers” that run on “immense amounts of power and cooling,” he said, which comes at great expense to the environment and community opposition. The solution: data centers in space. “In the long term, space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale,” Musk said.Musk isn’t the only one looking…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has reversed his long-held view that layer-2s should be the primary way to scale Ethereum, saying the approach “no longer makes sense.”“We need a new path,” Buterin said in a post to X on Tuesday, arguing that many layer-2s have failed to decentralize and that the Ethereum mainnet is now sufficiently scaling, with improvements coming from gas limit increases and soon native rollups.“Both of these facts, for their own separate reasons, mean that the original vision of L2s and their role in Ethereum no longer makes sense, and we need a new path.”Layer-2s were envisioned as…