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Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have reportedly attacked a school in Borno State, abducting an unspecified number of pupils during a raid that threw the community into panic. According to preliminary reports, the armed men stormed the school premises on Friday, firing sporadically into the air before whisking away students to an unknown destination. The exact number of abducted pupils has not yet been confirmed as authorities continue to assess the situation. According to Daily Trust, a resident of the area, who asked not to be named for security reasons, said the attackers arrived in large numbers and overwhelmed the school’s surroundings…

Manchester City ace, Bernardo Silva, has identified two key factors that affected his side’s push for the Premier League title this season. The Portuguese admitted that the Cityzens would have won the title if Pep Guardiola’s side were not in a transitional season and if they didn’t make so many mistakes. “I do believe our main rivals were Liverpool by far,” Silva said in an interview with The Athletic. “I know if we were not in a transitional season and if we didn’t make so many mistakes, we would have won this league. “I don’t say we would have won…

X is fighting for its users’ right to anonymity against the far-right influencers and accused human traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are seeking to unmask their online critics.The Tate brothers filed suit against the owners of more than a dozen social media accounts — several of them run pseudonymously — last year, claiming the accounts engaged in a “Conspiratorial Plot” to defame them. After a Florida court said the claims couldn’t be brought against unidentified defendants, they filed an amended complaint against the users they could identify and a complaint against X demanding it disclose the anonymous account holders…

Bitcoin’s (BTC) Thursday rally to $82,000, buoyed by the Senate Banking Committee’s advancement of the CLARITY Act, has stalled amid stiff overhead resistance and weakening ETF demand. Still, analysts said that BTC’s upward momentum may increase if key conditions are met.Key takeaways:BTC bulls must flip the $82,000-$84,000 into new support.Return of strong institutional demand via spot Bitcoin ETFs is required for the uptrend to continue.  Bitcoin price must establish $82,000 as new supportData from TradingView showed BTC tested overhead resistance at $82,000, which has rejected the price since last week.Note that this is where the 200-day simple moving average (EMA) and…

Ryan Lochte is clapping back at harsh critics who are claiming that he looks “unrecognizable.” The Olympic champion, 41, responded to the “clowns” making insults in a video posted by his girlfriend, Molly Gillihan, via Instagram on Thursday, May 14. “My phone is blowing up with everyone saying that nobody recognizes you,” Gillihan, 37, told Lochte in the clip. “Baby, they say that you don’t look the same at all,” she continued, adding that some people went as far as accusing the swimmer of catfishing them. Related: Ryan Lochte Explains Why Team USA Swimmers Can’t Leave Olympic Village Harry How/Getty…

Former Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal has withdrawn from the 2027 Sokoto South Senatorial election. The African Democratic Congress (ADC) ticket for the election has been handed to the state’s former Commissioner for Finance, Farouk Yabo. The Sokoto State Publicity Secretary of the ADC, Amir Aminu, confirmed the development in a telephone interview with The Punch Newspaper on Friday, stating that the move was a selfless act intended to foster stability. “Senator Tambuwal decided to relinquish the ticket to promote harmony and strengthen internal democracy in the party. The move by our leader is a reflection of our party’s ideology…

At eighty, Edwin Madunagu remains one of the last great witnesses of Nigeria’s revolutionary Left tradition. A man who refused silence. A man who chose commitment over comfort. A man who preserved memory while fighting for the future. His life reminds us that revolutionary politics is not a moment. It is endurance. 15 May marks the 80th birthday of one of Nigeria’s most enduring revolutionary intellectuals — Edwin Ikechukwu Madunagu: mathematician, journalist, Marxist theorist, archivist, teacher, agitator, and organiser. For more than five decades, Madunagu has stood firmly on the side of workers, students, women, peasants, and the oppressed. While…

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Adedayo Benjamins-Laniyi as the Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of the Maryam Babangida National Centre for Women Development (MBNCWD). The President also constituted the Centre’s Governing Council for an initial four-year term, according to a statement signed by Chris Ugwuegbulam, Head of Information and Public Relations, on Thursday. Before the development, Emezue Ebinepre served as Director-General in an acting capacity. Appointment According to the statement, the appointments, which took effect from 18 April, were made in accordance with Section 7 (1) and (3) of the National Centre for Women Development (Amendment) Act,…

The Lagos State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, through the State Examination Board, has announced a revision to the timetable for the ongoing Public Service Examinations, earlier scheduled between May 14 and May 16, 2026. According to a statement issued by the board, the affected afternoon examination sessions will now begin at 8:00 a.m. Candidates impacted by the adjustment include those with examination numbers ADM5001–6000, EXT0751–1500, CA0001–0200, as well as candidates in CSII, CSIII and CSIV categories. The board further stated that examinations originally fixed for Friday, May 15, have been rescheduled to Tuesday, May 19, 2026, while papers slated for Saturday, May 16,…

Kabiru Bello Bandawaire, an aspirant for the Taraba North Senatorial District seat, has rejected the consensus arrangement being considered ahead of the All Progressives Congress, APC primaries, insisting on direct and transparent primaries. Speaking with journalists on Friday in Jalingo, Bandawaire said his ambition was driven by the desire to represent the people rather than serve government interests. He argued that the consensus option undermines democratic principles and warned against any form of interference in the process by Governor Agbu Kefas. According to him, democracy thrives when party members are allowed to freely choose their candidates through open primaries. “First and foremost,…