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Algeria has severed its diplomatic ties with the UAE over what it described as provocative and hostile actions despite repeated warnings. The country’s foreign ministry announced the decision to cut ties with Abu Dhabi on Thursday in a statement. It comes after years of brewing diplomatic row over a range of issues. Al Jazeera, quoting Ennahar TV, an Algerian news channel, reported that Algeria plans to close its airspace to all UAE-registered civilian and military aircraft starting Friday. But it will allow UAE commercial flights to and from Algiers to use its airspace until the end of 2026, when the…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disowned a purported document claiming that Governor Yemi Cardoso approved a $46 billion developmental grant to an organisation. CBN, in a post on its official X account on Thursday, described the document as “fake” and urged members of the public to disregard it. The purported letter, dated 13 August 2026, was addressed to the “Atufeg Empowerment and Development Centre” and claimed to be an official endorsement and authorisation for the release of a developmental grant. It purportedly bore Mr Cardoso’s signature and stated that CBN had authorised the immediate transfer of $46 billion…

The Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Student Engagement, Sunday Asefon, has said no Nigerian student should abandon tertiary education because of financial hardship, stressing that the Federal Government is creating opportunities to ease the burden on students. Asefon stated this on Thursday at the Renewed Hope Student Leaders Engagement and Digital Acceleration Programme for the North-East Zone, where he also announced the donation of 25 laptops to outstanding students studying Computer Science and Computer Engineering across tertiary institutions in the region. He said the laptop initiative was designed to reward academic excellence while giving deserving students access…

Indian agricultural warehousing and lending company Arya.ag is testing a system to tokenize warehouse receipts for stored grain on a dedicated Avalanche layer-1 blockchain. Arya.ag is working with Finternet to connect grain deposits, warehouse receipts, collateral commitments and loan status through the network. Devika Mittal, Ava Labs’ head of India, told Cointelegraph that testing was underway and said each tokenized receipt would represent ownership of the stored commodity. The companies did not disclose an expected launch date or how much grain or lending the initial deployment would cover.Sanmesh Kalyanpur, a director at Finternet Labs, said Arya.ag’s samplers collect information about stored…

U.K. reality star Katie Price had been candid about her physical appearance before she debuted a new look. “I’ve always said I haven’t got body dysmorphia for years ‘cause I didn’t think I did,” Price, 48, shared in a resurfaced ITV clip from August. “But I realized I do have body dysmorphia ‘cause I don’t know what you guys look at me like. But I look in the mirror as I do now and think, ‘I don’t like what I see.’ I know I’m going to change something. I don’t know what I try and get out of it. I…

The police command in Anambra State has denied allegations that it collected ₦600,000 to free Jennifer Nwosu, one of the 12 suspects linked to the murder of Isaac Nwosu on 30 August 2026 in Awka. Tochukwu Ikenga, the police spokesperson in Anambra, clarified during a news conference on Wednesday at the command headquarters in Awka. “The Anambra Police Command did not collect ₦600,000 to secure Miss Jennifer Nwosu’s release. Her arrest and subsequent release were connected to the ongoing investigation into the murder case. “We are not a collection of angels, but the Anambra Police Command did not demand or…

Oyo State has recorded 131 suspected Lassa fever cases from January to 10 September 2026, with six confirmed cases and one death. The state Commissioner for Health, Oluwaserimi Ajetunmobi, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan on Thursday. Ms Ajetunmobi clarified that the figures did not indicate an ongoing Lassa fever outbreak in the state. She said that Lassa fever was endemic in some parts of the state, adding that a single confirmed case was technically regarded as an outbreak. “But such suspected cases could not be classified as confirmed until laboratory tests…

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), through its Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX) programme, and TopTier Sports Management have announced plans for a landmark Legends Football Match to celebrate Nigeria’s celebrated mid-1990s football generation. The match, scheduled for 8 November at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Onikan Lagos, will form part of the CANEX WKND 2026 programme and bring together football icons from Nigeria, Africa and beyond. The event will mark 30 years since Nigeria’s historic 1996 Atlanta Olympic triumph, while also celebrating the generation that won the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations and represented Nigeria at the 1994 FIFA World Cup. Temwa…

A Federal High Court in Abuja has convicted and sentenced a fake spiritualist, Solomon Moses, to one year imprisonment for defrauding an Indian woman seeking spiritual healing and subsequently blackmailing her with a nude video. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission disclosed this in a statement posted on its official X account on Thursday. According to the EFCC, Justice C.N. Nwabulu convicted Moses on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, after he pleaded guilty to a one-count charge bordering on cheating and impersonation as a spiritualist. The commission said Moses defrauded the woman, identified as Sharon Kaur, of $1,100 after posing as…

A new feature coming to Slack will allow you to build interactive reports, polls, dashboards, presentations, microsites, and other tools directly inside a chat. With Slackforce Surfaces, you can describe to Slackbot what you need, and it will use AI to gather information from relevant conversations and connected apps, like Google Drive or Salesforce, to create it.Once Slackbot creates a Surface, you can share it with colleagues and pin it to channels, allowing other people to view it, interact with it, and leave comments. In one example shared by Slack, a user asks Slackbot for help creating an arcade-themed visualization…