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The report of the Special Intervention Team on Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma has ruffled feathers in the university with the Academic Staff Union of Universities describing it as false,  ADEYINKA ADEDIPE writes The genesis These are not the best of times for Ambrose Alli University as the workers and the management have continued to be at loggerheads over issues that have to do with running the university. The last face-off between the management and the workers… Read the full article here

Ineos Grenadiers sport director Steve Cummings hailed Egan Bernal for his incredible recovery from a horrific crash heading into this year’s Tour de France.The Colombian suffered multiple severe injuries after the hugely unfortunate incident in training last year, and Cummings expressed his admiration for a man who is now a crucial component to Ineos’ charge for a podium finish.”What we can say is that 16 months ago, he nearly died, and to get back to where he is now is exceptional in… Read the full article here

Receive free Chinese economy updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese economy news every morning. Manufacturing activity has contracted in China for the third consecutive month, adding to pressure on Beijing’s policymakers to tackle a slowdown across the world’s second-largest economy.The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index was 49 in June, slightly up from 48.8 in May, but still showing a month-on-month contraction in… Read the full article here

The Polkadot Decoded 2023 conference just wrapped up and this year more than 100 speakers and 100 blockchain projects were in attendance. The beauty of crypto bear markets is they catalyze a realignment of perspectives and objectives. All the hidden leverage is gone and most of the speculation is gone. SBF is gone. Do Kwon is gone. Three Arrows Capital, Su Zhu, Kyle Davies and a handful of other hucksters and snake oil salesmen have been exiled.And good riddance to all of them. Crypto… Read the full article here

Saying goodbye to their TV best friends. While many series feature adorable pets in their episodes, a few have aired heartbreaking scenes after the animals died. “With the season 10 finale also comes Tuesday’s last episode on Chicago Fire,” dog trainer Christine Mahaney wrote via Instagram in May 2022, announcing the death of the TV dalmatian. “It breaks my heart to share that Tuesday passed away on Sunday, May 22, due to unforeseen kidney issues. The love… Read the full article here

The federal government says it will re-open both the Eko and Apongbon Bridges to road users ahead of schedule by midnight of 9 July. According to it, this is to alleviate the suffering of road users. The Director, Highways, Bridges and Designs in the Federal Ministry of Works, Omotayo Awosanya, gave the assurance while leading top engineers from the federal team and Lagos State on an inspection tour of the bridges. The team earlier had a closed door meeting with Buildwell Plants and… Read the full article here

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State, Ambassador Abayomi Nurain Mumuni has declared that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu took the best decision when he removed fuel subsidy. He made this disclosure in a statement issued to felicitate with Muslims on the occasion of the Eid-el-Kabir festival. Mumuni in the statement signed by his media aide, Rasheed Abubakar, on Thursday said that Muslim faithfuls should give glory to Almighty Allah for the opportunity to witness… Read the full article here

Former Big Brother Naija Season 7 housemate, Beauty Tukura has said she didn’t have a problem seeing his estranged love interest, Groovy in a relationship with her friend, Phyna after she was disqualified from the reality show. According to her, she isn’t a “witch” to be jealous. Beauty stated this during the ‘Level Up’ reunion show episode 8, aired on Thursday night. The host, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu asked: “What do you think first of all when you started seeing that [Groovy and… Read the full article here

Napoli hero, Salvatore Bagni has revealed that striker Victor Osimhen is only willing to join two clubs – Liverpool or Chelsea – this summer. Osimhen has been linked with a move away from Napoli this summer. The Nigerian international has attracted interest from many top European clubs, including Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain. But Bagni believes Osimhen would only join Manchester United or Real Madrid. “Victor Osimhen… Read the full article here

A car dealer, Mohammed Manga, has been thrown into confusion after a customer, one Henry, absconded with one of his cars, a Mercedes Benz GLB 250 in the Abuja area of the Federal Capital Territory. PUNCH Metro gathered from Manga that a yet-to-be-identified friend who is also into the business of selling cars visited his office in Abuja requesting to take the vehicle worth over N55m to a potential customer interested in purchasing it. After taking the vehicle to the… Read the full article here