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An Area Court sitting in Jos, Plateau State, on Wednesday, sentenced two teenagers, Abba Suleiman and Ahmed Muhammed, to one-month imprisonment each for fighting in public with a dangerous weapon. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the judge, Thomas Ajitse, sentenced the teenagers after they pleaded guilty to public disturbance. However, Ajitse gave them an option of N50, 000 fine each and warned them to stay away from crime. Earlier, the prosecution counsel,… Read the full article here

The Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar on Thursday called a digital forensic expert to testify in aid of its petition against the president, Bola Tinubu. The PDP and Atiku are protesting the declaration of Tinubu as the president by the Independent National Electoral Commission at the Presidential Elections Petition Court. During the resumed hearing of their petition, the 26th witness in the petition, the witness led in evidence… Read the full article here

Reece Topley revealed he is hungrier than ever to be part of England’s World Cup squad this autumn after injury heartbreak denied him a part of last year’s T20 triumph in Australia.The Surrey left-arm seamer suffered an ankle injury tripping on a boundary rope on the eve of the T20 World Cup in October last year, before being dealt a further blow when his stint in the IPL was cut short following a dislocated shoulder.But the 29-year-old insists the pair of setbacks have only made him more… Read the full article here

The Motorola Razr Plus is the first folding phone that makes me genuinely excited for what’s ahead. In the here and now, it’s a good device, though not quite as ready for the mainstream as Motorola wants you to believe. But for a specific kind of tech-inclined person willing to try out something new, the Razr Plus will be very rewarding.One feature defines the Razr Plus experience: the 3.6-inch outer display. It’s bigger than anything else offered on a flip-style foldable right now —… Read the full article here

Receive free UK interest rates updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK interest rates news every morning. The Bank of England has raised interest rates to 5 per cent, a surprise half-point rise that shows the central bank stepping up its fight against persistent inflation.Voting seven to two in favour of the larger-than-expected increase, the BoE’s Monetary Policy Committee said on Thursday it was responding to “material news” in recent data… Read the full article here

The Faroe Islands have issued a new series of digital stamps deemed “crypto stamps” with a digital copy, in the form of a nonfungible token (NFT), stored on the blockchain while still serving as actual postage. The Posta Faroe Islands’ official website for issuing postage announced on June 23 that the autonomous region issued its first collection of crypto stamps called Stamps of Maybe in collaboration with VariusSystems. Stamps of Maybe crypto stamps from the the Posta Faroe… Read the full article here

Billie Eilish would be happier than ever if haters stopped making negative comments about her body.  “It’s tough, man,” Eilish, 21, told Vogue in an interview published on published Tuesday, June 20. “Honestly, nobody can say anything about my body that I don’t have a stronger opinion about. … I also think that if I was younger — like if the internet talked about me the way they do now when I was like 11, I don’t think I would be able to exist, to be… Read the full article here

Nigerian authorities responsible for implementing the country’s anti-money laundering and counter-financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) framework have accelerated efforts to ensure the nation exits the grey-list of the global Financial Action Task Force (FATF). In line with an ongoing reform programme started in January 2022, the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has convened a two-day compliance retreat for stakeholders from the public and private sectors. This retreat is… Read the full article here

It was another round of legal setback for Ladi Adebutu and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday as the Ogun State Election Petitions Tribunal dismissed their application seeking to strike out Governor Dapo Abiodun’s prayers establishing vote-buying allegations against them. Previously, Governor Abiodun had made a strong allegation of electoral fraud against the PDP candidate, Ladi Adebutu, and his party, allegedly perpetrated during the March 18 governorship election in the… Read the full article here

Grammy award-winning Nigerian singer, Ayodeji Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has claimed that music is his lifestyle. He said he consistently wants to improve his sound, video, production and everything to a new level. The Starboy stated this in an interview with popular UK-based afrobeats podcaster, Shopsydoo, in London yesterday. He said, “I sleep, breathe, eat, sh*t music. I’m always trying to elevate my craft from my sound, my videos, my productions, everything to a whole new… Read the full article here