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Picture credit: Google Earth/Forbes There are many advantages and challenges of Africa splitting into two separate continents with a new ocean between them. But do I have the right to peer into a future millions of years away? I think we really need to discuss that future as it may come earlier than humans think. For now, let us see how far we have gone with the AU Vision 2063. As we sleep, nature is ever awake, working. Even if we snore, it cannot be as loud as the rumbling Mount… Read the full article here

Despite laws prohibiting the discrimination of people with disabilities, children with special needs still experience difficulty in accessing adequate education and healthcare resources. The Ugo Edward-Dibiana Down Syndrome Foundation, a non-profit organisation, made this known in a statement issued to commemorate the 2023 World Down Syndrome Day. The Co-founder of the Foundation, Edward Dibiana, lamented the distressing challenges in getting schools to accept children or wards… Read the full article here

Osapkamwan Ogieriakhi spoke gently as he narrated how his brother, Eghosa Ogieriakhi, was murdered on his farm a year ago in Odighi community of Edo State. “I still have fresh memories of the incident like it was yesterday,” he said. “It hurts afresh because he was a friendly fellow. He never looked for trouble, instead, he always found a way to keep us from one. He was the eldest and most hardworking, the breadwinner.” After the attack, the killers, suspected to be… Read the full article here

Nollywood has come a long way from the VHS tapes and video club era. In 2003, Nollywood gave Nigerians some of the most memorable and exhilarating classics. It was the year that perhaps one of Nollywood’s biggest exports, Chinedu Ikedieze and Osita Iheme, aka Aki and Pawpaw, bagged their break-out roles in ‘Aki na Ukwa’. So popular were their roles that fans never recalled the movie’s title and assumed it was ‘Aki and Pawpaw’. While compiling the list, PREMIUM TIMES… Read the full article here

Africa’s top table tennis player, Quadri Aruna, defeated Japan’s Tomokazu Harimo, the world number four player, 3-0 to reach the quarterfinals of the World Table Tennis (WTT) Smash in Singapore. The game played at the early hours of Thursday morning, saw the Nigerian defeat the Japanese in straight sets (11-7, 13-11, 11-7), in the Round of 16 at the Infinity arena. Having lost thrice to the Japanese in previous encounters, Aruna fought hard to end his losing streak against… Read the full article here

The Department of State Services, DSS, has apprehended an inmate described as “a slim young man” after a major operation at the Kirikiri prison in Apapa, Lagos. DAILY POST exclusively reported how a large number of officers stormed the penitentiary last week in search of the fellow threatening one of the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s daughters. It was learnt, Monday night, that the VP’s second daughter Kiki, an entrepreneur, was the target of “a serious threat to life”. The… Read the full article here

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced Dauda Lawal of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the governor-elect of Zamfara State. Lawal polled a total of 377,726 votes to defeat Bello Matawalle of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who scored 311,976. He was announced as the winner in Gusau, the state capital in the early hours of Tuesday. Read the full article here

Former Paris Saint-Germain defender Maxwell has insisted that Lionel Messi is still the best footballer in the world despite Kylian Mbappe’s rise to prominence. France international Mbappe has risen to prominence in recent years and is seen as the successor to Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Maxwell, who was Messi’s team-mate at Barcelona, believes without any doubt that the Argentine World Cup winner remains the best player in the world. The former Brazil superstar left-back hailed the… Read the full article here

A Namibian court on Monday overturned a decision granting citizenship to the son of a gay couple, the latest step in a legal battle over the children of gay surrogate parents. In Namibia, homosexuality is still illegal, although the 1927 sodomy law is rarely enforced today. Yona, now four years old, was born to a surrogate mother in South Africa. Namibian Phillip Lühl and his Mexican partner Guillermo Delgado are both listed on the… Read the full article here

MTN’s Ralph Mupita becomes the latest CEO to warn that South Africa’s vanishing electricity, rising crime rates, flailing infrastructure, and organised corruption have become an existential threat. Source Read the full article here