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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said no presidential aspirant will step down in the African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential race. Atiku said this in a statement Tuesday through his media adviser, Paul Ibe,  adding that all aspirants will present themselves freely. He also urged Nigerians to resist efforts by the All Progressives Congress, APC, to intimidate and weaken the opposition. His remarks came in the wake of the speculation that he is facing pressure to step aside for a Southern candidate to emerge as the ADC’s flagbearer in the upcoming election against President Bola Tinubu. According to him, if…

Rafiu Durosinmi has made history as the most expensive signing for Serie A club Pisa SC, DAILY POST reports. Durosinmi completed his permanent transfer to the club from Czech First Division outfit, Viktoria Plzen on Monday. Viktoria Plzen received €11m package, plus  add-ons for the striker. The 23-year-old put pen to paper on a four-year contract with Pisa. Durosinmi spent only two years with Viktoria Plzen. He is set to watch Pisa  play against Como tonight at the Arena Garibaldi.

The National Association of Nigerian Students on Tuesday called off its planned nationwide protest against the new Tax Reform Act following engagements with the Nigeria Revenue Service, formerly the Federal Inland Revenue Service, and other government agencies. The decision was disclosed in a communiqué at the end of the maiden Expanded National Executive Council meeting of the association, which reviewed the law and earlier concerns raised by the student body. NANS had earlier threatened to mobilise students for mass protests on January 14, 2026, if the implementation of the law was not suspended pending a National Assembly investigation and broader…

The Rivers State Police Command said its operatives have arrested twelve suspects in connection with an attack on an estate in Mbodo, Aluu, in Ikwerre local government area of the state on Monday afternoon. The police said the armed assailants, who include members of a vigilante group code-named ‘OSPAC’ and hired thugs, invaded the estate in a commando manner, shot sporadically, damaging vehicles and parts of the estate. The attackers also abducted a resident of the estate who sustained a leg injury following the shootings, which shattered the serenity of the place. The spokesperson of the State Police Command, Grace…

January 6, 2026 6:25 pm File photo: The National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party, Kabiru Turaki The Tanimu Turaki (SAN)-led National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party is holding a closed-door meeting with former President Goodluck Jonathan to discuss party and national issues. Turaki, on Tuesday accompanied by the entire NWC and a few selected state chairmen, arrived at Jonathan’s office in Maitama, Abuja, around 5:45 pm in six SUV jeeps. Sources within the party stated that the PDP leaders are expected to discuss the ongoing crisis within the party, their efforts to reposition it, and other key national issues.…

Morgan Gibbs-White’s late penalty fired Nottingham Forest to a crucial 2-1 win over West Ham that left their relegation rivals in deep trouble on Tuesday. Sean Dyche’s side fell behind to Murillo’s early own goal at the London Stadium. But West Ham had a second goal from Crysencio Summerville controversially ruled out by VAR for the tightest of offside decisions. Forest rubbed salt into West Ham’s wounds with a stirring fightback as Nicolas Dominguez equalised before Gibbs-White netted from the spot after another VAR call went the visitors’ way. Fourth-bottom Forest are now seven points clear of third-bottom West Ham…

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about Big Tech, Big Government, and the big paradigm shifts that result from their collision. Not a subscriber yet? It’s a new year, so why not treat yourself?In 2022, Jake Sullivan, then national security adviser under President Joe Biden and a powerful figure in the White House’s foreign policy team, assembled an interagency planning exercise out of the Situation Room: What were all the possible circumstances and outcomes of an AI arms race between the US and China — from trade wars to real wars, possibly even the arrival of…

The Flow Foundation on Tuesday published a technical post-mortem detailing a protocol-level exploit that occurred on Dec. 27, when an attacker was able to counterfeit tokens on the network, resulting in about $3.9 million in confirmed losses before the exploit was contained.According to the report, the attacker exploited a flaw in Flow’s Cadence runtime that allowed certain assets to be duplicated rather than minted, bypassing supply controls without accessing or draining existing user balances. Validators coordinated a network halt within six hours of the first malicious transaction, while exchange partners froze most counterfeit assets before they could be sold.Flow said…

A royal expert is weighing in on what’s next for Prince Harry after the Duke of Sussex won his years-long U.K. security battle. “This is a huge victory for Harry, and opens the door fairly wide for his return to the U.K. sometime in the near future,” royal author Christopher Andersen, who wrote the book Brothers and Wives, told Us Weekly exclusively on Monday, January 5. A recent report published by the Mail on Sunday claimed that Harry’s drawn-out battle for government-funded security in the U.K. had come to an end. After the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty…

The Tanimu Turaki-led National Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), under the newly elected National Working Committee (NWC), met with former President Goodluck Jonathan behind closed doors in Abuja on Tuesday. Speaking to journalists after the meeting, Mr Turaki said the visit was to introduce the new party leadership to Mr Jonathan following their election at the national convention held in Ibadan in November 2025. He described Mr Jonathan’s response as “reassuring and very encouraging,” noting that the former president expressed a deep sense of obligation to the party. “We have solicited, as usual, for his support, for his…