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The runway at Benin Airport, Edo State, has been reopened for flight operations, 12 days after an Enugu Air aircraft veered off the runway shortly after landing, disrupting services at the airport. The reopening was announced on Tuesday by ValueJet, which said its flights to and from Benin would resume on Wednesday, 5 August. “We’re pleased to announce that the Benin runway has reopened, and ValueJet flights resume from Wednesday, 5th August 2026,” the airline said in a notice to passengers. In a separate telephone interview with PREMIUM TIMES Tuesday evening, an official of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria…
Many people spend their entire careers building a job. Few deliberately build a name. Jobs will come and go. Positions will change. But a trusted professional reputation continues to create opportunities long after business cards and office doors have changed. The ultimate goal is not simply to be an employee. It is to become an industry authority, a trusted voice whose knowledge, character and contribution leave the profession better than they found it. Your job gives you a platform to perform. Your personal brand gives you influence. Tunde had always believed that success at work meant getting a good job,…
President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Todd Blanche took a key step on Tuesday towards becoming the top US law enforcement officer after a Senate panel approved his nomination to head the Justice Department. The 12-10 vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee was along party lines and came after two Republican senators dropped their opposition to Blanche’s nomination. Blanche’s Senate confirmation had been held up by concerns from senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis over a $1.8 billion fund for alleged victims of politically motivated prosecution and a tax audit immunity deal with the Republican president. Blanche issued a written…
Hank Green, a popular YouTuber and science communicator, said he is stepping back from production amid intense criticism over his use of AI. Green described his AI usage as “not healthy,” but stressed that he used it for finding research sources and not to write scripts.Much of the ensuing firestorm in this corner of the internet has centered on how a creator can square a brand built on authenticity and credibility with a technology trained on the (often uncompensated) works of others, and which has a well-known tendency to generate plausible-sounding falsehoods. Some attention has fallen on Green’s description of…
Latest NewsPublishedAug 4, 2026In a July 8 meeting, US and UK regulators highlighted the implementation of the GENIUS Act, payment modernization and cross-border cooperation, reinforcing a shared framework for digital asset oversight.The United States and the United Kingdom reaffirmed their commitment to closer financial regulatory cooperation during a recent bilateral working group, signaling continued policy alignment on digital assets as US authorities move to implement landmark stablecoin legislation.During the 13th meeting of the UK-US Financial Regulatory Working Group (FRWG), held in London on July 8, officials discussed stablecoin regulation, digital asset market structure in the United States, tokenization and the…
Fans hoping to see Stassi Schroeder continue hashing her issues out on a House of Stassi reunion will have to keep waiting, according to the reality star herself. “I don’t want a reunion. No reunion,” Stassi, 38, said on the Friday, July 31, episode of the “It Girl” podcast when asked whether Andy Cohen would host a reunion for the new Hulu show. “We will work it out in season 2.” Stassi previously sat through her fair share of reunion specials while starring on Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules. She became a fan favorite when the show premiered in 2013 but was…
President Bola Tinubu has approved a salary increase of between 30 and 80 per cent for members of Nigeria’s Armed Forces, a move expected to raise the federal government’s annual military wage bill by N264 billion as the country continues to battle terrorism, banditry and kidnapping. This was disclosed in a Tuesday statement by presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga who noted that the pay review will take effect from 1 September. The presidency said about 250,000 personnel would benefit from the salary review. While it did not explain the figure, it likely refers to active members of the Nigerian Armed Forces…
The Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS) has issued new guidelines on the taxation of virtual assets, providing a framework for the handling of cryptocurrencies and other digital asset transactions in the country. In a statement on Monday, the tax authority said the guidelines are targeted at taxpayers, Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs), peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplace operators, tax practitioners and other participants in the virtual asset ecosystem. The introduction of the virtual assets guidelines came after President Bola Tinubu signed the Presidential Executive Order on Virtual Assets Coordination, 2026, to harmonise digital asset regulation and curb financial fraud on 17 July. According…
The incoming world is asking critical new questions that Africa must answer by its practice, in order to fully realise the fruitful benefits of the next few decades. A significant part of that is a critical process of decolonisation. We must realise what Africa can do without the corrupting influence that fetters the critical and eclectic exploration of its possibilities. Afrilition explores these possibilities, highlighting the keys to this new world. It is time to stop being a brand new second-hand of the after-effects of colonialist leftovers. In writing Afrilition, I had to engage the colonial mind map that has…
While members of Team Nigeria have begun arriving home following their successful outing at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, the same cannot be said of Uganda, where four members of the country’s boxing team have reportedly gone missing in Scotland. The Ugandan athletes are among five boxers reported missing after the Games, with Pakistani boxer Qudrat Ullah also unaccounted for, prompting investigations by Police Scotland and the involvement of UK immigration authorities. The missing Ugandan boxers are Angel Katushabe, Nuhu Batte, Ibrahim Khemis and Emily Nakalema, who were part of a six-member boxing squad. Uganda ended its Glasgow 2026…
