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One of Rob Reiner’s final acting projects before his death is being celebrated among TV’s biggest stars. During the 2026 Creative Arts Emmys on Sunday, September 5, Reiner was honored with a posthumous nomination for Guest Actor in a Comedy Series thanks to his turn as Albert Schnur in season 4 of FX’s The Bear. The late star won, with presenter Wendi McLendon-Covey accepting the award on his behalf as the audience rose to give him a standing ovation. “We all wish he was here,” the actress, 56, said. Other actors nominated in the category included Michael J. Fox for…

A Kaduna resident, Nasiru Idris, who has been sued for divorce by his Moroccan wife, Khadija Diab, has accused Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, of abducting her. However, Mrs Idris has denied her husband’s allegations, while the Islamic cleric is also suing him for defamation. Speaking in an interview with RFI Hausa on Friday, Mr Idris narrated how he and his wife met Mr Gumi at a pharmacy on Isa Kaita Road in Kaduna. “My Moroccan wife knew no one in Nigeria, and nobody knew her except through me. I travelled to Morocco to seek her hand in marriage, and we…

I approach national security and intelligence operations with deliberate caution. Revealing successes too early can compromise ongoing missions; failures narrated without context can sound like conspiracy theories. Allegations against individuals working at the sensitive intersection of intelligence, non-kinetic security strategy, and politics can inflict irreversible reputational damage — even when entirely fabricated. That caution explains my initial reluctance to write on the recent viral video purporting to show “high profile bandit kingpins” on a visit to the residence of Senator Shehu Umar Buba of Bauchi South. But the scale of the circulation, and the pattern behind it, now demand public…

For Nigerian tennis, Wimbledon was supposed to be a breakthrough moment. Oluwaseun Peter Ogunsakin, popularly known as The Shark, is ensuring it is only the beginning. Barely two months after making history at Wimbledon, the Nigerian has followed up by qualifying for the US Open Junior Championships main draw, firmly establishing himself on the biggest stages of junior tennis. At Wimbledon, Ogunsakin became the first Nigerian in decades to compete at the tournament and the first Nigerian in more than a decade to feature in a Grand Slam main draw. Having never played on grass before and with less than…

The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, has revealed that the Federal Government will provide qualified Nigerian shipowners with up to $25m each, under the Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund, a move he said could strengthen indigenous shipping and create more than 30,000 direct and indirect jobs. This comes as he also disclosed that disbursement of the long-awaited CVFF to qualified Nigerian shipowners to strengthen indigenous shipping and create thousands of jobs will soon commence. Oyetola disclosed this in a post on his X handle on Monday, saying the government was finally moving to unlock the fund more than…

Huawei has released its third trifold phone in China, and the company has clearly had half an eye on Samsung during development. Not only does the Mate XT 2 adopt the inward-folding form factor used on Samsung’s Galaxy Z TriFold, it’s also the first foldable to include a privacy-enhancing display, much like the one Samsung added to the Galaxy S26 Ultra this year.The first Mate XT, which launched in China in late 2024 and internationally a few months later, used an accordion-esque folding design. It removed the need to include an additional cover screen on the phone, but left parts…

The Philippines’ central bank has proposed freezing new payment-system operator registrations for 12 months while imposing tighter controls on payment arrangements involving virtual asset service providers (VASPs). Under a draft circular, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said it would suspend acceptance and processing of applications for operators of payment systems (OPS) to conduct a “holistic review” of its taxonomy and licensing framework. Applications submitted before the suspension could continue to be evaluated, but the BSP would not approve or deny any until the pause ends. Entities would be barred from starting activities that require OPS registration unless the regulator authorizes them…

Candace Cameron Bure‘s pregnant daughter Natasha Perry has slammed critics claiming she’s had her baby and won’t share the news in a grab for more “attention” and “money.” “It’s September 6, I’m filming this in real time … I’m still pregnant, I still have a baby here, OK?” she told fans in a Sunday, September 6, TikTok video, before lifting her shirt up to reveal her bump. Natasha, 28, who is expecting her first child — and Candace’s first grandchild — with her husband, Bradley Steven Perry, filmed the clip in response to a comment that claimed she had delayed a…

The Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Cross River State chapter, has donated N36 million to support the revival of the Cross River Newspaper Corporation, publishers of the 55-year-old Nigerian Chronicle. The ALGON Chairman in the state, Yibala Inyang, announced the donation in Calabar on Saturday when he visited the remodelled newspaper corporation. Mr Inyang commended Governor Bassey Otu’s administration in Cross River for taking deliberate steps towards revamping the newspaper, describing it as “timely and well-intended”. He said, “This intervention of the government is a major lifeline that will reposition the newspaper and restore its role as a…

All of this leads to the one question that accompanied me through every page of the report: Is Nigeria’s economy now growing faster because the reforms put in place by the incumbent federal government have removed the macroeconomic constraints on growth, or is it growing faster because the economy is recovering from the extraordinary disruption of the Buhari/Emefiele diarchy? Against the backdrop provided by the incumbent government’s professed ambitions for the country, the 4.43 per cent by which the economy grew on an annualised basis in the second quarter of this year is far from the kind of high-productivity growth…