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The Independent National Electoral Commission has urged Nigerians who have moved to new locations to transfer their voter registration ahead of the closure of the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration exercise. The commission introduced the portal after extending the nationwide CVR exercise by two weeks, moving the deadline from July 10 to July 24, 2026, to allow more eligible Nigerians to register ahead of future elections, PUNCH Online had earlier reported. PUNCH Online reported that the electoral agency launched an online self-service portal that enables eligible Nigerians to register for a Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC), transfer their voting location, update their…

Bitcoin developers need to swallow their pride and outline a clear plan to harden the blockchain against quantum computing attacks, according to Capriole Investments founder Charles Edwards. He says the day they finally bite the bullet, the price will respond very quickly. “If the Bitcoin core team says in two or three months: ‘this is our roadmap, we’re gonna solve it in the next two years, these are the rough steps we’ll take,’ that would be amazing news,” Edwards tells Cointelegraph on Trade Secrets. “I think that would discount a lot of the risk pretty much overnight,” Edwards says. The question…

New information is emerging about the harrowing aftermath of Eminem’s ex-wife Kim Scott’s alleged suicide attempt. News broke earlier this month that Scott, 51, had been rushed to a hospital near her home in Chesterfield Township, Michigan, on Saturday, July 11, after authorities received a 911 call about a woman “bleeding” at the residence. A dispatcher described the incident as a “suicide attempt” and requested assistance from emergency services workers because Scott was possibly “unconscious.” Scott was ultimately escorted out of her home on a stretcher to receive emergency treatment. Us Weekly obtained a police report detailing a chaotic scene…

The Kano State High Court in Kano on Friday sentenced Shuaibu Abdulkadir to death by hanging for the murder of a 23-year-old housewife, Rumasa’u Shuaibu. Mr Abdulkadir, who resides in Chediyar Kuda, Shauchi Quarters, Kano, was charged with culpable homicide. Delivering judgement, Justice Farida Rabiu-Danbappa held that the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. “I find Shuaibu Abdulkadir guilty. I hereby sentence you to death by hanging for culpable homicide. “May Allah have mercy on your soul. You have 90 days to appeal,” the judge held. Earlier, the prosecution lawyer, Basiru Kabiru-Ali, told the court that Mr Abdulkadir…

Energy expert Dan Kunle has formally urged President Bola Tinubu to suspend further commitments to the proposed $27 billion (approximately ₦43.2 trillion) African Atlantic Gas Pipeline. Mr Kunle argues that the project currently lacks sufficient commercial justification and risks becoming a costly national asset with limited economic returns. In an open letter addressed to the President dated 23 July—his third such correspondence within three weeks—Mr Kunle stated that Nigeria must prioritise domestic gas utilisation over ambitious regional export projects until critical questions regarding supply, financing, and market demand are definitively resolved. His warning follows the unanimous endorsement of the African…

As women across Anambra State and the South-East begin this year’s annual August Meeting, the wife of the Anambra State Governor, Dr Nonye Soludo, has urged them to use the gathering to address pressing social issues, particularly the rising cases of violent abuse and maltreatment of domestic workers. Soludo called on women to use the platform to confront what she described as the disturbing increase in cases of violent abuse, molestation, neglect and inhumane treatment of domestic workers, insisting that the silence surrounding such acts must end. She made the appeal in a message issued on Friday to mark the…

TikTok has attracted the ire of the European Union over its protection of children who use the video sharing platform. The European Commission announced preliminary findings today under the Digital Services Act (DSA) that offer specific issues to address.The Commission suggests that TikTok should adjust the default settings of minors’ “public” accounts so the content they post is only visible to TikTok users the teen has chosen to share it with, and that such content shouldn’t be recommended to other users in the For You feed. Even accounts set to private can be easily discovered through the “following” lists of…

Thailand’s crypto industry is facing fresh regulatory scrutiny after authorities accused Bitkub, one of the country’s largest digital asset exchanges, of providing false information to regulators.Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a criminal complaint against Bitkub Online and two former directors over alleged false reporting connected to a 2021 cyberattack, the regulator announced on Thursday.The complaint names former Bitkub directors Sakolkorn Sakavee and Thaweesap Rawan, who the SEC said were responsible for submitting company reports during the period under investigation.The case comes as Bitkub’s parent company considers a potential public listing, putting renewed attention on transparency and governance at…

Amy Winehouse’s mother, Janis Winehouse, looked back on her late daughter’s life on the 15th anniversary of her tragic death. “She was a victim of her own success,” Janis, 72, told The i Paper in a rare interview published on Thursday, July 23. “She didn’t want it, but it just followed her. And she’d be like, ‘Who, me?’” Amy died in July 2011 at age 27. Her official cause of death was ruled accidental alcohol poisoning. Before her passing, Amy openly struggled with substance abuse. Looking back on it now, Janis thinks her daughter used alcohol as a crutch. “She…

A prosecution witness on Thursday told the Federal High Court in Abuja how a realtor and her co-defendants allegedly sold portions of three disputed plots of land in a choice part of Abuja to members of the public without any document confirming their ownership of the land. Ahmed Gbigbadua, a witness from the Extractive Industries Fraud Section of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), told Judge Joyce Abdulmalik that the defendants issued offer letters, payment receipts and other documents to buyers, none of which could be compared with the genuine title documents issued by the FCT Department of Land…