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The CBN Governor, Olayemi Cardoso, says in the first half of 2026, the bank witnessed further consolidation of the macroeconomic gains recorded in 2025 through coordinated policy actions implemented over the past three years. Mr Cardoso stated this on Wednesday when he led a team from the bank to a meeting with the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions. The committee, chaired by Adetokunbo Abiru (APC, Lagos East), held the session in line with the CBN Act, which requires the CBN governor to brief the National Assembly twice a year. It was the committee’s first statutory engagement…
ANC by failing to implement Paragraphs “4”, “5”, “8”, and “9” of its “Freedom Charter”, by submitting to White monopoly capitalism, by refusing to decolonise the economy and society, and by pointing fingers at African immigrants as the cause of the poverty and underdevelopment of Black Africans, should be held responsible for the Afrophobia and xenophobia in South Africa! No more, no less. My charge against the African National Congress (ANC) is that primarily, it is causing the recurring Afrophobia and xenophobia violence in South Africa The mythical International Court of Human Conscience and the African Court of Ubuntu are…
Italian club Venezia FC have completed the permanent signing of Nigerian striker Akor Adams from Spanish side Sevilla FC, with the Super Eagles forward committing his future to the Serie A outfit until 30 June 2030. The Orange and Greens confirmed the transfer in an official statement, describing the acquisition as a major addition to the club’s long-term project ahead of the new season. Adams arrives in Venice after an eventful journey across Norway, France and Spain, bringing with him a proven goalscoring pedigree and valuable top-flight experience. The 26-year-old began his football career at the Jamba Academy before making…
The Allied People’s Movement has said the Federal Government’s recent attacks on its presidential candidate, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, show that President Bola Tinubu is jittery over Makinde’s growing popularity ahead of the 2027 presidential election. APM, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Abubakar Yusuf, on Wednesday, said the Tinubu administration was resorting to name-calling and disparagement because it lacked a convincing record of achievements to present to Nigerians, insisting that Makinde would defeat Tinubu in the 2027 election. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communications, Daniel Bwala, had, during an interview…
A White House official accused Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic’s Fable AI model to develop Kimi K3, which launched last week.In a post on X on Wednesday, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios alleged the Chinese AI firm developed an internal platform to distill US models at scale, using methods designed to evade detection.“Legitimate AI distillation used to create smaller, more efficient models plays a vital role in this open innovation ecosystem,” he said. “However, large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary U.S. technology and undermining American research is unacceptable.”Kimi K3 has emerged as…
New details surrounding Kaylee Hottle’s death have been revealed. The Godzilla vs. Kong actress died of multiple blunt force injuries in a car crash on Tuesday, July 21, the Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirmed to Deadline. The manner of death is listed as accidental. An initial autopsy was also completed on Wednesday, July 22, with results to be released at a later time. Earlier this week, news broke that Hottle had died after being involved in a car accident in Maryland. She was 18. Related: Celeb Deaths of 2026: Godzilla vs. Kong’s Kaylee Hottle and More Stars…
Justice Musa Kakaki of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday inspected a clandestine laboratory in Iloti community, Ogun State, where the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) alleged that 10 defendants facing illicit drug charges produced and stored large quantities of methamphetamine. The inspection formed part of the ongoing trial of three Mexican nationals and seven Nigerians accused of operating the laboratory. The defendants, who were brought from the Lagos Correctional Centre, include Carlos Meza Torrero, Nemecio Martinez Felix and Jesus López Valles. Others are Anochili Innocent, Nwankwo Sunday Christian, Egwuonwu Uchenna Victor, Igwe Abuchi Remijus, Ifeanyichukwu Chibuike…
We live in an age of the camera. The camera as reporter captures the serious and the mundane, the beauty and the beast, the decent and the pornographic. Those who intuitively and consciously understand the visual language, aesthetics and logic of photography have been translating the world they know into compelling stories. And these translations into images of human thoughts and experiences, of faces and places, of ideas and events, have had huge impact on humanity. Laura Morton, a San Francisco-based award-winning documentary photographer, says that cameras are tools of exploration and passports to the deep. And Mary Golon, Assistant…
Deputy Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State for the 2027 governorship election, Yemi Sowunmi-Kolapo, has declared that the PDP is the only credible platform capable of rescuing Ogun State from its socio-economic and developmental challenges. She spoke on Tuesday during a visit to her Ijemo community in Abeokuta South Local Government Area. The event drew a large crowd of party supporters, community leaders and residents, with the PDP deputy governorship candidate receiving a rousing welcome alongside the party’s Ogun Central Senatorial candidate, Iyabo Obasanjo, and other party stalwarts. Addressing the gathering, Sowunmi-Kolapo said the people of…
University of Georgia running back Dante Dowdell has sustained serious injuries after he was involved in an ATV accident, Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart has revealed. “He’s injured,” Smart, 50, told reporters at SEC Media Days on Tuesday, July 21. “We don’t know when his return will be. I don’t know the specifics of it, to be honest with you. It was a recreational vehicle, and he had some serious injuries.” Dowdell, 21, is undergoing treatment at Shepherd Center, a medical facility in Atlanta that specializes in treatment and rehabilitation for spinal cord and brain injuries, according to ESPN. “It was…
