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The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, led by Chief Emeka Beke, has called on Governor Siminalayi Fubara to, as a matter of urgency, convene a stakeholders’ meeting of the party. The group said the meeting would help give the party proper direction, especially now that issues concerning the leadership of the party in the state have been clarified. The call was made in a statement issued on Friday in Port Harcourt by the APC State Publicity Secretary of the Emeka Beke faction, Mr Dalington Nwauju, and made available to journalists. Recall that the Presidential Spokesman, Daniel Bwala, said during…

Telecommunications giant MTN Nigeria organised nationwide watch parties for the third-place playoff and the final of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, in celebration of the sporting excellence on display during the tournament in Morocco. Africa was the centre of global football attention between December 21, 2025 and January 18, 2026, as Senegal were crowned AFCON champions for the second time in their history. After cheering the Super Eagles to a bronze medal finish in their third-place playoff against Egypt last Saturday, Nigerian football fans were once again treated to high drama on Sunday as hosts Morocco faced Senegal in…

Microsoft is giving its Paint and Notepad apps on Windows new AI capabilities for editing text and making digital illustrations. The updates are currently rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Windows 11 Canary and Dev channels, and include features that feel oddly niche or advanced for such simplified apps, such as AI text improvements in Notepad and the ability to instantly generate coloring book pages in Paint.The latter feature is aptly called “Coloring book,” and lets you make blank coloring templates in version 11.2512.191.0 of Paint based on a text prompt. Users can access this feature by selecting the…

Farcaster co-founder Dan Romero moved to quell speculation around the project’s future, saying the protocol is not shutting down following its acquisition by infrastructure provider Neynar.Farcaster is a decentralized social networking protocol that allows developers to build interoperable social apps where users own their identities, social graphs and connections onchain rather than being locked into a single platform.In a post addressing the community, Romero said Farcaster remains operational and continues to see meaningful usage, citing roughly 250,000 monthly active users in December and over 100,000 funded wallets.He added that Neynar, a venture-backed startup that has long built infrastructure on Farcaster,…

Elon Musk and Grimes are the first to admit their relationship was unique. “There’s no real word for it,” Grimes (born Claire Elise Boucher) told Vanity Fair in March 2022. “I would probably refer to him as my boyfriend, but we’re very fluid. We live in separate houses. We’re best friends. We see each other all the time. … We just have our own thing going on, and I don’t expect other people to understand it.” Although the pair called it quits that same year, Musk and Grimes welcomed three children during their relationship: son X Æ A-Xii in May…

Emmanuel Enoidem, a former national legal adviser to the PDP, is set to defect to the ruling APC today, Friday, 23 January, in Akwa Ibom State. Mr Enoidem, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), will be officially received into the APC by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom by 3 p.m. today at Etim Ekpo, where Mr Enoidem hails from, according to information on the Akwa Ibom State Government Facebook page. Mr Enoidem contested and lost the 2023 Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial election as the PDP candidate against Mr Akpabio, who was the APC…

Eleven years after his death, Muna Obiekwe remains one of the most endearing Nollywood actors ever to live. He was a gifted actor whose career soared rapidly but ended far too soon. On 18 January 2015, the Nigerian movie industry was jolted by news that that the 36-year-old actor, had died in Lagos after a prolonged battle with kidney failure linked to untreated high blood pressure. The announcement, which first surfaced on social media before official confirmation, triggered widespread grief and speculation across the country. He is survived by his wife, Gift Obiekwe, and their two children. He is also…

The palace of the Arujale-Ojime of Okeluse Kingdom in Ondo State has cautioned members of the public against what it described as improper and disrespectful ways of addressing the traditional ruler, Oba Oloyede Adekoya Akinghare II. In a statement issued on Friday, the monarch’s Chief of Staff, Prince Adefemi Olorunfemi, emphasized that the 22-year-old ruler must be formally addressed as His Royal Majesty, warning that any informal or derogatory mode of address would no longer be tolerated. Prince Olorunfemi noted that some individuals had been referring to the monarch with casual expressions such as ‘bro’ or ‘blood,’ actions the palace…

The National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Felix Morka, has denied the allegation that the party is compelling civil servants to partake in its ongoing e-registration across the country. Morka made this rebuttal on Thursday while fielding questions in an interview on Arise Television monitored by DAILY POST. He said that they were already struggling to register existing members and those willing to register, stressing that nobody has the time or incentive to pursue those who are not willing. He said: “With every system, people have a tendency to make all kinds of allegations. It’s easy…

Operatives of the Osun State Security Network Agency, codenamed Amotekun Corps, have confirmed the arrest of a suspected armed robber identified as Chinedu Eze. The arrest according to a statement by the Amotekun Public Relations Officer, Yusuf Idowu Abass on Friday, followed a failed robbery attempt on the Ilesa–Ibadan Expressway in the early hours of Wednesday, after Amotekun operatives on routine patrol received a distress alert from a motorist who had reportedly come under attack along the highway. The motorist, identified as Maxwell Phillips from Benue State, was said to have approached operatives attached to the Ilesa Area Command at…