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The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has said Boko Haram often replenishes its ranks by abducting children from villages whenever the terrorist group suffers significant losses. Bwala made this known on Wednesday while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, where he explained the complexities surrounding the rehabilitation of former insurgents. “When Boko Haram starts to lose their members, they go to villages and carry children and take them to the bush and recruit them; these are the people you recruited against their will,” Bwala said. He explained that some of the abducted children eventually…

Less than a week before Meta’s lawyers were set to return to a Los Angeles courtroom, the plaintiff accusing the platform of inflicting harm dropped the case. Brought by 15-year-old Florida plaintiff going by initials R.K.C., the case was set to be the second in a set of bellwether trials meant to test legal arguments that social media giants allegedly broke the law by creating features that hooked and harmed teens.TikTok, Snap, and YouTube previously settled claims brought by R.K.C. for undisclosed amounts. “In light of the overall successful result of the litigation and his concerns about enduring a grueling…

S&P Dow Jones Indices and Pantera Capital launched a digital asset index that tracks blockchain networks and protocols based on protocol revenue, marking a departure from crypto benchmarks built around market capitalization or token prices.The index draws from the S&P Cryptocurrency Broad Digital Asset Index but only includes assets that meet minimum thresholds for protocol revenue, market capitalization and liquidity. Eligible networks are then ranked by aggregate protocol revenue over the previous two quarters and weighted by adjusted market capitalization, with the largest holding capped at 35% and the remaining constituents generally capped at 20%. The index is rebalanced quarterly.According…

Paul Wesley and Nina Dobrev know there will be never be another Stelena — and they’re not going to try to outdo their Vampire Diaries characters’ beloved dynamic. “Aaron Kaplan, one of the EPs, said, ‘Do you guys want to play romantic partners?’ Nina and I talked about it,” Wesley, 43, said on the Wednesday, July 22, episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. “We feel like there’s this whole Stefan and Elena thing is so iconic and so perfect and, in a weird way, we don’t want to … have a comparison.” Wesley played vampire Stefan Salvatore on The…

The Senate on Wednesday suspended consideration of the Nigerian Coast Guard Bill due to concerns that the proposed agency’s functions could overlap with those of the Nigerian Navy and the Marine Police. The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, announced the withdrawal after a majority of senators supported the decision through a voice vote during plenary. The bill, sponsored by Wasiu Eshinlokun (APC, Lagos East), seeks to establish the Nigerian Coast Guard to strengthen maritime security, combat illegal fishing and curb unauthorised activities along Nigeria’s coastline. It proposes the agency as a specialised maritime security outfit under the Ministry of Marine and…

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, has called for strong legal protection, an efficient justice system and collaboration across judicial jurisdictions to protect and enhance global maritime sector growth. She stated this at the opening of the 18th International Maritime Seminar for Judges, organised by the Nigerian Shippers’ Council in collaboration with the National Judicial Institute, on Wednesday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the three-day seminar brought together judicial officers, maritime regulators, legal practitioners and participants from several African countries to strengthen maritime jurisprudence. Ms Kekere-Ekun described maritime law as one of the principal…

Venezuela’s ousted president Nicolas Maduro and his wife will go on trial in the United States in June 2027, a court ruled Wednesday, after the US military captured them in a stunning nighttime raid in January. The former leader, 63, and wife Cilia Flores have been held in a Brooklyn jail for more than seven months after pleading not guilty to federal drug trafficking and firearms charges. American commandos snatched the pair from their compound in Caracas on January 3. The lightning operation combined naval, air and ground forces, deposing the strongman who had led Venezuela since 2013. During a…

After a dismal two years of weakening demand, falling sales, and damage to its brand by Elon Musk’s political activities, Tesla’s road to recovery continues apace. On the heels of an impressive delivery report, the company released its earnings for the second quarter of 2026 — giving us the latest glimpse at the EV company that Musk has said he wants to transform into a leader of AI and robotics.Despite that mission, Tesla remains a car company. And in the second quarter, it sold an impressive 480,126 vehicles, about a 25 percent increase compared to the second quarter of 2025.…

An affiliate of the cryptocurrency-aligned political action committee (PAC) Fairshake is attempting to influence voters in a primary race for Michigan’s 13th congressional district, with about $1 million in media on the line.In filings with the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) as of Tuesday, the Protect Progress PAC had spent more than $986,000 on ads supportive of Democratic incumbent Shri Thanedar and opposing his challenger, Donavan McKinney. The reported expenditures came two weeks before the Democratic candidates were set to face off in an Aug. 4 primary to determine who will stand in the November general election.Source: FECThe media spending…

Malcolm Jamal-Warner’s widow, Tenisha Warner, is addressing her relationship with her mother-in-law, Pamela Warner, amid their bombshell lawsuit. “Right now, everybody — like, all of his family members and [those] who have lost him — they are grieving,” Tenisha told Gayle King in a teaser of her Thursday, July 23, CBS Mornings sit-down. “You know, it’s been the biggest loss for all of us.” When asked whether she is close with Pamela, Tenisha coyly responded, “You know.” Malcolm-Jamal died in July 2025 at age 54 after tragically drowning in Costa Rica. He is survived by his mother, wife Tenisha and…