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Matty Healy is a married man as he and his fiancée, Gabbriette Bechtel, have reportedly tied the knot. JustJared and Extra published photos on Saturday, July 18, of Healy, 37, exchanging rings with Bechtel, 28, at Madonna‘s former Hollywood Hills mansion Castillo del Lago, which was immortalized in the classic 1963 horror movie House of the Damned. (Madonna owned the historic home from 1993 to 1997.) The musician looked sharp in a black tuxedo while Bechtel opted for a traditional white gown and long veil. Photos showed Healy dipping Bechtel for a romantic kiss after they exchanged vows. Per JustJared,…

Senators have defended the National Assembly’s decision to prioritise constitutional amendments on the establishment of state police, saying the country’s worsening insecurity makes the proposal an urgent national priority. The lawmakers gave the clarification in response to concerns that the National Assembly appeared to be focusing more on state police than on other constitutional amendment proposals. The Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, in his reaction, said insecurity remained the foremost concern of Nigerians. Mr Bamidele, who spoke through his Directorate of Media and Public Affairs, said this was why priority seemed to be given to state police. The Senate leader, who…

US regulatory agencies missed the rulemaking deadline under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act on Saturday, which marked one year since the law was signed. Several US regulatory agencies published proposed rules and collected public feedback during the past year, but no final regulations were issued before the deadline.These agencies include the Department of the Treasury, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Federal Reserve Board, which issued proposed rules but no final rules, according to rulemaking trackers by law firm Chapman and crypto investment company…

Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham admitted that she feels guilty “all the time” when she has to temporarily leave her 12-year-old daughter for acting jobs. “I’m about to go away to do press for the next season of Ted [Lasso], and the mummy guilt descends,” Waddingham, 51, told The Guardian in an interview published on Saturday, July 18. “But I have to try and combat it.” Waddingham welcomed daughter Kitty with Italian hotel manager Gianluca Cugnetto in 2014, though the former couple split in 2022. The Emmy winner revealed that she was “eight months pregnant” with Kitty when she was…

Conversations about the Niger Delta often revolve around what lies beneath the soil rather than what grows from it. It is true that the Niger Delta has powered Nigeria’s economy since crude oil was discovered in commercial quantities in 1956 at Oloibiri, Bayelsa State. Today, the narrative is changing as efforts are underway to reposition agriculture to help secure Nigeria’s future prosperity. The plan is to build an agricultural economy that rewards investment, drives industrial growth and positions the Niger Delta as one of Nigeria’s leading destinations for agribusiness. The Niger Delta possesses the natural and economic fundamentals that investors…

In the 7 June 2026 article which marked the formal unveiling of the Decoupling Sovereignty Index (DSI), I articulated a defining institutional proposition. The launch of the DSI was presented not merely as the introduction of a new analytical instrument, but as another milestone in the evolution of Sundiata Post into what I described as a dual engine architectural powerhouse. That statement marked an important transition. It signalled that Sundiata Post was no longer to be understood solely as a digital news platform, but as an institution consciously integrating journalism, strategic intelligence and scholarly research within a single operational framework.…

Jodie Sweetin credited Full House costar John Stamos with supporting her sobriety over the years. “John and I really, really connected in a lot of ways over [sobriety],” Sweetin, 44, shared during a Wednesday, July 15, appearance on the “Dory Jackson Interview” podcast. The pair’s friendship started out when Stamos, 62, played Sweetin’s Full House character Stephanie Tanner’s uncle Jesse Katsopolis on the ABC sitcom from 1987 to 1995. Sweetin has spoken candidly about battling addiction in her adolescence while Stamos wrote in his 2023 memoir, If You Would Have Told Me, that he got sober after entering rehab in…

Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has emerged as the winner of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) presidential election. PREMIUM TIMES reported earlier that Mrs Badejo-Okusanya, the only female among the three presidential candidates, polled 12,317 votes to win the election, which was held through electronic voting for 24 hours, from 7:35 a.m. on Saturday to 7:34 a.m. on Sunday. The SAN defeated her two male challengers, polling 47.18 per cent of the 26,106 ballots cast in the presidential election, based on the final tally on the Live Election Results dashboard maintained by the Electoral Committee of the NBA (ECNBA).…

Freed Oyo pupils and their teacher Ultimately, military action alone cannot defeat terrorism. None of the essential elements of an effective counterterrorism strategy can succeed in isolation. Political will, capable security institutions, timely intelligence, community support, good governance and sustained efforts to counter violent extremist ideology must reinforce one another. Counterterrorism is not won by a single operation. It is won by building institutions that consistently produce successful operations. Several months ago, I argued that one of the surest ways to degrade terrorist organisations is to deny them time and space. Terrorist groups thrive when they regroup after setbacks, rebuild…

South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has reportedly sent an inspection opinion letter to Dunamu, the operator of crypto exchange Upbit, regarding the $36 million hack from November 2025.Local news outlet Yonhap News reported Sunday that the FSS had recently sent Dunamu an inspection opinion letter.The letter marks the formal start of a sanctions procedure by the financial authorities. It provides Dunamu with an opportunity to respond to the inspection’s findings before the regulator notifies the company of its proposed sanctions.Cointelegraph has approached Dunamu for comment on the matter.Related: Kaspersky identifies malware framework targeting crypto investorsUpbit faced criticism for delaying…