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There are currently 45 women in the United States that are on death row after they were found guilty of heinous acts, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. While some of the women have made headlines for their crimes and have been catapulted into the spotlight, others’ stories have not garnered the same attention. In the United States, only 14 states allow the death sentence. The youngest woman on death row in the state of Texas is Taylor Parker, whose crime was documented in Netflix’s June 2026 documentary Maternal Instinct. Us Weekly breaks down all of the women sentenced…

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has invited international and domestic election observers to monitor its upcoming national officers’ election amid the controversy surrounding the poll. It invited the European Union (EU), the United States Embassy, the British High Commission and other international bodies, as well as domestic organisations like Yiaga Africa and the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), to monitor the election. The election is slated to be held electronically on 20 July. The invitation was contained in a statement signed by the NBA President, Afam Osigwe, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), and published on the association’s blog on Friday.…

The Gombe State Government has ordered an investigation into the collapse of a section of the cantilevered entrance canopy at the construction site of the new Gombe State House of Assembly Complex, which claimed the life of one worker and injured seven others. The incident occurred on Friday at the ongoing construction site, prompting the government to activate emergency response and safety procedures. In a statement issued by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works, Housing and Transportation, Danladi Adamu, the government confirmed that eight workers were involved in the incident. According to the statement, the seven injured workers were immediately…

Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from public Instagram accounts just by tagging them. The feature, as originally set up, meant that content from any public Instagram account could be used in AI creations without the account owner’s permission.“Earlier this week, we announced that one way for people to generate images in Meta AI is by @-mentioning public Instagram accounts that they want to reference,” Meta says in an update to a blog post about its new Muse Image AI model. “Our intent was…

Wall Street banks are restricting employee trading on prediction market platforms due to fears that they may use nonpublic information to trade event contracts.Goldman Sachs has reportedly banned its employees from trading on event contracts that are specific to the bank, including financial markets, macroeconomic events, elections and geopolitics, CNBC reported, citing people familiar with the matter.Unidentified sources from Morgan Stanley also told CNBC that the bank has policies regarding prediction market trading by employees, while a spokesperson for Bank of America said the bank was in the process of issuing new prohibitive measures for employees on prediction market trading.The…

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President Bola Tinubu has approved the upgrade of the Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa, into the Federal University of Mining, Engineering and Technology, Nasarawa. The upgrade is in line with President Tinubu’s commitment to strengthening technical education, developing human capital, and unlocking Nigeria’s vast solid minerals potential. The approval followed a proposal by Senator Ahmed Aliyu, representing Nasarawa West Senatorial District, who made a case for the establishment of a specialised institution to harness Nasarawa State’s comparative advantage in the solid minerals sector and support Nigeria’s industrialisation agenda. According to the presidential directive, the specialised university will provide world-class education, research, and…

Singer and pioneer of the CopaceticMusic movement, Adebayo Olotu, aka BYTunes, has said his recent relocation to Los Angeles, United States, will help take the new genre of music to a wider international audience while preserving its Nigerian roots. According to him, he deliberately remained in Nigeria for some years to develop the movement before expanding globally. “I truly decided to wait back home for a few more years to be able to do some grassroots works for the new genre of music, CopaceticMusic,” he said. Describing CopaceticMusic as the “diplomatic evolution” of the style he introduced in 2024, the…

Last year, we told you about Xtra, the company that lets DJI sneak its popular cameras into the US, and Skyrover, a brand seemingly selling DJI drones in disguise. They’re just two of the many firms DJI is suspected of starting to skirt the United States’ foreign drone ban.But it appears the FCC is finally doing something about “DJI front companies,” as watcher Konrad Iturbe dubbed them last year. Today, the FCC is fining eight of them $25,000 each — and giving them until Monday, July 20th, just 10 calendar days, to answer the FCC’s questions before the agency takes…

Five Democratic senators have called for committee hearings “to investigate the national security implications of President Trump’s cryptocurrency holdings” as the chamber considers digital asset market structure legislation.In a Friday notice, the Democratic ranking members of five US Senate committees and subcommittees asked lawmakers to address President Donald Trump’s 2025 financial disclosure, in which he reported earning about $1.4 billion connected to crypto ventures like his memecoin and family’s World Liberty Financial platform. The lawmakers said that the reports “heighten concerns about the President pushing Congress to pass crypto legislation in favor of the very industry he’s cashing in on,”…