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The Senate on Thursday passed the Legal Practitioners Act Repeal and Re-enactment Bill 2026, alongside the Proceeds of Crime Recovery and Management Amendment Bill 2026. The bills were passed following the presentation and consideration of reports by the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, chaired by Adeniyi Adegbonmire. Presenting the committee’s report, Mr Adegbonmire, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), said the Legal Practitioners Bill would repeal the existing Legal Practitioners Act and provide a modern regulatory framework for Nigeria’s legal profession. He said that the committee conducted thorough scrutiny of the legislation and recommended amendments aimed…

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has reported progress in efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), but warned that rising infections continue to outpace the response. The Head of the Continental Incident Management Support Team for the Ebola response, Wessam Mankoula, disclosed this on Thursday during a webinar on the outbreak. Mr. Mankoula stated that the continental Incident Management Support Team is now operational in Uganda, coordinating the Ebola response with support from partners across Africa. He noted that the DRC and Uganda have also made progress in…

You can see if ads on Google Search, Google Discover, and YouTube were made or edited using AI from a new section in Google’s “My Ad Center,” as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The update, announced on Thursday, adds a “created or edited with AI” label under the “how this ad was made” tab. Users can find it by tapping the three dots or info button on ads, which pulls up the same panel where you can also block or report ads.Google says it will automatically apply the AI label to any ads made with its own generative AI advertising tools,…

Shares of Bitdeer Technologies Group rose on Thursday after the Bitcoin (BTC) mining infrastructure company announced a $36 million manufacturing facility in Nevada, a move that expands its US production capacity and could reduce its reliance on third-party suppliers for mining hardware.Bitdeer climbed 14.1% to $14.33, fully recovering from a selloff earlier in the week. Despite Thursday’s rally, the stock remains roughly 27% below its June high but is up 26% year-to-date.The gains followed Bitdeer’s announcement that it will build a manufacturing facility in Sparks, Nevada, to assemble its SEALMINER line of Bitcoin mining machines. The plant will produce key…

Justin Baldoni and his wife, Emily Baldoni, found solace in their shared faith following their lengthy legal drama. “We are healing, and if you’ve ever been through something traumatic, you know that healing isn’t linear,” Justin, 42, said in a Wednesday, July 8, social media video, making his first comments since his lawsuit with Blake Lively was settled. “It looks different every day, and we have had to rethink for ourselves what is real and what matters and it’s this, it’s our family, it’s our friends, it’s our community [who] have been there for us, it’s our faith.” Justin and…

Residents of the US seeking Nigerian visas will now have to submit their applications directly to the Embassy of Nigeria in Washington, DC, or the Consulates in New York and Atlanta, following the suspension of Online Integrated Solutions (OIS Services) services. The OIS, which operates Nigeria’s Visa Application Centres, has been suspended from offering the service. In a statement issued on Thursday, the National Immigration Service (NIS) announced that the suspension of the OIS is effective from July 2026. “Effective from July, 2026, the service of Online Integrated Solution (O15 SERVICES), the operator of Nigeria’s Visa Application Centres in the…

Some senators on Thursday expressed reservations over the sale of Lafarge Africa Plc, Nigeria’s third-largest cement producer, to a Chinese company. The lawmakers expressed concerns about the transfer of ownership to Hainan Huaxin Pan-African Investment Company Plc, noting that the identities of major shareholders in the proposed ownership structure were not fully disclosed. The ownership structure, according to the Senate ad hoc committee that reviewed the transaction, showed that Lafarge Africa is proposing to sell its 18 per cent market share to Huaxin, while Nigerian public investors currently hold a combined 16.19 per cent stake in the company. The committee…

The publication, covering a timeline of twenty-three years, had been in the public domain for months. It was neither a new UNICEF report nor an assessment of the reforms now underway in Nigeria. The estimates relate principally to a period before the current reform programme had begun to take effect. UNICEF has since clarified that no new maternal mortality report or estimates were released at the Bauchi event and reaffirmed that its engagement with the Federal Government and the Bauchi State Government was directed at strengthening maternal and newborn health services through practical collaboration. Few issues deserve greater public attention…

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Peter Kafka, who is chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of Channels, a podcast about the media industry.And it’s a big week for the media industry — Comcast just announced that it’s splitting itself up, into the Comcast broadband company and the NBCUniversal entertainment company. That’s after the media giant spun out its cable assets like CNBC and MS.NOW into a new company called Versant earlier this year.A quick note, by the way — longtime Verge fans know we’ve been disclosing that Comcast NBCUniversal was an investor in our parent company, Vox Media,…

Bitcoin (BTC) reclaimed the $63,000 mark on Thursday, but traders fear a correction ahead of Friday’s $1.4 billion options expiry on Deribit. The concerns stem from the US government bond yield climbing toward a level that many view as a warning sign. Is the $62,000 support level at risk?Key takeaways:Rising US Treasury yields signal debt concerns, negatively pressuring risk assets.Balanced Bitcoin options put-to-call volumes suggest limited downside from the $62,000 level.US 10-year Treasury yield (left) vs. Bitcoin/USD (right). Source: TradingViewBitcoin ETF outflows are not a concern ahead of the Bitcoin options expiryThe 10-year Treasury yield’s approach to 4.6% signals investor…