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Ten of Nigeria’s brightest young sporting talents have received a major boost in their pursuit of excellence after Parallex Bank rewarded each of them with N1 million for their outstanding performances at the 2025 National Youth Games, where Team Lagos emerged overall champions for the first time in the competition’s history. The presentation ceremony, held at Parallex Bank’s headquarters in Lagos, brought together the athletes, their parents, officials of the Lagos State Sports Commission (LSSC), executives of the bank and other stakeholders to celebrate a partnership aimed at promoting youth development through sports. The beneficiaries, who represented Lagos at the…

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday affirmed the leadership of the African Democratic Congress headed by former Senate President David Mark, dismissing a suit filed by a member of the House of Representatives, Leke Abejide, challenging the party’s leadership structure. Delivering judgment, Justice Musa Liman held that the suit lacked merit and was not justiciable because it related to the internal affairs of a political party. The court upheld the preliminary objections filed by the ADC, its former National Chairman, Ralph Nwosu, the incumbent National Chairman, David Mark, and the party’s National Secretary, Rauf Aregbesola. Justice Liman ruled…

Silo is such a complicated show that even its showrunner gets confused sometimes. While filming the final seasons of the Apple TV sci-fi thriller, Graham Yost remembers two instances where he messed up details: once it was an actor who realized that a conversation they were about to shoot should’ve already taken place, the other involved the Japanese localization team pointing out that a subtitle didn’t match what was going on onscreen. In both instances, the problem was ultimately fixed, but Yost’s reaction was the same: “Oh shit, you’re right.”Keeping everything straight is one of the big challenges of working…

Standard Chartered and USDC issuer Circle have developed a system that lets institutional clients mint and redeem the USDC stablecoin through a bank-led onboarding process.Standard Chartered said Thursday it is the first Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB) to offer such services for USDC, bringing stablecoin access into the same risk, compliance and governance frameworks used in traditional banking. Clients will be able to mint and redeem the US dollar-backed stablecoin directly through StanChart’s platform instead of opening separate accounts with Circle.“By embedding USDC access directly within Standard Chartered’s institutional offering, Standard Chartered will bring together banking, custody, and digital asset…

Former college football player Blaise Taylor was convicted of killing his former girlfriend Jade Benning and her unborn child. On Wednesday, July 1, a Nashville jury found Taylor, 30, guilty on all four counts related to the deaths of Benning and her unborn baby in 2023, per WSMV 4 News. The athlete was convicted of second degree murder and first degree felony murder during commission of a felony in Benning’s death, as well as first degree premeditated murder and first degree felony murder during the commission of a felony for the unborn child’s death. Later, the jury recommended a sentence…

The 2027 presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has appointed ADC chieftain, Kenneth Okonkwo, as his spokesperson. Mr Okonkwo announced the appointment in a post on his verified X handle on Thursday morning. The ADC chieftain uploaded on the microblogging platform a screengrab of the appointment letter which did not show any date. The letter, titled “Offer of appointment as my spokesperson,” was signed by Atiku. In the letter, the former Nigeria’s vice-president told Mr Okonkwo that the appointment was for him to serve as spokesperson for the 2027 general elections following his emergence as the ADC presidential…

Nollywood actress-turned-evangelist Tonto Dikeh has advised Christian men against using spirituality as a substitute for genuine effort when pursuing women for marriage. The 41-year-old actress made the remarks in a video shared on her Instagram, where she addressed what she described as the “low-effort” approach some church men adopt in relationships. The actress, who was once known as much for her outspoken personality, social media feuds and headline-making relationships as for her acting career, has increasingly now turned a Christian relationship coach. Ms Dikeh, who has in recent years become more vocal about her Christian faith and frequently shares sermons…

The Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening collaboration with private and independent health research institutions to tackle existing diseases and prevent future outbreaks in the country. The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Jide Idris, made the remark during a high-level technical visit to the Kano Independent Research Centre Trust in Kano on Wednesday. He said the NCDC would deepen collaboration with the KIRCT and other independent and private health research institutions with a view to improving Nigeria’s health security. “We are also pushing for more collaborations with various state governments to…

Twenty-five years ago today, a young, little-known programmer by the name of Bram Cohen fired off a short message to a mailing list for peer-to-peer enthusiasts. “My new app, BitTorrent, is now in working order, check it out here,” Cohen wrote, followed by a link to his personal website.“What’s BitTorrent, Bram?” the founder of the list asked in response.Cohen never bothered to reply. The world would find out soon enough.In the following years, BitTorrent quickly became the world’s most popular file-sharing app, unleashing a massive wave of piracy that upended Hollywood forever. At one point, BitTorrent was said to be…

The Solana Foundation, the Swiss organization that supports the Solana network’s development, launched a new framework for protocol-level governance that enables proposing and voting on governance decisions for the Solana blockchain. The Solana Governance Proposals (SGPs) establish a standard that enables validators to submit core protocol proposals and vote onchain, with voting power based on their delegated Solana (SOL) stake, the Foundation announced in a Thursday X post.“An SGP captures a stake-weighted directional decision. It records what the community wants. It is not strictly focused on the technical detail of how to build the feature,” according to the GitHub repository, launched…