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UPDATE 6/29/26 at 3 a.m. ET — During his Sunday, June 28, show in Toronto, Noah Kahan made fans pledge not to poop their pants and dispose of the waste on the floor at his concert. “This is awkward and it’s fresh in more ways than one,” he said onstage at Rogers Stadium, per footage posted via X. “When you enter this building, you enter a social contract … Rule no. 2 besides don’t literally f***ing kill each other is don’t s*** on the floor.” Kahan then had fans repeat a pledge to that effect. “I solemnly swear I will not…
The frontrunner to become Britain’s next prime minister, Andy Burnham, vowed in a keynote speech Monday to “bring about the biggest rebalancing of power our country has seen” if he succeeds Keir Starmer. Burnham, currently the only candidate to replace Starmer as Labour leader and prime minister, pledged to devolve greater powers to regional mayors, including in Manchester where until recently he was in charge. “I am going to give Britain the circuit breaker it needs,” Burnham told an invited audience in the northwest English city, pledging to put power “in the hands of the people and places who can…
No fewer than eight persons have been confirmed dead, while 17 others sustained varying degrees of injuries in a road crash along the Funtua–Katsina highway in the Bakori Local Government Area of Katsina State. The Federal Road Safety Corps, Katsina Sector Command, said the accident occurred at about 1:32 p.m. on Sunday at Layin Kukah and involved a Toyota Hiace commercial bus with registration number 14B 92 TR and an unregistered Bajaj tricycle. In a First Information Report issued by the command’s Public Education Officer, DRC Shamsudeen Babajo, and made available to journalists on Sunday, the FRSC said 25 persons…
South Africa coach Hugo Broos has explained why Bafana Bafana were eliminated from the FIFA World Cup, saying his side could not match the power and speed of Canada in their last-32 defeat. This is as he also suggesting he may reconsider his decision to retire from coaching. Speaking after South Africa’s 1-0 loss to co-hosts Canada in Los Angeles on Sunday, the 74-year-old Belgian admitted that physical qualities made the difference between the two teams. “I have said many times that modern football is more than just technique. There is power and speed, and we do not have it…
The Federal Government has pledged to strengthen collaboration with the National Association of Nigerian Students to improve the welfare and protection of Nigerian students studying abroad. The commitment was made during a strategic engagement between officials of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a high-powered delegation of NANS led by the association’s Director of Diaspora and International Students Affairs, Daniel Oyeniyi. According to a statement issued by Oyeniyi on Monday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs was represented at the meeting by the ministry’s Assistant Director, Ezinne Osigwe. Speaking during the engagement, Oyeniyi expressed concern over what he described as…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a technical essay outlining how cryptography could one day enable people to vote privately onchain without relying on a trusted group to manage ballots or reveal the result. In a blog post on Monday, Buterin said a cryptographic approach called indistinguishability obfuscation (iO), combined with blockchain infrastructure, could support private and collusion-resistant voting with “almost no trust assumption.” The approach would replace threshold committees, which jointly decrypt voting data, with protected programs designed only to reveal the outcome. Private onchain voting remains dependent on groups of operators safeguarding information and behaving honestly. Removing that dependency could make…
Yellowstone‘s Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser finally broke their silence after their Dutton Ranch spinoff went through a shocking showrunner shakeup. “Showrunners change all the time,” Hauser, 51, recently told The Hollywood Reporter in a joint interview. “This business is about adapting.” He continued: “We’ve been doing this for a long time. Things change. People move on.” Reilly, 48, had a similar outlook, adding, ” We finished [season one] with Chad beautifully. We finished this season together. It was a really difficult but really satisfying show to make. And so was Yellowstone.” Looking ahead, the actress wanted to focus on the…
The most recent Statistics South Africa census found that 3.9 per cent of South Africa’s population was born outside the country. Yet, despite immigrants making up a small minority of the population, migration has been cast by protest groups and political leaders as a crisis demanding urgent crackdowns and regulatory reform. Precedents across the continent show that such moves often produce displacement, economic disruption and diplomatic fallouts, sometimes for decades. South Africa’s government must think carefully about the direction it is taking. The rise in anti-immigrant sentiment carries both short- and medium-term risks for immigrants and citizens alike. National attention has focused on the…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has charged the immediate past Managing Director of the Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC), Ahmed Adamu Dikko, and his counterpart at the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC), Jimoh Olasunkanmi Yisawu, with money laundering over the alleged diversion of funds earmarked for the rehabilitation of Nigeria’s moribund refineries, PREMIUM TIMES can report. Court documents and briefs reviewed by this newspaper show that the anti-graft agency filed a 12-count charge against Mr Dikko and an eight-count charge against Mr Yisawu before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, on 22 June.…
A former Niger Delta ex-agitator and philanthropist, Mr Endurance Amagbein, has called on Nigerians to remain calm in the face of the country’s security challenges, urging citizens to support ongoing efforts by the Federal Government and security agencies to combat insecurity ahead of the 2027 general elections. Amagbein, who is popularly known as Adaka Boro the Second, made the appeal in a statement issued to journalists in Abuja on Monday. While acknowledging the pain and suffering caused by rising cases of kidnapping, banditry and other violent crimes across the country, he expressed optimism that the country would overcome the security…
