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Rob and Michele Reiner’s son Jake Reiner made his first public appearance since his parents’ gruesome murders and his brother Nick Reiner’s arrest. “Attended the premiere of Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness this week,” Jake, 35, wrote via Instagram on Thursday, June 25, alongside photos of himself on the red carpet. “Comes out Friday on @hbo @hbomax, look out for me in the first episode 🫡 🇺🇸 #LifeLarryAmerica.” Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness is a historical sketch comedy series created by Larry David and Jeff Schaffer and produced by former president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s…

Nigeria continues to lag behind in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens, recording poor scores across key indicators measuring access to food, healthcare, housing, education, employment and civil liberties, according to a new global human rights assessment. Data released by the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI), an independent international non-profit organisation, show that Africa’s most populous country remains in the “very bad” category on several economic and social rights indicators despite modest improvements in some areas over the past two decades. The findings are contained in HRMI’s 2026 Rights Tracker report, seen by PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday, which evaluates…

The Alubarika Movement, a socio-political group loyal to the National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Ajibola Basiru, has renewed its support for the governorship aspiration of the APC candidate in Osun State, Bola Oyebamiji. The group declared its support in a communiqué issued at the end of its ‘strategic stakeholders’ meeting held in Osogbo on Thursday. The communiqué, signed by the Chairman of the movement, Alhaji Kehinde Olamolu, stated that stakeholders who are members of the APC from all local government areas of the state attended the meeting. According to the communiqué, APC stakeholders in the group unanimously renewed…

No fewer than eight persons, including an infant girl, have been confirmed dead following the collapse of a three-storey shopping complex in the Alakija area of Lagos-Badagary Expressway on Thursday. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency disclosed that 26 other victims were rescued from the rubble as emergency responders continued search and rescue operations at the scene. The Permanent Secretary of LASEMA, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, disclosed this in an update on the incident on Thursday. PUNCH Metro gathered that the building, which housed shops and business premises, collapsed earlier in the day, prompting the activation of the state’s emergency response…

There are states where politics is fierce. There are states where it is noisy. And then there are places where politics begins to resemble a permanent battlefield. Increasingly, Osun State appears to have drifted into that troubling category. For anyone who regularly follows political conversations in Southwestern Nigeria, the Osun media space can be an unsettling experience. Open social media on any given day, and chances are that one of the most acrimonious political exchanges you encounter will originate from there. Personal attacks have become routine. Political disagreements are often delivered in language so venomous that one wonders whether opponents…

The Lagos Business School and the French Government have identified agribusiness and food systems as key areas for deeper collaboration between Nigeria and France, with both parties pushing for partnerships in value chains, logistics, agro-processing, and agricultural technology to unlock Nigeria’s agricultural potential. They made the call at the France-Nigeria Business & Human Capital Development Forum held in Lagos on Wednesday. Speaking during a high-level conversation with the Dean of Lagos Business School, Prof Olayinka David-West, the Ambassador of France to Nigeria and Representative to ECOWAS, Marc Fonbaustier, said Nigeria had yet to realise its full potential as Africa’s agri-food…

Nigeria produced its most significant showing at an NBA Draft in recent memory on Thursday, with six players of Nigerian heritage selected at the 2026 edition held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, led by Felix Okpara and Ugonna Onyenso who became only the second pair of Nigeria-born players to be drafted in the same year. The first-round picks set the tone early. Ebuka Okorie, a Stanford University product with Nigerian ties, was selected 17th overall by the Oklahoma City Thunder, with his draft rights subsequently bound for the Detroit Pistons as part of a planned trade involving…

The Civil Society Action Coalition on Education for All has condemned the continued abduction of schoolchildren across Nigeria, warning that the growing wave of attacks on schools poses a serious threat to the future of education in the country. The Gombe State and North-East Zonal Coordinator of CSACEFA, Halima Mahdi, raised the concern on Thursday in a statement obtained by our correspondent in Gombe. Mahdi’s warning comes amid a resurgence of insecurity across the country, with a recent police report indicating that no fewer than 50 bandit attacks were recorded within one week. Scores of pupils, students and teachers abducted…

RAMageddon has come for computers. The price of memory chips, hard drives, and solid state storage has skyrocketed. That’s led to price increases on desktop and laptop RAM, SSDs, spinning hard drives, and pretty much everything that uses any of those things. Consoles are more expensive. Desktops are more expensive. Laptops are more expensive. Tablets and phones are more expensive. Even MacBooks, which started out expensive but then started looking like a pretty good deal, just got more expensive.All that sucks. But if (if) there’s a silver lining, it’s that most of the stuff you plug into a computer —…

Crypto infrastructure company BitGo Holdings laid off about 15% of its staff on Thursday as its CEO pledged to focus the company on areas including trading, stablecoins and artificial intelligence.“Today I’m sharing a hard decision: we are reducing our workforce by nearly 15%,” BitGo co-founder and CEO Mike Belshe posted to X on Thursday. “The ecosystem has evolved, and the way we build financial services has changed dramatically.” “We need to be sharper, more focused, and concentrate our people and energy on the areas that matter most: security, trading, stablecoins, settlement, and AI-powered infrastructure,” he added.The layoffs add to the thousands…