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Defending Nigeria Women’s Football League (NWFL) champions Edo Queens FC produced another statement performance in Ouagadougou on Wednesday, thrashing Burkina Faso’s USFA FC 5-1 to book their place in the final of the WAFU-B CAF Women’s Champions League qualifying tournament. The Nigerian champions dominated proceedings at the Stade 4 Août, taking control of the semi-final from the early stages before completing a comprehensive drubbing of the Burkinabè hosts. Atume Doosuur opened the scoring in the 17th minute, giving Edo Queens an early advantage and putting the 2024 WAFU-B champions on course for another final. Edo Queens continued to pile pressure…

A coalition of United States medical groups published vaccine guidance for seasonal respiratory viruses on Wednesday, seeking to provide clear advice amid delayed federal recommendations and a lack of confidence in the vaccine-sceptic Trump administration. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention typically provides a similar annual update of vaccine recommendations. Still, the process has been disrupted this year by lawsuits over policy shifts made under Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. Medical associations have repeatedly voiced opposition to steps taken by the Federal Government under Kennedy, which they say run counter to scientific consensus. The coalition, which includes the American…

OpenAI is on the cusp of releasing its most powerful AI model yet, Astra, following weeks of delays to shore up safety protocols after its agents attacked real targets during testing. As details about the model trickle out, researchers are warning it “may be the single worst development for AI security/safety to date.”Shortly after OpenAI said on Tuesday that it had delayed Astra’s release to work on safety issues, The Information reported that Astra shows far less of its “thinking” than other frontier AI models, sparking concern it could be dangerously hard to monitor.Most top AI systems today are built…

Coinbase has launched crypto derivatives trading in Canada, giving eligible users access to perpetual and dated futures tied to Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Solana (SOL) and other assets.The products are offered through Coinbase Financial Markets, a futures commission merchant registered with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which operates in Canada under foreign dealer and futures commission merchant exemptions.Coinbase said Wednesday that the offering includes 23 crypto perpetual and dated futures, five commodity futures and the Coinbase 50 Index. The company said it is the first major crypto-native platform to offer direct native crypto futures in Canada.Access is limited to eligible Canadian…

One day after Saylor Hayes was found dead, her parents were arrested in connection to the nonverbal and autistic 5-year-old’s death. John Herb Hayes III and Geordyn Nichole Hayes were taken into custody on Tuesday, September 1, in Tennessee and each charged with unlawfully placing a child at risk/wilfully abandoning a child, the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office announced in a statement that same day. As Us previously reported, Saylor was last seen on Sunday, August 30, and eventually found dead in a waterway close to the family’s Pawleys Island, South Carolina, rental home around 9:45 a.m. the following day. Authorities…

The police officers accused of shooting dead a motorist, Anthony Obodo, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, will be dismissed and prosecuted, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Olugbenga Adepoju, has vowed. Mr Adepoju made the promise while addressing a crowd protesting the killing. He insisted that the police would not shield officers found responsible for the death. “No police officer is told to go and kill anybody’s child. And everybody has to own the responsibility for what they have done. The police will never cover anybody. Since that day, they’ve been arrested and handcuffed,” he said. “I’ve been talking…

Kashim Shettima, Nigeria’s vice president, former two-term governor of Borno State, banker, politician, and businessman, has a story that young people can actually learn from as he clocks 60 today, Wednesday, 2 September. Shettima is not perfect. No one is. Perfection belongs to the Almighty, our Creator. But there are real lessons to draw from how he has navigated life, built his career and risen through different stages of leadership. I will try, as much as possible, to break some of these lessons down for easy understanding and assimilation. First, as a young Nigerian, understand that education and skills are…

Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, will on Thursday, September 10, 2026, undertake an official visit to Anambra State, marking her first visit to the state since assuming office as First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The visit is expected to further strengthen the existing partnership between the Federal Government and Anambra State in advancing programmes targeted at poverty reduction, economic empowerment, food security and improved livelihoods for vulnerable citizens. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Wednesday by Daniel Ezeigwe, the Media Aide to the wife of the Anambra State Governor, Dr Nonye Soludo. According to…

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model “works harder” than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and “calling tools iteratively.” It has the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash, $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, but could still end up costing users more. Google warns that “the model might use more tokens to maximize performance, especially at higher effort levels.” Developers can keep using Gemini 3.7 Flash if they want to minimize token usage.Gemini 3.8 Flash’s launch was…

The US state of Wyoming is adding near-real-time onchain reserve verification to its state-issued Frontier Stable Token through an expanded integration with blockchain oracle network Chainlink.The Wyoming Stable Token Commission said Wednesday it adopted Chainlink Proof of Reserve to publish verified data on FRNT’s reserves and token supply onchain. The system combines independent examinations by The Network Firm with Chainlink’s infrastructure to make the data available in near real time.Wyoming already publishes daily reserve attestations for FRNT, while the GENIUS Act requires monthly disclosures of reserve composition and outstanding stablecoin supply. The commission said the integration will provide more timely…