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Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC, has announced a power outage in the Presidential Villa, Supreme Court, Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport and other parts of Abuja. AEDC disclosed this in a notice on Saturday. The distribution company attributed the outage to a technical fault. Areas affected include State House, the Supreme Court, Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Lugbe, Asokoro, Central Area, Garki Area 2, 3, 7, and 8 and some other parts of the nation’s capital. The company, in the notice, apologized to “valued customers” in Bolingo Hotel, NAN, Turkish, Sudan, Egypt Embassy, Envoy Hotel, European Union, National Planning Commission, National Hospital, Pakistan,…
There is water-tight security in the entire Anambra State today (Saturday), following the primary election of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, ahead of the 2027 general elections. APGA is the ruling party in Anambra State. It commands a mammoth following, and politicians say the party’s ticket for the general elections in 2027 is akin to automatic victory, hence, the state is already charged. The primaries will be conducted with option A4 method. Also Awka community is celebrating the grand finale of Egwu Imoka Festival, a colourful cultural festival that celebrates fertility and purification of the land for the planting season. The…
Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have rescued 13 passengers of the Young Shall Grow Motors reportedly abducted by gunmen while travelling to Lagos State. DAILY POST reports that the victims who were travelling to Lagos from Akwa Ibom State were reportedly kidnapped on May 9, 2026, along Benin-Sapele close to Ologbo in Edo State. The Public Relations Officer of the Command, ASP Eno Ikoedem, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, May 23, 2026, in Benin City. Ikoedem said the kidnappers shot a female passenger. She said five of the passengers, comprising two adults and three children, were first…
Galatasaray President, Dursun Özbek, has ruled out any possibility of the club selling their star striker Victor Osimhen in the summer. Osimhen has been linked with a move away from Galatasaray this summer after he won the Turkish Super Lig title with the team. Clubs like Chelsea, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Barcelona have all been linked with a move to secure Osimhen’s signature. The Nigerian international had joined the Yellow-Reds from Serie A side Napoli. “We initially signed Victor Osimhen on loan, and he performed magnificently,” Özbek said as per Fanatik. “He loves Galatasaray and Turkey very much.…
The Kwara State Government has intensified efforts to strengthen primary healthcare delivery through the revitalisation of 100 Primary Health Care facilities and the recruitment of over 1,000 health workers across the state. The Executive Secretary of the Kwara State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Nusirat Elelu, disclosed this during a Citizens’ Town Hall Meeting held in Ilorin with stakeholders drawn from the 16 local government areas of the state. This was contained in a statement issued on Saturday by the Press Secretary of the agency, Bukola Abdulganiyu, a copy of which was made available to Saturday PUNCH in Ilorin. The…
A 33 years old Nigerian-American man, Adepoju Salako, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for fraudulently attempting to steal over $22,000 from Alaska’s oil wealth dividend programme by hijacking the online accounts of seven state residents. According to a press release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Alaska on Friday, Salako pleaded guilty to seven counts of wire fraud before a federal court in Anchorage, Alaska, on Tuesday. According to court documents cited in the press release, Salako obtained the personal identifying information of legitimate Alaska residents between January and February 2022 and submitted seven separate applications…
The Governor of Katsina State, Dikko Radda, has said members of the All Progressives Congress in the state have declared their support for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid ahead of the 2027 general elections. He described the ongoing party exercise as a demonstration of democratic commitment and party unity. Speaking with journalists during the exercise in his hometown on Saturday, Radda said party members gathered at their various wards and local government areas to participate in the process aimed at endorsing President Tinubu as the party’s candidate for the next presidential election. According to him, “We are here to exercise…
Nigerian centre Rueben Chinyelu has withdrawn from the 2026 NBA Draft and will return to the University of Florida for his senior year, opting to chase a second NCAA championship rather than enter a competitive draft pool in which a first-round selection appeared out of reach. The 22-year-old had initially declared for the draft while maintaining his college eligibility and had hinted at the NBA Draft Combine that a return to school remained possible depending on how his stock developed. He had until May 27 to make a final decision and has now chosen Florida. Chinyelu, who stands at 6ft…
Last year I deepfaked my kid’s stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation.It was an experiment to see if I could re-create the events depicted in a Gemini ad Google was running, and I never showed the videos of Buddy the deer on his adventures to my four-year-old. But it was a revealing exercise that made me think a lot about the difference between some harmless fun with generative AI and full-on slop. Maybe that Venn diagram is a perfect circle! Maybe not. But what I know for sure is that the tools to…
The European Central Bank warned EU finance ministers on Friday that proposals to expand euro stablecoin issuance could weaken bank lending and complicate monetary policy, according to three sources cited by Reuters.The pushback came in response to a policy paper prepared by Brussels-based think tank Bruegel, whose authors presented their proposals at the two-day informal meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council in Nicosia, Cyprus. The paper called for easing liquidity requirements for stablecoin issuers and potentially granting them access to ECB funding, arguing that these measures were necessary if the euro stablecoin market was to compete with dollar-backed…
