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Rivers United have called on football fans in Akwa Ibom State to come out in large numbers and support the team when they face San Pedro of Côte d’Ivoire in the second leg of their CAF Champions League first-round tie on Sunday, September 13, 2026. The match will take place at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo, with kick-off scheduled for 4:00 p.m. The appeal was made during a courtesy visit by Rivers United officials, led by the club’s Sole Administrator, Barrister Christopher Green, and General Manager, Okey Kpaloku, to the Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Sports, Elder Paul…

Malnutrition, driven by the lack of access to adequate food, compromises immune systems and makes children far more vulnerable to common infections.The UN children’s fund, UNICEF, said on Tuesday that children under two currently account for 83 per cent of severe acute malnutrition cases.Hospitals overwhelmedHospitals are overwhelmed by increasing demand, UNICEF has warned.In parts of southern Afghanistan, hospitals are seeing three to four severely malnourished children for every available bed.Severe acute malnutrition cases which were admitted with medical complications have risen by one-third from the same time last year – from 6,000 in July 2025 to 8,000 by July 2026.Overlapping…

Image Source: Tenor Data centres used to be the kind of infrastructure people never thought about. Your app worked, your money moved, and that was that. Nobody was asking where the computers making it all happen were sitting. Now Kenya has many of those buildings (and more on the way), so the regulator is giving them their own rulebook.  What happened? The Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK), the country’s telecoms regulator, said it wants to introduce a standalone licence for commercial data centres. The CAK said the change will align its broader licencing regime with the evolving industry. Explain like…

Nigeria’s technology ecosystem is entering a critical phase of development, attracting global capital and connecting local commerce to international markets. Tech platforms are no longer simply developing software; they sit at the intersection of high-value payments, foreign exchange, and cross-border settlement. Yet, this evolution introduces a severe strategic vulnerability: financial crime. The long-term sustainability of Nigeria’s tech economy will ultimately depend on trust, contract enforcement, and the ability to prevent sophisticated digital fraud from undermining legitimate business.The recent crisis involving Zacuten Technologies and Plaude Technologies illustrates the danger. Zacuten alleges it was defrauded in a $13.07 million cross-border transaction. While $8.95…

By Dipo Olowookere The Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Limited came under selling pressure on Tuesday, triggering a 1.17 per cent loss at the close of transactions. Business Post reports that the sell-offs were across the major sectors of the stock exchange, with the banking sector shedding 4.21 per cent. The insurance space lost 2.82 per cent, the consumer goods counter depreciated by 0.29 per cent, the industrial goods index declined by 0.22 per cent, and the energy segment crumbled by 0.14 per cent. When the bourse closed for the session, the All-Share Index (ASI) crashed by 2,897.67 points to 244,802.11 points…

By ObasEsiedesa, Abuja The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has commenced engagements with key stakeholders as part of plans to attract increased Chinese investment into Nigeria’s oil and gas sector and boost revenue accruing to the Federation Account. The Commission, in a statement by Head, Information and Public Relations Unit, Maryam Yusuf, said it is planning an Oil and Gas Investment Summit in China, tentatively scheduled for the end of November 2026, to showcase investment opportunities in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry to potential investors. Speaking during a stakeholder engagement in Abuja, Chairman of RMAFC’s Investment Monitoring Committee…

The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has alleged that the Benue State Government was behind the blockade of Peter Obi’s convoy during the former Anambra State governor’s visit to the state on Tuesday. Sowore said the incident, during which a crowd reportedly prevented Obi and his delegation from proceeding and chanted for him to leave, was planned to stop him from entering Makurdi. The AAC candidate said the alleged presence of a special adviser to the Benue State governor among the crowd reinforced his belief that the action was government-sponsored. “The clearer indication that the…

News » Premier League news » Newcastle United newsSeptember 8, 2026 21:19 GMT (UK), by Sri Aswin View Newcastle transfer targets Hall set to sign new Newcastle deal Manchester United target Lewis Hall is set to sign a new long-term contract at Newcastle United, according to The Athletic. The England international was the Red Devils’ top target for the left-back position this summer, but the Magpies were reluctant to sell him.Hall was also happy to stay under new manager Matthias Jaissle, and he has now been impressed by the German’s influence.The Chelsea graduate has decided to pen a fresh five-year contract with the Magpies, which…

That’s the message from the World Food Programme (WFP), which is calling for greater international support for the population, particularly hungry people in remote areas far from lifesaving Ebola treatment centres.“Ebola is a health crisis, there’s no question about that,” David Stevenson, WFP Country Director for the DRC, recently told UN News. “But at the same time, since Ebola is in eastern Congo and that area is so tragically affected by conflict, by food insecurity, by displacement, it needs to have a comprehensive approach.”On the brink of starvationEastern DRC has long been a restive region in a country that has…

On August 4, Grant De Swardt, an independent AI consultant in East Sussex, U.K., noticed something strange going on with his Claude Max 20x account. He hadn’t been working that day, yet his token usage was climbing. The next day, he disabled everything he had attached to Claude and did not work with it. Token consumption again increased. “In the clearest controlled interval, it increased from 45% to 55% while I performed no work, scheduled Cowork tasks were paused or completed, Dispatch/cloud execution was disabled, and there was no corresponding active local Claude Code task,” De Swardt told TechCrunch. What…