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Nine migrants from four African countries arrived this week in Cameroon after being expelled from the United States, part of a deal between the two countries, one of their lawyers told AFP on Thursday. The deportees arrived Wednesday and were from Ghana, Angola, Ethiopia and Congo-Brazzaville. Cameroon is among several African countries that have agreed in recent months to participate in a controversial scheme allowing the United States to send undocumented migrants to third countries when there are impediments to sending them to their own country. The six women and three men who arrived Wednesday were part of the third…

News » Premier League news » Chelsea newsApril 30, 2026 20:46 GMT (UK), by Sri Aswin View Chelsea summer 2026 transfer targets Jackson to be sold by Chelsea Chelsea are widely expected to part ways with striker Nicolas Jackson when the transfer window reopens this summer, according to Fabrizio Romano. The Senegal international was loaned out to Bayern Munich last summer with an option to buy. The German champions have declined to trigger the clause, and Jackson will return to west London later this year.Chelsea have no plans of keeping hold of the talented marksman and reports claim that Jackson is also prepared to…

Nollywood actress Bimbo Ademoye has confronted a group of area boys who stormed her outdoor film shoot at a location that could not be independently verified, demanding money from the production crew. A video of the incident went viral on X after it was shared by user #Usmanashafe on Thursday, drawing widespread reaction and reigniting concerns about thug extortion on Nigerian film sets. In the clip, Ademoye stood her ground against the men, who are seen making aggressive demands for a “settlement”, a common extortion tactic used against movie crews shooting in public or community spaces across Lagos. The actress,…

The National Vice Chairman, North-West of All Progressives Congress, Salihu Lukman, has said former President Goodluck Jonathan is not a member of the party. Lukman, disclosed this in a telephone interview with The PUNCH at a time media reports are suggesting that some leaders of the ruling party are dragging Jonathan into the APC presidential race. He said he found the news touting Jonathan as the party’s joker or anointed candidate annoying. He said, “I can tell you this straight away. Jonathan is not a member of the APC as far as this party is concerned. What is being discussed…

The National Universities Commission has approved seven academic programmes for Achievers University, Owo, Ondo State. This was contained in a statement issued by the Head of Media and Publicity of the university, Olaniyi Adekanye, on Wednesday. According to the statement, the accredited courses are medical laboratory science, civil and environmental engineering, computer engineering, mechanical engineering, microbiology, criminology and security studies, and sociology. The statement read, “In a formal correspondence to the university dated April 7, 2026, and signed by the Commission’s Director of Accreditation, the NUC confirms that all the programmes presented by the university met its rigorous quality assurance…

Transforming a newly discovered software vulnerability into a cyberattack used to take months. Today—as the recent headlines over Anthropic’s Project Glasswing have shown—generative AI can do the job in minutes, often for less than a dollar of cloud computing time.But while large language models present a real cyber-threat, they also provide an opportunity to reinforce cyberdefenses. Anthropic reports its Claude Mythos preview model has already helped defenders preemptively discover over a thousand zero-day vulnerabilities, including flaws in every major operating system and web browser, with Anthropic coordinating disclosure and its efforts to patch the revealed flaws. It is not yet…

Senator Sunday Katung has called on members of the All Progressives Congress in Kaduna South Senatorial District to embrace peaceful and issue-based politics as the party prepares for its forthcoming primaries. In a statement released on Thursday, the lawmaker urged supporters, stakeholders and party faithful to reject bitterness and divisive rhetoric, stressing the need for civility and mutual respect throughout the internal electoral process. Katung noted that while party primaries remain a vital component of democratic practice, they must not be reduced to platforms for personal attacks or unnecessary rancour. “Politics must remain a noble instrument of service, not a…

A prolonged blackout may be imminent in Lagos State following a sudden shutdown of the Egbin Power Station and a simultaneous transmission line outage, the Nigerian Independent System Operator has said. The system operator disclosed in a statement on Thursday that the Egbin Power Station suffered a major operational disturbance, leading to a complete loss of generation and worsening supply constraints in the nation’s commercial hub. The development has also fuelled speculation about an incident that reportedly led to the death of a contractor, although the company has yet to confirm the cause or provide an official account of what…

The Supreme Court has laid to rest the leadership crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), invalidating the party’s convention held in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, in November last year, and the emergence of Kabir Turaki as a rival national chairperson of the party alongside other members. A five-member panel of the Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Appeal’s decision in a 3-2 spit judgement. The judgement effectively ends the challenge to the faction of the party aligned with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike. The Wike group held its convention in March, re-electing Abdulrahman…

Listening to Kenyan President William Ruto diss Nigerians with a smile from faraway Italy, one would think he had taken a page from Amos Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard. It was obvious that Ruto assumed Nigerians spoke that variety of unconventional English rendered by Tutuola in his story of magical realism from Yoruba mythology. Yes, Tutuola’s English was neither the Oxford lexicon of Ngugi wa Thiong’o, nor, for that matter, the intense mastery of the Nobel-winning Wole Soyinka. It can be argued, however, that like Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tutuola didn’t set out to tell a story like…