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Elon Musk spent SpaceX’s first earnings call making some out-of-this-world claims about the company’s business and future prospects, while his fellow executives kept trying to bring his ideas closer to Earth — providing a hint of what’s to come now that his rocket-launching, compute-leasing, satellite-based telecom is public. The conference call, held Tuesday, was the latest in a years-long succession of Musk making outrageous promises that his executives then have to make more digestible for the investing public — like at Tesla, where a recent analysis by TechCrunch showed that the world’s richest man is increasingly focused on futuristic topics…

President Tinubu has approved up to 80% salary increase for Nigerian Armed Forces Personnel. NewsOnline Nigeria reports that President Bola Tinubu has approved a salary increase of between 30 and 80 per cent for personnel of the Nigerian Armed Forces, with about 250,000 military officers and soldiers set to benefit from the new pay structure. The development was announced in a statement issued on Tuesday by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga. According to the statement, the new salary package will take effect from September 1, with different increments based on rank.  Under the approved structure, officers above the rank…

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A businessman, Gbenga Collins, on Tuesday, told the House of Representatives how he allegedly paid N400 million to Adeniyi Adeyemi, who presented himself as the director-general of the purported Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC), after being promised a government contract to renovate and furnish an official residence. Mr Collins, managing director of Divine Dopacy Nigeria Limited, said he was convinced that Mr Adeyemi was a genuine government official because he operated from an office at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja, used vehicles with federal government number plates and was surrounded by security personnel and visitors he described as dignitaries.…

***Allocation falls to £68m by 2029 By Nkiruka Nnorom The United Kingdom has announced a 50.2 per cent cut in development aids to Nigeria, following the  massive reduction by the British government in overseas assistance to enable it fund domestic priorities and increase defence spending. The move comes as the US, Germany and other European countries scale back aid budgets to fund defence spending and other domestic economic programmes. According to figures released by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, FCDO, in its 2025-2026 Annual Report and Accounts, Nigeria’s allocation will drop by 50.2 per cent to £68 million in the…

News » Premier League news » Chelsea newsAugust 4, 2026 21:34 GMT (UK), by Sri Aswin View Chelsea summer 2026 transfer targets Jackson to Spurs? Tottenham Hotspur are exploring a move for Chelsea striker Nicolas Jackson amid the uncertainty over the future of Richarlison. Richarlison’s future has been a constant topic of speculation and it is claimed that he could leave Spurs before the new season starts.The Brazilian is on the radar of several Saudi Pro League clubs, and Spurs are open to cashing in on him for around £60 million.Amidst this, The Daily Mail claim that Spurs are looking at Jackson as a possible…

Debts piled up. Eventually she had no choice but to quit and start looking for something else.That is when she saw the advert on Facebook Marketplace: a job in Trinidad and Tobago, all expenses paid, work waiting on arrival. © Unsplash/Renaldo Matamoro Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago’s capital city. A woman calling herself “Valentina” messaged her on WhatsApp. They spoke by phone. The offer sounded real because Valentina sounded real.“We spoke directly,” Sofia recalls. “I heard her voice. I believed it was real.”The truth unfoldsSofia had no way of knowing that Valentina was part of a trafficking network. She…

SpaceX has ramped up purchases of Tesla Megapack, spending $295 million on the battery storage devices in the second quarter and $329 million so far this year, according to the company’s earnings report released on Tuesday. The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk’s universe of companies are. Musk, who is the CEO and largest shareholder of SpaceX, also runs Tesla. Musk’s artificial intelligence business xAI acquired his social media platform, X, in 2025. Earlier this year, SpaceX gobbled up xAI. The industrial-scale batteries are likely being deployed at the company’s xAI data centers. Before xAI merged with SpaceX, the…

FG has launched online birth and death registration portal, and introduced ₦5,000 Digital Birth Certificate Service.NewsOnline Nigeria reports that the Federal Government has launched a new digital platform that enables Nigerians to register births and deaths, apply for birth attestation, correct civil registration records and verify certificates online.The initiative, introduced by the National Population Commission (NPC) and announced by the National Orientation Agency (NOA) on Tuesday, is aimed at digitising civil registration services and making them more accessible nationwide.According to the NOA, the self-service platform is designed to eliminate the long queues and paperwork previously associated with obtaining birth and…

The Debt Management Office (DMO) has opened subscriptions for the Federal Government of Nigeria Savings Bond for August 2026, offering investors annual interest rates of up to 14.963 percent across two maturities. According to the offer released on behalf of the Federal Government, investors can subscribe to a two-year FGN Savings Bond maturing on August […] The post DMO Offers August FGN Savings Bonds at Up to 14.963% Interest appeared first on Investors King. Source link