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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…

April 29, 2026 21:31 GMT (UK), by Sri Aswin Mainoo set to pen new Arsenal contract Manchester United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo is expected to sign a new long-term contract in the next 24 hours, according to The Mirror. The England international had a tough start to the campaign under manager Ruben Amorim and he was hardly in the starting line-up.However, his situation completely changed with Amorim’s exit. Under interim boss Michael Carrick, he has been a mainstay in midfield.Mainoo recently returned to the England set-up as a result, and he looks an assured figure to play at the World Cup…

The husband of popular social media personality Eniola Fagbemi, known as Sisi Alagbo, Adesola Akeem, has issued a public apology over a leaked sex tape involving his wife, himself and another woman. The video went viral on Monday and has since generated widespread controversy online. The video, which depicted the trio in an intimate encounter, began circulating on WhatsApp groups and Telegram channels before spreading rapidly to gossip blogs, Instagram pages and explicit-content websites. In the footage, Fagbemi is seen filming Akeem having sexual relations with the third woman while all three were unclothed. It remains unclear how the video…

Skit maker, Clinton Atika, also known as Rukky Funny, has 180,000 followers on Instagram. He talks to FAITH AJAYI about his career  Tell us about your family and educational background. I am the only male child of my parents. I had my secondary education at Abraka Grammar School, Delta State. I went on to take an online course in Data Analysis, When did you become active on social media? Before I started making skits, I had been active on social media since 2019, doing ‘selfie videos’. I actually started making comedy skits in 2021. How did you begin your journey…