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As campaigns for the 2027 general elections get underway, the opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Jigawa State is struggling to put its house in order. Allegations that the ADC leadership replaced primary election winners are at the heart of the crisis. Also, the governorship candidate, Sabo Nakudu, and party chieftain Bashir Jumbo have had public spats over a power-sharing arrangement, further complicating an uphill battle against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Northwestern state. In August, Mr Nakudu issued a public disclaimer regarding a purported 60:40 power-sharing agreement. His action is more than a routine legal disavowal;…

Motorists were still stuck in traffic on Tuesday night along the Lateef Jakande Road, Omole Phase 1, Isheri and Ojodu Berger axis, more than three hours after the gridlock began. The traffic started around 6:30 p.m. and was still heavy as of 10:19 p.m., with vehicles moving slowly along several parts of the route. This PREMIUM TIMES reporter who walked from Omole Phase 1 towards Berger saw long queues of vehicles on the road. At Isheri, the traffic was particularly heavy, with many workers and business owners returning home caught in the gridlock. Gridlock strands motorists The immediate cause of…

Nigerian striker Taiwo Awoniyi has added an academic achievement to his football career after graduating from the PFA Business School with a Postgraduate Diploma in Global Football Sport Directorship with Merit. The 28-year-old Coventry City forward announced the achievement on Instagram, describing it as “another proud moment” away from the football pitch. Nigerian striker Taiwo Awoniyi has added an academic achievement to his football career after graduating from the PFA Business School with a Postgraduate Diploma in Global Football Sport Directorship with Merit. The 28-year-old Coventry City forward shared the news on Instagram, describing the qualification as “another proud moment”…

Key points7.8 million South Sudanese face high levels of acute food insecurity.El Niño is already threatening farming output.Sudan’s war is driving more refugees and returnees into South Sudan.Funding shortages and access constraints threaten life-saving food assistance.“Conflict, displacement, economic hardship, climate shocks, and the situation in neighbouring Sudan are all converging to push millions of people deeper into vulnerability” just as humanitarian resources are starting to run out, said Matthew Hollingworth, WFP Assistant Executive Director for Programme Operations. Some 7.8 million people, or more than half of the country’s population, struggle to find enough food each day, while 2.2 million children and 1.2 million pregnant and breastfeeding…

Since about 2020, AI has largely focused on training bigger and better models. Large language models (LLMs) ballooned from millions of parameters to trillions. This proved effective: The largest version of OpenAI’s GPT-3, released in 2020, correctly answered just 43.9 percent of questions on a popular knowledge-and-reasoning benchmark. Just four years later, GPT-4o reached a score of 88.7 percent on the same exam, effectively matching those of human experts.Advanced AI labs are still training ever larger models, but that training has somewhat receded to the background of the AI conversation. In 2026, inference—the use of trained models to produce code,…

The Delta State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed an executive bill seeking to institutionalise the payment of a 13th-month salary to public servants in the state. The Assembly described the development, which is expected to give statutory backing and greater certainty to the annual payment of the additional salary to the state’s public servants, as “a major milestone in workers’ welfare.” The passage of the bill followed its third reading during the plenary presided over by the Speaker, Hon Emomotimi Dennis Guwor. Ahead of the bill’s consideration, the Assembly suspended the relevant standing orders to allow for its immediate…

Lagos State recorded Nigeria’s highest headline inflation rate at 23.68 percent in August 2026, significantly above the national inflation rate of 15.39 percent, according to the latest Consumer Price Index report from the National Bureau of Statistics. Zamfara followed with an annual inflation rate of 22.56 percent, while Enugu recorded 22.06 percent, placing the three […] The post Lagos Records Nigeria’s Highest Inflation at 23.68% in August appeared first on Investors King. Source link

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, governorship candidate in Rivers State, Gabriel Baritulem Pidomson, has accused some powerful politicians in the state of plotting to manipulate the outcome of the February 2027 governorship election. Pidomson made the allegation in a statement shared on his official X handle on Tuesday. He claimed that a grassroots mobilisation group he described as “Rainbow Confusion” was planning to hijack election materials and manipulate the results during the polls. Referring to the Rainbow Coalition associated with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, Recommended Pidomson alleged that the Rainbow Coalition, a group linked…

September 14, 2026 20:01 GMT (UK), by Sri Aswin United hit impasse in Fernandes contract talks Manchester United have hit an impasse in contract negotiations with midfielder Bruno Fernandes, according to reputed journalist David Ornstein. The Portugal international had a phenomenal 2025/26 season with the Red Devils. He registered one goal and 21 assists across all competitions.He has started the current season well with four goals and an assist, but this has not necessarily translated into positive results for the Red Devils.United are currently 13th in the English top-flight with just four points on the board, and the pressure is…

“These strikes are yet another devastating reminder of the human cost of the conflict between the United States and Israel and Iran,” said Sara Hossain, chair of the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Iran.Civilian deaths have been recorded since the first days of the US-Israeli attacks in February, including strikes on a school that killed over 160 children.“Civilians must be protected at all times, and constant care must be taken to spare civilians and civilians objects from the effect of hostilities,” she said.Possible war crimesDespite insisting that its military was not targeting civilians, US strikes hit a residential home on 30…