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In the next eight days, results of the much-awaited September 21, 2024, Edo State governorship election would have started coming in. Until last Wednesday during a stakeholders’ meeting organised by the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, INEC, 17 political parties were billed to participate in the exercise. But INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, said the commission made some adjustments on the final list of candidates based on …

SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew is home, capping off a five-day mission to orbit — which included the world’s first commercial spacewalk — by splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. The Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts landed off the coast of Dry Tortugas, Florida, at 3:37 a.m. ET Sunday. The Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts returns to Earth on September …

•Our cry to fix major cracks fell on deaf ears – Survivor Last Tuesday, many residents of Maiduguri and Jere Local Government Area of Borno State were displaced, no thanks to an “unavoidable” disaster that wreaked havoc on residents. It was the third disaster in 32 years, the first two having occurred in 1992 and 2012 respectively. Following the flood …

MALINDI, Kenya — Shukran Karisa Mangi always showed up drunk at work, where he dug up the bodies of doomsday cult members buried in shallow graves. But the alcohol couldn’t numb his shock the morning he found the body of a close friend, whose neck had been twisted so severely that his head and torso faced opposite directions. This violent death upset …

Decries wickedness, victimisation against members across Nigeria The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has decried the alleged victimisation, intimidation, harassment and dehumanisation of its members in some public universities. This was contained in a statement issued by Kano Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Professor  Abdulkadir Mohammad, in Kano on Saturday. He cited insistences of not following due process and adherence …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has traveled since NASA’s moonwalkers. SpaceX’s capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida’s Dry Tortugas in the predawn darkness, carrying tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, two SpaceX engineers and a former Air Force Thunderbird pilot. …

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas jury will soon decide whether a convoy of supporters of then-President Donald Trump violently intimidated former Democratic lawmaker Wendy Davis and two others on a Biden-Harris campaign bus when a so-called “Trump Train” boxed them in for more than an hour on a Texas highway days before the 2020 election. The trial, which began on Sept. …

The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has appealed to the Federal Government to address all the demands of the association with utmost urgency. National President of the association,  Michael Nnachi, made the appeal at a news conference after its meeting with officials of the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in Abuja on Friday. Nnachi said …

The Nigerian Immigration Service initially detained Omoyele Sowore, the convener of the #RevolutionNow Movement, at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Sunday immediately after his return to Nigeria. This occurred on the same day that members of the Take It Back Movement and other activists gathered at the airport in anticipation of his arrival. Sowore had been in the …

•Fear of violence looms By this time next week, it would have been clear to all and sundry who the new governor of Edo State will be among the three contenders, Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and Olumide Akpata of the Labour Party (LP). Tension is on high end …