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FILE PHOTO: A conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile is launched by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) during a test to inform development of future intermediate-range capabilities at San Nicolas Island, California, U.S., August 18, 2019. Scott Howe/U.S. Dept of Defense/Handout via REUTERS

Official: US cruise missile tested to deter China

Minister of Power..B L-R- Chairman of APC Taraba State Chapter, Hon. Tukur El-sudi, Minister of Power, Engr. Sale Mamman and Senator Yusuf A. Yusuf, during the reception in honour of Minister of Power, Engr. Sale Mamman in Abuja, yesterday

Minister: Power sector problems are surmountable

Minister promises to resolve minimum wage logjam

Tunisia boss Alain Giresse has wished Aliou Cisse well after the Senegal head coach guided his nation to their second Africa Cup of Nations final.

AFCON: Tunisia part company with Alain Giresse

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Jose Mourinho has reacted to Barcelona 4-0 defeat against Liverpool in the Champions League semi-final at the Anfield on Tuesday evening.

VAR: Only thieves complain of security cameras – Jose Mourinho

The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has advised former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the Feb. 23 election to come to terms with his loss at the election.

PDP: INEC’s claim of not having a place for data storage...

Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF)

NGF: 36 states to get $4 billion from AFDB

Manchester United have to hand penalty-taking duty to Marcus Rashford, says Paul Ince, with Paul Pogba’s miss against Wolves having sparked an unnecessary debate around a player who may not even be at the club much longer.

Paul Ince: Marcus Rashford has to be on Manchester United penalty...

Japan's world No 1 Naomi Osaka in action during her 6-3, 6-3 second-round defeat to Kristina Mladenovic of France at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Tuesday night. EPA

Novak Djokovic, Naomi Osaka named US Open top seeds

Police re-arrest escaped prisoner in Enugu

Commander of IGP Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Yyari with arrested kidnap kingpin, Hamish Wadume

Military panel probes Taraba kidnap kingpin’s confession, invites police

business

Nigerians to pay more for electricity

The Grace 1 supertanker in the British territory of Gibraltar

Greece blocks Iranian oil ship freed in Gibraltar

Minister of Power..B L-R- Chairman of APC Taraba State Chapter, Hon. Tukur El-sudi, Minister of Power, Engr. Sale Mamman and Senator Yusuf A. Yusuf, during the reception in honour of Minister of Power, Engr. Sale Mamman in Abuja, yesterday

Minister: Power sector problems are surmountable

The Grace 1 supertanker in the British territory of Gibraltar

Report: Gibraltar releases Iranian supertanker Grace 1

The Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they launched multiple bomb-laden drone attacks on Saturday on an oil refinery of Saudi Aramco, the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reports.

Yemeni rebels claim fresh attacks on Saudi oil refinery

Power returned to much of Argentina and two neighboring countries following a massive blackout that left tens of millions in the dark on Sunday.

NGO: 55 percent of Nigerians have no access to electricity

Naira exchanges at N359 to dollar at parallel market

Magodo residents accuse Ikeja Disco of fraud, increasing tariff without notice

nigeria

New minister urged to save National Youth Council

PDP: INEC’s claim of not having a place for data storage laughable

NGF: 36 states to get $4 billion from AFDB

Military panel probes Taraba kidnap kingpin’s confession, invites police

President Buhari approves re-appointment of Ade Ipaye, Maryam Uwais, others

africa

Somali state braces for election with risks to regional...

Ugandan, Rwandan leaders sign pact to end months-long standoff

Former Zimbabwe vice president appears in court for ‘abuse of office’

Somalia’s Kismayu in lockdown ahead of elections

Sudan sovereign council chairman sworn in

world

UK PM Boris Johnson’s girlfriend Carrie Symonds (centre) in Somaliland.

America extends visa ban to British premier’s girlfriend Carrie...

Official: US cruise missile tested to deter China

Protests: Indonesia blocks internet in Papua

British premier to visit French leader for Brexit talks

Scores missing after China hit by mudslides

sports

Flying Eagles star Valentine Ozornwafor will be sent on a season-long loan by Galatasaray after he completes his signing this summer.

Valentine Ozornwafor set to join Almeria on loan from...

Jose Mourinho has reacted to Barcelona 4-0 defeat against Liverpool in the Champions League semi-final at the Anfield on Tuesday evening.

VAR: Only thieves complain of security cameras – Jose...

Manchester United have to hand penalty-taking duty to Marcus Rashford, says Paul Ince, with Paul Pogba’s miss against Wolves having sparked an unnecessary debate around a player who may not even be at the club much longer.

Paul Ince: Marcus Rashford has to be on Manchester...

President of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF), Hon. Daniel Igali, has charged the country’s wrestlers and coaches to the 12th All Africa Games in Morocco to ‘give their best efforts’ when hostilities resume in the Northern African Nation today.

African Games: Daniel Igali charges wrestlers to give ‘best efforts’ in...

Scott McTominay admits “anything less than trophies is a disappointment” for Manchester United, with the Red Devils aware of the need to get back into the habit of collecting silverware.

Scott McTominay: Anything less than trophies is disappointment for Manchester United

Frank Lampard

Frank Lampard eyes first Chelsea win in home debut

Ayo Ogunsusi: Nigerian squash now recognised

Tunisia boss Alain Giresse has wished Aliou Cisse well after the Senegal head coach guided his nation to their second Africa Cup of Nations final.

AFCON: Tunisia part company with Alain Giresse

art

Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars (the first in her Lady Astronaut series) won Best Novel

Women sweep the Hugo Awards

Professor: Tourism investment key to economic development

Seyi Law tackles racism at ‘Seyilaw fast and funny’

Video: Masquerade set ablaze comes out unhurt

List of Teen Choice Award winners

film

Berlin, Helskini to host Nollywood travel film festival

Young Nigerian filmmakers with sci-fi movie go viral

Juliet Ibrahim’s ex-boyfriend Iceberg Slim apologises after failed relationship

Ex-BBNaija housemate Alex Unusual now in New York Film Academy

Actor: I’ll spend money on women rather than properties

people

Liam Hemsworth has pulled the trigger on his divorce from Miley Cyrus, meaning that their love is officially, at long last, dead.

Liam Hemsworth files for divorce from Miley Cyrus

Larry King seeks divorce from seventh wife after 22 years

Mr Nigeria: I can’t fail my country, I’ll fight on

Wizkid becomes first African to hit eight million monthly listeners on Spotify

Comedian Klint Da Drunk survives car crash

technology

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence firm that Elon Musk founded then later departed, just released a stronger version of its “conversational” text-writing AI system, according to Futurism.

US firm releases fake-news writing software, scientists unveil detector

A suspect of cyber fraud, Oseghale Collins, was on Tuesday arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Benin Zonal Office at his hideout in Benin City, Edo State.

EFCC arrests cyber criminal, two others in Benin

NCC: Why we crashed USSD price cap

Facebook and Twitter have both cracked down significantly on fake accounts since 2016 [Jon Nazca-Reuters]

Twitter, Facebook accuse China of Hong Kong’s discord campaign

Expert: How indiscriminate Internet usage exposes children to pornography

Huawei originally expected its folding smartphone-tablet hybrid, Mate X, to ship in June, but delayed the device until September for “extra” tests.

Huawei delays Mate X folding 5G phone until end of 2019

YouTube is going after an alleged copyright troll using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) provisions, alleging that Christopher Brady used false copyright strikes to extort YouTube creators, harming the company in the process.

YouTube sues alleged copyright troll over extortion of multiple YouTubers

A suspect of cyber fraud, Oseghale Collins, was on Tuesday arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Benin Zonal Office at his hideout in Benin City, Edo State.

EFCC arrests cyber criminal, two others in Benin

opinion

President Buhari at the event

President Buhari’s speech at swearing-in of SGF, ministers — full text

Goodliness cannot be marketed

Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana

Protest marches are not treasonable offences in Nigeria

Femi Adesina, spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari

Atiku Abubakar’s unrelenting appeal to emotion: A gambit doom to fail

Shi’ites: Another Boko Haram in the making?