Tinubu Approves Up to 80% Pay Rise for Nigerian Troops President Bola Tinubu has approved a salary increase of between 30% and 80% for about 250,000 members of Nigeria’s Armed Forces, effective from 1 September. The move is expected to increase the military’s annual wage bill by N264 billion, from N660 billion to N924…
Investing.com — stock slid 11.6% in morning trading after an investigative report published today from STAT News exposed that the company’s Chief Medical Officer, hired in March 2026 under the name “Dr. Richard Graydon,” was actually Ronald Fischer, 70, a fugitive who had been evading authorities for roughly two decades. Fischer, a former anesthesiologist, had…
It’s seven years since I stopped presenting the Today programme and started listening to Radio 3 instead. Or at least, that was the plan. On the first day it lasted for almost an hour. By the second day I’d given up on it. I suppose it was inevitable. You can’t spend 61 years as a…
Investing.com — EasyJet stock surged +13.2% to reach 666p today after the Luton-based budget carrier announced it had agreed in principle to a £5.7 billion takeover proposal from Apollo Global Management, valuing each share at £7.15 in cash. EasyJet stated it was “no longer minded to recommend the Castlelake proposal” just days after having accepted…
Today’s speech by Andy Burnham underlines that he represents a shift in vibes. What matters, however, is substance, and on that front we still have more questions than answers. Our soon-to-be prime minister made plenty of good noises. His speech was at the People’s History Museum in Manchester, which showcases the struggles of ordinary people…
Savannah Guthrie was born in Melbourne, Australia, the youngest of three siblings, while dad Charles Guthrie was transferred for work, after which the family moved to Tucson, Ariz., when she was 2. The Today anchor was 16 when Charles died of a heart attack in 1988. She has paid tribute to him frequently over the years,…
In the outpouring of community grief that followed Guardian Australia’s story about Bikram Lama, a comment by a colleague really hit home: double quotation markThe reality is that, even if I met Bikram right now, I still couldn’t guarantee him a way off the street. And it’s true. Despite the genuine sadness and goodwill behind…
In a dry riverbed deep within a forest near the Amazon in Brazil, paleontologists uncovered a fossilized jawbone from a previously unknown ancient animal. As their excavation continued, the team found eight more similar jawbones, each about six inches long. However, they did not recover any additional bones that could clearly be matched to a…
Pope Leo XIV’s recent in-flight answer to a question about blessing same-sex couples exhibited a preference for not exacerbating divisions within the church over pushing the limits on polarizing issues. His answer, however, did not occur in isolation, not on the plane and certainly not in the context of other pronouncements over the first year of…
Jerome H. Powell said on Wednesday that he would stay on as a governor at the Federal Reserve after his term as chair ends May 15, citing lingering legal threats against him and the central bank as part of a pressure campaign by President Trump for lower borrowing costs. “After my term as chair ends…
