On Tuesday afternoon, the USS Kentucky, an Ohio-class submarine, landed at the South Korean port of Busan. The US has warned that any use of nuclear weapons in conflict by North Korea will result in the regime's demise.

In a show of force against tyrant Kim Jong-un, the United States deployed a nuclear-armed submarine to South Korea for the first time in forty years.

According to many accounts in South Korea, the male US soldier's name is Travis King, and he entered the border without authorization around 3.27 p.m. local time. It's unknown why he tried the crossing.

Periodic trips by nuclear-capable US submarines to South Korea were one of several agreements agreed between the two presidents in April in response to North Korea's growing nuclear threat. It is the first time a nuclear-armed submarine from the United States has visited South Korea since the 1980

Defence Minister Lee Jong-Sup described the submarine's visit as proof of the US commitment to execute its "extended deterrence" promise, which calls for the US to employ all of its military capabilities, including nuclear weapons, to protect its allies, according to a ministry statement. The submarine's visit, he added, "demonstrates the allies' overwhelming capability and posture against North Korea."

During the Cold War in the late 1970s, US nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines made frequent visits to South Korea, sometimes two or three times per month, according to the Federation of American Scientists. It was a period when the US had hundreds of nuclear warheads located in South Korea. But in 1991, the United States withdrew all of its nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula.

North Korea's nuclear goals have gained urgency after it vowed to use nuclear weapons in fights with its adversaries and launched about 100 missile tests since the beginning of last year. North Korea conducted a second test last week of a more mobile and powerful intercontinental ballistic missile aimed to hit the United States mainland. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un pledged to expand his country's nuclear military capability after seeing the launch.

In addition, South Korean and US officials met in Seoul on Tuesday for the first time to examine methods to bolster deterrence against North Korea's nuclear threats. "Any nuclear attack by North Korea against the United States or its allies is unacceptable and will result in the end of that regime," the two countries stated after the meeting in a joint statement. President Joe Biden delivered a similar warning during his April meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in Washington.

"Both sides affirmed that the NCG will play an integral role in discussing and advancing bilateral approaches, including guidelines, to nuclear and strategic planning, and responses to (North Korean) aggression," according to the statement. The consultative council is in charge of sharing information on nuclear and strategic weapons operating plans as well as cooperative activities. The United States will retain operational control of its nuclear arsenal.

According to US officials, the formation of the group and other measures announced in April was intended to assuage South Korean concerns about North Korean provocations while preventing Seoul from developing its nuclear program. Mr. Kim's influential sister and top advisor, Kim Yo Jong, said on Monday that US steps to strengthen its extended deterrence commitment to South Korea will push North Korea "further away from the negotiating table desired by (the US)" and increase its military capacity.

"(North Korea) is prepared to resolutely counter any acts that violate its sovereignty and territorial integrity," Kim Yo Jong stated. "The United States should stop its foolish act of provoking (North Korea), even if it means jeopardizing its security."

Riyad Mahrez of Manchester City has allegedly 'accepted personal terms' with Saudi club Al Ahli, who are mulling a £30 million approach for the winger. In recent years, Pep Guardiola has supervised substantial alterations to his front line. Leroy Sane, Raheem Sterling, and Gabriel Jesus have all left, and they have been replaced by Jack Grealish, Julian Alvarez, and Erling Haaland.

                                                                                                             Riyad Mahrez

Mahrez would undoubtedly be one of the most significant losses of all time. Since joining Man City from Leicester in 2018, the Algerian international has scored 78 goals and assisted 59 times in 239 games. He has also shown no indications of slowing down. In 47 games across all competitions last season, he scored 15 goals and assisted 13 times. Mahrez was instrumental in the Cityzens' historic treble-winning season, and he has now won 11 major trophies throughout his tenure at the Etihad. However, he now appears to be the latest superstar to leave the Premier League for Saudi Arabia, having struck an agreement on personal terms with Mahrez.

According to reports, the Saudi club has offered the attacker a deal of £25 million per season (about £480,000 per week). As previously said, they are expected to make a £30 million proposal to Manchester City. If he completes the transfer, he may be playing with Liverpool legend Roberto Firmino, who joined Al Ahli in early July. "Al Ahli is attempting to sign Riyad Mahrez.

                                                                                                                 Pep Guardiola

"The agreement with the player is nearly complete, but not with Man City," Romano said on his YouTube channel. "City still does not have an official bid, so they will return to work on Monday and begin discussions with Mahrez to ascertain the status of his discussions with Al Ahli."If the player grants the final approval, they will negotiate with Al Ahli. So we're not quite there yet, but Al Ahli is pressing for Mahrez." On the question of price, Romano stated that Manchester City "will not let Mahrez go for free." It remains to be seen whether £30 million will be enough to persuade Manchester City to trade him.

Despite Guardiola's desire to keep Mahrez for another season, that is a lot of money for a player who has passed his prime. With that in mind, the Algerian will undoubtedly be a man to keep an eye on in the coming weeks for Man City supporters.

Chelsea have confirmed their 29-man team for the pre-season tour of the United States. The Blues and their manager, Mauricio Pochettino, will travel to the United States for games against Wrexham, Brighton, Fulham, and Borussia Dortmund.

                        Levi Colwill

 Chelsea is moving a youthful group of youngsters to America as they prepare for the 2023/24 season under new management, after selling or releasing more than 10 members of their first-team squad from last season. Summer signings Nicolas Jackson and Christopher Nkunku, as well as a slew of other rising artists, have joined the tour. Wesley Fofana, Benoit Badiashile, Armando Broja, and Marcus Bettinelli were all left out due to injuries that are being monitored as they heal. According to the club, Reece James reported feeling sick and did not go as a precaution. Chelsea have welcomed back a bunch of returning loanees eager to show themselves to Pochettino, and the Argentine has allowed them to do so.

        Romelu Lukaku                                    Reece James

Levi Colwill, Ian Maatsen, and Andrey Santos were all chosen for the tour, however, Callum Hudson-Odoi was not. The winger spent last season on loan at Bayer Leverkusen, where he struggled to make an impression. He is now expected to leave the club, with Fulham and Nottingham Forest among the clubs interested. There was no room for Romelu Lukaku, Hakim Ziyech, or Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang elsewhere.

The trio are all surplus to needs and have been given more time away from Cobham to find work elsewhere. Lukaku has drawn the most interest, with significant earnings to shift and a hefty price tag still hanging over his head. The Belgian is not believed to be in Pochettino's plans for next season, although he has yet to find a new club. Inter has apparently backed out of the competition for him, leaving Juventus with the option of moving to Saudi Arabia. Ziyech himself was on the verge of a move to the Saudi Pro League but medical difficulties scuttled the agreement.

Badiashile is sidelined due to a hamstring injury sustained at the close of last season. Football. London believes that Badiashile is aiming to return to play at the start of the new season, and he is continuing to perform gym training behind the scenes at Cobham to guarantee this. There was no place for fellow Under-21 prodigy Omari Hutchinson or Harvey Vale, who were both left out of the squad with the assumption that both players would find a loan to further their development.

Despite strong ties to Leicester, Cesare Casadei has been allowed to impress Pochettino in action. Bashir Humphreys and Alfie Gilchrist from the academy have joined the squad after a fortnight of training in Surrey, as has Malo Gusto following his return from loan at Lyon in the second part of the season. The entire squad: Kepa Arrizabalaga, Gabriel Slonina, Eddie Beach, Jamie Cumming, and Lucas Bergstrom are the goalkeepers. Thiago Silva, Malo Gusto, Alfie Gilchrist, Bashir Humphreys, Ben Chilwell, Marc Cucurella, Ian Maatsen, Trevoh Chalobah, and Levi Colwill are the defenders. Conor Gallagher, Enzo Fernandez, Andrey Santos, Cesare Casadei, Carney Chukwuemeka, and Lewis Hall are the midfielders.

 Noni Madueke, Mykhailo Mudryk, Christopher Nkunku, Mason Burstow, Diego Moreira, Angelo Gabriel, and Dujuan Richards (training only) Which of the following prospects do you want to see in the starting lineup or farmed out for experience? Swipe to express yourself.

Due to President Bola Tinubu's absence, the NEC and NWC were postponed and rescheduled for Tuesday, July 18, and Wednesday, July 19.

According to reliable sources within the Presidency, Adamu, a former governor of Nasarawa State, submitted his resignation letter to the President's Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Sunday.

However, Adamu remained tight-lipped on his position inside the APC late Sunday, despite rumors of his resignation.

The former governor stated that he will not remark on the topic till Tinubu returns from the summit of the African Union.

"I won't talk about the issue because the president is away.

Adamu was elected APC chairman by consensus in March 2022, with the support of former President Muhammadu Buhari.

The former governor stated that he will not remark on the topic till Tinubu returns from the summit of the African Union.

"I won't talk about the issue because the president is away," Adamu told the Daily Trust.

Adamu was elected APC chairman by consensus in March 2022, with the support of former President Muhammadu Buhari.

 Tinubu has backed President Godswill Akpabio and Speaker Tajudeen Abbas.

Meanwhile, Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, has received and accepted the resignation of former Party Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, on President Tinubu's directives, according to reports.

An APC National Working Committee (NWC) member said late Sunday night that Uzodinma was also tasked with ensuring a seamless transition to Adamu's "next-in-line" before the official election of a substantive successor.

With Adamu's resignation, it's uncertain whether the APC will hold the NWC meeting, as well as the Caucus and NEC sessions set for Tuesday and Wednesday.

Between 1967 and 1970, the Nigerian entity engaged in military conflict with the Republic of Biafra, a separatist entity that proclaimed independence from Nigeria. Biafra, led by Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, represented the nationalist ambitions of the Igbo ethnic group in the country's southeast. The area sought independence from Nigeria, claiming that the federal government was controlled by the interests of Northern Nigeria's Muslim Hausa-Fulanis.

The chronicle of the Nigerian-Biafran War would be incomplete without including the terrible event in which the revered Nobel Laureate was imprisoned for his covert meeting with Ojukwu in Enugu State shortly before the war erupted. Though the most famous version of the event is that Soyinka went too far to persuade Ojukwu to abandon the independence, the playwright has always refuted such charges.

Soyinka stated that his trip to the Biafra Republic at the start of the Civil conflict was to reconnect with his artistic pals of Southeast extraction and see Ojukwu prevent a full-fledged battle. "At the time of independence, we were essentially a family of artists." There was a creative family that was being dispersed. "In 1967, I was in Stockholm for the Scandinavian-African Writers Conference."And one of the most heartbreaking things for me was that so many familiar faces from Nigeria were absent - expected but not present: Christopher Okigbo, Chinua Achebe, Gabriel Okara - the Biafrans were missing even in secure Stockholm. The battle drums were no longer silent.

It was our final chance to meet and discuss what was now unavoidable but may, just maybe, be avoided at the last moment. I returned to Nigeria feeling depressed and as if I had lost a limb - several limbs. I was wondering whether this was it. We'd become adversaries facing off across the line of fire? "There were people ready to take up arms, such as Christopher Okigbo," Soyinka recounted. "At the time, I had already run into Christopher Okigbo - it happened in Brussels - I even recall the name of the hotel - Hotel Koenisburg - purely by chance, and I knew he had come to purchase arms for Biafra," he added.

When I confronted him, he confessed it. "All of these fortuitous meetings instilled in me a sense of urgency."Later, I had a meeting earlier in London - which I explain in my IBADAN - when we discussed the prospect of traveling to Biafra on a last-minute intervention mission. Again, as I mentioned in my memoirs, Aminu Abdullahi, who is now deceased, offered to go during the London meeting. We got together at a facility called the Transcription Centre. We didn't even know which direction some of us would take. JP, do you consider yourself an Easterner or a Westerner? It was the dissolution of a thriving creative circle. We concluded Aminu should not leave since he appeared to be a northerner.

Because there was such anger, and deadly anxiety at the time, and it was reasonable... because of the pogrom that had occurred earlier... I traveled to the meeting without my colleagues, and when I returned to Nigeria, the first clashes had occurred - on the northern border - and I realized that it would soon be challenging to get to Biafra. I was agitated. "I knew I couldn't function until I crossed the lines looking for them." 'When I get there, I'll locate Christopher (Okigbo) someplace,' I added, before heading to Ojukwu. That was the reason I went, a last-minute chance for something to be done. Some folks continue to tell me that they saw me.

$500 million Eurobond that was issued by the federal government through the Debt Management Office (DMO)

On Monday, Nigeria's state-owned oil corporation NNPC Ltd said an 800,000-litre (211,338-US-gallon) tanker carrying stolen crude was captured off the coast of Cameroon and will be burned as a deterrence to oil theft.

Crude theft from pipelines and wells in the Niger Delta has hampered the country's productivity in recent years and is one of the most serious difficulties that incoming President Bola Tinubu faces.

According to NNPC, the oil was taken from a borehole in southwestern Ondo state. According to the firm, the MT Tura II vessel was owned by the locally registered Holab Maritime Services Limited and lacked sufficient oil documents. Holab was unable to be reached for comment on the phone lines posted on its website. "Destroying vessels involved in the transport of stolen crude oil is critical as a strong deterrent," the NNPC stated.

According to Adewale Osifeso, the Police Public Relations Officer, the new CP has worked in numerous roles as a police officer previous to his new appointment.

"CP Hamzat has held and served in various command and staff positions, including but not limited to Officer in Charge of the Criminal Intelligence Bureau (CIB), Divisional Crime Officer at Funtua Police Divisional Headquarters in Katsina State, Divisional Police Officer at Danja Police Divisional Headquarters in Katsina State, and 2i/c Operations at the Department of Operations (DOPs) in Katsina State Command," according to the statement.

Other positions held by CP Hamzat include Divisional Police Officer at 'A' Divisional Police Headquarters in Jos, Plateau State, Personal Assistant to DIG FCID, DIG Abimbola Jolade Ojomo (Rtd), 2i/c State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) in Jos, Plateau State, Staff Officer InfoTech at the Department of ICT in FHQ, Commandant of Police Secondary School in Akpabuyo, Calabar, ACP Promotions at FORSEC, FHQ, Abuja, and DCP DFA at Sokoto State Police Command.

He has also served as DCP DFA at Enugu State Police Command, DCP SCID at Osun State Police Command, DCP SCID at Ondo State Police Command, and CP Border Patrol Force at FHQ, Abuja, where he made significant contributions to the fight against the spread of small arms and light weapons into the country from troubled Sub-Saharan African states.

CP Adebola Ayinde Hamzat is a well-known investigator and intelligence professional whose operational experience and core intelligence abilities earned him commendable duty tours in the United Nations Missions in Kosovo (UNMIK) and Timor Leste (East Timor).

He was Chief of the Special Investigation Unit Regional Investigations in the Prizren Region, Chief of Regional Investigation in Ferizaj, and Chief of the War Crime Investigation Section, where he was specifically responsible for reducing criminal activities of rebels and insurgents through high-level intelligence analysis and technology-based forensics.

He was also the Serious Crimes Unit Team Leader at the National Investigations Department PNTL Hqtrs in Obrigado Dili.

In other news, the police have verified the arrest of 11 individuals in connection with various offenses perpetrated in various places around Oyo State.

When Edoka Idoko opened the door to his office on Montgomery Street in Yaba, his confident smile and the gleam in his eyes disguised the difficult path he walked in developing a fintech firm that has already received $1.2 million and is on the verge of closing a $21 million Series B fundraising.

Ojireh Prime was created from the bottom up to be a transparent and customer-focused bank that provides free credit cards as well as quick access to loans and innovative savings products. In 2022, the firm collected $1.2 million from large individual investors who recognized promise in the company's narrative and were willing to take a risk on it. Ojireh Prime has evolved into a fintech firm that serves thousands of consumers and is eager to expand its operations.

The story began at the commodities market, where Idoko honed his abilities in persuading customers to purchase things such as gari, beans, and other market vendors' wares. After signing up 54 customers on whom he relied for frequent purchases, Idoko decided to build a website. The website ojireh.com was built using a Samsung tablet with a faulty battery that only lasted 40 minutes no matter how much it was charged.

"In terms of basic knowledge, we got someone to help us build the site." He taught me for over two weeks. We built the site with the broken tablet. Every time the malfunctioning tab is connected to the light, you must pull the product online, clean it out, and upload it from the backend. "So it was more of an e-commerce site called Ojireh.com, and we were focused on groceries," he says, peering at the Apple laptop on his desk.

The breakthrough for a fintech concept occurred when the firm wanted to say "Thank you" to its 54 clients for keeping them afloat for the previous 12 months.  Idoko was compelled to reflect on a data point that revealed consumers preferred to make payments via bank transfers rather than the payment gateway the firm installed into the website at the time of sending the email. Customers said they preferred transfers because they were afraid of exposing their credit card information to cybercrime.

The Ojireh team then chose to collaborate with a payment card processor such as Interswitch to supply clients with at least 100 Verve cards. The initial plan was to provide 54 cards to existing customers and utilize the remaining cards to acquire new subscribers. However, the adoption of the cards far exceeded the team's expectations. Between 2018 and 2019, around 40,000 cards from the firm were in circulation.

Lauren Gregg, the assistant coach of the Super Falcons, has thrown additional insight into the quarrel between the Nigeria Football Federation and Randy Waldrum, the coach of the Nigeria Women's National Team. Remember that the coach previously claimed that veteran goalkeeper Tochukwu Oluehi was kicked off the team for asking that the team be given incentives. Waldrum further claimed that the NFF instructed him to replace Oluehi with a local goalie and that when he refused, they denied his assistant, Lauren Gregg, a chance to compete in the World Cup.