London’s famed black cabs will be joined by autonomous taxis early next year when Uber Technologies Inc. links up with British artificial intelligence firm Wayve Technologies Ltd. in Uber’s first pilot scheme for robotaxis.

With Google LLC’s Waymo currently leading the pack where robotaxis are concerned, Uber is playing catch-up, as is Tesla Inc., which today announced it will soon be bringing autonomous taxis to Austin, Texas. Meanwhile, Waymo has become the target of anti-ICE protestors in the U.S., with some protestors less than enamored with the prospect of a driverless future.

Uber said its London plan will be its first foray into robotaxis, with the trial to start with human drivers at the wheel – a safety standard for autonomous driving known in the industry as “Level 4.” The company said that the hurdle will be passed and London will soon get its first fully autonomous taxis, although it didn’t say exactly when that will happen.

This was recently made possible after the U.K. government had a volte-face and introduced an accelerated framework to bring autonomous bus and taxi commercial services to the country. “By having faster reaction times than humans, and by being trained on large numbers of driving scenarios, including learning from real-world incidents, self-driving vehicles can help reduce deaths and injuries,” the government said in a press release discussing the upcoming legislation, the Automated Vehicles Act.

While the impact of driverless taxis in a city that is renowned for its seemingly never-ending sinuous streets – where human-driven taxis are omnipresent – has already been discussed in terms of possible job losses, the U.K.’s Department for Transport has said the industry could create 38,000 jobs and add £42 billion ($56 billion) to the U.K. economy by 2035.

“The future of transport is arriving,” said Transport Secretary, Heidi Alexander. “Self-driving cars could bring jobs, investment, and the opportunity for the U.K , to be among the world leaders in new technology.”

It seems London’s “cabbies” are not overly concerned about the rise of the robotaxi in their city, with the general secretary of the Licensed Taxi Drivers’ Association, Steve McNamara, telling The Guardian that robotaxis on London’s streets is “fantasy.” He added, “We’re probably going to have flying taxis before we have autonomous ones in London,” explaining that if such vehicles are struggling with San Francisco’s streets, they won’t have a chance in London. “Come back to me in 2040,” he said

Senegal have become the first African country to beat England, following their 3-1 win in an international friendly on Tuesday night.

Before the game, the Three Lions had recorded a narrow 1-0 win over Andorra.

Thomas Tuchel had been critical of his team’s performance and demanded better against the Teranga Lions.

The hosts took the lead early through Captain Harry Kane.

But the Senegalese fought back to dominate the match played at the City Ground.

Ismaila Sarr made it 1-1 before Habib Diarra burst through to give the West Africans the lead.

England were sluggish about taking a free kick and it led to a counterattack, which saw Cheikh Sabaly put the game out of reach.

This is also Tuchel’s first defeat in charge of England.

A Twitter user has narrated a jaw-dropping family drama involving a Nigerian woman living abroad who just had a baby, her father and her mother-in-law who came for Omugwo.

According to the story, the new mum invited her father from Nigeria to join her abroad for omugwo (the traditional postpartum care, usually done by the new mum’s mother). Since her mum had passed away, her dad was the next best thing. Meanwhile, her husband also invited his own mother,  the new mum’s mother-in-law — for the same omugwo duties.

So far, so good… until it wasn’t.

Two months into their stay, the woman reportedly checked her home’s security camera feed, which is connected to her phone, and what she discovered left her completely shattered. She allegedly found out that her father and her mother-in-law have been having an affair right under her roof. 

To make matters worse, both parents have been sharing the same bedroom due to limited space. The house has just three rooms — one for the couple, one for the baby, and one extra room with two beds that both parents were using. 

Now, the woman is confused and torn. She doesn’t know how to tell her husband. She doesn’t know if she should confront her father. She doesn’t even know how to navigate the remaining six months of their visit without causing a complete breakdown in the family. 

Social media users are already debating what they would do if they were in her shoes, with many calling it the “wildest omugwo story of the year.”

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Segun Sowunmi, a former spokesman to Atiku Abubakar, the ex-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has given condition to support President Bola Tinubu.

Sowunmi disclosed that he would defect from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress before supporting President Tinubu.

Featuring on Arise Television’s Prime Time on Tuesday evening, Sowunmi said there is a strong possibility that he might leave the PDP.

According to him: “If I’m going to support Tinubu in 2027, by God and everything that is in me, I will leave and join his party.

“I don’t believe in the nonsense that says you are in one party while supporting someone else.

“I don’t have time for pretense, if I’m not there, I’m not there. I have been in PDP for 28 years and most of them don’t even have that record of 28 days.

“If I’m going to leave to support the president, I will damn say that I’m going.

“Why will anyone with sense in his head stay in a party when you are telling them to repair the party.

“I have screamed and shouted that we needed to reform the party. There is a very strong possibility, looking at what is going on in my environment, looking at my state where I come from, looking at my tribe and desire – there is a very strong possibility that I may likely leave.”

The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has told the suspended governor of the state, Siminalayi Fubara that even if he decides to join the party, his sins cannot be forgiven.

Caretaker Committee chairman of the party in the state, Tony Okocha, stated this on Tuesday in Abuja while responding to questions regarding Fubara’s recent Sallah visit to President Bola Tinubu and its attendant political implications.

Okocha said Fubara’s suspension and the declaration of a state of emergency was about his misdemeanors and had no political undertones.

“If Fubara decides to join the APC, it has nothing to do with the state of emergency in Rivers state. His sins cannot be forgiven because he came to our party.

“You will jump into APC today and your sins are forgiven? That cannot be true. It won’t work that way. Then, it would have made APC as a dumping ground for people who commit misdemeanor and believe that by and large we will come for reconciliation.

“No. It is not true. He has not spoken to me. He will enter the party through the door not the window. Not only him, there are procedures for defection to another party and if he claims to be a politician, he would know that all politics is local, he would try and defect in his ward. From there it will come to us and my ward chairmen. I have asked, nobody brought any information about him entering APC,” he said.

When asked whether he was worried about Fubara’s meeting with the President, Okocha said the APC had nothing to be worried about.

“How can I be worried that somebody visited my President? Don’t forget it was also the season of Sallah. Yesterday, I read somewhere that the former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Osoba paid Sallah homage and I don’t know whether you also saw the President in the company of Chief Nyesom Wike.

“So we cannot be worried, we cannot gag the President to say you will see Mr A, you will not see Mr B. Perhaps, if I had made an application to see Mr President, I would have been there with my team,” he added.

Okocha also dismissed reports of reconciliatory moves being embarked on by Fubara, saying there was nothing like that.

A former House of Representatives member, Tajudeen Yusuf, has issued a stern warning to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to zone its 2027 presidential ticket to the southern region or risk ruin.

Yusuf, who is an ally of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, issued this warning when he played host on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday.

“No single politician can win an election without collective goodwill.

“Zone to the south and see what will happen, but if we continue this trajectory and continue to progress in error, we are postponing the doomsday,” he stated.

DAILY POST recalls that Wike and other G5 members met on Monday and advocated that the PDP zone its 2027 presidential ticket to the Southern region of the country.

According to Yusuf, zoning the 2027 ticket to the South would restore unity and attract key figures like Peter Obi of the Labour Party back to the fold.

“If today, the PDP ticket is zoned to the South, I have a conviction Peter Obi will be more comfortable coming to PDP, but if it’s not zoned and the dynamics and dialectics of primaries are allowed to play, he might not, just like he moved when it was not zoned and guaranteed a vice presidency. PDP should do the right thing first,” he said.

He also addressed Atiku Abubakar’s current political standing, explaining that the former vice president is no longer in the PDP but is part of the ongoing coalition talks.

The PDP chieftain attributed the party’s 2023 presidential election loss to poor leadership decisions and a controversial northern zoning strategy.

He pointed to PDP’s internal fractures, particularly the fallout from Atiku candidacy, as a key reason for the party’s defeat.

Yusuf lamented recent defection of the former Delta State Governor and the party’s Vice-Presidential candidate, Ifeanyi Okowa to the All Progressives Congress, APC, expressing regret that the 2023 campaign of the PDP heightened the grievances of party men.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has extended the recapitalization deadline of the Bureau De Change (BDC) operators to December 31, 2025.

This comes amid appreciation of the naira against the dollar at the foreign exchange markets on Tuesday.

BDC operators made this known in their group chat.

However, the Central Bank of Nigeria has not issued official notice on the extension.

The extension follows the expiration of the second deadline for the recapitalization exercise given by the CBN on June 3, 2025.

The CBN had initially set the deadline for December 3, 2024, but later extended it by six months to June 3, 2025, to give operators more time to meet the new requirements.

The president of the Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON), Aminu Gwadabe said the level of compliance stood at merely 10 percent.

He had earlier insisted that BDCs should consider a merger to meet the recapitalization requirement.

DAILY POST reports that the new recapitalization regime announced by the CBN in February 2024 introduced a two-tier structure for BDCs.

Under this framework, Tier-1 BDCs must raise a minimum capital of N2 billion to continue operations, while Tier-2 BDCs are required to raise at least N500 million.

Tier-1 BDCs will be licenced to operate nationwide with broader operational latitude, while Tier-2 operators will be restricted to a single state of operation.

DAILY POST reports that the naira recorded a gain across official and parallel foreign exchange markets on Tuesday

Peter Obi, the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, has called out President Bola Tinubu.

He asked Tinubu to show Nigerians the billions he saved from fuel subsidy.

Speaking on Monday during an appearance on Arise TV, Obi said the  government has so far engaged in a haphazard and poorly managed implementation of the policy.

“I have consistently maintained that I would have removed the fuel subsidy,” Obi said, pointing to his campaign manifesto. “If you go to my manifesto, it’s there. Steps I would have taken to do it in an organised manner. There was nothing wrong in the removal of subsidy. What is wrong is the haphazard way in which it was announced and implemented. Everybody knows that the subsidy regime was a solution of criminality. There was a lot of corruption, which they needed to out. Do it in an organised manner.”

“And since you’re doing it for savings, we’re told we’re doing it because we don’t want to continue to borrow, to continue the subsidy. And the removal of it will be able to have available funds to be invested in critical areas of development. With all these things, billions saved, where is it? Where is it invested in those critical areas of development?” Obi queried.

Speaking further during the interview, the former Anambra State Governor also questioned the manner in which the policy on floating the naira was implemented.

He argued that having a productive economy should have preceded the floating of the naira.

“There’s nothing wrong with floating your currency. There’s nothing wrong in even devaluing your currency. But you do this when you have productivity. What devaluation or floating does is that your currency becomes, in terms of value, low. You attract investment. Your products become more marketable. But where we are unproductive, you have nothing to sell. So it’s a double whammy. So in all this, I would have done the same thing in an organised manner,” he said.

Pressed on how he would have managed both subsidy removal and currency floatation differently, Obi insisted on planning, transparency and gradual implementation.

He said, “The subsidy removes the criminality that’s associated with it, which is over 50% of it. Be able to sit down with the operators there and come up with a pricing that will be agreed. And then, whatever we’re able to save from it, have a specific place we’re investing it.

“We will need to have a national planning where all the resources will be put in. It is not just something you say, oh, we are sharing it the way we used to share every other money. No, because that’s not what you said. You said, we will be able to put it in critical areas of development. That was your promise. So we’ve removed it. People want to see where these funds are invested. It’s a very clear thing. We’re not the only country who’s done that before. Countries after countries go with national plan.”

Obi further emphasised the need to have a gradual implementation of the policy while boosting local production before taking such monetary steps.

“I would have focused on making sure that we ramp up production, the agriculture, the manufacturing, and everything, and do it gradually,” he said

Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho has made an allegation against President Bola Tinubu.

He accused Tinubu of continuing the prosecution he suffered under former President Muhammadu Buhari.

Igboho’s spokesman, Olayemi Koiki, in an audio message sent to SaharaReporters on Monday claimed that Tinubu's government is witch-hunting Igboho.

Koiki also claimed that Igboho's accounts have been blocked by the goverhment.

“It is unclear why the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration has continued to witch-hunt Sunday Igboho. Till today, he is still on the wanted persons list,” Koiki said.

Koiki lamented that, despite court orders and the release of Igboho by the Benin Republic authorities, the Nigerian government has allegedly refused to remove him from the list of wanted persons.

He added, “We asked that his bank accounts be opened, and they refused; same for his companies.

“Sunday Igboho’s offence was standing up against the injustice happening in Yorubaland, and the issues he protested against are still prevalent.”

According to Koiki, Igboho is treated with dignity abroad but remains labelled a criminal in his own country.

“When he travels around the world, he is not seen as a criminal but only in his home country. Even when the court said he should be compensated, no one compensated him till date,” he said.

Koiki accused the Buhari-led government of attempting to eliminate Igboho during the controversial raid on his Ibadan residence in July 2021, carried out by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS).

The DSS had claimed that the raid was based on intelligence that Igboho was stockpiling weapons. Although Igboho escaped the raid, the DSS later declared him wanted and claimed to have recovered firearms from his home.

After fleeing to the Republic of Benin, Igboho was arrested and detained. He was later arraigned at the Court d’Appel in Cotonou on charges including arms smuggling, inciting violence, and promoting secession from Nigeria.

His release by Beninese authorities in March 2022 was met with jubilation in parts of the Southwest.

Prominent Yoruba historian and advocate for the Oodua Nation, Banji Akintoye, also alleged that the Nigerian government tried to pressure Igboho into renouncing his cause while in detention.

Akintoye claimed that the then Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd.), acting as a special envoy, visited Igboho in prison and presented him with a document offering billions of naira in exchange for abandoning his agitation for Yoruba independence.

“He refused to sign the document, and Buratai subsequently took it away,” Akintoye said.

In October 2022, Igboho reportedly wrote to then UK Labour Leader and now Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, urging the British government to acknowledge and support the Yoruba secessionist movement in Nigeria.

Despite his release, Sunday Igboho has yet to return to Nigeria, with his supporters insisting he remains unjustly targeted by the state.

FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike has revealed how the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP can survive its current crisis.

Wike said the party will survive if it adheres strictly to its constitution and the 1999 Constitution.

Wike, who is the current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, stated this on Monday in Abuja at a meeting with former Governors Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), Samuel Ortom (Benue), and Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia).

The meeting also had in attendance Senator Anyanwu; former Senate Minority Leader Philip Aduda; serving and former federal and state lawmakers; and zonal and state party executives.

Wike described those who visited him as stakeholders of the PDP, saying they believe in the survival of the party.

According to Wike, the PDP would not have been boxed into its current situation if it had listened to the advice of the “Group of Five Governors (G5).”

He recalled the agitation of the five governors for presidential zoning or rotation, noting that it has stabilized the polity.

He cautioned against double standards, wondering why only the National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, was prevented from returning to his position after losing the Imo State governorship poll.

Wike said: “All of you here are those who are committed to the survival of our party, not just on TV talking or in the newspapers talking, but you are committed to the party at the various levels.

“Today, this country is stabilized because of the activities of the G5 Governors. You may like us, you may hate us. The truth of the matter is that if the G5 did not take the decision we took, this country would have been in crisis.

“It doesn’t matter who the beneficiary was, but the right thing had to be done and we still stand by that decision.

“If the party had listened to what we said, we wouldn’t have been where we are today, and we have continued to sound it to the party: let the constitution of the party and of the country be respected.”