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President Muhammadu Buhari has left Nigerians confused as he kept mum on Friday, a day he promised to address citizens on the severe cash crunch hurting economic activities in the country. The extended deadline to phase out the old notes was Friday, 10 February. However, the Supreme Court gave a order restraining the CBN from enforcing the deadline for the phasing out of the N200, N500 and N1,000 notes, pending the hearing of a lawsuit brought by three northern states challenging the new currency redesign. It…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDwayne Johnson has told fans to reach out to their parents after his mother Ata was involved in a car accident.On Thursday (2 February) night, the Black Adam star posted a photo to Instagram of a red car, the front side of which had been seriously damaged.He wrote: “Thank you God she’s ok. Angels of mercy watched over my mom as she was in a car crash late last night. She’ll survive…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeYou can easily understand why Andrea Riseborough’s fellow actors have been so awestruck by her performance as the alcoholic mum in Michael Morris’s unsung, low-budget movie To Leslie and why so many of them voted for her to receive an Oscar nomination. What is harder to fathom is why Riseborough has subsequently been pilloried in the media for her Oscar campaign and threatened with…

Michelle Williams is apologising for the camera angle. She’s cross-legged on a bed and her iPhone keeps slipping down the pillows. Sometimes all I see is the duvet, sometimes something more mysterious. “It’s hard to find a place to put this,” she says. “I don’t want to breastfeed you.”It’s 7am in Palm Springs, California. Last night, Williams was at a film gala. This morning, she’s been up for two hours already. “I thought I would be super-accomplished and do this before he woke, but he’s jet-lagged and already woke at…

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Scammers have responded to the dramatic increase in the usage of digital systems by coming up with novel approaches to take advantage of the trusting. According to a report in The Independent, an Australian text messaging scam known as "Hi Mum" caused victims to lose over $7 million (about Rs 57 crore) in 2022. According to the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission, the scam's victim count has multiplied by 10 in only the previous three months (ACCC). The ACCC estimates that 11,100 people have been…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAndrew Garfield teared up while discussing the death of his mother and his father’s response.The British actor’s mother, Lynn, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer before he started filming The Eyes of Tammy Faye opposite Jessica Chastain.Lynn had encouraged her son to go to North Carolina for filming in late 2019, but her condition worsened, with production being shut down so that…

Around 10 years ago, during the making of his stirring political period picture Lincoln, Steven Spielberg began to realise that there was another story he needed to tell. For the director whose career had taken him from the battlefields of the first and second world wars to the New Jersey frontline of the War of the Worlds; from a dinosaur theme park in Central America to a confinement camp in Japanese-occupied China, sources of inspiration were bound only by the limits of imagination. But, as Spielberg revealed at the…

Blue (clockwise from left, Simon Webbe, Antony Costa, Duncan James and Lee Ryan) in 2003 and 2022Blue (clockwise from left, Simon Webbe, Antony Costa, Duncan James and Lee Ryan) in 2003 and 2022. Later photograph: Pål Hansen. Styling: Andie Redman. Grooming: Alice Theobald at Arlington Artists using Morgan’s Pomade and Cosmetics à la Carte. Archive photograph: RetnaAntony Costa, Lee Ryan, Simon Webbe and Duncan James are Blue – the R&B-influenced pop band best known for hits such as All Rise, One Love and If You Come…

Optus says its recent data breach impacted 1.2 million customers with at least one form of identification number that is valid and current. The Australian mobile operator also has brought in Deloitte to lead an investigation on the cybersecurity incident, including how it occurred and how it could have been prevented. Optus said in a statement Monday that Deloitte's "independent external review" of the breach would encompass the telco's security systems, controls, and processes. It added that the move was supported by the…